Tarshis, Lauren
Summary: Eleven-year-old Dexter has always wanted to see a tornado. So when he gets the incredible opportunity to go storm chasing with the famous Dr. Norman Rays, he has to say yes! Dr. Rays is the host of Tornado Mysteries, the show that Dex and his older brother, Jeremy, watched every night until Jeremy joined the U.S. Navy SEALs and left Joplin.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2017
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Summary: The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands. Nate had been heading to New York City to find his father. But now he was trapped in a terrible gunfight between American and British troops. This Revolutionary War had started as a thrilling fight for freedom. All Nate...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2017
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Summary: On the day that shocks the world, one boy just wants to find his family. A powerful addition to the gripping I survived series.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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Summary: Eleven-year-old Melody Vega and her family visit Glacier National Park every summer, but this year Mel comes face-to-face with a terrifying grizzly bear.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2018
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Summary: A deadly and strange disaster. It's been four years since Carmen and Papa moved from Italy to Boston. Life here is exciting, but not always easy. And then there's the massive metal tank that rises up over their crowded North End neighborhood. The ugly tank, filled with sticky brown molasses, has always leaked. But nobody imagined that it could one day explode apart, sending a tsunami of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019
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Summary: In July, 1916, Chet Roscow is fascinated by news accounts of the great white shark said to be attacking people along the New Jersey shore not far from his home, but when he goes swimming in Matawan Creek he discovers the truth of the stories.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2016
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Summary: George Calder must be the luckiest kid alive. He and his little sister, Phoebe, are sailing with their aunt on the Titanic, the greatest ship ever built. George can't resist exploring every inch of the incredible boat, even if it keeps getting him into trouble. Then the impossible happens--the Titanic hits an iceberg and water rushes in. George is stranded, alone and afraid, on the sinking...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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Summary: The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some passengers braved the storm to hike off the mountain, but many had no choice but to wait out the storm. But the storm didn't stop. One day passed, then two, three...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "It's 1863, and Thomas and his little sister, Birdie, have fled the farm where they were born and raised as slaves. Following the North Star, looking for freedom, they soon cross paths with a Union soldier. Everything changes: Corporal Henry Green brings Thomas and Birdie back to his regiment, and suddenly it feels like they've found a new home. Best of all, they don't have to find their way...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016
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Summary: The city of Galveston, Texas, was booming. Perched on an island off the southern coast of Texas, Galveston had been founded in the 1830s. By 1900, it was Texas's richest and most important city. Boats loaded up with American cotton and wheat steamed from Galveston to countries around the world. Arriving ships were crowded with immigrants. The streets, paved with crushed oyster shells, sparkled...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: A young Jewish boy escapes the ghetto and finds a group of resistance fighters in the forests of Poland, and he must determine if he has what it takes to survive the Nazis and fight back.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2016