Here Today.(Audiobook Review)(Children's Review)

Here Today (unabr.). 4 cassettes or 6 CDs. 6:40 hrs. Prod. by Listening Library. Dist. by Listening Library/Books on Tape. 2004. cassette, ISBN 1-4000-9045-2: $32; CD, ISBN 1-4000-9487-9: $45.

Gr 4-7--Eleven-year old Eleanor "Ellie" Roosevelt Dingman is barely keeping her family intact in this novel by Ann M. Martin (Scholastic, 2004). Set in 1963 in the small town of Spectacle, NY, Ellie's mother, Doris Day Dingman, is completely self-absorbed, almost to the point of neglecting her three children. Doris, as the children are required to call her, would much rather be a model or a famous movie star than a mother, and finally abandons her family to move to New York City …