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Title: Daughter of Winter

Author: Pat Lowery Collins

Narrator: Kate Rudd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-10

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

Its 1849, and 12-year-old Addie lives in the shipbuilding town of Essex, Massachusetts. Her father has left the family to seek gold on the West Coast, and tragically, the flux has ended the lives of her mother and baby brother, leaving Addie all alone. Fearful of being taken in as a servant, Addie flees from her house into the snowy woods, where she endures hunger and bitter cold until Nokummus, an elderly Wampanoag woman, coaxes Addie to her dwelling.

Now living under the care of the mercurial old woman, Addie slowly recognizes the truth of her past. Through an intense ancient ceremony and by force of her own wits and will, Addie must come to grips with the facts of her newfound identity - and find the courage to build a future unlike any she could ever have imagined.

Members Reviews:

Fast!

I thought this book was not too bad. It is a sad story. I felt the reader wasn't too bad, but the story is good in the begining and then at the end she rushes through. It seemed the author lost intrest at the end, or was in a hurry to finish. The end isn't on par with the rest of the book.

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Title: My Worst Best Friend

Author: Dyan Sheldon

Narrator: Jeannie Stith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-10

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

In the case of Savanna and Gracie, friendship isnt based on reason, but on the notion that opposites attract. Savanna is a head-turning, attention-seeking, accessorized one of Those Girls, while Gracies love of old movies and commitment to protecting the environment put her into the everyone else category. It seems as if nothing could come between them until Savannas lies and dependence on Gracie as a false alibi start to take a toll on their relationship. When Savanna gets between Gracie and her crush, the line separating best friend from worst friend is crossed.

Members Reviews:

Epic

My worst best friend was the best book ever!! I am so glad that Gracie starts to listen to her self rather than listening to Savannah. I love the part where Cooper finally admits to Gracie that he likes her. I hope there is a second book!!!! :)

Worst best friends

Gracie is smart, short and obsessed with lizards, while Savannah is tall, loud and beautiful. No matter how different they are, they're best friends to the end.

Savannah's description seems cool, yet her dialogue is filled with "I mean"s and "like"s and she can hardly ever say any phrase correctly. Gracie is smart enough to know her words and correct Savannah.

However, Savannah, who already has a boyfriend, meets a different boy. His name is Morgan Scheck and he's cuter than her own boy, Archie. That's why she "forgets" to go to the mall with poor Gracie, who decides to go to a meeting with Zebediah Cooper, an unpopular boy who only she seems to like.

Savannah then starts using Gracie - lying to her friends, her family, her boy. She even makes Gracie lie and calls it "supporting" her. She had told Gracie that she's not dating Morgan yet, because she's already dating Archie. Oh, well. It turns out Savannah has Gracie lie to her other best friend, Marilouise Lapinskye, that she can't come to her birthday party because she's "sick". She then tells Gracie about her...(drumroll) DATE with Morgan Scheck! Ohmigod!

Savannah also doesn't approve of Gracie meeting Cooper. Gracie only considers Cooper a friend, but what does Savannah know?

It turns out that Gracie will want to stop lying to Cooper, Marilouise, Archie and her father Robert Mooney, which also means she will also stop supporting her friend. And I'll guess you know who Gracie will befriend in the endâ

This novel was very inspiring, very creative and very witty. Good job, Dyan Sheldon! :-)

Reading Angel

An entertaining read about best friends, worst friends, and the trouble some people can have telling the difference between the two. This book was a quick read that was light and fun while dealing with something a little more heavy. The thing that it really makes you realize is that sometimes you just have to let people go, even if it hurts, to make your life better.

Gracie was a great character, she was smart, and tough, and very concerned with the environment. She was the complete opposite of her best friend Savannah, who is the ultimate it girl. Savannah is a fly by the seat of her pants, worry about the consequences if they come type of girl. They had figured out that sometimes opposites attract, and they become best friends who are thick as thieves.

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Title: Kim / Kimi

Author: Hadley Irwin

Narrator: Christina Moore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-10-10

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

Kim Andrews shuts out her history teacher, who is telling the class about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. She is thinking about her ancestors. Kims mother is American, but her father, who died before she was born, was Japanese. Realizing that she knows nothing about an important part of her heritage, the teenager embarks on a search for her fathers Japanese relatives in California. As she meets an aunt and grandmother who are from another time and culture, she learns that she is both Kim Andrews and Kimi Yogushi. And she begins to know what it means to be Japanese-American.

Kim/Kimi poignantly depicts a young womans investigation of her cultural history. Honestly facing the mistreatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and the prejudices that still exist in many parts of the United States, Hadley Irwin skillfully dramatizes the conflicts that are often part of a multicultural background.

Members Reviews:

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Outcast, weird, different, strange, odd, peculiar. These are the words Kim Andrews uses to describe her self.

In a small town in Iowa lived Kim Andrews (also known as Kimi Yoshugi.) Her father had died before she was born and her mom had remarried. She's a short, Japanese girl with short and straight black hair. Barely anyone at her high school looks like her and her only friend is Jav. She doesn't fit in, she doesn't belong. So she decides the only thing she can do is set out to find her Japanese family and heritage in Sacramento, California.

Kim reached California and met up with Ernie, the son of Barbara, the lady Kim would be staying with. Ernie and Barbara agreed that Kim could do the search by herself, if that's what she wanted.

She goes many places, but the most important is the Bureau of Vital Statistics. She finds out all the information about where her relatives live. I don't want to give too much away, but she does find two of her family members. You'll have to finish the book to see what happens.

This book supports the ideas of believing in yourself, being proud of your heritage and not worrying that you don't fit in. Everyone is special and different in the in their own way. Just because you have a different religion, race or heritage doesn't mean that you're strange or weird.

I liked this book because it was adventurous and funny. Whenever things got too serious, Kim would throw in a joke and it would relieve the stress. It also gives you a different perspective of what a person is feeling. Anyone ages ten to fifteen should buy this book.

Kim Andrews or Kimi Yogusi

The book I read is called Kim/Kimi. I rated this book a 4 out of five. I rated it this because it was boring at some parts. I also did because there was not much action until the middle of the book. I liked this book because it was interesting and was something new to read about. It was a good book. It was kind of boring at times but over all I liked it. A good book that has a similar story is The Hiding Place. It's similar because they both talk about concentration camps in them. This book is not as good as the other one but they both are good books. Both of the books take place during World War II. In The Hiding Place, the Nazis lead by Adolph Hitler were discriminating against the Jewish people. In Kim/Kimi the Americans discriminated against the Japanese-American people.

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Title: The Diary of a Dr Who Addict

Author: Paul Magrs

Narrator: Paul Magrs

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-28-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

Its the 1980s and David has just started secondary school. Hes becoming a teenager, while hanging onto the rituals of childhood, particularly his addiction to Doctor Who: sharing the books with his best friend and neighbour, Robert, and watching the TV show. But adolescence is as strange and alien to David as anything the good Doctor encountered, so hes mystified when Robert begins to reject his hero in favour of girls, free weights, and new music. Is it time for David to make a choice and move on too?

An evocative and moving story for older children about a boy finding his place in the world, set against a backdrop of Bowie, Blackpool, and Breville toasters.

Members Reviews:

I want the sequel now, please.

This is a coming of age story of a young man from the UK. He is a pre-teen as the story begins, and as he grows up, the world around him changes, but so does he. Yes, he is a Doctor Who fan, but that's not all he is. Along with the reader (or listener), the character realizes internal truths about himself.

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I'm not a Brit. Some of the slang and references went right over my head. This was the first time I had heard of someone's mother being referred to as "mam" (one a, thank you), for example. As one might surmise from the title, it is told through a series of diary entries, and there are a few time changes during the story, but nothing that took away my enjoyment. I loved all the references to the DW I know and love, and thought it was a pretty smashing story. I'd love to have a follow-up to find out what happened to the main character as he got older. It's begging for a sequel!

Boring....

Diary of a "Dr Who" Addict is very boring and has little to do with Doctor Who. Magrs is known for using Doctor Who just to push a questionable personal agenda. Its not Doctor Who as the title suggests to which he is really addicted.

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Title: Dark Summer

Author: Ali Sparkes

Narrator: Tom Lawrence

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

Eddie hates staying with his cousins - so it looks set to be a really long summer. But then they visit the amazing caves at Wookey Hole and Eddie is entranced. Until he wanders off down a secret passage and gets lost in the dark. Underground, on his own, and nobody knows where he is...

Then someone steps out of the blackness to help him. A strange, pale girl called Gwerren who seems to treat the caves as a playground. Gwerren helps Eddie get out but she can never leave the caves herself. Is she a runaway? A ghost? Discovering the truth will end up changing Eddies life for ever.

Members Reviews:

Perfect Young Adult Adventure

I have read "Frozen in Time" by this author twice now, so was happy to get this book. It is about a boy who is packed away to his highly strung aunt for the summer following his mother's serious illness. The family live near Wookey Hole show caves, and the mystery begins with a secret tunnel, a mysterious meeting with a girl who can see in the dark, and a free summer pass to the caves. Perfect young adult adventure.

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Title: The Story of Cirrus Flux

Author: Matthew Skelton

Narrator: Jon Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-10

Publisher: Listening Library

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

London, 1783. Orphan Cirrus Flux is being watched. Merciless villains are conniving to steal the world's most divine power - The Breath of God, which they believe Cirrus has inherited. Now he faces a perilous journey through the dirty backstreets of the city as a sinister mesmerist, a tiny man with an all-seeing eye, and a skull-collecting scoundrel pursue him. Cirrus must escape them, but he'll need to trust some unlikely allies if he hopes to thwart his foes...and survive a grand and terrifying showdown.

Members Reviews:

A wonderful little tale that can show the way for young people into this part of the genre

This is a YA charmer. As such there is a shortness in the book hidden by the larger type and openness of paragraph kerning and spacing. A read that takes but a few short hours to consume.

There is treasure here, but it is hidden, and the telling of the story seems to be only opened like an onion with revealing flashback chapters that come at you in layers. For the younger person this reveal might indeed be just the thing, but for those of us older, we can see where there is a larger, greater amount of detail of the story we are not seeing.

That we would like to explore and learn of, instead of seeing this from the child like eyes of our hero, and his unknown heroine. There are parts of the period and people that are also hidden as the author has done his research but has left it out of the tale seeing that a young person may not want to learn of such. May not need the details that this would show.

In all, worthy of a read and a share if you have young people who you might want to share more of the era with and discuss with them. An introduction to speculative adventure fiction with an historical flair.

Not Just For the Young

As a female in my early twenties, it may seem odd that I would be reading this book. However, it was one of the most exciting books I have read all year. Having read Matthew Skelton's previous work, Endymion Spring, I was excited to see what story he would provide next. Needless to say, I was not let down. The storytelling was exciting and kept you wanting to know what happened next. Putting this book down became increasingly difficult. Would Cirrus escape the talons of all those searching for him and his sphere? Would the Guild finally have their hands on the Breath of God? Questions like these were what held my interest throughout the book. I certainly recommend this book for anyone looking for a captivating story of an England long ago.

Cirrus Flux

It left you wanting to read more. I really did like it, but I wished for a more positive end.

Unique Methods and Good Plot

The cover looks fun (and sometimes that's half the battle). Hot air balloons are fun. So, right away I was disposed to like the book. The year is 1783, give or take. The author goes forward and backward throughout the book per chapter to present facts. It was neatly done and not confusing. The main character isn't the entire focus. A greater theme of righting a wrong action is more the focus. The story (I don't want to give anything away) was a fun and quick read containing sad lives, obsessive people, orphans, mysterious fellows and, of course, a hot air balloon fueled by a neat source. I thought it was a quality read in a day where modern writing is many times synonomous with lazy, less-than-masterful writing.

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Title: My Life with the Lincolns

Author: Gayle Brandeis

Narrator: Emily Janice Card

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-10

Publisher: Listening Library

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

"My dad used to be Abraham Lincoln. When I was six and learning to read, I saw his initials were A.B.E., Albert Baruch Edelman. ABE. That's when I knew."

Mina Edelman believes that she and her family are the Lincolns reincarnated. Her main tasks for the next three months: to protect her father from assassination, her mother from insanity, and herself - Willie Lincoln incarnate - from death at age 12

Apart from that, the summer of 1966 should be like any other. But Mina's dad begins taking Mina along to hear speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago. And soon he brings the freedom movement to their own small town, with consequences for everyone.

Members Reviews:

Good book

I like the historical information but also a great storyline. The characters were well developed. I would recommend it for anyone who is a fan of Lincoln and/or MLK.

funny and touching story set in Chicago in 1968

In her first novel for young people, Gayle Brandeis has created a quirky and delightful heroine, Mina Edelman. It's 1966 in Downers Grove, Illinois, a nearly all-white suburb of Chicago, and Mina is convinced that she and her family are reincarnations of the Lincolns. When the novel opens, her main worries are how to prevent her father from being assassinated, her mother from going crazy (like Mary Todd Lincoln), and herself--a reincarnation of Willie Lincoln, or so she likes to imagine--from dying at age 12.

But when her dad, who owns Honest ABE's furniture store, begins taking her to civil rights marches led by Martin Luther King, their life begins to change in very real ways. Mina and her dad Al participate in protests designed to pressure the Chicago political establishment to support open housing--the abolition of housing segregation. When her dad meets Carla, a black activist at one of the meetings, they take Mina and Carla's son to pose as an interracial family at various real estate offices around Chicago, demonstrating the unspoken but very real restrictions that existed. Mina's father is exhilarated by his experiences, and is so concerned with oppressing blacks that he fires their cleaning lady--"I don't want to oppress you anymore," he says, completely oblivious to the fact that the woman needs the income to pay her rent. "You need a job that doesn't subjugate you," he tells her, convinced he has done the right thing.

But when Al brings his battle for civil rights to Downers Grove, bringing Carla's son to live with them for the summer and holding meetings for the Chicago Freedom Movement in his furniture store, it splits the family apart. Will Mina's family survive to create a better future for themselves and their community?

Although this book clearly deals with many serious events, both real (such as Martin Luther King's getting hit in the head by a rock during a Chicago demonstration) and fictional (strife in Mina's family), tweens will enjoy Mina's eccentric voice in this novel, which was originally written by Brandeis for adults but later reworked for a young adult audience.

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Title: The Well

Author: A. J. Whitten

Narrator: Adam Verner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-12-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

If Hamlet thought he had issues, he should have talked to Cooper Warner. His mother's normally sunny demeanor has turned into something homicidal. And what's worse, she has help in her hunt for Cooper: A ravenous monster living at the bottom of the old well in the woods behind their house. She's determined to deliver her 14-year-old son straight into the creatures eager clutches.

Cooper turns to his girlfriend, Megan, for help, but then, to his horror, the creature takes her prisoner. Now, its up to Cooper to fend off his murderous mother, finish his Hamlet paper, and enter the putrid lair at the bottom of the well to rescue Megan. And when he confronts the creature, Cooper must make the toughest decision of his life: kill, or be killed.

Inspired by Hamlet, The Well puts a terrifying twist on the Shakespearean classic.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

I thought this book was amazing.

Sad failure of a great idea

I have to say that this book was really a hard read. Sad, considering the blurb about it promised such a good one. i liked the idea of the thing in the well and the idea of the book put together with the cover sold it. Bravo on that. Aside from those pieces, however, this kind of failed.

There were a lot of issues here, from the pace of the story to editing issues and they made the thing hard to swallow. It took me 3 months to finish the read because I really had to power through it, and i would have normally set it aside but I just had to know. The book could use a good edit and perhaps some tweaks here and there, making it a bit more - something - later.

Shakespeare Connection?

A.J. Whitten is a pseudonym for mother and daughter writing team Shirley and Amanda Jump. Shirley is a prolific romance writer and her daughter is, well, a teenager. This does not bode well for a novel when you have a combo of a hack and an inexperienced girl narrating a story. The parts where Cooper has to deal with the creature in the well come off quite well, being equal parts creepiness and fear. I guess I would have to give Shirley credit for those parts. As for the lame cultural references and feeble attempts to be "teen-hip" with the dialogue, I would lay that solely at the feet of Amanda. Though the bookjacket references Hamlet quite heavily, the two authors are never really able to bring Shakespeare into the book with any significant rhyme or reason. Cooper happens to be reading Shakespeare and there just happens to be a novel happening so they should go together, right? right? Something else that grated on my nerves a bit was Cooper's inability to get anyone to help him. The only cop interested in the goings on is an alcoholic that can barely put one and one together, much less face a supernatural force. All in all, the book was a decent read, but the abilty of its writers ultimately doomed it to mediocrity.

Entertaining but Forgettable

I enjoyed the afternoon spent reading the Well, but it is not a book I would recommend all my friends rush out and buy. I would suggest this book to any high-schooler looking for a fun read, but like a romance novel or horror story it is predictable and shallow. Note to parents, there is significant time spent by the protagonist planning on how he will kill the monster, and the monster kills several throughout the story.

The book prologue starts with a hook "The boy would be his. It was only a matter of time.

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Title: Liar

Author: Justine Larbalestier

Narrator: Channie Waites

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 01-06-10

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

A compelling psychological thriller set in New York City told from the point of view of a compulsive liar. Written by one of the most ingenious writers of Young Adult fiction today.

Members Reviews:

"Fantastic Twist?"

I really didn't understand the main character, the title of the book sums her up alright, but there really is something wrong with her. The book description mentioned a massive twist. Yes, there was a big twist that suddenly separates the entire second half of the book but I was somewhat disappointed by this 'twist'. 'Liar' ends up being pretty much the same as every teens book that is out at the moment but with an interesting beginning half. You'll see what I mean...

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Title: Razzle

Author: Ellen Wittlinger

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Teens, Ages 11-13

Publisher's Summary:

Kenyon Baker is not happy about moving to Cape Cod halfway through high school, but his parents have decided to retire there to run a summer cottage colony. At least they'll let him have his own darkroom, provided he helps prepare the colony for guests. The early hours and hard work compound Ken's unhappiness, but just when he thinks he'll never make it through the summer, he meets Razzle Penney.

Skinny, buzz-cut Razzle isn't afraid to act differently from everyone else, and she simultaneously becomes Ken's friend and his muse, as he takes a series of inspiring photos of her. However, Razzle also introduces Ken to beautiful, aggressive Harley, causing a rift in their friendship. Just when it seems things can't get more complicated, Razzle's mother breezes into town, and Razzle learns more about her past than she wants to know....

Members Reviews:

LOVE LOVE LOVE RAZZLE

LOVE LOVE LOVE RAZZLE! Hate Harley, Kenyon's blind, but his eyes open and this book is greeeeeay! <3 Much praise.

Richie's Picks: RAZZLE

Ellen Wittlinger has done it again!

Count me among the multitude of readers who have been impatiently awaiting the next young adult novel from the author who's extraordinary HARD LOVE (1999) was awarded a Printz Honor. The wait is just about over, and the new book is a delightful and stunning must-read for teens and anyone associated with young adult literature.

Meet Kenyon Baker:

"Consider me confused. Aren't there any other people on this planet like me? There never seems to be a place I fit in. Unless I'm alone in my darkroom, of course. But I don't think you can count it as fitting in if you're alone."

Meet Razzle Penney:

"She was as tall as me but even skinnier, and even though she was walking fast, her long arms and legs seemed to sort of swirl around her in this lazy way, like all the joints weren't connected up quite right. Her buzz cut hairdo and the black short shorts and tank top added to the vision of a leggy bug or a jellyfish swimming over to us."

We meet Kenyon, the last-born of relatively older parents, after he is transplanted from Boston to Cape Cod where his newly retired parents have bought a group of vacation rental cottages. He meets Razzle at the town dumps where she runs the Swap Shop (the recycling center).

In RAZZLE, as with HARD LOVE, the author writes in a seductively warm and gentle manner as she draws us into an important and entertaining story about growing up, first love, loyalty to yourself and others, friendship, prejudice, and dealing with your parents as you become yourself. The fashion in which Wittlinger can capture so many relevant themes in such a reader-friendly story firmly places her among today's great YA authors. Her characters are unusual, unpredictable, and unforgettable.

Furthermore, as was the case with HARD LOVE, the mother-child relationships are central to this story. It makes me wonder if, deep down, Wittlinger's greatest aspiration is to guide today's future mothers to an understanding of

how their behavior and beliefs will reverberate in the actions and reactions of their future children. Whether or not this is the author's intent, it will be the fortunate result for the perceptive teen reader.

Finally, this book offers another lovely view of Cape Cod.