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Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Judy Blume (Author, Narrator), Listening Library (Publisher)
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Sheila Tubman sometimes wonders who she really is: the outgoing, witty, and capable Sheila the Great, or the secret Sheila, who's afraid of the dark, spiders, swimming, and dogs?

When her family spends the summer in Tarrytown, Sheila has to face some of her worst fears. Not only does a dog come with the rented house, but her parents expect Sheila to take swimming lessons! Sheila does her best to pretend she's an expert at everything, but she knows she isn't fooling her new best friend, Mouse Ellis, who happens to be a crackerjack swimmer and a dog lover.

What will it take for Sheila to admit to the Tarrytown kids and to herself that she's only human?

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  1. Listening Length
    2 hours and 45 minutes
  2. Author
    Judy Blume
  3. Narrator
    Judy Blume
  4. Audible release date
    August 2, 2007
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Listening Library
  7. ASIN
    B0010BA7YC
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 2 hours and 45 minutes
Author Judy Blume
Narrator Judy Blume
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com Release Date August 02, 2007
Publisher Listening Library
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B0010BA7YC
Best Sellers Rank #36,435 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#89 in Children's Social Skills
#232 in Humorous Fiction for Children
#429 in Growing Up & Facts of Life for Children

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars I enjoyed Sheila in general
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2019
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The game slam book is so much fun in the book please make this into movie I would totally watch it
Shelia and mouse were good friends and Jane and sandra were funny twins libby and her boy drama makes me laugh so hard I also liked the part when Sandra got stuck in the milk door to funny To me at least when Mouse tell Sheila if someone is afraid they should just say it like my mom says yo me Tarrytown was never ready Shelia The Great but seriously slam book if I ever have a sleepover I'll record me and my friends playing it and put it on YouTube. Marty is a good friend and teacher
Setting:Tarrytown
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Marvin G.
5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable book
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2023
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Easy and fun read. For young elementary students.
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Shannon Sysling
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2021
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This book was sooooo good and I would recommend this to anyone who loves their funny stories. This book made me laugh,but It might have been better if she likes dogs,but their wouldn’t be much storyline if she did.
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snbelfield
5.0 out of 5 stars Nostalgic
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2023
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I read these Judy Blume books as a kid now my son is enjoying them as well
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Maggie.Marie
5.0 out of 5 stars Judy Blume should have written more about Sheila Tubman!
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2012
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I just bought this book on Kindle and re-read it fojr the first time since I was about ten. I forgot how much I liked it. This book is adorable, but also very real. Blume always does such a great job at pulling you into the intimate personal lives of all of her characters-- and this novel is no exception.

As much as I love the entire "Fudge" series, I wish that Judy would have written more books from Sheia Tubman's perspective. In the books written from Peter Hatcher's perspective, Sheila is portrayed as a snooty, annoying twit living near the Hatchers. She has no real identity in these books beyond Peter's antagonizer. However, in 'Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great,' she is a normal preteen girl who fights with her older sister and faces her very real fears of swimming and sleeping alone at night. She isn't the jerk that Peter Hatcher makes her out to be; she's just like any other girl you'd meet in junior high.

One thing that I truly appreciated with this book is that instead of focusing on relationships with younger siblings, this book speaks to those of us (including myself) who are the youngest. Sheila's fighs with her older sister Libby are almost identical to the ones I used to have with my own older sister at that age. I couldn't help but smile at the obvious sibling rivalry that peppered this novel. Some things never change!
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BostonMama
5.0 out of 5 stars Still as good as ever.
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2018
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I remembered liking this book as a kid, so I got it for my daughter, since it's the 2nd book in the Fudge series (after Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing, which she'd just read). She liked it. I found myself reading it while waiting for her at swim practice, and re-appreciating the way that Judy Blume gets in the mind of kids, telling you with humor what they are thinking without telling you outright. I'd forgotten how masterful she is, and why I loved her books so as a kid. This book reminded me. Sheila acting as if Peter's dog is disgusting and shouldn't be in the elevator (because she's afraid of dogs), telling her friend her mother won't let her go swimming (because she can't swim-- as is immediately apparent when her mother mortifies her by telling her it's time for her swim lesson) . . . It all takes you back to that time in your life. Blume is the queen.
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Lauren P
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and amazing by Mimi age 9 and a half
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2022
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The thing I loved the most about this book is the details and the wording the words made the book come to life for me this is an interesting and amazing book.😍😘😁😊😻
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D. Vaughan
5.0 out of 5 stars Great books for young readers (and parents too!)
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2007
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If you've never read Judy Blume books, you've been missing out. I had never read Judy Blume books, and discovered, once I started reading them to my kids, that I had been missing out. This books is part of a series of books about a boy named Farley Drexel, aka Fudge. The Fudge books are very funny and Judy really hits the nail on the head when it comes to young kids. I highly highly highly recommend this book and all the other Fudge books to anyone with kids of any age. The books are funny, very insiteful, easy to read and quite enjoyable. My kids love reading them, and having them read to them again and again.
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Rhianon
5.0 out of 5 stars Great!
Reviewed in Mexico on July 23, 2023
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My son loved this book
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Andrea H
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic, my kids love it
Reviewed in Canada on April 9, 2020
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A classic book from my own childhood. Reading the series to my daughters right now and they love it too. Thanks to Judy Blume for the fun stories - love this one about Sheila :)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great fun read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 4, 2020
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My kids totally loved the book, which they found very funny and relatable. We have been following the series.
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5.0 out of 5 stars review by me (hudson)
Reviewed in Australia on November 29, 2017
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this quite diferent than what I expsected because it is seen out of the eyes of " sheela du gr8 ", it is still the standards of any judy blume book especially the fudge series and once again a pants-wetter its a gr8 book and I strongly recemend this book to little readers such as myself (8-12) years 5-5 :).
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willow
5.0 out of 5 stars 英語学習に良い
Reviewed in Japan on November 3, 2016
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家庭や友人間で使われる口語表現が出てくるので、生きた英語に接することができる
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