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An engaging adventure from a Newbery Honor-winning storyteller for listeners who love the circus, and anyone who has dreamed of finding the perfect home.
Four orphans have escaped from the Home for Friendless Children. One is Lucy, who used to talk and sing. No one knows why she doesn't speak anymore; silence is her protection.
The orphans find work and new friends at a traveling circus. Lucy loves caring for the elephants, but she must be able to speak to them, and to warn others of danger. If Lucy doesn't find her voice, she'll be left behind when the circus goes on the rails. Meanwhile, people are searching for Lucy, and her puzzling past is about to catch up with her.
This lively, heartwarming novel by the award-winning author of the Tales from Alcatraz series is full of marvels and surprises.
©2020 Gennifer Choldenko (P)2020 Listening LibraryLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Excellent historical fiction audiobook
- De LindaJS en 10-03-17
De: Martha Conway
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The Last Carolina Girl
- De: Meagan Church
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 201
For fourteen-year-old Leah Payne, life in her beloved coastal Carolina town is worlds away from the harsh realities of the day. Loyal to her lumberjack father, she knows only of the familiarity of her small community, the magic of the natural world, and the creative intuition that prompts her to march to the beat of her own drum. But when an accident takes her father's life, leaving her an orphan, Leah finds herself cast into a family of strangers whose welcoming façade hides a terrible secret.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WOW
- De Savannah Brown en 06-10-23
De: Meagan Church
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A Cup of Dust: A Novel of the Dust Bowl
- Pearl Spence Novels, Book 1
- De: Susie Finkbeiner
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 244
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 227
Ten-year-old Pearl Spence is a daydreamer, playing make-believe to escape life in Oklahoma's Dust Bowl in 1935. The Spences have their share of misfortune, but as the sheriff's family, they've got more than most in this dry, desolate place. They're who the town turns to when there's a crisis or a need. Pearl is proud of her loving, strong family, though she often wearies of tracking down her mentally impaired older sister or wrestling with her grandmother's unshakable belief in a God. Then a mysterious man bent on revenge tramps into her town of Red River.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intense
- De VickyJ en 02-07-21
De: Susie Finkbeiner
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Fallen Angels
- De: Patricia Hickman
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
During the Great Depression, Jeb Nubey is running from the law when he meets three abandoned children. With nowhere else to go the group passes a stormy night in a comforting church. When they are discovered, a case of mistaken identity ensues. It seems the congregation has been waiting for their new pastor, a widower with three kids. Looks like more trouble for Jeb. Yet the chance for a steady job and three squares a day is too good to turn down.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Touching
- De Christina en 11-11-04
De: Patricia Hickman
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Finding Langston
- De: Lesa Cline-Ransome
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 2 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
When 11-year-old Langston's mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago's brown belt as a part of what came to be known as the Great Migration. It's lonely in the small apartment with just the two of them, and Langston is bullied at school. But his new home has one fantastic thing. Unlike the whites-only library in Alabama, the local public library welcomes everyone. There, hiding out after school, Langston discovers another Langston, a poet whom he learns inspired his mother enough to name her only son after him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I loved it so much
- De Jessica Roman en 08-31-20
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On the Blue Comet
- De: Rosemary Wells
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Oscar Ogilvie is living with his dad in a house at the end of Lucifer Street, in Cairo, Illinois, when world events change his life forever. The great stock market crash has rippled across the country, and the bank takes over their home - along with all their cherished model trains. Oscar’s dad is forced to head west in search of work, and Oscar must move in with his no-nonsense aunt Carmen. Only a mysterious drifter helps alleviate Oscar’s loneliness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story to listen to with your kids!!
- De Aaron en 03-27-23
De: Rosemary Wells
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The Ponder Heart
- De: Eudora Welty
- Narrado por: Sally Darling
- Duración: 4 h
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
Originally published in The New Yorker in 1954, The Ponder Heart is easily Eudora Welty’s most comic novel, a lighthearted burlesque that rivals Caldwell’s Tobacco Road for capturing rural idioms, and the novels of Mark Twain for high farce.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great reader
- De Patricia B. en 03-12-17
De: Eudora Welty
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The Walking People
- De: Mary Beth Keane
- Narrado por: Sile Bermingham
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Greta Cahill never believed she would leave her village in the west of Ireland until she found herself on a ship bound for New York, along with her sister Johanna and a boy named Michael Ward. Labeled a "softheaded goose" by her family, Greta discovers that in America she can fall in love, raise her own family, and earn a living.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Irish immigratn story
- De Chrissie en 09-10-13
De: Mary Beth Keane
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- De: Betty Smith
- Narrado por: Kate Burton
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,209
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,854
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,817
A moving coming-of-age story set in the 1900s, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn follows the lives of 11-year-old Francie Nolan, her younger brother Neely, and their parents, Irish immigrants who have settled in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Johnny Nolan is as loving and fanciful as they come, but he is also often drunk and out of work, unable to find his place in the land of opportunity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Book: flawless. SKIP THE RECORDED INTRO!!
- De Wild Wise Woman en 09-04-11
De: Betty Smith
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Orphan Train Girl
- The Young Readers' Edition of Orphan Train
- De: Sarah Thompson, Christina Baker Kline
- Narrado por: Jessica Almasy
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
Molly Ayer has been in foster care since she was eight years old. Most of the time, Molly knows it's her attitude that's the problem, but after being shipped from one family to another, she's had her fair share of adults treating her like an inconvenience. So when Molly's forced to help an elderly woman clean out her attic for community service, Molly is wary. Just another adult to treat her like a troublemaker.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome book!
- De DebDeb en 08-06-18
De: Sarah Thompson, y otros
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The Other Side of Paradise
- A Memoir
- De: Staceyann Chin
- Narrado por: Staceyann Chin
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 195
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 180
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 177
Stacyann Chin has appeared on television and radio, including The Oprah Winfrey Show , CNN, and PBS, discussing issues of race and sexuality. But it is her extraordinary voice that launched her career as a performer, poet, and activist. Here, she shares her unforgettable story of triumph against all odds in this brave and fiercely candid memoir.
No one knew Staceyann's mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother's house in Jamaica, on Christmas Day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible life, incredible performer
- De RyRy en 10-21-19
De: Staceyann Chin
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Ellen Foster
- De: Kaye Gibbons
- Narrado por: Ruth Ann Phimister
- Duración: 3 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 100
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy." So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise, funny, affectionate and true, Ellen Foster is, as Walker Percy called it, "The real thing. Which is to say, a lovely, sometimes heart/wrenching novel...."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great!!
- De Jo en 04-06-18
De: Kaye Gibbons
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Rush Home Road
- De: Lori Lansens
- Narrado por: Ruby Dee
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 253
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 191
When a 70-year-old woman finds a five-year-old girl abandoned on her doorstep, she is thrust into a sorrowful past that can only be conquered with the help of the girl who opened her memory - the very girl she is trying to save. This first novel, according to author Jacquelyn Mitchard, is one of "exquisite power, honesty, and conviction...quite nearly without flaws."
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1 out of 5 stars
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filthy language and violent content
- De Anna en 12-16-11
De: Lori Lansens
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Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
- De: Laura Ruby
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
When Frankie’s mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary - just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That’s why Frankie's not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now, Frankie and her sister, Toni, are abandoned alongside so many other orphans - two young, unwanted women doing everything they can to survive.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring, boring, boring
- De Marie J. en 08-20-21
De: Laura Ruby
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Hannah's Dream
- De: Diane Hammond
- Narrado por: Laura Flanagan
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
For 41 years, Samson Brown has been caring for Hannah, the lone elephant at the down-at-the-heels Max L. Biedelman Zoo. Having vowed not to retire until an equally loving and devoted caretaker is found to replace him, Sam rejoices when smart, compassionate Neva Wilson is hired as the new elephant keeper. But Neva quickly discovers what Sam already knows: that despite their loving care, Hannah is isolated from other elephants and her feet are nearly ruined from standing on hard concrete all day.
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4 out of 5 stars
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excellent narration, enjoyable story
- De Elizabeth en 05-11-13
De: Diane Hammond
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The Puzzle Women
- De: Anna Ellory
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Berlin, 1989. Siblings Rune and Lotte are shaken awake by Mama and told to follow her quietly into the night. Last time they snuck away from Papa, with Mama bruised and broken, they were back within a week. But this time they are starting a new life, Mama says - where nobody can ever hurt them again. Ten years later, the memories of their escape are blurry; Mama is long gone, and the siblings are back at Papa’s house.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartbreak to Joy
- De Jo Ann Roussey en 01-17-21
De: Anna Ellory
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Full Cicada Moon
- De: Marilyn Hilton
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay
- Duración: 4 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 21
It's 1969, and the Apollo 11 mission is getting ready to go to the moon. But for half-black, half-Japanese Mimi, moving to a predominantly white Vermont town is enough to make her feel alien. Suddenly, Mimi's appearance is all anyone notices. She struggles to fit in with her classmates, even as she fights for her right to stand out. This historical middle-grade novel is told in poems from Mimi's perspective over the course of one year in her new town, and shows listeners that positive change can start with just one person speaking up.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My 10 year grandgirl & I
- De Dava Brooke Zschau en 06-06-22
De: Marilyn Hilton