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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WRAPPED<br />
by Jennifer Bradbury; reader tba<br />
Get wrapped up in the adventure of this mystery<br />
that’s Veronica Mars meets Jane Austen!<br />
This is the start of seventeen-year-old Agnes’s<br />
debut season circa 1815 London, that offers only<br />
ever-shrinking options: home, husband, and high<br />
society. But new doors of perception open at a party<br />
where an ancient mummy is unwrapped. Agnes<br />
discovers a secret that could unravel a new destiny<br />
for her<strong>—</strong>unleashing mystery, international intrigue,<br />
and possibly a curse.<br />
Praise for Bradbury’s writing:<br />
“Fresh, absorbing, compelling.”<strong>—</strong>Kirkus Reviews<br />
“Endowing both boys with a heavy dose of idealism, responsibility and selfpreservation,<br />
Jennifer Bradbury makes their growth feel genuine and even<br />
profound.”<strong>—</strong>School Library Journal<br />
7 CDs • 978-0-3079-4179-4 • $37.00 • On Sale: Sept.<br />
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Interest Level: Grades 7-12 • approx. 8 hrs.<br />
DEARLY, DEPARTED<br />
by Lia Habel; reader tba<br />
This debut is the first book in a new series<br />
packed with adventure, danger, zombies,<br />
humor, and romance.<br />
Zombie fighter Nora falls in love with Bram, a<br />
handsome 18-year-old lieutenant who happens to<br />
be suffering from “the Laz,” a degenerative disease<br />
that will eventually turn him into the walking dead!<br />
Bram is fully conscious and in good health now, but<br />
it’s only a matter of time before the Laz will take<br />
him away from her.<br />
A madly imaginative novel of spine-tingling<br />
suspense and macabre comedy that forever redefines the concept of<br />
undying love.<br />
13 CDs • 978-0-3078-7607-2 • $40.00 • On Sale: Oct.<br />
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Interest Level: Grades 7-12 • approx. 15 hrs. 30 mins.<br />
New<br />
Recording!<br />
20,000 LEAGUES<br />
UNDER THE SEA<br />
by Jules Verne; read by James Frain<br />
This classic tale, written in 1870, foretells with<br />
uncanny accuracy the inventions and advanced<br />
technology of the 20th century.<br />
A devastating explosion on Captain Nemo’s submarine<br />
leaves just three survivors. They become<br />
prisoners on an underwater odyssey around the<br />
world as Captain Nemo, one of the greatest villains<br />
ever created, takes his revenge on all society.<br />
Praise for 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA:<br />
“Jules Verne’s classic offers a perfect blend of suspense,<br />
adventure, and excitement that will entice even the most reluctant<br />
readers.”<strong>—</strong>School Library Journal<br />
10 CDs • 978-0-3077-4795-2 • $30.00 • On-Sale: Aug.<br />
Interest Level: Grades 5-12 • approx. 12 hrs.<br />
See page 44 for more Jules Verne titles<br />
FALL <strong>2011</strong> NEW RELEASES <strong>—</strong> YOUNG ADULT<br />
Exclusive Audiobook<br />
Cover Art by Carson Ellis<br />
JULIET IMMORTAL<br />
by Stacey Jay; read by Justine Eyre<br />
Fans of Shiver will relish this paranormal love<br />
story featuring literary history’s most tragic<br />
couple who meet again as enemies.<br />
Juliet was murdered by the person she trusted<br />
most, Romeo, a sacrifice made to ensure his own<br />
immortality. For 700 years, Romeo fights to<br />
destroy love for the dark side while Juliet fights to<br />
keep true love alive. Then she meets someone she’s<br />
forbidden to love, and Romeo will do everything in<br />
his power to destroy that love.<br />
Advance Praise for JULIET IMMORTAL:<br />
“Haunting and devastatingly romantic, JULIET IMMORTAL gives new<br />
meaning to the words ‘til death do us part.’”<br />
<strong>—</strong>Michelle Zink, author of the Prophecy of the Sisters series.<br />
8 CDs • 978-0-3079-4261-6 • $40.00 • On Sale: Sept.<br />
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Interest Level: Grades 9-12 • approx. 9 hrs. 30 mins.<br />
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SCRAWL<br />
by Mark Shulman; reader tba<br />
This highly acclaimed debut novel offers a<br />
fresh take on a troubling issue<strong>—</strong>bullying.<br />
Tod is a bully. When he gets busted at school<br />
Tod’s punishment is to scrawl his story in a notebook<br />
during detention with Mrs. Woodrow. He<br />
can be painfully funny and brutally honest. But can<br />
Mrs. Woodrow help Tod stop playing the bad guy<br />
before he actually turns into one for real?<br />
Praise for SCRAWL:<br />
“Tod rips jokes so dry they can float away and<br />
shows some real heart dealing with his less-thandesirable<br />
lot in life…An unusual sort of bully redemption story.”<strong>—</strong>Booklist<br />
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“There’s something special about this book…it’s all put together so pleasingly,<br />
with punch and wit and smarts, and in such a way that the events and characters<br />
stay with you.”<strong>—</strong>Publishers Weekly<br />
6 CDs • 978-0-3079-4241-8 • $50.00 • On Sale: Sept.<br />
Interest Level: Grades 7-12 • approx. 6 hrs. 30 mins.<br />
ROTTERS<br />
by Daniel Kraus; read by Kirby Heyborne<br />
Masterful plotting and unforgettable characters<br />
make ROTTERS a moving, coming-of-age epic<br />
about complex family ties and taboos.<br />
When Joey’s mother dies in an accident he’s sent<br />
to Iowa to live with a father he’s never known, a<br />
solitary man with unimaginable secrets. At first,<br />
Joey’s father wants nothing to do with him, but<br />
once they come to terms with each other Joey’s life<br />
takes a turn both macabre and exhilarating.<br />
Advance Praise for ROTTERS:<br />
“A strongly written tale of adolescence, grave robbing,<br />
and the mysteries of death, ROTTERS is uncompromising, dark, and<br />
true.”<strong>—</strong>Guillermo Del Toro, producer of Pan’s Labyrinth<br />
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★“With a…masterly touch at thriller pacing, Kraus gives the current crop of<br />
pretentiously serious supernatural YA novels a wild run for their money.”<br />
<strong>—</strong>BCCB, starred review<br />
13 CDs • 978-0-3079-4182-4 • $65.00 • On Sale: Sept.<br />
Interest Level: Grades 9-12 • 16 hrs. 18 mins.<br />
GIRLS DON’T FLY<br />
by Kristen Chandler; reader tba<br />
An emotionally rich novel about girls, boys,<br />
birds, and figuring out what you want.<br />
Myra is babysitter, cook, and maid for her four<br />
<strong>young</strong>er brothers. When her boyfriend dumps her,<br />
Myra feels lost until she applies to study in the<br />
Galapagos Islands. Going away seems like the perfect<br />
plan, but when her ex shows a renewed interest<br />
in her, Myra’s not sure whom to trust or which way<br />
to run.<br />
Advance Praise for GIRLS DON’T FLY:<br />
“Beautifully written and thought-provoking, this<br />
well-rounded novel will appeal to girls, some boys, and conservationists of all<br />
stripes.”<strong>—</strong>School Library Journal<br />
6 CDs • 978-0-3079-4250-0 • $34.00 • On Sale: Oct.<br />
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Interest Level: Grades 7-12 • approx. 7 hrs.<br />
THE SCARLET LETTER<br />
by Nathaniel Hawthorne<br />
read by Donada Peters<br />
NEW<br />
COVER!<br />
A masterful portrayal of humanity’s continuing<br />
struggle with sin, guilt, and pride.<br />
This classic novel shows the consequences that a<br />
single act of adultery has on the lives of three people<br />
in an early New England colony: the defiant<br />
Hester Prynn; her guilt-ravaged lover Reverend<br />
REDUCED<br />
PRICE!<br />
Dimmesdale; and the obsessed Chillingworth,<br />
CD<br />
Hester’s husband<strong>—</strong>who, once presumed dead, now returns to exact revenge.<br />
Hailed by Henry James as “The finest piece of imaginative writing yet<br />
put forth in the country.”<br />
6 CDs • 978-0-7366-5132-5 • $48.00 • On Sale: May<br />
Interest Level: Grades 7-12 • 6 hrs. 56 mins.<br />
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