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War Poetry 1914-1918 - Smartpass Study Guide
Author: Smartpass
Author Smartpass
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 30m
Experience the carnage and camaraderie of the First World War, first hand. Hear the poems and meet the men who created such art from chaos.
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Author: Jacqueline Wilson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Animal Farm - Smartpass Study Guide
Author: Smartpass
Author Smartpass
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 20m
Through exhilarating full-cast drama, interviews with the main characters and Orwell's own words, the novel's relationship to Russia and its revolution is revealed.
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Twelfth Night - Smartpass Study Guide
Author: Smartpass
Author Smartpass
Narrator Various
Duration 4h 50m
The full text is presented as an accessible, rip-roaring, full-cast drama that really brings the comedy to life. The comprehensive commentary and analysis opens the doorways into Shakespeare's world.
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Author: Roald Dahl
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
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
Series: The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2
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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Author: Richmal Crompton
Series: Just William, Book 1
Author Richmal Crompton
Narrator Martin Jarvis
SeriesJust William, Book 1
Duration 2h 30m
A selection of stories about 10 year old William Brown and his trusty band of friends. Scruffy, mud-stained and mischievous, William is a lovable scamp whose hilarious pranks usually end in disaster - for his harassed elders at least.
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Author: A A Milne
Series: Winnie-the-Pooh, Book 2
Author A A Milne
Narrator Bernard Cribbins
SeriesWinnie-the-Pooh, Book 2
Duration 1h
The timeless adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends, in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and Eeyore has a birthday.
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Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Sharon Eckman
Duration 2h 10m
The Worry Website' is Mr Speed's idea of a Website for his primary school pupils. He plans to ask them to write their worries down anonymously and then get help with solving them from their peers.
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Author: Anne Fine
Author Anne Fine
Narrator Maria Darling
Duration 3h 47m
When the annual school science fair comes round, Mr Cartright's pupils don't get to work on the Soap Factory, the Maggot Farm or the exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babies - sweet little six pound bags of flour that must be cared for at all times or the owner fails the project. And worse, all of them have to keep...
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Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Author Jacqueline Wilson
Narrator Laura Ivill
Duration 1h 55m
The sequel to the Werepuppy (8610). Micky's pet werepuppy is always in trouble. So when Wolfie is banned from the family holiday, Micky is distraught. What fun is a holiday without Wolfie?
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Author: Jamila Gavin
Author Jamila Gavin
Narrator Maria Darling
Duration 7h 20m
A highly-praised book about the lives of a brother and sister living in India in the 1940's who must battle for survival amid the civil war, and their hopes of finding their father in England. Winner of the Whitbread Children's Award
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The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
Author: Chris Wooding
Author Chris Wooding
Narrator Oliver Clement
Duration 11h 40m
Set in an alternative London which was heavily bombed by German airships, monstrous creatures known as wych-kin prey on terrified citizens. At the heart of the city is the beautiful, vulnerable and enigmatic Alaizabel Cray - key to the ultimate evil. Winner of the Nestle Smarties Book Prize Silver Award.
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