{"id":390,"date":"2013-05-29T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2013-07-09T15:48:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T15:48:45","slug":"audiobooks-for-middle-graders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/audiobooks-for-middle-graders\/","title":{"rendered":"Audiobooks for Middle Graders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This age group is \u2013 nominally \u2013 nine to twelve, but in practice, bright younger children can enjoy Middle Grade books, as can adults.<\/p>\n<p>Many excellent MG books aren\u2019t available as audiobooks, alas. So, you\u2019ll have to invent your own funny voices and flying machine noise in Howard Whitehouse\u2019s hilarious \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidscanpress.com\/US\/Mad-Misadventures-C2561.aspx?section=5&amp;series=2\">Mad Misadventures<\/a>\u201d series, set in Victorian England:<\/p>\n<p>Our recommendation for an audiobook is Neil Gaiman\u2019s wonderfully creepy, yet touching <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandparents.com\/grandkids\/toys-books-and-entertainment\/sshow-10-best-childrens-audiobooks\">Graveyard Book<\/a><\/em>, about a living boy raised by the ghostly residents of a cemetery. There\u2019s a lot to this story about bravery and loyalty \u2013 it\u2019s not just a horror tale!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This age group is \u2013 nominally \u2013 nine to twelve, but in practice, bright younger children can enjoy Middle Grade books, as can adults. Many excellent MG books aren\u2019t available as audiobooks, alas. So, you\u2019ll have to invent your own funny voices and flying machine noise in Howard Whitehouse\u2019s hilarious \u201cMad Misadventures\u201d series, set in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/audiobooks-for-middle-graders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Audiobooks for Middle Graders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-audiobooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}