As Fast As Words Could Fly read by Dulé Hill

Young Mason Steele takes pride in turning his father’s excited ramblings about the latest civil rights incidents into handwritten business letters. One day Pa comes home with a gift from his civil rights group: a typewriter. Mason using his skills to triumph over prejudice and break racial barriers.

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The Tooth read by Annette Bening

Marissa loves candy—maybe too much. When she wakes up with a toothache, her mother takes her to the dentist, and on the way, Marissa notices a man sitting on a grate on the sidewalk to keep warm.

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How I Learned Geography read by Ed O’Neill

Having fled from war in their troubled homeland, a boy and his family are living in poverty in a strange country. Food is scarce, so when the boy’s father brings home a map instead of bread for supper, at first the boy is furious but he eventually comes to realize that the map feeds him in a way that bread never could.

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Thank you, Mr. Falker read by Jane Kaczmarek

Little Trisha is overjoyed at the thought of starting school and learning how to read. But right from the start, when she tries to read, all the letters and numbers just get jumbled up. Then in fifth grade, a new teacher comes. And when he discovers Trisha’s secret — that she still can’t read — he sets out to help her prove to herself that she can.

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