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Audio Bookshelf
Overview
| Works: | 48
works in
80
publications in
3
languages and
2,884
library holdings
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| Roles: | Publisher |
| Classifications: | pz7.f599233,
813.54 |
Most widely held works by
Audio Bookshelf
Whirligig by Paul Fleischman (
Sound Recording
)
7
editions published
between
1999
and
2009
in
English
and held by
292
libraries
worldwide
While traveling to each corner of the country to build a whirligig in memory of the girl whose death he caused, sixteen-year-old Brian finds forgiveness and atonement.
Lives of the musicians good times, bad times (and what the neighbors thought) by Kathleen Krull (
Sound Recording
)
4
editions published
between
1996
and
2010
in
English
and held by
191
libraries
worldwide
From Vivaldi to Guthrie, each of these 20 composers is respectfully exposed for their idiosyncracies as well as their contributions to the history of music. What they ate, what they wore, who they loved and who their friends were - it's all here.
Across five Aprils by Irene Hunt (
Sound Recording
)
4
editions published
between
2002
and
2008
in
English
and held by
158
libraries
worldwide
Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.
Escaping the giant wave by Peg Kehret (
Sound Recording
)
3
editions published
in
2009
in
English
and held by
156
libraries
worldwide
When an earthquake creates a tsunami while thirteen-year-old Kyle is babysitting his sister during a family vacation at a Pacific Coast resort, he tries to save himself, his sister, and a boy who has bullied him for years.
Escape! the story of the great Houdini by Sid Fleischman (
Sound Recording
)
4
editions published
between
2007
and
2008
in
English
and held by
151
libraries
worldwide
A biography of the magician, ghost chaser, aviator, and king of escape artists whose amazing feats are remembered long after his death in 1926. Profiling his early years, personal life, and great accomplishments in show business, this is the story of the famous magician, Harry Houdini.
Lives of the artists masterpieces, messes (and what the neighbors thought) by Kathleen Krull (
Sound Recording
)
2
editions published
between
1996
and
2010
in
English
and held by
112
libraries
worldwide
Brief insights into the lives and works of twenty artists from Da Vinci and Michelangelo to Rivera & Kahlo.
Lives of the writers comedies, tragedies (and what the neighbors thought) by Kathleen Krull (
Sound Recording
)
2
editions published
between
1996
and
2010
in
English
and held by
111
libraries
worldwide
Provides a look inside the lives of twenty notable writers, including Shikibu, Poe, Stevenson, Hurston, and Twain.
A separate peace by John Knowles (
Sound Recording
)
1
edition published
in
2008
in
English
and held by
95
libraries
worldwide
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.
Riding Freedom by Pam Muñoz Ryan (
Sound Recording
)
2
editions published
in
2009
in
English
and held by
93
libraries
worldwide
A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance.
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Lord (
Sound Recording
)
3
editions published
in
2008
in
English
and held by
88
libraries
worldwide
Jackie Robinson proves that in America, the grandson of a slave can make a difference.
American tall tales by Mary Pope Osborne (
Sound Recording
)
1
edition published
in
2008
in
English
and held by
85
libraries
worldwide
A collection of tall tales about such American folk heroes as Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind, Pecos Bill, John Henry, and Paul Bunyan.
The people could fly American Black folktales by Virginia Hamilton (
Sound Recording
)
2
editions published
between
2008
and
2009
in
English
and held by
72
libraries
worldwide
Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.
My brother Sam is dead by James Lincoln Collier (
Sound Recording
)
3
editions published
between
2008
and
2009
in
English and No Linguistic Content
and held by
68
libraries
worldwide
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution, when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.
A day no pigs would die by Robert Newton Peck (
Sound Recording
)
2
editions published
in
2008
in
English
and held by
63
libraries
worldwide
To a thirteen-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he learns "doing what's got to be done," especially regarding his pet pig who cannot produce a litter.
Iron thunder the battle between the Monitor & the Merrimac : a Civil War novel by Avi (
Sound Recording
)
1
edition published
in
2010
in
English
and held by
59
libraries
worldwide
Tom's job as an assistant to Captain John Ericsson, the inventor of the Monitor, makes him a target of Confederate spies.
Black like me by John Howard Griffin (
Sound Recording
)
2
editions published
between
2007
and
2008
in
English
and held by
58
libraries
worldwide
Journalist John Howard Griffin chronicles his six weeks posing, with the aid of skin-darkening medication, as an African-American in the segregated South.
Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman (
Sound Recording
)
2
editions published
in
2008
in
English
and held by
54
libraries
worldwide
One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
On board the Titanic the complete story with eyewitness accounts by Shelley Tanaka (
Sound Recording
)
1
edition published
in
2008
in
English
and held by
51
libraries
worldwide
Told through the eyes of two young survivors, this thrilling account vividly recreates the night the world's biggest ship plunged to the bottom of the ocean.
The birchbark house by Louise Erdrich (
Sound Recording
)
1
edition published
in
2002
in
English
and held by
30
libraries
worldwide
This is a vital and dramatic novel of a year in the life of a yount Ojibwa girl in the mid-1800s.
Daniel's story by Carol Matas (
Sound Recording
)
1
edition published
in
2008
in
English
and held by
21
libraries
worldwide
Daniel barely remembers leading a normal life before the Nazis came to power in 1933. He can still picture once being happy and safe, but memories of those days are fading as he and his family face the dangers threatening Jews in Hitler's Germany in the late 1930s. Though many around him lose hope in the face of such terror, Daniel, supported by his courageous family, struggles for survival. He finds hope, life and even love in the midst of despair.
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