Last Stop on Market Street Audiobook

Quotes

• “That material poverty need not mean spiritual or imaginative poverty becomes beautifully clear in the quietly moving pages of Last Stop on Market Street.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “Last Stop on Market Street provides a gentle twist, letting readers in on the secret Nana and CJ have known all along: They’re on the way to help others who have even less. But it’s also the warmth of their intergenerational relationship that will make this book so satisfying, for both young readers and the adults sharing it with them.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Matt de la Peña’s warmhearted story is musical in its cadences…[A] celebration of the joys of service, the gifts of grandmothers, and the tenderness that the city can contain.”

  — Washington Post

• “The voices of CJ and his grandmother carry the story along in subtle point and counterpoint so that at this book’s quiet close you feel like you’ve been listening to a song.”

  — Boston Globe

• “Like still waters [Last Stop on Market Street ] finds beauty in unexpected places, explores the difference between what’s fleeting and what lasts, acknowledges inequality, and testifies to the love shared by an African-American boy and his grandmother.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “A young boy yearns for what he doesn’t have, but his nana teaches him to find beauty in what he has and can give, as well as in the city where they live…This celebration of cross-generational bonding is a textual and artistic tour de force.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “This is an excellent book that highlights less popular topics such as urban life, volunteerism, and thankfulness, with people of color as the main characters. A lovely title.”

  — School Library Journal