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Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Format: Online
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Helen Bush
Duration 5h
Tracy Beaker thought things would be perfect with her new foster-mum Cam. But it's hardly fair that Cam refuses to buy her designer clothes and give her loads of money, now is it? So Tracy bunks off school and hides out in her secret place to avoid being teased by the other pupils and to stop herself from strangling Vomity Bagley, the English teach...
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Author: Jamila Gavin
Format: Online
Author Jamila Gavin
Narrator Maria Darling
Duration 8h 50m
In the late 1700s your circumstance of birth meant everything. Toby and Aaron may both find themselves living at Captain Thomas Coram's Hospital for parentless children, but their histories are as far apart as they could possibly be. Toby has been rescued from a life of slave labour in a faraway country; Aaron is the illegitimate son of the heir to...
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Author: Anne Fine
Format: Online
Author Anne Fine
Narrator Meredith Porteous
Duration 2h 52m
Ione Muffet has spent every summer she can remember alone in the summer house at the end of her garden. But the arrival of the extraordinary Ned Hump changes all that. Ione's father, Professor Muffet, his beautiful secretary, Caroline, and Ned give Ione a riotous introduction to adult life - how not to cope with love, money, careers and forty uninv...
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Author: Julie Bertagna
Format: Online
Author Julie Bertagna
Narrator Robert Kirkwood
Duration 1h
Dibs can copy any sound, yet he can only communicate through his drawings. Only his sister, Amy, really understands him, but even she wishes Dibs could be like an ordinary brother. Can a lost dolphin, washed up on the beach, help Dibs learn to speak?
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The Dinosaur's Packed Lunch & the Monster Story Teller
Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Format: Online
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Robert Kirkwood
Duration 33m
In the first book Dinah is on a school trip to see the dinosaurs in the museum. Everyone in the class has a packed lunch, everyone that is except Dinah. But then a friendly iguanodon decides to help, and soon Dinah has a very special packed lunch and a huge surprise! In the second book Natalie is feeling bored one morning in school - until a tiny m...
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Author: Beverley Naidoo
Format: Online
Author Beverley Naidoo
Narrator Barbara Washington
Duration 1h 30m
Thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro live with their grandmother in a small village in South Africa. When their baby sister Dineo becomes seriously ill, they decide they have to get to their mother to tell her. Their journey to Johannesburg to find her is full of danger and reveals the prejudice and hostility that was an everyday p...
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Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Format: Online
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Sara Jordan
SeriesGirls in Love, Book 2
Duration 4h
When a teen magazine begins its hunt for a new cover girl, three friends, each very different in style and personality, become obsessed by the way they look. As Nadine starts to change her appearance, Magda becomes more infatuated by designer labels and their best friend Ellie, who feels plain in comparison to her two more glamorous colleagues, fin...
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Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Format: Online
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Catherine Walker
Duration 1h
Mary can't see properly and is fed up with not being allowed to go anywhere by herself. She sets off to the shop but stumbles into a nightmare when a robbery goes wrong and she is held hostage.
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Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Format: Online
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Robert Kirkwood
Duration 1h 46m
A werewolf video leaves Micky afraid of dogs. Mum decides that Micky should own a puppy to help him overcome his problem. Micky chooses a werepuppy and Wolfie turns out to be a special pet and a real joker.
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Author: Norton Juster
Format: Online
Author Norton Juster
Narrator Kevin Moore
Duration 4h 45m
Milo is bored, really bored. He can't see the point in anything. So when a tollbooth suddenly appears in his bedroom, Milo decides that as he has nothing better to do he may as well dust off his toy car, pay the toll, and drive through. What follows is a journey of mythic proportions, during which Milo encounters countless odd characters who are an...
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Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Format: Online
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Lucinda Gorringe
Duration 3h
Tracy is ten years old and lives in a children's home. She would like a real home one day with a real family. Share her hopes for the future in this beautifully observed, touching and often very funny tale, all told in Tracy's own words.
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Author: Jeremy Strong
Format: Online
Author Jeremy Strong
Narrator Maria Darling
Duration 1h 30m
Winner of the Children's Book Award. Streaker is no ordinary dog. She is a rocket on four legs with a woof attached. Trevor has got until the end of the holidays to train her or he will lose his bet with horrible Charlie Smugg and something very nasty to do with frogspawn will happen.
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Author: Michael Morpurgo
Format: Online
Author Michael Morpurgo
Narrator Maria Darling
Duration 3h 30m
Bess Throckmorton meets an old man at a family reunion who tells her that Sir Walter Raleigh is one of her ancestors. Curious to see where he was imprisoned, she visits the Bloody Tower and finds that the old man was none other than Sir Walter himself. The mischievous old ghost sets about restoring the family's fortune, while Bess has to try to kee...
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Author: Beverley Naidoo
Format: Online
Author Beverley Naidoo
Narrator Barbara Washington
Duration 4h 12m
Escaping from his violent stepfather, 12-year-old Sipho heads for Johannesburg, where he has heard that gangs of children live on the streets. But Sipho has to learn who to trust in the 'new' South Africa.
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Author: Malorie Blackman
Format: Online
Author Malorie Blackman
Narrator Patrick Robinson
Duration 5h
Cameron is thirteen and desperately in need of a heart transplant, when a pioneering doctor approaches his family with a startling proposal. He can give Cameron a new heart - but not one from a human, one from a pig. It's never been done before. It's experimental, risky and very controversial. And it's all up to Cameron. Will he become the world's...
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Author: Roald Dahl
Format: Online
Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Jeff Bellamy
Duration 54m
Matilda is a very clever little girl, but her terrible parents don't like her, and her head teacher, Miss Trunchbull, is very frightening. She isn't very happy. Then one day Matilda starts moving things with her eyes, and after that she isn't afraid of anybody!
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Author: Morris Gleitzman
Format: Online
Author Morris Gleitzman
Narrator Peter Stevenson
Duration 2h 40m
When Colin's brother Luke becomes seriously ill with leukemia, he is determined to get the best help possible. He is sent to stay with relatives and attempts to go to the top - the Queen first, and failing her, the best cancer doctor in the world. Please note this book deals with issues surrounding death.
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Author: Roald Dahl
Format: Online
Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Quentin Blake
Duration 40m
A shy man, Mr Hoppy has only the courage for polite conversation with Mrs Silver, as she tends her pet tortoise Alfie, on the balcony below. But, when he learns that her dearest wish is for Alfie to grow bigger, he hatches a plan involving a giant pair of metal claws and 140 tortoises.
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Author: Roald Dahl
Format: Online
Author Roald Dahl
Narrator Stephen Thorne
Duration 2h 20m
Things are not what they seem - turtles, fingersmiths, the Mildenhall treasure, even a man who could see with his eyes closed. Everyday life is twisted into powerful and sometimes terrifying fantasies in these seven sinister, macabre and wholly unexpected short stories.
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The Chronicles of Narnia Series Book 2: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Author: C S Lewis
Format: Online
Author C S Lewis
Narrator Andrew Sachs
SeriesThe Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2
Duration 3h 43m
Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are sent to live in a rambling, old house, and in an empty, forgotten room they find an old wardrobe which leads them into the magical land of Narnia. Narnia is doomed to perpetual Darkness unless the children unite with Aslan the lion against the evil White Witch to restore joy and light to the land. This is the secon...
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