Breakout.BREAKOUT. Paul Fleischman. 2003. Read by Richard Harries & Susan Spain. 3 tapes. 3.5 hrs. Recorded Books. 1-4025-6708-1. $29.00. Vinyl; plot notes. S Del has spent her first 17 years in dreadful foster homes, yearning for her real mother and learning to hide her feelings from those around her. Finally Del breaks out, fakes her death, buys a beat-up 1963 Datsun with no A/C or insurance, takes her last $134.00, and heads out of town. Her breakout is short-lived. A horrendous accident stalls the LA freeway for hours. There, with hundreds of other stranded motorists, Del is forced to connect with those around her. She tries out her newly invented name, Elena Franco, on various strangers, and by the end of the afternoon bas found the courage to do an impromptu A Windows query and reporting tool from Cognos with support for a large variety of databases. It is capable of generating cross tabs for spreadsheets such as Excel, Lotus for Windows and Quattro Pro for Windows. stand-up comedy  This article or section may deal primarily with the U.S. and may not present a worldwide view. routine for her fellow non-travelers. She uses her talent for mimicry mimicry, in biology, the advantageous resemblance of one species to another, often unrelated, species or to a feature of its own environment. (When the latter results from pigmentation it is classed as protective coloration. and the traffic jam to work up a one-woman show that she appears in eight years later. The story swings between Del at 17 and at 25, when she lives in Boulder and cares for her daughter. She has learned to survive as a single parent and turn the tragedies of her life into comedy. Intelligent, sharp, and sassy sas·sy 1 adj. sas·si·er, sas·si·est 1. Rude and disrespectful; impudent. 2. Lively and spirited; jaunty. 3. Stylish; chic: a sassy little hat. , Del will appeal to teens. Fleischman, a National Book Award finalist, touches themes that will resonate res·o·nate v. res·o·nat·ed, res·o·nat·ing, res·o·nates v.intr. 1. To exhibit or produce resonance or resonant effects. 2. with his audience. Narrators Harries and Spain bring Del's story to life with a full-voiced reading. They get to do a Southerner, a whiny teen and his more, a young Mexican car thief, a frustrated frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: businesswoman, and many others. Janet Julian, Grafton, MA |
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