Memoirs

26 Fairmount Avenue: Book 1: Fairmount Avenue (Unabridged)

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In a heartwarming first-person account, dePaola retells his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy. 26 Fairmount Avenue is full of humor, drama, suspense and just the day-to-day ups and downs of a little boy's life.

Author:

Tomie dePaola

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

760L

Length:

00:48

26 Fairmount Avenue: Book 1: Fairmount Avenue (Unabridged)

Thank You, Mr. Falker (Unabridged)

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Patricia Polacco is now one of America's most loved children's book writers and illustrators, but once upon a time, she was a little girl named Trisha starting school. Trisha could paint and draw beautifully, but when she looked at words on a page, all she could see was jumble. It took a very special teacher to recognize little Trisha's dyslexia: Mr.

Author:

Patricia Polacco

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Lexile:

650L

Length:

00:38

Tuesdays With Morrie: 10th Anniversary Edition (Unabridged)

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It's been 10 years since Mitch Albom first shared the wisdom of Morrie Schwartz with the world. Now, 12 million copies later, in a new foreword, Mitch Albom reflects again on the meaning of Morrie's life lessons and the gentle, irrevocable impact of their Tuesday sessions all those years ago.

Author:

Mitch Albom

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

830L

Length:

18:27

Tuesdays With Morrie: 10th Anniversary Edition (Unabridged)

Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog (Abridged Nonfiction)

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John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wriggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same.

Author:

John Grogan

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

1050L

Length:

06:04

Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog (Abridged Nonfiction)

Devil In the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood (Unabridged)

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The struggles and humiliations of adolescence are told in an unflinching, funny, surprisingly universal tale of one good Jewish girl's battle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Author:

Jennifer Traig

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

950L

Length:

07:25

Devil In the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood (Unabridged)

All but My Life (Unabridged)

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A classic of Holocaust literature, Gerda Weissmann Klein's celebrated memoir tells the moving story of a young woman's three frightful years as a slave laborer of the Nazis and her miraculous liberation. All But My Life stands as the ultimate lesson in humanity, hope, and friendship.

Author:

Gerda Weissmann Klein

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

780L

Length:

09:37

All Creatures Great and Small (Unabridged)

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These are the stories that catapulted James Herriot to literary fame. When this book was first published, it was a simple volume of memoirs by an unknown Scottish veterinarian. But within a year, the book became recognized as a masterpiece. And in the two and a half decades that followed, Dr. Herriot became one of the most universally loved authors of our time.

Author:

James Herriot

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

990L

Length:

16:16

All Creatures Great and Small (Unabridged)

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (Abridged Nonfiction)

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More than 50 years after its first publication, Doubleday's definitive edition of Anne Frank's famous diary generated an extraordinary amount of excitement when it was published in early 1995.

Author:

Anne Frank, edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

1080L

Length:

05:58

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (Abridged Nonfiction)

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