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Listen Up Middle-Grade Friendship and Family Stories on Audio

Before the Ever After. By Jacqueline Woodson. Read by Guy Lockard. 2020. 2hr. Listening Library. Gr. 5–8.

Guy Lockard poignantly connects with listeners as they move back in time with ZJ to “before,” when his dad, who suffers from a TBI, was a loving

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