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    Walk Me Home
    Walk Me Home
    Walk Me Home
    Audiobook10 hours

    Walk Me Home

    Written by Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Narrated by Cristina Panfilio

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    About this audiobook

    From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a story of two young sisters who embark on a journey across the American Southwest to uncover what it really means to be a family.

    Since their mother’s sudden death, sixteen-year-old Carly and her eleven-year-old sister, Jen, have been walking and hitchhiking across the Southwest trying to find Teddy, the closest thing they have to a family. Carly desperately hopes Teddy will take them in and save them from going into foster care—and forgive them for the lies told by their mother.

    But when the starving girls get caught stealing food on a Native American reservation, their journey gets put on hold. While the girls work off their debt, Carly becomes determined to travel onward—until Jen confesses a terrible secret that leaves both sisters wondering if they can ever trust again.

    Set against the backdrop of the American Southwest, Walk Me Home and its resilient heroines will inspire readers and renew their faith in recovery and redemption.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateApr 23, 2013
    ISBN9781469290645
    Walk Me Home
    Author

    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of thirty-three published books. Her bestselling 1999 novel, Pay It Forward, adapted into a major Warner Bros. motion picture, made the American Library Association’s Best Books for Young Adults list and was translated into more than two dozen languages for distribution in more than thirty countries. Her novels Becoming Chloe and Jumpstart the World were included on the ALA’s Rainbow List; Jumpstart the World was also a finalist for two Lambda Literary Awards and won Rainbow Awards in two categories. The Language of Hoofbeats won a Rainbow Award. More than fifty of her short stories have been published in many journals, including the Antioch Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and the Sun, and in the anthologies Santa Barbara Stories and California Shorts, as well as the bestselling anthology Dog Is My Co-Pilot. Her short fiction received honorable mention in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, a second-place win for the Tobias Wolff Award, and nominations for Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. Three have also been cited in Best American Short Stories. Hyde is the founder and former president of the Pay It Forward Foundation. As a professional public speaker, she has addressed the National Conference on Education, twice spoken at Cornell University, met with AmeriCorps members at the White House, and shared a dais with Bill Clinton. An avid equestrian, photographer, and traveler, she lives in California.

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    • 5/5
      Love the characters, the narrator and the story. I will look for the next book.
    • 5/5
      Another wonderful CRH book. This story takes place in the southwest and I enjoyed the description of the region
    • 5/5
      Good book with some twists and turns that made it interesting.
    • 4/5
      When Carly and Jen's mother dies suddenly, they want to stay together, and out of foster care. So, they begin walking from New Mexico to California to find the man, Teddy, who was like a father to them before her mother began seeing Wade. Bound by an honor code, the sisters try to keep track of what they steal so they can repay it when possible. However, one night, they are caught trying to steal eggs from an elderly Native American woman. She tells them to pay off their debt by working for her. The sisters are at odds on whether they should continue to search for Teddy.What happens is a bit of soul-searching, and understanding what a home and family really are.I enjoyed this story about determination and coming to terms with loss, sorrow, and longing. I also liked the kindness of strangers that was depicted in many instances throughout the book.
    • 3/5
      A bit slow and circuitous, I skipped to the last page just to see how it ended.
    • 4/5
      Catherine's books are always a pleasure to read and this one is no exception. She puts so much soul into her characters, so much reality. This book was a fast but intelligent read including one of my favorite subjects, Native Americans. Carly and Jen, sisters, have a difficult home life and decide to run away from New Mexico heading for California and a man they believe will be their salvation, a man Carly has loved as a father.

      This story of their journey, both physical and emotional, is full of the growth of two teen girls in surprising ways. Discoveries about their relationship to each other, their values, their family, and their assumptions about people and life are challenged. I particularly enjoyed the Native American characters in this story. I can't think of any author who writes such life into her characters as Catherine does. I feel as though I know them by the end of the book and could walk next door and have a chat with them. I wanted to drive to Wakapi land to meet Dolores and Alvin!

      Catherine's note at the end of the book reflects who I imagine her to be so well. I highly recommend this book.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book, the story of two orphaned girls trying to get to their mother's former lover, Teddy. Afraid of being split apart and taken away by Child Protective Services, the protagonist, Cally, and her eleven-year old sister, Jen, embark on a journey to California.

      Walk Me Home is tightly written and makes us feel in great detail what not having a home is like. It is a sad story, yet the girls find hope in the most unlikely places. The only issue I had was that Cally seems younger than 16. Even in her dealings with the hunky classmate, Dean, she appears a bit juvenile. I think the reason for this impression stems from Cally's refusal to acknowledge that there may be some truth to Jen's claim that Teddy assaulted her. This refusal and along with it various somewhat illogical decisions made me question the protagonist's age and at times annoyed me.

      Aside from this issue I kept pulling for Cally, thoroughly enjoying her internal and external journey, especially because it involved a (though fictitious) Native American tribe.

    • 4/5
      Two teen sisters struggle to stay together and survive after a tragedy leaves them alone.