Historical Audiobooks

Guys Read: True Stories

Visiting the dentist, in ancient Egypt Spending a night in the jungle, with giant tarantulas Wrestling with a grizzly bear, and living to tell the tale The fifth installment in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading features ten stories that are 100% amazing, 100% adventurous, 100% unbelievable, and 100% true. A star-studded group of award-winning nonfiction authors and journalists provides something for every reader, all aligned with the Common Core State Standards. Compiled and edited by real-life literature legend Jon Scieszka, Guys Read: True Stories is a mind-blowing collection of essays, biographies, travelogues, and more, all proving that the truth is most definitely out there.

Candace Fleming, Douglas Florian, Elizabeth Partridge, James Sturm, Jim Murphy, Jon Scieszka, Nathan Hale, Steve Sheinkin, Sy Montgomery, T. Edward Nickens, Thanhha Lai, Thanhhà Lai (Author), Adam Conner, Bruce Thomas, Ethan Sawyer, Freda Foh Shen, George Newbern, Greg Itzin, Hillary Huber, Jack Garrett, Jim Beaver, Macleod Andrews, Robin Weigert, Thaao Penghlis (Narrator)

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Hamid und Kinza

Marokko. Hamid schleicht sich nachts mit seiner blinden kleinen Schwester Kinza auf dem Rücken davon, um sie vor dem grausamen Stiefvater zu schützen. Er will sie zur englischen Krankenschwester in eine weitentfernte Stadt bringen. Verfolgt von seinem Stiefvater und unter großer Angst, macht er sich auf den Weg auf die lange und beschwerliche Reise. Wird er es schaffen seine kleine Schwester sicher bis in die entfernte Großstadt zu bringen? Und wird die Krankenschwester ihnen helfen können?

Patricia St. John (Author), Daniel Kopp (Narrator)

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Hammurabi: Babylonian Ruler

Hammurabi was a king of Babylon, but he wanted to rule the entire area of Mesopotamia. After only five years of being king, Hammurabi reached his goal. Hammurabi changed Mesopotamia in many ways.

Christine Mayfield, Kristine M. Quinn (Author), Teacher Created Materials (Narrator)

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Hana's Suitcase

In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. On the outside, in white paint, were these words: Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, and Waisenkind - the German word for orphan. Children who saw the suitcase on display were full of questions. Who was Hana Brady? What happened to her? They wanted Fumiko Ishioka, the center's curator, to find the answers. In a suspenseful journey, Fumiko searches for clues across Europe and North America. The mystery of the suitcase takes her back through seventy years, to a young Hana and her family, whose happy life in a small Czech town was turned upside down by the invasion of the Nazis. "Like the very best of museum exhibits, Hana's Suitcase shows how facts and objects can be put together to honour its subject in a very personal and loving way. Highly recommended." - The Toronto Star "Skillfully, and with great sensitivity, Levine weaves together the two stories, alternating that of a young life shattered in increments and that of Fumiko Ishioka's relentless search for answers." - The Globe and Mail

Karen Levine (Author), Stephanie Wolfe (Narrator)

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Hand in Hand: Supporting Children with Illness

Pressure from businesses and stores convinced FDR to try making Thanksgiving a week earlier than usual during the Great Depression. However, the change caused so much confusion and even anger that Congress passed a law declaring Thanksgiving would always be the fourth Thursday in November.

Susan Martins Miller (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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Hanging by a Thread: Caterpillars have a trick to get out of danger.

Long before there were furnaces or oil burners, colonial kids climbed under the covers and felt with frigid toes for the cloth-wrapped fireplace brick.

Sharon T. Pochron, Ph.D. (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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Harlem Summer

Myers is at his clever best in this witty and action-packed, coming-of-age story of a teenager's summer during the Harlem Renaissance and his run-ins with famous gangsters, writers, and musicians. It's 1925 and Mark Purvis is a 16-yr-old with a summer to kill. He'd rather jam with his jazz band (they need the practice), but is urged by his parents to get a job. As an assistant at The Crisis, a magazine for the ""new Negro,"" Mark rubs shoulders with Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. He's invited to a party at Alfred Knopf's place. He's making money, but not enough, and when piano player Fats Waller entices him and his buddies to make some fast cash, Mark finds himself crossing the gangster Dutch Schultz.

Walter Dean Myers (Author), Brandon Gill (Narrator)

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Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman was a slave who dreamed of freedom from a very young age. After her escape at 29, she did everything she could to help and rescue other slaves. In her later years, she built a home to take care of elderly African Americans with no place to live and encouraged women to stand together for their rights.

Marie Patterson (Author), Teacher Created Materials (Narrator)

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Harriet Tubman: Freedombound

The pounding of horses' hooves shattered the night's silence. Harriet froze in the shadow of a tree and peered out into the darkness. She barely dared to breathe as three slave catchers came to a halt only a few feet from her hiding place. Had she escaped from danger so many times only to lose her hope of freedom now? At age six the sharp bite of a whip taught Harriet Tubman what it meant to be a slave. The other slaves scoffed when Harriet resolved to escape north someday. Little did they know that this girl would one day lead hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Even huge rewards for her capture -- dead or alive -- did not stop Harriet from risking her life again and again in the fight for liberty as the nation spiraled into the Civil War. Whether running from slave hunters, advising generals, or improving condition in war hospitals, remarkable Harriet Tubman would not be satisfied until every person could experience true freedom.

Janet And Geoff Benge (Author), Rebecca Gallagher (Narrator)

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Harriet Tubman: Union Spy

The story of Harriet Tubman and her role in leading slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad is well-known. But did you know that during the Civil War Harriet would often dress in disguise to gain important information to share with the Union Army? HIDDEN HISTORY books share the important roles these men and women played in our nation's history as spies -- hidden in plain sight.

Jeri Cipriano (Author), Pippa Vos (Narrator)

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Harry Houdini

Before Harry Houdini (1874-1926) became the greatest magician in the world, he was just little Ehrich Weisz, a Hungarian-born immigrant who moved to America with his family and performed stage tricks for a little extra cash. He started off with card tricks and then eventually began performing the escape acts that would make him famous. Known for his daring and death-defying illusions, he would do some of the greatest tricks ever: escaping from a milk can, being buried alive, and being locked inside a crate and thrown into a river. He conquered each of these seemingly impossible feats and showed the world the power of a little magic. Fun and fast-paced, Harry Houdini tells the story of the curious boy who became the world's greatest magician and reveals how Houdini did some of his most stunning escapes.

Kjartan Poskitt (Author), Pete Cross (Narrator)

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Harry Truman Lost and Found

Highlights presents Harry Truman Lost and Found by Janice Jump. U.S. President Harry Truman loses, and finds, his eyeglasses.

Janice Jump (Author), Highlights For Children (Narrator)

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