Gennifer Choldenko

"Outstanding sound effects, including constant background barking, add atmosphere, as does Mouse's endearing voice and personality."—AudioFile Mouse and His Dog: A Dogtown Book features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun! Mouse lives in Dogtown, a shelter for real dogs...

Everyone will be rooting for a happy ending for Hank, a boy struggling to hold his family together when his mom doesn't come home, in this gripping story from Newbery Honor winner Gennifer Choldenko.

Four orphans have escaped from the Home for Friendless Children. One is Lucy, who used to talk and sing. No one knows why she doesn't speak anymore; silence is her protection....

Liam lives in the Bay Area near San Francisco with his mom and two younger sisters and Cupcake, their lovable German shepherd. Recently, Cupcake has a problem - she's peeing in the house. The kids need to make enough money to take her to the vet before their landlord upstairs finds out....

Questions can be tricky things. Everyone has their own way of dealing with them....

San Francisco, 1900. The Gilded Age. A fantastic time to be alive for lots of people...but not 13-year-old Lizzie Kennedy....

Return to Al Capone's Alcatraz with Newbery Honor-winning author Gennifer Choldenko in this charming addition to the beloved series about the son of a prison guard....

From beloved authors Katherine Applegate and Gennifer Choldenko, Dogtown is an uplifting adventure sure to find a forever home in listeners’ hearts. Dogtown is a shelter for stray dogs, misbehaving dogs, and discarded robot dogs, whose owners have outgrown them. Chance, a real dog, has been in...

Alcatraz Island in the 1930s isn't the most normal place to grow up, but it's home for Moose Flanagan, his autistic sister, Natalie, and all the families of the guards....

River and Niko find their dad is missing, and they have no choice but to track him down. But when they discover the clues lead to a shady reptile dealer, they start to think they might have gotten in over their heads. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka...

Murderers, mob bosses, and convicts . . . these guys are not your average neighbors. Unless you live on Alcatraz....

It's 1935. Moose Flanagan lives on Alcatraz with his family, the other families of the guards, and a few hundred no-name criminals....

For Kirsten McKenna, the world is crumbling. Her parents are barely speaking to each other, and her best friend has come under the spell of the school's queen bee, Brianna....