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• List: Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults
• Genre: Nonfiction
• Award year: 2013

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  Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

  By Melba Pattillo Beals

  n 1957, nine African-American students became the first to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Beals's memoir details the daily harassment, name-calling, and physical attacks to which she could not respond. Hearing Pitts passionately deliver the epithets hurled at Beals and her eight fellow students heightens the visceral, personal impact of this classic work.

  • Nonfiction
  • Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults 2013
  • ISBN: 9781452604947
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  Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem

  By Rosalyn Schanzer

  Schanzer's dramatic narrative voice, primary source evidence, and atmospheric scratchboard illustrations combine to shine a meticulously researched, reality-show spotlight on the Salem Witch Trials. Almasy revels in the scandal and outrage propelling the events without trivializing the historical accuracy, clearly offsetting direct quotations and acknowledging primary sources.

  • Nonfiction, Audiobook
  • Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults 2013
  • ISBN: 9781464043147