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Title: Immigrant Kids

Author: Russell Freedman

Narrator: Brian Keeler

Format: Unabridged

Length: 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-13

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Many people came to America in the early 1900s looking for jobs, opportunity, and freedom, and a lot of them were kids. But what happened to all these immigrant children after they passed inspection at New Yorks Ellis Island - that is, if they passed inspection? Life was not easy for immigrants. Large families lived in small, one-room tenement apartments with failing plumbing and few windows. Children had to go to school with kids from different countries and learn to read and write a new language. And many of the boys and girls were going to school at night, after working a 12-hour work day to help support their families. But these immigrants learned to persevere through all odds so they could make it in America. Newbery Medal winner Russell Freedman tells the immigrant story through the eyes of children. Brian Keelers clear narration will make difficult foreign and unfamiliar words easy to understand for listeners, allowing them to become immersed in the story.

Critic Reviews:

Concise ... designed in ever way to catch and hold the readers interest. (

Kirkus Reviews)

Members Reviews:

life as an Ellis Island immigrant child in tenements of NYC

great authentic black/white pictures.

A true teaching tool.

The pictures truly told the story. My 4th grade students were shocked by these images. Their lives are so different from children in the past. Also, the text was easy to read and interesting. My students had interesting conversations about the past. I recommend this book to all 4th grade classes.

Five Stars

interesting

Fantastic Photos

The photos tell the story in this book: photos of immigrant children, roughly 1890-1910. Young readers looking at these photos will be able to make inferences about the children, their families, their lives. A whole period of history will come alive for them, in a way that mere words could never capture. Although Freedman divides the chapters into the passage over, home in the new world, school, work, and play, I felt there was nothing spectacular about the text. The text does not stay with me. The pictures do. Still, a very worthwhile book. Recommended!

WONDERFUL

It is a wonderful book for explaining briefly and graphically the big adventure of emigration to America at the turn of the century.

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Title: The Changeling

Subtitle: Broken Land, Book 1

Author: Sean Williams

Narrator: Lloyd Allison-Young

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-04-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Ros, a young boy living on a drought-stricken farm, makes friends with the invisible Escher, who begins to train him in the magic of the Change. His journey leads him to leave the farm in order to decide who is telling the truth and who his real friends are.

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Title: Antonio S and the Mystery of Theodore Guzman

Author: Odo Hirsch

Narrator: Catherine Milte

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-21-13

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Antonio S is a boy who knows all sorts of things. Scarrabo the Magnificent is a magician. Professor Kettering is a doctor. They live together at the top of a grand old house built long ago for a duke. But who is Theodore Guzman, the secretive old man who lives downstairs? What mysterious things does he know? It takes someone like Antonio S to find out.

Odo Hirsch has written a wonderfully warm and eccentric story about a boy who explores a secret passage that leads to the very heart of the house where the magical world of Theodore Guzman comes to life.

Critic Reviews:

"A quirky and eccentric oasis of imagination in a sea of issue and action-led reading." (The Age)

Members Reviews:

Good family listening

Our family, with children ages 2 to 12, likes to pass the time on long trips listening to audio books. Finding one suitable and interesting for everyone can be a challenge at times, but this story certainly worked for us. It is a celebration of the creative process, especially drama. Although the father is a magician, there is nothing "spooky" or evil or scary. The author makes it clear that his illusions are tricks requiring timing and practice. And although the title and synopsis on the cover stress the "mystery", it is much more about daily life and human relationships. It is refreshing to have the main character, a boy, come from a stable, loving home. SPOILER WARNING: a main character does die near the end, but it is handled very matter of factly. It did not worry my sensitive 5 year old.

It's important for an adult reading to a child to also like a book

My adult son: "Antonio S is a rather special book. We all like it and it really is something out of the ordinary."

... later comment: "We still have no idea where the 'Theodore Guzman' story is headed, which is unusual for a kids' book."

"We": my son is reading it aloud to his own son (10) and daughter (8.)

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Title: The Red Wind

Subtitle: Kingdom of the Lost, Book 1

Author: Isobelle Carmody

Narrator: Isobelle Carmody

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-17-13

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

In this captivating first audiobook, brothers Zluty and Bily live happily in their little house in the desert. Every year Zluty journeys to the great forest while Bily stays to tend their desert home. And every year Zluty returns with exciting tales of his adventures. When a devastating red wind sweeps across the land, brothers Bily and Zluty are forced to fight for their survival and journey into the perilous unknown.

A magical new series for younger listeners from the award-winning author of Little Fur. The first audiobook in The Kingdom of the Lost series.

Critic Reviews:

"Carmody relentlessly builds the sense of foreboding with her wonderful storytelling. I couldn't stop listening. This lovely story is a perfect gift for children eight and up." (Readings)

Members Reviews:

Not just a juvenile author

It kept me reading and at the end I want the next book to finish the travels. Whilst it may be in the juvenile reading bracket it kept this mature reader interested.

None

amazing I could read it ten billion times without stopping. when I was reading it I took the book everywhere I went and could not stop reading it.

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Title: The Jazz Kid

Author: James Lincoln Collier

Narrator: August Ross

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-12-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Paulie Horvath is never going to be a good student like his brother, John, never going to follow his hardworking father into the plumbing trade, never going to ease his mother's mind by passing tests or cleaning up his room. But once he hears jazz by accident from the basement of a speakeasy, he knows exactly what he will do: learn that music and make it his life. Jazz is all around in gangland Chicago, but not so easy for a 12-year-old to find, especially when his father disapproves of it. Paulie has to lie, beg, and steal just to get time for lessons, time to practice, time to slip across town to see stars like King Oliver and Louis Armstrong.

Lies last only so long until they are found out, and a confrontation is coming. Will he choose home and family or sleazy dives with that wonderful music? To decide, Paulie has to face an even tougher question. What is jazz, after all?

Author James Lincoln Collier has played and studied jazz throughout his life. Here is a novel that shows us a great moment in the history of jazz, and points at issues that still trouble us today.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Good book.

1920s Chicago jazz atmosphere

This YA novel is a well-written and engrossing look into the Chicago jazz scene of the late 1920s. 12-year-old Paulie (who today would probably be diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder) finds his calling in learning to play jazz cornet. But his father wants him to enter the plumbing business, and even with his mother's support, Paulie can't keep his grades up enough to get permission to pursue his music. Paulie eventually has to choose -- lose his music, or lose his family? Published in 1996, this YA novel is now, sadly, out of print.

The Jazz Kid

This is a great book for kids and adults alike. I recently reread this book, and having just finished it and refreshed my memory I am reminded of the great writing, plot, and charcters in this book. The story tells of a time when gangsters ruled Chicago and owned nightclubs and practically conrtolled the musicians who work for them. Paulie Horvath gets mixed up in the wild new style of music, Jazz. I recommend this book to anyone.

Two thumbs up!!!

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Title: Specky Magee and the Season of Champions

Subtitle: The Specky Magee Series, Book 3

Author: Felice Arena, Garry Lyon

Narrator: Stig Wemyss

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 02-12-13

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Simon 'Specky' Magee and his Under 14s football team, the Booyong High Lions, return to battle out the second half of their league's season. The Lions are playing well and Specky's form is looking good - perhaps good enough to win a scholarship to a prestigious sporting school. But a knee injury sees him sidelined, and suddenly his future is filled with uncertainty. Will his team make it to the finals without him? Will he be able to play if they do? And how is he going to impress the talent scout if he can't play footy? Meanwhile, he'll have to deal with his rival and worst enemy, Screamer Johnson, and he will meet the mysterious Tiger Girl and the Great McCarthy.

Members Reviews:

specky magee

This is by far one of the best books I have ever read it has everything a good book should have in it

Disappointed!

We weren't given it as a book, disappointing! Online I ordered a book not movie. Not very impressed with this.

Specky Magee & the Season of Champions

Lots of twists in the plot and fun to read. I like the way the story is written and ends.

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Title: What Happened on Planet Kid

Author: Jane Leslie Conly

Narrator: Kate Forbes

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-13

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

At her aunt and uncles farm in the summer of 1958, 12-year-old Dawn and her new friend Charlotte create their own private world: Planet Kid. Away from whiny brothers and nosy neighbor boys, they pass one carefree day after another. But as dark secrets from the adult world creep into Planet Kid, Dawn must make some tough choices - choices that could mean life or death for her friend. In this moving, insightful novel, Newbery Honor author Jane Leslie Conly captures both the innocent simplicity and the haunting complexity of growing up.

Members Reviews:

this is a wonderful book!

This book was really great- funny, gritty, and moving. The psychology of the characters is very real- when Charlotte's father's "manhood" is undermined, he takes out his anger on the only people he has power over- his own family. The children in this book are portrayed as wise, imaginative individuals.This book should be read by people of all ages.

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Title: Eloise: Allie's Ghost Hunters, Book 3

Author: Catherine Jinks

Narrator: Melissa Chambers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-29-13

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

In the third Allie's Ghost Hunters adventure, 11-year-old Allie Gebhardt and her Exorcists' Club hold a séance for schoolmate Bettina - and discover, in the process, that there's a strange presence in Bettina's house.

Critic Reviews:

"Allie, sleuth for the supernatural, returns with another mystery. Her classmate Bettina wants to speak with the ghost in her house, but when Allie and her ghost-hunter friends investigate, the case takes an unexpected direction. Allie can't communicate with the ghost even when they throw a special séance, but she's determined to solve the ghostly problem no matter what. Melissa Chambers reproduces the middle school voices of Allie and her three friends competently. Occasionally her expression is flat, but overall she succeeds in conveying the frustrations of adolescence and the shivery thrills of ghost hunting. There's an eager audience for supernatural stories who will love listening to Allie's exploits." (AudioFile Magazine)

"Jinks is a vivacious children's author whose strong characters and infectious blend of school days and scary nights genres will entrance the target audience." (The Age)

"Catherine Jinks presents a very credible and enjoyable story of ghost-hunting ... Eloise is a great story for readers 9 to 14." (Reading Time)

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Title: Lives of the Athletes

Subtitle: Thrills, Spills (and What the Neighbors Thought)

Author: Kathleen Krull

Narrator: Kevin Orton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-23-13

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Do you have a favorite sports hero? If so, have you ever wondered about what kind of zany things he or she likes to do when not competing? Have you ever wondered what the great athletes like to eat, or what they like to drink? For instance, its a little-known fact that baseball great Babe Ruth relished the chance to wolf-down pickled eels and chocolate ice cream! Do you ever imagine what their childhoods were like? This fascinating book answers all these questions and many more you might never have even thought to ask! Featuring inspiring stories and wacky trivia about 20 different world-class athletes, this book by Kathleen Krull is sure to get young sports-fans excited about reading.

Critic Reviews:

While readers will find out about the subjects most prodigious physical feats, its what else theyll learn about them that propels this title above most other books published in this subject area. (School Library Journal)

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Fabulous!

Great for kids!

We love the books. This one was as described and for a great price. Extremely fast shipping. Could not have asked for more. Thank you.

Five Stars

Great series!

Five Stars

love it

Great Book

My sister-in-law illustrated this book. I love reading it to my Grandson. Hopefully soon he will read on his own.

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Title: Blackbeard the Pirate King

Author: J. Patrick Lewis

Narrator: John McDonough

Format: Unabridged

Length: 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-18-13

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Cutlass held high above his head, tangled beard shining black as the deepest night, the Pirate King struck fear into the heart of any sailor fool enough to venture out onto the high seas. This daring buccaneer may have been born with the name Edward Teach, but the swashbuckling terror would forever be known as Blackbeard. Tall as a waterfall and strong as a rum-soaked cask, Blackbeard lives on in countless tales of seafaring exploits.

Blackbeard the Pirate King shines light on man and myth alike with rhyming verse that captures his very essence. Included in the collection are stories of Blackbeards youth through his demonic reign as Pirate King.

Award-winning author J. Patrick Lewis has written more than 45 books for children.

Members Reviews:

My mistake... wanted Blue Beard.. ...

My mistake...wanted Blue Beard...not Black Beard...this book for older kids. Keeping.

My DAUGHTER loves it

I bought this for my daughter who, despite being a real 'girlie-girl', took a huge interest in pirates. She thoroughly enjoyed reading about Edward Teach - was particularly fascinated by Teach's practice of putting lit matches in his hat. And I am elated that she is interested in something not pink or glittery. Well written and illustrated.

A great book for another Grandson!

Jimmy will love reading this book. As always, once again, Amazon has found the right gift for me to give!!

yo ho yo ho

I bought this for the background information and the Maitz cover, well, mostly for the latter.

Thrilling

This book assumes you already know a lot about Blackbeard.

J. Patrick Lewis writes poetry to tell Blackbeard's biography, and uses artwork from many eras to illustrate the book. It's interesting and fun, but it is difficult to tease the biographical information out of this book.

As a work of literature, this is dynamite, but as a biography, it may not be the best choice. Lewis does include a timeline at the end to summarize the known facts of Blackbeard's life, and the small captions on each page are good. But things like putting fuses in the hat - I had never heard that legend before, and this book did not address it, although many illustrations showed it. Some context for those blazing fuses would have been a good addition, even if it meant including a page on the legends of Blackbeard.