Belle Prater's Boy

The Search for Belle Prater

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Ruth White
• Narrated By Alison Elliott
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Belle Prater is missing. Since she inexplicably disappeared about a year ago, her son, Woodrow, has been living with his grandparents, next door to his cousin Gypsy. The two are best friends, joined by their adventurous sprits and shared love of stories and magic.

One night they receive a puzzling phone call, which provides a clue that sends Gypsy and Woodrow on a mission to find Belle.

Out of the Dust

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Karen Hesse
• Narrated By Marika Mashburn
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Billie Jo has a great deal to forgive: her father for causing the accident that killed her mother; her mother for leaving when Billie Jo needed her most; and herself for being the cause of her own sorrow. Daddy's too wrung out to help her, and there's no one else to care. So at 14, Billie Jo must heal herself - even if it means tearing up her roots and leaving behind everything she's ever known.

Esperanza Rising

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Pam Munoz Ryan
• Narrated By Trini Alvarado

Esperanza Ortega possesses all the treasures a young girl in Aguascalientes, Mexico could want. But a sudden tragedy shatters that dream, forcing Esperanza and Mama to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp. There they confront the challenges of hard work, acceptance by their own people, and economic difficulties brought on by the Great Depression. Pam Munoz Ryan eloquently portrays the Mexican workers' plight in this abundant and passionate novel.

Bud, Not Buddy

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Christopher Paul Curtis
• Narrated By James Avery
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Bud, Not Buddy, a Newbery Medal winner, is full of laugh-out-loud humor and wonderful characters, hitting the high notes of jazz and sounding the deeper tones of the Great Depression.

Tuck Everlasting

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Natalie Babbitt
• Narrated By Peter Thomas
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When 10-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles upon the Tuck family's disturbing secret, she is forced to come to terms with her conflicting emotions. She feels drawn to the loving, gentle, and rather eccentric Tucks, but what they tell her is too incredible to be believed. Doomed to, or blessed with, eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family tries to make Winnie understand that the terrible magic of the forest spring can never be revealed.