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  • I Will Always Write Back Audiobook By Martin Ganda, Caitlin Alifirenka, Liz Welch cover art

    • I Will Always Write Back

    • How One Letter Changed Two Lives
    • By: Martin Ganda, Caitlin Alifirenka, Liz Welch
    • Narrated by: Chukwudi Iwuji, Emily Bauer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,566 ratings

    • The New York Times best-selling true story of an all-American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever. It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place....

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  • George Washington Carver: From Slave to Scientist Audiobook By Janet Benge, Geoff Benge cover art

    • George Washington Carver: From Slave to Scientist

    • By: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
    • Narrated by: Tim Gregory
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 250 ratings

    • Once a kidnapped slave baby, George Washington Carver found freedom in learning everything he could about the world around him. Overcoming poverty and racism, George became a brilliant scientist and a gifted professor who dedicated his expertise to helping black farmers....

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  • Harriet Tubman: Freedombound Audiobook By Janet Benge, Geoff Benge cover art

    • Harriet Tubman: Freedombound

    • By: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
    • Series: Christian Heroes: Then & Now
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings

    • At age six the sharp bite of a whip taught Harriet Tubman what it meant to be a slave. The other slaves scoffed when Harriet resolved to escape north someday. Little did they know that this girl would one day lead hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad....

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  • Becoming Kareem Audiobook By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld cover art

    • Becoming Kareem

    • Growing Up on and off the Court
    • By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld
    • Narrated by: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 244 ratings
    • At one time Lew Alcindor was just another kid from New York City with all the usual problems: He struggled with fitting in, with pleasing a strict father, and with overcoming shyness....

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  • My Lost Freedom Audiobook By George Takei cover art

    • My Lost Freedom

    • A Japanese American World War II Story
    • By: George Takei
    • Narrated by: George Takei
    • Length: 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • February 19, 1942. George Takei is four years old when his world changes forever. Two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares anyone of Japanese descent an enemy of the United States....

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  • Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: Volume Two Audiobook By Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines cover art

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  • Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? Audiobook By Bonnie Bader cover art

    • Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?

    • By: Bonnie Bader
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings

    • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights....

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  • Who Was Helen Keller? Audiobook By Gare Thompson cover art

    • Who Was Helen Keller?

    • By: Gare Thompson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings

    • At age two, Helen Keller became deaf and blind. She lived in a world of silence and darkness and she spent the rest of her life struggling to break through it. But with the help of teacher Annie Sullivan, Helen learned to read, write, and do many amazing things....

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  • Kid Trailblazers Audiobook By Robin Stevenson cover art

    • Kid Trailblazers

    • True Tales of Childhood from Changemakers and Leaders
    • By: Robin Stevenson
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Inspiring, relatable, and totally true biographies tell the childhood stories of a diverse group of trailblazers including Kamala Harris, Greta Thunberg, Ai Weiwei, Benazir Bhutto, Elliot Page, and John Lewis, along with ten other powerful figures....

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  • Cuentos para niños y niñas que quieren salvar el mundo [Stories for Boys and Girls Who Want to Save the World]

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  • I Am Stephen Hawking Audiobook By Brad Meltzer cover art

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  • Who Was Rosa Parks? Audiobook By Yona Zeldis McDonough cover art

    • Who Was Rosa Parks?

    • Who Was...?
    • By: Yona Zeldis McDonough
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America....

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  • Rolling Warrior Audiobook By Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner cover art

    • Rolling Warrior

    • The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution
    • By: Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
    • Narrated by: Ali Stroker
    • Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

    • As featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp, and for fans of I Am Malala, one of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her story of fighting to belong....

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  • Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History Audiobook By Vashti Harrison cover art

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  • Ida B. Wells Audiobook By Laura K. Murray cover art

    • Ida B. Wells

    • Biographies
    • By: Laura K. Murray
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • How much do you know about Ida B. Wells? Find out the facts you need to know about this journalist and activist.

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  • Frederick Douglass: The Right to Dignity Audiobook By Janet Benge, Geoff Benge cover art

    • Frederick Douglass: The Right to Dignity

    • Heroes of History
    • By: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
    • Narrated by: Tim Gregory
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Escaping from slavery, Frederick Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in America, the greatest orator of his day, an influential newspaper publisher, writer, and statesman, and the most important African American of the nineteenth century....

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  • Rainbow Revolutionaries Audiobook By Sarah Prager cover art

    • Rainbow Revolutionaries

    • Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History
    • By: Sarah Prager
    • Narrated by: Inés del Castillo
    • Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • This groundbreaking, pop-culture-infused LGBTQ+ biography collection takes listeners on an eye-opening journey through the lives of 50 influential queer figures who have made a mark on every century of human existence....

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  • I Am Helen Keller Audiobook By Brad Meltzer cover art

    • I Am Helen Keller

    • Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • By: Brad Meltzer
    • Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Various
    • Series: Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • Length: 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • When Helen Keller was very young, she got a rare disease that made her deaf and blind. Suddenly, she couldn't see or hear at all, and it was hard for her to communicate with anyone. But when she was six years old, she met someone who changed her life forever: her teacher, Annie Sullivan....

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  • Beyond the Game: Maya Moore Audiobook By Andrew Maraniss cover art

    • Beyond the Game: Maya Moore

    • Beyond the Game: Athletes Change the World
    • By: Andrew Maraniss
    • Narrated by: Ozzie Jacobs
    • Length: 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • In this chapter book biography by acclaimed author Andrew Maraniss, listeners learn more about the life and work of WNBA star Maya Moore....

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  • The Courageous Six Triple Eight: The All-Black Female Battalion of World War II Audiobook By Dr. Artika R. Tyner, Cynthia Pau

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