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    Playing the Cards You're Dealt (Scholastic Gold)
    Playing the Cards You're Dealt (Scholastic Gold)
    Playing the Cards You're Dealt (Scholastic Gold)
    Audiobook6 hours

    Playing the Cards You're Dealt (Scholastic Gold)

    Written by Varian Johnson

    Narrated by Dion Graham

    5/5

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    About this audiobook

    “With a deft hand, Johnson shows us there's no such thing as "too young" when it comes to questioning big ideas like manhood, or even family.” –Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of Look Both Ways and Stamped

    Literary powerhouse and Coretta Scott King Honor- and Boston Globe / Horn Book Honor-winning author of The Parker Inheritance Varian Johnson explores themes of toxic masculinity and family legacy in this heartfelt, hopeful story of one boy discovering what it really means to be a man.

    SECRETS ARE ALWAYS A GAMBLE

    Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has made it to double digits! Which means he's finally old enough to play in the spades tournament every Joplin Man before him seems to have won. So while Ant's friends are stressing about fifth grade homework and girls, Ant only has one thing on his mind: how he'll measure up to his father's expectations at the card table.

    Then Ant's best friend gets grounded, and he's forced to find another spades partner. And Shirley, the new girl in his class, isn't exactly who he has in mind. She talks a whole lot of trash -- way more than his old partner. Plus, he's not sure that his father wants him playing with a girl. But she's smart and tough and pretty, and knows every card trick in the book. So Ant decides to join forces with Shirley -- and keep his plans a secret.

    Only it turns out secrets are another Joplin Man tradition. And his father is hiding one so big it may tear their family apart...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScholastic Audio Books
    Release dateOct 5, 2021
    ISBN9781338780949
    Playing the Cards You're Dealt (Scholastic Gold)

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    • 5/5

      Nov 7, 2024

      Ten-year-old Ant is "dealing" with a lot—Dad's addiction and lies, a friend turning on him, taunts about his height, a new friend who is (gulp) a girl and whom (gulp) he might like-like. And, oh yeah, preparing for the 22nd annual spades tournament. The card-playing theme ties everything together, even the tough topics. The narrator (identity hidden for most of the book) is refreshing. Definitely adding to our grade 4 and 5 school library. Varian Johnson, I can't wait for your next book.