The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the story of a boy's adventures growing up in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi river over a hundred years ago.
In the second part of the Oracle trilogy, Alexos, now Archon, undertakes a perilous quest into the desert to find the legendary Well of Songs whilst the scheming of General Argelin threatens war with
Stephanie Meeker has a secret that's getting too dangerous to keep. Her cousin Daniel is determined to win the Fairfield Junior Science Competition, but in so doing creates pure evil...
Ballet Shoes is a classic of 20th-century children's literature. The lively humour and sense of fun that have made the novel such a favourite are brought to life in this enchanting dramatisation.
An action-packed parable wherein three siblings embark on an adventure of a lifetime and discover the strength in family, the power of faith, and the true magic of baseball.
Vividly capturing the mood of the times - high unemployment, Cold War politics and the sunset of agrarian England - this is at once a portrait of an era and of an age: the black hole...
His novels just keep getting better. It would seem that there is nothing he cannot write about. Gibbons deserves to be recognised as a national treasure
Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and respected sailor as the crew pursues pirates.
A whimsical and wacky fantasy novel about a girl who can become invisible, a boy who can fly, and their adventures in a sparkling city full of weirdness and wonder.
In this page-turning, original, and spectacularly told adventure story, Torak and Wolf are joined by an incredible cast of characters as they battle to save their world...
Narnia ... where owls speak, where evil weaves a spell ... where sorcery enslaves the land. Deep underground, a web of evil magic holds a prince in captivity.
A wonderful story about real family life from Jacqueline Wilson, prize-winning and bestselling author of Girls in Love, The Diamond Girls and The Dare Game.
Of my early years I remember only happiness. That was before I knew this world had such evil in it, and that my fate was to be locked up in a chest and left to die...
Dixie is the youngest of the Diamond family. She and her sisters, dreamy Martine, glamorous Rochelle and tough Jude, could hardly be more different from each other.
Printz Award winner Walter Dean Myers weaves a richly layered tale of a boy's journey of self-discovery and the acceptance and compassion he learns along the way.
Jake is part of a very special family. A rowdy bunch of siblings and an incredible mom and dad. They have a life filled with art, music, long summer nights on the cape.
Next day, Johnny's dead. Tim gets the blame, his smart, wisecracking younger brother Nick gets the package - and every crook in town is out to get them!
Terror in the aisles! Morgan Taylor was terrified of flying. Shocking visions of fatal falls and explosive crashes shook loose with each thump of the plane.
Don't go outside. Max is trapped. A freak snowstorm has him sealed in his uncle's mountain cabin, along with his brother Mark and sister Teresa. But Uncle Shoe is missing, and no one's coming...
In the tradition of his award-winning book Monster, Walter Dean Myers once again breaks new ground with this extraordinary, original, and complex novel about learning to be a man.
Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech masterfully weaves this story about a young girl beginning to understand the many rhythms of life and how she fits within them.
Genuinely funny books for children are few and far between. So, when a story like Henry Huggins comes along, it comes to stay. Children everywhere see themselves in this irresistible boy's adventure.
Horrid Henry reads Perfect Peter's diary and improves it; goes clothes shopping with Mum and tries to make her buy him some trainers; and is horrified when his old enemy Bossy Bill turns up at school.
Often cited as the greatest American novel, the story chronicles the journey and relationship between Huckleberry Finn and a runaway southern slave, Jim, as they flee south on the Mississippi River.
Alice Hoffman - the New York Times bestselling author of acclaimed books for adults and young adults - gives her listeners a transcendent journey of discovery and loss, rebirth and remembrance.
In this fantastical thriller, five young teens tapped as models for theme park “guides” find themselves pitted against Disney villains and witches that threaten the future of Walt Disney World.
Twelve-year-old Alexa Daley is spending another summer in Bridewell with her father. She looks forward to exploring the old lodge where she stays each year, with its cozy library and maze of passages.
Jack has caused an earthquake. He was trying to save his sister, Lucy, from being thrown down a well, but he is, after all, only a bard-in-training. Sometimes the magic doesn’t quite work out.
For years, Old Gregory has been the Spook for the county, ridding the local villages of evil. But who will take over from him? Only Thomas Ward is left, the last hope...
Jack hates poetry. Only girls write it and every time he tries to, his brain feels empty. But his teacher, Ms. Stretchberry, won't stop giving her class poetry assignments - and Jack can't avoid them.
Matilda is a genius with idiot parents -- and she's having a great time driving them crazy. Who put superglue in Dad's hat? Was it really a ghost that made Mom tear out of the house?
When a former best friend disappears without trace, Emma realises that she will have to confront some very painful memories if she is to help find her.
Dominic Cantori is ashamed that he is an orphan, afraid to expose his terrible secret. But one day, accidentally locked in a deserted museum on Ellis Island, the voice of an old Italian immigrant speaks to him from a display, transporting him to Italy in 1908, where he will unlock the secrets of...
In this latest installment of Bobby Pendragon's battle to save humanity, discovery and danger go hand in hand as D. J. MacHale takes listeners on an emotional thrill ride they won't soon forget.
Pinned is a tough, savvy tale that melds the hard, tough sport of wrestling with the hard,tough lives of two young men who seem locked into each others' destinies.
The unconventional and charismatic Rebecca, a wholly new kind of girl character when she was first introduced in 1903, has since become one of the most beloved characters in children's literature.
A shrinking school in a dying town. A face in the window of an empty house. At first these facts don't seem to be linked. But Ted learns that in a small town there's no such thing as an isolated event
Filled with humor, poignancy, cookies and treasure maps, Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech's Ruby Holler is a delightful book about a special place where it's never to late to love -- or be loved.
The year is 1199, and on the borders of England and Wales young Arthur de Caldicot practises his tilting and archery, learns to be a dutiful page to his father, and waits impatiently to grow up...
Written with old-fashioned flair, this fast-paced book is not for the squeamish: the Baudelaire children are truly sympathetic characters who encounter a multitude of distressing situations.
Disclaimer: The long term effects of listening to this audio are unknown. Scientists have detected slightly higher rates of panic, fright and free-floating anxiety amongst listeners.
Sadly, this audiobook presents the next-to-last chronicle of the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, and it is next-to-first in its supply of misery, despair, and unpleasantness.
If you have chosen to listen to this audio for pleasure, I advise you to put it down now, because of all the audios describing the unhappy lives of the Baudelaire orphans, this is the least pleasant.
If you have just pressed play on this audio, then it is not too late to press stop. Like the previous books, there is nothing to be found in these words but misery etc.
'Real life' or the death-defying adventures of the Greek myths, with their heroes and monsters, daring deeds and narrow escapes — which would you choose?
Blues riffs and Brooks's soulful singing set the tone and enhance the tale. This bittersweet saga, richly told by Brooks, will remain in listeners' hearts and minds long after the final line is heard
Is it space that children dream of, or merely visiting other worlds? Todd had always set his heart on being an astronaut, but when he meets an alien and travels to another world, he doesn't use a spaceship, he just hangs out in his own backyard. In Space Boy , Orson Scott Card, author of...
Squirrels flood the trees, heading south. Deer have their winter pelts months early. And game in the woods is so scarce that Caje and his dad go hungry as often as not. Caje's dad only knows nature.
