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Audie Award For Middle Grade Title
The Audie Award for Middle Grade Title is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association The Audio Publishers Association (APA) is the first and only not-for-profit trade organization of the audiobook industry in the United States. Its mission is to "advocate the common, collective business interests of audio publishers." Membership is ... (APA). It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for a middle-grade audiobook intended for children ages 8 to 12 released in a given year. From 2009 to 2015 it was given as the Audie Award for Children's Title for Ages Eight to Twelve, in 2009 it was given as the Audie Award for Children's Title for Ages Eight to Eleven, from 2001 to 2009 it was given as the more expansive Audie Award for Children's Title for Ages Eight and Up, and before 2001 it was given as the more expansive Audie Award for Children's Title. It has been awarded since 1996. Winners and finalists 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audie Awards
The Audie Awards (, rhymes with "gaudy"; abbreviated from ''audiobook''), or simply the Audies, are awards for achievement in spoken word, particularly audiobook narration and audiodrama performance, published in the United States of America. They are presented by the Audio Publishers Association (APA) annually in March. The Audies are commonly likened to the Academy Awards for their public recognition of merit in the audio industry. In order to win, works must be submitted for nomination. A panel of judges considers candidates based on consumer acceptance, sales performance, and marketing, and winners and finalists are chosen based on narration, production quality, and source content; formerly packaging was also evaluated. Awards Twenty-five Audies are currently awarded by the Audio Publishers' Association. The APA presently categorizes the awards as follows: ;Audiobook of the Year * Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year ;Narration * Audie Award for Audio Drama * Audie Award f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter And The Starcatchers
''Peter and the Starcatchers'' is a children's novel that was published by Hyperion Books, a subsidiary of Disney, in 2004. Written by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, and illustrated by Greg Call, the book is a reinterpretation of the character Peter Pan, who first appeared in J. M. Barrie's novel ''Peter and Wendy''. The book is followed by four sequels: ''Peter and the Shadow Thieves'' (2006), ''Peter and the Secret of Rundoon'' (2007), '' Peter and the Sword of Mercy'' (2009), and '' The Bridge to Neverland'' (2011). A series of Never Land chapter books for younger readers is based on the novels. Plot summary In 19th century London, orphaned boys Peter, James, Thomas, Prentiss, and Tubby Ted are shipped out on the decrepit ship ''Never Land''. While searching for food, Peter encounters a mysterious trunk and its guardian, Molly Aster, a girl about his age. Meanwhile, the feared pirate Black Stache hears of a similar trunk containing a great treasure on board another ship, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nation (novel)
''Nation'' is a novel by Terry Pratchett, published in the UK on 11 September 2008 and in the US on 6 October 2009. It was the first non-Discworld Pratchett novel since ''Johnny and the Bomb'' (1996). ''Nation'' is a low fantasy set in an alternative history of our world in the 1860s. The book received recognition as a Michael L. Printz Honor Book for 2009. Development Pratchett took his editors by surprise by writing it before the previously scheduled Tiffany Aching conclusion. He has said "I want to write this one so much I can taste it", and that he's been ready to do it for four years. Pratchett said in February 2007, "At the moment I'm just writing. If it needs to be Discworld it will be Discworld. It could be set in this world 150 years ago while still more or less being a fantasy. The codename for it is Nation." Synopsis Context Written loosely in a third-person perspective, the novel is set in an alternative history of our world, shortly after Charles Darwin has pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairest (novel)
''Fairest'' is a 2006 novel by Gail Carson Levine. It uses some plot elements of the classic ''Snow White'' and is set in the same world as ''Ella Enchanted''. The kingdom of Ayortha, the setting of the story, is the neighboring kingdom of Kyrria, where ''Ella Enchanted'' was set and the story makes several allusions to the previous work. Synopsis Aza, the adopted daughter of innkeepers in Ayortha, has always hated her appearance. Her prodigious size and her odd coloring – milk-white skin, dragon tongue lips, and hair that seems to be frying-pan black – are greatly at variance with the land's standards of beauty and often make her the target of stares and rude comments. However, Aza's voice garners as much attention as her looks, for Ayortha is a land of song, and Aza is an amazing singer. Besides being skilled at singing, Aza can also flawlessly mimic people and throw her voice without moving her mouth, a form of ventriloquism she calls "illusing". Still, Aza is flattered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skulduggery Pleasant (novel)
''Skulduggery Pleasant '' (also known as ''Skulduggery Pleasant: Scepter of the Ancients'', or simply ''The Scepter of the Ancients'') is the debut novel of Irish playwright Derek Landy, published on 2 April 2007. It is the first of the ''Skulduggery Pleasant'' novels. The novel crosses the horror, comedy, mystery, and fantasy genres. The story follows the characters Skulduggery Pleasant — a skeleton, sorcerer and detective — and his partner Stephanie Edgley, who also goes by Valkyrie Cain. They and their numerous magic-wielding allies try to prevent the necromancer Nefarian Serpine from unleashing a powerful weapon called The Sceptre of Ancients. The book was re-titled ''Sceptre Of The Ancients'' for the 2009 paperback release in the US and Canada. HarperCollins Audio also publishes the unabridged CD sets of the books read by Rupert Degas. It won the Red House Children's Book Award and the Hampshire Book Award in 2008. Warner Bros. considered creating a live-action film b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosa (children's Book)
''Rosa'' is a children's picture book written by poet, activist, and educator Nikki Giovanni and illustrated by Bryan Collier. A biography of African-American civil rights activist Rosa Parks, it was adapted to film in 2007 by Weston Woods Studios, Inc., narrated by the author. Giovanni was the first recipient of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Rosa L. Parks Woman of Courage Award and knew Parks personally through their involvement in civil rights activism. ''Rosa'' was published in October 2005, as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks' historic arrest and the Montgomery bus boycott. Parks died of natural causes later that month at the age of 92. Awards ''Rosa'' won the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustrators and was a Caldecott Honor Book The Randolph Caldecott Medal, frequently shortened to just the Caldecott, annually recognizes the preceding year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". It is awarded to the illustrator by the Ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Weeks With The Queen
''Two Weeks with the Queen'' is a 1990 novel by Australian author Morris Gleitzman. It focuses on a boy named Colin Mudford, who is sent to live with relatives in England, while his brother is being treated for cancer. Plot summary Colin Mudford, a 12 year old Australian, is sent to stay with his uncle Bob, aunt Iris and cousin Alistair in London while his brother, Luke, is being treated for cancer. In England, Colin, wanting to ask the Queen for good doctors, attempts to break into Buckingham Palace with Alistair, only for them both to get caught by the police. After an unsuccessful attempt to sneak into the best cancer hospital in London, Colin meets a Welshman named Ted, whose friend Griff also has cancer. Ted introduces Colin to one of England's leading cancer experts, who then contacts Luke's doctors in Sydney and confirms that the cancer which Luke has is terminal. Colin then attempts revenge on the doctors by slashing the tires on their cars, including Mercedes, BMW ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jumping The Scratch
''Jumping the Scratch'' is a novel by Sarah Weeks written for young adults. It was first published in 2006. Plot summary Eleven-year-old Jamie Reardon’s cat dies and his father leaves home; and his aunt Sapphy has an accident at work that causes her memory to skip. Jamie is teased at school and, on the other hand, has a memory he'd give anything to be able to forget. He is performing badly at school and has Miss Miller, an unsympathetic teacher. A visiting author, or as Jamie hears the name - 'Arthur', recognises that the boy is troubled, but the two do not have a chance to really communicate. Jamie has to sort out his problems himself. He tries to find the magic trigger that will help Sapphy's memory jump the scratch, like the needle on a record, but in the end it's Audrey Krouch, a neighborhood girl who hypnotises him. Under hypnosis, when he is hoping to learn how to forget, Jamie recalls being molested by Old Gray, a paedophile caretaker at the trailer park where he li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Behind The Curtain
''Behind the Curtain'' is the second book in the Echo Falls mystery series by best-selling crime novelist Peter Abrahams. Plot summary Ingrid lives in a small community called Echo Falls. She's in the school soccer team and is in the drama club. Everything is normal until one day she sees what her dad has been looking at on his computer. On the Jobs.com site. He suddenly starts getting temperamental. Throughout the next few days, Ingrid notices other weird things occurring like her brother starts getting more buff but has strange pimples on his back, and her soccer coach getting switched with another very odd coach, Julia LeCaine. Ingrid starts to try to find out what is happening and in the midst of it, on a random day when she is outside going to the MathFest, she gets kidnapped. She finds herself in the trunk of a car and escapes. But she doesn’t know who tried to kidnap her and if they would try again. Throughout the book Ingrid has to face many mysterious and scary situat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listening For Lions
''Listening for Lions'' is a children's novel by Gloria Whelan, first published in 2005. Set in 1919, it concerns an orphaned girl who becomes involved in an inheritance swindle. Plot summary Rachel Sheridan is the only child of British missionaries working among the Kikuyu and Masai tribes of British East Africa (present-day Kenya). Her father is a doctor and her mother is a teacher. Life goes haywire as an influenza epidemic strikes when Rachel is 13, in 1919. Many die from the sickness, including her mother and father. The Pritchards, arrogant and extremely rich people who live nearby, bring their daughter Valerie to the hospital, but it is too late to save her. After Rachel's father dies, it appears the hospital will be closed, and she is taken in by the Pritchards. They persuade the reluctant Rachel to impersonate their daughter, sending her in Valerie's place to visit her dying grandfather in England, on the pretext that it will save his life. Rachel considers telling p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Once (novel)
''Once'' is a 2005 children's novel by Australian author Morris Gleitzman. It is about a Jewish boy named Felix who lived in Poland and is on a quest to find his book-keeper parents after he sees Nazis burning the books from a Catholic orphanage in which had stayed at for 3 years and 8 months. He finds a girl, who is unconscious, called Zelda in a burning house with her dead parents—he takes her with him and protects her from confronting her parents' death by telling her stories. Although ''Once'' is a work of fiction, Gleitzman was inspired by the story of Janusz Korczak, the events of World War II, and Hitler's attempt to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe. ''Once'' was translated into German (') and was nominated for the 2010 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis; it won the 2011 . The sequels to the book are ''Then'' (2009), ''Now'' (2010), ''After'' (2012), ''Soon'' (2015) ''Maybe'' (2017), and ''Always'' (2021). In chronological order of Felix's life, the books are '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the sixth and penultimate novel in the ''Harry Potter'' series. Set during Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts, the novel explores the past of the boy wizard's nemesis, Lord Voldemort, and Harry's preparations for the final battle against Voldemort alongside his headmaster and mentor Albus Dumbledore. The book was published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury and in the United States by Scholastic on 16 July 2005, as well as in several other countries. It sold nine million copies in the first 24 hours after its release, a record that was eventually broken by its sequel, ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows''. There were many controversies before and after it was published, including the right to read copies delivered before the release date in Canada. Reception to the novel was generally positive, and it won several awards and honours, including the 2006 British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
