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This compelling classic of a boy's coming of age during the Civil War is based on stories the author's grandfather told her about his own life.

Fairy tales have traditionally been considered a European import. Though undoubtedly influenced...

This superb collection of larger-than-life folk heroes aptly represents America's robust early days, perfectly capturing the vitality of the men and women who carved a new country....

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.

The true story of a harbor seal that charmed the world, this audio will capture young imaginations.

Ashley Bryan travels from coast to coast speaking and performing and is an award-winning author and illustrator. He turned 80 years old in 2003 and lives on an island off the coast of Maine.

An award-winning children's book author/illustrator brilliantly performs two hours of poems and his most endearing folktales.

Originally published in 1923 as perhaps the first "ecological" novel ever written, Schulman's adaptation of this beloved classic will transport listeners of all ages to the magical forest glade world of Bambi. Great for family listening.

Gary Soto, also an award-winning poet, is renowned for getting at the heart of a young person's everyday life. In these eleven stories…

Award-winning author Erdrich weaves a vital and dramatic novel of a year in the life of a young Ojibwa girl in the mid-1800's.

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....

On March 12, 1888, hurricane-force winds and unrelenting snow began to bring the East Coast...

Bull Run was the site of the first battle of the Civil War. This book creates an intimate tapestry...

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.

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.

Robert Newton Peck's most touching and famous book is a story so filled with light that once you hear it...

Author of more than 30 books of poetry and prose, Donald Hall performs dozens of his best-loved...

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.

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.

Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh is nanny to John and Abigail Adams' children and witnesses firsthand how tension builds in the feisty New England town in the two years before it erupts in the Boston Massacre.

A colossal disaster, the Great Fire of 1871 caused damaged so profound to Chicago that few people believed the city could ever rise again.

Each of the 25 poets (representing 36 poems) in this collection is introduced with a brief biography and poetry notes. Unforgettable performances by award-winners Ashley Bryan and Renee Joshua-Porter provide a stirring tribute to 25 of America's best poets - from Lucy Terry to Rita Dove.

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.

Winners of numerous awards and honors since they were published, Island Boy and Miss Rumphius have become mainstays of children's bookshelves everywhere.

Lives of Extraordinary Women turns the spotlight on the women who have wielded power, revealing their feats - and flaws - for all the world to see...