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Title: Olivia Kidney and the Exit Academy
Author: Ellen Potter
Narrator: Tara Sands
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-12-05
Publisher: Listening Library
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes
Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10
Publisher's Summary:
What is it with Olivia Kidney and ghosts? No matter where she goes, they follow. Even when she moves into a brownstone in New York City, there is no escape from the weirdness that is Olivia Kidney's life. Her new living room is entirely submerged under water, and Olivia has to navigate in a boat past bobbing furniture and snapping turtles just to get to her bedroom. Complete strangers show up in the middle of the night to practice bumping into walls! And then, of course, there are the ghosts. This house holds secrets, Olivia can feel it. Why, she wonders, was she invited to live here? Come enter the amazing world of Olivia Kidney. At once moving and laugh-out-loud funny, it will forever capture your imagination. Ellen Potter is the freshest thing to happen to young fiction since Lemony Snicket.
©2005 Ellen Potter; (P)2005 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group
Critic Reviews:
"Dashes of Dahl, snippets of Snicket, and heaps of Horvath humor abound, and like its prequel, this can be read on many levels." (Booklist)
Members Reviews:
Excellent sequel
Ms. Potter has done it again. Exit Academy is a wonderful sequel to a first-rate tale of a young girl growing up in New York City. Right from the start you are whisked off into the realm of the supernatural, where things are most definitely not what they seem (a good lesson for all of us to bear in mind). Exit Academy is hilarious, scary and flows beautifully. Ms. Potter has an excellent command of characterization, too; her characters are fascinating and distinct, and like the first novel, we want to see more of them. (She does in fact bring back a character from the first book, and expands its history.) Ms. Potter has a writing style that is unique, entrancing, and does not shy away from real-world truth. I highly recommend this to children and adults alike.
So when's the movie coming out?
One of a kind masterpiece. A totally different and unique read.
This is such a good book, I feel it would be a waste to aim it at children only; neither do I think that children will understand all the many nuances, the richness and fullness of Ellen Potter's mixture of reality hardships, life and death issues, imagination and philosophical ideas. Off course, this is why this is such a good children book - because it has so many layers and can be experienced differently at every age.
"Olivia Kidney" was such a surprise, both wonderful and painful at the same time. This book is the second in what (hopefully) becomes a series and is no less interesting or elevating then the first. In fact I do believe that Ellen Potter outdid herself and reached new heights... I sound a little pompous but besides truly loving the book I feel the author also bravely dealt with a difficult issue.
The main story is about Olivia and her father, moving, once again, to a new place. Olivia is used to this routine but she never expected to arrive to such an amazing house and to meet such strange people. Olivia and her father arrive at the house of Ansel Pover and his assistant, the lovely Nora, but this is only the cover to several side stories entangled into a wide tale with some very coherent messages.
