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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 672 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 204 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: 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 1,269 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: Roald Dahl
    • Narrated by: Dan Stevens
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 516 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: 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West
    • By: Sid Fleischman
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Mark Twain was born fully grown, with a cheap cigar clamped between his teeth. So begins Sid Fleischman's ramble-scramble biography of the great American author and wit....

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    • By: Patrick Kinney, Who HQ
    • 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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    • Biographies
    • By: Jehan Jones-Radgowski
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • How much do you know about Amanda Gorman? Find out the facts you need to know about this impressive young poet.

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    • Movers, Shakers, and History Makers
    • By: Martha London
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 26 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-24
    • Language: English
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    • R. L. Stine has written hundreds of children's books, including the scary, creepy Goosebumps series. His books have inspired TV shows and movies.

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    • By: John C. Davenport
    • Narrated by: Julie Williams
    • Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Learn about one of the most popular novelists of the 20th century in this well written, informative introduction....

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    • Who Was...?
    • By: Janet Pascal
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Ted Geisel loved to doodle from the time he was a kid. He had an offbeat, fun-loving personality. He often threw dinner parties where guests wore outrageous hats! And he donned quirky hats when thinking up ideas for books-like his classic The Cat in the Hat....

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    • By: Molly Kolpin, Michael Byers
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 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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    • By: Celeste Mannis
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The beloved plays of Shakespeare are still produced everywhere, yet the life of the world's most famous playwright remains largely a mystery. Young Will left the town of Stratford to pursue theater in London, where his work eventually thrived and made him a famous and wealthy man....

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