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    No Castles Here
    Audiobook6 hours

    No Castles Here

    Written by A.C.E. Bauer

    Narrated by John H. Mayer

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    AUGIE BORETSKI KNOWS how to get by. If you're a scrawny loser in the destitute city of Camden, New Jersey, you keep your head down, avoid the drug dealers and thugs, and try your best to be invisible. Augie used to be good at that, but suddenly his life is changing. . . .

    First, Augie accidentally steals a strange book of fairy tales. Then his mom makes him join the Big Brothers program and the chorus. And two bullies try to beat him up every day because of it. Just when it seems like things can't get any worse, an ice storm wrecks Augie's school. The city plans to close the school, abandoning one more building to the drug addicts. But Augie has a plan. For the first time in his life, Augie Boretski is not going down without a fight.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 10, 2009
    ISBN9780739380123
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    • 4/5
      Augie Boretski keeps his head down. A sixth grader from impoverished Camden, NJ, Augie doesn't read, doesn't sing in public, doesn't do community programs, and spends most of his energy avoiding the school bullies. After he accidentally takes a book of fairy tales from Louisa Nordritch's bookshop, however, Augie finds himself in the Junior Chorus, hanging out with his Big Brother, who just happens to be gay, and organizing the community after a disaster befalls his school. Short chapters interlace Augie's story with the stories from the magic book of fairy tales, which highlight and inform Augie's actions. This is an enjoyable and quick low magic urban fantasy read which will appeal to boys from fourth through seventh grades.
    • 4/5
      When the hero picks up a book of fairy tales, he doesn't realise how well they will intertwine with his own modern life in a poor part of town. The result is a compelling urban fantasy for teens.
    • 4/5
      In No Castles Here, a boy learns to that it is best to deal with bullies head-on, instead of always running away. It was a very cute book, appropriate for pre-teen boys.
    • 4/5
      Aggie's the boy in school that everyone picks on. So when he joins the school choir and has to stand by the school bully, he's not the jolliest fellow. What happens next?
    • 2/5
      Like "The Garden of Eve" by Going, this is mostly a straightforward realistic book - with a touch of magic. Augie is a 6th-grader living in a gritty New Jersey town; he tries to keep his head down but is tormented by a trio of classmates. He discovers a book of fairy tales in a tiny bookstore in Philadelphia; unusually for him, he begins to read and enjoy it. Meanwhile, his single mother has found a Big Brother for him (a great guy who happens to be gay) and his favorite teacher starts a chorus that he joins - and the bullying continues. The magic comes in the form of the book, which seems to transform itself occasionally, and offers stories that make him reflect, at least so far as an 11-year-old boy is able to, on his own life. Simple and sweet - an appealing urban tale with an uplifting ending.
    • 4/5
      Even in Camden, NJ there is magic. Is it really magic? Maybe. Read the book and decide.
    • 3/5
      cover is misleading; makes it look much more fantasy and girl-ish than it really is