CAMERON BATTLE AND THE HIDDEN KINGDOMS

Narrator Marc Anthony Samuel fills this action-packed middle-grade audiobook with cinematic character voices. Full of Igbo history and myths, Cameron's favorite book follows his ancestors from West Africa to America. These stories, which delighted Cameron as a little boy, feel like the last link to his parents, who mysteriously disappeared several years ago. When it turns out the book is a portal to another world, he and two friends find themselves unlikely challengers of a powerful, magical foe. While Samuel delivers the narrative in a monotone, he creates wonderful voices for the magical character voices, and the text has more than enough wonder and power of its own. Listeners will be thrilled to the last cliff-hanging moment and clamoring for the next audiobook. S.T.C. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine [Published: MAY 2022]