Tamara Ryan has narrated 11 audiobooks on Listento.it by 19 authors. The most-rated is First Day Jitters.
Summary of the Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Includes Analysis
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Summary of The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Includes Analysis Preview: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd is a coming-of-age novel narrated by 14-year-old Lily Owens, a young white teen who runs away from home. In equal parts fleeing her abusive father and pursuing a lead on her late mother, whose final days are shrouded in mystery, Lily travels to a nearby town where she finds a new home with a black family. In the racially charged milieu that is Sylvan, South Carolina, in 1964, Lily lives with her father near his peach orchard. She has a hard life. Having accidentally killed her own mother in a gun accident when she was four years old, Lily is being raised by her father, T. Ray, who can be physically abusive and emotionally cruel. At night, bees have been swarming in Lily's room. According to her caretaker, a black woman named Rosaleen Daise, they're harbingers of death. One night, Lily.... Please note: This is summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. Inside this Instaread summary of The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Summary of the book Important people Character analysis Analysis of the themes and author's style About the author With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways, summary and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways, and analyze them for your convenience.
©2016 Instaread (P)2016 Instaread
Guide to Emeran Mayer's The Mind-Gut Connection
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Please note: This is a companion to the book and not the original book. Guide to Doctor Emeran Mayer's The Mind-Gut Connection. Preview: The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Hidden Conversation Within Our Bodies Impacts Our Mood, Our Choices, and Our Overall Health (2016) by Emeran Mayer, MD, explores the intricate connection between the brain and the digestive system, which are in constant communication. Around eight million microbial genes, known collectively as the microbiome, reside in the human gut, a wildly complex system that controls digestion and influences many other bodily systems.... Inside this companion: Overview of the book Key insights from the book Important people Author's style and perspective Intended audience
©2017 Eureka (P)2017 Eureka
Small Mouse, Big Trouble, and Other Funny Animal Stories
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Enjoy this collection of funny animal stories. In "Small Mouse, Big Trouble", a trickster mouse causes trouble for a young girl. Can she outsmart the mouse, or will he have her room all to himself? When it seems like the mouse might just get his way, the clever girl uses a game that her father taught her to outwit the mouse. You’ll also find four other stories featuring some entertaining animals: "The Conduit Mouse", "Eudora Entwhistle and the Geese of Macadoodle-by-the-Sea", "The Pirates and the Peacock", and "Dragon Treat".
©2016 Cricket Media (P)2019 Cricket Media
No Monkeys, No Chocolate
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Everyone loves chocolate, right? But how many people actually know where chocolate comes from? How it’s made? Or that monkeys do their part to help this delicious sweet exist? This delectable dessert comes from cocoa beans, which grow on cocoa trees in tropical rain forests. But those trees couldn’t survive without the help of a menagerie of rain forest critters: a pollen-sucking midge, an aphid-munching anole lizard, brain-eating coffin fly maggots - they all pitch in to help the cocoa tree survive. A secondary layer of text delves deeper into statements such as "Cocoa flowers can’t bloom without cocoa leaves...and maggots," explaining the interdependence of the plants and animals in the tropical rain forests. Two wise-cracking bookworms appear throughout, adding humor and further commentary, making this book accessible to listeners of different ages.
©2019 Charlesbridge Publishing (P)2019 Charlesbridge Publishing
Last Day Blues
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Fans of First Day Jitters will love spending the last day of school in Mrs. Hartwell's classroom. What do teachers do for summer vacation? Mrs. Hartwell's students worry that their teacher will miss them while they are gone for the summer. The class comes up with a way to make sure Mrs. Hartwell won't be too sad. But Mrs. Hartwell and the other teachers have some plans of their own. Once again Julie Danneberg brings to life the crazy antics of Mrs. Hartwell and her class and show that teachers and students are more alike than we sometimes think.
©2019 Charlesbridge Publishing (P)2019 Charlesbridge Publishing
When Dragon Shrank and Other Dragon Stories
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Enjoy this collection of magical short stories about dragons. In "When Dragon Shrank", hear an enchanting story of the friendship between Dragon and Red Squirrel, who swap sizes for a day. They experience one another's worlds and learn to appreciate themselves just the way they are. Also included are four other dragon stories: "Sir Thomas and the Dragon", "Too Many Dragons", "There Goes the Neighborhood", and "Mae and the Dragon."
©2017 Cricket Media (P)2019 Cricket Media
Alphabet Trucks
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Perfect for the lover of all things that go, Alphabet Trucks provides a fun and accessible way for the littlest of listeners to learn their trucks and their ABCs. Each letter of the alphabet is accounted for in this introductory concept book for young listeners. From the familiar to the unusual, Samantha Vamos writes in snappy verse to present 26 different kinds of trucks, explaining where they work and what they do, from a dump truck that unloads a pile of dirt containing the letter "D" to a fuel truck filling up at a tank shaped like the letter "F". IRA-CBC Children’s Choices Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Books of the Year Pennsylvania Center for the Book Baker's Dozen: The Best Children's Books for Family Literacy
©2019 Charlesbridge Publishing (P)2019 Charlesbridge Publishing
Field-Trip Fiasco
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Foolproof Field-Trip Tip #10: Have FUN! Mrs. Hartwell, still weary from the last class field trip, is fully prepared for this field trip to the zoo. She has her list of field-trip tips and her handy-dandy just-in-case-something-unexpected-happens bag. Will all of her preparation be enough? With their observation sheets in hand, students begin exploring the zoo. Soon everyone finds out that they are too busy writing to actually observe everything going on around them! A bale of hay, an elephant trunk full of water, and a parrot’s - ahem - droppings, all spell trouble for Mrs. Hartwell and her class. Mrs. Hartwell has the great idea to collect the observation sheets and save the actual writing for later. The class continues on to see monkeys, lions, hyenas, and actually observe what is going on around them. When Mrs. Hartwell and her students meet in the middle, the result is lots of fun (and lots of learning, too)!
©2019 Charlesbridge Publishing (P)2019 Charlesbridge Publishing
Alphabet Trains
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All aboard for a train ride through the alphabet! Whether chug-chug-chugging up a mountainside in an Incline train or zipping at super speed in a Bullet train, trains will get you where you need to be - A to Z! There is a train - some familiar and some unusual - for every letter of the alphabet. Trains are used all over the world for carrying people and cargo from place to place. With a bouncy rhyming text, young listeners will love learning all about trains. A companion to the Children's Book Award nominated Alphabet Trucks! CCBC Choices 2016: Annual best-of-the-year list of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center
©2019 Charlesbridge Publishing (P)2019 Charlesbridge Publishing
Summary, Analysis & Review of John Gray's Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by Instaread
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Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by relationship expert Dr. John Gray is a self-help guide to understanding the opposite sex so that romantic relationships can be more fulfilling, healthy, and loving. The key to lasting, successful partnerships is understanding and appreciating gender differences by recognizing that men and women operate so differently that they might as well be from different planets. Men and women think and communicate differently, and they have different emotional needs. Taking the time to figure out these differences can help both partners become more forgiving and understanding of behavior that seems foreign to them. Please note: This is a summary, analysis and review of the book and not the original book.
©2016 Instaread (P)2016 Instaread
First Day Jitters
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Everyone knows that sinking feeling in the pit of the stomach just before diving into a new situation. Sarah Jane Hartwell is scared and doesn't want to start over at a new school. She doesn't know anybody, and nobody knows her. It will be awful. She just knows it. With much prodding from Mr. Hartwell, Sarah Jane reluctantly pulls herself together and goes to school. She is quickly befriended by Mrs. Burton, who helps smooth her jittery transition. This charming and familiar story will delight listeners with its surprise ending. First Day Jitters is an enchanting story that is sure to be treasured by anyone who has ever anticipated a first day of school.
©2019 Charlesbridge Publishing (P)2019 Charlesbridge Publishing