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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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    • 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 200 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: 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 1,267 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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    • By: Molly Kolpin, Michael Byers
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Did you know Shel Silverstein drew cartoons in a military newspaper while serving in the army? Discover how an aspiring writer and cartoonist went on to become a best-selling children's author....

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    • Tall Tales and Almost True Stories of Growing up Scieszka
    • By: Jon Scieszka
    • Narrated by: Jon Scieszka
    • Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • How did Jon Scieszka get so funny, anyway? Growing up as one of six brothers was a good start, but that was just the beginning. Throw in Catholic school, lazy summers at the lake, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, jokes told at family dinner, and the result is Knucklehead....

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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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    • 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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    • By: April Jones Prince
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • A humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is unsurpassed in American literature. Best known as the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, not unlike his protagonist, Huck, has a restless spirit....

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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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    • 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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    • 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: Patricia Brennan Demuth
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, based on her own childhood and later life, are still beloved classics almost a century after she began writing them....

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    • What Was?
    • By: Sherri L. Smith, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Tashi Thomas
    • Series: What-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this book from the number one New York Times best-selling series, learn how this vibrant Black neighborhood in upper Manhattan became home to the leading Black writers, artists, and musicians of the 1920s and 1930s....

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    • Hans Christian Andersen
    • By: Jane Yolen
    • Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
    • Length: 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-15
    • Language: English
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    • This Junior Library Guild Selection chronicles the life of Danish poet Hans Christian Andersen....

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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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