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You don’t have to read – you can listen to the books as well!
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Adams, Georgie: The Three Little Pirates
Orion Audiobooks, 2006
Ship ahoy! Meet the three little pirate girls and their pets who sail the ship Lucky Lobster. There’s Trixie and her mice scaring dog Mullet, Tammy and her lazy cat Kipper and Trig and her rubbish talking parrot Gulliver on board. They spend their days looking for hidden treasures and going to pirate school. One day their friend Erroll the sea-monster brings a message from a mermaid princess Mo. An evil and dreaded lady pirate Vanilla Gringe has sold the mermaids to a collector, who keeps the locked in a palace. The three little pirates need to unravel some clues to save the captured mermaids.
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One cd, read by Sophie Thompson
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Animal Stories
BBC Audiobooks, 2006
This cd contains ten charming stories about different animals. Some of the stories are very old and famous like Aesop’s fable The Hare and the Tortoise. You can also meet Pebble the pony, baby owls Sarah, Percy and Bill and Emma’s little lamb. Find out what happens when Toto keeps tagging along and when the little mole gets fed up with the digging and wants to dance.
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One cd, read by Nigel Anthony and Nerys Hughes
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Colfer, Eoin: Half Moon Investigations
Penguin, 2006
Fletcher Moon is not an average twelve-year-old. He is a fully qualified private investigator, the youngest in the world. He graduated top of his internet-class and has now a badge to prove it too. It’s a good thing Fletcher shares his name with his dad. The pupils at Fletcher’s school have given him a nasty nickname “Half Moon” because of his size. Fletcher has solved many petty crimes at school, when things get serious. When April Devereux notices her valuable lock of a pop star’s hair is gone missing she hires Fletcher to solve the crime. At the same time Fletcher finds out that his prized badge is stolen and all signs point to the town's most notorious crime family, the Sharkeys.
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Three cds, read by Tom Farrelly
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Deary, Terry: The Savage Stone Age / The Frightful First World War
BBC Audiobooks, 2005
This double-cd contains two very different stories of history. The one thing that they both have in common is that they both are horrible. The Savage Stone Age tells you about times thousands of years bc – before computer – when almost nothing was invented yet. People considered lungs, bums and tongues tasty treats and ate everything raw. Find out the secrets of Stonehenge, dreadful druids and nasty Neanderthals. The Frightful First World War is a gruesome story about kids as young as fourteen who waged the war. The grimmest Christmas letter from the trenches doesn’t sound that cheerful. The shocking stories filled with blood and body parts are really horrible and sadly, true.
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Two cds, read by Terry Deary
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Gaarder, Jostein: The Orange Girl
BBC Audiobooks, 2005
Georg’s father died when he was only four. Before his death he wrote a long letter to his son. Eleven years later Georg’s granny found the letter in the lining of his old push chair. The letter was sealed and addressed to Georg. Father wanted Georg to learn to know him better, and that was the reason he wrote “the letter to the future”. In his letter the father wants to tell a nail biting story about a mysterious Orange Girl – a beautiful dark-haired girl he met on a tram when he was nineteen. There are two narrators in this book: Georg and his father, who Georg barely remembers. This fascinating story is for the slightly older readers/listeners.
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Four cds, read by Ben Tibber
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Johnson, Pete: How to Train Your Parents
BBC Audiobooks, 2005
12-year-old Louis has had to move house because of his dad’s new job. He calls his new school Swotsville because it’s full of geeks who live for the good grades and boring after-school clubs just to please their parents. Nobody seems to understand Louis, the funny bloke with a desire to be a comedian. Even Louis’s parents turn into those other tiresome adults in the area and start pressuring Louis and his little brother Elliot to do better at school. They don’t even laugh at Louis’s jokes anymore! Louis meets Maddy in the Drama Club and she reveals him a secret about her basic rules for parent-training… A large-print book comes with the cds, if you feel like reading after all!
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Three cds + book, read by Kris Marshall
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Pearce, Philippa: Tom’s Midnight Garden
BBC Audiobooks, 2006
Tom has to stay with his aunt and uncle for the summer holidays, because his brother has measles. The house is old and ugly and there is only a tiny backyard filled with rubbish bins. Tom feels his summer is going to be ruined. One sleepless night Tom hears the old grandfather clock in the hall strike thirteen. Everything is about to change as Tom creeps downstairs and opens the backdoor. There is a magical garden with trees and flowerbeds and a greenhouse behind the door instead of the backyard. The garden exists only when the clock strikes thirteen and Tom returns there night after night. In the garden Tom meets an orphan girl Hatty who leads him to the adventures of the lifetime.
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Two cds, full cast radio play dramatised by Judy Allen
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Pratchett, Terry: Wintersmith
Corgi Audio, 2006
Tiffany Aching is almost thirteen years old witch trainee. The headstrong apprentice is studying under odd and scary Miss Treason. When Tiffany makes one little mistake and takes part in the Dark Morris dance severe consequences are about to follow. During the dance the Wintersmith confuses Tiffany with the Summer Lady. The spirit of winter falls in love with Tiffany and her world is about to be frozen forever. Tiffany enlists her smallest and craziest friends the Nac Mac Feegle pictsies along with her mentors Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Miss Treason to help her. This is a third part in the Story of the Discworld-series.
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Four cds, read by Tony Robinson
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Tales from the Arabian Nights - Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and Other Stories
Naxos Audiobooks, 2004
These tales will take you back centuries to the ancient kingdom of Persia. The Sultan Shariah is so disappointed in his wife’s betrayals that he thinks all women must die. The Sultan decides to marry a girl each night and kill the wife next morning. The grand-vizir’s daughter Sheherezade, who is very beautiful and extremely clever, has a cunning plan to save the girls of the kingdom. She marries the Sultan to her father’s horror. Sheherezade’s sister Dinazarde stays in the same room with the Sultan and Sheherezade. Just before the dawn Dinazarde asks her sister to tell her one of her many stories. Sheherezade starts with the tale of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. These tales last for a thousand and one nights until finally the Sultan realises that Sheherezade is very different from his first wife.
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Two cds, read by Toby Stephens
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Wilson, Jacqueline: Candyfloss
Doubleday, 2006
Floss’s parents have split up. Floss spends five days of her week with her mum, step-dad Steve and their new baby Tiger and on weekends she stays with her dad helping him run a shabby café. This arrangement suits Floss brilliantly until one day Floss’s mum drops a bomb. Steve has a new job in Sydney and the family will move to Australia for six months. Floss has to make a difficult choice between a trip of a lifetime and the world’s greatest dad. She chooses to stay with her dad, living on chip butties and candyfloss from the local fairground. Dad’s troubles keep deepening and they find themselves homeless. Luckily they have made friends at the funfair. Floss and her dad join them and start running a candyfloss stand at the fair.
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Six cds, read by Sophie Aldred
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