Elementary

Streaming Audio Book. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a humorous and nostalgic book depicting the carefree days of boyhood in a small Midwestern town. The characters are based on Twain's schoolmates and the town is Hannibal, Missouri-the setting where he grew up. So, what did boys do in a small town during the mid-1800's, a time when there were no televisions, no arcades and no movies? They whitewashed fences, floated rivers, traded marbles, formed secret societies, smoked pipes and, on occasion, managed to attend their own funerals.

Hannah is my name in this new country. It doesn't sound at all like my
Chinese name, Na-Li, which means beautiful.

¡El pobre Jorge está en problemas de nuevo! Ha sido llamado a la oficina del Director. Pero antes de que el Director le pregunte por que esta ahí… Jorge confiesa. Llegó atrasado a clases; no terminó su tarea de matemáticas; desparramó pintura, y dejó la puerta abierta de la caja de ratones. Un problema ha llevado al siguiente y ahora Jorge está hasta las orejas en problemas –pero no es su culpa! Jorge tiene una excusa para todo, pero sus malas decisiones lo alcanzan y Jorge se queda sin excusas ni a quien echarle la culpa.

Carlitos’ mother is a janitor. Every night while he sleeps, his mother cleans in one of the skyscrapers in downtown L.A. One night, his mamá explains that she can’t make enough money to support him and his abuelita the way she needs to unless she makes more money as a janitor. She and the other janitors have decided to go on strike. Will he support her and help her all he can? Of course, Carlitos wants to help but he cannot think of a way until he sees his mother on TV making a speech in support of the strike. Finally, Carlitos knows how he can show his mamá how proud he is of her.