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Viva Durant and the Secret of the Silver Buttons

By: Ashli St. Armant
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
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Viva Durant, New Orleans’ youngest detective, is on a quest to solve a jazzy mystery involving hidden treasure, while exploring the city’s unique culture, history, and music. This family-friendly audio original features original jazz music from the creator, Ashli St. Armant, and an enthusiastic performance from Audible Hall of Fame narrator, Bahni Turpin.

Plucky 14-year-old Viva Durant heads to New Orleans every summer to spend time with her loving but stern grandmother, known as Gram. After Gram reads Viva an article in the local paper about a missing treasure related to the world-famous song, "Miss Mary Mack," Viva traverses the Crescent City on an epic adventure to solve the mystery. Along the way she meets some of the city’s most colorful characters as her journey takes her to the French Quarter, a jazz club, a creepy cemetery, and even the circus. Can Viva rise to the occasion and solve this musical mystery? Listeners will find Viva Durant and the Secret of the Silver Buttons a joy to listen to!

©2019 Audible Originals, LLC (P)2019 Audible Originals, LLC. Kids Audible Originals Music Music & Performing Arts Mystery Mystery & Suspense Fiction Feel-Good Funny Witty Kids Mystery

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About the Creator

Ashli St. Armant is a vocalist, actor, writer, and arts educator based in Southern California. She is the founder of Leaping Lizards Music, a music and theater education program for students, TK-12. She is a professionally trained vocalist and actor who attended the Orange County High School of the Arts and holds a degree in Child Development from Saddleback College. Alongside teaching, writing, and raising her two sons, Ashli tours with her band, Jazzy Ash and the Leaping Lizards, a jazz band for young audiences. Together they have produced four albums featured by NPR and L.A. Times, and have performed at numerous venues, including Lincoln Center and Sprout Network (NBC).Viva Durant and the Secret of the Silver Buttons is Ashli’s debut audio original, and sets the path for her new venture into children’s literature.

About the Performer

Bahni Turpin is a Los Angeles-based actress with many television and film credits in addition to being an award winning narrator. She is honored to have been awarded an Audie for Best Female Narrator, 2015, Audible Narrator of the Year, 2016, and American Library Association’s Voice of Choice for 2017. In 2018, Bahni won best female narration again, and was also inducted into the Audible Hall of Fame. She is a two-time Odyssey Award winner, and was also named as one of Audiophile's Golden Voices for 2019.

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Engaging Mystery Plot • Vibrant Setting • Excellent Narration • Relatable Protagonist • Intergenerational Bond
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Yes it is a kid's story but I enjoyed it. It was well written and well read.

I really enjoyed it

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My daughter (age 13) loved this so much, I had to find the author's Instagram page and tell her personally. We are definitely looking forward to more from this author.

we loved it!

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This book was so much more than I expected!! It completely held my attention. Just great work!

Awesome!!

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A really great story. I hope it becomes a series.
The narrator and background music really did a good job.

Great book

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I got this title for free from Audible Originals because I wanted something upbeat. This book served its purpose. It's an easy listen, good for kids of all ages. Only slightly expected the ending - it was a nice twist.

Cute story

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Pleasure to listen to! It's even hard to actually pause when you have to. Nice reading. Only downside: When Viva's thoughts are read, the volume is too low. In the car, it's barely distinguishable what's being said. If it wasn't for that, full score!

Great Story!

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This is clearly a pre-teen/teen read but this 40 (ahem)-year old thoroughly enjoyed it. I was just as curious as a 14-year-old to know the end. I also made note to try to find some of the spots mentioned as I got a feeling they are very real places in New Orleans. If not, then it will be my mystery to solve (or not).

Cute Spunky and Engaging

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Although written for children, this story could easily be adapted as a noir or general mystery for adults. A childrens song , for decades overlooked, is the key to hidden fortune. A determined 14 year old solves the puzzle.

Treasure in Buttons

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Wish I had time to listen to the whole thing in one sitting. I would recommend this to anyone.

Excellent story.

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I liked listening to this while driving around, especially with the added musical aspects of the audio book.

Young Adult - fun mystery solving =)

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