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Dork Diaries 14

Dork Diaries: Book #14

By: Rachel Renée Russell
Narrated by: Jenni Barber
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Nikki Maxwell’s summer is packed with drama in this fourteenth installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series!

Nikki and her bandmates are looking forward to an AWESOME summer on tour as the opening act for the world famous Bad Boyz! Nikki is a little worried when her frenemy, MacKenzie Hollister, weasels her way into a... Read more

Like Vanessa

By: Tami Charles
Narrated by: Channie Waites
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Middle graders will laugh and cry with thirteen-year-old Vanessa Martin as she tries to be like Vanessa Williams, the first black Miss America, by reluctantly entering her own beauty pageant. In this semi-autobiographical debut novel set in 1983, Vanessa Martin's real-life reality of living with family in public housing in Newark, New Jersey is... Read more

Exiled

Odyssey of Nath Dragon: Book #1

By: Craig Halloran
Narrated by: Tim Campbell
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

A dragon prince destined to be king must flee his home to save it

Led by a mysterious diabolical menace, cunning dark elves hatch a deadly scheme that will destroy Nath Dragon and his kin. Forced to run or die, Nath is thrust from the sanctuary of Dragon Home and into the wild. With nobody to trust and nowhere to go, the young warrior sets out... Read more

The Devil’s Apprentice

Great Devil War: Book #1

By: Kenneth B. Andersen
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Welcome to a world like no other!

Philip is a good boy, a really good boy, who accidentally gets sent to Hell to become the Devil's heir. The Devil, Lucifer, is dying and desperately in need of a successor, but there's been a mistake and Philip is the wrong boy.

Lucifer has no other choice than to begin the difficult task of training Philip... Read more

¡Mambo mucho mambo!

El baile que atravesó la barrera del color

By: Dean Robbins
Narrated by: Eduardo Ruales
Length: 12 minutes

Era la década de 1940 en la segregada cuidad de Nueva York. Ya sea que bailaras al sonido de las trompetas y los saxofones en un salón en el barrio italiano o en la calle al son de maracas y congas en el barrio puertorriqueño, generalmente bailabas en el lugar donde vivías y con gente de tu mismo origen. Pero antes de que terminara la década,... Read more

A Different Pond

By: Bao Phi
Narrated by: Bao Phi
Length: 14 minutes

As a young boy, Bao and his father awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. A successful catch meant a fed family. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their... Read more

Hair Story

By: NoNieqa Ramos
Narrated by: Victoria Rodriguez & Eboni Flowers
Length: 25 minutes

Preciosa has hair that won’t stay straight, won’t be confined. Rudine’s hair resists rollers, flat irons, and rules. Together, the girls play hair salon! They take inspiration from their moms, their neighbors, their ancestors, and cultural icons. They discover that their hair holds roots of the past and threads of the future. Read more

Out of a Jar

By: Deborah Marcero
Narrated by: Ralph Lister
Length: 8 minutes

Llewellyn does not like to feel afraid or sad, angry, lonely, or embarrassed. And so he comes up with a brilliant plan: he tucks each of his feelings into jars and hides them away where they won't bother him anymore. But when he gets in trouble in class, Llewellyn finds he needs to put away excitement too. And when joy is quickly followed by... Read more

Out of the Shadows

How Lotte Reiniger Made the First Animated Fairytale Movie

By: Fiona Robinson
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Length: 37 minutes

Lotte Reiniger (1899–1981) was a German film director and animator best known for The Adventures of Prince Achmed, which was released in 1926 and is the oldest surviving animated movie. (It came out a full eleven years before Disney’s Snow White!) As a little kid, Reiniger loved reading fairytales and fell in love with puppetry. At school, she... Read more

Unicorn Night

By: Diana Murray
Narrated by: Stephanie Willing
Length: 7 minutes

Fuzzy jammies, flower beds, Sweet dreams swirling in our heads, Neigh, neigh, neigh, Played all day, Time to sleep the night away! Unicorns love to prance and dance the day away. But it's exhausting! Now it's time for unicorns to brush their manes, fluff their pillows, and sing the unicorn lullaby in this companion to the bestselling Unicorn Day. Read more

Bright Star

By: Yuyi Morales
Narrated by: Yuyi Morales
Length: 11 minutes

Child, you are awake! You are alive! You are a bright star, Inside our hearts. Told with a combination of powerful, spare language and sumptuous and complex imagery that is typical of Yuyi Morales's work, this is the story of a fawn making her way through a border landscape teeming with flora and fauna native to the region. A gentle but... Read more

Three Lost Seeds

Stories of Becoming

By: Stephie Morton
Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen, Nikki Thomas & Eunice Wong
Length: 13 minutes

Each of the three seeds in this story?a cherry seed in the Middle East, an acacia seed in Australia, a lotus seed in Asia?survives a difficult journey through flood, fire, or drought, then sprouts (in the case of the lotus seed, a hundred years later) and flourishes. To author Stephie Morton, nature's powerful forces are a metaphor for the... Read more

Skywatcher

By: Jamie Hogan
Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
Length: 17 minutes

Tamen longs to see the stars, but none are visible in the light-polluted sky above the fire escape of his urban apartment building. Even in the neighborhood park, the stars are hidden by city lights. This is a story about love and sacrifice: Tamen’s mom, a night-shift nurse, finds a way to take him camping. For one magical night on the shore of... Read more

Belly of the Beast

The Fabled Stables: Book #3

By: Jonathan Auxier
Narrated by: Dez Walker, Tyla Collier, Nikki Thomas, Matthew Brenher, Gary Furlong & Gildart Jackson
Length: 38 minutes

Auggie loves his job at the Fabled Stables, but he fears the day when it will come to an end. Fen keeps dropping hints that caretakers don’t stay forever, and it’s giving Auggie the grumps. Thankfully, there always seems to be a new stall to fill. This time, the stables set Auggie on a quest to rescue a beast called the Shibboleth—but, the... Read more

La selva de Zonia

By: Juana Martinez-Neal
Narrated by: Sisa Quispe & Cinthya Gonzales Perez
Length: 21 minutes

Explora las maravillas de la Amazonía con Zonia, una niña asháninka, cuyas alegres aventuras en la selva se interrumpen un día por un misterioso y desconcertante descubrimiento. La selva es el hogar de Zonia. Es su jardín y su patio, su vecindario y su parque. Cada mañana, la selva llama a Zonia. Cada mañana, ella responde: le dice “hola” a la... Read more

Aaron Slater, Illustrator

The Questioneers: Book #5

By: Andrea Beaty
Narrated by: Sullivan Jones
Length: 15 minutes

Aaron Slater loves listening to stories and dreams of one day writing them himself. But when it comes to reading, the letters just look like squiggles to him, and it soon becomes clear he struggles more than his peers. When his teacher asks each child in the class to write a story, Aaron can’t get a single word down. He is sure his dream of... Read more

Mi Casa Is My Home

By: Laurenne Sala
Narrated by: Marisa Blake
Length: 7 minutes

Bienvenidos to Lucía’s home. Lucía lives in her casa with her big, loud, beautiful familia, and she’s going to show you around! From la puerta, where Abuela likes to wave to the neighbors and wait for packages from Puerto Rico or Spain, to la cocina, where Lucía watches her Mamá turn empty pots into soups and arroces, to el patio, where Lucía... Read more

The Christmas Crumb

By: Lou Treleaven
Narrated by: Lewis Arlt, Lauren Ezzo, David Bendena & York Whitaker
Length: 8 minutes

A family of giants drops a crumb of chocolate yule log?but one crumb doesn't matter, does it? Join Pip and his mother, the mice, and the ants as everyone benefits from the giant Christmas bonanza. The audience will learn along with each of the characters that what might be a small thing for you can turn out to be a very big thing for someone else. Read more

I Love Vincent

By: Laura Ljungkvist
Narrated by: Travis Baldree
Length: 6 minutes

Scout is a very good boy. He is a seeing-eye dog who helps his human friend Vincent with all his daily activities because Vincent is blind. After graduating from a special training school where they learned how to be partners, Scout and Vincent became a perfect team! Vincent takes excellent care of Scout, giving him his favorite kind of food and... Read more

Love in the Library

By: Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Narrated by: Sura Siu
Length: 14 minutes

To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they weren’t human—that was miraculous. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast—elderly people, children, babies—now live in... Read more