Guys Read: True Stories
Edited by Jon Scieszka
Stories by various authors
Read by various narrators
The Guys Read Library of Great Reading
Unabridged
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1 Format: Retail CD
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$25.99
ISBN: 9781483028330
| Runtime: | 4.93 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/History |
| Audience: | Children (8–12) |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Jon Scieszka's Guys Read anthology series for tweens turns to nonfiction in its fifth volume, True Stories. 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, how-to guides, and more, all proving that the truth is most definitely out there.
Supports the Common Core State Standards
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Author
Author Bio: Steve Sheinkin
Steve Sheinkin is the award-winning author of fast-paced, cinematic histories for young readers. His The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights was longlisted for the National Book Award. Bomb: The Race to Build-and Steal-the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon was a Newbery Honor Book, a National Book Award finalist, and winner of the Sibert Award and YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults.
Author Bio: Jon Scieszka
Jon Scieszka is best known for his bestselling picture books, including The True Story of the Three Little Pigs! and The Stinky Cheese Man. He is also the founder of guysread.com and a champion force behind guyslisten.com, and was the first National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature.
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Author Bio: Jim Murphy
Jim Murphy is an editor and writer with more than a dozen books for young readers to his credit. Research Mr. Murphy was doing on the Civil War inspired his book The Boys’ War, as well as The Long Road to Gettysburg.
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Author Bio: Elizabeth Partridge
Elizabeth Partridge grew up in a large, eccentric family in the San Francisco Bay Area. She graduated with a degree in women’s studies from UC Berkeley, and later studied traditional Chinese medicine in Oxford, England. She was an acupuncturist for more than twenty years before closing her medical practice to write full-time. She has since published more than a dozen books, including Marching to Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary, and biographies of Dorothea Lange, Woody Guthrie, and John Lennon. Elizabeth is on the core faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults.
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Author Bio: Nathan Hale
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Author Bio: James Sturm
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Author Bio: Douglas Florian
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Author Bio: Candace Fleming
Candace Fleming is the award-winning author of many books for children and young adults. Her books have often earned multiple starred reviews. The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh received six starred reviews, was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and School Library Journal and was hailed by the Wall Street Journal as a “fascinating chronicle.” The Family Romanov received six starred reviews, won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was recognized as a Sibert Nonfiction Honor Book. Visit her on the web at candacefleming.com.
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Author Bio: Sy Montgomery
Sy Montgomery is a naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and author of twenty acclaimed books of nonfiction for adults and children, including The Soul of an Octopus, a finalist for the National Book Award, and New York Times bestsellers, including How to Be a Good Creature and Of Time and Turtles. She has received numerous honors, including a Sibert Medal and lifetime achievement awards from the Humane Society and the New England Booksellers Association.
Author Bio: T. Edward Nickens
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Author Bio: Thanhhà Lại
Thanhhà Lại was born in Vietnam and moved to Alabama in 1975. She received a degree in journalism from the University of Texas and worked as a journalist at the Orange County Register for two years before deciding to switch to fiction writing. She lives in New York City with her family and teaches writing at Parsons The New School of Design.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Retail CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/History |
| Runtime: | 4.93 |
| Audience: | Children (8–12) |
| Language: | English |
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