Playaways

The best of audio enjoyment

What are Playaways? They are a new offering; digital audio books, preloaded for your convenience. Just check out a book, pull out the unit, press PLAY, and you're on your way to a great story. You can bookmark, pause, even change the speed of the reading.

Check them out from the Children's Room for 3 weeks. They come with batteries, and disposable headphones. You can even check out an FM transmitter which will allow you to play your PLAYAWAY through yoru car radio. Confused? Ask for a demo at the Children's Desk!

What are the newest playaway titles? Here are a bunch of new titles!

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Bandit's Moon by Sid Fleischman
The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John Ritter
The Capture by Kathryn Lasky
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
The Chocolate Sundae Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Click, Clack Moo by Doreen Cronin
The Day of Tears by Julius Lester
Geronimo Stilton books 13 & 14
How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night by Jane Yolen
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
The Kid Who Ran for President by Dan Gutman
The Last Apprentice by Joseph Delaney
Melting Stones by Tamora Pierce
Miss Nelson is Missing and other stories
Moongobble and Me by Bruce Coville
Mossflower by Brian Jacques
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Needle and Thread by Ann Martin
Ninth Key by Meg Cabot
Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Paint the Wind by Pam Munoz Ryan
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Ruby Holler by Shannon Creech
Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia Maclachlan
The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer
The Seems by Hulme
Specials by Scott Westerfeld
The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
Starbeast by Robert Heinlein
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Things Hoped for by Andrew Clements
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Twelve by Lauren Myracle
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Welcome to Camden Falls by Ann Martin
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce

 

What other titles are available?

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Eldest by Christopher Paolini
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Juliet Dove, Queen of Love by Bruce Coville
The Kite Rider by Geraldin McCaughrean
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Lionboy by Zizou Corder
Little Women by Louise M. Alcott
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Rabbit Ears Treasury of Fairy Tales
Rabbit Ears Treasury of Fables
Railway Children by E. Nesbit
Ravenmaster's Secret by Elmira Woodruff
Raven's Gate by Anthony Horowitz
Sandry's Book by Tamora Pierce
School's Out -- Forever by James Patterson
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
So You Want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane
Spiderweb for Two by Elizabeth Enright
Stop the Train by Geraldine McCaughrean
Story of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame


Stop by the Children's desk for more information.