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The Black Lotus
Kieran Fanning, Lee Maxwell Simpson, Nudged Audio
Audible Audiobook (Nudged Audio, April 7, 2016)Ghost, Cormac and Kate are not like other kids.... Ghost can turn invisible, Cormac can run up walls and Kate can talk to animals - all abilities which make them perfect recruits for the Black Lotus, a training school for ninjas. But when the Moon Sword, a source of unimaginable power, is stolen by a samurai, the three are forced to put their new skills to the test in 16th-century Japan.
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The Story of Antigone
Ali Smith, Nudged Audio
Audible Audiobook (Nudged Audio, )The crow crossed the sky, slow-beating her wings. Beat, beat, beat. It was night, not yet morning, and her feathers were so black that she coasted the air invisible above the city wall. Thus begins Ali Smith's retelling of Sophocles' tragedy, about a young Theban princess who decides to bury her dishonoured brother Polynices, against King Creon's express orders, with heart-breaking consequences.
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Dara Palmer's Major Drama
Emma Shevah, Avita Jay, Nudged Audio
Audible Audiobook (Nudged Audio, )Meet 11-year-old Dara Palmer. She loves dancing and dreams of being a world famous actress - which means she has to get the main part in the school play.
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Pirate McSnottbeard in the Zombie Terror Rampage
Paul Whitfield, Rebecca Hyland, Nudged Audio
Audible Audiobook (Nudged Audio, July 6, 2017)A laugh-out-loud, swashbuckling romp in which Emilie and her brother, William, set out to rescue their parents from the horrible, smelly pirate king McSnottbeard. Whisked from the high seas, through prehistoric lands, into a warlock's castle and finally to the pirates' clifftop fortress, they tackle dinosaurs, zombies and the most ingenious trap ever devised. Packed with more gags than you can wave a kipper at.
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Marsh Road Mysteries: Crowns and Codebreakers
Elen Caldecott, Edward Killingback, Nudged Audio
Audible Audiobook (Nudged Audio, Feb. 18, 2016)When Minnie's gran comes to stay, all the way from Nigeria, Minnie knows there will be trouble. And straightaway Gran notices she's picked up the wrong suitcase at the airport. But when their house is burgled and the only thing taken is the suitcase, Minnie realises there'll be much more trouble than she bargained for.
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Big Game
Dan Smith, Michael Bakkensen, Nudged Audio
Audible Audiobook (Nudged Audio, )13-year-old Oskari is sent into the cold wilderness on an ancient test of manhood. He must survive armed only with a bow and arrow. But instead, he stumbles upon an escape pod from a burning airliner: Air Force One.
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The Secrets of Billie Bright
Susie Day, Millie O'Lionsigh-Bailey, Nudged Audio
Audible Audiobook (Nudged Audio, Oct. 6, 2016)Billie Bright's family is pretty big, especially for one that's got somebody missing. There's Billie, who is 11, and then there are her three big brothers and her dad. Life is loud, but Billie likes it, even without her mum there anymore. But with a new school comes having to make new friends, and at home it feels like all her brothers are keeping secrets. When she decides to do a project on her mum, she ends up finding out all kinds of things she doesn't expect to....
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The Bubblegum Tree
Alexander McCall Smith, Leighton Pugh, Nudged Audio
Audible Audiobook (Nudged Audio, )The gum that comes from the wonderful bubblegum trees that grow in the Indian jungle has not been delivered for two months. Without this secret ingredient, there'll be no more Gopal's Best Pink Bubblegum, and even more importantly, no more Bubblegummies - the people who live in the trees and harvest the gum.
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Storm Horse
Nick Garlick, Malk Williams, Nudged Audio
Audible Audiobook (Nudged Audio, )With his mother missing and his father dead, 12-year-old Flip's new home is a remote storm-tossed Dutch island.
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My Brother's Secret
Dan Smith, Leon Williams, Nudged Audio
Audible Audiobook (Nudged Audio, )Germany, 1941. Twelve-year-old Karl Engel is looking forward to joining the Hitler Youth, like all boys his age. But when his father is killed, his rebellious older brother, Stefan, shows him things that leave his faith in the Fuhrer shaken.
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Cakes in Space
Sarah McIntyre, Philip Reeve, Charlie Sanderson, Nudged Audio
Audible Audiobook (Nudged Audio, )Instead of snoring in their space pod like the rest of her family, Astra is wide awake. With her robot friend, Pilbeam, she goes exploring and soon finds out the ship is in deep trouble. It's been knocked off course and invaded by a gang of Poglites, an alien salvage crew searching for spoonage (they just love collecting spoons)!
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Ice Whale
Jean Craighead George, Christina Moore, Nudged Audio
Audible Audiobook (Nudged Audio, )1848, Alaska: A young Eskimo boy witnesses the birth of an ice whale, that he calls Siku. But when he guides whalers to a pod, all the whales are killed. For this, the boy receives a curse of banishment. Through the generations, this curse is handed down. Siku returns in reality and dreams, to haunt each descendant. The curse is finally broken when a daughter saves the whale, and he in turn saves her.