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Title: Kerka's Book

Subtitle: The Fairy Godmother Academy, Book 2

Author: Jan Bozarth

Narrator: Marjo-Riikka Makela

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-11-10

Publisher: Listening Library

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

For girls who are fans of Harry Potter and have outgrown the Disney Fairies series and the American Girl books, the Fairy Godmother Academy is the perfect series - fantasy books filled with magic and adventure, but grounded by contemporary girls and issues.

The series boasts an amazing Web site that allows girls to enter the world they visit in the books. There they can do activities both on- and offline, vote for things they'd like to see in the books, and connect with other Fairy Godmother Academy fans.

Kerka Laine is not one to sit around and let things happen to her. She knows from her adventure with her friend Birdie that she comes from a long line of fairy godmothers and that she's destined to start training as a fairy godmother herself. She just hates waiting for the training to begin! When her dreams take her to Aventurine, the place where girls go to unlock their own special kind of magic, Kerka is more than ready. What she is not prepared for is the quest that the fairies give her: She must find her younger sister's voice before the sun rises on a mountain range called the Three Queens. Kerka loves a challenge, but how can she find something that is invisible?

In this second Fairy Godmother Academy book, Kerka begins the dangerous journey that will determine not only her future as a fairy godmother but also the fate of her sisters.

Critic Reviews:

"The blend of magical detail with family drama will hold fantasy fans, even those new to the series." (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

great book series for girls about 8-12

my daughter enjoyed

cute book, my daughter enjoyed it

great book for girls who like fairies, mermaids, etc

Bought this, and the first Fairy Godmother Book for my granddaughter, who just turned 9. I read it to her when she stays over at my house, and she can't wait to come, especially to hear a chapter or two. It is well written. Although she is an exceptional reader herself, (in third grade, reading at 6th grade level) she likes to have it read to her.

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Title: The Way to Sattin Shore

Author: Philippa Pearce

Narrator: Helena Bonham Carter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-29-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Kate Tranter is fatherless - or is she? The evidence of the tombstone she finds in the churchyard seems conclusive. And yet... The tombstone disappears and Kate is left with a mystery about which her family either knows nothing or will tell nothing. Her search for the truth leads her to Sattin Shore: and the way to Sattin Shore turns out to be a way into the past.

Her two elder brothers, her grandmother, her new friend Anna and her missing father all have a part to play in Kates search to fit the jigsaw pieces of past and present to find a new picture for the future.

Members Reviews:

A suspenseful story set in an everyday world

This is a children's story, but one with dark themes : a family who don't communicate with one another, parents who lack the courage to tell the truth. The action takes place amid everyday activities in a very ordinary sort of town: mending a slow puncture, opening the trap door to the attic, picking strawberries and making jam. But each of these everday scenes, covincingly described, fit together and shed light on the basic mystery of the story: what happened to Kate Tranter's father.

The story begins with Kate coming home from school and letting herself into her familiy's cheerless house and going past the door of her Granny's room. From the door, standing slightly ajar, comes not a beam of light, but a beam of darkness. And that beam of darkness plays a key role later in the story. The deliciously tempting-sounding Sattin Shore turns out to be a lonely place on a estuary with dangerous tides, but there lie the secrets which Kate's family are trying to hide.

Helena Bonham-Carter's narration is superb. She manages to bring out all moods and shades of the family's halting dialogue and keeps us on edge waiting for the next twist of the plot.

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Title: Jake Cake: The Football Beast & The Pirate Curse

Author: Michael Broad

Narrator: Paul Chequer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

The Football Beast

'Im Jake Cake, and these are my adventures. Theyre all true, but I bet you dont believe me. After all, have you ever met a Bigfoot playing football? Have you ever had a sea monster ruin your sandwiches? Or met a real ghost train?'

The Pirate Curse

'Have you ever been cursed by a ghostly pirate? Has an alien ever abducted your granny? Or have you ever been tricked by a genie? Stuff that happens to me is unbelievable!'

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Title: Freaky Monday

Author: Mary Rodgers, Heather Hach

Narrator: Jennifer Stone

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-05-09

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Ms. Pitt is the kind of teacher who wants you to call her by her first name and puts all the chairs in a circle and tells her students to feel their book reports.

Hadley wishes Ms. Pitt would stick to her lesson plan. Ms. Pitt wishes Hadley would lighten up.

So when Hadley and Ms. Pitt find themselves switched into each other's bodies, the first thing they want to do is switch right back. It takes a family crisis, a baffled principal, and a (double) first kiss to help them figure out that change can be pretty enlightening.

Even if it is a little freaky!

Editorial Reviews:

Hadley Fox, like most 13-year-old girls, hates Mondays. Regardless, she stands out as an academic all-star. Ms. Pitt, her teacher, who drives a hybrid, wants her students to call her by her first name, and is too "self-helpy" in Hadley's opinion, however, wants more out of her. Hadley wants to be treated like an adult and Ms. Pitt wants to relate to her on an equal level. They both get their wish, but not the way they want, when they found they've switched bodies. Jennifer Stone perfectly captures Hadley's sarcastic too-smart-for-her-own-good teenage voice in her performance of this audiobook that uses humor to show the value in walking in someone else's shoes.

Members Reviews:

Okay!!

Im not one for stories like this but i loved it and you know that feeling you get after you've finished a good book, like, im so glad i finished this book, but im not happy its over, kind of feeling? Well thats what i felt. I would highly reccomend this book to most of you out there.

The best book ever

While this book is different from Freaky Friday, it is just as good. It is one of my all time favorites. I recommend this book to all ages.

Freaky Monday or Freaky Friday the movie

Thirteen-year-old Hadley Fox (I so love her name!) is not your average eighth grader. She has a 4.3 GPA (I know, makes me feel terrible for my grades in school!), studies like crazy, and constantly has her nose in a book. Hadley, even at 13, strives for Stanford as her college destination, but the one thing she also strives to do is become her gorgeous, loved-by-everyone older sister, Tatum.

Matters turn horrifying for Hadley when she forgets to write down an assignment in her "Super Student Planner Plus" and her whole world seems to collapse around her. Said assignment is an oral report for none other than Tatum's favorite teacher, Ms. Pitt; the hippie, eccentric, over-involved teacher who prefers to be called Carol that Hadley can't stand.

As Ms. Pitt makes Hadley try to wing her report and allows her a change in topic, something happens. In the Freaky Friday, Lindsay Lohan/Jamie Lee Curtis fashion, they finish a sentence together, the room shakes (which only they feel), and then they are transformed.

This couldn't happen on any worse of a day for either of the two protagonists since today is the first time in months Hadley's crush has spoken to her, and there is the first I-Hate-Mondays DANCE! As for Ms. Pitt (yes, I too can't help but giggle), it is her meeting with the school board to become the head of the English department.

Things seem to run amok between both character's lives from family, to love, to even careers, and not quite as smoothly as either would hope.

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Title: Stuff

Author: Jeremy Strong

Narrator: Tom Lawrence

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-04-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Known as 'Stuff', because he knows a lot of stuff, Simon is faced with the typical pitfalls that all teenage boys have to deal with. While he longs to get off with the beautiful Sky, he also wants to dump his girlfriend Delfine.

©2005 Jeremy Strong;

Members Reviews:

Hardly a Cool Demented Dude

Stuff is the nickname his family has chosen for young Simon, 14 years old and a Briton by birth. Stuff has ambitions of being a world class cartoonist, and he is aided and abetted by a sympathetic art teacher at school, Miss Kovak, who publishes a weekly art magazine "Art Works" to encourage her more gifted students.

Otherwise Stuff's life is miserable. His parents have divorced, and his dad has imported a sexy live in lover that Stuff called "Sherry Trifle" due to her resemblance to the popular UK dessert. In turn, La Trifle has brought in her own daughter, Natasha, a sexy girl around Stuf's age who torments him with her insults. He is of an age where he is prone to acne ("spots" in British parlance) and thinks about sex every six seconds, as does his best mate, Pete.

Stuff has a lovely girlfriend, Delfine, but he is feeling his oats, and when he meets the punked out "SkY' in art class, quite loses his heart to her and begins drawing a comic srtip in which she appears as a scantily clad superhero, a la Seth Cohen's comic book in the OC. However, Delfine's nasty, brutish brother Darcy is ready to beat Stuff to a pulp if he dares break up with longsuffering Delfine.

Stuff is loveable and adaptable, if never believable. A useful glossary appears in the back of the book which explains some of Stuff's strange UK slang, although other bits remain unexplained. This book is OK, but Stuff's catchphrases are rotten ("How my life goes"?) and it would take a miracle to make this one a success on these shores.

The coolest book I've ever read.

Strong does a great job making up fun words and insults for the characters to use. I can totally relate to the main character Stuff. Probably one of the best books I've ever read.

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Title: Ghosts in the Gallery

Author: Barbara Brooks Wallace

Narrator: Christina Moore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-30-09

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

With nowhere else to go, she accepts the position of servant girl there. But her troubles have only begun. As Jenny dusts and scrubs, she learns the great, gloomy house holds shadowy secrets and hidden dangers.

Edgar Award-winning author Barbara Brooks Wallace pens historical mysteries filled with riveting suspense and authentic details. In this Victorian tale of betrayal and deception, she portrays a young girl building a new life in spite of overwhelming odds. Narrator Christina Moore's dramatic performance highlights the tension as it builds to the startling climax.

Members Reviews:

Very dry storyline and a dull mystery

What could Barbara Brooks Wallace have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

This audio book was a very dry, long winded tale with a hint of mystery in the background. The characters were not interesting, the story was just too dull to keep my attention. I forced myself to finish listening to this.

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Title: Dodger and Me

Author: Jordan Sonnenblick

Narrator: William Dufris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-20-09

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

What would you do if your best friend was:

©2009 Jordan Sonnenblick; (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Members Reviews:

Just as fun as the first

A great continuation to the first book Dodger for Sale. Again I read this book in the evenings with my 10 year old son. and we both laughed throughout the book.

Not for me

This book never really grabbed me, which surprised me since I love this author. The main character has an imaginary friend, and the friend inspires him to get out of his comfort zone.

Dodger and Me

I purchased this book for my daughter's class project. She really liked the book. And I appreciated that AMAZON.com shipped it to us so quickly and I didn't have to run around town looking for it! Sweet little story.

Great read a loud for third grade---I teach all boys ...

Great read a loud for third grade---I teach all boys and they loved the humor and couldn't wait to find out what came next.

Five Stars

good

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Title: Lucky Breaks

Author: Susan Patron

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-10-09

Publisher: Listening Library

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

Enter Paloma, tagging along on a visit to Hard Pan with a pack of hungry geologists. She's smart and pretty and fun -- definitely best-friend material. But will Lucky be able to cope with tomato worms, Short Sammy's mysterious box, the potential for disaster when Paloma's parents visit Hard Pan, and Lincoln's fame among knot tyers of the world?

Lucky's intrepidness is put to the test in this satisfying sequel to the Newbery Award-winning The Higher Power of Lucky.

Members Reviews:

Review of all three books in the 'Hard Pan Trilogy'

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Review of all three books in the 'Hard Pan Trilogy'

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Lucky lives in Hard Pan, California, in a canned-ham bedroom attached to a trailer. She lives with Brigitte, who is not her mother but her biological father's French ex-wife. Brigitte came to Hard Pan all the way from France because Lucky's father asked her to, after Lucky's mother went out into the desert after a storm and was struck dead by lightening.

So for now Lucky lives with Brigitte, who calls her 'petite puce' which sounds lovely in French, but really means 'little flea' in English. Lucky loves Brigitte, but does not dare hope that she will want to be Lucky's mother for good.

So in between trying not to hope that Brigitte will become Lucky's mother, and avoiding looking at her real dead mother's ashes in an urn, Lucky decides to find her higher power to get her through. It's what everyone talks about at the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting held at Hard Pan's Found Object Wind Chime Museum. Higher power. Short Sammy talks about it a lot, when he recounts the story of the day his beloved dog got bit by a snake and his wife left him, and how he ended up finding his higher power that got him through the worst time in his life.

'The Higher Power of Lucky' was Susan Patron's 2007 Newberry award-winning middle-grade book. In 2010 Patron went on to continue Lucky's story with 'Lucky Breaks', and ending with 'Lucky For Good' in 2011, when Lucky is twelve-years-old, rounding the books out to the 'Hard Pan Trilogy'.

Susan Patron's series is a complete delight; for both its charismatically flawed heroine and her delightfully quirky hometown of Hard Pan. The first book, 'Higher Power of Lucky' begins when Lucky is ten-years-old, and her mother has just recently passed away, 'replacing' her with her father's ex-wife, the French Brigitte. We are introduced to this very unconventional family unit, which encompasses the wider town of Hard Pan, populated with quirky characters. There's Lucky's best friend, Lincoln, a knot-tying protégé with hopes of becoming the future President of the United States. Litle boy Miles who has a perfectly-timed cookie-retrieval system for visiting all the Hard Pan residents. There's also Short Sammy who lives in a water tank, and mourns the loss of his best dog friend not to mention an archeological team who breeze through Hard Pan to stop at Brigitte's renowned French-bistro café.

The books are all about Lucky; a glorious ragamuffin of a girl who is navigating the changing landscape of her life after losing her mother.

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Title: RuneWarriors

Author: James Jennewein, Tom Parker

Narrator: Richard Poe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-10-09

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

A Viking boy named Dane must choose a nickname for himself to keep up tradition. Will he become Dane the Dangerous or Dane the Despicable? When an evil warlord named Thidrek kidnaps Dane's sweetheart, he earns his nickname through great feats of derring-do - Dane the Defiant!

Members Reviews:

A wonderful fantasy book!

Rune Warriors is a wonderful fairytale of Vikings and mythological characters. This audiobook is narrated with great dramatic expression in a way that a 10 year old (as well as adults) will find absolutely captivating. If you are looking for a new series of stories to follow Harry Potter this is the one.

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Title: Davy Crockett

Subtitle: The Legend of the Wild Frontier

Author: Bruce Winders

Narrator: Benjamin Becker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-02-09

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

The famous "coonskin" politician was always more than the self-promoted backwoods Everyman. An astute and agile leader, Crockett would come of age during the Creek Wars, and die a hero at the battle of the Alamo in Texas. Today we can distinguish between the legend and the history of Davy Crockett, as we survey the facts of his life and the fantasies of more than a century of stories told in songs, films, and books.

©2003 The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.; (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

Members Reviews:

Informative, but boring

This is textbook style writing. Not exciting. My middle school kids did not like it at all, and they love history when it is presented in a fun manner. This is not fun. I lent it to a friend, and her kids had the same reaction. Maybe get it if you are simply a history buff and want a bit more info on Davy Crockett, which I believe is accurate. Otherwise, I would just read his autobiography. Many times source books are best.

Great book about a great hero

Just finished listening to the audiobook, and was very impressed! As a long time admirer of Davy Crockett, I can say that over all Winders does a good job reporting on the life of Crockett, making his presentation both very informative and easy to follow along with. Not only does he do a great job recounting the biographical sketch of Davy and the family background, etc. which accompanies his narrative, but he also has an excellent balance of explaining the historical context of his times, such as the history of Tennessee, the different party affiliations and backgrounds, etc. without bogging the reader down with details that are not really relevant. This is a rare quality in books! The book set a good pace from the beginning, and kept the story moving at a good speed throughout, and drew from some good first hand sources to include some excellent quotes from Davy, Travis, and others.

My one complaint would be that he gave a little too much credence to revisionist re-writing of history in his brief reference to the non-traditional theory of the capture and execution of Crockett at the Alamo, as opposed to the original history as related by Mrs. Dickinson's eyewitness account. Not that discussing the different views is wrong of course, but the way he handled it was to just reference the Mexican's who made the revisionist claim, without even alluding to the Dickinson testimony, which seemed a little one-sided. In all fairness though, he did freely acknowledge that the older notion was more in keeping with what else is known about Crockett. That, and his complete ommission of Travis' drawing the line in the sand, which was also doubtless a result of the revisionist history that the Alamo has been subjected to be the re-writers of our history.

A solid juvenile biography of Davy Crockett

So far the volumes in The Library of American Lives and Times are very nice looking. The covers always feature a portrait of the biographical subject in front of a key scene from their life; in this case, "Davy Crockett: The Legend of the Wild Frontier" is shown over a painting of the Battle of the Alamo.