Chirp

Name: Chirp
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Kate Messner
ISBN: 9781980067535

Author: Kate Messner

Narrator: Merissa Czyz

Unabridged: 4 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/04/2020

Categories: Children's Fiction, Animal Stories

Synopsis

From acclaimed author Kate Messner comes the powerful story of a young girl with the courage to make her voice heard, set against the backdrop of a summertime mystery. When Mia moves to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, she's recovering from the broken arm she got falling off a balance beam. And packed away in the moving boxes under her clothes and gymnastics trophies is a secret she'd rather forget. Mia's change in scenery brings day camp, new friends, and time with her beloved grandmother. But Gram is convinced someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm. Is it sabotage or is Gram's thinking impaired from the stroke she suffered months ago? Mia and her friends set out to investigate, but can they uncover the truth in time to save Gram's farm? And will that discovery empower Mia to confront the secret she's been hiding--and find the courage she never knew she had? In a compelling story rich with friendship, science, and summer fun, a girl finds her voice while navigating the joys and challenges of growing up.

About Kate Messner

Kate Messner is the author of The Seventh Wish; All the Answers; The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z., winner of the E. B. White Read Aloud Award for Older Readers; Capture the Flag, an SCBWI Crystal Kite Award winner; Hide and Seek; Manhunt; and the Ranger in Time and Marty McGuire chapter book series. A former middle-school English teacher, Kate lives on Lake Champlain with her family and loves reading, walking in the woods, and traveling. Visit her online at katemessner.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chelsea on April 15, 2020

I am going SO hard for middle grade lately, y'all. This book was an absolute delight. It was equal parts light-hearted, scooby doo mystery and earnest/heartfelt life lessons and MY HEART IS VERY FULL. TW: pedophilia, grooming, sexual harassment......more

Goodreads review by MrsDogood on October 29, 2019

The fact that male crickets chirp while female crickets are silent provides an intriguing basis for a book on the #MeToo movement. It’s disappointing, then, that this clever premise receives a one-note execution. I know I am daring to find fault with a book about #MeToo but before I’m drummed out li......more

Goodreads review by Darla on April 05, 2020

This new middle grade novel by Kate Messner covers two relevant issues in one book and in such a comprehensive way. Mia begins the book as a girl who feels damaged and far from the brave, accomplished gymnast she was before her injury. As her past is revealed, the #me too movement is very much facto......more

Goodreads review by Mandy on July 10, 2019

Mia has just moved back to Vermont from Boston. She and her parents want to be closer to her grandmother who suffered a stroke a few months ago. Mia is really excited to be able to help her grandmother with her cricket farm. Unfortunately, things seem to be going mysteriously wrong left and right at......more