12 Best Literary, Juvenile Nonfiction Books
Literary, Juvenile Nonfiction is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Literary, Juvenile Nonfiction audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 12 Literary, Juvenile Nonfiction audiobooks below.
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Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History
- By: Vashti Harrison
- Narrator: Vashti Harrison
- Length: 1 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 19, 2019
- Language: English
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4.65(229 ratings)
4.65(229 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.98 USDAuthor-illustrator Vashti Harrison shines a bold, joyous light on black men through history in this #1 New York Times bestseller. An important book for readers of all ages, this beautifully illustrated and engagingly written volume brings to life... Read moreAuthor-illustrator Vashti Harrison shines a bold, joyous light on black men through history in this #1 New York Times bestseller.An important book for readers of all ages, this beautifully illustrated and engagingly written volume brings to life true stories of black men in history. Among these biographies, readers will find aviators and artists, politicians and pop stars, athletes and activists. The exceptional men featured include writer James Baldwin, artist Aaron Douglas, filmmaker Oscar Devereaux Micheaux, lawman Bass Reeves, civil rights leader John Lewis, dancer Alvin Ailey, and musician Prince.The legends in Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History span centuries and continents, but each one has blazed a trail for generations to come. -
Finding Winnie
- By: Lindsay Mattick
- Narrator: Lindsay Mattick
- Length: 15 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 26, 2016
- Language: English
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4.51(8743 ratings)
4.51(8743 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USDBefore Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl! In 1914, Harry Colebourn, a veterinarian on his way to tend horses in World War I, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear. He named her Winnie, after his hometown ofBefore Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl! In 1914, Harry Colebourn, a veterinarian on his way to tend horses in World War I, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear. He named her Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg, and he took the bear to war. Harry Colebourn’s real-life great-granddaughter tells the true story of a remarkable friendship and an even more remarkable journey–from the fields of Canada to a convoy across the ocean to an army base in England… And finally to the London Zoo, where Winnie made another new friend: a real boy named Christopher Robin. Here is the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh.
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Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World
- By: Vashti Harrison
- Narrator: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 1 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 06, 2018
- Language: English
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4.49(617 ratings)
4.49(617 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.98 USDThe instant New York Times bestseller!From the author of Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History comes the highly anticipated follow-up, a beautifully illustrated collectible detailing the lives of women creators around the world. Featuring theThe instant New York Times bestseller!From the author of Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History comes the highly anticipated follow-up, a beautifully illustrated collectible detailing the lives of women creators around the world.Featuring the true stories of 35 women creators, ranging from writers to inventors, artists to scientists, Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World inspires as it educates. Readers will meet trailblazing women like Mary Blair, an American modernist painter who had a major influence on how color was used in early animated films, actor/inventor Hedy Lamarr, environmental activist Wangari Maathai, architect Zaha Hadid, filmmaker Maya Deren, and physicist Chien-Shiung Wu. Some names are known, some are not, but all of the women had a lasting effect on the fields they worked in.
The charming, information-filled full-color spreads show the Dreamers as both accessible and aspirational so readers know they, too, can grow up to do something amazing.
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Dear Librarian
- By: Lydia M. Sigwarth
- Narrator: Lydia M. Sigwarth
- Length: 12 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: June 10, 2021
- Language: English
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4.48(1251 ratings)
4.48(1251 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDWhen Lydia was five years old, she and her family had to leave their home. They hopped from Grandma’s house to Aunt Linda’s house to Cousin Alice’s house, but no place was permanent. Then one day, everything changed: Lydia’sWhen Lydia was five years old, she and her family had to leave their home. They hopped from Grandma’s house to Aunt Linda’s house to Cousin Alice’s house, but no place was permanent. Then one day, everything changed: Lydia’s mom took her to a new place?not a house but a big building with stone columns and tall tall steps. The library. In the library, Lydia found her special spot across from the sunny window at a round desk. For behind that desk was her new friend, the librarian. Together, Lydia and the librarian discovered a world beyond their walls, one that sparkled with spectacular joy.
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Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
- By: Kwame Alexander
- Narrator: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 2 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: March 20, 2018
- Language: English
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4.36(1434 ratings)
4.36(1434 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDOut of gratitude for the poet’s art form, Newbery Award winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors’Out of gratitude for the poet’s art form, Newbery Award winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors’ hearts sing and their minds wonder. Stunning mixed-media images by Ekua Holmes, winner of a Caldecott Honor and a John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award, complete the celebration, inviting the viewer to listen, wonder, and perhaps even pick up a pen.
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Kid Authors
- By: David Stabler
- Narrator: Pete Cross
- Length: 2 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: January 07, 2020
- Language: English
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4.33(1063 ratings)
4.33(1063 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDEvery great author started out as a kid. Before the bestsellers, fan clubs, and beloved stories we know today, the world’s most celebrated writers had regular-kid problems just like you. Sam Clemens (aka Mark Twain) loved to skip school andEvery great author started out as a kid. Before the bestsellers, fan clubs, and beloved stories we know today, the world’s most celebrated writers had regular-kid problems just like you. Sam Clemens (aka Mark Twain) loved to skip school and make mischief, with his best friend Tom of course! A young J. R. R. Tolkien was bitten by a huge tarantula–or as he called it, “a spider as big as a dragon.” Toddler Zora Neale Hurston took her first steps when a wild hog entered her house and started chasing her! Kid Authors tells the stories of a diverse and inclusive cast that includes Roald Dahl, Beverly Cleary, J. K. Rowling, Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll, and Stan Lee.
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Through the Wardrobe
- By: Lina Maslo
- Narrator: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 33 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 06, 2020
- Language: English
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4.32(217 ratings)
4.32(217 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDAs a child, Clive Staples Lewis imagined many things… heroic animals and knights in armor and a faraway land called Boxen. He even thought of a new name for himself–at four years old, he decided he was more of a Jack. As he grew up,As a child, Clive Staples Lewis imagined many things… heroic animals and knights in armor and a faraway land called Boxen. He even thought of a new name for himself–at four years old, he decided he was more of a Jack. As he grew up, though, Jack found that the real world was not as just as the one in his imagination. No magic could heal the sick or stop a war, and a bully’s words could pierce as sharply as a sword. So Jack withdrew into books and eventually became a well-known author for adults. But he never forgot the epic tales of his boyhood, and one day a young girl’s question about an old family wardrobe inspired him to write a children’s story about a world hidden beyond its fur coats…a world of fauns and queens and a lion named Aslan. A world of battles between good and evil, where people learned courage and love and forgiveness. A magical realm called Narnia. And the books he would write about this kingdom would change his life and that of children the world over.
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O Captain, My Captain
- By: Robert Burleigh
- Narrator: Chris Lutkin
- Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 16, 2019
- Language: English
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4.25(123 ratings)
4.25(123 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDDramatic, lyrical, and beautiful, O Captain, My Captain tells the story of one of America’s greatest poets and how he was inspired by one of America’s greatest presidents. Whitman and Lincoln shared the national stage in Washington, DC,Dramatic, lyrical, and beautiful, O Captain, My Captain tells the story of one of America’s greatest poets and how he was inspired by one of America’s greatest presidents. Whitman and Lincoln shared the national stage in Washington, DC, during the Civil War. Although the two men never met, Whitman often saw Lincoln’s carriage on the road. The president was never far from the poet’s mind, and Lincoln’s “grace under pressure” was something Whitman returned to again and again in his poetry. Whitman witnessed Lincoln’s second inauguration and mourned along with America as Lincoln’s funeral train wound its way across the landscape to his final resting place. This recording includes the poem “O Captain! My Captain!” and an excerpt from “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” as well as brief bios of Lincoln and Whitman, a timeline of Civil War events, endnotes, and a bibliography.
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Stories of My Life
- By: Katherine Paterson
- Narrator: Katherine Paterson
- Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 28, 2014
- Language: English
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4.02(257 ratings)
4.02(257 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDFrom her childhood in China to the moment she won her first National Book Award, literary icon Katherine Paterson shares the personal stories that inspired her children’s books. Told with her trademark humor and heart, Paterson’s talesFrom her childhood in China to the moment she won her first National Book Award, literary icon Katherine Paterson shares the personal stories that inspired her children’s books. Told with her trademark humor and heart, Paterson’s tales reveal details about her life from her childhood with missionary parents, to living as a single woman in Japan, to raising four children in suburban Maryland with her minister husband. Read about the origins of such familiar characters as Leslie Burke and Janice Avery from Bridge to Terabithia, and go behind the scenes to the moments Katherine found out she won her many awards. Filled with personal photos and letters, this funny, heartwarming history from a legendary writer lets fans in on the making of literary classics.
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Scribbles, Sorrows, and Russet Leather Boots
- By: Liz Rosenberg
- Narrator: Wendy Tremont King
- Length: 12 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: November 30, 2021
- Language: English
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3.73(62 ratings)
3.73(62 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDMoody and restless, teenage Louisa longed for freedom. Faced with the expectations of her loving but hapless family, the Alcotts, and of nineteenth-century New England society, she struggled to find her place. On long meandering runs through theMoody and restless, teenage Louisa longed for freedom. Faced with the expectations of her loving but hapless family, the Alcotts, and of nineteenth-century New England society, she struggled to find her place. On long meandering runs through the woods behind Orchard House, she thought about a future where she could write and think and dream. Undaunted by periods of abject poverty and enriched by friendships with some of the greatest minds of her time and place, she was determined to have this future, no matter the cost. Drawing on the surviving journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott and her family and friends, author and poet Liz Rosenberg reunites the beloved author of Little Women with her most ardent fans. In this warm and sometimes heartbreaking biography, Rosenberg delves deep into the oftentimes secretive life of a woman who was ahead of her time, imbued with social conscience, and always moving toward her future with a determination that would bring her fame, tragedy, and the realization of her biggest dreams.
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March Forward, Girl
- By: Melba Pattillo Beals, , PhD
- Narrator: Janina Edwards
- Length: 4 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: January 02, 2018
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDLong before she was one of the Little Rock Nine, Melba Pattillo Beals was a warrior. Frustrated by the laws that kept African-Americans separate but very much unequal to whites, she had questions: Why couldn’t she drink from a whites onlyLong before she was one of the Little Rock Nine, Melba Pattillo Beals was a warrior. Frustrated by the laws that kept African-Americans separate but very much unequal to whites, she had questions: Why couldn’t she drink from a whites only fountain? Why couldn’t she feel safe beyond home-or even within the walls of church? Adults all told her: Hold your tongue. Be patient. Know your place. But Beals had the heart of a fighter-and the knowledge that her true place was a free one. This memoir paints a vivid picture of Beals’s powerful early journey on the road to becoming a champion for equal rights, an acclaimed journalist, a bestselling author, and the recipient of this country’s highest recognition, the Congressional Gold Medal.
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Finding Winnie “International Edition”
- By: Lindsay Mattick
- Length: 15 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 01, 2020
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USDBefore Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl! In 1914, Harry Colebourn, a veterinarian on his way to tend horses in World War I, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear. He named her Winnie, after his hometown ofBefore Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl! In 1914, Harry Colebourn, a veterinarian on his way to tend horses in World War I, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear. He named her Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg, and he took the bear to war. Harry Colebourn’s real-life great-granddaughter tells the true story of a remarkable friendship and an even more remarkable journey–from the fields of Canada to a convoy across the ocean to an army base in England… And finally to the London Zoo, where Winnie made another new friend: a real boy named Christopher Robin. Here is the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh.
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