Social Studies

A Boy Called Slow (Unabridged)

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His father had earned the name Returns Again to Strike the Enemy, his uncle Four Horns - good, strong names. But the boy, born many winters ago to the Hunkpapa band of the Lakota Sioux, was called Slow.

Author:

Joseph Bruchac

Grade Level:

Primary

Lexile:

AD690L

Length:

00:12

Sam Samurai: Time Warp Trio, Book 10 (Unabridged)

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Sam, Fred and Joe are working on a haiku when they get accidentally transported to ancient Japan!

Author:

Jon Scieszka

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

550L

Length:

01:38

Sam Samurai: Time Warp Trio, Book 10 (Unabridged)

Viking and Liking It: Time Warp Trio, Book 12 (Unabridged)

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Everyone's favorite time travelers get sent from Fred's room in Brooklyn into the middle of a Viking adventure!

Author:

Jon Scieszka

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

530L

Length:

01:16

Viking and Liking It: Time Warp Trio, Book 12 (Unabridged)

Esperanza Rising (Unabridged)

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Esperanza Ortega possesses all the treasures a young girl could want: fancy dresses; a beautiful home filled with servants in the bountiful region of Aguascalientes, Mexico; and the promise of one day rising to Mama's position and presiding over all of El Rancho de las Rosas.

Author:

Pam Munoz Ryan

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

750L

Length:

04:45

Streams to the River, River to the Sea: A Novel of Sacagawea (Unabridged)

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No woman in all of our history has captured the imagination like the young Shoshone girl Sacagawea, who served as in interpreter and often as a guide for Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition into our uncharted West.

Author:

Scott O'Dell

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

740L

Length:

04:50

Streams to the River, River to the Sea: A Novel of Sacagawea (Unabridged)

The Amethyst Ring (Unabridged)

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Spanish seminarian Julián Escobar, known to the Mayas as Lord Kukulcán and worshipped as a god, witnesses the fall of the Mayan and Incan civilizations with the coming of Cortés and Pizarro.

Author:

Scott O'Dell

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Lexile:

980L

Length:

08:01

The 290 (Unabridged)

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Jim Lynne is idly playing darts in Liverpool when his brother, Ted, calls him over to a table to ask a question about the ship that he's working on. It seems the ship, enigmatically named the 290, is not the cargo ship that people are saying it is. Whatever its purpose, it is certainly built for speed. But Jim thinks he knows that purpose: it is being built for the Confederate navy.

Author:

Scott O'Dell

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

910L

Length:

02:33

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (Unabridged)

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In the summer of 1849, Lucy Whipple's mother packs up her household and her two young children, and leaves their home in Massachusetts for the gold fields of California.

Author:

Karen Cushman

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Lexile:

1030L

Length:

04:56

The Three Documents That Made America (Unabridged)

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For the first time ever, the complete founding documents of the United States of America are here in one unabridged recording. Sam Fink, award-winning author of the highly acclaimed illustrated book of The Declaration of Independence, provides concise introductions.

Author:

Sam Fink

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:27

The Three Documents That Made America (Unabridged)

Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame (and What the Neighbors Thought)

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Which president had feet bigger than his ego? Washington. Which barked like a seal? Kennedy. Which joked about dating mummies? Clinton. These fun and quirky facts bring to light the human side of the 42 men who have served as U.S. presidents.

Author:

Kathleen Krull

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Lexile:

1240L

Length:

02:55

Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame (and What the Neighbors Thought)

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