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Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
It is 1913, nine years after the end of A Little Princess saw Sara Crewe escape Miss Minchin's orphanage. Lottie, the smallest girl from the original story, learns about the Suffragette movement from Sara, who returns to visit from time to time. Soon Lottie finds herself sneaking out of the orphanage to attend a demonstration, in defiance of her cold, distant father. A father who has a secret to hide about her own missing mother ... A story about...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Younger listeners will delight in this second collection from award-winning author Steve Smallman full of hilarious and charming adventures. From a big, bad bullying bunny who tries to steal all the carrots, to a zookeeper who discovers a mysterious glowing poo, these wonderfully funny rhyming stories are perfect for young children - and guaranteed to become family favourites! The stories included in this collection are: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad...
43) Madame Badobedah
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Mabel lives with her parents in The Mermaid Hotel, by the sea. Mabel likes to keep an eye on the comings and goings of all the guests. Then one day a particularly in-ter-est-ing old lady comes to stay. There is something very suspicious about her, with her growly voice and her heavy trunks and her beady-eyed tortoise. And why does no one know her REAL name? There can only be one answer, Mabel decides ... this guest is a SUPERVILLAIN. But even supervillains...
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Language
English
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Description
Welcome to the world's wackiest treehouse where there are no rules, no limits, absolutely NO adults, and bucket-loads of fun! The 130-Storey Treehouse is the tenth amazing book in the number one bestselling Treehouse series that has over 10 million kids laughing. Andy and Terry have added another thirteen levels of crazy fun to their ever-growing treehouse. Join millions of readers worldwide in this wacky new adventure - a laugh-out-loud story told...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Childrens
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
River means everything to Sky. They have lived alone together on Island for as long as they can remember. The two of them hunt for food, wash in Falls and curl up together in Shelter. Their life is simple and safe. Until River sees a boat . . . Across Ocean is California, a place where nothing makes sense to Sky. She is separated from River and taken to live with a grandmother she doesn't know. Lost and heartbroken, Sky searches for him so they can...
46) Dragon trouble
Author
Series
The Dragonling volume 5
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Darek must rescue Zantor and Pola from the dangerous mists of Krad in this fifth book in the fantastical Dragonling chapter book series! When Darek?s beloved dragonling, Zantor, and Darek?s best friend, Pola, disappear into the mists of Krad, everyone assumes they?re gone for good. But Darek just knows that Zantor and Pola are alive. He can hear the dragonling?s cries for help, deep inside his own head. And much to his surprise, Rowena-the cause of...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-olds Willa and Manny hear of a mysterious animal prowling their town, they are determined to prove it is real. Following the creature into a cave one full moon, they are swept into an alternate, ideal, world - one where pollution and conflict have been conquered decades ago and even their own families seem happier. But when they return, no one believes them. So, with a global war looming in their own world, their quest for proof of...
Author
Series
Amelia Fang volume 4
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
It?s the half-moon holidays in gloomy Nocturnia which means no school for Amelia and her friends! Instead they are going to spend it with their Rainbow Rangers troop, (lead by unicorns Ricky and Graham) earning badges on Sugar Plum Island. But whilst exploring, Amelia and the gang stumble upon an ancient curse - and are shrunk to the size of bugs! How will they make the bloodcurdlingly BIG journey to break the curse when they are all so very TINY?....
49) Toffee
Author
Language
English
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Description
I am not who I say I am, and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. I am a girl trying to forget. She is a woman trying to remember. Allison has run away from home and with nowhere to live finds herself hiding out in the shed of what she thinks is an abandoned house. But the house isn't empty. An elderly woman named Marla, with dementia, lives there - and she mistakes Allison for an old friend from her past called Toffee. Allison is used to hiding who...
Author
Series
Dork Diaries volume 11
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Nikki Maxwell has the worst luck. Of all the schools she could have been assigned to for the student exchange week program, she?s stuck at North Hampton Hills, her arch nemesis MacKenzie Hollister?s new school. Even worse, there might just be someone at NHH who can out-MacKenzie MacKenzie! At least Nikki can write about every moment of drama in her diary, so listeners won?t miss a moment of it. Can the queen of dorks survive a week at the head CCP?s...
51) Angrosaurus rex
Author
Series
Darcy Burdock volume 5
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Darcy Burdock is one of life's noticers. She sees the extraordinary in the everyday, and the wonder in the world around her. In Darcy's fifth story, it's the summer holidays and Darcy is not impressed that her family haven't gone to Hawaii like she wanted. Her best friend Will has abandoned her. Worst of all, Darcy has to pack up all her things ready for moving house. But Darcy is not going to throw a temper tantrum, as much as she wants...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Younger listeners will delight in this collection from award-winning author Steve Smallman, full of hilarious and charming adventures. From a mischievous monkey who discovers a paintbox to vikings in search of a dragon for their dinner, these wonderfully funny rhyming stories are perfect for young children - and guaranteed to become family favourites! The stories included in this collection are: A Hug For Humphrey The Lamb Who Came For Dinner The...
53) Little monsters
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Howl with laughter and squeal with delight at this monstrously exciting new story from number one bestselling author David Walliams!Howler is a SMALL werewolf with a BIG problem.He is just not SCARY! And that makes him the odd one out at Monster School?But when Howler finds some new friends, he discovers that being the ODD one out might just make him the COOLEST one of all?This hilarious new picture book is full of squeal appeal and has giggles on...
Author
Series
Amelia Fang volume 3
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Meet Amelia Fang! Everyone?s favourite little vampire. Amelia and her friends are taking part in a competition to visit Pumpkin Paradise Park - the most bloodcurdingly brilliant theme park ever! All they have to do is sell as many cookies as possible. But the creatures of Nocturnia have begun to act very strangely ... No one can seem to remember anything - including their own names or even Amelia?s big birthnight party! Where have everyone?s memories...
55) Turtle boy
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
There are three things Will loves: turtles, the nature reserve behind the school, being left alone. And there is only one thing Will really hates: his chin. Kids at school call Will Turtle Boy because of his funny-looking chin. But when Will meet RJ, he learns not everyone is his enemy. RJ has a bucket list of adventures which extends way beyond his hospital room and he needs help ticking them off. Will may want to stay in his shell, but RJ is determined...
56) The Danger Gang
Author
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Franky can't wait to move to his new town - although he wishes he didn't have to leave his best friend Dani behind. But everything changes after the storm, when strange green lightning and powerful thunder crash down on the town. From that night on, the kids who live on Franky's street start to change. One by one, they become a little odd. A little unusual. A little.. magical. Franky's always wanted to be part of an amazing gang - just like his hero,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
This is the debut children's novel from David Walliams, co-creator and co-star of the multi-award-winning Little Britain. Dennis lives in a boring house in a boring street in a boring town. But he's about to find out that when you open your mind, life becomes anything but boring.
58) Crusade
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Childrens
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Robert: Left on the steps of a church as a baby, Robert was often hungry but never stole food like the other orphans in town. Introverted and extraordinarily intelligent, he knew all the Latin prayers and hymns by heart by the time he was five years old. Georgette: Her own mother died in childbirth, leaving Georgette with a father who, seventeen at the time, had neither experience nor aptitude as a nurturing parent, and a brother known in town as...
60) House of windows
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Nick hates it when people call him a genius. Sure, he's going to Cambridge University aged 15, but he says that's just because he works hard. And, secretly, he only works hard to get some kind of attention from his workaholic father. Not that his strategy is working. When he arrives at Cambridge, he finds the work hard and socialising even harder. Until, that is, he starts to cox for the college rowing crew and all hell breaks loose.
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