Language Arts
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Audio Books for Middle School - "B" titles
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Title |
Author |
Grade |
Core/Supp |
Length |
Other |
Description |
Beverly Billingsly Borrows a Book |
Stadler, Alexander |
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1 CD, book
AB-237 |
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The Big Wander |
Will Hobbs |
7-8 |
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4 cassettes
5.75 hours
AB-95 |
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The award-winning author of such books as Bearstone returns with a vibrant story of a boy’s summer adventure. When Clay and his older brother set out on a Southwestern trip, the older brother grows bored. On his own, Clay learns the value of self-reliance and determination. “Hobbs skillfully blends action with moments of humor and insight.” -School LIbrary Journal |
The Blue Sword |
Robin McKinley |
7-12 |
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8 cassettes
12 hours
AB-13 |
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Harry Crewe, the Homelander orphan girl, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers. |
Blueberries for Sale |
Robert McCloskey |
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1 Cassette
9 min
AB-196 |
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Briar Rose |
Jane Yolen |
7-8 |
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5 cassettes
7 hours
AB-97 |
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Briar Rose is a powerful and moving novel that deftly blends the legend of Sleeping Beauty with the historical tragedy of the Holocaust. After her grandmother's death, a young American woman struggles to uncover the truth behind the old woman's past. The trail eventually leads to Europe and the darkest days of WWII. |
Bud, Not Buddy |
Paul, Christopher Curtis |
6 |
core |
1 Cassett
3.38 hr
AB-130 |
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Bull Run |
Fleischman, Paul |
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1 CD
2 hr
AB-277 |
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Bull Run |
Paul Fleischman |
4-6 |
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2 cassettes |
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In this brilliant fictional tour de force that can be read as a novel or performed as readers' theater, Newbery Award-winning author Paul Fleischman recreates the first great battle of the Civil War from the points of view of 16 participants--Northern and Southern, male and female, black and white.
A collection of stories of the Civil War recounted by a war-fevered boy, a doctor, a slave woman, a lover of horses, a black man determined to become a soldier, and others form an account of the war's first great battle. |
By the Light Of The Halloween Moon |
Stutson, Caroline |
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1 Cassette
6 min
AB- 192 |
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