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The Martin Chronicles audiobook

  • By: John Fried
  • Narrator: Greg Baglia
  • Category: Family Life, Fiction
  • Length: 6 hours 55 minutes
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio
  • Publish date: January 08, 2019
  • Language: English
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The Martin Chronicles Audiobook Summary

A powerful and heartfelt coming-of-age novel that follows Martin Kelso as he grows up in 1980s New York and faces the magic of first experiences, as well as the heartbreak of hard-won life lessons.

Martin Kelso’s comfortable world starts to change at the age of eleven. Girls get under his skin in ways he never noticed before. His cousin Evie, who used to be Marty’s closest confidante–the one who taught him the right way to eat a pizza and how to catch tadpoles–has grown up into a stranger, mysterious and unpredictable. Marty and his best friends once inhabited fantasy worlds of their own making, full of cowboys and cops and robbers, where the heroes always won the day. But now, as neighborhood kids are attacked on their walk to school, they find themselves wanting to play a new game that better prepares them for real life.

As life changes quickly and Marty feels less secure with himself, the difference between games and reality, friend and foe, and right from wrong becomes much more difficult to distinguish. At the same time, this new world offers possibilities as exciting as they are frightening.

This poignant debut perfectly captures the intense emotion, humor, and earnestness of young adulthood as Marty, age eleven to seventeen, navigates a series of life-changing firsts: first kiss, first enemy, first loss, and, ultimately, his first awareness that the world is not as simple a place as he had once imagined.

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The Martin Chronicles Audiobook Narrator

Greg Baglia is the narrator of The Martin Chronicles audiobook that was written by John Fried

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John Fried is the author of The Martin Chronicles

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The Martin Chronicles Full Details

Narrator Greg Baglia
Length 6 hours 55 minutes
Author John Fried
Category
Publisher Hachette Audio
Release date January 08, 2019
ISBN 9781549195266

Subjects

The publisher of the The Martin Chronicles is Hachette Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Family Life, Fiction

Additional info

The publisher of the The Martin Chronicles is Hachette Audio. The imprint is Grand Central Publishing. It is supplied by Hachette Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781549195266.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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