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Title: Steal Away

Author: Jennifer Armstrong

Narrator: Christina Moore, Barbara Caruso, Lynne Thigpen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-13

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

In 1896, Mary Emmons is surprised when her grandmother takes her along to visit an old friend, in Toronto, named Bethlehem. Mary has led a sheltered life in New York City, far from hardship and danger. But when Mary meets the ancient woman, the personal history she shares removes the blinders from Marys eyes, forcing the girl to recognize prejudice and injustice for the first time.

As a young girl, Suzanna, Marys grandmother, is sent to live with her uncle in the South. Seeing slaves for the first time, and the horrible way they are treated, Suzanna decides to run away, back to her home in Vermont. When she leaves, though, she is not alone. Disguised as a boy, the young slave Bethlehem escapes with her. As the story of these two brave young women is told through alternating chapters, they share the dangers they face on the perilous journey from Virginia to freedom.

Award-winning narrators Christina Moore, Barbara Caruso, and Lynne Thigpen masterfully capture each riveting conflict and difficult decision.

Members Reviews:

Steal Away

Steal Away is about two girls, Bethlehem and Susannah, that have bonded over a couple of months. They concluded that they should run away from Susannah's uncle's farm. Susannah has just been orphaned after her parent's death that occured up in Vermont. But there is a catch, it isn't so easy as it sounds. This takes place during the slavery times. The girls cut their hair and steal some old cloths that were once Susannah's cousin's cloths. They then packed all of their belongings and headed north. They have to overcome many of the challenges on their way and many dangers. They gain friends and enemies and have to run away from slavery. Susannah was from up north and when she was suddenly orphaned her only relative was her uncle. So she was brought down by her uncle to his farm in Virginia. Susannah never had a slave and her uncle's farm had many slaves. Susannah had her personnal slave, which was Bethlehem, and she tried to befriend her many times. She then persuaded Bethlehem to learn to read and write. Only Bethlehem knew that that was against the law and therefore Susannah had to persuade her. Over months Susannah kept it in her mind that she was going to runaway somtime soon but she never knew when that time was.

Susannah and Bethlehem didn't want to be classified by race or color. Susannah knew it was wrong and she wanted to run away up to her home, Vermont. On the day of Susannah's run away, she told Bethlehem that this was the day and that was when Bethlehem surprised Susannah by telling her that she was going to go with her, no matter what. But there was a secret kept between them. Bethlehem wanted to go to Canada which is what she pointed to when Susannah showed Bethlehem where Vermont was. This story is definitely worth reading just to find out the personal lives of two very unique children with a very large dream. I definitely recommend this book to anyone out there and it should be read by many students and teachers alike.

IS HOME MORE THAN JUST A PLACE?

This book is hard to put down, for Jennifer Armstrong weaves a compelling story of interracial friendships--a tale within a tale which spans 3 generations.

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Title: Nude: The Deadly Series, Book 1

Author: Morris Gleitzman, Paul Jennings

Narrator: Francis Greenslade, Melissa Eccleston

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-13

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Reptile spun the wheel and expertly changed gear. We screeched round a corner. I was flung back against the seat. Desperately I hung on to the howling baby. 'When your father finds out what you've done', I yelled at the blond boy, 'you're in for it.' I stared at them trying to take it in. I was being kidnapped at high speed in a military vehicle by a bunch of little brats.... Uncovering deadly secret after deadly secret, Amy and Sprocket are lured deeper into a mystery that gets more exciting with every minute.

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Title: The Secret of Gumbo Grove

Author: Eleanora Tate

Narrator: Kim Staunton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-13

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Eleven-year-old Raisin enjoys doing odd jobs for old Ms. Effie Pfluggins. Ms. Effie is the church secretary, and she has fascinating stories to tell about the African American history and people of Gumbo Grove. When old Miss Pfluggins asks her to help clean up the church cemetery, Raisin discovers a real-life mystery that no one wants to talk about. Theres a famous person buried in a forgotten plot, but the townsfolk seem to think that the past is better left buried. Now Raisins parents are watching her every move and they dont want her nosing around in the cemetery anymore. How can she ignore a mystery that the whole town seems eager to forget?

Eleanora E. Tate blends mystery, warmth, and humor into an unforgettable tale set in a small North Carolina town. Children of any age or race will identify with this spirited African-American girl who values truth and stands up for her beliefs.

Members Reviews:

Fun and reminiscent of my growing up time on the ...

Fun and reminiscent of my growing up time on the coast. Great family, community and characters- well developed. Reveals a message without hammering folks over the head. I loved the characters and the slowly revealed secrets

Five Stars

My granddaughter enjoyed the story.

Five Stars

We enjoyed this book.

An Interesting Book

The Secret of Gumbo Grove By: Eleanora E. Tate

I enjoyed "The Secret of Gumbo Grove". It shows a tourist town from an interesting point of view that made the book fresh and exciting. This book is so novel that there are no other books that compare in its genre. The writing is of a very high quality. I would recommend this book to almost anyone of any age. I would rate this book an 8 out of 10 for interesting plot and characters, but it's slightly boring. The ending in sepcific is boring. I like the location and the detailed histories of the characters must have taken forever, due to the detail in them. The plot could use a little work in the way of the antagonist, who is a bit predictable. But the other characters are pretty well created. The ending was kind of disappointing and not very exciting. But all together the book was enjoyable and easy to read. They are trying to save a cemetery from the people at their local church. I'll let you figure out the rest.....

The Secret of Gumbo Grove **Alison**

The Secret of Gumbo Grove is an excellent book. I highly recommend it, especially if you like mysteries. It is about a 11-year old girl who helps Miss Effie, the church secretary, clean out an old graveyard. Miss Effie knows all about the people buried in the cemetery, and is happy to tell their stories to Raisin. After Miss Effie gives her the old church records, she finds herself in a mystery, who is "Gumbo" Dickson? Why does no one in the town want to talk about him? Could the African-American man be the founder of Gumbo Grove? I really liked how the author, Eleanora E. Tate tied the mystery in with Raisin's regular life. For example, the "Miss Ebony Calvary County Pageant",in which one of Raisin's sisters, Hattie, participates. I greatly disliked Miss Aussie, who wouldn't even admit that some people in the graveyard were her relatives! Miss Aussie wanted the cemetery to be destroyed. I found it very sad that marijuana and alcohol were sold to minors in her community, but luckily, Raisin didn't take any.

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Title: Neversink

Author: Barry Wolverton

Narrator: Emrhys Cooper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-11-12

Publisher: Listening Library

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Along the Arctic Circle lies a small island called Neversink, whose jagged cliffs and ice-gouged rocks are home to a colony of odd-looking seabirds called auks, including one Lockley J. Puffin. With their oceanfront views and plentiful supply of fish, the auks have few concerns - few, save for Lockley's two best friends, Egbert and Ruby, a know-it-all walrus and a sharp-tongued hummingbird.

But all of this is about to change. Rozbell, the newly crowned king of the Owl Parliament, is dealing with a famine on the mainland of Tytonia - and he has long had his scheming eyes on the small colony to the north. Now Neversink's independence hangs in the balance. An insurgence of owls will inevitably destroy life as the auks know it - unless Lockley can do something about it.

Members Reviews:

Neversink Rises To The Top

This is one of the cutest stories I've read in a very long time. The concept is fascinating and unique. The anthropomorphic qualities of the birds and walruses that inhabit these pages are wonderful. Wolverton's excellent writing brings forth a richly developed world that is one part nuance and one part slapstick. There is something for both children and adults. The story reads on two levels: one reflects the joyful nature of youth, and the other shines a light on our own, sometimes dark, political intrigues. This is a wonderful novel.

Hooray for Lockley, the puffin (not penguin)! He's ...

Hooray for Lockley, the puffin (not penguin)! He's braver than he should be and stands up to tyranny. Lessons we all can learn.

Charming

This book is filled with charm, heart, and wit. It made me want to go to Lucy and Lockley's house for cranberry scones and tea!

Five Stars

Enjoyed

A Puffin, hummingbird and walrus make great unlikely heroes.

Neversink is the story of Lockley and how he saves Neversink from the bad owls of Tytonia. Lockley, the puffin, lives in a small island in the arctic that is a colony of the larger island, Tytonia. Tytonia is home to the owls, which have left the auks alone since the great peace. When diseases appears to be effecting the food supply of the owls and a power-hungry new leader takes over, the owls set out to take Neversink's food. Lockley is determined not to submit to the owls and must figure out a way to get rid of them before his friends and family are hurt.

This was a cute story with some enjoyable humor. I thought the pacing was a little slow at points. The details of the owl parliament and how owl law works are a little bit of a drag to the pacing of the story. I did really like the ending and felt the later third of the novel was the strongest part of it.

Lockley and his collection of friends are the unlikely heroes of this book. A puffin, a hummingbird and a walrus aren't what you'd think of as hero material but I really like how they came together in the end with different strengths and weaknesses that made getting rid of the owls possible. The occasional illustrations help to bolster the enjoyable dialog and snappy characters.

This was a great middle reader book but I didn't fall in love with it. 3.5 Stars.

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Title: The Land of Oz

Author: L. Frank Baum

Narrator: Sheila Donald

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-16-12

Publisher: Canongate Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Classic entertainment for all the family, read by Sheila Donald. L. Frank Baum's sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a delightful account of the further adventures of the Scarecrow, the Lion, and the Tin Man, and their strange experiences of the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, Jack Pumpkinhead, the Animated Saw-Horse, and the Gump. In the Land of Oz, young Tip runs away from his guardian, the witch Mombi, taking with him Jack Pumpkinhead and the wooden Saw-Horse, and flees to the Emerald City, where he learns the incredible secret of his past.

Members Reviews:

Good but voices could have been better

Good story as always. Although I do wish the voice the Scarecrow sounded less like a witch and the voices of the tin man and Jack sound almost a like.

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Title: The Paradise Trap

Author: Catherine Jinks

Narrator: Chelsea Bruland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-24-12

Publisher: Listening Library

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Eleven-year-old Marcus loves video games and hates the beach. So he is not happy when his mum, Holly, drags him to Diamond Beach, the place she loved as a child. Once there, Holly meets Coco, her friend from her childhood. She is there with her electronics-obsessed husband, Sterling Huckstepp, and their kids: cool teenage Newt, pizza-loving Edison, and the family robot, Prot.

Opening a door into the basement of Holly's caravan, Edison discovers the most amazing amusement park. Whoever opens a door in the basement finds themselves in their very own dream vacation. But when the dream becomes impossible to escape from, it all begins to feel more like a nightmare: Marcus, Holly, and the Huckstepps find themselves trapped in a matrix of terrifyingly perfect dreamscapes peopled with strange characters that will allow them to do anything they want - except leave....A whirlwind adventure at a breakneck speed.

Members Reviews:

You'll feel like you're in the story

(This is word-for-word the review from my 9-year-old daughter) I have listened to the story three times and each time I haven't been able to stop listening. I hope you like it as much as I do.

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Title: The Boy Who Owned the School

Author: Gary Paulsen

Narrator: Nick Podehl

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-20-12

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Jacob Freisten's goal in life is to be unnoticed. He's perfect at gliding past the jocks' lockers and sneaking into his English class. But he won't be unnoticed now. If he wants to pass English, he has to work for extra credit on the stage crew of the school production of The Wizard of Oz.

Jacob, who's usually in a fog anyway, gets the job of running the fog machine. The problem is that Maria Tresser, the girl of his dreams, is playing the Wicked Witch. Jacob has already made a fool of himself in front of Maria. How can he face her again?

Members Reviews:

Just what you'd want it to be.

This was a great audio of the book. It followed it exactly. I use this as a read aloud book in the beginning of the school year, and the recording is split by chapter, which made it perfect for stopping and analyzing the text.

Hatchet was miles better

Jacob is the high school student that we all remember, and sympathize with to some extent: the social misfit who is beneath the quirky geek clique; a kid who is so socially inept that he never speaks to anyone, and indeed spends most of his time and energy figuring out how to avoid conversation altogether.

The book follows Jacob as he maneuvers his way through a distant home life and a harrowing school life. One of the most beautiful girls in school takes note of him when he is assigned to operate the fog machine in the school play, but he is so smitten with her that his usual social awkwardness devolves into a tongue-tied panic.

The Good and the Bad:

I liked the character of Jacob, and I certainly remember a student or two in school who he reminds me of. The book does a good job of fleshing out that anonymous character, and giving us reasons that contribute to that type of personality. The writing is also engaging and fun, with funny descriptive metaphors that are sure to capture the imagination of many children. But I rate the book fairly low because it is presented as a realistic story, but many of the scenes are so unrealistic as to seem surreal, or at least borrowed from a low-budget made-for-tv comedy about the horrors of high school (thought the characters seemed more junior-highish to me). For example, when Jacob accidentally stumbles into a school bully, the bully promptly stuffs him into a locker without so much as a word. There are no pop culture references, no shades of nuance in most of the characters, and a series of stereotypes about the jocks who seem to make up the majority of Jacob's classmates. Also straining belief was Jacob's over-the-top clumsiness, which often left him sprawling around like a clown in front of a crowd of peers. Nevertheless, the book is a quick and enjoyable read, and may give students a moment of reflection about their near-invisible classmates. The socially awkward student himself, however, is not likely to gain much in the way of constructive advice, as the solution to Jacob's problems lie in the persistence of a beautiful girl who is willing to put aside all of the social hierarchy because she wants to date Jacob.

The Boy Who Owned the Scool

The Boy Who Owned the School by Gary Paulsen keeps you on the edge of your seat. Jacob Freisten, a middle school student, was an extremely unusual boy. Jacob does not like to be noticed by any of his friends and peers. He makes a fool out of himself in front of the girl of his dreams.

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Title: How to Get the Friends You Want, by Peony Pinker

Author: Jenny Alexander

Narrator: Kate Harbour

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Peony Pinker is not "cool". She likes animals and messing about, not fitness routines and celebrity news. But when Dad becomes a celebrity agony aunt, the coolest girls in school invite Peony to join their group. Now she's watching the right films and doing the right activities to fit in...and she hasn't got time for her old friends any more. But is the "cool" crowd really where Peony wants to be? A funny and thought-provoking story, from best-selling author Jenny Alexander.

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Titel: Speed-Dating mit Papa

Autor:: Juma Kliebenstein

Erzähler: David Wittmann

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 1 hr and 56 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 02-08-12

Herausgeber: Oetinger Media

Kategorien: Kids, Ages 8-10

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Wenn der allein erziehende Papa verkuppelt werden soll, hat Sohnemann ein Wörtchen mitzureden, findet Jonas. Seine Favoritin für Papa ist da ganz klar Lotti von nebenan, doch das sieht Papa anders. Erst mal jedenfalls! Das aktuelle Thema ist warmherzig und humorvoll umgesetzt worden. Eine wunderbare Vater/Sohn-Geschichte und toll für Jungen.

©2011 Verlag Friedrich Oetinger GmbH, Hamburg (P)2012 Oetinger Media GmbH, Hamburg

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Title: The Burglar and the Blizzard

Subtitle: A Christmas Story

Author: Alice Duer Miller

Narrator: Brian Troxell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Geoffrey caught the burglar trying to steal from his home but what happened next surprised everyone.

Geoffrey Holland stood up and for the second time surveyed the restaurant in search of other members of his party, two fingers in the pocket of his waistcoat, as if they had just relinquished his watch. He was tall enough to be conspicuous and well bred enough to be indifferent to the fact, good looking, in a bronzed, blond clean-shaven way, and branded in the popular imagination as a young and active millionaire.

Editorial Reviews:

This fun novel places a homeowner, a burglar, and the burglars unwitting sister under the same roof. Written in the 1930s by Alice Duer Miller, as a Christmas tale for children, the novel is old fashioned but charming. Geoffrey the homeowner and McVay the burglar conspire to keep Mcvays sister, Cecilia, from knowing the truth about how her brother makes a living. Complicating things is the fact that Geoffrey and Cecilia are instantly romantically drawn to each other. Seasoned voice actor Brian Troxell narrates this cute and light-hearted novel. Troxells nimble delivery emphasizes the secret and delicate tensions among the trio of characters. Troxell uses a soft conversational tone when sharing dialogue, making listeners feel like flies on the wall as the little drama unfolds.

Members Reviews:

Humorous Story with Priceless Characters

This is a story not so much about Christmas as about three characters who find themselves in a country house during a blizzard. The characters are formal and proper as befits the time period of the story, but they're in an absurd situation as one is a burglar, one is the owner of the house, and the third is a young woman who is completely unaware of the hidden meanings in the conversations between the burglar and the burgled as they negotiate the situation without alarming the young lady by telling her of the burglary. The burglar is a likeable rogue and the home owner is equally likeable for his reactions to the many absurd things that happen as they wait out the blizzard. A great ending that will make you smile.

Not bad, not good.

I wondered if I should comment on this book, whether I could contribute to what has already been said. Perhaps I will, and then perhaps I may not. I look for a lot of character building books for my children, and though this is not like modern books with all the violenceâit's relatively harmlessâit is shallow with no moral character value.

I don't have a problem with the title like many do. The "Christmas Story" portion of the book's title is because it transpires over Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day. Not because it's a typical "Christmas" story with Santa, Rudolf, the Birth of Christ or anything remotely Christmasâbut that it's a story set during Christmas season.

The beginning of the book is very hard to get through, which seems somewhat typical of that time period...for the most part. But if you get through the first couple chapters, the story makes sense and some excitement ensues.

Someone said it has the making of a good book and story, and I would agree. The characters were not fully developed, in my opinion, and they all seem shallow. There is no sexism in the book; people need to understand that when you read a time period book, it's representative of the period. The world has never had such political correctness as there is now.