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Title: Zia

Author: Scott O'Dell

Narrator: Jessica Almasy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Zia and her brother attempt the voyage in a small boat, but are forced to turn back. Karana's eventual rescue makes a profound effect on Zia, who is caught between two worlds: the world of her mother's tribal past and the strange present world of the California missions. Although Karana's years of isolation have made it impossible for her to speak with anyone, she manages to give Zia what the girl needs most, the precious gift of freedom.

Critic Reviews:

"An almost unbearably moving story of what happened to the Indian woman, Karana, when she had been left alone at the end of The Island of the Blue Dolphins....Bound to be among the outstanding books of the year, on everyone's list." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Awsome

I loved it. It was very interesting and fun and great performance you would love it

Great for fourth graders!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I'd recommend this as a read aloud, especially since there are many difficult vocabulary words for a younger reader. Reading along while the book pronounces words that are difficult because they are higher level, specific to mission indians and the time period, makes it much more enjoyable.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Our class definitely liked Zia. She has a lot in common with Karana, who we loved in Island of the Blue Dolphins. She is courageous, and sticks to her opinions and beliefs, making her a great heroine.

Have you listened to any of Jessica Almasys other performances before? How does this one compare?

No

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No, way too long.

Any additional comments?

The audio was a little dull at times and hard to follow because the narrator seemed a little slower.

Not the best performance

We thoroughly enjoyed O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins and expected the same when we began listening to this one. We were very disappointed. The reader reads way too slow and emphasizes the wrong parts of words and sentences. It sounds down right strange! My kids begged me to turn it off, so I did, and I read the hard copy instead.

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Title: The Amethyst Ring

Author: Scott O'Dell

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Spanish seminarian Julián Escobar, known to the Mayas as Lord Kukulcán and worshipped as a god, witnesses the fall of the Mayan and Incan civilizations with the coming of Cortés and Pizarro.

©1983 Scott O'Dell; (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

O'dell does not disappoint with this installment of his series. Confident, well researched writing.

Fantastic Conclusion to O'Dell Trilogy

"The Amethsyt Ring" is the final book in Scott O'Dell's Seven Serpents Trilogy which follows the young Julian Escobar as he walks across New Spain during the early years of Spain's conquest of the New World. In book one, "The Captive", Escobar starts off as a wide-eyed seminarian looking to introduce Christianity to the native "savages", but ends up finding a Mayan culture past its prime while innocently (at first, at least) stepping into the role of the returning god Kukulkan. In book two, "The Feathered Serpent", Escobar embraces his role as a god, while exposing his inner religious and moral conflicts, and then runs right into Hernan Cortes as he marches across Mexico towards his fateful collision with Moctezuma and the Aztecs.

Book three follows Escobar after the initial battles in Tenochtitlan leave Cortes' Spaniards seemingly defeated and Moctezuma dead. Spain has gotten word of Escobar's imitation of Kukulkan and a bishop has been sent to the New World to pass along a message to Cortes to have this "God" arrested. While attempting to legitimize his attempts to convert his "noble savages", Escobar allows this bishop to be sacrificed and steals his ring (his amethyst ring). Escobar can never overcome this artificial ordination and is never able to bring himself to baptize anyone in the New World.

He runs south to avoid Cortes and winds his way to Panama where he runs right into Francsisco Pizarro as he prepares his small army to enter the land of the Inca. O'Dell places Escobar right in the midst of Pizarro's conquest of Peru and the Inca, as he did in "Feathered Serpent" with Cortes and the Aztecs. The key moment of conflict in the war with the Incas was Pizarro and his band of less than 200 soldiers, defeating tens of thousands of Inca at Cajamarca and kidnapping their emperor Atahualpa.

I love the stories of the Spanish Conquest and so these fictionalized accounts, targeted to young adults, are the perfect way to introduce these amazing tales of non-fiction. The book is very well written and easy to read and absorb. The hero has flaws and the story doesn't have a Hollywood ending, which makes the tale all the more compelling and interesting. I highly recommend this book.

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Title: Star Wars: Jedi Quest, Book 4: The Master of Disguise

Author: Jude Watson

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-22-09

Publisher: Listening Library

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 77 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi find themselves caught on a hostile planet. They're facing their savviest enemy yet, a master of disguise named Granta Omega.

Set between Episode I and Episode II, the Jedi Quest series traces the emergence and education of Anakin Skywalker as a young Jedi devoted to the Force -- and tempted by its dark side.

Members Reviews:

Fun and engaging storyline.

Fun for me and my 10 yr old son to listen to together. He has listened to it 4 times already.

request for more

please release the rest of the Jedi quest series! We'd love to hear them all!

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Title: The Million Dollar Kick

Author: Dan Gutman

Narrator: Christina Moore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-09

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

After her infamous soccer goal four years ago, to the other team's advantage, Whisper vowed to never play sports again. Afraid of, yet again, looking like a total failure in front of a crowd of people, Whisper has a tough choice to make. Will she try the kick?

Critic Reviews:

"Once again the author works into the story line a plethora of tips and facts about the game, making this a book for reluctant players and soccer fans alike." (

Publishers Weekly)"Gutman paints a sharp, funny portrait of middle-school society. The dialogue rings true and the various cliques and subgroups will strike a familiar chord with adolescent readers. This is an exciting sports story with a compelling message about individuality and self-confidence, as well as a touch of romance." (

School Library Journal)

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

The book came in perfect condition.

Five Stars

It good book.

A true goal. A wonderful story

Nice flow, great story and a better end. A wonderful and timeless story for kids and adults of anny age.

GOOD

SHIPED VERY FAST, THE PRODUCT IS JUST GREAT, NO ISSUES AT ALL, REAL IMPREESED WITH HOW FAST IT WAS. JUST GREAT!!!

My soccer star loved it.

My 7 year old loved this book and completed reading it in 2 days. Dan Gutman is her favorite author

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Title: The Dare

Author: R. L. Stine

Narrator: Christina Moore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-30-09

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

R.L. Stine has become a phenomenon. He has written over three dozen mysteries and thriller for young people and is reported to have outsold John Grisham.

Members Reviews:

Love the cover

Awesome that the company kept the original covers for many of the titles on the Kindle editions. I have to say, I hate the updated covers for some of the ebooks. They're mediocre trash and is the reason I'm not going to bother buying the ebooks with updated covers. The images are boring, whereas the original covers actually have something to do with the story and give the book its character. The updated covers usually does not hint at what the book is about. They are only copying the styles of other author's books. At almost $9 per ebook, that is a lot of money from me the company will not see. If others feel the same way, that's a lot more money they are losing. I wanted to share my complaint about the updated covers in some if the books in the series.

I've not read this book yet, but I'm sure it's as awesome as the others in the series.

Five Stars

Quick delivery. My daughter loves them

Five Stars

Love the fear street series!

Five Stars

great story

Fear Street R.L. Stine

I purchased this book for my grandaugter. She loved it. I'm purchasing additional books by this author for her.

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Title: The Thrill Club

Author: R. L. Stine

Narrator: C. J. Critt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-29-09

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

When it comes to writing nerve-jangling thrillers, R.L. Stine is the master. His wildly popular books have attracted thousands of young people.

The Thrill Club is his hair-raising tale of a teenager who writes horror stories everyone loves - until the stories start coming true.

©1994 Parachute Press, LLC (P)1994 Recorded Books, LLC

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

thank you for getting this to me

Better than a lot of Fear Street books.

The upside is that the ending on THE THRILL CLUB didnât come out of nowhere. The downside is that itâs still a typical Fear Street book with characters that are generally crappy to each other and are overall callous (at best) about the welfare of each other.

THE THRILL CLUB is about a club of teenagers who read scary stories to each other. Thatâs a club I could get behind. What Iâm not so thrilled with is that Talia uses her club mates as fodder in her gruesome stories. Luckily no one else is really on board with this tactic either and they tell her so. Add in that the deaths in her stories are coming true and she definitely loses her popularity over the course of the story.

Thereâs some significant other-swapping going on in the club because I guess thatâs what teenagers do. This general s*** behavior thatâs just standard in Fear Street books is really starting to annoy me. Theyâre all antagonistic toward each other, they steal each othersâ significant others, they actively wish harm on each other. Itâs such a huge departure from how real human beings react that Iâm glad this little Summer of Cheese deal is almost over because these are getting really bad. Sure, itâs melodrama but itâs not even melodrama that I can believe. Theyâre just crappy characters, not good characters making poor choices.

As for the story I found it better-plotted than the others Iâve read. The seed for the ending is actually planted fairly early on in the book and the foreshadowing is dropped throughout the story. So by the time the big reveal is made I donât have whiplash. This doesnât happen too often with Fear Street books so itâs a nice departure from the bad to get something that looks like it had some thought put into it and is actually decently crafted, at least from the plotting perspective.

Considering the concept is fairly creepy and the story itself was pretty decently put together Iâd rank THE THRILL CLUB in among some of the better Fear Street books. Crappy characters are still crappy but at this point thatâs to be expected. It would surprise me if they didnât suck.

3.5

very stupid. The reasons the villain did what they did ...

The ending and motive for the reveal on who the villain is is very, very stupid. The reasons the villain did what they did was very childish and could've been easily avoided if them and another character actually talked, or, simply said 'No, I dont want to do this, leave me be."

I dont know, i guess it's because ive been reading horror stories with motives that come close to this kind of plot, but executed better.

Predictable plot...

The book is about a club which consisted of 5 teenagers, and the club's name was... very obviously, the Thrill Club! Well, the club was actually formed for its members to share some spooky moments together.

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Title: Tropical Secrets

Subtitle: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba

Author: Margarita Engle

Narrator: Vane Millon, Matt Green, Roberto Santana, Ozzie Rodriguez

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-09

Publisher: Listening Library

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Daniel has escaped Nazi Germany with nothing but a desperate dream that he might one day find his parents again. But that golden land called New York has turned away the ship full of refugees, and Daniel finds himself in Cuba.

As the tropical island begins to work its magic on him, the young refugee befriends a local girl with some painful secrets of her own. Yet even in Cuba, the Nazi darkness is never far away.

At once deeply personal and utterly universal, Tropical Secrets is a stunning new history in verse from award-winning poet Margarita Engle.

Critic Reviews:

"[A] gripping story about refugees that becomes sharply focused through the viewpoint of the boy wrenched from home, haunted by the images of shattered glass and broken family." (

Booklist)"Readers who think they might not like a novel in verse will be pleasantly surprised at how quickly and smoothly the story flows...The book will provide great fodder for discussion of the Holocaust, self-reliance, ethnic and religious bias, and more." (

VOYA)

Members Reviews:

e. The story doesn't explain how the U.S. went g the Jewish refugees to its alliance with Israel...

Loved it! Minor unknown chapter of WWII narrated thru eyes of a 12 year-old girl and 13 year-old Jewish refugee boy. Broke my heart to learn that Canada and USA turned away ships full of people escaping from the Nazis! Story doesn't explain how US went from turning them away to its contemporary relationship with Israel...

Not what I expected, but better!

This book is written from a very intimate perspective in that the characters each tell their own story as if they are speaking to the reader personally. I was a little surprised at first, when I opened the book, because it seemed as though it was more a book of poetry than a book of history. It is both. Beautifully written in elegant prose, this story could only have been told by someone who had experienced these events firsthand. I absolutely loved it and will go back and read it again. I usually give books away after I read them. Not this one; it is a keeper! I thank the author for giving us such a treasure.

Awesome Book!!!!!

Love this book. This book uses poetry to tell a unique story about the Holocaust and it focuses on a boy that was sent to Cuba in a ship that was supposed to go to the United States. It's told in a nice way from a child's perspective for the most part.

Sydney Taylor Book Award Winner for Teen Readers - 2010

The unusual topic of the plight of Holocaust refugees is told from the perspective of several characters, each with a distinct voice. Engle's evocative language in this beautifully crafted story is an outstanding example of the novel in verse genre. Daniel is a young refugee who hopes to find his parents, but his sense of despair and lonliness as he arrives in Cuba is heartbreaking. His words pull the reader in from the fist page. Last year in Berlin, on the Night of Crystal, my grandfather was killed while I held his hand...How can hatred have such a beautiful name? Crystal should be clear, but on that night the glass of broken windows did not glitter. A reader cannot finish the page without a visceral response. Paloma is the daughter of a shipping Lord who controls the refugees and profits from their entry.

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Title: Da Wild, Da Crazy, Da Vinci

Subtitle: Time Warp Trio, Book 14

Author: Jon Scieszka

Narrator: Bryan Kennedy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-09

Publisher: Penguin Group USA and Audible

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Everyone's favorite time-travelers are changing their style! The Time Warp Trio series now features brand-new, eye-catching art in a modern design, sure to appeal to longtime fans and those new to Jon Scieszka's wacky brand of humor.

©2004 Puffin; (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

Members Reviews:

... Vinci exhibition at the museum so this was an excellent class book to read

Had just been to see the da Vinci exhibition at the museum so this was an excellent class book to read. The children also loved how the chapter number was written backwards. Will be buying more in the series.

Five Stars

I just love it, its written so that you will not put it down.

Great book and service!

Great books for 4th grade students... I have read everyone in the series to my class and they love it! Great mix of historical facts, humor and adventure.

Five Stars

My 4th grader loved this series.

Five Stars

Great!

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Title: Young Readers Shakespeare

Subtitle: Julius Caesar

Author: Adam McKeown

Narrator: Roscoe Orman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Young Reader's Shakespeare returns, with another visually stunning and brilliantly rewritten version of one of the Bard's classic plays. Julius Caesar has become such a part of our culture that many people even quote from it without realizing they are doing so: phrases such as "the dogs of war," "it's Greek to me," and "the evil that men do" have become part of everyday English. With its powerful depiction of political struggle, assassination, and a country plunged into chaos, it tells a tale that's as timely today as when Shakespeare first dramatized it. Seamlessly blending Shakespeare's beautiful lines with modern language, Adam McKeown eases children into the world of Imperial Rome. His well-chosen words, aided by Janet Hamlin's striking and boldly colored paintings, introduce them to such unforgettable characters as the well-meaning Brutus and Cassius with his "lean and hungry look." Plus, Renaissance scholar McKeown provides thought-provoking background on Shakespeare and the play, a "Who's Who" of the characters, and fascinating questions for young readers to ponder.

©2008 Sterling; (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

Members Reviews:

Lend me your ears...

I wish this book had kept more of the original language to tell the story, but I can't complain about either the text or the illustrations. Adam McKeown and Janet Hamlin did a very good job with the story. But it would have been nice to have just a little bit of "O mighty Caesar, dost thou lie so low?" or "not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." or "Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and sure, he is an honorable man." It would have made the book... just that much better.

Still, for an abridged Shakespeare, this is truly the ONE. Get it for the illustrations and the wonderful job of story-telling.

Five Stars

This was the best kid-friendly adaptation of Julius Caesar that we found.

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Title: The Gathering

Subtitle: Quantum Prophecy, Book 2

Author: Michael Carroll

Narrator: Bryan Kennedy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-09

Publisher: Penguin Group USA and Audible

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 35 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Having thwarted Max Dalton's scheme to drain the world's superhumans of their powers, Colin Wagner has taken on the mantle of Titan and, with partner, Diamond, is using his newfound abilities to rid the London streets of crime. But our young heroes' lives are irrevocably changed when an unknown adversary leaks their secret identities to the world. Forced to flee to the United States with their friend Danny Cooper, who is coping with the loss of his arm and the dark prophecy surrounding his future, the trio must learn to master their powers and work together if their mysterious foe is to be defeated.

New heroes are introduced, old friends and enemies return, and life-changing choices will be made in this second installment of Michael Carroll's superhero saga that dares to ask the question: Will Quantum's Prophecy come to pass?

Members Reviews:

Heroes assemble! And...STUMBLE!

Great storyline, especially as Super Human, and many other novels written by the author, are such good reads in the superhero genre. So, I acquired the two audiobooks by Carroll to see how they fared.

Very good concept, and storyline, interesting character development...

HORRIBLE narrator and recording.

Please read these two books. Carroll's a good writer gathering his wind. They're worth the read. Do NOT get the audiobooks.

I HATE having to give poor reviews, especially since the work is worth your time. Again, I must be true to myself, and steer you away. What a shame.