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Title: Slake's Limbo
Author: Felice Holman
Narrator: Neil Patrick Harris
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-17-09
Publisher: Listening Library
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes
Genres: Teens, Fiction & Literature
Publisher's Summary:
Desperate, driven, harassed to the breaking point, Slake decides to go underground into the sheltering depths of the New York City subway, where he ends up staying for 121 days. This is the story about survival, and about a 13-year-old misfit's attempts to find footing in a hostile and threatening world.
©1986 Felice Holman; (P)2009 Listening Library
Members Reviews:
Poetic, gritty, touching, and realistic young adult book
I like young adult books that don't insult readers' intelligence or over-simplify life's complexities. I bought this book for my 11 year-old son, and he and I both really enjoyed reading it. Although it was written in the 70's, it is not too dated to be enjoyed by today's readers. I highly recommend it.
I love this book.
A quick read and one of my favorites. This book will capture your heart. I love this story so much that I buy it to give to friends. I highly recommend it.
Aremis and the Bird
I use this book with my eighth grade students, some of whom will be doing their own review. There is a little of Aremis Slake in most young teenagers- feelings of uncertainty, mistrust, fear. This novel provides an interesting look at what its like to try to survive in an urban setting, a situation totally unfamiliar to most of my students. They did, however, seem to enjoy his trials and tribulations of spending 121 days in the subway. Many students asked about, and I think would enjoy, a sequel.
Adam's awsome review
Slake's Limbo by Felice Holman is one of the best books I've read. I think it teaches you to never let fear hold you back. It takes place in New York City. It's about a 13-year-old boy named Aremis Slake and a motorman named Willis Joe Whinny.
Slake got chased for almost his entire life. One day when he was being chased for no reason by bullies, he went down in the subway and got on a train. But instead of getting off at a transfer point, he got off at a place he'd never been and went to Central Park.
One of Slake's dreams was that "The leaves will stay on the trees this year," so Slake took pieces of grass and started to tie leaves back on the trees. But soon a man saw him and called the cops and Slake ran down in the Subway without a token and got on a train again.
Soon Slake got off at Grand Central Station and got chased again, so he went back down in the Subway without a token again. But instead of going on the train, he jumped on the tracks and found a hole in the wall and lived there for one hundred twenty-one days.
Willis Joe was a man who dreamed of being a sheepherder in Australia. It all started when he and his friends went to see a movie about it. But one day Willis Joe's father broke his hip and Willis Joe had to do all of the heavy work. Soon he got a job at a car garage. Later his father told him to be a motorman so he'd get paid more. He figured that he would need to save up for his trip to Australia. Years later, he started to see people in the Subway as sheep because he thought that their souls were blurred.
When Slake was down in the subway, he accidentally got a job selling newspapers and sweeping up a diner. He started to sell papers when he took some off a train and a man saw him with them. The man paid 15 cents for it. He got the job in the diner when the manager saw him there every day.
