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Charlie Bumpers vs. the Teacher of the Year

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 50 mins)
• By Bill Harley
• Narrated By Bill Harley

Shortly before school starts, Charlie Bumpers learns that he will have the strictest teacher in the whole school for fourth grade. It doesn't matter that she's been named Teacher of the Year. He's still afraid of her. Last year when he was horsing around in the hall, he accidentally hit her in the head with his sneaker (don't ask). How will he survive a year under a teacher who is just waiting for him to make another stupid mistake?

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Value Collection

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Narrated By Peter MacNicol, Henry Levya, Michael Moriarity

Shiloh Eleven-year-old Marty Preston loves to spend time up in the hills behind his home near Friendly, West Virginia. But one summer Sunday, Marty comes across something different on the road just past the old Shiloh schoolhouse - a young beagle. Saving Shiloh Marty Preston wonders why it is that despite Judd Traver's attempts to redeem himself everyone is still so willing to think the worst of him. Shiloh Season After Marty Preston worked so hard to earn the dog Shiloh, he had hoped that his troubles with Judd Travers were over.

Rooftoppers

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Katherine Rundell
• Narrated By Nicola Barber
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Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck that left baby Sophie floating in the English Channel in a cello case, but Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help. Her guardian tells her it is almost impossible that her mother is still alive - but “almost impossible” means “still possible.” And you should never ignore a possible.

A Long Walk to Water

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Linda Sue Park
• Narrated By David Baker, Cynthia Bishop
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In 1985 southern Sudan is ravaged by war. Rebels and government forces battle for control, with ordinary people…people like the boy, Salva Dut…caught in the middle. When Salva's village is attacked, he must embark on a harrowing journey that will propel him through horror and heartbreak, across a harsh desert, and into a strange new life. Years later, in contemporary South Sudan, a girl named Nya must walk eight hours a day to fetch water. The walk is grueling, but there is unexpected hope.

Stella by Starlight

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Sharon M. Draper
• Narrated By Heather Alicia Simms
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Stella lives in the segregated South - in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. Some stores she can go into. Some stores she can't. Some folks are right pleasant. Others are a lot less so. To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan hasn't bothered them for years. But one late night, later than she should ever be up, much less wandering around outside, Stella and her little brother see something they're never supposed to see, something that is the first flicker of change to come, unwelcome change by any stretch of the imagination.

Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Kate DiCamillo
• Narrated By Tara Sands
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Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo. It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has been born anew, with powers of strength, flight, and misspelled poetry.

Mr. Chickee's Funny Money

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Christopher Paul Curtis
• Narrated By Joe Holt
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Mr. Chickee, the genial blind man in the neighborhood, gives nine-year-old Steven a mysterious bill with 15 zeros on it and the image of a familiar but startling face. Could it be a quadrillion dollar bill? Could it be real? Well, Agent Fondoo of the U.S. Treasury Department and his team of Secret Government Agents are determined to get that money back! But Steven and his best friends, Russell and Zoopy the giant dog, are more than a match for the Feds.

The Shadows: The Books of Elsewhere, Volume I

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Jacqueline West
• Narrated By Lexy Fridell
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Old Ms. McMartin is definitely dead. Now her crumbling Victorian mansion lies vacant. When 11-year-old Olive and her dippy mathematician parents move in, she knows there’s something odd about the place—not least the walls covered in strange antique paintings.

The Sasquatch Escape

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 27 mins)
• By Suzanne Selfors
• Narrated By Bryan Kennedy
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When Ben Silverstein is sent to spend the summer with his grandfather, he's certain it will be the most boring vacation ever. That is, until his grandfather¹s cat brings home what looks like...a baby dragon?

Enter Pearl Petal, a local girl with an eye for adventure, who helps Ben take the wounded dragon to the only veterinarian in town -- the mysterious Dr. Woo's Worm Hospital. But Dr. Woo's isn't a worm hospital at all - it's actually a secret hospital for Imaginary Creatures.

No Talking

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 34 mins)
• By Andrew Clements
• Narrated By Keith Nobbs
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What would happen if the noisiest, most talkative class of 5th graders in history dared each other not to talk for 48 hours? This is the premise Andrew Clements explores in one of his most compelling stories yet.

Mission Unstoppable: The Genius Files, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Dan Gutman
• Narrated By Michael Goldstrom
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Coke and Pepsi McDonald didn’t want to jump off a cliff. They didn't want to get hit by poisoned darts from blowguns either. And they certainly don't want to get locked in their burning school, thrown into a pit at the top of a sand dune, or drowned in a vat of liquefied Spam. But what are you supposed to do when you’re being chased across the country by your insane health teacher and two guys in bowler hats who are trying to kill you? One thing's for sure, it'll be a snap for Coke and Pep to write their essays on "How I Spent My Summer Vacation."

Because of Mr. Terupt

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Rob Buyea
• Narrated By Arielle DeLisle, Mike Chamberlain
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It's the start of fifth grade for seven kids at Snow Hill School. There's Jessica, the new girl, smart and perceptive, who's having a hard time fitting in; Alexia, a bully, your friend one second, your enemy the next; Peter, class prankster and troublemaker; Luke, the brain; Danielle, who never stands up for herself; shy Anna, whose home situation makes her an outcast; and Jeffrey, who hates school. Only Mr. Terupt, their new and energetic teacher, seems to know how to deal with them all.

Hatchet

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Gary Paulsen
• Narrated By Peter Coyote
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Newbery Award-winner Gary Paulsen's best-known book comes to audio in this breathless, heart-gripping drama about a boy pitted against the wilderness with only a hatchet and a will to live. On his way to visit his recently divorced father in the Canadian mountains, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is the only survivor when the single-engine plane crashes. His body battered, his clothes in shreds, Brian must now stay alive in the boundless Canadian wilderness.

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Chris Grabenstein
• Narrated By Jesse Bernstein
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Kyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids, (if not the teachers), and an ardent fan of all games: board games, word games, and particularly video games. His hero, Luigi Lemoncello, the most notorious and creative game maker in the world, just so happens to be the genius behind the building of the new town library. Lucky Kyle wins a coveted spot to be one of the first 12 kids in the library for an overnight of fun, food, and lots and lots of games. But when morning comes, the doors remain locked. Kyle and the other winners must solve every clue and every secret puzzle to find the hidden escape route.

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 45 mins)
• By E. L. Konigsburg
• Narrated By Jill Clayburgh
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When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn't just want to run from somewhere she wants to run to somewhere--to a place that is comfortable, beautiful, and preferably elegant. She chooses the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Knowing that her younger brother, Jamie, has money and thus can help her with the serious cash flow problem she invites him along.

The Unwanteds: Unwanteds Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Lisa McMann
• Narrated By Simon Jones
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When Alex finds out he is Unwanted, he expects to die. That is the way of the people of Quill: Each year all the 13-year-olds are labeled as Wanted, Necessary, or Unwanted. Wanteds get more schooling and train to join the army. Necessaries keep the farms running. Unwanteds are set for elimination. It’s hard for Alex to leave behind his twin, Aaron, a Wanted, but he makes peace with his fate - until he discovers that instead of a “death farm”, what awaits him is a magical place called Artime.

The Boy on the Wooden Box

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 14 mins)
• By Leon Leyson, Marilyn J. Harran (contributor)
• Narrated By Danny Burstein
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This, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's List child, perfectly captures the innocence of a small boy who goes through the unthinkable. Most notable is the lack of rancour, the lack of venom, and the abundance of dignity in Mr Leyson's telling. The Boy on the Wooden Box is a legacy of hope, a memoir unlike anything you've ever read.

Hate That Cat

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 3 mins)
• By Sharon Creech
• Narrated By Scott Wolf

Jack hates the fat black cat.

Nuts to You

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Lynne Rae Perkins
• Narrated By Jessica Almasy

The squirrels Jed, TsTs, and Chai are the very best of friends. So when Jed is snatched up by a hawk and carried away to another realm, TsTs and Chai resolve to go after him. New communities are discovered, new friends are made, huge danger is encountered (both man-made and of the fox and bobcat variety) and mysteries are revealed. Nuts to You is wholly original, funny, lively, and thought-provoking.

Brown Girl Dreaming

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Jacqueline Woodson
• Narrated By Jacqueline Woodson

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world.

Woof

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Spencer Quinn
• Narrated By James Frangione
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Bowser is a dog detective on the loose, paired with an 11-year-old girl, Birdie. Bowser and Birdie live on the Louisiana coast with Birdie's Grammy. When a prize stuffed marlin is stolen from Grammy's bait and tackle shop, Birdie and Bowser decide to take on the case. But what looks like a straightforward break-in soon becomes as tangled as a tourist's fishing line.

A Snicker of Magic

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Natalie Lloyd
• Narrated By Cassandra Morris
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Midnight Gulch used to be a magical place, a town where people could sing up thunderstorms and dance up sunflowers. But that was long ago, before a curse drove the magic away. Twelve-year-old Felicity knows all about things like that; her nomadic mother is cursed with a wandering heart. But when she arrives in Midnight Gulch, Felicity thinks her luck's about to change. A "word collector", Felicity sees words everywhere - shining above strangers, tucked into church eaves, and tangled up her dog's floppy ears - but Midnight Gulch is the first place she's ever seen the word "home".

Floors

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Patrick Carman
• Narrated By Jesse Bernstein
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The Whippet Hotel is a strange place full of strange and mysterious people. Each floor has its own quirks and secrets. Leo should know most of them - he is the maintenance man's son, after all. But a whole lot more mystery gets thrown his way when a series of cryptic boxes are left for him... boxes that lead him to hidden floors, strange puzzles, and unexpected alliances. Leo had better be quick on his feet, because the fate of the building he loves is at stake... and so is Leo's own future!

Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 39 mins)
• By Sarah Miller
• Narrated By Terry Donnelly
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Sarah Miller's accomplished debut presents a fictionalized account of Anne Sullivan's life and her time as Helen Keller's teacher. Arriving at Ivy Green in 1887, Anne was a partially blind orphan who had been tasked with teaching the difficult blind, deaf, and mute girl to communicate. Anne quickly learned, along with Helen, that "words are a miracle".