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    • Surviving a Lost Childhood
    • By: Gary Paulsen
    • Narrated by: Dan Bittner
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • A middle grade memoir from a living literary legend, giving listeners a new perspective on the origins of Gary Paulsen's famed survival stories....

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    • By: Roald Dahl
    • Narrated by: Dan Stevens
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 671 ratings
    • Where did Roald Dahl get all of his wonderful ideas for stories? From his own life, of course! As full of excitement and the unexpected as his world-famous, best-selling books, Roald Dahl's tales of his own childhood are completely fascinating and fiendishly funny....

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    • By: Roald Dahl
    • Narrated by: Dan Stevens
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 513 ratings
    • Superb stories, daring deeds, fantastic adventures! Going Solo is the action-packed tale of Roald Dahl's exploits as a World War II pilot. Learn all about his encounters with the enemy, his worldwide travels, the life-threatening injuries he sustained in a plane accident....

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    • By: Jacqueline Woodson
    • Narrated by: Jacqueline Woodson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,269 ratings
    • Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s....

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    • By: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 03-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • From the big woods of Wisconsin to the Indian country of the Great Plains, new adventures and landscapes filled the rich childhood of Laura Ingalls Wilder. On a frontier steeped in both danger and great possibility, Laura would grow up to witness firsthand the rapid transformation of the West....

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    • Author of the Harry Potter Series
    • By: Jennifer Hunsicker
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Listeners will learn about the life and works of J.K. Rowling. The author’s life leading up to her success as the best-selling author of the Harry Potter series is discussed....

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    • Reflections on Being Raised by a Pack of Sled Dogs
    • By: Gary Paulsen
    • Narrated by: Gary Paulsen
    • Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • An experienced Iditarod racer, Gary Paulsen brings his love of the sport to readers on a personal level in this intimate essay about the life of a litter of pups born to pull sleds....

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    • The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
    • By: Lindsay Mattick
    • Narrated by: Erin Moon
    • Length: 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl! Here is the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh....

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    • Who Was...?
    • By: Janet Pascal
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Ted Geisel loved to doodle from the time he was a kid. He had an offbeat, fun-loving personality. He often threw dinner parties where guests wore outrageous hats! And he donned quirky hats when thinking up ideas for books-like his classic The Cat in the Hat....

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    • By: Patrick Kinney
    • Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo
    • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Even when he was a kid, everyone thought Jeff Kinney was talented. People loved his drawings, and when he went to college his comic strip, Igdoof, was so popular it spread to other universities....

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    • And Other Outrageous Tales about Extreme Sports
    • By: Gary Paulsen
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Wacky, daring, just plain nuts - extreme sports lead to extreme fun in new stories from Gary’s boyhood....

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    • By: Celeste Mannis
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The beloved plays of Shakespeare are still produced everywhere, yet the life of the world's most famous playwright remains largely a mystery. Young Will left the town of Stratford to pursue theater in London, where his work eventually thrived and made him a famous and wealthy man....

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    • By: Jerry Spinelli
    • Narrated by: Matt Weisgerber
    • Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Newbery medalist Jerry Spinelli has penned his early autobiography with all the warmth, humor, and drama of his bestselling fiction....

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    • Author of the Twilight Series
    • By: Lori Mortensen
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Listeners will learn about the life and works of Stephenie Meyer. This young adult author’s life leading up to her success as the best-selling author of the Twilight series is discussed....

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    • The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of the Snowy Day
    • By: Andrea Davis Pinkney
    • Narrated by: Channie Waites
    • Length: 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • On the 100th anniversary of his birth, a celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day....

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    • A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
    • By: Ibi Zoboi
    • Narrated by: Ibi Zoboi, Robin Miles
    • Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler experienced an American childhood....

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    • By: True Kelley
    • Narrated by: René Ruiz
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Roald Dahl is one of the most famous children's book authors ever. Now, in this Who Was...? biography, children will learn of his real-life adventures....

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