I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Abridged Audio Edition)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Abridged Audio Edition)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Abridged Audio Edition)
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Reader: Maya Angelou
Edition: Music CD
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Published: 1996-09-03
ISBN: 0679451730
Publisher: Random House Audio

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Book Review: South Mill Young Readers Book Club Review (Jr. High Readers)
Summary: 4 Stars

We are the members of the South Mill Young Readers Book Club located in Conyers, Georgia. We are in the thirteen year old age bracket and thought it would be challenging to attempt to read and understand this story. As a result of our reading, we rate the book as follows:

Creativity - B+
Enjoyment - A+
Price - B+

We would recommend this book to others in our age group to read it.

Typed by Book Club Instructor: mwg

Summary of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Abridged Audio Edition)

In this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. Marvelously told, with Angelou's "gift for language and observation," this "remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are shamefully ignorant."
2 CDs / 3 hours
Read by the Author, Maya Angelou

Also available on cassette


Superbly told--with the poet's gift for language and observation, and charged with the unforgettable emotion of remembered anguish and love--this remarkable autobiography by an equally remarkable black woman from Arkansas captures, indelibly, a world of which most Americans are unaware of.

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