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Barry, Dave
Peter and the Starcatchers
Read by Jim Dale. Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never Land, he befriends and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher, whose mission is to guard a trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate and the native inhabitants of a remote island. [An ALA Selected Audiobook for Young Adults.]
(9 hr.) 2004
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Billingsley, Franny
The Folk Keeper
Read by Marian Tomas Griffin. Orphan Corinna disguises herself as a boy to pose as a Folk Keeper, one who keeps the evil folk at bay, and discovers her heritage as a seal maiden when she is taken to live with a wealthy family in their manor by the sea. [An ALA Notable Children's Recording and an ALA Selected Audiobook for Young Adults]
3 cassettes (4 hr., 47 min.) 2000
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Bond, Michael
A Bear Called Paddington
Read by Stephen Fry. A very small bear found by Mr. and Mrs. Brown at Paddington Station in London becomes one of the family. [An ALA Notable Children's Recording.]
2 sound discs (2 hr., 40 min.) 2005
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Brooks, Walter R.
Freddy the Pilot
Read by John McDonough. Freddy the Pig and his animal friends take to the air to save Mr. Boomschmidt's Stupendous and Unexcelled Circus from the evil schemes of Watson P. Condiment, the comic book tycoon. [An ALA Notable Children's Recording.]
5 sound discs (5 hr.) 2000
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Collins, Suzanne
Gregor the Overlander
Read by Paul Boehmer. When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy. [An ALA Notable Children's Recording.]
6 sound discs (6 hr., 34 min.) 2005
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Dahl, Roald
The Twits
Read by Simon Callow. Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, ugliest people in the world. They hate everything except playing mean jokes on each other, putting innocent birds in pies, and making their caged monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, stand on their heads. Now the Muggle-Wumps want revenge! [An ALA Notable Children's Recording.]
1 sound cassette (60 min.) 2002
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Delaney, Joseph
Revenge of the Witch
Read by Christopher Evan Welch. Evil stalks Thomas as he tries to survive becoming an apprentice Spook, charged with protecting common folk from wicked monsters. [An ALA Notable Children's Recording.]
5 sound discs (5 hr.) 2005
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DiCamillo, Kate
The Tale of Despereaux
Read by Graeme Malcolm. The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. [An ALA Notable Children's Recording.]
4 sound discs (3 hr., 31 min.) 2003
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Farmer, Nancy
The Sea of Trolls
Read by Gerard Doyle. After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls. [An ALA Selected Audiobook for Young Adults.]
12 sound discs (14 hr.) 2004
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Funke, Cornelia Caroline
Dragon Rider
Read by Brendan Fraser. After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home, Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven, encountering friendly and unfriendly creatures along the way, and struggling to evade the relentless pursuit of an old enemy. [An ALA Notable Children's Recording. Other books by this author have won audio awards.]
10 sound discs (11 hr., 36 min.) 2004
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Gaiman, Neil
Coraline
Read by Neil Gaiman. Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others. [An ALA Notable Children's Recording.]
3 sound discs (3 hr.) 2002
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Gerstein, Mordicai
The Old Country
Read by Tovah Feldshuh. A grandmother tells her story of being tricked into exchanging her young body with that of a fox and trying to get it back while a war tore apart her home and her country. [An ALA Notable Children's Recording.]
3 sound discs (3 hr., 36 min.) 2005
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Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Running Out of Time
Read by Kimberly Schraf. When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children. [An ALA Notable Children's Recording.]
4 sound cassettes (5 hr., 23 min.) 1998
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Herge
Six Adventures of Tintin : Volume 1.
Read by various performers. The adventures of young reporter-sleuth, Tintin, as he and others go from the Sahara Desert, to the high seas, to the surface of the moon. [An ALA Selected Audiobook for Young Adults.]
2 audio cassettes (2 hr., 57 min.) 1999
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Hoeye, Michael
No Time Like Show Time
Read by Campbell Scott. Watchmaker-mouse Hermux Tantamoq enters the exciting and somewhat shady world of show business to investigate a mysterious blackmailer at the Varmint Theater. [An ALA Selected Audiobook for Young Adults.]
4 sound cassettes (5 hr., 55 min.) 2004
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Horowitz, Anthony
Raven's Gate
Read by Simon Prebble. Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle. [An ALA Notable Children's Recording.]
6 sound discs (7 hr., 15 min.) 2005
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Jacques, Brian
Taggerung
Read by Brian Jacques and a full cast. A young otter, kidnapped in his infancy and raised as a warrior-thief by a band of vermin, leaves the tribe and goes off to seek adventures of his own. [An ALA Selected Audiobook for Young Adults. Other titles in this series have won audio awards.]
11 sound discs (12 hr., 45 min.) 2003
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King-Smith, Dick
The Merman
Read by June Whitfield. While on vacation in Scotland on her tenth birthday, Zeta meets a wise, kindly old merman who teaches her not only to swim, but also many, many more fascinating things. [An ALA Notable Children's Recording.]
2 sound cassettes (1 hr., 32 min.) 1999
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Lewis, C. S.
The Magician's Nephew
Read by Kenneth Branagh. When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech. [An ALA Notable Children's Recording. Other titles in this series have also won audio awards (The Last Battle won an Audie).]
4 sound discs (4 hr.) 2001
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Lowry, Lois
Gathering Blue
Read by Katherine Borowitz. Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians. [An ALA Selected Audiobook for Young Adults.]
5 sound discs (5 hr., 28 min.) 2006
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