Poems for Two Voices: Joyful Noise, I Am Phoenix

Criss Cross

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Lynne Rae Perkins
• Narrated By Danielle Ferland
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

She wished something would happen. Something good. To her.

The Tale of Despereaux

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Kate DiCamillo
• Narrated By Graeme Malcolm
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

This is the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in darkness but covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl with a simple, impossible wish. These characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering castle, and ultimately, into each other's lives.

Kira-Kira

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Cynthia Kadohata
• Narrated By Elaina Erika Davis
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra): glittering; shining

Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. And so are people's eyes. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it's Lynn who explains to her why people stop them on the street to stare.

The Whipping Boy

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 27 mins)
• By Sid Fleischman
• Narrated By Kerry Shale

Jemmy, once a poor boy living on the streets, now lives in a castle. But as the whipping boy, he bears the punishment when the prince misbehaves, as such; the two boys have little in common and even less reason to like one another.

Dead End in Norvelt

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Jack Gantos
• Narrated By Jack Gantos
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a fiesty old neighbor with a most unusual chore - typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his town.