Lights, Camera, Amalee

Name: Lights, Camera, Amalee
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Dar Williams
ISBN: 9781455810321

Author: Dar Williams

Series: Dar Williams Series #2

Narrator: Dar Williams

Unabridged: 6 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 06/20/2011

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

When Amalee’s grandmother dies, she inherits a very strange object: a huge champagne bottle filled with over a thousand dollars’ worth of change. Amalee is told to spend the money on something important, so she decides to make a movie about endangered species. Soon there’s as much going on behind the scenes as there is in front of the camera, as Amalee deals with a new friend, a very cute older boy, her wacky family friends, and other challenges. She also discovers something she never expected to find — a link with her mother, who disappeared and died when Amalee was very little. Behind the camera, Amalee comes to understand that the past can never be changed. But the future? Well, that’s another story.... “Williams conveys middle-school insecurities with a sure hand, and Amalee’s narration is a treat to listen to.” —Horn Book

About Dar Williams

Dar Williams is one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of her generation. Her albums include My Better Self, The Beauty of the Rain, Out There Live, The Green World, End of the Summer, Mortal City, and The Honesty Room. She lives in New York City. Amalee is her first novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kira

I recently attended my second Dar Williams concert--my first concert since March 2020. In-person concert, anyway. She sang "When I Was a Boy" and I almost cried. Perhaps I've been lying to myself that my boyfriend is the big Dar Williams fan in our household. (Although...he is.) I've been holding ont......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer

Reviewed by Sally Kruger aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.com Amalee is back. Some of you may have met her is Dar Williams' first book titled AMALEE. Whether you've had the pleasure before or not, LIGHTS, CAMERA, AMALEE is an excellent book for girls ages 10 and up. Amalee's summer has started wit......more

Goodreads review by Print

I very rarely give 5 stars to middle-Grade fiction. Most of it is samey and mundane. But this one is different! Of course, it's the same memoir style with problem family + boy trouble + bullies at school, but each of those 'issues' is written with a slightly different twist. The story is imaginative......more

Goodreads review by Priscilla

I found this book at Goodwill. Dar Williams has long been one of my favorite singer-songwriters but I did not know she was an author as well. This is a lovely story about a young girl with an interest that becomes a passion as she makes a movie with the help of her friends. In the process she learns......more