Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Learning Ally: Books I've Narrated

Working with Learning Ally, I record textbooks and novels for the blind and dyslexic, along with others that learn differently.

I've been keeping this list on LinkedIn, but hit the LinkedIn character maximum. I didn't always keep track, so there may be a few more books. I started volunteering at Learning Ally in Palo Alto in August 2012, followed them to Menlo Park and am preparing to start volunteering from home.

When I started, we had physical books we read from and we've since moved to VoiceText (scanned texts) and PDF books. This makes it easier to start recording at home!

Here are the books that I've narrated over the years. I'll continue to add to this post as I complete more books.  The hours listed are total length of the finished narration. It takes usually 3 times as long recording and correcting to get that finished product.

Recorded in 2020
  • The Toll (Book 3 in Arc of the Scythe Series, Neal Shusterman) (625 pages, 17:53 hours)
  • One Safe Place (Tania Unsworth) (296 pages, 6.82 hours)
  • Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea Turtles (Philippe Cousteau) (48 pages, 35 minutes)
  • A Perfect Score (Bob Buyea) (370 pages, multiple narrators. I narrated Randi.)

Recorded in 2018
Recorded in 2017
  • Tales from a Not-So-Friendly Frenemy (Dork Diaries #11) (Rachel Renee Russell) (248 pages, 2.17 hours)
  • Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life (Dork Diaries #1) (Rachel Renee Russell) (282 pages, 3.08 hours)
  • The San Francisco Earthquake (I Survived #5) (Lauren Tarshis) (98 pages, 1.27 hours)
  • Shadows of Sherwood (Robyn Hoodlum #1) (Kekla Magoon) (356 pages, 7.48 hours)
  • Mythology (Edith Hamilton) (475 pages, 11.35 hours)
  • Carve the Mark (Veronica Roth) (467 pages, 12.14 hours)
  • Goosebumps Book 8: The Girl Who Cried Monster (138 pages, 2.50 hours)
  • Goosebumps Book 3: Monster Blood (R. L. Stine)
Recorded in 2016
  • Ink and Bone (Rachel Caine) (354 pages, 10.97 hours)
  • Dragons of Winter (James A. Owen) (389 pages, 9.38 hours)
  • Tru & Nelle (G. Neri) (328 pages, 4.70 hours)
  • City of Ice (Ken Yep) (362 pages, 8:47 hours)
  • Winter: The Lunar Chronicles (Marissa Meyer) (828 Pages, 20 hours)
Recorded in 2015
  • If You Could Be Mine (Sara Farizan) (248 Pages, 4:59 hours)
  • The Vanishing Game (Kate Kae Myers) (356 pages, 7:45 hours)
  • A Northern Light (Jennifer Donnely) (396 pages, 8:57 hours)
  • Liar Temptress Soldier Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War (Karen Abbott) (513 pages, 12:20 hours)
  • The Spiritglass Charade (Collean Gleason) (360 pages)
  • Wicked Girls (Stephanie Hemphill) (389 pages)
Recorded in 2014
  • The Wicked and the Just (J. Anderson Coats) (342 pages, 7:30 hours)
  • The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill (311 pages)
  • California Driver Manual (106 pages, 4:15 hours) (Yes, DRIVER, not Driver's ... )
  • Unbroken: A Ruined Novel (Paula Morris) (295 pages)
  • Froi of the Exiles (Marlena Marchetta) (598 pages, 16:53 hours)
  • The Amazing Monty  (Johanna Hurwitz)
Recorded in 2013
  • Every Other Day (Jennifer Lynn Barnes)
  • The Last Dragonslayer (Jasper Fford)
  • The Red Convertible
  • Michael's Mystery
  • Inkheart



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