Ms. Bixby's Last Day Audiobook

Quotes

• “Kids won’t just love this book. They need it.”

  — Soman Chainani, New York Times bestselling author

• “A story of that one teacher we all have who we’ll never forget, told with laugh-out-loud humor and oh, so much heart.”

  — Gordon Korman, New York Times bestselling author

• “This is not a book about [Bixby] precisely; it is a book about three hurt and damaged sixth-grade boys who have been given a tremendous gift by Ms. Bixby’s teaching and life: They have been given more to be human beings with. They are about to demonstrate how much more.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Through their individual, interwoven narratives, these well-developed characters become the most intriguing elements of the story. A smart, funny, ultimately moving novel.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “Anderson’s dialogue is realistic, and his choice of first-person narration gradually reveals each boy’s history and personal growth. His characters are believable twelve-year-old boys. The urban setting is appropriately diverse and gritty, and humor and pathos are nicely balanced.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred reviews)

• “Skillfully balances realism and comic exaggeration in an emotionally rich tale that holds no miracles, other than the small human kind.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Narrators Jesse Bernstein, Ramon de Ocampo, and Maxwell Glick prove their excellence as they quickly define the trio of sixth-graders featured in this story: Topher is a bit sarcastic, Steve is big on getting the facts, and Brand enjoys wordplay. At first, the story takes a light tone as the boys run from a girl with cooties. But the tone changes abruptly when their teacher, Ms. Bixby, announces she must leave to start cancer treatment. The boys come up with a plan to honor her.”

  — AudioFile