Joy School

Katie Nash, Book 2

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Natalie Ross

Winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction

A story that tugs at the heartstrings...Thirteen-year-old Katie is new to her Missouri town, living alone with a stern, inaccessible father following her mother’s death. Unable to fit in at school, she forges alliances where she can: With her housekeeper, with a pimply fellow misfit named Cynthia, and with the gorgeous Taylor, who gets her kicks out of shoplifting. Most frustrating of all is Katie’s imperfect friendship with the proprietor of a local gas station, a handsome twenty-three-year-old who shares her love of checkers but doesn’t return her crush.

©1997 Elizabeth Berg (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Easy Listening

A lot of Katie Nash’s thoughts made me remember my own thoughts at this age and the different variety of people and their personalities that I was experiencing and navigating through for the first time.

Not my favorite Berg book….

I kept waiting for the ‘meat’ …the heart of the story. I think I just had the wrong expectations this time. She is one of my favorite authors.

Performer wasn't my favorite

The reader dropped the end of her sentences so I had to turn up the volume. Then the pitch she put her voice in for the young woman was a bit piercing at times at the higher volume.