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Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
Hitler Youth: [growing Up in Hitler's Shadow]
The story of a generation of German young people who devoted all their energy to the Hitler Youth and the propaganda that brought Hitler his power, and the youths that resisted the Nazi movement. Read by Kathrin Kana.
4 sound discs (4 hr., 27 min.) 2006
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Bruchac, Joseph
The Winter People
Fourteen-year-old Saxso, a member of the Abenaki tribe in 18th-century Quebec, must set out to rescue his family from British soldiers that attacked his village and took his mother and two sisters prisoner. Read by Robert Ramirez.
4 hr., 30 min. 2003
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Choldenko, Gennifer
Al Capone Does My Shirts
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
5 hr., 45 min. 2004
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Compestine, Ying Chang
Revolution is Not a Dinner Party
Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed bourgeois, and people of laughter. Read by Jodi Long.
4 hr., 45 min. 2007
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Curtis, Christopher Paul
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963. Read by LeVar Burton.
4 sound discs (4 hrs., 55 min.) 2003
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Cushman, Karen
Matilda Bone
Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical. Read by Janet McTeer.
4 hr. 2000
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Cushman, Karen
Rodzina
A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery. Read by Becky Ann Baker.
4 hrs., 47 min. 2003
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Ellis, Deborah
The Breadwinner
Because the Taliban rulers of Kabul, Afghanistan, impose strict limitations on women's freedom and behavior, eleven-year-old Parvana must disguise herself as a boy so that her family can survive after her father's arrest. Read by Rita Wolf.
3 hr. 2002
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Giff, Patricia Reilly
A House of Tailors
When thirteen-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, her only wish is to return home as soon as she can, but as the months pass and she survives a multitude of hardships living with her uncle and his young wife and baby, she finds herself thinking of Brooklyn as her home. Read by Blair Brown.
3 hr., 28 min. 2004
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Hesse, Karen
Witness
A number of passages illuminate the thoughts and views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a twelve-year-old African American girl and a six-year-old Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town. Read by Blair Brown.
2 hr., 21 min. 2001
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Lester, Julius
Day of Tears
Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over slavery has ripped the Butler household apart. Now, to pay off debts, Pierce Butler wants to cash in his slave assets, possibly including Emma. Read by various narrators.
3 hr. 2006
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MacLachlan, Patricia
Sarah, Plain and Tall
When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay. Read by Glenn Close.
1 hr. 1995
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Morpurgo, Michael
Private Peaceful
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army in World War I, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself. Read by Jeff Woodman.
5 hr., 15 min. 2003
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Park, Linda Sue
A Single Shard
Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. Read by Graeme Malcolm.
3 hr., and 12 min. 2002
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Peck, Richard
The Teacher's Funeral
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle hauls off and dies. Read by Dylan Baker.
2 hrs., 42 min. 2004
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Roy, Jennifer Rozines
Yellow Star
From 1939, when Syvia is four and a half years old, to 1945 when she has just turned ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation. Read by Christina Moore.
3 hr. 2007
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Ryan, Pam Munoz
Esperanza Rising
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. Read by Trini Alvarado.
4 hours, 45 min. 2003
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Springer, Nancy
The Case of the Left-handed Lady
Pursued by her much older brother, famed detective Sherlock Holmes, fourteen-year-old Enola, disguised and using false names, attempts to solve the kidnapping of a baronet's sixteen-year-old daughter in nineteenth-century London. Second of Enola Holmes Mystery series. Read by Kathrine Kellgren.
5 hrs. 2007
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Updale, Eleanor
Montmorency : Thief Liar Gentleman?
In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself. Read by Stephen Fry.
5 hrs. 11 min. 2004
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