Melissa Dassori, J. R. Silver Writes Her World (Little, Brown, 2022).
There was a glorious if brief phase in my kids’ growing up when on a long car trip, we would listen to audiobooks — not through our individual headphones, but together, through the car stereo system.
No, the kids rarely agreed on what title to listen to, so mostly it was trips with each kid, separately, that delivered these wonderful moments.
My son sank into the Hunger Games trilogy: good taste for a terrifying story.
My daughter preferred titles that showed young girls doing cool things — though not quite as life-and-death cool as in Hunger Games.