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Did Wilt Chamberlain really score 100 points by himself in a single game? Was the 1985 NBA Draft really fixed to make sure the New York Knicks got the first pick? Was Michael Jordan really let go by his high school basketball team? Get ready to discover the real stories behind these and other great basketball myths and legends!

Six months after Paola Santiago confronted the legendary La Llorona, life is nothing like she'd expected it to be. She is barely speaking to her best friends, Dante and Emma, and what's worse, her mom has a totally annoying boyfriend. Even with her chupacabra puppy, Bruto, around, Pao can't escape the feeling that she's all alone in the world. Pao has no one to tell that she's having nightmares again, this time set in a terrifying forest.

Told in brief, repetitive episodes, Ichiro and the Great Mountain follows a young, free-spirited boy through the stages of life as he searches for his true self, making this original literary folktale by award-winning author and storyteller W. Nikola-Lisa a story of becoming or, in the Buddhist tradition, a story of self-realization and enlightenment.

Our bestselling series is fit for a queen! The life of Queen Elizabeth I was dramatic and dangerous: cast out of her father's court at the age of three and imprisoned at nineteen, Elizabeth was crowned queen in 1558, when she was only twenty-five. A tough, intelligent woman who spoke five...

Kipling's masterpiece Kim is his final and most famous work and one of the first and greatest espionage stories ever written. It explores the life of Kimball O'Hara, an Irish orphan who spends his childhood as a vagrant in Lahore. When he befriends an aged Tibetan lama his life is transformed as he is requested to accompany him on a mysterious quest to find the legendary River of the Arrow and achieve Enlightenment.

Este audiolivro faz com que o ouvinte descubra a sua terra e a sua maneira de amá-la. Do azul do céu e das águas, do amarelo do Sol e da alegria de um povo resulta o verde da esperança, da terra cultivada. Da união desses três símbolos, inventou-se o Brasil.

How to be a Real Man by Scott Stuart encourages boys to embrace who they truly are in this empowering and funny story, smashing age-old assumptions about what it means to be a man. Encompassing boys and men from different backgrounds, and told in irresistible rhyme, this is a must-have audiobook for all young children.

In 1847 an eighteen-year-old immigrant arrived in New York. He had little in his pockets and no knowledge of English. However, by 1874, people throughout the United States knew him as the man who made blue jeans with copper rivets. Even now Levi Strauss's name lives on as a mark of quality and...

Myths! Lies! Secret mummy curses? Grab your head lamp, the award-winning History Smashers are headed to Ancient Egypt to dig up the truth about this incredible early civilization—and the many myths that will be buried once and for all. A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In 1922...

An international bestseller—over 10 million copies sold—now available in English! The first installment in The Enchanted Sweet Shop series featuring six stories about a magical candy shop that sells sweets to make all of your wishes come true. Welcome to Zenitendo, an Enchanted Sweet Shop...

Learn all about the geography, mapping, and exploration of the equator in this newest addition to the Who HQ library, including a fold-out map! In 1736, French and Spanish geographers went on a ten-year mission to map the equator and determine the shape of the earth. This expedition produced the...

Eleven-year-old Hattie Ramzy investigates the theft of an Egyptian relic in this enthralling middle grade mystery for fans of The Swifts. Hattie wants to escape. She's stuck in her grandmother Nenna's historic Luxor Mansion with pretentious, pompous Egyptologists. She can't live up to the name...

What if “impossible” just means we haven’t found another way yet? Toto’s Lisbon adventure begins on a bus that does something extraordinary: it drives into the Tagus River and becomes a boat! There he meets Nina the Sardina, a little fish with a big dream: she wants to explore Lisbon...

Meet eight-year-old Sophie, with untamable copper-colored hair, one luminous pale-green eye, the other a beautiful light ocean blue—a young girl easily recognizable anywhere, and her companion, Justice, a twenty-pound cat. They live in an attic space filled with a wild kaleidoscope of color—Sophie’s bold artwork papers the four walls along with the dozens of her grandmother’s clocks, posters of national parks, sea animals, puppies and cats, and stacks of mystery books next to a cozy chair by a window.

Two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall invites readers to join a family's summer road trip aboard a house they can drive! Embark on an unforgettable summer road trip in a house on wheels! Inside there’s a bathroom, a tiny stove, a table that turns into a bed, and everything a family might...

Auf dem Ponyhof Apfelblüte werden Träume wahr. Jedes Mädchen findet sein Lieblingspony, kann mit ihm schmusen, es striegeln und natürlich auf ihm reiten! Der Kaltblüter Nero hat Angst vor Ballons und kann kein Polizeipferd werden. Doch als Schulpferd für den Hof ist er perfekt! Das sieht Lenas Vater aber anders. Was, wenn Lena von einem so großen Pferd stürzt? Er möchte, dass sie die Ferien lieber in der Stadt verbringt. Wird sie ihn umstimmen können? Das neueste Pferdeabenteuer mit Lena und ihren Freundinnen, ponystark gesprochen von Jule Hupfeld.

On the brink of her Quinceañera, and her official coronation, Solimar visits the oyamel forest to sit among the monarch butterflies. There, the sun pierces through a sword-shaped crevice in a boulder, which shines on her and sends the butterflies humming and swirling around her. After the magical frenzy, she realizes she's been given a gift — and a burden: She can predict the near future!

In this audiobook, Luna, a real dog, tells her story of how she has found where and how she belongs. In this story, I share how she and I found each other, the obstacles she faced on this journey, and the fears that she may have felt as her role changed. All categories of people who read this story will be able to relate, understand, and smile knowing that they are not alone in this world.

Come listen to the Ring Master introduce the acts of The Wondrous Wandering Acrobats Show in this one-of-a-kind audiobook that fuses a soft singing narration to wonderfully composed music. Anders Roseberg carefully crafts witty rhymes while cleverly adding the real names of the acrobats, performances or phrases from rare, vintage circus advertisements.

That was where she needed to be, in a field of purple flowers, where no one could bother her. She would sit there until the confusion left her head and the stink of the camp left her nostrils. Shauzia has a dream. She dreams of getting away from the refugee camp in Pakistan and travelling to...