Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

Criss Cross

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Lynne Rae Perkins
• Narrated By Danielle Ferland
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She wished something would happen. Something good. To her.

Splendors and Glooms

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Laura Amy Schlitz
• Narrated By Davina Porter
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Newbery Medal winner Laura Amy Schlitz's gothic novel in the grand Victorian tradition, Spledors and Glooms, is set in London and centered around the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl, who goes missing. Two children realize it is their guardian, a Venetian-born puppeteer and magician, who has kidnapped her and used his dark powers to imprison her mind and body in the form of a puppet and strive to return her to human form.

Kira-Kira

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Cynthia Kadohata
• Narrated By Elaina Erika Davis
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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.

Moon Over Manifest

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Clare Vanderpool
• Narrated By Jenna Lamia, Cassandra Campbell, Kirby Heyborne
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Abilene Tucker feels abandoned. Her father has put her on a train, sending her off to live with an old friend for the summer while he works a railroad job. Armed only with a few possessions and her list of universals, Abilene jumps off the train in Manifest, Kansas, aiming to learn about the boy her father once was. Having heard stories about Manifest, Abilene is disappointed to find that it's just a dried-up, worn-out old town. But her disappointment quickly turns to excitement when she discovers a hidden cigar box full of mementos.