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From silly chuckles to rueful ironic glee to deep cosmic laughter, this new volume of humorous tales samples the best of recent seasons of the popular public radio series Selected Shorts.

It's a hard-knock life for America's favorite orphan! Everyone knows the story of the irrepressible Annie, who lives at Miss Hannigan's orphanage until she beats the odds and finds a new life with the benevolent and wealthy Daddy Warbucks. Annie has enchanted millions of fans from her original comic strip appearance to the hit Broadway musical. Now, with a Tony-nominated revival playing on Broadway, Puffin is reissuing this novelization of the classic story, with a new introduction by Tony and Emmy Award-winning author Thomas Meehan.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Annie, read by Annie Potts It's 1933 and for as long as she can remember, 11 year old Annie has believed that her mother and father would come back to her New York City orphanage to get her. But mean Miss Hannigan the headmistress is making Annie's life a misery. So she runs away to find her parents - and along the way she rescues a friendly dog, meets millionaire Oliver Warbucks, and has a many scary and exciting adventures.

Aos onze anos, Annie é uma garotinha corajosa o suficiente para encarar sozinha as ruas de Nova York perseguindo seu grande sonho: encontrar os pais. Deixada por eles num orfanato quando ainda era um bebê com a promessa de que um dia voltariam para buscá-la, Annie leva uma vida difícil sob o comando da malvada Srta. Hannigan, diretora do lugar.