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Narrado por:
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Lisette Lecat
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De:
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Nancy Farmer
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Baby Ruva lives with her giraffe family in a beautiful jungle. One sad day, she is kidnapped and taken across the ocean to a horrible zoo. Thanks to four wise and magical friends she has met along the way, the baby giraffe is managing to survive, but time is running out. The zookeepers are going to kill her, so they can use her cage for a new shipment of hyenas. Now she and her friends must outwit their evil captors and find their way back to "the warm place", which is their home in Africa.
This Newbery Award-winning author of The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, an ALSC Notable Recording, and A Girl Named Disaster has a talent for captivating young readers with nonstop suspense. Combined with Lisette Lecat's sensitive narration, the incredibly horrid bad guys and wonderful heroes keep listeners glued to their seats until the very end.
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Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness.
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Dreadful in every sense of the word.
- De Joan en 07-12-15
De: Paul Theroux
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Flora Segunda
- De: Ysabeau S. Wilce
- Narrado por: Danielle Ferland
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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In Ysabeau S. Wilce's exciting debut novel, Flora's mom is away, leaving Flora and her father home alone at Crackpot Hall with its 11,000 constantly shifting rooms. Late for school one day, Flora decides to take the elevator down to the first floor. But without her mother around, the elevator has ideas of its own and drops Flora in an unfamiliar room. Lost in her own house, Flora embarks on a harrowing quest to find her way back to where she started.
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Surprising and fun
- De Charlene en 10-13-07
De: Ysabeau S. Wilce
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Into That Forest
- De: Louis Nowra
- Narrado por: Lisbeth Kennelly
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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Two girls survive a terrible flood in the Tasmanian bush and are rescued by a pair of Tasmanian tigers who raise them in the wild. Their story of survival is remarkable, as they adapt to the life of the tiger, learning to hunt and to communicate without the use of human language. When they are discovered and returned to civilization, neither can adapt to being fully human after their extraordinary experience. Totally believable, their story will both shock and captivate listeners as it explores the animal instincts that lie beneath our civilized veneer.
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When tigers are better parents than your own ...
- De nikiverse en 08-21-14
De: Louis Nowra
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The Last House on Needless Street
- De: Catriona Ward
- Narrado por: Christopher Ragland
- Duración: 12 h
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In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all.
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I can only listen in 1-2 hour segments!
- De Brenda en 10-04-21
De: Catriona Ward
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The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
- De: Nancy Farmer
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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Zimbabwe, 2194. General Matsika's three children sneak out of the house on a forbidden adventure and disappear. Immediately,the general calls Africa's most unusual detectives: the Ear, the Eye, and the Arm. Together these three detectives combine their superhuman powers to find the missing children. It's a dangerous mission that leads them from the seedy streets of the Cow's Guts to the swaying top of the Mile-High MacIlwaine Hotel.
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Amazing premise, decent execution
- De David Hoffman en 01-23-16
De: Nancy Farmer
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My Family and Other Animals
- De: Gerald Durrell
- Narrado por: Hugh Bonneville
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
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The book is an autobiographical account of five years in the childhood of naturalist Gerald Durrell. The book is divided into three sections, marking the three villas in which the family lived on the island. Apart from Gerald (the youngest) and Larry, the family comprised their widowed mother, the gun-mad Leslie, and diet-obsessed sister Margo together with Roger the dog.
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Love it, but please mark as Abridged!
- De Meredith Ramirez en 09-14-21
De: Gerald Durrell
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The Secret of Platform 13
- De: Eva Ibbotson
- Narrado por: Angela Thorne
- Duración: 4 h y 41 m
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Beyond the everyday world of King's Cross Station lies an island of oddities and magic. When their infant Prince is stolen, the island's magical residents form a team to rescue him. The only trouble is, they can't get to him for nine years.
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Light, funny, magical listen.
- De E. Onaya en 06-01-17
De: Eva Ibbotson
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The Saturdays
- De: Elizabeth Enright
- Narrado por: Pamela Dillman
- Duración: 4 h y 7 m
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The four Melendy children live with their father and Cuffy, their beloved housekeeper, in a worn but comfortable brownstone in New York City. There's thirteen-year-old Mona, who has decided to become an actress; twelve-year-old mischievous Rush; ten-year-old Randy who loves to dance and paint; and thoughtful Oliver, who is just six-years-old.
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Excellent for children and adults
- De Dale en 05-15-04
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Cannery Row
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Jerry Farden
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Henri, Mack and his boys, and the other characters in this world where only the fittest survive, to create a novel that is at once one of his most humorous and most poignant works.
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Five stars with a Caveat
- De Bette en 04-23-12
De: John Steinbeck
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The Legacy of Heorot
- De: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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Best-selling science fiction superstars Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle combine their talents with those of Steven Barnes in an extraordinary adventure of humankind’s first outpost in the farthest reaches of space. Light years from Earth, colonists land on a planet they name Avalon. It seems like a paradise—until native creatures savagely attack. It will take every bit of intelligence, courage, and military-style discipline to survive.
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Great read!
- De Thomas en 12-05-12
De: Larry Niven, y otros
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Ginger Pye
- De: Eleanor Estes
- Narrado por: Kate Forbes
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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Ten-year-old Jerry Pye wants a dog more than anything. He has a puppy picked out, but someone else wants him, too. Jerry and his sister must hurry to earn enough money to buy him. When they get Ginger home, strange things start to happen. A sneaky stranger in a yellow hat starts following them everywhere. When their precious Ginger disappears on Thanksgiving Day, they start looking for the man in the yellow hat. If they find him, they'll probably find their pup.
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Ginger pye
- De Xanthie en 04-25-16
De: Eleanor Estes
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The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog
- De: John R. Erickson
- Narrado por: John R. Erickson
- Duración: 2 h y 33 m
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It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it. Guts, glory, danger, and sacrifice are all in a day's work for Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security. While investigating a murder on the ranch, Hank finds himself the number-one suspect.
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Hank: a timeless chuckle for families everywhere.
- De The Super-duper Amazing Silver Golem en 03-16-16
De: John R. Erickson