Classics

Maniac Magee (Unabridged)

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He wasn't born with the name Maniac Magee. He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name. And Maniac Magee became a legend. Even today kids talk about how fast he could run; about how he hit an inside-the-park "frog" homer; about how no knot, no matter how snarled, would stay that way once he began to untie it.

Author:

Jerry Spinelli

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Lexile:

820L

Length:

08:41

White Fang (Unabridged)

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This is the story of a wild dog's journey toward becoming civilized in the Canadian Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, at the end of the 19th Century. White Fang is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, about a kidnapped civilized dog becoming a wild wolf.

Author:

Jack London

Grade Level:

Middle

Length:

07:49

The Trumpet of the Swan (Unabridged)

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Louis is a Trumpeter Swan, but he has no voice. Though he is frightened when his father explains to him that he is different from the other cygnets, Louis is resourceful and determined. Leaving his wild and beautiful home, he finds a young human friend, Sam Beaver, who helps him learn to read and write.

Author:

E.B. White

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

750L

Length:

04:21

The Tell Tale Heart (Unabridged)

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Actor David Ian Davies' telling of Poe's Gothic horror tale "The Tell-Tale Heart" captures this classic narrative of the unnamed murderer in all its exquisite vileness, its self-effacing insanity that poses rationality where none exists.

Author:

Edgar Allan Poe

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

1350L

Length:

00:23

The Silver Chair: The Chronicles of Narnia (Unabridged)

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Narnia...where the owls speak, where evil weaves a spell, where sorcery enslaves the land.

Author:

C.S. Lewis

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

840L

Length:

05:26

The Silver Chair: The Chronicles of Narnia (Unabridged)

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Chronicles of Narnia (Unabridged)

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Narnia...where anything can happen (and most often does) and where the adventure begins.

Author:

C.S. Lewis

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

970L

Length:

05:51

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Chronicles of Narnia (Unabridged)

Prince Caspian: The Chronicles of Narnia (Unabridged)

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Narnia...the land between the lamp-post and the Castle of Cair Paravel, where animals talk, where magical things happen, and where the adventure begins.

Author:

C.S. Lewis

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

870L

Length:

04:40