Bestsellers
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Boy
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall704
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Performance603
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Story605
“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” –The New York Times Where did Roald Dahl get all of his wonderful ideas for stories? From his own life, of...
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Listened and Read This a Few Times!
- By Dylan on 05-25-16
By: Roald Dahl
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Brown Girl Dreaming
- By: Jacqueline Woodson
- Narrated by: Jacqueline Woodson
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,302
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Performance1,117
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Story1,108
A New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Another Brooklyn, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares...
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Memoir of a childhood, in verse.
- By Adam Shields on 02-18-19
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Going Solo
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall547
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Performance487
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Story486
“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” –The New York Times Superb stories, daring deeds, fantastic adventures! Going Solo is the action-packed tale of...
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Live of a master, read beautifully
- By Bel on 06-04-16
By: Roald Dahl
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Who Was William Shakespeare?
- By: Celeste Mannis
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance18
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Story18
The beloved plays of Shakespeare are still produced everywhere, yet the life of the world's most famous playwright remains largely a mystery. Young Will left the town of Stratford to pursue theater in London, where his work eventually thrived and made him a famous and wealthy man. Celeste...
By: Celeste Mannis
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Who Is J.K. Rowling?
- By: Pamela D. Pollack, Meg Belviso
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance35
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Story35
Everyone loves Harry Potter. Now kids can learn about Harry's creator! In 1995, on a four-hour-delayed train from Manchester to London, J. K. Rowling conceived of the idea of a boy wizard named Harry Potter. Upon arriving in London, she began immediately writing the first book in the saga...
By: Pamela D. Pollack, and others
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Books Good Enough for You
- The Storied Life of Ursula Nordstrom, Editor of Extraordinary Children's Books
- By: Nancy Hudgins
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
A celebration of the life and work of Ursula Norstrom—the groundbreaking editor of classic children’s books like Charlotte’s Web and Where the Wild Things Are—and a powerful defense of a child’s right to read Legendary Harper & Row children’s book editor Ursula Nordstrom was a...
By: Nancy Hudgins
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Boy
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall704
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Performance603
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Story605
“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” –The New York Times Where did Roald Dahl get all of his wonderful ideas for stories? From his own life, of...
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Listened and Read This a Few Times!
- By Dylan on 05-25-16
By: Roald Dahl
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Brown Girl Dreaming
- By: Jacqueline Woodson
- Narrated by: Jacqueline Woodson
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,302
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Performance1,117
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Story1,108
A New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Another Brooklyn, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares...
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Memoir of a childhood, in verse.
- By Adam Shields on 02-18-19
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Going Solo
- By: Roald Dahl
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall547
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Performance487
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Story486
“Roald Dahl sometimes shared a tonal kinship with Ogden Nash, and he could demonstrate a verbal inventiveness nearly Seussian…[His] stories work better in audio than in print.” –The New York Times Superb stories, daring deeds, fantastic adventures! Going Solo is the action-packed tale of...
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Live of a master, read beautifully
- By Bel on 06-04-16
By: Roald Dahl
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Who Was William Shakespeare?
- By: Celeste Mannis
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance18
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Story18
The beloved plays of Shakespeare are still produced everywhere, yet the life of the world's most famous playwright remains largely a mystery. Young Will left the town of Stratford to pursue theater in London, where his work eventually thrived and made him a famous and wealthy man. Celeste...
By: Celeste Mannis
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Who Is J.K. Rowling?
- By: Pamela D. Pollack, Meg Belviso
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance35
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Story35
Everyone loves Harry Potter. Now kids can learn about Harry's creator! In 1995, on a four-hour-delayed train from Manchester to London, J. K. Rowling conceived of the idea of a boy wizard named Harry Potter. Upon arriving in London, she began immediately writing the first book in the saga...
By: Pamela D. Pollack, and others
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Books Good Enough for You
- The Storied Life of Ursula Nordstrom, Editor of Extraordinary Children's Books
- By: Nancy Hudgins
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
A celebration of the life and work of Ursula Norstrom—the groundbreaking editor of classic children’s books like Charlotte’s Web and Where the Wild Things Are—and a powerful defense of a child’s right to read Legendary Harper & Row children’s book editor Ursula Nordstrom was a...
By: Nancy Hudgins
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Woodsong
- By: Gary Paulsen
- Narrated by: Gary Paulsen
- Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall186
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Performance141
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Story142
The award-winning creator of popular survival stories turns his attention to his own real life adventures in Minnesota and Alaska as he prepares for the grueling Iditarod sled dog race. "The lure of the wilderness is always a potent draw, and Paulsen evokes its mysteries as well as anyone has...
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Turn off the music!
- By Janet on 04-10-16
By: Gary Paulsen
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Kid Authors
- True Tales of Childhood from Famous Writers
- By: David Stabler
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
Every great author started out as a kid. Before the best sellers, fan clubs, and beloved stories we know today, the world's most celebrated writers had regular-kid problems just like you....
By: David Stabler
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Phillis Wheatley
- A Revolutionary Poet
- By: Jacquelyn McLendon
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance4
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Story4
Phillis Wheatley kidnapped into slavery from Senegal as a child. She soon showed intellectual promise, eventually shocking a room of scholars by translating Ovid at age 14....
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Who Was Dr. Seuss?
- By: Janet Pascal
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall65
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Performance52
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Story51
Ted Geisel loved to doodle from the time he was a kid. He had an offbeat, fun-loving personality. He often threw dinner parties where guests wore outrageous hats! And he donned quirky hats when thinking up ideas for books-like his classic The Cat in the Hat. This biography brings an amazingly...
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awesome listening!
- By Blue Stanley on 12-18-22
By: Janet Pascal
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26 Fairmount Avenue: Books 1-4
- 26 Fairmount Avenue; Here We All Are; On My Way; What a Year!
- By: Tomie dePaola
- Narrated by: Tomie dePaola
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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Story2
#1: 26 Fairmount Avenue Tomie's family starts building their new house at 26 Fairmount Avenue in 1938, just as a hurricane hits town, starting off a busy, crazy year. Tomie has many adventures all his own, including eating chocolate with his Nana Upstairs, only to find out—the hard way—that...
By: Tomie dePaola
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Gone to the Woods
- Surviving a Lost Childhood
- By: Gary Paulsen
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall223
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Performance196
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Story196
"Dan Bittner flawlessly narrates this matchless memoir, which captures writer Gary Paulsen's bittersweet life...The sublime narration and satisfying conclusion contribute to a rewarding listening experience." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner A middle grade memoir from a living...
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loving it...
- By LAF on 04-26-21
By: Gary Paulsen
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O Captain, My Captain
- Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War
- By: Robert Burleigh
- Narrated by: Chris Lutkin, David Bendena
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance1
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Story1
Dramatic, lyrical, and beautiful, O Captain, My Captain tells the story of one of America’s greatest poets and how he was inspired by one of America’s greatest presidents....
By: Robert Burleigh
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Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Storybook Life
- By: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance48
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Story47
From the big woods of Wisconsin to the Indian country of the Great Plains, new adventures and landscapes filled the rich childhood of Laura Ingalls Wilder. On a frontier steeped in both danger and great possibility, Laura would grow up to witness firsthand the rapid transformation of the West....
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A must have for any little house fan.
- By YHWHsHesed on 05-08-15
By: Janet Benge, and others
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Dewey the Library Cat
- A True Story
- By: Vicki Myron, Bret Witter
- Narrated by: Laura Hamilton
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall120
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Performance95
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Story95
Abandoned in a library book-drop slot in the dead of winter, the small kitten who came to be known as Dewey Readmore Books miraculously endured the coldest night of the year....
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Dewey the Library Cat
- By Lucille Sullivan on 11-02-10
By: Vicki Myron, and others
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Who Was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
- By: Dana Meachen Rau
- Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
- Length: 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance4
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Story4
Born in Connecticut in 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist, author, and playwright. Slavery was a major industry in the American South, and Stowe worked with the Underground Railroad to help escaped slaves head north towards freedom. The publication of her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin...
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sueb
- By mike on 07-19-21
By: Dana Meachen Rau
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Knots in My Yo-Yo String
- By: Jerry Spinelli
- Narrated by: Matt Weisgerber
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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Story2
Newbery medalist Jerry Spinelli has penned his early autobiography with all the warmth, humor, and drama of his bestselling fiction....
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Memoirs
- By Mark on 04-25-25
By: Jerry Spinelli
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Memories and Life Lessons from the Magic Tree House
- By: Mary Pope Osborne
- Narrated by: Mary Pope Osborne
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the #1 New York Times bestselling series with heartfelt advice from Mary Pope Osborne's own life and her magical adventures with Jack and Annie—perfect for Magic Tree House fans of all ages! Look for heroes, far and near. Give your gifts to the world. Have...
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How Angel Peterson Got His Name
- And Other Outrageous Tales about Extreme Sports
- By: Gary Paulsen
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance39
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Story38
Wacky, daring, just plain nuts - extreme sports lead to extreme fun in new stories from Gary’s boyhood....
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glorious boy hood stories.
- By Rebecca Arnold on 04-18-25
By: Gary Paulsen
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Otherwise Known as Judy the Great
- A Poetic Ode to Judy Blume
- By: Selina Alko
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan
- Length: 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
Beloved and trailblazing author Judy Blume comes to life in this poetic picture book about her childhood. Judy Blume is known for fearlessly discussing topics that were once considered taboo. As a young girl, Judy was not encouraged to share her feelings, so instead she invented stories as a way...
By: Selina Alko
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On My Way
- By: Tomie dePaola
- Narrated by: Tomie dePaola
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance5
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Story6
Tomie is overjoyed because his baby sister, Maureen, is finally strong enough to come home from the hospital. Over the next months, he is in a dance recital and he gets to go to the World's Fair. Soon, the school year is at an end. Summer is full of fun things to do, like going to the beach and...
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The perfect story
- By Gretchen Barsch on 01-01-15
By: Tomie dePaola
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Rise!
- From Caged Birds to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou
- By: Bethany Hegedus, Colin Johnson
- Narrated by: Cherise Booth
- Length: 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
This glorious biography of Maya Angelou’s life - from her traumatic childhood through her work as a freedom fighter and her triumphant rise as a poet - is a powerful tribute to a phenomenal woman....
By: Bethany Hegedus, and others
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Who Is Jeff Kinney?
- By: Patrick Kinney, Who HQ
- Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance22
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Story19
Even as a kid, everyone thought Jeff Kinney was talented. People loved his drawings, and when he went to college, his comic strip Igdoof was so popular that it spread to other universities! Still, Jeff faced challenges. His cartoons were rejected by syndicates that claimed his art was...
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loved it
- By Anonymous on 01-04-23
By: Patrick Kinney, and others
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Knucklehead
- Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka
- By: Jon Scieszka
- Narrated by: Jon Scieszka
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance13
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Story12
How did Jon Scieszka get so funny, anyway? Growing up as one of six brothers was a good start, but that was just the beginning. Throw in Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, jokes told at family dinner, and the...
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It was goated because of the characters
- By Grace Lottich on 10-18-23
By: Jon Scieszka
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Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder?
- By: Patricia Brennan Demuth
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance6
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Story6
Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, based on her own childhood and later life, are still beloved classics almost a century after she began writing them. Now young readers will see just how similar Laura's true-life story was to her books. Born in 1867 in the "Big Woods" in Wisconsin...
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Who Was Walt Whitman?
- By: Kirsten Anderson, Who HQ
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
How did a New York printer become one of the most influential poets of all time? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library! Walt Whitman was a printer, journalist, editor, and schoolteacher. But today, he's recognized as one of America's founding poets, a man who changed American...
By: Kirsten Anderson, and others
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The Story of John Bunyan
- The Prisoner Who Wrote Pilgrim's Progress (Lives of Faith and Grace)
- By: Champ Thornton
- Narrated by: Simon Provan
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
John Bunyan was an imaginative author, father, and Puritan preacher who was deeply committed to sharing the gospel that had transformed his life. His enduring literary legacy, including his well-known and beloved book The Pilgrim's Progress, continues to inspire and transform lives today.
By: Champ Thornton
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Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers
- Reflections on Being Raised by a Pack of Sled Dogs
- By: Gary Paulsen
- Narrated by: Gary Paulsen
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance34
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Story34
An experienced Iditarod racer, Gary Paulsen brings his love of the sport to readers on a personal level in this intimate essay about the life of a litter of pups born to pull sleds....
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I Love Gary Paulsen
- By Deziderata on 09-22-12
By: Gary Paulsen
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Who Was Mark Twain?
- By: April Jones Prince
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance12
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Story11
A humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. Best known as the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, not unlike his protagonist, Huck, has a restless spirit. He found adventure prospecting for silver in Nevada, navigating...
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Very good
- By H Family on 06-01-23
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What Was the Harlem Renaissance?
- By: Sherri L. Smith, Who HQ
- Narrated by: Tashi Thomas
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
In this audiobook from the #1 New York Times bestselling series, learn how this vibrant Black neighborhood in upper Manhattan became home to the leading Black writers, artists, and musicians of the 1920s and 1930s. Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in nightclubs...
By: Sherri L. Smith, and others