Audiobooks by Kira Freed

Highlights Listen & Learn!: The History and Geography of El Salvador: An Immersive Audio Study for G

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 four, introduces listeners to the rich culture and long history of El Salvador, a country in Central America. In addition to learning about El Salvador, listeners will be introduced to comprehension skills that will help them better understand the story. These skills include cause and effect, identifying sequence of events, and vocabulary building. 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, Kira Freed (Author), Highlights For Children, Pete Cross (Narrator)

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Blending Worlds: Three Immigrant Families

Highlights presents Blending Worlds written by Sherry Sterling and Kira Freed. This selection introduces three families who immigrated to the United States. It tells why they moved, the difficulties they have experienced, and how their lives are now in the United States.

Kira Freed, Sherry Sterling (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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The Children's March for Civil Rights

This book is about the march made by protesters, many of them children, in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 to protest unfair treatment of African Americans. The march lasted nine days, and many people, including children, were arrested. The book also describes the leaders of the civil rights movement and the events leading up to the children's march.

Kira Freed (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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Autism: Bridging the Gap: Voices Leveled Library Readers

Highlights presents Autism: Bridging the Gap written by Kira Freed. This audiobook presents an overview of the disorder called autism. It explains the basic types of autism and their many symptoms. Several persons who have faced the challenge of having autism and have learned to lead successful and enriching lives are spotlighted. The short history of autism as well as the constantly changing knowledge, attitudes, and treatment regarding this ever-increasing disorder are presented.

Kira Freed (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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The History and Geography of El Salvador

From high mountains to rich coffee fields, the Central American country of El Salvador is a land of great beauty. It is also a country with a long history of suffering. El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America. In 1524, Hernan Cortés claimed the area for Spain. In 1841, El Salvador became independent. There was a civil war in El Salvador from 1980 to 1992. The people of El Salvador are now trying to rebuild their country.

Kira Freed (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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The Art of Living

Henry David Thoreau was a writer and lover of nature. He was a bright and educated man that devoted his life to living as simply as possible without the constraints of the material world. Thoreau was a champion of abolitionist and conservationist ideas.

Kira Freed (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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Return to the Wild

This book examines the consequences that an expanding human population has had on a number of animal species whose populations are shrinking. Captive breeding is presented as one way to save these endangered species.

Kira Freed (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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