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Author: Toby Forward
Format: MP3 CD
Author Toby Forward
Narrator Clive Mantle
Duration 2h 59m
Lizzie is upset. Her grandfather is very ill and she realises that he will soon die. She begs her friend Mrs May to give her something to make him better. Mrs May gives her a potion with the warning that he must not drink too much. The effect is startling. Grandfather becomes much younger and more vigorous with each sip. Of course, he pays no heed...
View BookAuthor: Derek Landy
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Author Derek Landy
Narrator Rupert Degas
SeriesSkulduggery Pleasant, Book 1
Duration 7h 7m
Meet the great Skulduggery Pleasant: wise-cracking detective, powerful magician, master of dirty tricks and burglary (in the name of the greater good, of course). Oh yeah. And dead. Then there's his sidekick, Stephanie. She's. well, she's a twelve-year-old girl. With a pair like this on the case, evil had better watch out. Stephanie's uncle Gordon...
View BookArtemis Fowl Series Book 2: Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident
Author: Eoin Colfer
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Author Eoin Colfer
Narrator Nathaniel Parker
SeriesArtemis Fowl, Book 2
Duration 6h
Old enemies Holly Short and Artemis Fowl are working together for the first time. A bold and daring plan is needed to fight the threat to the Lower Elements from the goblin B'wa Kell triad - and to rescue Artemis's father. This is the sequel to `Artemis Fowl' (8747).
View BookReturn To the Hundred Acre Wood
Author: David Benedictus
Format: MP3 CD
Author David Benedictus
Narrator Bernard Cribbins
Duration 3h 30m
Over eighty years since 'Winnie-the-Pooh' first delighted children of all ages, David Benedictus takes us back to the Hundred Acre Wood for more adventures. From the excitement of Christopher Robin's return, to the curious business of learning to play cricket, 'Return to the Hundred Acre Wood' allows Winnie-the-Pooh fans to spend a few more treasur...
View BookAuthor: Jeremy Strong
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Author Jeremy Strong
Narrator Tom Lawrence
Duration 4h 12m
Known as 'Stuff', because he knows a lot of stuff, Simon is faced with the typical pitfalls that all teenage boys have to deal with. While he longs to get off with the beautiful Sky, he also wants to dump his girlfriend Delfine.
View BookCousins Quartet Series Book 4: Tangled Fortune
Author: Margaret Mahy
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Author Margaret Mahy
Narrator Richard Mitchley
SeriesCousins Quartet, Book 4
Duration 1h 39m
Being a Fortune isn't just being called a Fortune,' Tracey declared. 'You get to be a Fortune by going through the TEST...' When his parents move to the small town in New Zealand where his father grew up, ten-year-old Pete can hardly wait to meet all his relatives who live there - especially the four cousins his own age. Will he like them? And, mor...
View BookAuthor: Robert Swindells
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Author Robert Swindells
Narrator Jamie Glover
Duration 3h 27m
A 12 year old boy and his friends make a grisly discovery whilst rooting about in a disused railway tunnel. They are plunged into a terrifying adventure as the tunnel unfolds its sinister secret.
View BookCousins Quartet Series Book 1: The Good Fortunes Gang
Author: Margaret Mahy
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Author Margaret Mahy
Narrator Richard Mitchley
SeriesCousins Quartet, Book 1
Duration 1h 33m
Being a Fortune isn't just being called a Fortune,' Tracey declared. 'You get to be a Fortune by going through the TEST...' When his parents move to the small town in New Zealand where his father grew up, ten-year-old Pete can hardly wait to meet all his relatives who live there - especially the four cousins his own age. Will he like them? And, mor...
View BookAuthor: Jenny Valentine
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Author Jenny Valentine
Narrator Charlotte Strevens
SeriesIggy and Me, Book 1
Duration 1h 26m
The first of a new series of young fiction by Jenny Valentine, winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for her debut novel, Finding Violet Park. IGGY AND ME is a series of family stories featuring the mishaps and shenanigans of the irrepressible 5-year-old Iggy as seen through the eyes of her big sister Flo. Funny and endearing, each chapte...
View BookAraminta Spook Series Book 2: The Sword In the Grotto
Author: Angie Sage
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Author Angie Sage
Narrator Sarah Sherborne
SeriesAraminta Spook, Book 2
Duration 1h 43m
What do you buy someone for their 500th birthday? Araminta is desperately trying to think of the perfect gift for her favourite ghost, Sir Horace, but it's hard to buy gifts for someone with no specific hobbies, and no body. Then an inspired idea leads to trouble when all does not go as planned, and Araminta wonders whether she'll ever see Horace o...
View BookThe Pied Piper of Hamelin and Other Favourite Poems
Author: Various
Format: MP3 CD
Author Various
Narrator
Duration 1h 57m
Here are 60 of the finest and most entertaining poems for younger listeners, from poems featuring nonsense, animals and adventure to Robert Browning's classic tale of adults getting their come-uppance - 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin'. Modern poetry also features with poems on wordplay such as 'Zoe's Earrings' and images of nature such as 'Weathers'.
View BookAuthor: Mary Norton
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Author Mary Norton
Narrator Rowena Cooper
SeriesThe Borrowers, Book 1
Duration 4h 6m
The Borrowers live in the secret places of quiet old houses; behind the mantelpiece, inside the harpsichord, under the kitchen clock. They own nothing, borrow everything, and think human beings were invented just for their use. Until the day Arrietty makes friends with a human boy.
View BookAuthor: Joanne Harris
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Author Joanne Harris
Narrator David Timson
Duration 6h
Maddy Smith, born with a rusty coloured rune shape on her hand, has always been an outsider in her village. For the good folk of Malbry believe a runemark to be a symbol of the old gods, a mark of magic. And that, as everyone knows, is the road to chaos. But Maddy enjoys working magic, even if it is just to control some pesky goblins. Every time he...
View BookCousins Quartet Series Book 3: A Fortune Branches Out
Author: Margaret Mahy
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Author Margaret Mahy
Narrator Richard Mitchley
SeriesCousins Quartet, Book 3
Duration 1h 19m
It's a new plan,' Tessa said airily. 'I'm staying up in the tree house for twenty-four hours...' The National Telethon gives ten-year-old Tessa Fortune a wonderful opportunity to practise what she is most interested in - making money. Even better, no-one can call her greedy this time because everything she makes is for charity. Helped by her cousin...
View BookIggy and Me Book 2: Iggy and Me and the Happy Birthday
Author: Jenny Valentine
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Author Jenny Valentine
Narrator Charlotte Strevens
SeriesIggy and Me, Book 2
Duration 1h 30m
The second of a new series of young fiction by Jenny Valentine, winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for her debut novel, Finding Violet Park. More funny and endearing family stories featuring the the irrepressible 5-year-old IGGY as seen through the eyes of her big sister Flo, the ME of the title. Whether learning to swim, or playing at...
View BookCousins Quartet Series Book 2: A Fortunate Name
Author: Margaret Mahy
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Author Margaret Mahy
Narrator Richard Mitchley
SeriesCousins Quartet, Book 2
Duration 1h 17m
I think I'm going to be a Fortune again,' Lolly said. I mean really a Fortune. I think I'm going to be called Fortune like you...' Ten-year-old Loreli Bancroft has always longed to be part of the Good Fortunes Gang - a real Fortune, just like her four cousins, Tracey, Jackson, Tessa and Pete. After all, she's still their cousin, even if her mother,...
View BookAuthor: Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
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Author Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
Narrator Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres
Duration 4h 54m
Charles and Mary Lamb revolutionized Shakespeare by re-writing the great Bard's plays into short stories, originally intended for children, in 1807. Since then, generations after generations of people have read and listened to their stories, which appeal just as much to adults as they do to children. Also good resources for students studying Shakes...
View BookAuthor: Smriti Prasadam-Halls
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Author Smriti Prasadam-Halls
Narrator Justin Fletcher
Duration 0m
You make me happy, you make me new. Together there's NOTHING that we cannot do. A special someone can make you happy in all sorts of ways. In this delightfully optimistic and feel-good book, Fox and Porcupine discover that blue skies or grey, EVERYTHING is better when they're together. Beautifully illustrated with a loose line, delicate touch and l...
View BookThe Moomins Book 3: Finn Family Moomintroll
Author: Tove Jansson
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Author Tove Jansson
Narrator Hugh Dennis
Duration 3h 33m
If you haven't met a Moomin yet, you're in for the most magical fun! The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Tove Jansson's endearing classic, Finn Family Moomintroll, read with warmth (and some lively character voices) by the comedian Hugh Dennis. Moomintroll is cheerful and chubby and lives in the magical Moominvalley with his mother, M...
View BookAuthor: Deborah Hopkinson
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Author Deborah Hopkinson
Narrator Kimberley Farr, Matthew Frow
Duration 5h 57m
Eel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a "mudlark," he spends his days in the filthy River Thames, searching for bits of things to sell. He's being hunted by Fisheye Bill Tyler, and a nastier man never walked the streets of London. And he's got a secret that costs him four precious shillings a week to keep safe. But even for Eel, things aren...
View BookAuthor: Tom Mclaughlin
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Author Tom Mclaughlin
Narrator Lenny Henry
Duration 1h 17m
Elliott is a boy who likes to find things and, one day, he stumbles across a machine. At first, he can't work out what the machine is for-it doesn't beep or buzz like all his other machines and it doesn't have an ON/OFF button. Then, quite by accident, Elliott makes the machine work. The machine makes letters! Elliott thinks it must be a story mach...
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