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860L

Length:

01:56

The Twits (Unabridged)

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Dahl's thrillingly grotesque book for young readers features Mr. and Mrs. Twit, the smelliest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything — except playing mean jokes on each other, catching innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads all day. But the Muggle-Wumps have had enough.

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Roald Dahl

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Lexile:

750L

Length:

00:50

Ivy and Bean (Unabridged)

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Annie Barrows introduces Ivy and Bean, two unique girls who certainly didn't plan on becoming friends. Bean, a mischievous yet lovable tomboy, never thought she'd enjoy playing with Ivy, the quiet new neighbor who looks rather boring. Ivy, however, happens to be a witch in training!

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Lexile:

510L

Length:

01:05

Ivy & Bean Take Care of the Babysitter (Unabridged)

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Annie Barrows' pint-sized adventurers have captured the attention of young listeners eager for clever and witty stories. Barrows has received multiple accolades, including a starred review from Booklist and glowing praise from School Library Journal. In their fourth outing, bookish Ivy and rambunctious Bean must outwit the most awful babysitter ever - Bean's older sister Nancy.

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Lexile:

440L

Length:

01:03

Ivy & Bean Take Care of the Babysitter (Unabridged)

Ivy & Bean: Bound to Be Bad (Unabridged)

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The adventures of Ivy and Bean continue. In this fifth book, the girls decide to be so good and kind and pure of thought that wild animals will befriend them. When this doesn't work, they decide that perhaps a little badness can be good. Illustrations.

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Lexile:

500L

Length:

01:10

Ivy & Bean: Bound to Be Bad (Unabridged)

Ivy & Bean: Doomed to Dance (Unabridged)

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Annie Barrows has won critical acclaim and become fabulously popular among young readers for her enchanting Ivy and Bean books. In Doomed to Dance, Ivy and Bean pester their parents into letting them take ballet lessons - but ballet isn't quite what the girls thought it would be! And now they have to get through the entire ballet course, just like they promised.

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Lexile:

530L

Length:

01:19

Ivy & Bean: Doomed to Dance (Unabridged)

Ivy and Bean and the Ghost That Had to Go (Unabridged)

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Annie Barrows' Ivy & Bean and the Ghost That Had to Go will have kids jumping in their seats one instant and rolling on the floor laughing the next. While Bean is the loudest girl in her class, Ivy is the quietest, best-behaved second grader. So when Ivy scares the whole class silly by saying there's a ghost in the girls' bathroom, everyone is surprised!

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Lexile:

580L

Length:

01:20

Ivy and Bean and the Ghost That Had to Go (Unabridged)

Ivy & Bean Break the Fossil Record (Unabridged)

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Annie Barrows' infectiously fun Ivy & Bean Break the Fossil Record will have kids racing outside to shovel some dirt. Everyone in the second grade wants to set a world record. While other kids attempt to break records involving cartwheels and M&Ms, Ivy has a much neater idea. She and Bean will be the youngest people to ever unearth dinosaur fossils!

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Lexile:

520L

Length:

01:14

Ivy & Bean Break the Fossil Record (Unabridged)

Ivy and Bean: What's the Big Idea (Unabridged)

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Annie Barrows' Ivy and Bean books star a pair of mismatched best friends who are nevertheless inseparable. The science fair is here, and everyone in Ivy and Bean's second-grade class couldn't be more excited. This year's theme is global warming, and all of the kids are working on their own projects and experiments. But what are Ivy and Bean up to?

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Lexile:

550L

Length:

01:19

Ivy and Bean: What's the Big Idea (Unabridged)

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Unabridged)

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Ramona's job is to be nice to fussy Mrs. Kemp, who watches her while her mother works. If Mrs. Quimby didn't work, Mr. Quimby couldn't return to college. On top of all that, third grade isn't turning out as Ramona expected, even though she enjoys her class's new reading program, D.E.A.R. Danny the Yard Ape teases her, and, on one horrible day, she throws up - at school.

Author:

Beverly Cleary

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