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Nudged Children's Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2022.
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Kemosha and her brother have lived their whole lives in slavery. Sold away to work in lawless Port Royal, Kemosha takes her chance to escape brutal treatment. With fortune on her side, Kemosha befriends Ravenhide, a man with a mysterious past who teaches her the art of swordfighting, and introduces her to the beautiful runaway Isabella. Yet Kemosha's greatest test yet is upon the deck of the Satisfaction: the notorious Captain Morgan's ship. His next...
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Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2015
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When Adam meets Robyn at a support group for kids coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder, he is drawn to her almost before he can take a breath. He's determined to protect and defend her, to play Batman to her Robin, whatever the cost. But when you're 14 and the everyday problems of dealing with divorced parents and step-siblings are supplemented by the challenges of OCD, it's hard to imagine yourself falling in love.
4) Kite spirit
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Pub. Date
2013
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A girl spends the summer holidays in the Lake District to try and get over her best friend's suicide.
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Puffin
Pub. Date
2003
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Kevin and Sadie just want to be together, but it's not that simple. Things are bad in Belfast. Soldiers walk the streets and the city is divided. No Catholic boy and Protestant girl can go out together - not without dangerous consequences . . . The second of Joan Lingard's ground-breaking Kevin and Sadie books.
6) Unstoppable
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14-year-old twins, Kaine and Roxy, used to be close, but now they can hardly bear to be in the same room. Roxy hates the way her brother behaves - Kaine might be brilliant at football but he's always in trouble and cares nothing about his family. And Kaine despises the way his supposedly-perfect sister, dominates their parents in her ambition to reach Wimbledon. But the twins are both hiding dangerous secrets of their own, secrets that could destroy...
7) Infinity son
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Series
Infinity Cycle volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Children's UK
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Growing up in New York, brothers Emil and Brighton always idolized the Spell Walkers-a vigilante group sworn to rid the world of specters. While the Spell Walkers and other celestials are born with powers, specters take them, violently stealing the essence of endangered magical creatures. Brighton wishes he had a power so he could join the fray. Emil just wants the fighting to stop. The cycle of violence has taken a toll, making it harder foranyonewith...
8) Brock
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Publisher
Barrington Stoke
Pub. Date
2013
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When Cal finds Shem and his gang digging up a badger set, there's not a lot he can do to save them. But one badger cub has escaped - can Cal save it?
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Series
Publisher
Amulet Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018
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Boys are so much better in books. At least according to Merrilee Campbell, fifteen, who thinks real-life chivalry is dead and there?d be nothing more romantic than having a guy woo her like the heroes in classic stories. Then she, her best friend, Eliza, and her younger sister, Rory, transfer to Reginald R. Hero Prep-where all the boys look like they've stepped off the pages of a romance novel. Merri can hardly walk across the quad without running...
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HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2016
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Alfie is everyone?s favourite cat. A big ball of grey fur who changes the lives of every family he meets. When the Clover family move into Alfie?s neighbourhood he soon makes friends with eight-year-old Stanley Clover. Stanley wants to be a famous explorer and takes Alfie along on his adventures. But Alfie soon realises that Stanley is unhappy. He is jealous of his talented sister Viola and feels ignored by his mum and dad who only ever seem to notice...
11) The raven's knot
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Series
Tales from the Wyrd Museum volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2014
Description
In a grimy alley in the East End of London stands the Wyrd Museum, cared for by the strange Webster sisters - the scene of even stranger events. Brought out of the past, elfin-like Edie Dorkins must now help the Websters to protect their age-old secret. For outside the museum?s enchanted walls, a nightmarish army is gathering in the mystical town of Glastonbury, bent on destroying the sisters and their ancient power once and for all? Revisit the chilling,...
12) Seizure
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Series
Virals volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
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The breathtaking follow-up to Virals in the new forensic series from Sunday Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs HEART-STOPPING FORENSIC ACTION WITH A LETHAL TWIST The Virals' home on Loggerhead Island is under threat, and only one thing can save it: a lot of money. A 300-year-old legend Rumour has it that notorious pirate Anne Bonny hid her treasure somewhere in Charleston in 1720. No-one knows where, but Tory Brennan - great-niece of famous forensic...
13) Toffee
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A teenage girl runs away from her abusive father and stumbles upon a living arrangement with an elderly lady whose dementia means she mistakes her for an old friend.
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Midnight's Twins volume 3
Publisher
Hot Key Books
Pub. Date
2022
Description
The gripping final instalment of the acclaimed fantasy trilogy ... In a darkening city of dreams, can the light return? For Londoner Fern King, Annwn is her second home - the dream mirror of London, the city she loves. An astonishing world, a world where Dreamers walk in their slumber, their dreams playing out all around them. And Fern, along with her twin brother Ollie, is a Knight, a trusted guardian and protector of those Dreamers - and every night...
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Dino Books
Pub. Date
2021
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This is the story of one of the best divers in the world and his journey to greatness. Tom Daley is British diver specialising in the 10-metre platform event and has been competing internationally since he was twelve years old. Born and raised in Plymouth, Tom was spotted by a coach during one of his diving lessons and since then has been a force to be reckoned with in the sport. This is the story of how a young boy went from lessons at his local...
16) Eragon
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Series
Inheritance Cycle volume 1
Publisher
RHCP Digital
Pub. Date
2009
Description
One boy . . . One dragon . . . A world of adventure. When Eragon finds a polished stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Overnight his simple life is shattered and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic and power....
17) Secret sister
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Pub. Date
2023
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When Asha discovers a secret about having a twin, she tries to find a way to contact her sister and piece together the truth about their past.
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Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children volume 1
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As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine?s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-impossible...
19) The cousins
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Publisher
Penguin
Description
17-year-old cousins Aubrey, Milly and Jonah Story receive a mysterious invitation to spend the summer at their estranged grandmother's resort, and find themselves mixed up in a twenty five year old mystery.