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Pretties (Unabridged)

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Tally Youngblood never felt like the other Pretties - she almost didn't become one. But Tally isn't the only one who feels like she's missing a part of herself. After uncovering sinister clues about the Pretty surgery, she stumbles upon a possible cure for Pretty-mindedness and a possible escape from the city. But the cure could have deadly consequences.

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860L
Length: 
11:08
Pretties (Unabridged)

Uglies (Unabridged)

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Tally Youngblood is quickly approaching her 16th birthday and the mandatory pretty-making surgery that accompanies it. But Tally isn't sure if she wants to be a placidly happy Pretty. When a top secret organization threatens her with remaining Ugly forever, she reluctantly spies on the rebels who have refused the surgery. They think it changes more than just looks and are working on a cure.

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Lexile: 
770L
Length: 
12:20
Uglies (Unabridged)

Specials (Unabridged)

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Tally never wanted to be Special, but some talents cannot be denied. Specials keep the Pretties happy and naive, keep the Uglies wishing to be Pretty and - most importantly - keep the Smokies powerless.

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Lexile: 
880L
Length: 
10:48
Specials (Unabridged)

FREE: The Future of a Radical Price (Unabridged)

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The New York Times best-selling author heralds the future of business in Free. In his revolutionary best seller, The Long Tail, Chris Anderson demonstrated how the online marketplace creates niche markets, allowing products and consumers to connect in a way that has never been possible before.

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Lexile: 
1220L
Length: 
06:59
FREE: The Future of a Radical Price (Unabridged)

Soup (Unabridged)

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With over a dozen books now in the wildly popular Soup series, Robert Newton Peck started it all with this hilarious account of the nonstop mischief he and his best friend Soup got into as children in 1920s Vermont. You'll learn all about the time Soup taught Rob how to whack apples, only to wind up breaking a church's stained-glass window!

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Lexile: 
740L
Length: 
03:19
Soup (Unabridged)

The Mystery of the Babe Ruth Baseball: Cam Jansen, Book 6 (Unabridged)

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The Cam Jansen books are perfect for young readers who are making the transition to chapter books, and Cam is a spunky young heroine whom readers have loved for over two decades. Now the first 10 books in the series have updated covers that bring new life to these perennial best-sellers. Old fans and new readers will love Cam's cool, modern look!

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Lexile: 
500L
Length: 
00:36
The Mystery of the Babe Ruth Baseball: Cam Jansen, Book 6 (Unabridged)

The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Unabridged)

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Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret.

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780L
Length: 
04:39
The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Unabridged)

Just So Stories: How the Camel Got His Hump (Unabridged)

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A classic fable from Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, read by Johnny Morris.

Have you ever wondered how and why the animals came to be as they are? In these magical tales, drawn from stories he heard as a child in India as well as on folk traditions he later collected all over the world, Rudyard Kipling gives some wonderfully imaginative explanations.

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Lexile: 
1060L
Length: 
00:07
Just So Stories: How the Camel Got His Hump (Unabridged)

Al Capone Does My Shirts (Unabridged)

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Murderers, mob bosses, and convicts . . . these guys are not your average neighbors. Unless you live on Alcatraz. It's 1935 and 12-year-old Moose Flanagan and his family have just moved to the infamous island that's home to criminals like notorious escapee Roy Gardner, Machine Gun Kelly, and of course, Al Capone.

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Lexile: 
600L
Length: 
06:10
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Unabridged)

Three Cups of Tea (Unabridged)

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This young readers edition of the worldwide best seller Three Cups of Tea has been specially adapted for younger readers and updated by Greg Mortenson to bring his remarkable story of humanitarianism up to date for the present.

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Lexile: 
1220L
Length: 
03:59
Three Cups of Tea (Unabridged)

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