Audiobooks by Jeff Hendricks

Highlights Listen & Learn!: Let There Be Rock!: An Immersive Audio Study for Grade 5

Highlights Listen & Learn! Audio Studies are the perfect tools for educators, parents, and students. With full lessons that present key comprehension skills, an educational audiobook, and multiple-choice questions, these studies help listeners better understand elements such as plot, characterization, vocabulary, and other essential foundational skills. This Highlights Listen & Learn! Audio Study, intended for those in grade five, tells the story of a teenage boy who is inspired by a story his grandparents tell him. As a result, he feels inspired to perform something original at his own school talent show. In addition to the story, this Audio Study provides a full lesson on the importance of characters, how the sequence of events presented in a story can change our perception, and features key vocabulary words. Highlights has always been an essential part of childhood, inspiring memorable experiences for generations of families. Highlights' Fun with a Purpose philosophy has helped children grow to become their best selves-curious, creative, caring, and confident. Listen & Learn! Audio Studies will entertain and engage young children while encouraging literacy, self-confidence, and joyful learning!

Highlights For Children, Jeff Hendricks (Author), Highlights For Children, Pete Cross (Narrator)

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Highlights Listen & Learn!: To Sea: An Immersive Audio Study for Grade 5

Highlights Listen & Learn! Audio Studies are the perfect tools for educators, parents, and students. With full lessons that present key comprehension skills, an educational audiobook, and multiple-choice questions, these studies help listeners better understand elements such as plot, characterization, vocabulary, and other essential foundational skills. This Highlights Listen & Learn! Audio Study, intended for those in grade five, is based on the real-life events of the Spanish fleet commanded by Ferdinand Magellan in the early 1500s. It follows the adventures of Juan de Zubileta, a young boy who serves as a page aboard one of the ships. In addition to the story, this Audio Study provides a full lesson on the importance of setting in a story, the three most-utilized points of view, and features key vocabulary words. Highlights has always been an essential part of childhood, inspiring memorable experiences for generations of families. Highlights' Fun with a Purpose philosophy has helped children grow to become their best selves-curious, creative, caring, and confident. Listen & Learn! Audio Studies will entertain and engage young children while encouraging literacy, self-confidence, and joyful learning!

Highlights For Children, Jeff Hendricks (Author), Highlights For Children, Pete Cross (Narrator)

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Westward by Wagon Train

In the mid-1800s pioneers traveled west across the United States. During their journey, family members worked together through hardships that included rough weather, disease, accidents, and difficult terrain. By the end of the journey, most families had suffered some loss, but those who remained continued to support each other as they built their new lives.

Jeff Hendricks (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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To Sea

Based on the real-life events of the Spanish fleet commanded by Ferdinand Magellan in the early 1500s, this story follows the adventures of Juan de Zubileta, a young boy who serves as a page aboard one of the ships. As the voyage progresses, the crew experiences many hardships. At one point, Magellan asks Juan's advice about whether or not to end the expedition and return home.

Jeff Hendricks (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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Let There Be Rock!

Most music preferences and musical expressions are widely accepted today. Cole, a teenage boy, realizes through his grandfather's history that this was not always the case. As a result, Cole is inspired and embraces the fact that he has the freedom to perform something original at his own school talent show.

Jeff Hendricks (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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Where Do I Fit In?

A young immigrant from Laos struggles to fit in with American culture. See Ly left his parents behind in a Thai refugee camp and moved to the United States to live with his brother. When See steps up to defend another immigrant student from being bullied, he is suspended from school. He learns that it is not okay to fight but that his willingness to defend a peer from a school bully is to be admired. See's bravery connects him with the other students.

Jeff Hendricks (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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Space Flight Firsts

Astronauts who broke the barriers of tradition, prejudice, and discrimination to achieve historic space-flight firsts are featured in this retrospective of the history of the space program in the United States. Biographical vignettes of women and minorities who overcame major obstacles to find their place in the space program hall of fame are presented.

Jeff Hendricks (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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