Imprint: Listening Library (Audio)
Grades: 7-8
Release Date: July 22, 2014
5 Hours and 30 Minutes
”Fans of Beverly Cleary’s Quimbys, Judy Blume’s Hatchers, and, more recently, Jeanne Birdsall’s Penderwicks will fervently hope that more Fletcher misadventures are yet to come.” —School Library Journal, Starred
The start of the school year is not going as the Fletcher brothers hoped. Each boy finds his plans for success veering off in unexpected and sometimes diastrous directions. And at home, their miserable new neighbor complains about everything. As the year continues, the boys learn the hard and often hilarious lesson that sometimes what you least expect is what you come to care about the most.
Imprint: Listening Library (Audio)
Grades: 7-8
Release Date: June 02, 2015
6 Hours and 30 Minutes
Fans of Big Fish, Peter Pan, and Roald Dahl will fall in love with Circus Mirandus, which celebrates the power of seeing magic in the world.
Do you believe in magic?
Micah Tuttle does.Even though his awful Great-Aunt Gertrudis doesn’t approve, Micah believes in the stories his dying Grandpa Ephraim tells him of the magical Circus Mirandus: the invisible tiger guarding the gates, the beautiful flying birdwoman, and the magician more powerful than any other—the Man Who Bends Light. Finally, Grandpa Ephraim offers proof. The Circus is real. And the Lightbender owes Ephraim a miracle. With his friend Jenny Mendoza in tow, Micah sets out to find the Circus and the man he believes will save his grandfather.
The only problem is, the Lightbender doesn’t want to keep his promise. And now it’s up to Micah to get the miracle he came for.
Imprint: Listening Library (Audio)
Grades: 7-8
Release Date: June 30, 2015
5 Hours
Introducing The Enchanted Files! Told in diary entries and other “documents,” this magical, modern-day new comedy series by the master of funny fantasy, Bruce Coville is filled with laugh-out-loud humor and heart.
In the first hilarious Enchanted Files, Angus is a brownie. No, not the kind you eat! He’s a tiny magical creature that loves to do chores. Angus has just “inherited” a new human girl, Alex. To say that Alex is messy would be an understatement. She’s a total hurricane-like disaster—and she likes it that way, thankyouverymuch! Living with each other isn’t easy but Angus and Alex soon learn there is a curse that binds them. What’s worse, it threatens Alex’s family! Working together, Angus and Alex will set out to break the curse . . . without killing each other first . . . hopefully.
Imprint: Listening Library (Audio)
Grades: 7-8
Release Date: May 05, 2015
3 Hours and 30 Minutes
The New York Times bestselling author of I Am A Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class Presidentreinvents the Excalibur legend—with rats!
When Joey is bitten by an elderly rat, he goes from aspiring seventh-grader to three-inch tall rodent.
At first, Joey is amazed by his new rat self. The city streets call to him at night. Smells that would have repelled him before are suddenly tantalizing. (A chicken bone? Yes! A squashed cockroach? Like perfume!) And wow, the freedom! But when a bout of hunger leads Joey to pull the spork from the scone, he finds himself at the center of a longtime rat prophecy.
Joey has unwittingly unlocked the sword Ratscalibur; and now, it is up to him to protect his new rat friends from the evil crows who seek to destroy their peaceful kingdom. But what does an eleven-year-old know about actual swordplay? And what happens when Joey no longer wants to be a rat?
Imprint: Listening Library (Audio)
Grades: 4-6
Release Date: June 02, 2015
4 Hours
A funny fantasy-adventure series for fans of LEMONY SNICKET, NEIL GAIMAN, and ADAM GIDWITZ
Have you ever picked your nose? Have you ever picked your nose and EATEN IT? Have you ever picked your nose, eaten it, and, by doing so, opened a portal to a world run by PIRATES?
Mabel Jones has.
Kidnapped, Mabel is forced to serve aboard The Feroshus Maggot with the strangest crew you’ll ever meet. And the captain—an odious wolf named Idryss Ebenezer Split—won’t let her go until she helps the pirates uncover the treasure they seek.
Mabel’s voyage takes her across the Greasy Pole of Certain Death, into the belly of a whale, and underground to a decrepit crypt. And she does it all…in pajamas!
Read on if you dare. You are promised a most unlikely adventure.
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Sadly, due to limited funds, we don’t get to take a real family vacation. We DO have to take several small road trips to see doctors, though. We live in a very rural area and specialists are about 5 hours away. We travel to see specialists about once every month or two, so we’re in the car for a 10 hour round trip several times a year. Audio books appropriate for middle school or junior high children would be a life saver on this trips.
Thanks for this great giveaway.
Nope. No road trips planned. I hope to change that though.
don’t think so
We always go on road trips in the summer. I look forward to it every year.
Several. All close to home. Arches National Park. Utah Shakespeare Festival. Yellowstone.Hoping for more.
I’ve already been on quite a few roadtrips this summer, though I’d like to have one more before September rolls around!
We took a road trip to Nashville earlier this summer and are headed to Michigan next weekend.
I’m taking a short weekend one to see family.
We took 2 long road trips already to Ithaca NY, but I’d love to listen to these!
Yes. We are heading down the shore.