Discover the New Releases Audiobooks in Teens, Ages 11-13

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Title: Vampire Island

Subtitle: A Vampire Island Story

Author: Adele Griffin

Narrator: Cassandra Morris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-08-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

From a National Book Award finalist comes a lively new spin on the classic vampire tale.

When old-world dangers threaten a race of fruit bat hybrids, where can they run to? New York City, of course! And that's where we meet the Livingstone kids - Lexie, Hudson, and Maddy - trying to blend their "vampireness" with the regular people of the city. Unfortunately, their vampire traits keep complicating things.

Lexie's super speed, amazing strength, and poetry-quoting habit embarrass her in front of classmates - and her secret crush. Hudson can fly and is determined to save the planet, but with a vocabulary from the wrong century, he doesn't quite fit in. And then there's Maddy, who has a hard time sticking to her vegetarian diet, and an even harder time convincing her siblings that their new neighbors are vampires.

With all these challenges, will Lexie, Hudson, and Maddy ever be able to navigate the normal world?

Members Reviews:

Love this family

This book starts the Vampire Island series. Maddy and her family have come over from the Old World to the New World in hopes of becoming fully human. There are rules to follow and the Argos watch over them. Maddy is not too crazy about following rules and she's the one most likely to remain vampire.

I love Maddy. She just does whatever she wants. This time she is spying on the neighbors. She's funny as she goes about her spy work. She also gets in a lot of trouble. Good thing she has some of her vampire traits yet. I also like Hudson, her brother. He takes preserving the environment seriously, much to the disdain of his classmates.

I look forward to more of this family.

Please bring fruit when you visit and don't upset Maddy

Lexie, Maddy, and Hudson aren't your average kids. Their parents are in a rock band called The Dead Ringers and walk dogs for a living. Hudson calls the oven the yewn and nags his classmates about saving the world to the point that no one wants to speak to him. Maddy spies on neighbors while eating ticks. And Lexie, well, she quotes dead poets - mostly the classics, but let us not forget Tupac and Kurt Cobain. Oh and they're not exactly human, but not exactly bats, but not exactly vampires either - they're fruit-bat hybrids and they're just learning to fit into the new world of New York. They're also just learning about aging, crushes, school age politics, embracing their uniqueness, hiding their uniqueness. The usual.

I really struggled with what to rate this. It is a quick, fun, fast read. Maybe too fast. Without spoilers: The main Maddy storyline, which the main storyline of the book really, it seems to just sort of end in a rushed cop out sort of way. Tied up neatly with a bow on it. In such a way that made it feel as though this whole book was nothing more than a set up to ensure further books would happen. Which is fine, it actually worked, as I said this book was fun, I've already purchased the next. But given how the main storyline went on seeming rather important and just ended, it did feel as though there was room for more here. Either more in that storyline. Or more of the other siblings. Or more of the parents. I'm not sure what exactly was missing. A little of all of the above maybe. For this "what was missing?" feeling alone, 4 stars.

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Title: Ladies First

Subtitle: 40 Daring American Women Who Were Second to None

Author: Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

Narrator: Katherine Kellgren

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-13

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first American woman to obtain a medical degree. Following in her footsteps in the early 1980s, Brenda Berkman was the first woman to challenge New York Citys ban on female firefighters. During the last few centuries, countless women have made amazing contributions to society. Women are now Nobel Peace Prize winners, world-class athletes, and talented inventors and adventurers.

Some women, such as Shirley Muldowney - the first woman inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame - shattered perceptions about what women could accomplish. Others broke all the boundaries, such as Lynn Hill - the first person (man or woman!) to free climb the Nose at Yosemite National Park. Award winner Elizabeth Cody Kimmels informative text will inspire kids to reach for their dreams, no matter how impossible they may seem.

Critic Reviews:

"The profiles...are as inspiring as they are informative." (School Library Journal)

Members Reviews:

Great book

Great book for young women, I bought it for my nieces 10 and 12 and for my class of 5th graders.

A wonderfully entertaining (and simultaneously *gasp* educational) book!

I highly recommend this book. It's a really fun and inspirational read. This book is really worth purchasing because you'll find yourself coming back to it again and again. It covers women like Maragaret Bourke-White (the first woman to photograph active combat) and Stacy Allison (the first American woman to scale Mount Everest). 5 stars!

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Title: Denzel Washington

Subtitle: Black Americans of Achievement

Author: Anne Hill

Narrator: JD Jackson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-13

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

From the Chelsea House Black Americans of Achievement series, this biography focuses on one of todays most talented and popular screen stars. Denzel Washington rose to stardom, won an Academy Award, and was named one of the most popular movie stars in 1998.

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Title: Bury the Dead

Subtitle: Tombs, Corpse, Mummies, Skeletons, and Rituals

Author: Christopher Sloan

Narrator: Matthew Greer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-18-13

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

More than 2,000 years ago, Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang Di was laid to rest in a tomb guarded by thousands of life-size clay statues of warriors and horse-drawn chariots. Some 1,000 years earlier, the tombs of Chinese emperors were not guarded by clay figures, but by the dead bodies of humans and animals sacrificed for the cause. All over the world, different cultures have conducted an amazing array of intriguing burial practices. On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, infants are buried in trees so that their spirits might rise up through the trunks toward heaven. Egyptian pyramids and mummification practices continue to fascinate archaeologists the world over. And near the Black Sea in the Ukraine, the tombs of the Amazons hold gold treasures of immeasurable worth.

In Bury the Dead, National Geographic senior editor Christopher Sloan conducts a fascinating - and sometimes hair-raising - investigation of how societies around the globe have handled their dead.

Critic Reviews:

Kids will find it hard to resist picking up a book with words like corpses and skeletons in the title. And this one doesnt disappoint. (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

Bury the Dead!!

Kids will love this account on how people bury and mummify the dead, gore and strange details seem to intrigue them. Great photographs too. Turn your students into archeology nuts.

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Title: Growing Through Grief, 3rd Edition

Author: Dr. Tom Morris

Narrator: Bill Brooks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-11-13

Publisher: Dr. Tom Morris

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

Here is a book to help you or a loved one think and work through grief. Many times people have no one to talk to about their loss. This book is also a resource to use to help lead a grief group discussion about the four tasks of grief. To learn more go to Grievingteens.com, GrievingTeensPublishing.com.

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Title: Conrad

Subtitle: The Chrestomanci Series

Author: Diana Wynne Jones

Narrator: Tom Hollander

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-06-12

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

Conrad is young, good at heart, and yet is apparently suffering from the effects of such bad karma that there is nothing in his future but terrible things. Unless he can alter his circumstances - well, quite frankly, he is DOOMED. Conrad is sent in disguise to Stallery Mansion, to infiltrate the magical fortress that has power over the whole town of Stallchester, and to discover the identity of the person who is affecting his Fate so badly. Then he has to kill that person.

But can any plan really be that simple and straightforward? Of course it can't! And things start to go very strangely for Conrad from the moment he meets the boy called Christopher....

This is trademark DWJ packed with laugh-aloud humour, insane logic, spot-on observations, organised chaos, and all wrapped up in a rattling good adventure which oozes magic from every seam. Literally.

Members Reviews:

Delightful time spent with Conrad and Chrestomanci

I have long enjoyed the Chrestomanci stories and was delighted to find this edition. Tom Hollander is perfect for voicing these characters. Alternate universes, magic and mysteries, too good for only children to listen to.

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Title: I Funny

Author: James Patterson

Narrator: Frankie Seratch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-06-12

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

Jamie Grimm is a middle schooler on a mission: he wants to become the world's greatest stand-up comedian - even if he always seems to 'choke' in the spotlight. When Jamie finds out about a contest called the Funniest Kid on the Planet, he knows it's time to face his fears and enter. But are the judges rewarding him out of pity because he happens to be in a wheelchair, like his bullying cousin Stevie suggests? And will Jamie ever share the secret of his troubled past - and reason for his disability - instead of hiding behind his comedy act?

In this book that's as heartfelt as it is hilarious, James Patterson dishes out heaps of jokes that will have listeners rolling on the floor and cheering for more.

Members Reviews:

He funny!

I funny! He funny! Wait, what comes next? Oh, yea. WE FUNNY. This book is a big mixture of sadness and comedy. I would recommend this book to people that are always in the mood for laughing. Like Jamie Grimm! This boy tells jokes on a wheelchair and he doesn't even fall down with all the laughter he's had at the Hopeless Hotel. I, am goi to read I Even Funniest!

the jokes for fine. One or a two I did not get

It was a decent book. No complaints. Well, maybe one. the jokes for fine. One or a two I did not get. Well, since this is a book review let's start.

It is about a middle schooler named Jamie grim. He never says anything really about his past, and in a book review it spoiled the ending, but I wanted to see it first hand so I got the book. His step brother is an utter jerk. So if you don't like things like that then maybe you should not get this book.

My favorite part is the end though.

I am not going to be that one review that spoiled the end, so go to a another review if you want that... Or get the book!

Good book for older kids

Good for middle school aged children. It's actually very sad and not all that funny. But, it's a great story.

My kids are fans; so are they're friends.

These books, although I've never read them, are highly entertaining and something that our kids seem to enjoy. I trust their opinions, especially considering the amount of reading that they do, so when I buy a book, it's because I know they'll be re-reading it at least a few times. This book has been in our vehicle, our house, and taken places that we've visited, so I can say that it's a hit.

Five Stars

Grand daughter loved the book. zoomed through it in two days.

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Title: Where the Ground Meets the Sky

Author: Jacqueline Davies

Narrator: Emily Durante

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-26-12

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

One morning, twelve-year-old Hazel wakes to discover that her father, a brilliant physicist, has moved away in the middle of the night.

Its 1944, and Hazels father has agreed to help the U.S. government develop a secret weapon that will win World War II. His decision turns Hazels world upside-down - soon, she and her mother move out west to be with him, to a strange town with no name that everyone calls the Hill. The Hill is surrounded by a chain-link fence and barbed wire. Armed guards patrol its perimeter night and day.

With her new friend, Eleanor, Hazel goes on secret missions to try and solve the many mysteries that the Hill hides. Who is sending secret radio messages from the base? What happened to Eleanors cat? And most importantly, what is the mysterious gadget that the scientists are building day and night?

Members Reviews:

Good for Target Audience; Adults Will Probably Find It Lacking

If you are an adult who enjoys juvenile fiction as a mental break, this book may not be for you despite its intriguing subject matter. Despite the author's insertion of pop culture tidbits from the era, such as war pictures and the Andrews Sisters, the book never developed an atmosphere that felt like the 1940s. It always seemed like maybe I was reading a play and a period detail was mentioned from time to time to set the scene instead of the scene transporting me to another time and place effortlessly. A reader at the target age of 10 and up might not notice these things, and instead, be intrigued by the mention of the stars and films, but the forced mentions are noticeable if you are already schooled on World War II trends.

The book also had a major flaw in that it featured a more pacifistic character with ideas that were never really developed or explored well enough. Instead, this character literally fades away throughout the course of the story. Given earlier descriptions of the person, the silent protest didn't quite fit and was a somewhat disappointing end. The story also does that with a few other plotlines which are introduced, covered, and dropped like a series of vignettes instead of part of a larger narrative. In a way I enjoyed that as it reminded me of some of the great science fiction and cautionary tales I read growing up in the mid-90s (most of which were published in the mid-60s to mid-80s), but I'm not sure how well it will appeal to modern readers of children's literature.

However, despite its minor issues, I think this a book worthy of a child's time as it will bring up lots of interesting questions and some very worthwhile discussions about war and peace -- always relevant topics. A side lesson in not hiding your own light under the proverbial bushel also rings true since the main character, Hazel, must accept the fact that sometimes people have gifts - smarts, athletic ability, beauty - and must honor them instead of trying to blend in. While this point could have been hammered home more, its lesson rings loud enough.

Given the opportunity, I'd rank this book a 3.5.

A Manhattan Project

This is an historical novel suitable for those in 5th grade and up.

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Title: History for 7th Grade: Modern History [Russian Edition]

Author: V. Suvorova

Narrator: Ilya Glukhov

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-12

Publisher: IDDK

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

In an interesting and accessible way, "History for 7th Grade: Modern History" introduces students to the new era of history, its events and characters.

Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

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Title: History for 5-8th Grades: Russian History [Russian Edition]

Author: V. Suvorova

Narrator: Arina Lanskaya

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-05-12

Publisher: IDDK

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

30 topics given in summary form in the text and audioforme. This will simplify and speed up the learning, the teacher will give a full report regarding the nature of the events of history and its heroes.

Please note this audiobook is in Russian.