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Title: Swindle Author: Gordon Korman Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross ISBN: 9781436106542 Pages: 252 pages Discs: 4 CDs, 4.5 hours Publisher/Date: Scholastic Press, c2008. “You have been chosen for your special skills to do something that urgently needs to be done. To learn more, come to the Ballroom at 3:30. Don’t miss this. It will be [...]
Title: 11 Birthdays Author: Wendy Mass ISBN: 9780545052405 Pages: 267 pages Publisher/Date: Scholastic Inc., c2009. Maybe I dreamed the last two days and today is really my birthday? Trembling, I reach down to feel the backs of my ankles. Band-Aids on both. I sit down on my bed and begin to cry. This is no [...]
January 14, 2010
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Title: The White Giraffe Author: Lauren St. John Narrator: Adjoa Andoh ISBN: 9780739350522 Discs: 4 CDs / 4 hours, 47 minutes Publisher/Date: Listening Library, c2007. “It was Mr. Grice from Social Services who told Martine that she would be moving to Africa. Cape Town, South Africa, to be precise. ‘South Africa!’ cried Martine. ‘Why South [...]
Title: How to Steal a Dog Author: Barbara O’Connor ISBN: 9780374334970 Pages: 170 pages Publisher/Date: Frances Foster Books, c2007. “Listen, Toby,” I said. “It’s the only way we’re ever gonna have us a real place to live instead of this car, you hear?” He nodded. “Don’t you want a real place to live?” He nodded [...]
Title: Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat Author: Lynne Jonell ISBN: 9780805081503 Pages: 346 pages Publisher/Date: Henry Holt and Company, 2007. “Don’t pretend you didn’t hear the Rat talk, because I know you did.” “I’m not pretending,” said Emmy hurriedly. “He does. He talks. I don’t know why, either, but nobody else ever seems to [...]
February 4, 2009
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Title: No Talking Author: Andrew Clements Narrator: Keith Nobbs ISBN: 9781428154216 Discs: 3 CDs/ 3 hours Produced: Recorded Books, LLC. c2007 The fifth graders at Laketon Elementary are loud, obnoxious, and talkative. They are so loud, that they get their own lunch time, which is monitored by the principal and her red plastic bullhorn. That’s [...]
Title: Ellie McDoodle: Have Pen Will Travel Author: Ruth McNally Barshaw ISBN: 9781582347455 Pages: 170 pages Publisher/Date: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children’s Books, c2007 “So now I’m trapped in a steel projectile, hurtling down the highway into the Great Unknown with a bunch of control freaks and snotty-nosed brats. Eric started a fight with Deanna and Tiffie [...]
