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Amber Page and the Legend of the Coral Stone by Stacey Cochran
Young Adult
FOR KIDS: Excellent for younger listeners
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On the island of Maui, a sixteen-year-old international spy named Rio Kayenta discovers a two-thousand-year-old coral stone. Legend has it that the stone is meant for a girl named Amber and that with it, she can stop the evil S.H.R.O.U.D. organization. Amber Page lives in the Arizona desert and wants one thing more than anything else in the world: to see her mom and dad back together again. Amber's mom is a school bus driver who has split with her dad, but Amber believes the two still love one another. When a strange old man stops at nothing to tell Amber that the legendary stone is meant for her, it frightens her and her family deeply. It is a race against the clock to get the stone to Amber and to see if she will realize its legendary powers. For with the stone strengthening her, Amber may be able to save her family and the world.
David Morrell, internationally bestselling author of First Blood and creator of Rambo - "This is one heck of a good idea for a novel."
Simon Wood, author of Accidents Waiting to Happen - "A Da Vinci Code for the junior high generation."
Jeremy Robinson, bestselling author of The Didymus Contingency - "An entertaining, fast-paced read with a hero like no other... Highly recommended."
Mark Jeffrey, bestselling author of The Pocket and the Pendant - "[Stacey Cochran] has very clear empathy for Amber, her mom, her dad and their situation in life."
Ken Brosky, Editor-in-Chief Brew City Magazine - "Nonstop action... powerful!"
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Audio Quality: 
Out of 9 ratings
Narration Quality: 
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Writing Quality: 
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Overall Rating:
Out of 9 ratings
By: Cymbia
Good story, but sounds like an abridged version. Story jumps around without any "connections". Reader sounds like a preacher-ah putting a new sylable-ah at the end-ah of many words-ah. However, story is good enough to distract from that. Good story, warrants recommendation.By: Gail
I've made it up to Episode 11 and find that this book has way too much violence for me. There are a lot more guns and shooting than I like, and way more than I expect from a YA book. Probably a guy thing. You'd probably get more listeners if it were in fiction or SF.By: Matthew Peterson
This was my first podiobooks audiobook I've listened to and I'd have to say that it wasn't bad. The audio quality was excellent (no static or hard-to-hear parts). The narrator had lots of energy -- sometimes too much when he got excited. The only real thing that I didn't like was that at the end they started using a bunch of sound effects that took me out of the story. Well, the sound when someone got hurt probably could have gone. Writing-wise I can see that Stacey has spent a lot of time editing this book. I noticed some redundancy in narration, but not too much. I was impressed with the active voice he used. That's something I sometimes struggle with. Story-wise, Amber Page is not what I expected. From the cute little girl on the cover I was expecting something like an elementary school book for young girls, but I soon discovered that the reading level is much higher than that. Lots of fighting and action. Imagine a seven-year old girl beating up grown men with Matrix-style moves. I did enjoy how Stacey brought everything together at the end. The interactions of the father at the end were probably the best writing in the book, although it might have been nice to introduce him a little earlier (perhaps in a phone call or something).
Chapters
| Title | Description | Date Created |
| Episode 1 (11.11 MB) | ONE: Rio gets the stone and is chased by S.H.R.O.U.D. gunmen. TWO: Amber, Donna, and Robert are attacked by an old man while on a school bus. | Oct 19, 2006 |
| Episode 2 (10.88 MB) | THREE: Newspaper story about school bus attack. FOUR: Rio boards cruise ship and inspects magical coral stone. Rio learns his contact person is "the man in the red hat." Rio meets the man. FIVE: Amber at home fears the old man and gets spooked at night. Donna tries to calm her, and Amber says she saw the old man outside her bedroom window. | Oct 19, 2006 |
| Episode 3 (9.75 MB) | SIX: Rio eludes gunmen aboard cruise ship. SEVEN: Sheriff's Deputies arrive at Donna's trailer. EIGHT: Rio meets red-hatted man on cruise ship putting green and learns the truth about the coral stone. NINE: Morning in the Page trailer; Donna comforts and feed Amber and Robert. Robert longs for a "normal" family. TEN: Rio lays low at cruise ship swimming pool, but the gunmen find him. | Oct 19, 2006 |
| Episode 4 (12.79 MB) | ELEVEN: Amber's school lunchroom. Amber makes a deal with her friends and gets into trouble with teachers. TWELVE: Gunmen open fire on Rio at swimming pool and then chase him. THIRTEEN: Amber goes to principal's office. FOURTEEN: Rio sees old man with walker in cruise ship hallway appear and vanish. Name spontaneously combusts on hallway wall. | Oct 19, 2006 |
| Episode 5 (5.91 MB) | FIFTEEN: At home, Amber runs a high fever. Donna is concerned, and Amber tells her about a dream she had of gas station catching fire. SIXTEEN: Old man with walker appears in various places around the country at the exact same time, followed soon after by the sounds of car alarms. SEVENTEEN: In cruise ship hallway, crowds gather to see name "Dr. John Irving Bentley" burned into the wall. Ship security officers discuss the fire retardant "Vermitex" used in the wall's material. | Oct 19, 2006 |
| Episode 6 (9.25 MB) | EIGHTEEN: Donna, Amber, and Robert watch a TV news story on the car fires breaking out around the country. They recognize a sketch of the old man who attacked their school bus. He has been seen at each of the fires -- seemingly at the exact same moment in time. NINETEEN: An intruder tries to break into their trailer. Donna opens fire. | Oct 19, 2006 |
| Episode 7 (10.75 MB) | TWENTY: Onboard the cruise ship, security officers discover that the name burned into the wall is that of an old man who spontaneously combusted in 1966. TWENTY-ONE: Donna, Amber, and Robert discover who the intruder is. TWENTY-TWO: NBC television producers discuss the fires with news anchor Katie McCormick. They discuss the name burned on the cruise ship hallway, and they watch video footage of the old man seen near a fire in Idaho Falls, Idaho. They learn that his name is Dr. John Irving Bentley. | Oct 19, 2006 |
| Episode 8 (10.19 MB) | TWENTY-THREE: The cruise ship arrives at San Diego. Rio tries to leave with coral stone, but the gunmen open fire. Pandemonium ensues, and a young news reporter Sandy Canton captures it all for Live TV. TWENTY-FOUR: Donna cleans up after the break-in. Amber comforts her. We see our first glimpse of Amber's dad, Mike, alone and lamenting the mistakes he made as a husband and father. | Oct 19, 2006 |
| Episode 9 (13.47 MB) | TWENTY-FIVE: NBC producers realize that Dr. John Irving Bentley has been dead for nearly forty years. TWENTY-SIX: Rio is shot but staggers off the ship. He passes the coral stone off to Sandy Canton and dies. Sandy races away but is pursued by the gunmen. She crashed into a building and barely escapes with her life. | Oct 19, 2006 |
| Episode 10 (6.43 MB) | TWENTY-SEVEN: Donna, Amber, and Robert try to recover from break-in. TWENTY-EIGHT: A man on a fiery Harley attacks their trailer, and the whole place goes up in flames. Donna and Robert escape, but Amber is trapped inside. | Oct 19, 2006 |
| Episode 11 (16.47 MB) | TWENTY-NINE: Sandy, now in a hospital room, discovers the coral stone inside the air purifier. The gunmen manage to find her room, and a gunfight breaks out in the hospital. Then, the whole building begins to shake, as in an earthquake. Sandy sees the old man with the walker coming to her just as the hospital is about to be destroyed. THIRTY: Sandy wakes up in the middle of the desert not far from the old man and the coral stone. He tells her they must carry the stone to a young girl named Amber Page. | Oct 19, 2006 |
| Episode 12 (10.77 MB) | THIRTY-ONE: Donna travels with Robert to Mike's place in order to tell him about Amber, but the car crashes in the middle of the desert. Donna is knocked unconscious, and when she comes to, Robert is gone. She searches for him around the area, and then sees something that looks like Amber in the backseat of the car. THIRTY-TWO: Mike decides to go sober and to drive to Donna's place. THIRTY-THREE: Donna confronts the thing that has taken her daughter's form. | Oct 19, 2006 |
| Episode 13 (8.67 MB) | THIRTY-FOUR: At an oasis, the old man shows Sandy Canton how to use the coral stone THIRTY-FIVE: Donna pulls Amber back from beyond. THIRTY-SIX: Sandy and the old man continue across the stormy desert with the coral stone. THIRTY-SEVEN: Robert returns to the crashed car, and he and Donna realize that Amber is alive. | Oct 19, 2006 |
| Episode 14 (4.11 MB) | THIRTY-EIGHT: S.H.R.O.U.D. gunmen materialize on a snowy mountain not far from where Amber, Donna, and Robert are near their crashed car. THIRTY-NINE: Amber awakes in her mom's arms. FORTY: Sandy and the old man race to get the stone to Amber. FORTY-ONE: Amber, now with new powers, realizes that the S.H.R.O.U.D. gunmen are coming for them. | Oct 19, 2006 |
| Episode 15 (15.19 MB) | FORTY-TWO: The final showdown between Amber and the S.H.R.O.U.D. The old man and Sandy get the stone to Amber, and it causes a massive earthquake and avalanche. | Oct 19, 2006 |
| Episode 16 (7.98 MB) | FORTY-THREE: Mike rescues Amber, Donna, and Robert from the avalanche. EPILOGUE: Months later, the family is together in Hawaii. Amber makes a necklace for her coral stone and hears the name "Levine." She doesn't know what it means. She and her family are happy. | Oct 19, 2006 |