

Trouble
Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Narrator: Jason Culp
Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Scholastic Audio Books
Published: 05/01/2008
Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes
Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Narrator: Jason Culp
Unabridged: 9 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Scholastic Audio Books
Published: 05/01/2008
Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes
Gary D. Schmidt is the bestselling author of The Labors of Hercules Beal; Just Like That; National Book Award finalist Okay for Now; Pay Attention, Carter Jones; Orbiting Jupiter; the Newbery Honor and Printz Honor Book Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy; and the Newbery Honor Book The Wednesday Wars. He is also a contributor to and coeditor, with Leah Henderson, of the acclaimed short story collection A Little Bit Super. He lives in rural Michigan.
You know, as a children’s librarian Gary Schmidt gives me no end of (for lack of a better word) trouble. As far as I can tell, he’s probably one of those authors that doesn’t like to begin writing a book by pigeonholing it for a single age group. If I'm right then it would explain why his oeuvre doe......more
Wonderful YA book! Henry’s life is pretty golden until his older brother Franklin is hit by a truck, causing him to lose an arm and to be in a coma. The driver is a Cambodian teenager, and despite the law finding him to not have been negligent, the incident leads to racial unrest in the town where H......more