Daring Darleen, Queen of the Screen, Anne Nesbet
Daring Darleen, Queen of the Screen, Anne Nesbet
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Daring Darleen, Queen of the Screen

Author: Anne Nesbet

Narrator: Carly Robins

Unabridged: 7 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/14/2020

Synopsis

When a publicity stunt goes terribly wrong, twelve-year-old Darleen Darling, star of the silent film era, must defeat villains both on screen and off in this edge-of-your-seat adventure.Lights! Camera! Kidnapping? It’s 1914, and Darleen Darling’s film adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping set up by her studio becomes all too real. Suddenly Darleen finds herself in the hands of dastardly criminals who have just nabbed Miss Victorine Berryman, the poor-little-rich-girl heiress of one of America’s largest fortunes. Soon real life starts to seem like a bona fide adventure serial, complete with dramatic escapes, murderous plots, and a runaway air balloon. Will Darleen and Victorine be able to engineer their own happily-ever-after, or will the villains be victorious?

About Anne Nesbet

Anne Nesbet is the author of the historical middle-grade novels Cloud and Wallfish and The Orphan Band of Springdale, as well as three fantasy novels for middle-graders: The Cabinet of Earths, A Box of Gargoyles, and The Wrinkled Crown. Her books have received numerous accolades, including multiple starred reviews and appearances on the Indie Next List, the Chicago Public Library Best of the Best list, the New York Public Library Best Books for Kids list, the Bank Street College Best Children’s Books of the Year list, and the American Library Association Notable Children’s Books list. A professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Anne Nesbet lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Beth

I received an advanced copy of this book via NetGalley. Daring Darleen is the kind of middle grade historical fiction novel I adored as a kid, and still love as an adult. It takes an oft-ignored time and place in history--early 1910s New York City and New Jersey, about the pre-Hollywood film hotspot......more

Goodreads review by DaNae

I appreciated the idea behind this book more than the writing. It dragged.......more

Goodreads review by Beth

The beginning of this is promising: the tone is slightly off-kilter, hammering home the historical not-quite-today aspect of it all. And the story is a little surprising, too, in its outrageous plotting and the places it goes - which is compounded by the tone of the narration. But (maybe through no f......more

Goodreads review by Panda

This fun middle grade novel is about the era of silent films, and involves a publicity kidnapping plot gone awry. There are lots of clever ideas behind this book, but I found it a bit lacking in the execution, and could never fully engage with it. The characters are totally one-dimensional, both her......more

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