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After 13-year-old Hertz endures World War II, he must now survive Berlin’s devastation. With only Father’s violin as comfort, Hertz scrounges for food with his older sister Elsa, best friend Jakub from Poland, and fellow Berliners. Meanwhile, Soviet soldiers police the streets and blockade people from traveling to the American-controlled areas of Berlin.

At the start of his summer vacation following 6th grade, Ryan arrives at his mom’s Colorado Springs home to learn that she has been transferred to in a small fishing town resort in Campeche, Mexico, and they’re moving—now. Within hours, Ryan and his mom are on a plane to Mexico. There, Ryan is put to work as a Chico de la Bebida, a bar waiter on a private beach with boys his age.

Peter lives in a silent world. Thirteen, deaf, and tormented by neighborhood bullies, Peter seeks solace in summertime snorkeling outings with his eccentric Viking-horn-helmeted Uncle Sverrir. But after a dangerous encounter with a giant hammerhead predator, Peter discovers he has a unique gift: He can talk to sharks.

By empowering hamsters with laser firepower, a pair of Zammarians attempt to invoke chaos among humans in order to conquer the earth so their leader can bring back ALF to primetime TV. Overconfident redneck Dusty leans on his nine-year-old stepson Colt to reverse the hamsters' reign of destruction and save mankind.

Deep within Sebastian’s vivid imagination, international spy Foxfire is tasked with her most difficult mission yet: To find and capture the Devil himself. Outside Sebastian’s solitary comic book - drawing bouts, the mystery - loving 12-year-old helps his friends construct a secret tree fort using building supplies from an abandoned neighborhood shed while at home, he struggles to find common ground with his stepdad after his mom has left them following a car accident.

Tragedy strikes Pankyland when the owner, Mr. Panky, suffers a heart attack. Making things worse, a new state-of-the-art theme park, Be Little World, opens across the street and steals away all of Pankyland guests, threatening to shut down the Florida theme park for good. But when preteen Panky and his pals investigate, they learn Mr. Panky’s heart attack was no accident. Amongst several stomach-churning rides, friendship spats, and a rap battle of the century, the kids attempt to save Pankyland from extinction and bring the culprits to justice.

Eleven-year-old Panky and his nine-year-old brother, Craig, are picked to star in Pankyland the Movie. Amongst some sibling rivalry, Panky and Craig get kidnapped by a jealous parent whose kid didn't win the starring role in the movie. The two go on an adventure fleeing their captors while struggling to return to the movie set before the wacky movie director decides to move forward filming without them.

The fantasy continues.... Whatever happened after happily ever after? This thrilling collection of classic fairy tales answers the question, each story going deeper into the fanciful creations the world has loved and shared over the centuries.

Before St. Augustine earns his position as bishop, he and his teenage son must save the good name of the early Christian Church and rescue an altar boy from the clutches of a soul-capturing daemon. To do so, one of the two must travel to an unknown spiritual realm called the Neither, which lies between Purgatory and Hell, risking their eternal soul in the process. This Masters Reimagined tale is written as if Gothic painter Michael Pacher painted his St. Augustine Confounds the Devil masterpiece specifically for the story.

When a pair of neighboring, rival families visit a Florida theme park on Panky's 11th birthday, he is forced to team up with his nemesis Benji to find younger brother Craig before their parents find out they lost him. This high-adventure listen takes surprising twists when these boys chase down a group of bullies while getting chased themselves by park security. All the while, the main question on Panky's mind: Will they get out of this park alive?

After Colby's estranged father returns to his white-trash home, the nine year old struggles to survive a promiscuous neighborhood mother, money sharks, and an uncontrollable autistic older brother while discovering the true cost of living and brotherhood.

Here's an impressive collection of award-winning short stories in a wide variety of genres assured to keep listeners on edge. Twist endings, thought-provoking themes, and humorous characters including a Pop Tart-eating Christmas angel are crafted in the lost art of short story writing.

Twelve-year-old Johnny "No Good" Emmerstaff is an only child in a semi-rural section of Sanford, Florida in the late 1940s - until town snitch Tommy J drops in with the news that Johnny is getting a brother, an orphan named Josh. At first, Johnny doesn't know what to think of Josh. He's short, quiet, and he's butting into his life, sharing his bed, and eating his pancakes. But when Johnny's friend, Cully, picks on Josh, Johnny sticks up for him - his new brother.

For his 11th birthday, Pickles’s quirky great uncle, Professor Noodlemind, gives the boy the best gift in the world: a new cloned brother named Andy. Unfortunately, something goes wrong in the cloning process, and Andy now has an unusual affliction–his skin produces chocolate.

Too-smart-for-his-own-good Oscar meets fellow fifth grader Timothy, who he discovers has a secret power—mind control to change people’s minds, making them do whatever he wants. Oscar uses his new friendship to get out of detention and ace a history presentation. But when they have a sleepover and Timothy empowers Oscar with a limited ability of time travel, the two figure out how not to use their powers even in the most desperate of moments.