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From the award-winning author of The Running Dream and Flipped comes a remarkable portrait of a girl who has hit rock bottom but begins a climb back to herself at a wilderness survival camp.
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- P. Goddard
- 12-26-20
Thought Provoking
So many challenges growing up these days. Mother nature is an incomperable teacher! This story includes some fiction, and some important truth.
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- Holly_Keen18
- 11-26-19
BEST BOOK
This book was amazing, I think every young adult or teen should read this. Even parents! It was a fantastic book that is funny, makes you think, and just is over all one of my favorites.
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- Texas Reader
- 04-30-18
A beautiful story of healing
#mystrangereading Wild Bird by Wendelin Van Draanen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This story was moving, powerful and beautiful. I love how the audible worked in this stories favor because of the story-telling elements in Wren's journey. If you enjoy realistic fiction and stories about healing and finding your true self, this is definitely a read for you!
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- Lovestocook
- 06-10-21
perfection on all fronts
The story was spot on and the narrator was perfect for this book. We've all read at some point a story of untoward teenager turning her life around with boot camp or something to that extent but this is so much more. Being told from 1st person really gives you the sense of what wren is going through from moment to moment and it was just very well done. And the actual details of the camp itself and the things that the girls go through there simply put you right there. 1st book by this author but won't be my last
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- alex jump
- 09-09-19
A great read
This is a great book for getting a better understanding of what middle school/high school kids are going through and thinking. It's an educational book for parents and kids- definitely makes you think and analyze yourself and your relationship with your child. I wish we could all go to "prison camp" for 8 weeks and really discover ourselves.
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- Jadda M.
- 03-08-19
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- kraven
- 10-24-18
Yes! You must listen to this book!
This is one of those stories that captures your heart from the very first word. It is beautifully written and the reader is perfect.
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- Kami M. Creer
- 12-13-17
Loved Loved Loved
I loved this book so much, I did not want it to end. Perfect Voice. Loved!
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- Keri Measom
- 11-02-17
inspiring!
Loved it. Excellent narration and character development. Real...a must read for every teenager and parent of teens.
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The audio edition of the best-selling middle grade novel about a spunky girl born without arms and a boy with Tourette syndrome navigating the challenges of middle school, disability, and friendship - all while solving a mystery in a western theme park. Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is that she was born without them.
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Ever wish a fictional character was real?
- By Audiobookaddict1 on 05-04-20
By: Dusti Bowling
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The Peach Rebellion
- By: Wendelin Van Draanen
- Narrated by: Lauri Jo Daniels, Emily Ellet
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Ginny Rose and Peggy were best friends at seven, picking peaches on hot summer days. Peggy’s family owned the farm, and Ginny Rose’s were pickers, escaping the Oklahoma dust storms. That didn’t matter to them then, but now, 10 years, hard miles, and a world war later, Ginny Rose’s family is back in town and their differences feel somehow starker. Especially since Peggy’s new best friend, Lisette, is a wealthy banker’s daughter.
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Wonderful story about a great friendship!
- By Steven C. Frenzel on 06-08-22
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One Wild Bird at a Time
- Portraits of Individual Lives
- By: Bernd Heinrich
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day-to-day observations of individual wild birds. Heinrich's observations lead to fascinating questions - and sometimes startling discoveries. A great crested flycatcher bringing food to the young acts surreptitiously and is attacked by the mate. Why? A pair of northern flickers hammering their nest-hole into the side of Heinrich's cabin delivers the opportunity to observe the feeding competition between siblings.
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An Adventure In Nature
- By Sara on 12-21-16
By: Bernd Heinrich
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Girl in the Blue Coat
- By: Monica Hesse
- Narrated by: Natalia Payne
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black market goods to paying customers, her nights hiding the true nature of her work from her concerned parents, and every waking moment mourning her boyfriend, who was killed on the Dutch front lines when the Germans invaded. She likes to think of her illegal work as a small act of rebellion.
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A gripping Story of Love and War
- By Daryl on 08-14-16
By: Monica Hesse
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What It's Like to Be a Bird
- From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing - What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Sibley Guides)
- By: David Allen Sibley
- Narrated by: Evan Sibley
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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In What It's Like to Be a Bird, David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often. This special brand-new audio edition is geared as much to nonbirders as it is to the out-and-out obsessed, covering more than 200 species. While its focus is on familiar backyard birds—blue jays, nuthatches, chickadees—it also examines certain species that can be fairly easily observed, such as the seashore-dwelling Atlantic puffin.
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Wonderfully narrated. The perfect companion to the book
- By Amy T on 09-14-22
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Posted
- By: John David Anderson
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In middle school, words aren't just words. They can be weapons. They can be gifts. The right words can win you friends or make you enemies. They can come back to haunt you. Sometimes they can change things forever. When cell phones are banned at Branton Middle School, Frost and his friends Deedee, Wolf, and Bench come up with a new way to communicate: leaving sticky notes for each other all around the school. It catches on, and soon all the kids in school are leaving notes - though for every kind and friendly one, there is a cutting and cruel one as well.
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Really enjoyed this book
- By Svend&Brandy K. on 06-07-17
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Song for a Whale
- By: Lynne Kelly
- Narrated by: Abigail Revasch, Lynne Kelly
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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From fixing the class computer to repairing old radios, 12-year-old Iris is a tech genius. But she's the only deaf person in her school, so people often treat her like she's not very smart. If you've ever felt like no one was listening to you, then you know how hard that can be. When she learns about Blue 55, a real whale who is unable to speak to other whales, Iris understands how he must feel. Then she has an idea: She should invent a way to "sing" to him! But he's 3,000 miles away. How will she play her song for him?
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A five star whale of a tale!
- By Donna G on 02-24-19
By: Lynne Kelly
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The Bird Way
- A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
- By: Jennifer Ackerman
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ackerman
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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"There is the mammal way and there is the bird way." But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries - what they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they communicate, forage, court, breed, survive. They are also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities, abilities we once considered uniquely our own.
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Good Work but it doesn’t scale
- By Stanley Lippman on 07-02-20
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Hope in the Mail
- Reflections on Writing and Life
- By: Wendelin Van Draanen
- Narrated by: Wendelin Van Draanen
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Wendelin Van Draanen didn't grow up wanting to be a writer, but 30 books later, she's convinced that writing saved her life. Or, at least, saved her from a life of bitterness and despair. Writing helped her sort out what she thought and felt and wanted. And digging deep into fictional characters helped her understand the real people in her life better as well. Wendelin shares what she's learned - about writing, life, and what it takes to live the writing life. This audiobook is packed with practical advice on the craft.
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Hope In The Mail
- By Hannah Paley on 09-13-20
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The Genius of Birds
- By: Jennifer Ackerman
- Narrated by: Margaret Strom
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like humans, many birds have enormous brains relative to their size. Although small, bird brains are packed with neurons that allow them to punch well above their weight.
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Interesting Subject, Mispronunciations Detract
- By Amazon Customer on 05-10-16