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The Midnight Charter Audiobook

By: David Whitley
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Read By: Simon Vance Publisher: Macmillan Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2009 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781427208149
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Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

105

Longest Chapter Length:

07:20 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

25 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

05:26 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

3

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Publisher Description

In this spellbinding fantasy novel, newcomer David Whitley has imagined a nation at a crossroads: misshaped by materialism and facing a choice about its future. He has brought to life two children who will test the nation's values-and crafted a spellbinding adventure story that will keep readers turning the pages until the very end.

In a society based on trade, where everything can be bought and sold, the future rests on the secrets of a single document-and the lives of two children whose destiny it is to discover its secrets.

THE MIDNIGHT CHARTER combines great storytelling with a compelling vision - a many layered adventure with powerful and timely implications.

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Exciting and gripping from the first heart-stopping line, this first book in a trilogy takes readers only part of the way to resolving the predictions of the Midnight Charter and its relationship to Mark and Lily. Readers will anxiously await the next installment as they reach the cliff-hanger ending.

— School Library Journal 

Quotes

  • “Young readers who enjoy tales of mystery and fantasy will find much to admire in Whitley's story...Simon Vance's thoughtful, unrushed narration is the perfect foil for the book's brooding atmosphere. Vance is a master narrator who brings characters of every type to life.

    — AudioFile

  • [Simon Vance's] skill is his ability to provide just the perfect pace and emphasis to convey wonder and amazement as well as dismay and disbelief... His almost imperceptible change in pacing, pitch, and rhythm perfectly conveys the author's intent.

    — Voya Voice of Youth Advocates

  • Charity, greed, freedom, fate and political scheming are all woven through debut author Whitley's richly conceived world. Readers will be buoyed by every small triumph that cannot be recorded in an account book.

    — Publishers Weekly

  • Deft world-building and crafty plotting combine for a zinger of an ending that will leave readers poised for book two. Surprisingly sophisticated upper-middle-grade fare, with enough meat to satisfy older readers as well.

    — Kirkus Reviews

  • Whitley threads together a thrilling page-turner with the two young heroes' lives intertwining in surprising and illuminating ways.

    — Shelf Awareness

  • One of the most original and creative books I've read in a long time.

    — Wands and Worlds.com

Awards

  • Among shortlisted titles for Audie Award Finalist, 2010

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About David Whitley

David Whitley, a graduate of Oxford, wrote his first children’s novel at age seventeen—it was shortlisted for the Kathleen Fidler Award. At twenty he was the youngest person ever to win the Chesire Prize for Literature for a children’s short story. He lives in England.

About Simon Vance

Simon Vance (a.k.a. Robert Whitfield) is an award-winning actor and narrator. He has earned more than fifty Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration thirteen times. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and has been named an AudioFile Golden Voice as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London. He is also an actor who has appeared on both stage and television.