AuthorDavid Almond
NarratorDavid Almond
Duration2h 20m
CategoriesChildren's Fiction
Key StageKS3
PublisherHodder
VersionUnabridged
Michael's baby sister is ill, and the whole house is sick with her. While his parents spend time at the hospital, he explores their new home. In the old, derelict garage he finds something sinister: a strange creature, part owl, part angel. Is it something good? Or something evil? Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year.
Author: David Almond
Author David Almond
Narrator David Almond
Duration 3h
When Kit moves to Stoneygate, a once thriving mining village haunted by a long-ago tragedy which killed 117 children, he is befriended by the wretched, sullen John Askew, a boy whose very soul has been fractured by his violent upbringing. As Kit's grieving grandfather begins to lose his grip on life, Kit is irresistibly drawn into a treacherous gam...
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Author: David Almond
Author David Almond
Narrator Hannah Barrie
Duration 2h 21m
A hopeful and moving coming-of-age story set on the island of Lindisfarne, by David Almond, author of the bestselling Skellig and A Song for Ella Grey. Louise has travelled with her father to the island of Lindisfarne every year ever since she can remember - it's the place Louise's mother loved best of all. The arrival of Hassan from war-torn Syria...
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The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean
Author: David Almond
Author David Almond
Narrator David Almond
Duration 6h 33m
I wos a secrit shy and tungtied emptyheded thing. I wos tort to read and rite and spell by my tenda littl muther & by Mr McCaufrey the butcha & by Missus Malone and her gosts. So I am not cleva, so please forgiv my folts and my mistayks. I am the won that glares into your harts & that prowls insyde yor deepist dremes. Wonce I was The An...
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