The Biographies category has 727 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 1,004 ratings. The most-rated is Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
The Golden Thread
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With dazzling, lyrical verse in the folk revival style, Colin Meloy pays tribute to Pete Seeger, a visionary who changed the world with song. Pete Seeger once sang that if he had a golden thread, he would use it to weave people from all over the world to one another. That golden thread, for Pete, was music. Born into a family of traveling musicians, Pete picked up his first instrument at age seven. From then on, music was his life, whether he was playing banjo for soldiers during World War II, rallying civil rights activists and war protesters with songs such as "We Shall Overcome", "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", and "If I Had a Hammer" or leading environmental efforts to clean up the Hudson River. For decades, Pete Seeger's messages of universal understanding and social and environmental justice inspired generations - and have left a lasting legacy.
©2018 Unadoptable Books LLC (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers
The Electric War
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In the mid- to late-19th century, a burgeoning science called electricity promised to shine new light on a rousing nation. Inventive and ambitious minds were hard at work. Soon that spark was fanned, and a fiery war was under way to be the first to light - and run - the world with electricity. Thomas Alva Edison, the inventor of direct current (DC), engaged in a brutal battle with Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse, the inventors of alternating current (AC). There would be no ties in this race - only a winner and a loser - and the prize was a nationwide monopoly in electric current. Brimming with action, suspense, and rich historical information, this rousing account reveals the true story behind one of the world's defining scientific competitions.
©2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC (P)2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Grandma's Gardens
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From mother-daughter team Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton comes a celebration of family, tradition, and discovery, and an ode to mothers, grandmothers, and the children they love. Grandma Dorothy shared her love of gardens with her daughter, Hillary, and her granddaughter, Chelsea. She taught them that gardens are magical places to learn, exciting spaces for discovery, quiet spots to spend time with family and beautiful areas to share stories and celebrate special occasions. But most of all, she taught them that in her gardens, her love grew and blossomed. In this inspiring and heartwarming mother-daughter story, Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton team up to show listeners how sharing the things we love with the people we love can create powerful, everlasting bonds between generations. Praise for Grandma's Gardens: "A deeply affectionate tribute to the bounty of nature and the love of gardening." (Publishers Weekly) "Filled with mindfulness, the story inspires children to reflect on family and keep memories alive." (Booklist)
©2020 Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton (P)2020 Listening Library
Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa
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This soulful biography of the salsa superstar, Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa, begins with her childhood in Havana, and follows through her success in her own country, and on to her heartbreaking emigration from Cuba and into worldwide stardom. Her love for learning, her classical training, and her devotion to her birth country, are all presented in this lyrical tribute to a musical sensation, which is narrated and sung by salsa & jazz singer Michelle Manzo, with accompaniment by salsa musicians who've played with Tito Puentes, among other renowned bands.
©2007 Veronica Chambers (P)2007 Live Oak Media
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
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Have you ever heard of the “Mercury 13” women? Did you know that nearly twenty years before the first women were let into NASA’s astronaut program, there were others who tried? What are the requirements for being shot into space, piloting a hunk of metal while carrying the hopes and fears of your nation? Mastery of flying, as well as courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, and fitness – any checklist would certainly include these. But when America created NASA in 1958, there was an unspoken rule in place: astronauts must be male, and they must be white. Here is the tale of thirteen women who proved not only that they were as tough as any man but also that they were brave enough to challenge the government. Their passage to space was blocked by prejudice, jealousy, and a note scrawled by one of the most powerful men in Washington. But in the end, their inspiring example empowered young women to take their rightful place in the sky, piloting jets and commanding space capsules. Almost Astronauts is the story of thirteen true pioneers of the space age.
©2009 Tanya Lee Stone (P)2010 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Almost anything scares young Eleanor: mice, the dark, and a host of imaginary dangers. But she learns to hide her feelings - her father disapproves of fear, and she longs only to please him. She knows she will always disappoint her beautiful, socialite mother, because Eleanor is painfully shy and plain. As a young debutante in Manhattan, she spends her days teaching needy children and touring crowded tenements. There, she makes a life-changing discovery that later enables her to redefine the role of America's first lady - being shy doesn't matter as long as she's helping others.
©1993 Russell Freedman (P)1997 Recorded Books
Sing a Song of Tuna Fish
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Esme tells us about the night she and her mother became "egg vigilantes" against an illegally parked car; her freewheeling first school, where kids sat on sofas instead of at desks and could choose disco dancing instead of math; her dangerous neighborhood, which her father made to seem friendly and wondrous; the Passover dinner when she stole a matzoh right out from under a rabbi; the awe-inspiring, life-threatening Chicago snowstorms; and lessons about love from tea-reading gypsies and Popeye cartoons. In stories that perfectly evoke the perspective of her 10-year-old self, author Esme Raji Codell demonstrates her gift for making the ordinary extraordinary, and the unusual familiar. Sing a Song of Tuna Fish is a memoir of a Chicago childhood, a tribute to the art of attention, and most of all, a joyful listening experience for kids and families.
©2004 Esme Raji Codell (P)2004 Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group
Sterling Biographies
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At least as far back as the ancient myth of Icarus, humans longed to fly - but it wasn't until December 17, 1903, on the windy dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, that the dream finally came true. And it was all thanks to Orville and Wilbur Wright, two former bicycle mechanics who built their first toy plane - a rubber-band powered rotary - when they were just children.Find out how the two brothers, working quietly and persistently, ultimately solved the "flying problem" that had grounded so many others; what setbacks they experienced as they developed and improved their machine (including a tragic crash); and what additional "firsts" followed after they triumphantly took to the skies. .
©2007 Sterling (P)2009 Audible, Inc.
Writers and Their Pets
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Discover how animals influenced 20 of the world's most beloved authors, from Charles Dickens to J. K. Rowling. Did you know that a dog saved Pablo Neruda's life? Or that Mark Twain had a cat named Bambino? Or that Edgar Allan Poe wrote with a cat on his shoulders? Writers and Their Pets tells these stories and many more that will delight not only children but also literary experts, history lovers, and animal enthusiasts. Each short chapter focuses on one author's life, using simple and entertaining text to weave tales of the pets that affected the lives and works of these writers. Writers and Their Pets features a diverse list of both male and female international authors, from the 19th to the 21st century, including Beatrix Potter, E. B. White, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Kurt Vonnegut, Maurice Sendak, Ernest Hemingway, and and more.
©2019 Kathleen Krull (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing
Chelsey
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For Chelsey, death was unthinkable. When her only surviving parent, her beloved father, was violently murdered days before her 14th birthday, Chelsey's life was forever changed. As she was forced to come to terms with a new home life, a new school...a new identity as an orphan, Chelsey struggled to make sense of her personal tragedy. Yet she found a way to flourish despite all the odds."I thought of myself in a new light: a girl, newly fourteen, standing in her dead father's study, all in black, a single tear streaming down her cheek. I was alone. My family told me again and again I was not, but without him, I was. I was no longer anyone's child."
©2009 Chelsey Shannon (P)2009 Audible, Inc.
Light Shining Through the Mist
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World-famous zoologist Dian Fossey is remembered for her inspiring work studying the mountain gorillas of central Africa’s isolated Virunga Mountains. Her tireless devotion to understanding - and actively protecting - these shy and gentle primates introduced them to an admiring public and promoted values of conservation in the African nations they inhabit. In 1966, Dian Fossey left home for Africa to conduct field research on mountain gorillas. It was her second trip to Africa, but it wouldn’t be her last. Ascending through nearly impenetrable mountain jungles, finally she came face-to-face with the majestic creatures she sought. Most people believed gorillas were savage giants, but as Dian’s observations proved, that reputation was undeserved. Dian would remain a close friend to the gorillas until her tragic murder in 1985, presumably at the hands of poachers. Narrator Matthew Greer’s enthralling reading presents an arresting portrait of Dian Fossey - a strong woman whose life was spent championing a remarkable endangered species.
©1998 National Geographic Society (P)2007 Recorded Books
Les Reines
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Si l'on n'a aucun mal à nommer plusieurs rois, en revanche cela se complique pour les reines. Elles ont pourtant été nombreuses à occuper la fonction de souveraine ! Cléopatre, l'élégante et audacieuse ; Aliénor d'Aquitaine, l'insoumise ; Anne de Bretagne, attachée à ses terres natales ; Catherine de Médicis, l'Italienne orpheline ; sa fille la reine Margot, contrainte à l'exil ; Marie-Antoinette, la mal-aimée ; Sissi l'impératrice. Voici sept femmes d'exception qui ont toutes été reines. Elles ont marqué leur époque, chacune à leur manière, et ont souvent agi dans l'ombre...
©2019 Quelle Histoire (P)2019 Quelle Histoire
Girl Under a Red Moon
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A deeply moving account of a young brother and his older sister living through China’s Cultural Revolution. In a small village called Yellow Stone, below the mountains of southeastern China, Sisi is a model sister, daughter, and student. She brews tea for her grandfather in the morning, leads recitations at school as class monitor, and helps care for her youngest brother, Da. But when students are selected during a school ceremony to join the prestigious Red Guard, Sisi is passed over. Worse, she is shamed for her family’s past - they are former landowners who have no place in the new Communist order. Her only escape is to find work at another school, bringing Da along with her. But the siblings find new threats in Bridge Town, too, and Sisi will face choices between family and nation, between safety and justice. With the tide of the Cultural Revolution rising, Sisi must decide if she will swim against the current, or get swept up in the wave. With stunningly poetic lyricism, New York Times best-selling author Da Chen paints an extraordinary and vivid portrait of his resolute older sister and a land thrust into turmoil, as he delves into his personal experience of a tumultuous cultural movement.
©2019 DS Studios Inc. (P)2019 Scholastic Inc.
Superman Versus the Ku Klux Klan
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Journalist Rick Bowers has contributed to Time, The Washington Post, and USA Today, and his fascinating Spies of Mississippi—about the spy network that tried to take down the Civil Rights Movement—earned a starred review from Booklist. Here, Bowers examines how, in the late 1940s, The Adventures of Superman radio show struck a powerful blow against the Ku Klux Klan when Superman aired episodes pitting the hero against the Klan in an effort to teach young listeners to stand up to bigotry.
©2012 Rick Bowers (P)2012 Recorded Books, LLC
Michael Jordan: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Greatest Players
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Learn the incredible story of Chicago Bulls superstar Michael Jordan. In Michael Jordan: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Greatest Players, you'll hear the inspirational story of basketball's superstar, Michael Jordan. This short unauthorized biography of Michael Jordan highlights his journey in the NBA, from once being passed over until being the third overall pick to becoming a six-time NBA champion. Few players have shaped so much of the game of basketball as Michael Jordan. It does not take a basketball fanatic to recognize and respect the name of Michael Jordan. Around the world, fans continue to aspire to become like Jordan due to the incredible legacy he left behind on the Bulls organization and the game itself. Listen to learn about Michael Jordan's journey into the league, his championship campaigns, as well as much more. Here is a preview of what is inside this book: Childhood and early life College years at UNC Michael's NBA career Baseball in Birmingham Olympic gold standard Michael Jordan's legacy and future
©2015 Clayton Geoffreys (P)2015 Clayton Geoffreys
The Beginner's Bible: I Can Read Old Testament Collection 2
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This audiobook bundle includes five Old Testament titles from The Beginner’s Bible The Beginner’s Bible Joseph and His Brothers Joseph’s older brothers are angry with him, so they sell him as a slave. But many years later, Joseph is the king’s assistant. Now his brothers need his help. Will Joseph forgive them? The Beginner’s Bible David and the Giant When David steps up to fight the giant Goliath, no one thinks he will win. But David has God on his side. And if God is there for this young shepherd boy - who will one day be the great King David - who could be against him? The Beginner’s Bible Queen Esther Helps God’s People Queen Esther has a problem. The king’s helper says God’s people are bad. They are in danger. How will Queen Esther save them? The Beginner’s Bible Daniel and the Lions When Daniel stands up for his faith, he finds himself thrown into a den of lions. In the face of danger, will Daniel trust God to protect him from the lions? The Beginner’s Bible Jonah and the Big Fish When God asks Jonah to go to the city of Nineveh, far from his home, Jonah has other ideas. After running away from God, Jonah finds himself in the belly of a big fish. Will Jonah have a change of heart and decide to trust God?
©2020 Zondervan (P)2020 Zonderkidz
Ancients to Middle Ages
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Great Battles for Boys takes kids to the front lines of iconic battles. In this volume of the popular history series, find out which strategies, weapons, and military leaders won - or lost - these famous American fights. And none of it's boring. In this installment, boys travel to the ancient world, following such famous figures as Alexander the Great and Hannibal, learning about the military battles that changed history. Beginning in Ancient Greece, the battles storm across the known world and into the Middle Ages, ending with the Spanish Armada's attempted invasion of England. Other historic battles include: Thermopylae: The 300 Spartans take their last stand against the invading Persians, Cannae: Hannibal beats the mighty Roman Army with a military maneuver still used today, Hastings: The Normans invade England and Stirling Bridge: William “Braveheart” Wallace fights the British crown for Scottish Independence. And many more! Don't miss this best-selling series that shows kids the face of courage and valor. If your child likes action-packed accounts, authentic details, and short but exciting chapters, then they'll love this audiobook. And they'll never hear history as boring again!
©2020 Books in Motion (P)2020 Books in Motion
Harry's Piano
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The true story of a pianist composer and his accomplishments told with a deep message for children of all ages. Dreams can come true but it takes a lot of hard work and passion to receive the rewards in return. Harry and his family experienced the sacrifices made for one another, and the joy shared with individual accomplishments. Harry’s Piano teaches children to believe in themselves and to follow their dreams. Harry became a concert pianist and Academy Award-winning composer Harry Sukman.
©2018 Susan Sukman McCray (P)2018 Susan Sukman McCray
The Spacesuit
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There is a competition to make the spacesuit for the first moon landing! Ellie, an ordinary woman, is asked to lead a team of talented seamstresses. No one believes they can win, but they are determined to try.... This inspiring look at the history of the spacesuit is based on the incredible true story of the team of women who sewed it together for the first moonwalk.
©2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Kid Scientists
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Before their experiments, inventions, and discoveries that changed the world, the world’s most celebrated scientists had regular-kid problems just like you. Stephen Hawking hated school and preferred to spend his free time building model airplanes, inventing board games, and even building his own computer. Jane Goodall got in trouble for bringing worms and snails into her house. And Neil deGrasse Tyson had to start a dog-walking business to save up money to buy a telescope. Kid Scientists tells the stories of a diverse and inclusive group - also including Temple Grandin, Nikola Tesla, Ada Lovelace, Benjamin Franklin, Isaac Newton, Rosalind Franklin, Sally Ride, Rachel Carson, George Washington Carver, and Vera Rubin - through funny, relatable stories.
©2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC