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1) Shy
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy. You mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You mustn't hurt yourself like that. He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him. Got your special meds, nutcase? He is escaping Last Chance, a home for 'very disturbed young men', and walking into the haunted space between...
Author
Series
Tom Gates volume 17
Language
English
Description
Happy face or sad face? The future of Tom?s school trip depends on an emoji! Welcome back to the AMAZING world of Tom Gates! But right now, it?s not looking quite as amazing as usual. Tom?s trying REALLY HARD To stay out of trouble. But he?s got THREE sad faces on the school achievement chart. Just one more sad face means Mr Fullerman will ban him from the SCHOOL TRIP. Moany Marcus is making things worse. And now Tom?s upset his grumpy sister Delia....
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
What happens when the past and the present collide? Dominic Rose, a bachelor and teacher, has an antiquated hobby. He studies physiognomy, the art of judging somebody's character by their facial features and expressions. Living in a cottage at the edge of the woods with his frail, bedridden mother, he has spent decades pining after Clara, the love of his life, who vanished while staying with her grandparents. When Kate Winston and her family move...
4) Lean on Pete
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home, food on the table and a high school he can attend for more than part of a year. But as the son of a single father working in warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, Charley's been pretty much on his own. When tragic events leave him homeless weeks after their move to Portland, Oregon, Charley seeks refuge in the tack room of a run-down horse track. Charley's only comforts are his friendship with a failing...
Author
Series
Tom Gates volume 19
Language
English
Description
Some things are a LOT more FUN than others, for instance: 1. LEAPING in the air and accidentally breaking a bone in my foot. (NOT fun.) 2. Doodling on my plastercast. (FUN.) 3. Hanging out with a kid who likes to eat sugar from a bowl. (NOT fun.) 4. Watching squirrels steal stuff from the garden. (Who knew that would be SO much FUN?).
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
When Alfie goes to Airport Lost Property, he finds more than he bargained for. A lot more. Because there's a giant robot called Eric hidden away on the shelves. Eric has lost one leg and half his memory. He's super strong, but super clumsy. He's convinced that he's the latest technology, when he's actually nearly one hundred year's old and ready for the scrap heap. Can Alfie find a way to save Eric from destruction - before Eric destroys everything...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Late one summer night, Elizabeth Sanderson receives the devastating news that every mother fears: her 13-year-old son, Tommy, has vanished in the woods of a local park. Riddled with worry, pain and guilt, Elizabeth is wholly unprepared for the strange series of events that follow. As the search grows more desperate, and the implications of what happened become more haunting and sinister, no one is prepared for the shocking truth about that night.
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Brilliance audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This cult favourite coming-of-age suspense is now fully revamped! NEW recording. NEW narrator. Now with BONUS short story "Silence." #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz gives new meaning to blood brothers in this chilling audiobook of friendship gone awry. No one could understand why Colin and Roy were best friends. Colin was so shy; Roy was so popular. Colin was fascinated by Roy--and Roy was fascinated by death. Then one day, Roy...
Author
Series
Tom Gates volume 20
Language
English
Description
This is the art box of my DREAMS. Earning extra pocket money to buy it will be TRICKY. I?ll need to HELP OUT a LOT. Wash Delia?s clothes? Why not. Clean Dad?s shed? Yes, please! Sweep up the leaves? No problem! But when a HUGE STORM hits Oakfield Town and wrecks the library roof, a big campaign begins to FIX IT FAST. Can our school reach the target before the kids from Great Manor? Hmmm ? eventually.
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Get the jet! What could go wrong when cautious, scientific, singlet-wearing George Parker and reckless rich-kid Chase Landon-Bond take off on a global rescue mission? Just about everything! There are private jets, troublesome pets, crazed criminals, treacherous trips, chaos, too much coffee and two hundred million missing dollars. There are close calls, ridiculous disguises, accidental haircuts and that's just the first bit! Are George and Chase doomed?...
11) Shuggie Bain
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy's doomed attempt to save his proud, alcoholic mother from her addiction.
12) time twister
Author
Series
Children of the Red King volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
An academy for magic and special talents. A destiny unfulfilled. A secret legacy. Join Charlie Bone as he discovers the truth about the Red King, and the key to his own past ... January 1916. On the coldest night in memory, Henry Yewbeam's cousin Zeke tricks him into using the Time Twister, a beautiful marble full of shining colours that draws him into the future. January 2002. Charlie meets Henry reappearing at Bloor's in the 21st century, and realises...
Author
Series
Stuart volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Stuart Horten, ten-years-old and small for his age, moves to the dreary town of Beeton, far away from all his friends. And then he meets his neighbours, the unbearable Kingley triplets, and things get even worse. But in Beeton begins the strangest adventure of Stuart's life as he is swept up in a quest to find his great-uncle's lost workshop.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A laugh-a-minute action-packed alien adventure perfect for fans of Pamela Butchart and Frank Cottrell Boyce. Best friends Freddy and Sal have accidentally intercepted a message from Alan - a spectacularly grumpy, brain-munching alien from outer space. Alan has only one message. Earth is going to be invaded in exactly ten hours? time. Soon the police, NASA and even Presidents from around the world are getting involved - and Freddy is about to become...
15) Count
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Brandon is a boaster - he says he is brilliant at lots of things. Then he is challenged to count up to ten million. So Brandon starts - one, two, three ... and before long he is up to one thousand. Everyone around him is bewildered and annoyed - his friend Waris, his teachers and Miss Hexx, the head. But Brandon can?t stop counting. And then strange, impossible things start happening. The numbers are taking over everything ...
Author
Publisher
Jammer Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for the first time in the words of the band. Adam 'AD-ROCK' Horovitz and Michael 'Mike D' Diamond offer revealing and very funny accounts of their transition from teenage punks to budding rappers; their early collaboration with Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin; the almost impossible-to-fathom overnight success...
Author
Series
Merrily Watkins volume 7
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
In the affluent, historic town of Ludlow, a teenage boy dies in a fall from the castle ruins. Accident or suicide? No great mystery - so why does the boy's uncle, retired detective Andy Mumford, turn to Diocesan Exorcist Merrily Watkins? More people will die before Merrily - her own future uncertain - uncovers a dangerous obsession with suicide, death and the afterlife hidden within these shadowed medieval streets.
18) Crowfall
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Cast out from the clockwork island of Ironhold, where mechanical technology controls everything, Orin Crowfall finds himself adrift on a small boat in the middle of the ocean. As Orin and his robot friend Cody struggle to make sense of the events that brought them here, the one thing they know for sure is that Ironhold is in trouble. They need to get back, whatever the cost. Plagued by perilous seas and freak storms, and with a terrifying sea monster...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Bernard?s got a problem. He's found a monster in the back garden but his mum and dad are just too busy to notice. So Bernard tries to befriend the monster ? and that doesn't go quite to plan. Celebrate Not Now, Bernard?s 40th anniversary with this wonderful collection of 26 of the most popular titles from the award-winning and bestselling David McKee, including: Two Can Toucan, Two Monsters, Charlotte?s Piggy Bank and many more!.
20) Lark
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Truth of Things: Life is pretty tough for Nicky and Kenny. Their mum is gone and their dad has had his troubles. Money is tight and people can be cruel about Kenny's learning difficulties. But through it all, the brothers stick together, sharing adventures and their love of the natural world, while finding humour in the most difficult of circumstances. Lark: Things are tense at home for Nicky and Kenny. Their mum's coming to visit and it will...
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