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Walking with Miss Millie

Tamara Bundy · Penguin Random House
Format: Audiobook

A poignant middle grade debut about the friendship between a white girl and an elderly black woman in the 1960s South. Alice is angry at having to move to Rainbow, Georgia--a too small, too hot, dried-up place she's sure will never feel like home. Then she gets put in charge of walking...
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Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Irin Carmon · Harper Audio
Format: Audiobook

A visually rich, intimate, unprecedented look at the Justice and how she changed the world. From Ginsburg's refusal to let the slammed doors of sexism stop her to her innovative legal work, from her before-its-time feminist marriage to her perch on the nation's highest court, with...
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Race to the Bottom of the Sea

Lindsay Eagar · Candlewick on Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

Can a clever girl inventor uncover a ruthless pirate's heart of gold? Thrilling sea adventure takes on a hint of steampunk in the second book by the author of the acclaimed Hour of the Bees.
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The Incredible Magic of Being

Kathryn Erskine · Scholastic Audio Books
Format: Audiobook

Some might say Julian is sheltered. His sister Pookie certainly would. But he lives large, and his eternal optimism allows him to see infinite possibilities wherever he looks. He has to think positively since he believes he might only be on this earth for a few more years. As his family...
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Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History

Vashti Harrison · Hachette Audio and Blackstone Audio
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook

[Children's Nonfiction (Ages 8-12) ][Read by Robin Miles and Bahni Turpin]This wonderfully illustrated book introduces listeners of all ages to forty women who changed the world.Featuring forty trailblazing black women in American history, Little Leaders educates and inspires as it relates...
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Supergifted

Gordon Korman · Harper Audio
Format: Audiobook

Donovan Curtis has never been what anyone would call 'gifted.' But his genius friend Noah Youkilis is actually supergifted, with one of the highest IQs around. After years at the Academy for Scholastic Distinction, all Noah dreams of is the opportunity to fail if he wants to. And he?s...
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Treasure Hunters: Quest for the City of Gold

James Patterson · Jimmy Patterson
Format: Audiobook

Gear up for an exciting new adventure with the thrill-seeking Kidds as they search for a missing city in South America made entirely of gold!When Bick and Beck Kidd find a hidden trove of pirate treasure, it includes a map with clues to an even bigger score: the lost Incan city of Paititi....
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Mez's magic

Eliot Schrefer · Harper Audio
Format: Audiobook

Mez, a panther who discovers her magical powers after an eclipse, must unite the other animals to save Caldera from an evil force.
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Betty Before X

Ilyasah Shabazz · Macmillan Young Listeners
Format: Audiobook

Activist, motivational speaker, and daughter of Malcolm X Ilyasah Shabazz celebrates her mother's idealism and strength of character in a touching new YA audiobook. Betty Before X is the story of Dr. Betty Shabazz before she became a figurehead for the Civil Rights Movement. In Detroit,...
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Mutant bunny island

Obert Skye · Harper Audio
Format: Audiobook

Follow geeky ten-year-old Perry Owens as he travels to a strange vacation destination in search of his missing uncle, only to make a hare-raising discovery.
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Black Panther : the young prince

Ronald L Smith

Life is comfortable for twelve-year-old T'Challa in his home of Wakanda, an isolated, technologically advanced African nation. When he's not learning how to rule a kingdom from his father-the reigning Black Panther-or testing out the latest tech, he's off breaking rules with his b
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Shai & Emmie star in Dancy pants

Quvenzhane? Wallis · Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

Shai Williams, third-grader and superstar in the making, loves to act, sing, and dance. So when her teacher, Ms. Englert, signs their class up for a major dance competition, Shai?s fancy moves are put to the test. Paired up with her best friend Emmie and classmate Rio, Shai plans to settle...
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