Historical fiction

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party (Unabridged)

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He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother, a princess in exile from a faraway land, are the only people in their household assigned names.

Author: 
M.T. Anderson
Grade Level: 
High
Lexile: 
1090L
Length: 
08:20
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party (Unabridged)

La Vida Secreta de las Abejas: Novela [The Secret Life of Bees] (Texto Completo)

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Ambientada en Carolina del Sur en 1964, La vida secreta de las abejas es la historia de Lily Owens, cuya vida ha sido formada alrededor del recuerdo confuso de la tarde en que su madre fue asesinada. Esta es una novela notable sobre el poder divino femenino, una historia que las mujeres compartiran y pasaran a sus hijas por generaciones.

Author: 
Sue Monk Kidd
Grade Level: 
High
Length: 
10:47
La Vida Secreta de las Abejas: Novela [The Secret Life of Bees] (Texto Completo)

Fair Weather (Unabridged)

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In his celebrated novels A Year Down Yonder and A Long Way from Chicago, Richard Peck carried us happily back to the Midwest of the 1930's. Now he's ready to transport us all the way back to 1893, to the Chicago World's Fair and its breathtaking mix of personalities and glimpses of the future.

Author: 
Richard Peck
Grade Level: 
Middle
Lexile: 
670L
Length: 
03:29
Fair Weather (Unabridged)

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Unabridged)

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For 25 years, middle-grade readers have been moved by this telling of Sadako Sasaki's spirited battle with leukemia.

Author: 
Eleanor Coerr
Grade Level: 
Elementary
Lexile: 
630L
Length: 
01:32
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Unabridged)

The Crucible (Dramatized)

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In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. In the ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor, The Crucible mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria in the 1950s.

Author: 
Arthur Miller
Grade Level: 
High
Lexile: 
1320L
Length: 
03:58
The Crucible (Dramatized)

A Long Way from Chicago (Unabridged)

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Set during the years 1929–1942, and told in eight engaging episodes, this fresh and funny novel recounts a boy and his sister's annual summer trips to rural Illinois to visit their eccentric grandmother. Grandma Dowdel, a remarkable larger-than-life character, continually astounds her grandchildren with her nonconformist behavior and her gutsy, take-charge attitude.

Author: 
Richard Peck
Grade Level: 
Middle
Lexile: 
750L
Length: 
04:18
A Long Way from Chicago (Unabridged)

A Year Down Yonder (Unabridged)

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Mary Alice and Grandma Dowdel return for more astonishing, laugh-out-loud adventures when 15-year-old Mary Alice moves in with her spicy grandmother for the year. Her extended visit is filled with moonlit schemes, romances both foiled and founded, and a whole parade of fools made to suffer in unusual (and always hilarious) ways.

Author: 
Richard Peck
Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Lexile: 
610L
Length: 
03:25
A Year Down Yonder (Unabridged)

A Northern Light (Unabridged)

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Mattie Gokey has a word for everything. She collects words, stores them up as a way of fending off the hard truths of her life, the truths that she can't write down in stories.

Author: 
Jennifer Donnelly
Grade Level: 
High
Lexile: 
700L
Length: 
18:04
A Northern Light (Unabridged)

The Secret Life of Bees (Unabridged)

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Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed.

Author: 
Sue Monk Kidd
Grade Level: 
High
Lexile: 
840L
Length: 
09:55
The Secret Life of Bees (Unabridged)

Beloved (Unabridged)

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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but 18 years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened.

Author: 
Toni Morrison
Grade Level: 
High
Lexile: 
870L
Length: 
12:03
Beloved (Unabridged)

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