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Charlie and the chocolate factory [playaway] ; Charlie and the great glass elevator
Roald Dahl.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Charlie and the chocolate factory: five children find entry tickets to Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory. The tour brings out the best and worst in them ; Charlie and the great glass elevator: taking up where Charlie and the chocolate factory leaves off, Charlie, his family, and Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space in the great glass elevator.
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Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin and other stories [playaway]
Charles Perrault & the Brothers Grimm.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Through the ages children have been enthralled by Cinderella, the glass slipper, and the evil stepmother! Also includes: Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Little Tom Thumb, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and others.
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Classic nursery rhymes [playaway]
Narrated by Vanessa Maroney.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
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Collected stories & poems [playaway]
Edgar Allan Poe.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
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Digging to America [playaway] : a novel
Anne Tyler.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives, those who are born here and those who are still struggling to fit in.
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Disappearing act [playaway]
Sid Fleischman.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
After their archaeologist mother fails to return from Mexico and they discover that someone is stalking their Albuquerque house, twelve-year-old Kevin and his opera-singing older sister flee to Venice, California, where they hope that new identities will keep them safe.
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Dreams from my father [playaway] : a story of race and inheritance
Barack Obama.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
"[I]n New York ... Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance"--Container.
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Dress your family in corduroy and denim [playaway]
David Sedaris.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
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Easy pronunciation [playaway].
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Practical instruction in pronouncing words in the English language for nonnative speakers.
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Emma [playaway]
Jane Austen.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Presents Jane Austen's classic novel in which young, well-to-do, and bored Emma Woodhouse learns a thing or two about true class--and love--after an eventful turn as a matchmaker.
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A free life [playaway] : a novel
Ha Jin.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
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French [playaway] : the complete language course
by Henry N. Raymond.
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1 sound media player : digital ; 8 x 5 cm.
Audio based teaching, no textbook needed. Includes pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. Level one focuses on essential travel needs; levels two and three provide more everyday conversation as well as more comprehensive grammar and vocabulary skills.
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