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Author: Anita Desai
Author Anita Desai
Narrator Rachel Sternberg
Duration 5h 20m
An award-winning story about a family's survival in a small fishing village in India. With their mother drunk, Hari and Lila have to earn the money to keep house and look after their two young sisters. In desperation, Hari runs away to Bombay, and Lila is left to cope alone. Possible prose text for Edexcel GCSE English.
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Author: Lesley Ely
Author Lesley Ely
Narrator Rachel Sternberg
Duration 10m
'There's a new boy at school called Louis. Louis sits next to me and I look after him. He's not quite like the rest of us. Sometimes I wonder what he's thinking about. He often just sits and stares at the wall. If I ask him what he's looking at he says, 'Looking at' and carries on looking.' This introduction to the issue of autism shows how - throu...
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Would You Believe...cobwebs Stop Wounds Bleeding?! and Other Medical Marvels
Author: Richard Platt
Author Richard Platt
Narrator Rachel Sternberg
Duration 1h 5m
The story of health and healing is stranger and more scary than you can imagine! Young scientists get a real taste of the story behind medicine as we examine the amazing practices used in medicine past and present. Listeners will learn about the often painful and frequently distasteful medical practices that our ancestors employed, such as using le...
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Would You Believe... In 1400, Reading Could Save Your Life?! and Other Academic Advantages
Author: Richard Platt
Author Richard Platt
Narrator Rachel Sternberg
Duration 1h
Listeners will learn about the often painful and frequently distasteful educational practices that our ancestors employed and explore some unusual teaching methods used today. Find out about the Neolithic cave school, the English charity boarding school in Dickensian times, where pupils shared their boarding rooms with chickens and turkeys, and the...
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A Little Lower Than the Angels
Author: Geraldine Mccaughrean
Author Geraldine Mccaughrean
Narrator Rachel Sternberg
Duration 3h 35m
Gabriel has no idea what the future will hold when he runs away from his apprenticeship with the bad tempered stonemason. But God himself, in the shape of playmaster Garvey, has plans for him. He wants Gabriel for his angel. Winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award.
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Author: Sarah Crossan
Author Sarah Crossan
Narrator Rachel Sternberg
Duration 1h 54m
Armed with a suitcase and an old laundry bag filled with clothes, Kasienka and her mother head for England. Life is lonely for Kasienka. At home her mother's heart is breaking and at school friends are scarce. But when someone special swims into her life, Kasienka learns that there might be more than one way for her to stay afloat.
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Stone Girl, Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning of Lyme Regis
Author: Laurence Anholt
Author Laurence Anholt
Narrator Rachel Sternberg
Duration 15m
Mary Anning is probably the world's best-known fossil-hunter. As a little girl, she found a fossilised sea monster, the most important prehistoric discovery of its time. Best-selling author Laurence Anholt turns Mary's fascinating life into a beautiful story, ideal for reading aloud.
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