Flying Lessons and Other Stories edited by Ellen Oh - 5 hours

 This audio book from Libby was a joy! I enjoyed every story, although the Chocktow one was my least favorite. I liked how every author seemed to get inside the head of middle school aged kids and share their thinking with us. There was a boy who played wheelchair basketball, a girl who struggled to find the perfect secret Santa gift for her black friend, the only black student in the whole town. Life in the barrio and in the ghetto was well-shared. How do these kids carry on, I wondered? These authors did a great job of eliciting our sympathy... Probably my favorite story was the one of a Hispanic girl who helped her father paint the gym in a private school in exchange for her tuition. Another great one was a kid who struggled to play in a city basketball league when all the adults and bigger kids wanted to shut him out. Such good, descriptive writing!!!