Non-Fiction

Immigrant Kids (Unabridged)

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Many people came to America in the early 1900s looking for jobs, opportunity, and freedom, and a lot of them were kids. But what happened to all these immigrant children after they passed inspection at New York’s Ellis Island - that is, if they passed inspection? Life was not easy for immigrants. Large families lived in small, one-room tenement apartments with failing plumbing and few windows.

Author:

Russell Freedman

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

1050L

Length:

00:40

Me Talk Pretty One Day

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David Sedaris' new collection of essays - including live recordings! - tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes ("There was the lisp, of course, but more troubling than that was my voice itself, with its excitable tone and high, girlish pitch") and unwanted guitar lessons taught by a midget.

Author:

David Sedaris

Grade Level:

High

Length:

05:52

Three Cups of Tea (Unabridged)

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This young readers edition of the worldwide best seller Three Cups of Tea has been specially adapted for younger readers and updated by Greg Mortenson to bring his remarkable story of humanitarianism up to date for the present.

Author:

Greg Mortenson

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

1220L

Length:

03:59

A Child Called 'It': One Child's Courage to Survive (Unabridged)

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Dave Pelzer's astonishing, disturbing account of his early years describes one of the most severe child-abuse cases in California history. This book spent over 175 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Author:

David Pelzer

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

850L

Length:

03:47

A Child Called 'It': One Child's Courage to Survive (Unabridged)

The Freedom Writers Diary (Unabridged)

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Straight from the front line of urban America comes the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students.

Author:

The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

900L

Length:

09:32

Magic Tree House #23: Twister On Tuesday (Unabridged)

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In Twister on Tuesday, Jack and Annie are whisked to a midwestern prairie in the 1870s. They visit a one-room schoolhouse and learn about the hard life of the pioneers. When they return to the magic tree house, Jack and Annie spot a twister on the horizon. Is there time to warn the teacher and the children back at the schoolhouse? Or should Jack and Annie just save themselves?

Author:

Mary Pope Osborne

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

310L

Length:

00:38

Magic Tree House #23: Twister On Tuesday (Unabridged)

The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War (Unabridged)

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We all know about the famous generals and the major battles of the Civil War. But for the soldiers who actually fought, the war was all too real. It was especially traumatic for the thousands of soldiers who ranged in age from 10 to 15. Some young soldiers joined the fray to escape the boredom of farm work or to "set the South straight". Many of them kept diaries and wrote letters home.

Author:

Jim Murphy

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

1060L

Length:

02:01

The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War (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)

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance (Nonfiction)

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It's a survival story almost too incredible to believe, but it's the extraordinary true tale of endurance in the harshest environment on earth. Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set off from England aboard the ship Endurance, intending to cross Antarctica from one side to the other.

Author:

Jennifer Armstrong

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

1090L

Length:

03:47

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance (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)

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