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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus Audio CD – Unabridged, March 1, 2021

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The audio edition of the bestselling middle grade novel about a spunky girl born without arms and a boy with Tourette syndrome navigating the challenges of middle school, disability, and friendship—all while solving a mystery in a western theme park.

Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is that she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing that she'll have to answer the question over and over again.

Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she bonds with Connor, a classmate who also feels isolated because of his own disability, and they discover a room at Stagecoach Pass that holds bigger secrets than Aven ever could have imagined. It's hard to solve a mystery, help a friend, and face your worst fears. But Aven's about to discover she can do it all . . . even without arms.

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Tantor and Blackstone Publishing
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March 1, 2021
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979-8200361830
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Charming and memorable. An excellent choice for middle grade collections and classrooms.-- "School Library Journal Starred Review"

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08Z3M2Z23
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tantor and Blackstone Publishing; Unabridged edition (March 1, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Audio CD ‏ : ‎ 1 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8200361830
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 9 - 12 years, from customers
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 5.7 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #4,757,179 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,112 in Children's Books on Disabilities
- #21,059 in Children's Mystery, Detective, & Spy
- #38,167 in Children's Friendship Books

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DUSTI BOWLING is the award-winning, bestselling author of Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus, 24 Hours in Nowhere, The Canyon's Edge, and the forthcoming Across the Desert and Aven Green chapter book series.

Dusti's books have won the Reading the West Award, the Sakura Medal, a Golden Kite Honor, the William Allen White Children's Book Award, and have been nominated for over thirty state awards. Her books are Junior Library Guild Selections and have been named best books of the year by the Chicago Public Library, Kirkus, Bank Street College of Education, A Mighty Girl, Shelf Awareness, and many more.

Dusti currently lives in New River, Arizona with her husband, three daughters, a dozen tarantulas, a gopher snake named Burrito, a king snake name Death Noodle, and a cockatiel named Gandalf the Grey.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 6, 2023

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This book is a great book for young readers!

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This prize-winning book will have you laughing with delight.

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I can’t say enough about this book. It has won a boat-load of awards--too many to enumerate here.
The Middle Grade novel stars Aven Green, whose family has just moved from Kansas to Arizona to manage a tired old theme park called Stagecoach Pass. She’s about to start eighth grade, though she’s starting late.
Oh, and she was born without arms.
Not that it’s an issue for her. She can do pretty much anything she wants to, despite being different. But at her old school, she’d known all her classmates since kindergarten, and she was comfortable with them. At her new school, not only is she new, but her new classmates haven’t had much experience with someone like her.
And they’re mean. Or at least tactless.
Aven is most nervous about her new classmates seeing her eat. With her feet.
So she avoids their eyes by eating lunch in a stall in the bathroom. Or in the library.
When she meets two other students, Connor and Zion, who are also avoiding their classmates, they have an instant bond and become friends.
Aven has the run of Stagecoach Pass, and she notices some mysterious things. The old man who has worked at the ice cream parlor for sixty years acts as though he has known her forever. Also, there’s an old locked storage shed at the back of the property plastered with Keep Out signs. And Joe Cavanaugh, the owner of the park, is never on the premises.
Bowling crafts compelling characters. Aven is smart, funny, capable, and caring. Connor and Zion have deep self-esteem issues, and Aven helps to break them out of their shells. Aven’s adoptive parents are loving and positive and have shaped her to be independent. She’s also a prankster, and they give her room to be a little naughty because they find her hilarious and inventive.
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus also gives readers strategies for how to interact with people who are different, rather than ignoring them or blurting out something insensitive.
Aven has creative ideas about how to attract more people to the park. She helps her parents organize an art festival, and persuades some of the artisans to rent the vacant buildings on the park property and turn them into shops.
Through persistent digging, Aven solves the park mysteries and discovers the truth about her own past.
I am thrilled to say Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus has a sequel. I plan to read it soon.

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Aven is a 13-year-old adopted child without arms. She enjoys her life in Kansas, but her family moves to Arizona to manage Stagecoach Pass, a western-themed amusement park. Aven's friends at her old school in Kansas treat her like any other student, but going to a new school is a huge adjustment. Many of the kids at her new school stare at or ignore her. Aven befriends a boy named Conner who has Tourette Syndrome. He has many involuntary tics, but barking is most prevalent, especially when he's nervous or around other people. Conner and Aven become best friends. They have to tolerate ignorant students who sometimes ask her ridiculous questions or bark at Conner.

Aven and her parents are likable, strong characters. Aven's parents are supportive, but they've taught her to be independent. She's learned to meet all her basic needs with her feet and much harder skills like playing the guitar. Conner's parents are divorced, and his dad thinks he should try harder to control his Tourette's.

They also become friends with Zion, an overweight boy with poor self-esteem. They are all afraid of being made fun of by other students. Aven tries to help each boy by encouraging them to try and overcome their challenges. She accompanies Conner to a Tourette's support group without Conner's mom knowing about it.

One aspect of the story that I especially liked was how Aven and her parents try to think of creative ways to help sustain Stagecoach Pass.

Author Dusti Bowling captures the middle school years in such a realistic way. The characterization was superb. I enjoyed this read so much that I will be on the lookout for future books by this author.

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Great characters, good plot. Sure, it is YA … but I’m looking forward to the sequel. Nicely done re: being a kid that’s different.

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Sweet and unique, just like the characters!

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Uplifting, beautiful, and hilarious all at the same time.
The mystery had me captured. I'm excited to read the next!

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Lesson learned

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 13, 2022

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This book is cute and engaging. It certainly teaches the reader a lot about what its like to be a middle schooler who is “different”. Very heart warming story . We all could learn something about others whether you are a middl schooler or a senior.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 13, 2022

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This book found me in the desert, (for life…I LOVE IT HERE. Never leaving) with a debilitating injury that made me feel very sorry for myself…and taught me a little humility. Thank you. My lost grandson is also named ‘Aven.’ My lost granddaughters are named Samantha and Jaylee. Not
‘Lost’ but “Taken,” by a corrupt system. I love you guys. I pray for you daily. Love, Grandma. Are

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My daughter has loved reading this book! Great for 12 year old girls!

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Great Book for 10-13 Years Old

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 5, 2020

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My niece (11) loved this book when I got it for her at Christmas. I bought her the second book for her birthday and she was so excited to read it! The author does a great job and she wants to read all her books!

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 16, 2020

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this book is a very good book recommended for kids 6 and over and parents good lesons in the book buy this for anyone

Kate Bell

A unique pretext, very well done

Reviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on May 29, 2019

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When I read the description of this book I was a little put off by the unusual setup: a child with no arms, a deserted amusement park. But the story is lovely and clips right along. I really enjoyed it and would recommend it for ages 10 and up.

Joanna

Great book

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 21, 2022

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My daughter said this is the best book she has read recently!

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