Creator: Jason Ho
Edition: Cdr
Publication date: 2008-07
List Price: $54.14
Price: $37.22
Review Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Graphic Horror) / Graphic Planet:
Creator: Shelly Frasier
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2008-08-01
List Price: $55.99
Price: $37.41
Review Anne of Avonlea / Tantor Media:This first sequel to Anne of Green Gables has our heroine beginning her new role as a full-fledged schoolma'am. Join Anne and her friends as they encounter accidents and adventures, scandal and romance, and at last, a wedding.
Creator: Tim Curry
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-10-14
List Price: $60.00
Price: $37.16
Review Sabriel (Abhorsen Trilogy) / Listening Library (Audio):Since childhood, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the random power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who refuse to stay dead. But now her father, the Charter-Mage Abhorsen, is missing, and to find him Sabriel must cross back into that world. With Mogget, whose feline form hides a powerful, perhaps malevolent spirit, and Touchstone, a young Charter Mage, Sabriel travels deep into the Old Kingdom. There, she confronts an evil that threatens much more than her life - and comes face-to-face with her own hidden destiny. After receiving a cryptic message from her father, Abhorsen, a necromancer trapped in Death, 18-year-old Sabriel sets off into the Old Kingdom. Fraught with peril and deadly trickery, her journey takes her to a world filled with parasitical spirits, Mordicants, and Shadow Hands. Unlike other necromancers, who raise the dead, Abhorsen lays the disturbed dead back to rest. This obliges him-and now Sabriel, who has taken on her father's title and duties-to slip over the border into the icy river of Death, sometimes battling the evil forces that lurk there, waiting for an opportunity to escape into the realm of the living. Desperate to find her father, and grimly determined to help save the Old Kingdom from destruction by the horrible forces of the evil undead, Sabriel endures almost impossible exhaustion, violent confrontations, and terrifying challenges to her supernatural abilities-and her destiny. Garth Nix delves deep into the mystical underworld of necromancy, magic, and the monstrous undead. [+]This tale is not for the faint of heart; imbedded in the classic good-versus-evil story line are subplots of grisly ghouls hungry for human life to perpetuate their stay in the world of the living, and dark, devastating secrets of betrayal and loss. Just try to put this book down. For more along this line, try Nix's later novel: Shade's Children. (Ages 12 and older) -Emilie Coulter.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-05-26
List Price: $60.00
Price: $37.80
Review Oracles of Delphi Keep / Listening Library (Audio):
Authors
- Sally K.
- Billingsley
- Tchaikovsky
- Peter Ilyich
- Albrecht
- Alan
Dewey code: 782
List Price: $54.95
Price: $37.77
Review The Nutcracker Suite (A Mini-Musical based on Tchaikovsky's Famous Ballet) / Alfred Publishing:Study a classic this holiday season! Multiple narrators (speaking in rhyming verse) tell the story of little Clara's dreamlike Christmas adventure to the Nutcracker's magical land. Whether performed in concert program style or with full staging, teachers will take ""suite"" delight in teaching Tchaikovsky's original music in simple vocal arrangements with clever, plot-progressing lyrics. A true holiday tradition brought to life to share with your students and audiences alike. * Recommended for grades 2-6. * Performance time: approximately 20 minutes. * Reproducible Student Pages and Staging Notes included.
Publication date: 2004-01
Dewey code: 440
Price: $14.95
Review French: Learn in Your Car for Kids ; Activity Kit (Learn in Your Car for Kids) / Penton Overseas:Includes activity book, stickers, 70-minute audio CD, erasable non-toxic marker. Ages 7 to 12 years.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-01
List Price: $39.95
Price: $37.54
Review Make Way for Ducklings / Live Oak Media:Mr. and Mrs. Mallard search throughout the busy city of Boston for the perfect place to raise their ducklings. It's not easy for duck parents to find a safe place to bring up their ducklings, but during a rest stop in Boston's Public Garden, Mr. and Mrs. Mallard think they just might have found the perfect spot-no foxes or turtles in sight, plenty of peanuts from pleasant passers-by, and the benevolent instincts of a kindly police officer to boot. Young readers will love the mother duck's proud, loving protection of her wee webbed ones, and those with fond memories of Boston will enjoy familiar locales, from Beacon Hill to Louisburg Square, and over the Charles River-often from a duck's-eye view. Robert McCloskey, creator of Blueberries for Sal, never fails to elicit happy story-time giggles from youngsters, and his soft, brown-toned, Caldecott-winning illustrations make this gentle world come alive. (Ages 3 to 8) -Karin Snelson.
Creator: Jim Dale
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-08-30
List Price: $87.25
Price: $56.64
Review Peter and the Starcatchers / Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed:In an evocative and fast-paced adventure on the high seas and on a faraway island an orphan boy named Peter and his mysterious new friend, Molly, overcome bands of pirates and thieves in their quest to keep a fantastical secret safe and save the world from evil. Bestselling authors Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson have turned back the clock and revealed a wonderful story that precedes J. M. Barrie’s beloved Peter Pan. Peter and the Starcatchers is brimming with richly developed characters from the scary but somehow familiar Black Stache and the ferocious Mister Grin to the sweet but sophisticated Molly and the fearless Peter. Riveting adventure takes listeners on a journey from a harsh orphanage in old England to a treacherous sea in a decrepit old tub. Aboard the Never Land is a trunk that holds a magical substance with the power to change the fate of the world - just a sprinkle and wounds heal and just a dusting and people can fly. Towering seas and a violent storm are the backdrop for battles at sea. Bone-crushing waves eventually land our characters on Mollusk Island - where the action really heats up. Humorist Dave Barry and suspense writer Ridley Pearson have clearly taken great delight in writing a 400-plus page prequel of sorts to Scottish dramatist J. [+]M. Barrie's beloved Peter Pan stories. The result is a fast-paced and fluffy pirate adventure, complete with talking porpoises, stinky rogues, possible cannibals, a flying crocodile, biting mermaids, and a much-sought-after trunk full of magical glowing green "starstuff. " Ever hear of Zeus? Michelangelo? Attila the Hun? According to 14-year-old Molly Aster they all derived their powers from starstuff that occasionally falls to Earth from the heavens. On Earth, it is the Starcatchers' job to rush to the scene and collect the starstuff before it falls into the hands of the Others who use its myriad powers for evil. On board the ship Never Land, an orange-haired boy named Peter, the leader of a group of orphaned boys being sent off to work as servants in King Zarboff the Third's court, is puzzled by his shipmate Molly's fantastical story of starstuff, but it inextricably binds him to her. Peter vows to help his new, very pretty friend Molly (a Starcatcher's apprentice) keep a mysterious trunk full of the stuff out of the clutches of the pirate Black Stache, a host of other interested parties, and ultimately King Zarboff the Third. The downright goofy, modern 8-year-old boy humor sometimes clashes with an old-time pirate sensibility, and the rapid-fire dialogue, while well paced, is far from inventive. Still, the high-seas hijinks and desert-island shenanigans will keep readers turning the pages. Greg Call's wonderful black-and-white illustrations are deliciously old-fashioned and add plenty of atmosphere to a silly, swashbuckling story that shows us how Peter Pan came to fly and why he, and his story, will never get old. (Ages 9 and older) -Karin Snelson.
Creator: Rod Espinosa
Edition: Cdr
Publication date: 2008-07
List Price: $54.14
Price: $39.52
Review Around the World in 80 Days (Graphic Classics) / Graphic Planet:
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Creator: Cynthia Bishop
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-11-01
List Price: $55.00
Price: $37.09
Review Enna Burning [Library] / Full Cast Audio:
Creator: Nathaniel Parker
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-01
Price: $50.00
Review Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (Artemis Fowl) / Listening Library:
Creator: Tamora Pierce
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-10-01
List Price: $55.00
Price: $37.08
Review Emperor Mage [Library]: The Immortals: Book 3 (The Immortals) (The Immortals) / Full Cast Audio:Daine accompanies a Tortallan delegation to the court of Ozorne in the third volume of Pierce’s phenomenally popular Immortals Quartet. But as she enters a glittering world laced with danger and treachery, the danger grows even more intense when the gods themselves push her to use her wild magic for their own ends.
Authors
- Susan Rivers
- Setsuko Toyama
Price: $37.15
Review English Time: Level 2 / Oxford University Press:A six-level communicative course packed with pictures, music, and activities.
Creator: Ian Whitcomb
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2005-01-01
List Price: $66.00
Price: $37.29
Review The Princess and the Goblin (Library Edition) / Tantor Media:Young Princess Irene's belief in her great-grandmother's powers becomes essential as she and the miner Curdie work to foil the sinister Goblin plot against the king and his palace.
Creator: Renee Raudman
Edition: Library ed.
Publication date: 2005-12-07
List Price: $59.99
Price: $37.71
Review The Railway Children (Unabridged Classics in Audio) / Tantor Media:In this classic story, first published in 1906, a false accusation places the father in jail, leaving his wife and three children on their own. Circumstances force mother and the children to leave their ideal life in London to live near a train station in a rustic cottage. As the good natured children work to rescue their father they befriend and help others along the way.
Publication date: 2009-05-01
List Price: $49.95
Price: $36.62
Review News For Dogs - Audio Library Edition / Scholastic Audio Books:Now that Andi is no longer running a hotel for dogs, she decides to start a new project - a newspaper for dogs! With her brother Bruce and a few friends, the kids make a hit out of their paper. But they also attract the attention of some mysterious dognappers. Can the kids find the criminals and bring their dogs safely home?.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-01-01
Dewey code: 813
List Price: $37.00
Price: $36.98
Review Song of the Wanderer (The Unicorn Chronicles, Book 2) / Full Cast Audio:Luster, the world where the unicorns fled to escape the Hunters who have sworn to wipe them out, has dangers of its own—as Cara discovers when she attempts to cross that world in a desperate effort to rescue her grandmother. Each stage of Cara’s journey brings new peril, wondrous new characters, and new clues to the mystery of her grandmother’s past. And through it all threads the haunting melody of the “Song of the Wanderer”, heard on this tape for the first time. From the enchanting flute notes that introduce the story to its stunning conclusion, listeners will find themselves, like Cara, drawn heart and soul into the wonder of Luster. Prolific children's book author Bruce Coville has delivered a down-to-earth unicorn tale, if such a thing is possible. Song of the Wanderer, the second book in The Unicorn Chronicles, delivers a neat follow-up to Into the Land of the Unicorns, unraveling mysteries and handily reweaving new ones just as fast. The world of the unicorns, Luster, is carefully and cohesively imagined, with myths and rules and prejudices that seem logical and organic. Readers will thrill to the story of Cara, an earth girl who becomes both ward and savior of the unicorns. She must travel through Luster-a world replete with all manner of secret caves and rainbow prisons and talking seashells-back to earth to try to find her grandmother, the Wanderer. The episodic structure of the book is satisfying; Coville delivers all the de rigueur scenes, including a makeover, wherein a Geomancer provides Cara with clothing appropriate to her journey: "To finish the outfit, she strapped a short sword to Cara's side. [+]'May you never have to use it,' whispered the Geomancer. " (The rest of us hope otherwise. ) Coville hurries his heroine past some flat characterizations through clever, well-thought-out plot points. And he leaves his ending compellingly open, as befits a series: Luster resounds with rumors of "the possibility of a fierce, final battle that would decide the ancient struggle between the unicorns and the Hunters once and for all. " Stay tuned, unicorn lovers. -Claire Dederer.
Publication date: 2000
Price: $37.02
Review Cinderella - So This Is Christmas (C'est ca Noel) Bi Lingual Read Along Audio CD w/48 Page Booklet (Disney's Read Along) / Disney:Cinderella - So This Is Christmas (C'est ca Noel) Bi Lingual Read Along Audio CD w/48 Page Booklet (Disney's Read Along)
Publication date: 2004-03-15
List Price: $20.65
Price: $37.83
Review Children's Favourite Party Songs Travel Pack / Abbey Home Media:
Creator: Anton Lesser
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-09-09
List Price: $60.00
Price: $37.47
Review A Sally Lockhart Mystery: The Tiger in the Well / Listening Library (Audio):A stranger is watching. It’s 1881, and life has been good to Sally Lockhart. Unlike most Victorian women, Sally is completely independent, with her own successful business and a comfortable home for her young daughter, Harriet. But Sally’s whole world is about to collapse. A stranger emerges, claiming to be both her husband and Harriet’s father and threatening all that she has–her business, her child, her very sanity. Sally realizes with growing horror that there is a guiding hand behind this deceit: someone who hates her so passionately that he has devoted years to bringing about her ruin. And there’s only one man that could possibly be. [+]From the award-winning author of His Dark Materials comes a richly layered adventure of suspicion and intrigue–and the third acclaimed Sally Lockhart mystery.
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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Graphic Horror), Anne of Avonlea, Sabriel (Abhorsen Trilogy), Oracles of Delphi Keep, The Nutcracker Suite (A Mini-Musical based on Tchaikovsky's Famous Ballet), French: Learn in Your Car for Kids ; Activity Kit (Learn in Your Car for Kids), Make Way for Ducklings, Peter and the Starcatchers, Around the World in 80 Days (Graphic Classics), Enna Burning [Library], Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code (Artemis Fowl), Emperor Mage [Library]: The Immortals: Book 3 (The Immortals) (The Immortals), English Time: Level 2, The Princess and the Goblin (Library Edition), The Railway Children (Unabridged Classics in Audio), News For Dogs - Audio Library Edition, Song of the Wanderer (The Unicorn Chronicles, Book 2), Cinderella - So This Is Christmas (C'est ca Noel) Bi Lingual Read Along Audio CD w/48 Page Booklet (Disney's Read Along), Children's Favourite Party Songs Travel Pack, A Sally Lockhart Mystery: The Tiger in the WellTop headlines: 4 in hot water over 'Joe the Plumber' searches: Two more senior managers at the Ohio agency where computers were used to dig up information about "Joe the Plumber" have been suspended for their roles in the searches, an official said Friday. ›10:24 Ansen on Lars and the Real Girl: Its not smutty, its not snide, its not creepybut what is it? ›16:02 12 Oct, Fri Ambush! 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