- Title:
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Lenny's Book of Everything (MP3)
- Written by:
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Karen Foxlee
- Read by:
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Abbe Holmes
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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8 hours 56 minutes
- MP3 size:
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389 MB
- Published:
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February 01 2020
- Available Date:
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February 01 2020
- Age Category:
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Children (8+)
- ISBN:
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9780655645276
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Children's Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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Award winning author
A moving novel about love, loss and growing up with a brother who has gigantism.
Lenny Spinx is the sister of a giant.
Her little brother, Davey, has a rare form of gigantism that puzzles his doctors and astounds his friends, neighbours and teachers. Together, Lenny and Davey escape to a more wondrous reality by obsessing over the entries in their monthly installment of Burrell’s Build-It-at-Home Encyclopedia set. They lose themselves in passages about abominable snowmen, jellyfish, peregrine falcons and quicksand. Lenny vows to become a beetle expert, while Davey decides he will run away to Canada and build a log cabin.
As Davey’s disease progresses, though, their richly imagined world becomes harder to cling to. From A to Z, this is a deeply moving story about growing up and up and up and the unshakable bond between siblings.
'Tough, tender and beautiful.'
Glenda Millard, author of The Stars at Oktober Bend
'Though I defy you to read it without tears, Lenny’s Book of Everything is warm, humorous, absolutely real, and above all, uplifting.'
Wendy Orr, author of Dragonfly Song
'Holy Batman, this is a gorgeous, heartbreaking, heartwarming book.'
R.J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wonder