• #35: RED, WHITE, AND WHOLE by Rajani LaRocca
    Jan 22 2024

    Reha is a young Indian-American girl who is trying to find the right balance between her family's culture and growing up in the U.S. Midwest in the 1980s.

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    21 min
  • #34:THE DOOR OF NO RETURN by Kwame Alexander
    Jan 15 2024

    An historical fiction novel told in verse about the Asanti people of Ghana.

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    20 min
  • #33: THE CANYON'S EDGE by Dusti Bowling
    Jan 8 2024

    Nora and her dad are going off the grid following a tragic loss in their family, but will their running away bring them the healing they both need?

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    24 min
  • #32: THE UNDERDOGS, by Mike Lupica
    Dec 11 2023

    Will Tyler is in the zone about becoming a football superstar, but will his fumble last year, as well as his town's lack of funding, derail his NFL dreams?

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    15 min
  • #31: MOON OVER MANIFEST, by Clare Vanderpool
    Dec 4 2023

    Abilene is on her way to Manifest, the idyllic town her father grew up in, and a place she has only heard about -- back before her father went silent and she lit out for the fabled place.

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    17 min
  • #30: TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN, by John Greene
    Nov 27 2023

    **LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.**

    Aza cannot stop thinking about the microbial organisms swimming around in her stomach, causing her to go into a thought spiral while her two friends discuss their art project over school lunch.

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    28 min
  • #29: CHOMP by Carl Hiassen
    Nov 20 2023

    With his dad out of work after a dead iguana gives him a concussion, Wahoo decides to become Florida's newest animal wrangler.

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    23 min
  • #28: AN ELEPHANT IN THE GARDEN, by Michael Morpurgo
    Nov 13 2023

    Elderly nursing home patient Lizzie tells Karl, the son of one of the nurses, a story about the time she had an elephant in her garden as a child, and how it saved her family's lives.

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    29 min