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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
Price: Digital Download ($9.95)
Average Rating:   (4.4 Stars)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a personal account of the life of the famous American statesman, businessman, philosopher, inventor and scientist.
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Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
Price: Audio CD ($19.96) | Audio Cassette
Average Rating:  (2.0 Stars)
Steinbeck tells of two ranch hands who drift from job to job, always one stepahead of the law and a few dollars from the poorhouse.
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Across Five Aprils
by Irene Hunt
Price: Audio CD ($35.96) | Audio Cassette ($27.96)
Average Rating: (1.8 Stars)
This compelling classic of a boy's coming of age during the Civil War is based on stories the author's grandfather told her about his own life.
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor
Price: Audio CD ($27.20) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
Average Rating: (0.5 Stars)
Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year, the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she is black...
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The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
Price: Audio CD ($14.38) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
Living the good life in the South, Buck is transported to the savagery of the Northland, where the Klondike Gold Rush has brought out rough basic instincts of survival in men -- and dogs.
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White Fang
by Jack London
Price: Audio CD ($16.18) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
Born in the wild, the wolf-dog White Fang quickly learns the law of nature: eat or be eaten. Captured by Indians, bullied by another dog, and then turned into a killer, he becomes vicious and fiercely independent...
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American Tall Tales
by Mary Pope Osborne
Price: Audio CD ($19.96) | Audio Cassette ($16.16) | Digital Download
Average Rating: (4.5 Stars)
This superb collection of larger-than-life folk heroes aptly represents America's robust early days, perfectly capturing the vitality of the men and women who carved a new country....
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Price: Audio CD | Audio CD ($64.00) | Audio Cassette | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($19.95) | MP3 CD
Huck Finn is a homeless rebel who loves freedom more than respectability.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
Price: Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($19.95) | MP3 CD
Average Rating: (4.0 Stars)
The characters are based on Twain’s schoolmates and the setting on Hannibal, Missouri, where he grew up.
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The Prince and the Pauper
by Alan Venable
Price: Digital Download ($12.95)
A worthy retelling of Mark Twain's classic.
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The Red Badge of Courage
by John Matern
Price: Digital Download ($12.95)
This realistic Civil War novel probes the mind of a youth named Henry in his first few days of battle
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By the Shores of Silver Lake
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Price: Audio CD ($20.76) | Audio Cassette ($17.60)
Meet Laura Ingalls, the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books.
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Farmer Boy
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Price: Audio CD ($20.76) | Audio Cassette ($17.60)
While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the prairie, Amanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York, working at chores all day long.
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On the Banks of Plum Creek
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Price: Audio CD ($20.76) | Audio Cassette ($22.00)
Laura's family's first home in Minnesota is made of sod, but Pa builds a clean new house made of sawed lumber beside Plum Creek.
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Little Women
by Noe Venable
Price: Digital Download ($12.95)
Little Women, with its lively, three-dimensional characters, is as delightful today as it was a century ago.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by John Matern
Price: Digital Download ($12.95)
This brief retelling of America's greatest novel avoids the language that some have found offensive. It also makes clear that Twain respected both Huck and Jim.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
Price: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Digital Download ($14.38)
This is the story of a boy's adventures growing up in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi River, over one hundred years ago.
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The Call of the Wild
by Noe Venable
Price: Digital Download ($12.95)
Young readers are sure to be deeply affected by The Call of the Wild. Told with unflinching honesty and compassion, the tale of Buck is the tale of anyone who answers the call to become what is great
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The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories by O. Henry
by Noe Venable
Price: Digital Download ($12.95)
This book includes the retelling of O. Henry's classic short stories, The Ransom of Red Chief, The Last Leaf, The Gift of the Magi, A Retrieved Reformation, and The Furnished Room.
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These Happy Golden Years
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Price: Audio CD ($20.76) | Audio Cassette
For 15-year-old Laura Ingalls, becoming the new teacher at school is a terrifying prospect, but she needs the money to keep Mary in a college for the blind. Things improve, however, when Almanzo Wilder comes a-courtin'.
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Tarzan of the Apes
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Price: Audio CD ($37.80) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($18.00)
Average Rating: (5.0 Stars)
Born of noble stock to parents marooned on the savage West African coast, the young Lord Greystoke is orphaned in his first year of life...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Audio Cassette | Digital Download
Average Rating: (4.5 Stars)
The idealized childhood of this fictional hero, based on Mark Twain's own early life along the banks...
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The Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
Price: Audio CD ($17.99) | MP3 CD ($15.29)
Average Rating: (3.5 Stars)
Most of us remember The Wizard of Oz as the film starring Judy Garland and Bert Lahr. But the film was based on an immensely popular early 20th century Oz series.
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Jack London Collection
by John Matern
Price: Digital Download ($12.95)
Love of Life (1903)
Two prospectors have stayed out in the wild Yukon until both are starving and lost.
To Build a Fire (1901)
A young man and a wiser husky set out across the wilderness.
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Little House on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Price: Audio CD ($20.76) | Audio Cassette ($17.60)
Pa Ingalls decides to sell the little log house, and the family sets out for Indian country! They travel from Wisconsin to Kansas, and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie.
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