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Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2007
Edition
Library ed.
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (ca. 60 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Puss in Boots: The tale of a cunning cat who wins for his master the lordship of a manor and the hand of a princess.
The tale of Jeremy Fisher: Jeremy the frog loves to catch minnows for dinner with friends. Instead, he catches a spiny stickleback and almost becomes dinner himself.
The tale of Peter Rabbit: Peter disobeys his mother by going into Mr. McGregor's garden and almost gets caught.
63) Fudge-a-mania
Author
Series
Fudge books volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Brother Peter and Fudge must spend the summer with the dreaded Sheila the Great. Peter Hatcher describes his family's Maine vacation highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge and the presence of his sworn enemy Sheila Tubman and her family.
Author
Series
Pain and the Great One volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
First-grader Jake "The Pain" and his sister, third-grader Abigail "The Great One" have more adventures, including visiting their cousins in New York and celebrating their cat Fluzzy's birthday.
Author
Series
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
256 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Share with the Robinsons--a minister, his wife, and four sons--as they survive a shipwreck and then adapt to life on an island populated by exotic birds and animals. Through small successes and disappointments, not only does this courageous family survive, but comes to find a happiness that eluded them in their civilized homeland.
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2004
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (3 hr., 46 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie join Merlin on a magical mission to a haunted castle, fight a giant sea serpent, and travel to the land of snow.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America.
Author
Series
Underland chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Gregor and his younger sister, Boots, return to the Underworld beneath New York City to find the cure for a terrible plague that threatens the life of their mother, as well as the lives of the people, bats, and rats who populate the underworld.
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2007
Edition
Library ed.
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (ca. 60 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bremen town musicians: In this spirited tale from the Brothers Grimm, four animals begin new lives as musicians and unwittingly disband a company of robbers along the way.
Finn McCoul: The hilarious legend in which the famous Irish hero Finn McCoul and his clever wife Oonagh defeat the brutish giant Cucullin once and for all.
Koi and kola nuts: Bright African folk tale about the proud son of a chief who sets out to find his rightful place in the...
Author
Series
Underland chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In his second adventure, eleven-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City to rescue his kidnapped sister, Boots, and fulfill a prophecy that will restore peace to the people, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders who populate the underworld. Gregor is summoned back to the Underland by the terms of a second prophecy. Spies have reported the sighting of a Rat King, a character who has been legendary since the Middle Ages. Recognizable...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Historians still agree about the date of Columbus’s voyage. But did this European adventurer discover America? We now know that certain explorers from other parts of the globe set foot on American shores long before 1492–and that others may have done so. And “discovery” takes on a different meaning when the new land already has people living in it.
As artifacts are unearthed and analyzed, the story of human presence in the...
As artifacts are unearthed and analyzed, the story of human presence in the...
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 2
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2007
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (1 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
Second-graders Ivy and Bean set out to expel the ghost who is living in the girls' bathroom at their school.
74) Countdown
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with her, her sister has disappeared, and her uncle is fighting an old war in his head. Her saintly younger brother is no help, and the cute boy across the street only complicates things. Worst of all, everyone is walking around just waiting for a bomb to fall. It's 1962, and it seems the whole country is living in fear..."--Dust jacket flap.
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2007
Edition
Library ed.
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (ca. 60 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pinocchio: An Italian folktale about a puppet who magically comes to life.
Tom Thumb: A poor, but generous couple, is rewarded with a son the size of the husband's thumb. They name him Tom Thumb, and try to protect him from the perils of the world. Nevertheless, little Tom--given his adventurous spirit and mischievous nature--gets into many interesting situations.
Author
Language
English
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Description
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2008
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (6 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Samantha Parkington is an orphan being raised by her wealthy grandmother at the start of a brand-new century, a time when new ideas and inventions are changing everyone's lives. Samantha's own world is filled with elegance and privilege, but she sees that not everyone's life is changing for the better--especially her friend Nellie, a servant girl who lives next door. Some people consider "mixing with servants" bold and improper. But for Samantha,...
Author
Series
Smek (Adam Rex) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mother is abducted by aliens on Christmas Eve (or "Smekday" Eve since the Boov invasion), 11 year-old Tip hops in the family car and heads south to find her and meets an alien Boov mechanic who agrees to help her and save the planet from disaster.
80) Elijah of Buxton
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.
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