Kingdom Keepers II: Disney at Dawn (The Kingdom Keepers)

Ridley Pearson is the best-selling co-author of Peter and the Starcatchers, Peter and the Shadow Thieves,and Peter and the Secret of Rundoon. He is also the author of eighteen novels, includingSteel Trapp, The Kingdom Keepers, Killer Weekend, Cut and Run, The Middle of Nowhere,The Pied Piper, Beyond Recognition, No Witnesses, The First Victim,Undercurrents, and Parallel Lies. He was the first American to be awarded the Raymond Chandler/Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction at Oxford University.

Disney World has hired teenagers to be special holographic hosts at its theme parks. In this second volume of a series, the teens are fighting Disney cartoon villains who have come to life and are trying to take control of the Disney Animal Kingdom theme park. If the heroes fall asleep, the villains can destroy them. Christopher Lane helpfully gives the characters distinct voices, but, in delivering the action-packed plot, he reads too quickly. This hurried narration, combined with occasional editing and attribution errors, will distract the careful listener. Still, Disney aficionados and action fans may overlook these flaws and revel in the wealth of behind-the-scenes details. G.D. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine