Listening Library
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Cameron Smith attends an elite boarding school and has just been accepted to Princeton University alongside his beautiful girlfriend, Claire. Life should be perfect--except that Cameron Smith is actually Skip O'Rourke, who ran away from his grifter family four years ago--along with $100,000 of their "earnings." When his uncle Wonderful tracks him down, Skip's given an ultimatum: come back to the family for one last con, or say good-bye to life as...
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Language
English
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Description
Meet Kevin Pugh, 12-year-old couch potato. Now meet Cromwell, his part beagle, part potato chip dog. Kevin’s looking forward to spending his summer doing as little as possible. Unfortunately, Kevin’s father, former Chicago Bears star player/super-sports fanatic, Howie Pugh, feels differently. So does Cromwell, who has suddenly and mysteriously developed a fascination with agility competitions: running up seesaws, leaping over hurdles,...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 9-16
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2003
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie experience a series of time-travel adventures. (Dolphins at daybreak) It's sink or swim for Jack and Annie when the magic tree house whisks them off to the middle of the ocean. (Ghost town at sundown) "Is this town haunted?" Jack and Annie wonder when the magic tree house takes them to the Wild Wild West. (Lions at lunchtime) "Where are the lions?" Jack wonders when the magic tree house whisks him and his sister to the vast plains of...
5) Front desk
Author
Series
Front desk volume 1
Language
English
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Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie find a magic treehouse, which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying on a hillside, she feels compelled to protect her, a...
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen of Hans Christian Andersen's beloved fairy tales, narrated by a full cast. Unlike the Brothers Grimm, who collected and retold folklore and fairy tales, Hans Christian Andersen adopted the most ancient literary forms and distilled them into a genre that was uniquely his own. Andersen's fairy tales, such as "The Snow Queen," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Little Mermaid" and "The Nightingale," are remarkable for their sense of fantasy and magic,...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 2
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie use the magic treehouse to travel back to the Middle Ages, where they explore a castle and are helped by a mysterious knight.
Author
Language
English
Description
Nate the Great : When Nate gets an urgent call from Annie about a lost picture, he immediately plunges into his new and baffling case with the cool detachment of a Sam Spade. Nate, the boy detective who "likes to work alone," solves the mystery and tracks down the culprit. In the process, he also discovers the whereabouts of Super Hex, the missing cat.
Nate the Great goes undercover : Nate the Great has his first night case! Somebody is raiding Oliver's...