“The…heroic adventures and profiles of the children who inspired them add up to a project that’s inspiring and moving on multiple levels.” —Publishers Weekly
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- True Heroes
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Edited by Jonathan Diaz
Stories by various authors
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 4/05/16
Formats: Digital Audy
An encouraging collection of short stories by bestselling middle-grade authors.
This one-of-a-kind treasury brings together the talents of nearly two dozen bestselling middle-grade authors including Shannon Hale, Brandon Mull, Ally Condie, and Jennifer A. Nielsen—who have created original short stories and modern-day fairy tales, based on the lives and dreams of children they have met who all have two things in common: they have very big hopes and dreams, and they are all cancer patients.
- True Heroes
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Edited by Jonathan Diaz
Stories by various authors
Read by various narrators
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Release Date: 4/05/16
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Forest Born
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By Shannon Hale
Performed by a full cast
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Release Date: 2/12/13
Formats: Digital Audy
Rin is sure that something is wrong with her … something really bad. Something that is keeping her from feeling at home in the Forest homestead where she’s lived all her life. Something that is keeping her from trusting herself with anyone at all. When her brother Razo returns from the city for a visit, she accompanies him to the palace, hoping that she can find peace away from home. But war has come to Bayern again, and Rin is compelled to join the queen and her closest allies—magical girls Rin thinks of as the fire sisters—as they venture into the Forest toward Kel, the land where someone seems to want them all dead.
Many beloved Bayern characters reappear in this story, but it is Rin’s own journey of discovering how to balance the good and the bad in herself that drives this compelling adventure.
- Forest Born
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By Shannon Hale
Performed by a full cast
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Release Date: 2/12/13
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Palace of Stone
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By Shannon Hale
Read by Cynthia Bishop
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Release Date: 11/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy
Coming down from the mountain to a new life in the city is a thrill to Miri. She and her princess academy friends have been brought to Asland to help the future princess Britta prepare for her wedding. There, Miri also has a chance to attend school—at the Queen's Castle. But as Miri befriends students who seem sophisticated and exciting, she also learns that they have some frightening plans.
Torn between loyalty to the princess and her new friends' ideas, between an old love and a new crush, and between her small mountain home and the bustling city, Miri looks to find her own way in this new place.
Picking up where Princess Academy left off and celebrating the joys of friendship, romance, and the fate of fairy-tale kingdoms, this book delivers the completely delightful new story that fans have been waiting for.
- Palace of Stone
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By Shannon Hale
Read by Cynthia Bishop
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Release Date: 11/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Book of a Thousand Days
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By Shannon Hale
Performed by Chelsea Mixon and a full cast
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Release Date: 11/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy
When Lady Saren defies her father's command to marry the vicious Lord Khasar, she is sealed in a tower with only her serving maid, Dashti, for company. In their cramped, dark space Dashti pours her thoughts into a daily journal while pitiless solitude engulfs them. At first Dashti is optimistic: they have food aplenty, candles for light, and even a visit from Lady Saren's true love, Khan Tegus—though he can only call to them from outside their walls. But Saren is ill of mind, the outside world is changing, and their circumstances soon grow desperate. And even if they do escape, they must still face the eerie malice of Lord Khasar. To survive, Dashti and Saren forge a bond of devotion and deception that will test them to their limits. Once again Shannon Hale, author of the Newbery Honor Book Princess Academy, weaves an enchanting and original fantasy that will catch and hold listeners breathless in its spell.- Book of a Thousand Days
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By Shannon Hale
Performed by Chelsea Mixon and a full cast
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Release Date: 11/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Enna Burning
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By Shannon Hale
Read by Cynthia Bishop and a full cast
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Release Date: 11/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy
It's been two years since Enna was swept up in a heart-pounding court adventure. Now, having returned to her old life in the forests of Bayern, she is growing restless. When a strange force takes possession of her brother, Liefer, she returns to the capital to seek the help of her friend Isi, Bayern's princess. But Bayern is tottering on the verge of war with neighboring Tira.
When endowed with the terrifying gift that destroyed Liefer, Enna takes herself to war—only to embark on an epic journey of discovery and betrayal that will force her to come of age. Shannon Hale's fiery companion to her acclaimed retelling of The Goose Girl is dark, intricate, deeply passionate, and ultimately triumphant. Listeners, whether returning to Bayern or making their first visit, will find themselves enthralled.
- Enna Burning
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By Shannon Hale
Read by Cynthia Bishop and a full cast
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Release Date: 11/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy
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- Princess Academy
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By Shannon Hale
Performed by Laura Credidio and a full cast
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Release Date: 11/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy
Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of the village. The king's ministers set up an academy on the mountain, and every teenage girl must attend and learn how to become a princess.
Miri soon finds herself confronted with a harsh academy mistress, bitter competition among the girls, and her own conflicting desires to be chosen and win the heart of her childhood best friend. But when bandits seek out the academy to kidnap the future princess, Miri must rally the girls together and use a power unique to the mountain dwellers to save herself and her classmates.
- Princess Academy
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By Shannon Hale
Performed by Laura Credidio and a full cast
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Release Date: 11/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy
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- River Secrets
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By Shannon Hale
Read by Mark Allen Holt and a full cast
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Release Date: 11/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy
Bayern has triumphed in its war with Tira. But though the war is over, simmering anger remains among the Tirans, and new hostilities could erupt at any moment. In a desperate attempt to maintain the peace, King Geric sends an ambassador to the Tiran capitol. Of course, an ambassador needs a military guard. Razo—short, impish, and not at all skilled at combat—longs to be among those selected to go but thinks he has no chance. So he is astounded when Captain Talone taps him to join the group. He is even more astounded when he discovers the secret reason for Talone's decision. All too soon Razo is up to his eyeballs in a simmering mix of danger and intrigue—not to mention an unexpected romance. But as the gruesome deaths mount, everyone is a suspect, even the girl who has stolen Razo's heart.
- River Secrets
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By Shannon Hale
Read by Mark Allen Holt and a full cast
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Release Date: 11/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy
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- The Goose Girl
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By Shannon Hale
Performed by Cynthia Bishop and a full cast
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Release Date: 11/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy
Princess Anidori-Kiladra of Kildenree was born with a word on her tongue and a secret magic. Though she is raised in luxury, she is never quite comfortable with who she is or what she is to become. Then she is sent on a journey to marry an unknown prince. The trip is difficult, and before it is finished all her expectations are overturned. Alone, friendless, stripped of her crown and her title, Ani must learn to make her own path in the world. Along the way, she just might learn to be a princess.
Bold in concept, stunning in execution, The Goose Girl is one of the most spectacular debut novels of recent years. Now more than four dozen actors bring it to thrilling new life in this unabridged audio edition—a recording that will delight those who already love the book, and enthrall those who have not yet discovered it.
- The Goose Girl
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By Shannon Hale
Performed by Cynthia Bishop and a full cast
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Release Date: 11/01/12
Formats: Digital Audy