Nothing Else But Miracles, Kate Albus
Nothing Else But Miracles, Kate Albus
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Nothing Else But Miracles

Author: Kate Albus

Narrator: Carrie Coello

Unabridged: 7 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/05/2023


Synopsis

Twelve-year-old Dory Byrne lives with her brothers on New York City's Lower East Side, waiting impatiently through the darkest hours of World War II for her pop to come home from fighting Hitler. Legally speaking, Dory's brother, Fish, isn't old enough to be in charge of Dory and her younger brother, Pike, but the neighborhood knows the score and, like Pop always says, "the neighborhood will give you what you need."

There's the lady from the bakery, who saves them leftover crullers. The kind landlord who checks in on them. And every Thursday night, the Byrnes enjoy a free bowl of seafood stew at Mr. Caputo's restaurant. Which is where Dory learns about the hand-pulled elevator that is the only way to get to Caputo's upper floors. The elevator that's so creaky and ancient, nobody's been in it for decades.

Until now.

The Byrnes' landlord dies unexpectedly and the new one is anything but kind. When he catches on about Pop being gone, he turns the Byrnes in, hoping they'll be shipped off to an orphanage. Dory and her brothers need a hideout, and suddenly the elevator and the abandoned hotel it leads to provide just the solution they need.

About Kate Albus

Kate Albus grew up in New York and now lives with her family in rural Maryland. The already-dangerous pile of reading material on her nightstand grows daily. A Place to Hang the Moon is her first book.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Janssen on February 07, 2024

I loved this so much - maybe even more than A Place to Hang the Moon.......more

Goodreads review by Megan on February 14, 2023

Kate Albus has done is again with this second wonderful book. Where her first book, A Place to Hang the Moon, took readers into British children's lives in WWII, this second darling story explores the lives of children on the other side of the Atlantic in New York City during the same war. With her......more

Goodreads review by Beth Anne on October 14, 2023

I absolutely loved A Place To Hang the Moon, so much that I read it in one day on my own, then reread it aloud to my kids just a few weeks later. All that to say, I had high hope for this book and was left underwhelmed. First off, there were many moments that I really did enjoy! I thought the way the......more

Goodreads review by Susy C. on January 13, 2024

3.5 Not A Place to Hang the Moon but still a cute heartwarming story about 3 kids left by themselves while their Dad is away at war. Not sure what consequences there was for all the lying that went on but that's my "Mom side" kicking in. lol Some events didn't really seem like it would acutally be abl......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany) on November 14, 2023

4.5 stars rounded up Nothing Else but Miracles is an excellent middle grade historical novel set in the Lower East Side of Manhattan during World War II. It follows a 12 year old girl surviving at home with her older and younger brothers while their dad is off fighting Nazis, trying to stay under the......more