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Author |
Reading Level |
Length |
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Description |
Babushka’s Doll |
Patricia Polacco |
Ages 4-8 |
1 cassette
.25 hours |
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 Babuska's doll was special. She had played with it when she was a little girl like her high-spirited granddaughter, Natasha. Now Babushka is going to the store, and Natasha takes the doll down from its shelf--but then promptly finds out why playing with Babushka's doll once, is enough. (Full-color illustrations.) |
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Baseball Pals |
Matt Christopher |
Ages 9-12 |
2 cassettes
2 hours |
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 Jimmie loses his head when he becomes the captain of his baseball team and makes himself pitcher. He nearly destroys the team--and his friendship with the ousted pitcher- before he recognizes the importance of honest leadership. (Black-and-white illustrations.) |
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Bearstone |
Will Hobbs |
Ages 9-12 |
2 cassettes
2.5 hours |
ALA Best Book for Young Adults |
 Fourteen-year-old, Ute Indian Cloyd Atcitty has grown up without parents or schooling. Later taken into the Colorado mountains to live with an old rancher, Cloyd secretly renames himself Lone Bear and calls upon the strength of his ancestors--first to battle his own hostilities and finally to discover the magical power of friendship. |
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The Big Wander |
Will Hobbs |
Ages 9-12 |
4 cassettes
5.75 hours |
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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 |
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The Blue Sword |
Robin McKinley |
Young Adult |
8 cassettes
12 hours |
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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. |
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Boys at Work |
Gary Soto |
Ages 9-12 |
2 cassettes
2.5 hours |
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 Accidentally breaking a local bully's Discman, Rudy Herrera and his best friend, Alex, frantically attempt to raise money to replace it by finding a lost cat, babysitting messy twins, and eventually teaming up with an enemy. |
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Briar Rose |
Jane Yolen |
Ages 9-12 |
5 cassettes
7 hours |
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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. |
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Bull Run |
Paul Fleischman |
Ages 9-12 |
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. |
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