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Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different
- By: Ben Brooks
- Narrated by: Joshua Higgott, Thomas Judd
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
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There is an ongoing crisis with regards to young men and mental health, with unhelpful gender stereotypes contributing to this malaise. Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different offers a welcome alternative narrative....
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Stories for boys who dare to be different
- By Amazon Customer on 07-04-2022
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I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
- Teen Edition Retold by Malala for her Own Generation
- By: Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick
- Narrated by: Neela Vaswani
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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Written in collaboration with critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist Patricia McCormick, Malala tells her story - from her childhood in the Swat Valley to the shooting, her recovery and new life in England....
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Becoming Kareem
- Growing Up on and off the Court
- By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld
- Narrated by: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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At one time Lew Alcindor was just another kid from New York City with all the usual problems: He struggled with fitting in, with pleasing a strict father, and with overcoming shyness....
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The Bite of the Mango
- By: Mariatu Kamara, Susan McClelland
- Narrated by: Jessica Almasy
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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The astounding story of one girl's journey from war victim to UNICEF Special Representative....
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Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different
- By: Ben Brooks
- Narrated by: Joshua Higgott, Thomas Judd
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
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There is an ongoing crisis with regards to young men and mental health, with unhelpful gender stereotypes contributing to this malaise. Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different offers a welcome alternative narrative....
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Stories for boys who dare to be different
- By Amazon Customer on 07-04-2022
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I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
- Teen Edition Retold by Malala for her Own Generation
- By: Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick
- Narrated by: Neela Vaswani
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
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Written in collaboration with critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist Patricia McCormick, Malala tells her story - from her childhood in the Swat Valley to the shooting, her recovery and new life in England....
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Becoming Kareem
- Growing Up on and off the Court
- By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld
- Narrated by: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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At one time Lew Alcindor was just another kid from New York City with all the usual problems: He struggled with fitting in, with pleasing a strict father, and with overcoming shyness....
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The Bite of the Mango
- By: Mariatu Kamara, Susan McClelland
- Narrated by: Jessica Almasy
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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The astounding story of one girl's journey from war victim to UNICEF Special Representative....
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I Am Helen Keller
- Ordinary People Change the World Series
- By: Brad Meltzer
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Various
- Length: 17 mins
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When Helen Keller was very young, she got a rare disease that made her deaf and blind. Suddenly, she couldn't see or hear at all, and it was hard for her to communicate with anyone. But when she was six years old, she met someone who changed her life forever: her teacher, Annie Sullivan....
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Girls Solve Everything
- Stories of Women Entrepreneurs Building a Better World
- By: Catherine Thimmesh
- Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
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Brave women from diverse backgrounds make the world a better place through their businesses in this inspiring companion to the best-selling Girls Think of Everything....
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For the Right to Learn
- Malala Yousafzai's Story
- By: Rebecca Langston-George, Janna Rose Bock
- Narrated by: anonymous
- Length: 14 mins
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She grew up in a world where women were supposed to be quiet. But Malala Yousafzai refused to be silent. Discover Malala's story through this powerful narrative telling, and come to see how one brave girl named Malala changed the world....
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I Will Always Write Back
- How One Letter Changed Two Lives
- By: Martin Ganda, Caitlin Alifirenka, Liz Welch
- Narrated by: Chukwudi Iwuji, Emily Bauer
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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The New York Times best-selling true story of an all-American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever. It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place....
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Bedtime Inspirational Stories for Kids
- Black Heroes Who Made African Americans Proud
- By: Clara Mills
- Narrated by: Luana Maranz
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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All of the heroes inside Bedtime Inspirational Stories for Kids were challenged in ways that make most normal humans quiver and shake. Whether physically, spiritually, or emotionally, these men and women were challenged to their very limits and found the strength to persevere....
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Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
- By: Bonnie Bader
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights....
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So Other People Would Be Also Free
- The Real Story of Rosa Parks for Kids
- By: Tonya Leslie PhD
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
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Here’s the whole, true story of Rosa Parks’ life - and the spark of change she helped light for the civil rights movement....
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The Plot to Kill Hitler
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero
- By: Patricia McCormick
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
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It was April 5, 1943, and the Gestapo would arrive any minute. Dietrich Bonhoeffer had been expecting this day for a long time....
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Who Was Gandhi?
- By: Dana Meachen Rau, Who HQ
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
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Gandhi spent the later part of his life working to make India independent. Calling for non-violent civil disobedience, he led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights around the world. Gandhi is recognized internationally as a symbol of hope, peace, and freedom....
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Rolling Warrior
- The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution
- By: Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
- Narrated by: Ali Stroker
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
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As featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp, and for fans of I Am Malala, one of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her story of fighting to belong....
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Rise Up
- Ordinary Kids with Extraordinary Stories
- By: Amanda Li
- Narrated by: Cecilia Appiah, Ayesha Dharker, Kieran Hodgson, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
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This book tells the stories of girls and boys from around the world and the challenges they have faced and overcome....
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Stamped (For Kids)
- Racism, Antiracism, and You
- By: Sonja Cherry-Paul - adaptation, Rachelle Baker - Illustrator, Ibram X. Kendi, and others
- Narrated by: Pe'Tehn Raighn-Kem Jackson
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
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This chapter-book edition of the number-one New York Times best seller by luminaries Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds is an essential introduction to the history of racism and antiracism in America....
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Kid Activists
- True Tales of Childhood from Champions of Change
- By: Robin Stevenson
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
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Every activist started out as a kid‚ and in some cases, they were kids when their activism began! But even the world's greatest champions of civil liberties had relatable interests and problems‚ often in the middle of extraordinary circumstances....
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The Cat Man of Aleppo
- By: Irene Latham, Karim Shamsi-Basha
- Narrated by: Ramsey Faragallah
- Length: 16 mins
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The courageous and true story of Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel, who in the midst of the Syrian Civil War offered safe haven to Aleppo's abandoned cats....
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Who Was Helen Keller?
- By: Gare Thompson
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
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At age two, Helen Keller became deaf and blind. She lived in a world of silence and darkness and she spent the rest of her life struggling to break through it. But with the help of teacher Annie Sullivan, Helen learned to read, write, and do many amazing things....
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Sterling Biographies
- Rosa Parks
- By: Ruth Ashby
- Narrated by: Cornelius Jones Jr.
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
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She just wouldn't get up - and with that simple, courageous act Rosa Parks struck a blow against injustice....
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DK Life Stories: Nelson Mandela
- By: Stephen Krensky
- Narrated by: Joseph Balderrama
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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In 1964, Nelson Mandela was sentenced to a lifetime in jail. His crime? Attempting to overthrow a government that openly discriminated against its Black citizens....
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I Am Gandhi
- Ordinary People Change the World Series
- By: Brad Meltzer
- Narrated by: Rajiv Surendra, Various
- Length: 27 mins
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As a young man in India, Gandhi saw firsthand how people were treated unfairly. Refusing to accept injustice, he came up with a brilliant way to fight back through quiet, peaceful protest. He took his methods with him from South Africa back to India, where he led a nonviolent revolution....
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We Are One
- The Story of Bayard Rustin
- By: Larry Dane Brimner
- Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
- Length: 49 mins
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You may never have heard of him, but you've probably heard of the many people civil rights activist Bayard Rustin influenced....
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She Persisted: Wangari Maathai
- By: Eucabeth Odhiambo, Chelsea Clinton
- Narrated by: Zenzi Williams, Chelsea Clinton
- Length: 48 mins
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When Wangari Maathai learned about how many trees had been cut down in Kenya, where she was from, she was horrified. So she founded the Green Belt Movement and got friends, family, and even strangers to help her plant trees and respect the environment....
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Resist
- By: Veronica Chambers
- Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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A perfect tool for young listeners as they grow into the leaders of tomorrow, Veronica Chambers’ inspiring collection of profiles - along with Senator Cory Booker’s stirring foreword - will inspire listeners of all ages to stand up for what’s right....
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We Got Game!
- 35 Female Athletes Who Changed the World
- By: Aileen Weintraub, Sarah Green - illustrator
- Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
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Inspire kids to be their best selves and get involved in social change with this stunning anthology about 35 amazing women in sports around the world and throughout history....
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I Am Malala Yousafzai
- By: Brad Meltzer
- Narrated by: Zehra Fazal, Vidish Athavale, Danish Farooqui, and others
- Length: 17 mins
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Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of 17 for speaking out against injustice even when it was terrifying to do so. She was an ordinary Muslim girl who wanted to attend school, and she refused to stop protesting for her rights even after being attacked....
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Emmanuel's Dream
- The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
- By: Laurie Ann Thompson
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 11 mins
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A powerful celebration of triumphing over adversity, Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah's inspiring true story - which was turned into a film, Emmanuel's Gift, narrated by Oprah Winfrey - is nothing short of remarkable....