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The Boxcar Children and their grandfather are going to New Orleans. The Aldens like exploring the city. Most of all, they like helping Grandfather's friend clean up her old, dusty bookstore. They discover lots of interesting things in the store, especially a beautiful set of fairy tales. But then mysterious things start to happen. One of the books in the set is missing! Someone is after something the Boxcar Children have. Will they be able to solve this new, exciting mystery?

When the class plans to visit the library for the first time, the students prepare themselves for the worst. Imagine their surprise, when they are welcomed to a warm and friendly place, where a smiling librarian invites them to explore some of the fun and funny books they have to offer.

In this collection, Harley, one of today's most prolific and celebrated kid's performers, explores the troublesome and troublemaking times in our life (particularly between 4th grade and middle school). Hear him sing with his trademark hilarity "In the Back of the Bus" and perform "Bottlecaps" (about the confiscation of his world-class bottlecap collection) and "Mr. Anderson," who was Indiana State Bus Driver of the Year (an honor brought upon mostly because he had eyes in the back of his head).

In 2013, Edward Snowden shocked the world when he revealed that the United States government was secretly building a system of mass surveillance with the ability to gaze into the private lives of every person on earth. Phone calls, text messages, emails - nothing was safe from prying eyes. Now the man who risked everything to expose the truth about government spying describes for a new generation how he helped build that system, what motivated him to try to bring it down, and how young people can strive to protect their privacy in the digital age.

This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great - the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction listeners and that always includes the hero's childhood influences. This volume features Walt Disney, who makes dreams come true for himself and countless kids around the world.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Multiplication Tables for Kids and learn about how your child can memorize those calculations.

If you love to learn about dinosaurs, you might want to consider becoming a paleontologist. A paleontologist studies the remains of prehistoric life. They study why fossils form and why the animals and plants lived where they did.

Like many people, you’ve probably used idioms or phrases like these without giving them a second thought. But if you were to take a moment to step back and learn about them, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to discover the mesmerizing and sometimes outright bizarre origins to these fun sayings! In Why Do We Say That?, we have curated 202 of the most regularly used idioms, proverbs, turns of phrases, and colloquial terms that have the most fascinating backstories. For each phrase, we explain how it was coined, how its use evolved, and how it gained its contemporary use.

A guide to the Kirundi language for younger learners. Kirundi, or Rundi, is a Banta language spoken primarily in Burundi, where it is the official language, and also spoken in Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. This course is split into 28 daily sessions to promote learning and understanding of key words and phrases that can be put to daily use. Sound effects, games, and spaced repetition are used to make learning fun. This is an ideal way for children to build a basic understanding of the Kirundi language.

Matilda ist ein sehr besonderes kleines Mädchen. Sie ist blitzgescheit und liest unendlich viele Bücher, sie ist mutig und abenteuerlustig und sie hat ein großes Herz. Jeder Pappkopf könnte das erkennen – doch die Erwachsenen sind leider völlig ahnungslos. Allen voran die gefürchtete Rektorin von Matildas Schule. Sie heißt Knüppelkuh und benimmt sich auch so. Einzig Matildas Klassenlehrerin, Jennifer Honig, erkennt, was in Matilda steckt. Leider hat es die Knüppelkuh auf Jenny Honig ganz besonders abgesehen.

An audio course that teaches basic words and phrases in Yemeni Arabic for younger listeners and speakers of the language. The course focuses on key words and phrases that can easily be put to use in day-to-day communication, with topics such as greetings, questions and responses, colors, numbers, and many more. The course contains 28 daily sessions, enabling your child to build up their Yemeni Arabic communication skills over the course of a month with daily sessions. Early sessions feature new content, and then later sessions review the content in different ways to help truly learn.

This is a course to teach children ages three to five essential words and phrases in the Hebrew language. The content includes songs, games, sound effects, and music to make learning fun. The focus is on words and phrases that are commonly used to help the young learner build a useful vocabulary that can be put to use. Songs and repetition help build effective pronunciation and help make the words learned memorable. This is an ideal way to get started learning the Hebrew language.

An audio course introducing the Yoruba language for three- to five-year-olds. This course makes learning fun with songs, games, sound effects, exercises, and lots of games to aid repetition. The course is split over 10 sessions, each approximately 20 minutes long, for listening and learning in the car or at home. This is the ideal way to introduce young learners to the Yoruba language.

This is an audio guide to the Dari language, including key words and phrases that can be put to daily use. Topics covered include greetings, numbers, colors, foods, places, questions, and many others to build language understanding quickly with vocabulary that can be easily put to use. Topics are first introduced and then repeated to build understanding. Content is split over 28 daily sessions to build up an understanding of Dari in under a month. This is an ideal introduction to the Dari language for young listeners, and adults listening along may improve their pronunciation too!

This audio course provides a simple introduction to the Slovak language for a young audience. It covers key words and phrases that can be put to daily use. Sessions are broken down to 28 groups of 20 minutes of key vocabulary, including sound effects, games, and activities to improve learning and knowledge retention. This makes learning a daily process so that your child can build a strong linguistic understanding in just a month, and parents and caregivers listening may benefit too!

This is a audio guide to teach the Malagasy language of Madagascar for a younger audience (ages five to 16). The audio course is split into 28 daily sessions to learn words and phrases that you can use daily (numbers, questions, greetings, places, colors etc.). The course first introduces the material in an easy-to-follow way and then reviews the same content in later sessions. Games and exercises are included to keep listeners involved while they are learning and to test out their understanding of Malagasy.

Many kids say the Pledge of Allegiance every day in school. But what does it mean and where did it come from? Francis Bellamy wrote it more than 100 years ago. Join Bellamy in The Pledge of Allegiance for more of the story.

Would you like your child to have better English spelling skills? If so, you're in the right place. Spelling is a critical skill to master for all children. You want your child to be at the top of the class, not getting stressed with bad spelling test results! But don’t worry, help is at hand. We want all our children to feel happy and confident in school and in their own knowledge, and that’s why we created this series of fun spelling audiobooks.

Someone has broken into the Library of Doom! While searching for the intruder, the Librarian is captured by a shadowy figure the Eraser. He has chained the Librarian to a huge golden book. If the Librarian can’t escape, all the world’s books could be could be destroyed.

As northern lights dance and snow blankets the ground, a young girl searches for the perfect book to give her loved ones for their annual book exchange on Christmas Eve. When December 24th finally arrives, they gather together to share magical stories, curl up by the fire, and read all night long—so the Book Flood begins!