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    Monkey Island
    Monkey Island
    Monkey Island
    Audiobook3 hours

    Monkey Island

    Written by Paula Fox

    Narrated by George Guidall

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    Clay Garrity is 11 years old, and he has never felt so alone in life. Weeks before, his father lost his job and left Clay and his mother, who was pregnant, to fend for themselves. Soon after, they moved into a welfare hotel. They didn't have much, but they did have each other. Now his mother is gone too. And all Clay has to live on is the $28.75 she left under a box of doughnuts. On the 6th day, running out of food and afraid that the welfare people will come and take him away, Clay leaves the apartment and begins to wander the streets of New York City. Clay knows he can't continue to live this way for long. Already his memories of school and the people he cares about are fading. If he leaves the streets he may never see his mother again. But if he stays he may not see tomorrow.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 15, 2013
    ISBN9781470354886
    Author

    Paula Fox

    Paula Fox (1923-2017) is the author of the memoirs The Coldest Winter and Borrowed Finery, six novels, and a number of children's and young adult books, including the Newberry Award-winning children's book, The Slave Dancer. She lived in Brooklyn, New York.

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    • 3/5
      A really excellent book about homelessness and creating community.
    • 3/5
      Clay's father has lost his job and abandoned his pregnant wife and his son. When his mother loses her job too, they have to move into a seedy hotel. And then one day, Clay's mother doesn't come back either... for days.Fearing both social services and the police, Clay takes to the streets. Fortunately, he finds two homeless men, a young black man named Buddy and an old white man named Calvin, who take him under their wing and look out for him the best they are able to. For about ten weeks during the late fall and early winter, Clay is homeless on the streets of New York City, his only comfort, being the two men he's sharing a crate with. When he gets pneumonia, Buddy sees to it that he gets to a hospital, and social services takes over from there.The biggest success of the book is putting faces and personalities on the homeless people that we too often ignore completely, as though they are invisible. Somehow, I can't say Clay's story tugged at my heart very much. The reader didn't get to know him in good times, so we only saw him while he was miserable. That is realistic, given the situation, but also keeps the reader from getting too emotionally involved with Clay. I felt more attached to Buddy than to the protagonist.