Julia Peterkin's short story, The Merry-Go-Round, a powerful tale of social unrest, is featured. Includes literary interpretation, the author's biography, historical context and lesson plans. [29:2]

Caroline Kirkland's comic short story, The School Master's Progress, is provided in dramatized audio. Literary interpretation, the author's biography, the historical context and teacher lesson plans are provided. [28:30]

Alice Dunbar-Nelson's short story, Stones of the Village, a powerful tale of racial identity, is provided in dramatized audio. Includes literary interpretation, the author's biography, historical context and lesson plans. [27:08]

Rebecca Harding Davis' richly written novella Life in the Iron Mills is provided in dramatized audio. Includes literary interpretation, the author's biography, historical context and lesson plans. [28:30]

Elinore Pruitt Stewart's novels The Letters of a Woman Homesteader and Letters on an Elk Hunt are provided in excerpts of dramatized audio [57:28]. Access to lesson plans, literary interpretation, the author's biography and historical...

Sam McBratney has been writing children's books for more than 30 years. His popular book Guess How Much I Love You continues to sell a million copies a year. When his kids were growing up, he told whimsical original bedtime stories every...

Artist and author Lauren Redniss talks about her new book, Radioactive, an illustrated biography of the Curies and a look at their complicated legacy.

Physicist and Exploratorium founder Frank Oppenheimer is profiled in "Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens". Author K.C. Cole, a friend of Oppenheimer's, digs into FBI files and personal memories to describe the complex man also called...

Edith Wharton's ghost story, Afterward, a harrowing tale of self-dependence and innocence, is provided in dramatized audio. Includes literary interpretation, the author's biography, historical context and lesson plans. [29:00]

Ellen Glasgow's ghost story, The Shadowy Third, a haunting tale of emerging awareness, is provided in dramatized audio. Includes lesson plans, literary interpretation, the author's biography and historical context. [28:50]

Katherine Anne Porter's short story, The Martyr, a tale of one woman's independence and one man's dependence, is provided in dramatized audio. Includes author biography. [28:55]

Sarah Orne Jewett's short story, The Flight of Betsey Lane, a tale of living the American dream, is featured. Includes literary interpretation, the author's biography, historical context and lesson plans. [28:22]

Kate Chopin's short story, At the 'Cadian Ball, a tale of culture and marriage, is provided in dramatized audio. Includes literary interpretation, the author's biography, historical context and lesson plans. [26:26]

Willa Cather's juxtaposed tale of art and marriage, A Wagner Matinee, is provided in dramatized audio. Includes literary interpretation, the author's biography, historical context and lesson plans. [28:50]

An excerpt from Louisa May Alcott's novel A Whisper in the Dark is provided in dramatized audio. Includes literary interpretation, the author's biography, historical context and lesson plans. [28:45]

Harriet Jacobs' slave narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is provided in dramatized audio. Includes literary interpretation, the author's biography, historical context and lesson plans. [28:32]

Zora Neale Hurston's short story, Sweat, a depiction of an unhappy marriage is provided in dramatized audio. Includes literary interpretation, the author's biography, historical context and lesson plans. [28:21]

Susan Glaspell's short story, A Jury of Her Peers, a tale about how women and men define justice, is provided in dramatized audio. Includes literary interpretation, the author's biography, historical context and lesson plans. [28:32]

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, a harrowing tale of one woman's struggle with depression and madness, is provided in dramatized audio. Includes literary interpretation, the author's biography, historical context and...

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's short story Louisa about one woman's struggle to keep her family afloat is provided in dramatized audio. Includes literary interpretation, the author's biography, historical context and lesson plans. [28:30]

Resource provides a description and a guide to John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study including activities, homework assignments, project...

Harriet Beecher Stowe's excerpt from Uncle Tom's Cabin, Cassy, an attack on the institution of slavery, is provided in dramatized audio. Includes literary interpretation, the author's biography, historical context and lesson plans. [31:34]

The BBC provides audio clips taken from an interview with the children's author, Roald Dahl. Additional content includes a brief biography, a list of his key works, and links to other related stories on the BBC network.

Marc Aronson is an author, editor, publisher, speaker, and historian who believes that young people, especially pre-teens and teenagers, are smart, passionate, and capable of engaging with interesting ideas in interesting ways. He has...