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Me Oh Maya: Time Warp Trio 13 (Unabridged)

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Everyone's favorite time-travelers are changing their style! The Time Warp Trio® series now features brand-new, eye-catching art in a modern design, sure to appeal to longtime fans and those new to Jon Scieszka's wacky brand of humor.

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530L
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01:15
Me Oh Maya: Time Warp Trio 13 (Unabridged)

Hey Kid, Want to Buy a Bridge?: Time Warp Trio, Book 11 (Unabridged)

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Everyone's favorite time-travelers are back! This time, the Trio end up in a different time but pretty much the same place: their hometown of Brooklyn in 1877.

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Hey Kid, Want to Buy a Bridge?: Time Warp Trio, Book 11 (Unabridged)

Cowboy and Octopus (Unabridged)

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Peanut butter and jelly. George and Martha. Frog and Toad. Cowboy and...Octopus? Yes, that's right. Meet Cowboy and Octopus - the next great pair to become a household name. Cowboy likes beans'n'bacon and bacon'n'beans. Octopus eats raw seafood. Octopus prefers knock-knock jokes, but Cowboy doesn't get them. How will these two ever be friends?

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AD350L
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00:07
Cowboy and Octopus (Unabridged)

Squids Will Be Squids (Unabridged)

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Sure we'd all love to be able to go around telling stories about all the weird, scary, and just plain annoying people that we know. But the truth is, no one likes a gossip. Here, the irrepressible Jon Scieszka has found a way around that problem: he just makes like Aesop and changes all the people to animals or food, adds a moral to each story, and calls the stories fables!

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AD650L
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00:21
Squids Will Be Squids (Unabridged)

Peak (Unabridged)

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Peak Marcello is a 14-year-old who loves to climb things. Unfortunately, living in New York City makes his hobby difficult. After a run-in with the law, Peak is presented with two options: endure Juvenile Detention or reconnect with his estranged father, who runs a climbing operation in Thailand.

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780L
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06:54
Peak (Unabridged)

Storm Runners #1: Wind (Unabridged)

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Thirteen year-old Chase and his dad are "storm runners", traveling across the country chasing hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods. When disaster strikes, Chase's dad is always ready to lend a hand... Or so it seems. In the aftermath of the hurricane of the century, chase realizes his "disaster hunter" dad isn't the hero he makes himself out to be.

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700L
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03:08
Storm Runners #1: Wind (Unabridged)

The Twenty-One Balloons (Unabridged)

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Professor William Waterman Sherman just wants to be alone. So he decides to take a year off and spend it crossing the Pacific Ocean in a hot-air balloon the likes of which no one has ever seen. But when he is found after just three weeks floating in the Atlantic among the wreckage of twenty hot-air balloons, naturally, the world is eager to know what happened.

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1070L
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03:21
The Twenty-One Balloons (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.

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750L
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04:45
Esperanza Rising (Unabridged)

Riding Freedom (Unabridged)

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Charlotte Parkhurst was raised in the mid-1800s and was expected to live her life without the freedoms she dreamed of. But Charlotte was smart and determined, and she figured out a way to live her life the way she wanted. She became an expert horse rider, a legendary stagecoach driver, and the first woman ever to vote - at a time when such things were outlawed for women.

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720L
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02:21
Riding Freedom (Unabridged)

Paint the Wind (Unabridged)

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A puzzling photograph, a box filled with faded toy horses, and a single fractured memory are all that Maya has left of her mother. In Grandmother's house in California, she lives like a captive, tethered by Grandmother's rules: no talk of her mother, no friends, no foolishness of any kind...until a shocking event changes everything.

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780L
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05:02
Paint the Wind (Unabridged)

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