Anita L. Burkam
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Review of The Lost Coast audiobook
The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta; read by Sophie Amoss and Brittany Pressley High School Listening Library Rev. 7/19 7 CDs 8.78 hrs. 978-0-5931-0356-2 $60.00 When Danny moves to Tempest, California, she falls in with a group of witches, the Grays, who need her to help bring back fellow...
Review of The Line Tender audiobook
The Line Tender by Kate Allen; read by Jenna Lamia Intermediate, Middle School Listening Library Rev. 3/19 6 CDs 7.37 hrs. 978-1-9848-4546-7 $50.00 Lucy’s mother, a renowned shark expert, died when Lucy was seven. Now another death shakes Lucy’s world, and she must make sense of this new grief as...
Review of The Whispers audiobook
The Whispers by Greg Howard; read by Kivlighan de Montebello and Robin Miles Intermediate, Middle School Listening Library Rev. 1/19 5 CDs 5.77 hrs. 978-1-9848-3840-7 $45.00 With his mom missing, Riley depends on the Whispers — fairylike beings with the ability to grant wishes, taken from a bedtime story his...
Review of Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 audiobook
Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918by Albert Marrin; read by Jim FrangioneMiddle School, High School Listening Library Rev. 3/185 CDs 5.75 hrs. 978-1-525-52609-4 $45.00Marrin’s account of the flu pandemic that killed millions of people during World War I, plus modern-day efforts to identify that strain and prevent...
Review of The Penderwicks at Last audiobook
The Penderwicks at Lastby Jeanne Birdsall; read by Susan DenakerIntermediate Listening Library Rev. 7/187 CDs 8.37 hrs. 978-0-525-59559-5 $55.00This closing volume in the beloved Penderwick series, featuring two sisters’ marriages and one’s heartbreak, is told from the point of view of eleven-year-old Lydia, the youngest Penderwick half-sister. Denaker...
Review of Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monsterby Jonathan AuxierIntermediate Amulet/Abrams 358 pp.9/18 978-1-4197-3140-2 $18.99As a “climbing girl” in Victorian London, forced up into dangerous, narrow chimneys to sweep out the soot for her abusive master, Wilkie Crudd, Nan Sparrow leads a miserable life. But she has precious memories...
Review of Give the Dark My Love
Give the Dark My Loveby Beth RevisMiddle School, High School Razorbill/Penguin 451 pp. g9/18 978-1-595-14717-2 $17.99When Nedra leaves home for Yûgen Academy to study medical alchemy, she’s most focused on curing the Wasting Death, a plague that begins with blackened necrotic extremities, only sometimes responding to the amputation of the...
Review of As You Wish audiobook
As You Wishby Chelsea Sedoti; read by Brian HutchisonHigh School Recorded Books Rev. 1/188 CDs 9.75 hrs. 978-1-5019-7224-9 $24.49In a Nevada desert town where everyone gets a wish on his or her eighteenth birthday (and it comes true), seventeen-year-old Eldon doesn’t know what to choose. What’s more, he’s convinced that...
Review of Votes for Women: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot audiobook
Votes for Women: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballotby Winifred Conkling; read by Christina MooreMiddle School, High School Recorded Books Rev. 3/186 CDs 7.25 hrs. 978-1-5019-7193-8 $20.99Narrator Moore has a deep, resonant alto with a no-nonsense quality that perfectly embodies the resolve of America’s first feminists. When quoting...