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

• Court of Fives (Kate Elliot) (432 pages, 10.71 hours)
  
• Still Life with Tornado (A.S. King) (296 pages, 8:48 hours)
• Some Kind of Happiness (Claire Legrand) (374 pages, 10.80 hours)
• Caraval (Stephanie Garber) (407 pages, 10.13 hours)

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

Grace Hopper Community Volunteers

I am thrilled to be co-chair of the Grace Hopper Celebration's Communities Committee again this year.  I love working with the Anita Borg Institute, talking and working with other technical women, and bringing the excitement and inspiration of this conference to women and men the world over.

I first volunteered as a blogger in 2007, and immediately became hooked.

Being an official blogger or note taker let's you get your thoughts written down while everything is fresh in your mind, making those memories last longer.  This is great for me, otherwise I tend to let my notes languish in a notebook.  This is also great for the conference organizers and speakers, as these moments are kept for posterity.  Best of all, people can participate in the conference remotely, through our words.

If you don't have a blog, don't worry, you can take notes on the official Grace Hopper Wiki.

Being an official blogger or note taker only requires a commitment of 3 posts, and gets you a nifty ribbon you can attach to your badge - an immediate conversation starter!

Want to join us? You can read more about the communities we participate in and what it means to volunteer, and then sign up!

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