spring/summer 2011 recent releases — young & middle grade
spring/summer 2011 recent releases — young & middle grade
spring/summer 2011 recent releases — young & middle grade
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Featured Author Collections<br />
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wwCYNTHIA KADOHATAww<br />
© George Miyamoto<br />
KIRA-KIRA<br />
read by Elaina Erika Davis<br />
NEWBERY MEDAL<br />
A lyrical novel of two Japanese sisters<br />
growing up in Georgia in the early 1960s.<br />
When the older sister becomes terminally ill,<br />
the <strong>young</strong>er sister must help herself and her<br />
family look to the future.<br />
“Elaina Erika Davis narrates with a careful<br />
cadence that reflects the ethnic sensibilities of<br />
the novel.”<strong>—</strong>School Library Journal<br />
“This audio is a good example of the power of<br />
aural presentations to make a story livelier by<br />
jumpstarting the reader’s imagination and<br />
involvement in the tale.”<strong>—</strong>KLIATT<br />
AudioFile Earphones Award<br />
4 CDs • 978-0-3072-8189-0 • $38.00<br />
Grade: RL: 4.7 • IL: 6-12 • LL: 680 • 4 hrs. 30 mins.<br />
CRACKER!<br />
The Best Dog in Vietnam<br />
read by Kimberly Farr<br />
Rick MacBride is a soldier in Vietnam.<br />
Cracker is one of the Army’s most valuable<br />
weapons<strong>—</strong>a German Shepherd trained to sniff<br />
out bombs, and the enemy. Rick and Cracker<br />
must learn to be a strong team if they want to<br />
get home alive.<br />
“Farr’s portrayal of Cracker successfully keeps<br />
listeners inside the world of a dog’s mind.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>Publishers Weekly<br />
“Gives listeners an unconventional look at the<br />
war…Farr does a great job as narrator.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>School Library Journal<br />
6 CDs • 978-0-7393-4856-7 • $50.00<br />
Grade: RL: 4.9 • IL: 4-7 • LL: 730 • 7 hrs. 32 mins.<br />
WEEDFLOWER<br />
read by Kimberly Farr<br />
Sumiko feels like her life has been made up<br />
of two parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it.<br />
Now Sumiko and her family are shipped to an<br />
internment camp on an Indian reservation in<br />
one of the hottest deserts in the U.S.<br />
“Farr’s seamless pacing and clarity of<br />
expression enhance this beautifully told and<br />
important story.”<strong>—</strong>Booklist<br />
“Narrator Kimberly Farr does an excellent job<br />
of conveying the confusion, fear, and isolation<br />
felt by Japanese Americans during this terrible<br />
time in American history…An excellent<br />
choice for American history classes and World<br />
War II and civil rights units.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>School Library Journal<br />
BONUS FEATURE<strong>—</strong>Author Interview<br />
5 CDs • 978-0-3072-8581-2 • $45.00<br />
Grade: RL: 4.8 • IL: 5-10 • LL: 750 • 6 hrs. 19 mins.<br />
THE TIME QUINTET<br />
read by the Author<br />
“Listeners will still be entranced by this<br />
imagination-stretching modern classic.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>Publishers Weekly<br />
A WRINKLE IN TIME<br />
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD<br />
NEWBERY MEDAL<br />
With their neighbor Calvin O’Keefe, <strong>young</strong><br />
Meg Murry and her brother, Charles Wallace,<br />
embark on a cosmic journey to find their lost<br />
father, a scientist studying time travel. Assisted<br />
by three eccentric women, the children travel<br />
to the planet Camazotz where they encounter<br />
a repressed society controlled by IT, a<br />
disembodied brain that represents evil.<br />
5 CDs • 978-0-307-24630-1 • $45.00<br />
Grade: RL: 5.8 • IL: 5-12 • LL: 740 • 5 hrs. 45 mins.<br />
A SWIFTLY TILTING PLANET<br />
Charles Wallace, now fifteen, undertakes a<br />
perilous journey through time in a desperate<br />
attempt to stop the destruction of the world.<br />
“This unabridged audio will thrill L’Engle<br />
fans....highly recommended.”<strong>—</strong>KLIATT<br />
6 CDs • 978-0-7393-5092-8 • $60.00<br />
Grade: RL: 5.8 • IL: 5-12 • LL: 850 • 7 hrs. 19 mins.<br />
MANY WATERS<br />
read by Ann Marie Lee<br />
Sandy and Dennys are the normal ones until<br />
they interrupt their father’s experiment. The<br />
two boys are thrown across time and space and<br />
find themselves alone in the desert. Their<br />
adventure turns serious when they discover that<br />
“many waters” are coming to flood the desert.<br />
“L’Engle spins another uniquely metaphysical<br />
fantasy.”<strong>—</strong>School Library Journal<br />
7 CDs • 978-0-7393-7199-2 • $50.00<br />
Grade: RL: 4.7 • IL: 5-12 • LL: 700 • 8 hrs. 55 mins.<br />
CAMILLA<br />
read by Ann Marie Lee<br />
Life had always been easy for Camilla, but<br />
now her parents’ marriage is falling apart. Then<br />
she meets Frank, who helps her to feel that she<br />
is not alone and opens her eyes to worlds<br />
beyond her own.<br />
“A thought-provoking story about a <strong>young</strong><br />
girl’s first romance, her devastation over her<br />
parents’ marital problems, and the growth of<br />
her own sense of self.”<strong>—</strong>Booklist<br />
“Lee’s narration<strong>—</strong>which delivers absorbing<br />
personalities and raw emotions<strong>—</strong>makes this<br />
coming-of-age story fresh.”<strong>—</strong>AudioFile<br />
6 CDs • 978-0-7393-8093-2 • $50.00<br />
Grade: RL: 5.3 • IL: 7-12 • LL: NA • 7 hrs. 36 mins.<br />
wwMADELEINE L’ENGLEww<br />
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A WIND IN THE DOOR<br />
Meg Murry can’t help but be worried when<br />
her six-year-old brother, Charles Wallace,<br />
announces there are dragons in the vegetable<br />
garden. But Charles Wallace is right about the<br />
dragons<strong>—</strong>actually a friendly entity who has<br />
come to help him fight his sickness. The<br />
dragon also takes Meg and Calvin on a<br />
terrifying journey where they must battle the<br />
forces of evil to save both Charles Wallace<br />
and themselves.<br />
5 CDs • 978-0-7393-5093-5 • $45.00<br />
Grade: RL: 5.8 • IL: 5-12 • LL: 790 • 5 hrs. 9 mins.<br />
AN ACCEPTABLE TIME<br />
read by Ann Marie Lee<br />
A time gate opens and drops Polly O’Keefe<br />
into a world that existed 3,000 years ago. She<br />
is surrounded by mist and jagged mountains<strong>—</strong><br />
and coming toward her, a group of <strong>young</strong> men<br />
carrying spears. She encounters old friends,<br />
strangers and travels back in time to play a<br />
crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.<br />
“Madeleine L’Engle again reaches into her bag<br />
of weird and wonderful knowledge, blending<br />
snippets of tantalizing information from a variety<br />
of disciplines.”<strong>—</strong>Publishers Weekly<br />
8 CDs • 978-0-7393-7203-6 • $55.00<br />
Grade:: RL: 4.5 • IL: 5-12 • LL: 710 • 9 hrs. 42 mins.<br />
Madeleine L’Engle was awarded the<br />
2004 National Humanities Medal.<br />
“Her works inspire the imagination and<br />
reflect the creative spirit of America.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>President George W. Bush<br />
She was also the winner of the<br />
Margaret A. Edwards Award.<br />
AND BOTH WERE YOUNG<br />
read by Ann Marie Lee<br />
Flip doesn’t think she’ll ever fit in at boarding<br />
school. Then she meets Paul and things<br />
change. As their relationship grows, so does her<br />
self-confidence. With so many new feelings<br />
can Flip help Paul confront his troubled past?<br />
“Still as ‘poignant’ and ‘satisfying’ as when it<br />
was first published in 1949.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>The New York Times<br />
“Ann Marie Lee’s ease with multiple accents<br />
gives a strong sense of the school’s diversity,<br />
and she provides a credible portrayal of Flip’s<br />
anxiety, alienation, and isolation.”<strong>—</strong>AudioFile<br />
7 CDs • 978-0-7393-8097-0 • $45.00<br />
Grade: RL: 5.5 • IL: 7-12 • LL: 910 • 7 hrs. 55 mins.