Newbery Award

When You Reach Me (Unabridged)

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Four mysterious letters change Miranda’s world forever.

By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it’s safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they know whom to avoid, like the crazy guy on the corner.

Author:

Rebecca Stead

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

750L

Length:

04:20

The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Unabridged)

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Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean islands she left behind. In her relatives' stern Puritan community, she feels like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world, a bird that is now caged and lonely.

Author:

Elizabeth George Speare

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

850L

Length:

06:34

The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Unabridged)

Rascal (Unabridged)

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In 1918 Wisconsin, 11-year-old Sterling North has an almost perfect life. He keeps skunks in the backyard, goes everywhere with his enormous Saint Bernard, and is building a canoe in the living room. The only trouble is life gets a little lonely for him and his father since his mother died. While scouting around the woods one afternoon, he discovers an abandoned, month-old raccoon.

Author:

Sterling North

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Lexile:

1080L

Length:

04:20

The Whipping Boy (Unabridged)

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Jemmy, once a poor boy living on the streets, now lives in a castle. But as the whipping boy, he bears the punishment when the prince misbehaves, as such; the two boys have little in common and even less reason to like one another.

Author:

Sid Fleischman

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

570L

Length:

01:27

Sarah, Plain and Tall (Unabridged)

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"I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall." A heartwarming story about two children, Anna and Caleb, whose lives are changed forever when their widowed papa advertises for a mail-order bride. Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton from Maine answers the ad and agrees to come for a month.

Author:

Patricia MacLachlan

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

560L

Length:

01:02

Shiloh (Unabridged)

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From Phyllis Reynolds Naylor comes this unabridged recording of her Newbery Award-winning tale of adventure, courage and love, the timeless and moving story of a dog in trouble and the young boy who would save him.

Author:

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

890L

Length:

02:48

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

The Tale of Despereaux (Unabridged)

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This is the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in darkness but covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl with a simple, impossible wish.

Author:

Kate DiCamillo

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

670L

Length:

07:01

Owl Moon (Unabridged)

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A young child and her father search the moonlit woods for the Great Horned Owl. Movingly narrated by author Jane Yolen.

Author:

Jane Yolen

Grade Level:

Primary

Lexile:

630L

Length:

00:08

Bud, Not Buddy (Unabridged)

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It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and 10-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him. One: He has his own suitcase filled with his own important, secret things. Two: He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself.

Author:

Christopher Paul Curtis

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

950L

Length:

05:15