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Mayowa and the Sea of Words

By: Chibundu Onuzo

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Mayowa and the Sea of Words by Chibundu Onuzo, read by Adjoa Andoh.

‘Joyful and truly original’ – Katherine Rundell, author of Impossible Creatures

WARNING: DO NOT JUMP ON THIS BOOK!

Have you ever jumped on a book? Perhaps not. Most people would think it was a rather unusual thing to do.

Ten-year-old Mayowa has always thought... Read more

Living Up the Street

By: Gary Soto

Narrated by: Robert Ramirez

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing up Mexican-American in Fresno, California, in the 1950s and ’60s might not have been easy, but it was certainly never boring for young Gary Soto, his brother Rick and sister Debra.

As this compilation of 21 short stories and articles illustrates, there is no limit to the amount of fun a child can have, or how much he can terrorize... Read more

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

By: Robert C. O'Brien

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

—A Newbery Medal Winner

Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia nd must not be moved.

Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary... Read more

Belly Up

By: Stuart Gibbs

Narrated by: Gibson Frazier

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-year-old Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt Fitzroy has murder on his hands and trouble on his tail. He believes that Henry, the hippopotamus at the brand-new FunJungle, has been murdered. The zoo’s top brass claim the hippo went belly up the natural way, but Teddy and his feisty friend Summer McCraken have other ideas. Could the culprit be... Read more

The Terrible Two

By: Mac Barnett & Jory John

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Miles Murphy had it made. He lived in a great town near the ocean, he had two best friends, and most importantly, he had a reputation for being his town's best prankster. All of which explains why he's not happy to be moving to Yawnee Valley, a sleepy town that's famous for one thing and one thing only: cows. Worse than that, Miles quickly... Read more

Gold Medal Mysteries: Peril on the Pitch

By: Ellie Robinson

Narrated by: Nadia Albina

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Join the sporting detectives as they race around the world in the brilliant mystery adventure series from multi gold medal-winning Paralympian, Ellie Robinson. 
 
It’s been a year since Seb, Hannah and Maria solved the mystery of the gold medal thief at the Tokyo Games. Now they are reunited at the World Football Championship but Brazil’s star... Read more

Diary of a Puss in Boots

By: Ben Miller

Narrated by: Ben Miller

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Your favourite fairytales from a PURRRFECTLY funny point of view. From bestselling author, comedian and actor Ben Miller.

First it’s no more milk for breakfast. Then he’s forced to sleep in a windowless shed. And now he has to use a LITTER TRAY?! Not happening!

Mittens knows a cat of his calibre should be living it up in a castle, and he’s... Read more

Archibald Finch and the Curse of the Phoenix

By: Michel Guyon

Narrated by: Steve Hendrickson

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The Archibald Finch saga continues with another thrilling adventure! It’s been months since our hero returned from Lemurea, but nothing is back to normal. When Archibald realizes he isn’t the only thing that crash-landed at the manor that night, he knows he’ll need to return to the dark world he only just left.

Archibald is a changed boy. He... Read more

Almost Nothing Happened

By: Meg Rosoff

Narrated by: Jaouhar Ben Ayed

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents… Almost Nothing Happened by Meg Rosoff read by Jaouhar Ben Ayed

Paris. August. One long summer of nothing. 48 hours of everything. From the inimitable Meg Rosoff comes a chaotic and irresistible YA.
17-year-old Callum is facing an unfortunate truth: his summer exchange in rural France was a failure. No epic adventure, no summer... Read more

Temple Grandin

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

When Temple Grandin was born, her parents knew that she was different. It wasn't until years later that she was diagnosed with autism, a brain disorder that makes communication difficult. Today, Dr. Temple Grandin is a brilliant scientist and professor of animal science at Colorado State University. Her world-changing career has revolutionized... Read more

Away

By: Megan E. Freeman

Narrated by: Andre Bellido, Michael Crouch, Angel Pean, Alej...

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A group of children investigate the threat that prompted large-scale evacuations in this powerful and dramatic companion novel to the New York Times bestselling Alone told in multiple POVs.

After an imminent yet unnamed danger forces people across Colorado to leave their homes, a group of kids including an aspiring filmmaker and a budding... Read more

Dragon Force: Devourer's Attack

By: Katie Tsang & Kevin Tsang

Narrated by: Chris Lew Kum Hoi

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the authors of the bestselling DRAGON MOUNTAIN comes the Dragon Force series! Leap into the second title in this edge-of-your-seat, dragon-obsessed adventure series for 8+ readers.

WHEN DANGER CALLS, THE DRAGON FORCE ANSWER...

It’s a dream come true for Lance Lo and his sister Zoe to be at Camp Claw, training for the elite Dragon Force to... Read more

Homesick

By: Jean Fritz

Narrated by: Jean Fritz

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This heartwarming fictionalized autobiography tells the story of what it is like for a little girl to be growing up in an unfamiliar place. While other girls her age were enjoying childhood in America, Jean Fritz was in China in the midst of political unrest. During this time, foreigners were becoming more and more unpopular, and evacuation at a... Read more

Lives of the Scientists

By: Kathleen Krull

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Scientists have a reputation for being focused on their work—and maybe even dull. But take another look. Did you know that it's believed Galileo was scolded by the Roman Inquisition for sassing his mom? That Isaac Newton loved to examine soap bubbles? That Albert Einstein loved to collect joke books, and that geneticist Barbara McClintock wore a... Read more

Zathura

By: Chris Van Allsburg

Narrated by: Ensemble Cast

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

On the last page of the Caldecott-winning book Jumanji, young Danny Budwing is seen running after his brother, Walter, with a game tucked under his arm. Now twenty years later, Chris Van Allsburg is ready to reveal what happened when Danny and Walter rolled the dice. This time the name of the game is Zathura, and the battling Budwing boys are in... Read more

Humbug Mountain

By: Sid Fleischman

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Humbug Mountain. Little did Wiley, the son of a traveling newspaperman, imagine that the search for his grandfather would lead him into the hands of those nasty villains of the West—Shagnasty John and the Fool Killer. Using their newspaper, The Humbug Mountain Hoorah, Wiley and his sister and mother go about outwitting the outlaws in... Read more

Big Game

By: Stuart Gibbs

Narrated by: Gibson Frazier

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungle’s resident zoo sleuth when a rhinoceros is at risk in Big Game, a follow-up to Belly Up and Poached—which Kirkus Reviews called a “thrill-ride of a mystery.”

When someone takes aim at Rhonda Rhino, FunJungle’s pregnant (and endangered) Asian greater one-horned rhinoceros, the zoo steps up security measures in... Read more

It Can't Be True! Poo!

By: DK

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook stinks!

Hold your nose while you find out absolutely everything you never knew about poo! Did you know that..

A week's worth of elephant poo weighs as much a 25 people?
A lifetime of farts would fill 2,000 balloons?
The world uses enough loo paper in an hour to wrap around the Earth 14 times?

This irresistibly disgusting audiobook for... Read more

Life Cycles

By: DK

Narrated by: Jaye Jacobs

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This book takes an innovative look at the circle of life including animals, dinosaurs, stars, volcanoes, and even YOU.

Shoot back in time 4.5 billion years to see how planet Earth was formed and then leap into the future to see what happens when stars die. Everything has a beginning and an end, but what happens in between?

Meet dolphins jumping in... Read more

How To Talk So People Will Listen

By: Lizzie Waterworth

Narrated by: Lizzie Waterworth, Stephen Fry, Sue Elliott-Nic...

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Find your voice and own the room, even when your legs are shaking!

Do you sometimes feel awkward about speaking in class or meeting new people? Lots of us feel like this sometimes-even people whose job it is to talk!

In this audiobook, professional cartoon voice artist Lizzie Waterworth tells you all about her strategies for confident speaking,... Read more

Sky Pirates: The Dragon's Gold

By: Alex English

Narrated by: Nicky Diss

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Embark on another swashbuckling SKY PIRATES adventure in The Dragon's Gold, perfect for 8+ explorers and fans of Abi Elphinstone, Peter Bunzl and Vashti Hardy.
 
Echo Quickthorn has been reunited with her sky-pirate mother, Indigo Lil, and is now a fully-fledged member of the Black Sky Wolves. So when Lil is summoned to the Alliance of the Seven... Read more

Love From Joy

By: Jenny Valentine

Narrated by: Aysha Kala

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers aged 9+ comes the second book in a sparkling new series about family, friends and finding the joy in life! From the mind of  Guardian award-winning author Jenny Valentine, this is the perfect series for fans of Jacqueline Wilson, Cath Howe and Lara Williamson!

Hi! My name is Joy Applebloom and I'm ten years old. 

People say I am a... Read more

Ember Spark and the Frost Phoenix

By: Abi Elphinstone

Narrated by: Paula Masterton

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The second title in this magical NEW series filled with adventure, wonder and edge-of-your-seat excitement, set in a world of daring dragons and magical maladies by the best-selling author of Sky Song, Abi Elphinstone . . .

'This new fantasy series for younger readers is bubbling with action and imagination… A joy.' The Daily Mail

'Elphinstone... Read more

The Marvellous Granny Jinks and Me: Animal Magic!

By: Serena Holly

Narrated by: Debra Michaels

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Jada and Granny Jinks in this charming new series for readers aged 6+! Gorgeously illustrated throughout by Selom Sunu, and brimming with warmth, tricks and magic, this is the perfect read for fans of The Naughtiest Unicorn and Wigglesbottom Primary!

Granny Jinks and Jada have officially joined the Dalton Green Magic Society, but the fun has... Read more