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The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural Audiobook, by Patricia McKissack Play Audiobook Sample

The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural Audiobook

The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural Audiobook, by Patricia McKissack Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Allyson Johnson, Mirron Willis Publisher: Listening Library Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 2.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 1.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780593505335

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

14

Longest Chapter Length:

29:48 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

11 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

15:32 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

6

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Publisher Description

With an extraordinary gift for suspense, McKissack brings us ten original, spine-tingling tales inspired by African American history and the mystery of that eerie half hour before nightfall—the dark-thirty.

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Awards

  • Winner of Coretta Scott King Author Award, 1992

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About Patricia McKissack

Patricia McKissack is the author of many highly acclaimed books for children, including Goin’ Someplace Special, a Coretta Scott King Award winner; The Honest-to-Goodness Truth; Let My People Go, written with her husband, Fredrick, and recipient of the NAACP Image Award; The Dark-Thirty, a Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award winner; and Mirandy and Brother Wind, recipient of the Caldecott Medal and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

About the Narrators

Allyson Johnson is an actress and singer who began performing at age twelve as coanchor of Bubble Gum Digest, for which she won an Emmy. After earning a degree in psychology from Brown University, she moved to New York where she became a social worker before shifting to a career in television and radio. Johnson has recorded countless commercials, promos, audiobooks, narrations, and animation series.

Mirron Willis—actor of film, stage, and television—is the winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration in 2012 and a finalist for the Audie in 2015, as well as the winner of four AudioFile Earphones Awards for his audiobook recordings. He has worked extensively in film and television and on stage with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Houston Shakespeare Festival, and the Ensemble Theatre, among others. He has recorded some 150 audiobooks, including the Smokey Dalton series by Kris Nelscott and My Song by Harry Belafonte. He resides and records audiobooks on his family’s historic ranch in East Texas.