Listening Library
3) Witness
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
Author
Series
Antsy Bonano volume 2
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Anthony "Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the future.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Author
Series
The youngest Templar volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In 1191, fifteen-year-old Tristan, a youth of unknown origin raised in an English abbey, becomes a Templar Knight's squire during the Third Crusade and soon finds himself on a mission to bring the Holy Grail to safety.
7) Weedflower
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
8) Firegirl
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A middle school boy's life is changed when Jessica, a girl disfigured by burns, starts attending his Catholic school while receiving treatment at a local hospital.
10) Rodzina
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery.