20th Century
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Anywhere but Paradise
Moving from Texas to Hawaii in 1960, 12-year-old Peggy Sue faces a difficult transition when she is bulled as one of the few haole (white) students in her school. This lyrical debut novel is… Read More →
A Super Sticky Mistake: The Story of How Harry Coover Accidentally Invented Super Glue!
An inspiring true story about Harry Coover, a wonderful inventor who accidentally discovered super-glue! "This sticky mess. This ooey goo. It's like a glue but much stronger. . . maybe it's Read More →
Baseball Saved Us
From the Series Live Oak Media eReadalong
"Author Ken Mochizuki reads his award-winning book. There is some soft background music, and a few gentle sound effects, but the power of the words need little embellishment...This treasure… Read More →
Bronco Charlie y el Pony Express (Bronco Charlie and the Pony Express)
From the Series Yo solo: Historia (On My Own History)
Bronco Charlie longs for a life of adventure. By the time he turned eleven, he’d been a sailor, a cowboy, and could tame wild bucking broncos. But Charlie was always itching for new… Read More →
Cracking the Wall: The Struggles of the Little Rock Nine
From the Series Live Oak Media eReadalong
The memorable and courageous story of nine teenagers in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957 who helped "crack the wall" of segregation is clearly presented in this inspiring story. Read More →
Fire in the Sky
The Hindenberg was on its way! That was all nine-year old Stenny could think about as he pedaled his bike furiously toward the Naval Air Station on a rainy spring evening in 1937. Stenny knew Read More →
Five Stories
From the Series Live Oak Media eReadalong
From the real-life granddaughter of the first child depicted in the story, whose family came over in a steamship from Russia in 1913, comes a celebration of the longstanding and varied… Read More →
Hot Pursuit: Murder in Mississippi
It was the Freedom Summer of 1964. Civil rights workers Mickey Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney were driving through rural Mississippi. When a police cruiser flashed its lights… Read More →
Jazz
From the Series Live Oak Media eReadalong
"Exuberant music, powerful narration, and image-filled poetry combine to create this extraordinary recording, winner of ALA's first Odyssey Award for excellence in audiobook production." The Horn Book Read More →
Johnny Moore and the Wright Brothers' Flying Machine
From the Series History Speaks: Picture Books Plus Reader's Theater
Before December 1903, flying in the air was just a dream for most people. That year, brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright went to North Carolina's Outer Banks. They were determined to make… Read More →
Live Oak Media eReadalong Collection — Live Oak Media eReadalong Set
From the Series Live Oak Media eReadalong
eReadalongs are eBooks integrated with the fully-produced, high-quality audio productions that distinguish Live Oak Media in the field of children's recordings. Read by the most prominent… Read More →
Overground Railroad
From the Series Live Oak Media eReadalong
From the award-winning author and illustrator of Before She Was Harriet comes an original and moving perspective of the Great Migration, as seen through the eyes of the young girl Ruth Ellen, Read More →
Pavel and the Tree Army
Pavel is a new American, excited about his new country. When his rabbi tells him that the Civilian Conservation Corps is hiring young people, Pavel is thrilled. As a member of the Corps, he… Read More →
Rifka Takes a Bow
Rifka's parents are actors in the Yiddish Theater in New York, but one day Rifka finds herself center stage in a special role! A slice of immigrant life on New York's Second Avenue, this is… Read More →
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, ALA Notable Children's Book, CCBC Best Children's Book of the Year, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Kirkus Best Children's Books, NCTE Notable In the… Read More →
The Little Rock Nine Stand Up for Their Rights
From the Series History Speaks: Picture Books Plus Reader's Theater
Until 1957, two worlds existed in Little Rock, Arkansas: one for white Americans and another for African Americans. Whites and blacks went to separate schools, ate at separate restaurants,… Read More →
The Pecan Sheller
In 1930s San Antonio, thirteen-year-old Petra dreams of going to college and becoming a writer. But with her beloved father dead, two younger siblings to care for, and with a stepmother… Read More →
The Prince of Steel Pier
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award A Sydney Taylor Notable Book Tablet Magazine's Best Jewish Kids Books of the Year A young teen falls in with the mob, and learns a lesson about what… Read More →
The Rescue Adventure of Stenny Green, Hindenburg Crash Eyewitness
From the Series History's Kid Heroes
On an airfield in New Jersey . . . a boy witnesses disaster. Lakehurst, New Jersey, 1937. Stenny Green loves to build model airships. He’s excited to learn the Hindenburg will land in his… Read More →
The Rooftop Adventure of Minnie and Tessa, Factory Fire Survivors
From the Series History's Kid Heroes
When fire breaks out at the factory . . . two friends must escape. New York, New York, 1911. Best friends Minnie and Tessa work together at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Suddenly, a fire… Read More →
The Spacesuit: How a Seamstress Helped Put Man on the Moon
An inspirational true-story about the a group of seamstresses who designed the spacesuit for the first men to walk on the Moon! "Ellie’s team was small, and they only had six weeks. Many… Read More →
The Underground Adventure of Arly Dunbar, Cave Explorer
From the Series History's Kid Heroes
Cave City, Kentucky, 1925. Young Arly Dunbar loves exploring caves with his grown-up friend Floyd Collins. When Floyd, exploring by himself, becomes trapped in Sand Cave, the entire town… Read More →
The Woodcarver's Daughter
After a pogrom forces Batya's Russian Jewish family to leave their home and make the journey to America, Batya hopes her new life will offer her a chance to become a woodcarver like her… Read More →