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On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c’est partie! The Mona Lisa, she’s gone!
No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting?
Travel back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk its backstreets. Meet the infamous thieves—and detectives—of the era. And then slip back further in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the Mona Lisa, through his dazzling, wondrously weird life. Discover the secret at the heart of the Mona Lisa—the most famous painting in the world should never have existed at all.
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“[A] witty thriller." —The New York Times
“The tale of a stunning art heist told with a contagious love of stranger-than-fiction true stories!” —Steve Sheinkin, Newbery Honor–winning author of Bomb
★ "A wildly entertaining, thoroughly contextualized look at art, history, and fame." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
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- Narrated by: Oscar Emmanuel Fabela, Omar Leyva, Cynthia Farrell, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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Pedro Martin has grown up hearing stories about his abuelito—his legendary crime-fighting, grandfather who was once a part of the Mexican Revolution! But that doesn't mean Pedro is excited at the news that Abuelito is coming to live with their family. After all, Pedro has 8 brothers and sisters and the house is crowded enough! Still, Pedro piles into the Winnebago with his family for a road trip to Mexico to bring Abuelito home, and what follows is the trip of a lifetime, one filled with laughs and heartache.
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Loved it!
- By Mara Valadez on 04-17-24
By: Pedro Martín
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Cross My Heart and Never Lie
- By: Nora Dåsnes, Matt Bagguley - translator
- Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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Marian seems really cool … and nice … and we've got SO MUCH in common. Well, two things at least. But if feels like more. I don't think I've ever met someone I wanted to be friends with so badly!
By: Nora Dåsnes, and others
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Impossible Escape
- A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe
- By: Steve Sheinkin
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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It is 1944. A teenager named Rudolf (Rudi) Vrba has made up his mind. After barely surviving nearly two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, he knows he must escape. Even if death is more likely. Rudi has learned the terrible secret hidden behind the heavily guarded fences of concentration camps across Nazi-occupied Europe: the methodical mass killing of Jewish prisoners. As trains full of people arrive daily, Rudi knows that the murders won’t stop until he reveals the truth to the world―and that each day that passes means more lives are lost.
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Wow!
- By Kristen Bible on 12-06-23
By: Steve Sheinkin
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Ruby Lost and Found
- By: Christina Li
- Narrated by: Katharine Chin
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Thanks to her Ye-Ye’s epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone—from her best friends to her older sister—is abandoning her. After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and Nai-Nai’s friends for company. When a new boy from Ruby’s grade, Liam Yeung, starts showing up too, Ruby’s humiliation is complete.
By: Christina Li
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The Lost Year
- A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine
- By: Katherine Marsh
- Narrated by: Anna Fikhman, Christopher Gebauer, Jesse Vilinsky, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation. But when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother’s belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret.
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Loved the three voices
- By Bridget Lahart on 01-29-24
By: Katherine Marsh
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Shipwrecked!
- Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor
- By: Martin W. Sandler
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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From the dramatic discovery of the world’s first analog computer to the incredible secrets uncovered in a sailor’s good luck charm, underwater excavation has revealed historical truths dating back to the beginning of modern civilization. As the exciting field of marine archaeology continues to grow, so do the astonishing discoveries from the ocean floor—with every sunken ship shedding light on moments in time that only the sea remembers. Shipwrecked! is a riveting deep dive into some of the world’s most incredible shipwrecks and what they reveal about human history.
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Mexikid
- (Newbery Honor Award Winner)
- By: Pedro Martín
- Narrated by: Oscar Emmanuel Fabela, Omar Leyva, Cynthia Farrell, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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Pedro Martin has grown up hearing stories about his abuelito—his legendary crime-fighting, grandfather who was once a part of the Mexican Revolution! But that doesn't mean Pedro is excited at the news that Abuelito is coming to live with their family. After all, Pedro has 8 brothers and sisters and the house is crowded enough! Still, Pedro piles into the Winnebago with his family for a road trip to Mexico to bring Abuelito home, and what follows is the trip of a lifetime, one filled with laughs and heartache.
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Loved it!
- By Mara Valadez on 04-17-24
By: Pedro Martín
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Cross My Heart and Never Lie
- By: Nora Dåsnes, Matt Bagguley - translator
- Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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Marian seems really cool … and nice … and we've got SO MUCH in common. Well, two things at least. But if feels like more. I don't think I've ever met someone I wanted to be friends with so badly!
By: Nora Dåsnes, and others
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Impossible Escape
- A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe
- By: Steve Sheinkin
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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It is 1944. A teenager named Rudolf (Rudi) Vrba has made up his mind. After barely surviving nearly two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, he knows he must escape. Even if death is more likely. Rudi has learned the terrible secret hidden behind the heavily guarded fences of concentration camps across Nazi-occupied Europe: the methodical mass killing of Jewish prisoners. As trains full of people arrive daily, Rudi knows that the murders won’t stop until he reveals the truth to the world―and that each day that passes means more lives are lost.
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Wow!
- By Kristen Bible on 12-06-23
By: Steve Sheinkin
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Ruby Lost and Found
- By: Christina Li
- Narrated by: Katharine Chin
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Thanks to her Ye-Ye’s epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone—from her best friends to her older sister—is abandoning her. After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and Nai-Nai’s friends for company. When a new boy from Ruby’s grade, Liam Yeung, starts showing up too, Ruby’s humiliation is complete.
By: Christina Li
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The Lost Year
- A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine
- By: Katherine Marsh
- Narrated by: Anna Fikhman, Christopher Gebauer, Jesse Vilinsky, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation. But when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother’s belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret.
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Loved the three voices
- By Bridget Lahart on 01-29-24
By: Katherine Marsh
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Elf Dog and Owl Head
- By: M.T. Anderson
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
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Clay has had his fill of home life. A global plague has brought the world to a screeching halt, and with little to look forward to but a summer of video-calling friends, vying with annoying sisters for the family computer, and tuning out his parents’ financial worries, he’s only too happy to retreat to the woods. From the moment the elegant little dog with the ornate collar appears like an apparition among the trees, Clay sees something uncanny in her.
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Perfect for dog lovers and adventurers
- By Susan Van Metre on 10-16-23
By: M.T. Anderson
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Eagle Drums
- By: Nasugraq Rainey Hopson
- Narrated by: Irene Bedard
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
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As his family prepares for winter, a young, skilled hunter must travel up the mountain to collect obsidian for knapping—the same mountain where his two older brothers died. When he reaches the mountaintop, he is immediately confronted by a terrifying eagle god named Savik. Savik gives the boy a choice: follow me or die like your brothers. What comes next is a harrowing journey to the home of the eagle gods and unexpected lessons on the natural world, the past that shapes us, and the community that binds us.
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Fabulous
- By sluggworth on 11-19-23
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Simon Sort of Says
- By: Erin Bow
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Simon O'Keeffe's biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a holy sacrament. Or maybe the alpaca disaster that went viral on YouTube. But the story the whole world wants to tell about Simon is the one he'd do anything to forget: the story in which he's the only kid in his class who survived a school shooting. Two years after the infamous event, twelve-year-old Simon and his family move to the National Quiet Zone—the only place in America where the internet is banned.
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Beautiful story!
- By Lopez on 03-15-24
By: Erin Bow
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America Redux
- Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History
- By: Ariel Aberg-Riger
- Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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America Redux explores the themes that create our shared sense of American identity and interrogates the myths we've been telling ourselves for centuries. With iconic American catchphrases as chapter titles, these twenty-one stories illuminate the astonishing, unexpected, sometimes darker sides of history that reverberate in our society to this very day—from the role of celebrity in immigration policy to the influence of one small group of white women on education to the effects of "progress" on housing and the environment, to the inspiring force of collective action and mutual aid.
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Words brought the visual alive
- By Darcy on 05-15-23
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The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
- By: Daniel Nayeri
- Narrated by: Daniel Nayeri
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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This is the tale of an exciting journey along the Silk Road with a young Monk and his newfound guardian, Samir, a larger than life character and the so-called "Seller of Dreams". The man is a scammer; his biggest skill being the ability to talk his way into getting what he wants. While that talking did save Monkey's life, it has left a lot of people furious with Samir— furious enough to hire assassins. Monkey decides to try and save Samir from the attempts on his life—as a way to pay off his debt! If he can save Samir six times, he'll be a free man...but will they all survive that long?
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Masterful Storytelling
- By B. McGuffey on 04-08-23
By: Daniel Nayeri
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The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman
- By: Mari Lowe
- Narrated by: Merissa Czyz
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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Shaindy Goodman feels awkward, overlooked. Across the street and in another league, elegant Gayil lives the life of a queen bee: gorgeous, liked and admired, the perfect Bais Yaakov Middle School girl. Even her school uniform looks chic. So it’s more than a shock when Shaindy sees Gayil in the window looking at her and holding a sign with five little words: want to know a secret? Gayil’s found a way to break into their school after hours and asks Shaindy to help pull off a series of harmless pranks in their classroom. But mischief soon becomes malice.
By: Mari Lowe
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Good Different
- By: Meg Eden Kuyatt
- Narrated by: Sue Ann Pien
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
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Selah knows her rules for being normal. She always, always sticks to them. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside, despite the way they build up inside her as each school day goes on, so that she has to run to the bathroom and hide in the stall until she can calm down. So that she has to tear off her normal-person mask the second she gets home from school, and listen to her favorite pop song on repeat, trying to recharge.
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A spectrum nutshell, beautifully revealed for all to see
- By Suzanna on 06-28-23
By: Meg Eden Kuyatt
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The Collectors: Stories
- By: A.S. King - editor, M. T. Anderson, E. Charlton-Trujillo, and others
- Narrated by: Becca Q. Co, Frankie Corzo, Vas Eli, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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From David Levithan’s story about a non-binary kid collecting pieces of other people’s collections to Jenny Torres Sanchez's tale of a girl gathering types of fire while trying not to get burned to G. Neri's piece about 1970's skaters seeking opportunities to go vertical—anything can be collected and in the hands of these award-winning and bestselling authors, any collection can tell a story. Nine of the best YA novelists working today have written fiction based on a prompt from Printz-winner A.S. King (who also contributes a story) and the result is itself an extraordinary collection.
By: A.S. King - editor, and others
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We Still Belong
- By: Christine Day
- Narrated by: Katie Anvil Rich
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
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A thoughtful and heartfelt middle grade novel by American Indian Youth Literature Honor-winning author Christine Day (Upper Skagit), about a girl whose hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples’ Day (and plans to ask her crush to the school dance) go all wrong—until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at an intertribal powwow.
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LOVE IT!!!!
- By Amazon Customer on 01-16-24
By: Christine Day
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The Eyes and the Impossible
- By: Dave Eggers
- Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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Johannes, a free dog, lives in an urban park by the sea. His job is to be the Eyes—to see everything that happens within the park and report back to the park’s elders, three ancient Bison. His friends—a seagull, a raccoon, a squirrel, and a pelican—work with him as the Assistant Eyes, observing the humans and other animals who share the park and making sure the Equilibrium is in balance. But changes are afoot. More humans, including Trouble Travelers, arrive in the park.
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A beautiful story with a tremendous narration
- By Chuck on 07-15-23
By: Dave Eggers
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The Labors of Hercules Beal
- By: Gary D. Schmidt
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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Herc Beal knows who he's named after—a mythical hero—but he's no superhero. He's the smallest kid in his class. So when his homeroom teacher at his new middle school gives him the assignment of duplicating the mythical Hercules's amazing feats in real life, he's skeptical. After all, there are no Nemean Lions on Cape Cod—and not a single Hydra in sight. Missing his parents terribly and wishing his older brother wasn't working all the time, Herc figures out how to take his first steps along the road that the great Hercules himself once walked.
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So funny with lots of tender life lessons
- By Smith on 01-26-24
By: Gary D. Schmidt
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The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn
- By: Sally J. Pla
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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Maudie always looks forward to the summers she spends in California with her dad. But this year, she must keep a troubling secret about her home life—one that her mom warned her never to tell. Maudie wants to confide in her dad about her stepdad's anger, but she’s scared. When a wildfire strikes, Maudie and her dad are forced to evacuate to the beach town where he grew up. It’s another turbulent wave of change. But now, every morning, from their camper, Maudie can see surfers bobbing in the water. She desperately wants to learn, but could she ever be brave enough?
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One of the best books featuring at autistic character I have read!
- By Duane on 04-12-24
By: Sally J. Pla
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- Tina Love
- 03-07-24
A Mona Lisa Book Report
The writing was a simple telling of a good story. Once I got over the millennial sound of the reader, it was clear she was great.
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- Ajay Thomas Joseph
- 12-21-23
Great listening to
Loved the story and the superb narration. I learned so much from this book. All in a day.
I recommend this book highly.
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- Katrina
- 11-26-23
Fascinating true thriller!
So good! It’s such a bonkers story and so well done. I wasn’t sure how it’d be on audio, but the narrator was fantastic.
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- David
- 04-05-24
Wow! So much fun and I learned a lot, too
I really enjoyed listening to this book! I thought I knew about the Mona Lisa, but I had no idea. I liked how the author interwove the story of the creation and the theft of the painting, and made it such a lighthearted read. Truly wonderful!
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- Latrice Pearl
- 03-29-24
Too Long
There is too much information for a middle grade book. I enjoyed reading it as an adult. it was very I formative.
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