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Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin
Available on: Audio Download ($24.98) | Audio CD ($39.96) | Audio Cassette ($39.95)
Writer John Howard Griffin decided to perform an experiment in order to learn from the inside out how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another race....
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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
by Betty Bao Lord
Available on: Audio Download ($19.98) | Audio CD ($31.96)
Shirley Temple Wong is thrilled to be moving from her home in China to America. But it isn't easy. She doesn't speak English, the kids at school ignore her, and she feels very far from home.
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On Board the Titanic
by Shelley Tanaka
Available on: Audio Download ($12.48) | Audio CD ($19.96)
Told through the eyes of two young survivors, this thrilling account vividly recreates the night the world's biggest ship plunged to the bottom of the ocean.
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Daniel's Story
by Carol Matas
Available on: Audio Download ($19.98) | Audio CD ($31.96)
Although Daniel is a fictitious character, his story was inspired by the real experiences of many of the more than one million children who died in the Holocaust.
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Amos Fortune, Free Man
by Elizabeth Yates
Available on: Audio Download ($19.98) | Audio CD ($39.95)
The life of the eighteenth-century African prince who, after being captured by slave traders, was brought to Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty.
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Escape: The Story of the Great Houdini
by Sid Fleischman
Available on: Audio Download ($19.98) | Audio CD ($31.96)
Here are the stories of how a knockabout kid named Ehrich Weiss, the son of an impoverished rabbi, presto-changoed himself into the legendary Harry Houdini.
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The Mark Twain Sampler
by Mark Twain
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It is hardly an exaggeration to call Mark Twain one of the true giants of American literature, a master...
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Close to Shore
by Michael Capuzzo
Available on: Audio Download ($19.98) | Audio CD ($39.95)
During the summer of 1916, just as railroad travel enabled city dwellers to make day-trips to the seashore and swimming in the ocean became popular, bathers along the East Coast were frightened away by a series of vicious attacks in the water.
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Revenge of the Whale
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Available on: Audio Download ($17.48) | Audio CD ($35.96) | Audio Cassette ($31.46)
The shipwrecked crew of the whaleship Essex was living proof that it could when a whale displayed a fury never before witnessed, ramming and sinking their vessel in a matter of minutes in November,1820.
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Double Life of Pocahontas
by Jean Fritz
Available on: Audio Download ($17.48) | Audio CD ($27.96)
A biography of the famous American Indian princess, emphasizing her life-long adulation of John Smith and the roles she played in two very different cultures.
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