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Audiobooks Narrated by Channie Waites
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In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 7, 1915, Sadie Fagan gave birth to a daughter. She named her Eleanora. The world, however, would know her as Billie Holiday, possibly the greatest jazz singer of all time.
Eleanora's journey into legend took her through pain, poverty, and run-ins with the law. By the time she was fifteen, she knew she possessed something that could possibly change her life—a voice. Eleanora could sing.
That remarkable voice led her to Harlem nightclubs, the Apollo Theater, and a place in the spotlight with some of the era's hottest big bands. Billie Holiday sang from somewhere inside her that made it seem as if she had lived each lyric, and in
many ways she had. This unique talent is what made Billie Holiday more than a singer. She was an artist.
Through a sequence of raw and poignant poems that form the singer's fictional memoir, award-winning poet Carole Boston Weatherford chronicles Eleanora Fagan's metamorphosis into Billie Holiday. We hear the intimate voice of the artist
as she examines her young life, her fight for survival, and the dream she pursued with passion.
A fun middle-grade contemporary fantasy with an all-BIPOC cast, about a social-media-loving tween who gets sent to an ultra-private witch camp
Hasani’s post-seventh-grade summer to-do list is pretty simple: get a bigger following for her makeup YouTube channel and figure out how to get her parents back together. What she does NOT expect is that an emotional outburst will spark a latent magical ability in her. Or that the magic will be strong enough to attract the attention of witches. Or that before she can say #BlackGirlMagic, she’ll be shipped off on a scholarship to a fancy finishing school for talented young ladies.
Les Belles Demoiselles is a literal charm school. Here, generations of young ladies from old-money witch families have learned to harness their magic, and alumnae grow to become some of the most powerful women across industries, including politicians, philanthropists, CEOs, entrepreneurs—and yes, even social media influencers. Needless to say, admission to the school is highly coveted, very exclusive...and Hasani sticks out like a weed in a rose bouquet.
While the other girls have always known they were destined to be witches, Hasani is a Wildseed—a stray witch from a family of non-witches, with no background knowledge, no way to control her magic, and a lot to catch up on. 'Wildseed' may be an insult that the other girls throw at her, but Wildseeds are more powerful than they know. And Hasani will learn that there are ways to use magic and thrive that can never be taught in a classroom.
With one little announcement from their fourth-grade teacher, Shayla, Liam, Ben, and Ai's world turned upside down. Now, with
school on hold due to a strange virus that they don't quite understand, the only semblance of safety they feel is knowing that they
have one another in their apartment complex.
But as each of them head home and experience their own version of confinement, it becomes very real. And as their individual
struggles grow, they need each other now more than ever. Very soon, they discover that they're not the only ones who need a
little help.
Banded together, the friends find ways to help others struggling in their building. And one by one, they do their part in making their
neighbors feel just a little bit safer. As the world becomes more complex, as protests take the streets, Shayla, Liam, Ben, and Ai
do everything they can to better understand the world around them and the people around them in order to discover the power
and comfort that understanding and generosity can bring.
It was because of the Alzheimer's, which is like a big bully that takes stuff that doesn't belong to them and won't give it back. Georgie has no idea what to expect when she, Mama, and Peaches are plopped down in the middle of small-town USA-aka Bogalusa, Louisiana-where Mama grew up and Great-aunt Vie needs constant care. Georgie wants to help out at the once-famous family diner that served celebrities like the Jackson 5 and the Supremes, but everyone is too busy to show her the ropes, and Mama is treating her like a baby, not letting her leave her sight. When she finally gets permission to leave on her own, Georgie makes friends with Markie-a foster kid who'd been under Aunt Elvie's care-who has a limb difference and a huge attitude. Then Markie asks Georgie to help her find her mom, and suddenly the summer has a real purpose. As Georgie's and Markie's histories begin to entwine, Georgie becomes more desperate to find the truth, and she may even find a way to right past wrongs and help Aunt Vie and Markie out after all. From the critically acclaimed author of Love Like Sky comes a novel about holding on to family identity, and memories in post-Katrina Louisiana.
What does it take to be a STEM genius? Check out these exciting, highly readable profiles of a dozen contemporary women who are on the cutting edge of scientific research.
Searching the cosmos for a new Earth. Using math to fight human trafficking. Designing invisible (and safer) cars. Unlocking climate-change secrets. All of this groundbreaking science, and much more, is happening right now, spearheaded by the diverse female scientists and engineers profiled in this book.
Meet award-winning aerospace engineer Tiera Fletcher and twelve other science superstars and hear them tell in their own words not only about their fascinating work, but also about their childhoods and the paths they traveled to get where they are—paths that often involved failures and unexpected changes in direction, but also persistence, serendipity, and brilliant insights. Their careers range from computer scientist to microbiologist to unique specialties that didn’t exist before some amazing women profiled here created them. Here is a book to surprise and inspire not only die-hard science fans, but also those who don’t (yet!) think of themselves as scientists. Back matter includes reading suggestions, an index, a glossary, and some surprising ideas for how to get involved in the world of STEM.
We know there's a lot of people out there who think our school is a dead end. And that all the kids inside it are dead ends, too. ... But they've got it all wrong. Just you wait and see! James, Rhondell, Sharice, and Marcel are four inner-city students on a quest to build the world's largest tetrahedron with their math teacher, Mr. Collins. If they succeed, maybe Rhondell will make new friends, Sharice's foster mother may start to care, James will discover something he's good at, and Marcel's dad will finally see that there is more to life than barbecue. Maybe they'll even end up in the Guinness Book of World Records! Weaving together the stories of the kids, their teacher, and the community that surrounds them, award-winning author Shelley Pearsall has written a vividly engaging story about math, life, and the importance of friendship.
From TV stars Tia and Tamera Mowry comes the thrilling conclusion to their middle grade series, Twintuition! In this fourth and final book, tween twins Cassie and Caitlyn Waters are excited to be returning to their hometown, San Antonio, on a class trip. But as they reach their destination, trouble finds them as quickly as a vision, and one of their friends soon disappears. Using their Sight and their street smarts to try and save the day, the twins also begin to see things they didn't expect-a man in captivity who looks exactly like their father's pictures. Could he really be alive? And can they use the clues they see to save him before it's too late?
In the finale to the acclaimed trilogy, upheaval in Zora Neale Hurston’s family and hometown persuade her to leave childhood behind and find her destiny beyond Eatonville.
For Carrie and her best friend, Zora, Eatonville—America’s first incorporated Black township—has been an idyllic place to live out their childhoods. But when a lynch mob crosses the town’s border to pursue a fugitive and a grave robbery resuscitates the ugly sins of the past, the safe ground beneath them seems to shift. Not only has Zora’s own father—the showboating preacher John Hurston—decided to run against the town’s trusted mayor, but there are other unsettling things afoot, including a heartbreaking family loss, a friend’s sudden illness, and the suggestion of voodoo and zombie-ism in the air, which a curious and grieving Zora becomes all too willing to entertain.
In this fictionalized tale, award-winning author Victoria Bond explores the end of childhood and the bittersweet goodbye to Eatonville by preeminent author Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960). In so doing, she brings to a satisfying conclusion the story begun in the award-winning Zora and Me and its sequel, Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground, sparking inquisitive readers to explore Hurston’s own seminal work.
Being twelve isn't easy, especially when you're Neva Beane. Neva feels beautiful wearing her new bra, but she's confused by how
others respond to the changes taking place in and out of her body. Her best friend, Jamila, is getting all the attention. Her brother,
Clayton, is becoming an activist. And Mom and Dad are gone working-again. Grandad and Nana aren't much help, either, with
their old ways and backward views.
Neva struggles to find her place in a world that, like the political landscape that's always shifting around her in her West
Philadelphia neighborhood, is uncertain, at times scary, but most always, filled with unanswered questions. Neva is left with what
comforts her most-words and their meanings, which she chronicles herself. While the pages of her beloved dictionary reveal truths
about what's happening around her, Neva must discover the best way to define herself. In this wholly original story by the author
of the NAACP Image Award nominee Riding Chance, a girl finds her voice in unexpected ways.
IDENTICAL TWINS CASSIE AND CAITLYN Waters may be able to see into the future, but they never anticipated how much their lives would change on their twelfth birthday. Their visions are getting stronger, their social studies teacher suspects they have special powers, and the grandmother they just found out about is in town to teach them how to better control what they foresee. While the girls devote their afternoons to strengthening their Sight, their days are spent competing in a class-wide game of Truth or Dare. But as the game goes on, the ideas get wilder and crazier . . . and even a little dangerous, too. When a vision shows the girls' friend getting hurt, Cassie and Caitlyn know that they're the only ones who can prevent it. They need to figure out what will happen before it's too late, but with their teacher waiting to catch them midvision, they're not sure they can risk looking into the future again. Can Cassie and Caitlyn dare to put the pieces together in time? Or will helping their friend mean that the truth will come out?
Magdalys's connection with the dinosaurs has led the US Army to some important victories, but the Civil War's not over yet and the squad members find themselves fighting deep in the Louisiana bayou. Then General Ulysses S. Grant himself entrusts Magdalys with a top secret mission-one that the very success of the Union depends on. Because as the friends will soon find out, the United States has more than one enemy. Imperial troops are gathering along the Mexican border, forming an alliance with the Confederates in pursuit of spreading slavery, and suddenly the Union is facing battles on two fronts. But they are barely holding their own against one army-how can they possibly defeat two? As New Orleans is surrounded and desperate battle plans laid, Magdalys and her friends set off to disrupt a scheme that would destroy everything she cares about. But to do it, she'll have to push her dinowrangling skills further than she's ever been able to before. Can Magdalys defeat the fiercest rival she's ever faced and save the fractured nation?
From actresses Tia and Tamera Mowry comes Double Trouble, the second book in their Twintuition series about the super-specialand sometimes supernaturalbond between sisters! IDENTICAL TWINS CASSIE AND CAITLYN Waters have finally adjusted to life in the small town of Aura, Texas, but theyre still not used to seeing visions of the future. And their Sight is only getting stronger as their twelfth birthday nears! But even with this new gift, neither girl could have predicted what the mysterious package they received would containa connection to the father they know nothing about and the grandmother they never knew they had. Why hasnt their mom told them anything about their dad? What reason could she have for keeping the girls away from his side of the family? And does it have anything to do with the Sight? As the twins struggle to discover more about their own history, they distract themselves by planning their birthday party. Their visions of the big event promise a lot of fun aheadalong with a big fiasco. Cassie and Caitlyn must work together to keep everything running smoothly so their birthday can stay on track!
