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Title: Tich Dragonslayer

Author: Pete Barrett

Narrator: Anthony Keetch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-20-13

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Tich thinks dragon slaying is tough but dragon baby-sitting is even tougher! Tich is small and fed up! He thinks life is rubbish. Then dad gives him an old board game and suddenly hes off on an adventure.

Slay a dragon on his own? Maybe schools not so bad after all.

When Tich brings a real live dragon's egg home, can the gang really cope? A baby dragon may be a cool pet but no one wants to be burnt to a crisp.

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Title: Tobiah and the Cross

Author: Tobiah P. Steinmetz

Narrator: Ricky Pope

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-20-13

Publisher: Tate Out Loud

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Join Tobiah as he travels pennilessly across the country with a cross upon his back. He must survive difficult conditions as he wears through eight pairs of shoes! But he meets several new friends along the way and teaches them about the love of God. Will the help of these new friends be enough to help him make it home?

Members Reviews:

Wonderful

My three and five year old nephews LOVE this book and request to bring it with them to church every week! Great true story! Definitely recommend this book!

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Title: Guys Read: A Day in the Life

Subtitle: A Short Story from Guys Read: Other Worlds

Author: Shaun Tan, Rebecca Stead

Narrator: John Morgan, Todd Haberkorn, Johnathan McClain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 09-17-13

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

An artist takes us through his day, from his own particular perspective. A short story from Guys Read: Other Worlds, edited by Jon Scieszka.

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Title: Beauty and the Beast

Author: Michael Morpurgo

Narrator: Michael Morpurgo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-16-13

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

A captivating retelling of the nation's favourite fairy tale, from the nation's favourite storyteller, Michael Morpurgo.

After encountering a fearsome beast at a mysterious palace, down-on-his-luck merchant Marco is forced to make a promise in exchange for his life: he must persuade one of his three daughters to return to the palace in his place - but she must come of her own free will.

Beautiful, kind-hearted Belle agrees at once to return to the palace, and there she and the Beast exist companionably, with the Beast asking of Belle the same question at the end of each day: "Dearest Belle, will you marry me?" After a return home to consult with her father, Belle resolves to follow her heart and return to the Beast, but her plans are thwarted by the trickery of her jealous sisters.

When, at last, Belle is able to find her way back to the palace, she finds her beloved Beast lying as still as death on the ground. As Belle's tears fall on his face, the Beast is transformed into a handsome prince - the ancient spell upon him broken by Belle's tears of true love

Critic Reviews:

Praise for Michael Morpurgo: "Michael Morpurgo writes brilliantly about war and animals, conveying the big emotions without preaching." (The Guardian) "Champagne quality over a wide range of subjects." (Daily Telegraph) "There are few children's writers as compelling as Michael Morpurgo." (Daily Express) "Morpurgo's gift is to make this long-ago world of danger and heartbreak accessible without ever patronising his young readers." (Sunday Mercury) "Morpurgo, as always, is subtle and skillful, and incorporates social and moral issues into his writing without being self-righteous or detracting from the quality of the narrative" (Elizabeth Reilly - British Council) "The former children's laureate has the happy knack of speaking to both child and adult readers." (The Guardian)

Members Reviews:

My children love it!!

my daughter brought this book home from school and both my girls were hooked (3&5) to the point that I had to buy them a copy and saw this too and just had to byy it to compliment the book. it's well read and makes the book come to life.

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Title: Heaven Eyes

Author: David Almond

Narrator: Imogen Stubbs

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-13

Publisher: Hodder Children's

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Erin, January, and Mouse live in a children's home, Whitegates. They often dream of escape, and frequently journey into the outside world. Running away is something they know all about. But this time January builds a raft, and the three of them head precariously down river. Towards the Black Middens. This time they might never come back.

When they stumble across a disused factory and its strange inhabitants - Grampa and Heaven Eyes - they wonder if they'll even have the choice. Heaven Eyes is the girl who should have drowned at sea. The mysterious girl desperately searching for her family, hoping that these three might be the family she has lost. She has a secret history only Grampa knows. And does he trust these three invaders enough to tell them?

Erin feels a sisterly responsibility for Heaven Eyes, Mouse longs to belong anywhere and anyhow, but January thinks Grampa's a murderer. Whatever happens, all three have a part to play...

A stunning novel from the author of the modern children's classic Skellig - winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. David Almond is also winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen award.

Members Reviews:

excellent.

One ignorant reviewer on Amazon, who said she was forced to read the book and report to the staff at her company, complained of all the grammatical errors in the book. Turns out they are simply the colloquial speech of the star of the book who was raised by a hermit in often horrendous conditions but with care and adoration. This reviewer needs to be ignored in the future.

Umm...

This book may be better reading for younger children or people who don't know English too well, as the lack of grammar in a majority of the book will not annoy them so much. It feels like the author was pushing to write a meaningful book, but he didn't really understand how. The book does not make you question any greater abstract idea until one of the characters specifically does it herself. A truly good book in that style would not have been so blatant. The ending gives the reader no emotion, not even depression for the pointlessness as some others do. I would nto recommend that anyone read this book, let alone buy it.

4.5 stars, beautiful how magic is found in the bleakest of places

This is the second book by Almond that I have read; the first wasSkellig (Printz Honor). I liked this book a lot but didn't think it was as good as Skellig.

Erin Law, January Carr and Mouse Gullane live in an orphanage and one night they decide to flee the orphanage on a raft. They end up stuck in the muddy slime of the Black Middens and are found by a odd and scrawny girl named Heaven Eyes. Heaven Eyes introduces them to a bleak and grimy world; an abandoned island full of empty warehouses and boxes of chocolates. Heaven's only companion is Grampa, and old man who is either a saint or a devil.

This was a very interesting book. As with Skellig, Almond makes this dankest of atmospheres seem somehow magical. He has a penchant for finding magic in the bleakest of places. The characters are engaging and believable and the surroundings described in such a way that you can picture every horrible smell and creeping shadow.

I enjoyed how Erin and her friends found a place that was apart from humanity in such nearness to their home. It was actually somewhat inspiring how they found a sort of magic in the ugliest of places.

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Title: The Great Ice Cream Heist

Author: Elen Caldecott

Narrator: Sophie Aldred

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-13

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

A warm, funny adventure about sticking up for your friends, and the adventures that can be had along the way.

When the McIntyre family moves in next door, Eva is intrigued - it is the first interesting thing to happen for ages. But her ever protective Dad - even more protective since Eva's mum died - does not agree. Eva gets to know Jamie McIntyre a bit better, and when he is accused of vandalising the local park, Eva is sure he didn't do it but she has to prove it

Critic Reviews:

"Funnypoignanthilarious" (Julia Donaldson for the Guardian)

"Its ingenious ideas, humour and clear, unfussy style keep the pages turning speedily to the feel-good conclusion" (The Sunday Times on How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant)

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Title: Secret Heart

Author: David Almond

Narrator: David Almond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-13

Publisher: Hodder Children's

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Joe lives with his mother in Helmouth, a forgotten village crumbling on the edge of the suburbs. His days are spent trying to evade the demands of school and the taunts of the local bullies. Joe's friend, Stanny, insists that Joe must toughen up, become a survivor - and he is adamant that a weekend in the wilderness with Stanny and his Uncle Joff will do the trick.

Into Joe's unhappy world comes Hackenschmidt's Circus, and with it the strangely familiar Corinna. She tells Joe, 'In the circus there is a secret heart ' - a place of contained wildness where the barriers between the human and animal world are fluid. And indeed, Joe's dreams are already stalked by a tiger, so real that his skin and its pelt begin to feel as one....

A stunning novel from the author of the modern children's classic Skellig - winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. David Almond is also winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen award.

Members Reviews:

Tiger tiger, burning bright....

David Almond's fifth book is a haunting look at an unusual young boy, written beautifully and with fantastic, memorable characters. It occasionally becomes a little confusing and repetitive, but the characterizations are stunning, and overall it's a great read.

Joe Maloney is a dreamer, a shy stutterer whose mother works shifts at a bar and whose father "spun the waltzer at a fair." His teachers want him to study, but he can't. His former friend, Stanny Mole, has fallen in with a ruthless creep called Joff, and wants to show Joe how to kill -- but Joe doesn't want to. And he sees visions of a tiger prowling around, but there are no tigers where he lives.

He makes his way to the circus, which is due to shut down in a few days. There he meets an enormous wrestler, an old woman who sees into people's souls -- and Corinna, an acrobat with whom he shares a mysterious bond. These strange people will help him learn how to find his way around the people who taunt and try to mold him, and about the tiger inside him.

This may be Almond's most confusing book. It starts off in a rather colorless way, except for the interludes where Joe sees the tiger. Almond's stark prose becomes much more flowery halfway through, when Joe meets up with the circus people; it lends itself to a few genuinely nauseating interludes where we see the sort of killing that Joff urges boys to do, claiming that it will make men out of them. But there's no hamhanded moralizing in this book, thankfully. The last third is very surreal, very strange and otherworldly, but those who don't demand a concrete answer for everything in a book will be fine with that. The biggest problem is that at times it gets a little repetitive, with people shouting the same insults after Joe and Corinna, and Joe wondering for the umpteenth time whether Joff is his father.

Joe is likeable from the start, a kid who doesn't really fit anywhere and who feels pressure from all sides to be something he isn't. His patient mother is an almost saintly figure; the circus performers range from the surreal to the everyday, but all are friendly and kind, especially the blind old lady Nanty. Corinna is somewhat like Joe, except more outgoing and less sensitive to the taunts of others.

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Title: The Trouble With Mummies

Author: F R Hitchcock

Narrator: Oliver J Hembrough

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-07-13

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

WARNING: contains dangerous dressing-up, mild historical violence and prolonged scary humour!

Sam comes home one day to find his family turning a little bit loopy - his mum is redecorating using hieroglyphics and his dad is building a pyramid in the back garden. He hopes it's just a weird new fashion... but then the strangeness starts to spread. With the help of his friends Ursula, Henry and Lucy the Goat, Sam must save his town and discover the cause of this Mummy madness!

Critic Reviews:

"This cleverly structured story will make its readers laugh out loud." (Sunday Times on Shrunk!)

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Title: Wogs

Author: Ed Murphy

Narrator: Phyllis Murphy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-13

Publisher: Tate Out Loud

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Many years ago there were Wogs everywhere, but suddenly they all disappeared. A Wog is a tiny creature, smaller than an elephant and bigger than a grasshopper. No one knew what had happened to them, until one day when Joey, Sam, and Sari Susan were walking along, and they found a tiny creature but had no idea what it was. They took the creature to Farmer Gootley because he knew everything. But the creature had to stay in a special place. If he didn't, he would just disappear. Join Sari Susan as she learns all about Wogs and discovers how wonderful an active imagination can be in Wogs.

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Title: Lost in Paris

Subtitle: The First Book in the Gargoyles on Tour Series

Author: Zina Pearce-Tomenius, Helen Robinson

Narrator: Helen Robinson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-19-13

Publisher: Aquarium Audio Books

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Learn French as you enjoy this first adventure in the Gargoyles on Tour series.

Lost in Paris is an engaging tale in English about three of Notre Dame's funniest gargoyles. As you listen to the story, you and your children will pick up French phrases, get to know Parisian landmarks and absorb a little French culture along the way.

Be warned: These stone gargoyles are fast movers, especially with the help of their long-lost cousin from Wales, Ifor the dragon!