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Last week I cut my hair, bought some boys' clothes and shoes, wrapped a large ACE bandage around my chest to flatten my fortunately-not-large breasts, and began looking for a new name. Angela Katz-McNair has never felt quite right as a girl. Her whole life is leading up to the day she decides to become Grady, a guy. While coming out as transgendered feels right to Grady, he isn't prepared for the reaction he gets from everyone else.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just what the doctor ordered
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-18-11
By: Ellen Wittlinger
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11 Before 12
- Friendship List Series, Book 1
- By: Lisa Greenwald
- Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Story5 out of 5 stars 93
The first day of middle school means trading in freeze tag at the pool for new schedules, fabulous outfits, and a fresh start. But for 11-year-old Kaylan, the chaos of new locker combinations, cafeteria cliques, and potential first kisses is more than she can handle. She dreads the start of sixth grade and feels like she wants - no, needs - a winning game plan. Luckily, Kaylan and her effortlessly chill BFF, Arianna, have a fool-proof plan for tackling transitions: a list of 11 things they need to do to totally transform themselves before they both turn 12 in November.
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5 out of 5 stars
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BEST BOOK EVER!!!
- By Ronald Phillip on 08-22-18
By: Lisa Greenwald
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Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie
- By: David Lubar
- Narrated by: Ryan MacConnell, the Full Cast Family
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 138
From the author of Dunk comes this sparkling new novel that covers a year in the life of high school freshman Scott Hudson, who is sideswiped by the unexpected news that his mother is about to have another baby.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pick Me! Pick Me!
- By Misty on 12-10-07
By: David Lubar
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The Meaning of Maggie
- By: Megan Jean Sovern
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
As befits a future President of the United States of America, Maggie Mayfield has decided to write a memoir of the past year of her life. And what a banner year it's been! During this period she's Student of the Month on a regular basis, an official shareholder of Coca-Cola stock, and defending Science Fair champion. Most importantly, though, this is the year Maggie has to pull up her bootstraps (the family motto) and finally learn why her cool-dude dad is in a wheelchair, no matter how scary that is.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful narration
- By M. Jackson on 04-17-24
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Clementine
- Clementine, Book 1
- By: Sara Pennypacker
- Narrated by: Jessica Almasy
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 557
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 436
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 434
When her best friend and neighbor Margaret comes to her with a problem, Clementine goes to many lengths to help her friend. This sets off a rollicking adventure-filled week that finds Clementine getting into and out of further trouble, while learning valuable life lessons.
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1 out of 5 stars
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One credit for a 1.5 hr book!?
- By Nothing really matters on 02-21-16
By: Sara Pennypacker
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Paper Things
- By: Jennifer Richard Jacobson
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 81
When Ari's mother died four years ago, she had two final wishes: that Ari and her older brother, Gage, would stay together always, and that Ari would go to Carter, the middle school for gifted students. So when eighteen-year-old Gage decided he could no longer live with their bossy guardian, Janna, Ari knew she had to go with him - even though she'd miss baking cookies with Janna and curling up to watch HGTV. What Ari didn't realize was that Gage didn't have an apartment yet.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It's all right…
- By Bill on 04-25-16
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All Four Stars
- All Four Stars, Book 1
- By: Tara Dairman
- Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Gladys Gatsby has been cooking gourmet dishes since the age of seven, only her fast-food-loving parents have no idea! Now she's 11, and after a crème brûlée accident (just a small fire), Gladys is cut off from the kitchen (and her allowance). She's devastated, but soon finds just the right opportunity to pay her parents back when she's mistakenly contacted to write a restaurant review for one of the largest newspapers in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very cute story with great narrator!!
- By TT Mommy on 06-23-23
By: Tara Dairman
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Starworld
- By: Audrey Coulthurst, Paula Garner
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Emma Galvin
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4 out of 5 stars 49
Sam Jones and Zoe Miller have one thing in common: they both want an escape from reality. Loner Sam flies under the radar at school and walks on eggshells at home to manage her mom’s obsessive-compulsive disorder, wondering how she can ever leave to pursue her dream of studying aerospace engineering. Popular, people-pleasing Zoe puts up walls so no one can see her true self: the girl who was abandoned as an infant, whose adoptive mother has cancer, and whose disabled brother is being sent away to live in a facility.
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5 out of 5 stars
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lovely story
- By Chess on 11-05-19
By: Audrey Coulthurst, and others
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The Mother-Daughter Book Club
- Mother-Daughter Book Club Series
- By: Heather Vogel Frederick
- Narrated by: Cris Dukehart, Amy Rubinate, Kate Rudd, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 68
The book club is about to get a makeover. Even if Megan would rather be at the mall, Cassidy is late for hockey practice, Emma's already read every book in existence, and Jess is missing her mother too much to care, the new book club is scheduled to meet every month. But what begins as a mom-imposed ritual of reading Little Women soon helps four unlikely friends navigate the drama of middle school.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Computerized Reading - Aweful
- By elliott on 11-11-16
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The First Rule of Punk
- By: Celia C. Perez
- Narrated by: Trini Alvarado
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 138
There are no shortcuts to surviving your first day at a new school - you can't fix it with duct tape like you would your Chuck Taylors. On day one, 12-year-old Malu (Maria Luisa, if you want to annoy her) inadvertently upsets Posada Middle School's queen bee, violates the school's dress code with her punk rock look, and disappoints her college-professor mom in the process. Her dad, who now lives a thousand miles away, says things will get better as long as she remembers the first rule of punk: Be yourself.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great Story but who edited?
- By sbooks on 12-09-17
By: Celia C. Perez
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The Misfits
- By: James Howe
- Narrated by: Spencer Murphy, the Full Cast Family
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 109
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 73
A little too smart, a little too fat, Bobby Goodspeed has always been a go-along-to-get-along kind of guy. But when his friend Addie decides to tackle the student council elections, Bobby finds himself changing in ways he never could have imagined in this tender, touching, utterly hilarious novel of life as a middle school misfit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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WELL DONE! The Misfits by James Howe
- By PARE on 01-09-12
By: James Howe
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The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things (15th Anniversary Edition)
- By: Carolyn Mackler
- Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Carolyn Mackler's Printz Honor book - starring the unforgettably funny, body-conscious Virginia Shreves - returns in this 15th anniversary edition featuring text updates and never-before-heard material from the author. Fifteen-year-old Virginia feels like a plus-sized black sheep in her family, especially next to her perfect big brother Byron. Not to mention her best friend has moved, leaving Virginia to navigate an awkward relationship with a boy alone. In order to survive, Virginia decides to follow a "Fat Girl Code of Conduct", which works, until the unthinkable causes her family's facade to crumble.
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5 out of 5 stars
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LOVE this
- By carrie sanabria on 11-26-18
By: Carolyn Mackler
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Isle of Palms
- A Lowcountry Tale, Book 3
- By: Dorothea Benton Frank
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 962
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 879
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 873
Dorothea Benton Frank is a treasure of American letters with numerous New York Times best-sellers to her credit and a portfolio full of critical acclaim. “Mixing high drama and high jinks” ( Booklist), her third Lowcountry novel follows the fortunes of the dysfunctional Abbot family. Looking to set her life aright, Anna Lutz Abbot returns to her South Carolina lowcountry hometown. And as she attempts to right past wrongs, Anna receives help and support from a quirky cast of lovable locals sure to endear themselves to listeners.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A feel good story
- By Sheryl on 02-04-13
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Holly and Ivy
- By: Fern Michaels
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 233
In a heartwarming novel of secret wishes and family lost and found, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels creates a timeless Christmas story to cherish.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heart Warming
- By connie wideman on 01-28-20
By: Fern Michaels
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Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading
- Charlie Joe Jackson, Book 1
- By: Tommy Greenwald
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Charlie Joe Jackson may be the most reluctant reader ever born. And so far, he’s managed to get through life without ever reading an entire book from cover to cover. But now that he’s in middle school, avoiding reading isn’t as easy as it used to be. And when his friend Timmy McGibney decides that he’s tired of covering for him, Charlie Joe finds himself resorting to desperate measures to keep his perfect record intact. This is the hilarious story of an avid non-reader and the extreme lengths to which he’ll go to get out of reading a book.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Laugh Out Loud with an A+ Narrator
- By Chocolate Chip Stamper on 10-24-12
By: Tommy Greenwald
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I'm Down
- A Memoir
- By: Mishna Wolff
- Narrated by: Mishna Wolff
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 178
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 123
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Story4 out of 5 stars 125
Mishna Wolff grew up in a poor black neighborhood with her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black. "He strutted around with a short perm, a Cosby-esque sweater, gold chains and a Kangol---telling jokes like Redd Fox, and giving advice like Jesse Jackson. You couldn't tell my father he was white. Believe me, I tried," writes Wolff. And so from early childhood on, her father began his crusade to make his white daughter down.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I stopped listening an hour in....
- By Casey on 11-07-09
By: Mishna Wolff
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- QueenAmazon
- 08-27-16
Girls are Scary!
Would you listen to Crush again? Why?
Yes, of course! There are so many clever lines in this book that you must listen to it again to catch all the cute wittiness. I laughed out loud during the Interview with Auntie Buzz and her 3.5 Marriages…she is every woman who has had disastrous relationships.
Which scene was your favorite?
Hard to pick just one, but probably when Kevin preps The Romantic Dinner for his parents out of Food Tubes and the ensuing chaos. Joshua Swanson should get a Tony for all his hilarious voices.
Any additional comments?
This series of books reminds me of The Bugs Bunny cartoons where adult satire is embedded all over. The books are great for teenagers, especially to upgrade their vocabulary. But they are equally funny for adults who already have lived through all that Kevin plans for his Amazing Romantic Future with his girlfriend--the one he hasn't had a chance to make his girlfriend...yet!
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- Dawn Lawler
- 02-07-23
I love it
This is such a great audiobook must get my three kids Loved it must get. It teaches things while still keeping a fun aspect.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-15-20
great
loved it. I thought it was a great book. ended awesome. garypalsen writes creativly and well
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Melody
- 01-25-15
good de-stresser
As I said before -- my stress level at work tends to lead me toward more juvenile or young adult stories. The three by Gary Paulsen have been fun to listen to, and a good escape from the stress of work. Oh - to be 14 again.
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- Mom
- 02-19-13
Clean FUNNY, the best kind
We loved this series. It helped entertain me and the three kids, ages 6, 7 and 11, on our way to school and back each day. Amazing how a book tape can teach a lesson and keep the peace in the car.
This particular book had us all laughing, and left us in a great mood.
I hope there will be more books like this added to the series.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- alissa
- 10-03-16
i have this same book for school
See I forgot my book CRUSH at school and I had and assignment due on Tuesday the next day so I looked it up and here it is totally free I loved it
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