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Old Yeller

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When a novel like Huckleberry Finn or The Yearling comes along, it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the response it evokes in the reader. Such a tale is Old Yeller; to listen to this eloquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable and deeply moving experience.

Author: 
Fred Gipson
Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Lexile: 
910L
Length: 
03:30
Old Yeller

The Green Mile

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Hear this history-making serial novel - from cliffhanger to cliffhanger - in its entirety. When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King's The Green Mile was an unprecedented publishing triumph; all six volumes ended up on the New York Times best seller list - simultaneously - and delighted millions of fans the world over.

Author: 
Stephen King
Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Lexile: 
910L
Length: 
13:52
The Green Mile

The Breadwinner

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Imagine living in a country in which women and girls are not allowed to leave the house without a man. Imagine having to wear clothes that cover every part of your body, including your face, whenever you go out.

Author: 
Deborah Ellis
Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Lexile: 
630L
Length: 
03:00
The Breadwinner

Son

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"They called her Water Claire."

When the young girl washed up on their shore, no one knew she had been a Vessel. That she had carried a Product. That it had been carved from her belly. Stolen.

Author: 
Lois Lowry
Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Lexile: 
720L
Length: 
08:11
Son

Secret State of North Korea: Explore Life Under Kim Jong-Un (2014)

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Just two years into the job and armed with nuclear weapons, North Korea's Kim Jong-un is the world's youngest dictator, ruling one of the world's most isolated countries. Like his father and grandfather, he wants to maintain tight control over what North Koreans see of the world - and what the world sees of North Korea.

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Middle
High
Length: 
01:00
Secret State of North Korea: Explore Life Under Kim Jong-Un

Speak

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From her first moment at Merryweather High, Melinda Sordino knows she's an outcast.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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The fourth book in the internationally best-selling Harry Potter series. During the summer, 14-year-old Harry Potter happily joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, which is held in England this year. He happily enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy, where he can once again see Cho Chang, who has captured his attention. He is even happy to be part of a competition between two rival schools of magic. But he is not happy that dreams have set his scar to burning again, a sure sign that his dark enemy, is growing stronger.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Now 15 years old and in his fifth year at Hogwort's, Harry has much on his mind. Terrible nightmares are interrupting his sleep, forcing him to wake up screaming. Worse still, the terrifying presence of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is growing stronger. Add to this the disappearance of Hagrid and the fast-approaching Ordinary Wizarding Level exams, and the boy wizard's fifth year promises to be a great challenge.

Kit includes paperback book and audio CD.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Harry, wand in hand, is in his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. A great war is raging between good and evil, the "Second War" prophesied at the conclusion of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. There is no doubt that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named has returned. The New York Times Book Review praises the author: "... funny, moving and impressive ...Like Harry Potter, [J.K. Rowling] has soared beyond her modest Muggle surroundings to achieve something quite special."

The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Unabridged)

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Sussex, England: A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. He is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet sitting by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean), the unremembered past comes flooding back.

Author: 
Neil Gaiman
Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
05:48
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Unabridged)

Fed Up (2014)

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Narrated by Katie Couric, Fed Up blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and exercise, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry-aided by the U.S. government-to mislead and confuse the American public.

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Middle
High
Length: 
99
Fed Up

Freedom: A History of US (2003)

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It's long been America's strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line. For generations, men and women have lived and died for it. Now, consider what it means to be free with this groundbreaking new series, based on the award-winning books by master storyteller Joy Hakim.

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Middle
High
Length: 
07:00
Freedom: A History of US

Journey of a Man (2003)

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Journey of a Man answers the question, "Where do we all come from?" Today, some six billion people are spread across the planet. But there was a time-not so long ago-when the human species numbered only a few thousand and their world was a single continent: Africa.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
2:00
Journey of a Man

Kennedy's Last Days: The Assassination That Defined a Generation

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Copies: 7

On a sunny day in Dallas, Texas, at the end of a campaign trip, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is assassinated by an angry, lonely drifter named Lee Harvey Oswald. The former Marine Corps sharpshooter escapes briefly, but is hunted down, captured, and then shot dead while in police custody.

Author: 
Bill O'Riley
Lexile: 
1050L
Kennedy's Last Days: The Assassination That Defined a Generation

The Boy on the Wooden Box

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Leon Leyson loved playing on the Krakow streetcars with his friends and tagging along after his older brothers...

Then, suddenly, German soldiers were: In his country. In his city. In his home.

Seemingly overnight, the life he knew vanished. The Third Reich wanted him, and every other Jew in Europe, dead.

Author: 
Leon Leyson
Lexile: 
1000L
The Boy on the Wooden Box

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