In 2011, our Teen Services Librarian, Gretchen Kolderup, served on the Amazing Audiobooks committee for the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). Through serving on this committee, Gretchen was given over 300 children and teen audiobooks to review and recommend. And, now, through her generoristy she has donated over 30 audiobooks to the Children's Room!
Some new titles include:
I, Emma Freke
written by Elizabeth Atkinson
narrated by Ali Ahn
5 compact discs/5.25 hrs
Growing up near Boston with her free-spirited mother and old-world grandfather, twelve-year-old Emma has always felt out of place, but when she attends the family reunion her father's family holds annually in Wisconsin, she is in for some surprises.
The Wings of Merlin
written by T.A. Barron
narrated by Kevin Isola
9 compact discs/11.5 hrs
Merlin's fragile home on the isle of Fincayra is threatened by the attack of a mysterious warrior with swords for arms and by the escape of Stangmar from his imprisonment, as Merlin continues to move toward his ultimate destiny.
Roberto and Me
written by Dan Gutman
narrated by Johnny Heller
3 compact discs/3.75 hrs
Stosh travels back to 1969 to try to prevent the untimely death of Roberto Clemente, a legendary baseball player and humanitarian, but upon his return to the present, he meets his own great-grandson who takes him into the future, and what he finds there is more shocking than anything he has encountered in his travels to the past.
5 compact discs/5.25 hrs
When North Carolina fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands joins his fifteen-year-old cousin Rio in running the Rio Grande River, they face a tropical storm and a fugitive kidnapper.
written and narrated by Catherynne M. Valente
6 compact discs/7.25 hrs
Twelve-year-old September's ordinary life in Omaha turns to adventure when a Green Wind takes her to Fairyland to retrieve a talisman the new and fickle Marquess wants from the enchanted woods.
written by Gloria Whelan
narrated by Mandy Williams
4 compact discs/4.5 hrs
In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government, she is sent "home" to London, where she has never been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her two aunts
