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Issue 9223 – Summer 2009-2010 New Releases Junior & Young Adult Audiobooks

Please note: all prices include G.S.T. UA = “complete and unabridged, word for word” Pre-school : Under 5s (p.10) Readalongs : Ages 5-8 (p.13) C h i l d r e n ’ s : Ages 5-8 (p.4) Junior : 8-15 (p.1) Young Adult : over 15 (p.8) But… the best children’s audiobooks will be enjoyed by virtually any age group! Don’t cry “crocodile tears” that the latest in the Alex Rider series won’t be released in time for Christmas… We will have this much-anticipated Anthony Horowitz title “Crocodile Tears” in stock in January! Owen, James A . The Shadow Dragons Junior Audiobooks Book 4, Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica Garner, Alan . Elidor World War II has been ‘Towers – like raging for three years, flame. A candle but a more terrible evil in darkness. A is just over the black wind.’ horizon. The last Roland Watson stones are falling from wasn’t expecting the Keep of Time, and to see things like the Imperial that when he Cartological Society, kicked a football led by Richard Burton, into a has collected doors condemned and is building a new church. But once tower at the request of inside, he is an old enemy: the transported from Winter King’s shadow. the slums of He has a terrible Manchester to weapon – the Spear of the ruins of a Destiny – that can be magical used to command the kingdom – the shadows of anyone it touches. twilight world of Elidor. And only he can restore the light to The Shadow King uses the Spear of Destiny to enlist an Elidor and guard its treasures while a way is sought to save the unstoppable army of Dragon shadows. And after the dying land. Archipelago falls, the Shadow King intends to use th e turmoil of He is helped by his brothers, Nicholas and David, and sister, World War II to take over both worlds. Helen, as they travel between the devastated city where they All the legendary Caretakers, past and present, come together live with their parents and the shattered otherworld. They face to save two worlds, and their only hope lies with a small group trials of strength and ingenuity, threatened by forces of of companions who are on the quest for the broken sword darkness and fear – quite apart from the anger of the Caliburn: the Grail Child, Rose Dyson; her clockwork demolition company trying to pull down the church where the companion, the owl Archie; a dead professor of ancient secret entrance is. What’s more, although they pass between literature; and the mythical knight Don Quixote. Elidor and Manchester, the dangers and mysteries travel with them. Static electricity is threatening their own neighbourhood 9CD UA $69.95 Narrated by James Langton almost as much as the song of Findhorn – it’s not just Elidor Also available in the same series: they have to try to save, it’s their own world too. Book 1, Here, there be Dragons 7CDs UA $49.95 Part folklore, part adventure and part fantasy, Alan Garner’s Elidor is a modern children’s classic. Book 2, Search for the Red Dragon 8CDs UA $69.95 3CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Jonathan Keeble Book 3, The Indigo King 8CDs UA $69.95

Page 1 of 18. All prices are in Australian dollars and include G.S.T. Owen, James A. The Indigo King Buckley -Archer, Linda . The Time Q uake Book 3, Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica Book 3, The Gideon Trilogy “Answer the questions Time itself is splintering. unanswered for more than two Abducted to 1763, Peter millennia, and perhaps you Schock and Kate Dyer might still restore the world.” begin to understand that On a September evening in history has reached a 1931, John and Jack, two of tipping point. The the Caretakers of the antigravity machine is in Imaginarium Geographica , the hands of the cruel and discover a plea for help on a ambitious Lord Luxon – medieval manuscript - which who has set his sights on seems to have been written by the most valuable prize of their friend, Hugo Dyson! all: America. He is When they rush to warn him, determined to manipulate Hugo walks through a door in time to his advantage, no time - and vanishes into the matter what the cost. past. And in that moment, the And the cost is great world begins to “change”. indeed. As Lord Luxon The Frontier, which separates our world from the Archipelago of changes more and more of the past for his own gain, terrible Dreams, has fallen. Dark and terrible beasts roam throughout time quakes begin to sweep through all of history. Kate Dyer, England. No one can be summoned from the Archipelago. All adrift in time and suffering from an overexposure to time the world lies under the reign of a cruel and terrible king. travel, knows that if Lord Luxon is not stopped… the time The only hope to restore the proper order of things lies on a quakes will tear the universe apart. forgotten island, where a time travel device left by Jules Verne 10CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Gerard Doyle must be used to race through history itself - from the Bronze Age, to ancient Alexandria and the founding of the Silver Farmer, Nanc y. The Islands of the Blessed Throne - in one night. Book Three, Sea of Trolls Trilogy 8CD UA $69.95 Narrated by James Langton “Foolish boy,” whispers the Arena, Felice & Lyon, Garry . Specky Magee and cobwebby voice of the hogboon. “You force me to the Battle of the Young Guns slay you.” As the Victorian team battle But Jack and Thorgil it out against the other states between them possess the for a chance to play on the rune of protection, and hallowed MCG turf, Specky they overpower the has a fight on his hands just soulless spirit who is so to be allowed to play with his intent on murder and beloved Booyong Lions. And marriage, respectively. when his long-lost grandpa They’ve survived worse. comes to visit, it’s all-out war The crowning volume of thi at home as well. trilogy begins with a Will he have to choose tornado (Odin on a Wild between representing his Hunt, as the young state, and coming through berserker Thorgil sees it). for his mates? Can he find out what’s going on between his dad The fields of Jack’s village have been devastated, the winter and his grandpa before it’s too late? And who is the mysterious ahead looks bleak, and a monster – a draugr – invades the man who has been keeping an eye on Specky’s game? forest outside of town. What’s a hogboon in comparison? Specky’s loyalty to his friends, his team and to AFL will be 12CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Gerard Doyle tested like never before... 4CD UA $29.95 Narrated by Stig Wemyss Westerfield, Scott . Leviathan It is the cusp of World Paver, Michelle. Ghost Hunter War I, and all the Book 6, Chronicles of Ancient Darkness European powers are arming up. The Austro- The final book in the Hungarians and Germans Chronicles of Ancient have steam-driven iron Darkness . machines loaded with As winter approaches guns and ammunition. and Souls’ Night draws The British Darwinists near, the Eagle Owl employ fabricated Mage holds the clans in animals as their the grip of terror. Torak weaponry. The must seek his lair in the “Leviathan” is a living Mountain of Ghosts. He airship, the most must defy demons and formidable airbeast in the tokoroths, and find his skies of Europe. way through the Gorge Aleksandar Ferdinand, of the Hidden People. prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is on the run. His own Wolf must overcome people have turned on him. All he has is a battle-torn terrible grief. Renn must Stormwalker and a loyal crew of men. make an agonising decision. And in the final battle against the Deryn Sharp is a commoner, a girl disguised as a boy in the Soul-Eater, Torak must face the most heart-rending choice British Air Service. She’s a brilliant airman. But her secret is in imaginable. constant danger of being discovered... 5CD UA $34.99 Narrated by Ian McKellen 7CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Alan Cumming

Page 2 of 18. All prices are in Australian dollars and include G.S.T. Scott, Michael . The Magician Stroud, Jonathan. The Golem ’s Eye Book 2, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Book 2, The Bartimaeus Trilogy After fleeing Ojai, Two years have passed Nicholas, Sophie, Josh, since young apprentice and Scatty emerge in magician Nathaniel became Paris, the City of Lights. famous by foiling the Home for Nicholas Flamel. ruthless Simon Lovelace. Only this homecoming is Now fourteen, Nathaniel is anything but sweet. ambitiously climbing the Perenell is still locked up ranks of the magicians’ back in Alcatraz and Paris government. The Prime is teeming with enemies. Minister himself has placed Nicollo Machiavelli, Nathaniel in charge of immortal author and capturing the Resistance, a celebrated art collector, is group of unruly working for Dee. He’s commoners working to after them, and time is undermine the magicians’ running out for Nicholas empire. A seemingly and Perenell. For every invulnerable clay golem is day spent without the Book of Abra ham the Mage, they age one making random attacks on London. Nathaniel and the djinn year, their magic becoming weaker and their bodies more frail. Bartimaeus must travel to Prague to discover the source of the It’s time for Sophie to learn the second elemental magic: Fire golem’s power before it destroys London. Magic. And there’s only one man who can teach it to her: 14CD UA $119.95 Narrated by Simon Jones Flamel’s old student, the Comte de Saint-Germain – alchemist, magician, and rock star. Funke, Cornelia. Inkdeath 9CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Erik Singer Book 3, Inkheart Trilogy Caught between the covers of Scott, Michael. The Sorc eress a cursed story... Book 3, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Ever since the extraordinary Nicholas Flamel’s heart events of Inkspell , when the almost broke as he watched enchanted book “Inkheart” his beloved Paris crumble drew Meggie and her father, before him. The city was Mo, into its chapters, life in destroyed by Dee and the Inkworld has been more Machiavelli, but Flamel still tragic than magical. Dustfinger felt responsible. Sophie and is dead, having sacrificed his Josh Newman show every life for his apprentice’s, and sign of being the twins of now, under the rule of the evil prophecy, and Flamel had to Adderhead, the fairy-tale land protect them and the pages is in bloody chaos, its from the Dark Elders. characters far beyond the But Nicholas grows weaker control of Fenoglio, their with each passing day. author. Facing the threat of eternal winter in the book where he Perenelle is still trapped in and Meggie are trapped, Mo inks a dangerous deal with Death Alcatraz, and now that Scatty has gone missing, the group is itself. There yet remains a faint hope of changing the cursed without protection. Except for Clarent – the twin sword to story – if only he can fill its pages fast enough. Excalibur. But Clarent’s power is unthinkable, its evil making it Inkdeath - the captivating final tale in the Inkheart trilogy. nearly impossible to use without its darkness seeping into the 16CD UA $119.95 Narrated by Allan Corduner soul of whoever wields it. If he hopes to defeat Dee, Nicholas must find an Elder who can Horowitz, Anthony . Necropolois teach Josh and Sophie the third elemental magic: Water Magic. 11CD UA $99.95 Narrated by Paul Boehmer Book 4, The Power of Five Hong Kong has been Also available in the same series: taken over by the Old Book 1, The Alchemyst 8CDs UA $89.95 Ones and has become Necropolis, city of the Rodda, Emily. The Battle for Rondo dead. Once in, there is Peril awaits Leo and Mimi on no way out… their return to the fantastic Evil has been unleashed world of Rondo. on the world and only With the help of Rondo’s seven five children – with best witches and wizards, their special powers – can friends have made plans to save it. Matt and the combat attacks of the Blue other three desperately Queen. But it soon becomes need to find Scar, the clear that defence is no longer final gatekeeper, who enough. The queen has a has been trapped in dragon on her side, and is Hong Kong, where plotting a terrible revenge on all puddles of water turn into puddles of blood, where ghosts, those who have defied her. demons and hideous creatures stalk the streets. Matt has no A daring plan, a reckless quest and a mysterious prophecy test choice but to follow her. Now, both imprisoned, their only hope the friends’ wits and courage to the limit as they plunge into an of survival is to reach a secret door in the Man Ho temple. But adventure packed with suspense, shocks and danger and even if Scar can find her psychic power, it may already be too ending at last in the battle to decide Rondo’s future forever. late. 9CD UA $29.95 Narrated by Edwina Wren 10CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Paul Panting

Page 3 of 18. All prices are in Australian dollars and include G.S.T. Stroud, Jonathan. Heroes of the Valley Pratchett, Terry. Nation Halli Sveinsson has grown up in Finding himself alone the House of Svein, hearing the on a desert island legends of the heroes as all his when everything and forefathers did. Theirs is a everyone he knows peaceful society, where the and loved has been violence of the past has been washed away in a outlawed and disputes are huge storm, Mau is settled by the Council. the last surviving But young Halli has never quite member of his seemed to fit in with the others. nation. He’s also He is neither handsome nor tall, completely alone - or like his siblings. He’s stumpy so he thinks until he and swarthy, with a quick mind and an aptitude for getting into finds the ghost girl. trouble. He can’t help playing As it happens, they practical jokes on everyone, from Eyjolf, the old servant, to his are not alone for long. Other survivors start to arrive to take brother and sister. But when he plays a trick on Ragnar of the refuge on the island they all call the Nation and then raiders House of Hakon, he goes too far, setting in motion a chain of accompanied by murderous mutineers from the Sweet Judy. events that will forever alter his destiny. Because of it, Halli will Together, Mau and Daphne discover some remarkable things - have to leave home and go on a hero’s quest. Along the way, including how to milk a pig and why spitting in beer is a good he will encounter highway robbers, terrifying monsters, and a thing - and start to forge a new Nation. As can be expected girl who may be as fearless as he is. In the end he will discover from Terry Pratchett, the master story-teller, this new the truth about the legends, his family, and himself. children’s novel is both witty and wise, encompassing themes of Jonathan Stroud’s stunning new novel is a funny and epic saga, death and nationhood, while being extremely funny. as well as a surprising look at the real meaning of heroism. 4CD $45.00 Narrated by Tony Robinson 11CD UA $99.95 Narrated by David Thorn Gaiman, Neil. The Graveyard Book Levine, Gail Carson. Ever Nobody Owens, known Falling in love is easy... even for to his friends as Bod, is Kezi, though she knows her days a normal boy. He would are numbered. And head-over- be “completely” normal heels, come-what-may love is if he didn’t live in a inevitable if her heart’s desire is sprawling graveyard, Olus, the Akkan god of the being raised and winds. educated by ghosts, But accepting death is hard, with a solitary guardian especially when romance is new. Falling in love is easy for Olus if who belongs to neither his beloved is Kezi, a beautiful the world of the living mortal, a dancer and rug weaver nor of the dead. There from the city of Hyte. But facing are dangers and Kezi’s approaching death is adventures in the unbearable. graveyard for a boy. Love brings Kezi the will to fight her fate. Love gives Olus the But if Bod leaves the strength to confront his fears. She questions her faith and graveyard, then he will seeks truth in dark places. He suffers a god’s trial when she come under attack from the man Jack – who has already killed needs a champion. Together – and apart – they encounter Bod’s family… Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns spiders with webs of iron, the cruel lord of the land of the dead, with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his the mysterious god of des tiny, and the tests of the Akkan gods. “New York Times” bestselling modern classic Coraline . Magical, If they succeed, they will be together; but if they fail, Olus will terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, The have to endure the ultimate loss, and Kezi will have to make Graveyard Book is sure to enthral readers of all ages. the supreme sacrifice. 7CD UA $59.95 Narrated by the Author 4CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Jenna Lamia, Oliver Wyman Coolidge, Susan. What Katy Did Meet Katy Carr. She’s Garner, Alan. The Owl Service impulsive, gangly, After hearing scratches in adventurous, awkward the attic, Alison discovers a and brave; she loves dinner service covered in an clambering over fences, intriguing floral owl pattern, sitting on roofs, making and a series of events are up games or going for set in motion that will picnics with her five change her life forever. brothers and sisters Alison, her step-brother (much to the horror of her Roger and Welsh boy Gwyn Aunt Izzie). But when she are forced into a cyclical falls from a swing, she replay of the tragic Welsh legend of Blodeuwedd, in suddenly has to cope with which a woman is turned being stuck indoors - into an owl as a punishment maybe forever. What Katy Did is fresh, lively, funny and for betraying her husband. The Owl Service is a fabulous, moving; and Katy herself is a warm and loving character that multi-layered book of mystery and suspense, but also a readers have taken to their hearts for over a hundred and thirty contemporary musing on love, class structure and power. years. 4CD UA $45.95 Narrated by Wayne Forester 2CD $31.95 Narrated by Laurel Lefkow

Page 4 of 18. All prices are in Australian dollars and include G.S.T. Colfer, Eoin . Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox McNamee, Eoin. The Frost Child After disappearing for three Book 3, Navigator Trilogy years, Artemis Fowl has Twice the Harsh have tried returned to a life different to destroy time, and twice from the one he had. Now Owen and the Resisters have he’s a big brother, and banded together to stop spends his days teaching his them. In City of Time , twin siblings the important Owen killed the Harsh king, things in life, such as how to and now the Harsh are properly summon a waiter at hungry for revenge. Their a French restaurant. massive fleet is ready to set But when Artemis’s mother sail on the sea of time and contracts a life-threatening hunt down the wily illness, his world is turned Navigator. In this third and upside down. The only hope final adventure, the for a cure lies in the brain Navigator and his friends use fluid of the silky sifaka lemur. every last ounce of bravery Unfortunately, the animal is extinct, due to a heartless bargain and endurance to fight the Artemis himself made as a younger boy. toughest battle ever. As Though the odds are stacked against him, Artemis is not willing Owen searches for a solution, he travels through time to meet to give up. With the help of his fairy friends, the young genius his father and grandfather, and discovers that the mysterious travels back in time to rescue the lemur and bring it to the Frost Child holds the key to the power of the Harsh. present. But to do so, Artemis will have to defeat his most cunning adversary yet: Artemis Fowl, age ten. 7CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Kirby Heyborne 8CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Enn Reitel Collins, Suzanne . Gregor and the Marks of Secret Hulme, John & Wexler, Michael . The Split Second Book 4, The Underland Chronicles Gregor is drawn ever deeper Book 2, The Seems into a brewing crisis. For Becker Drane ’s still got the generations, rats have run the coolest job in The World, but mice - or “nibblers” - out of it’s getting harder and harder whatever lands they’ve to live a normal life outside of claimed, keeping them the The Seems. He’s always constantly on the move. But working, getting pulled out of now the mice are bed to go Fix, and his Me-2™ disappearing, and the young spends more time with his queen Luxa, who credits them family than does. And even with saving her life, is though it’s completely against determined to find out why. the Rules, he can’t stop When Gregor joins her on a thinking about Jennifer Kaley, fact-finding mission, he’s the totally cool girl he met relieved that this time, at during his Mission in Sleep. least, there’s no prophecy on When a bomb explodes in the the line. But when the true fate of the mice is revealed, it is Department of Time, Becker is something far more sinister than Gregor or Luxa have called in to take over for a more senior Fixer who disappeared imagined-and it points the way to the final prophecy he has yet during the Mission. Becker finds himself going places in The Seems he never knew existed – and meeting people long to fulfil. Gregor’s role as warrior and his abilities as a rager are thought dead. put to the test in this suspenseful, action-packed penultimate instalment of Suzanne Collins’s thrilling Underland Chronicles. 6CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Oliver Wyman 7CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Paul Boehmer Also available in the same series: Book 1, The Glitch in Sleep 6CDs UA $69.95 Collins, Suzanne . Gregor and the Code of Claw Book 5, The Underland Chronicles McNamee, Eoin . City of Time Everyone has been trying to Book 2, Navigator Trilogy keep Gregor from seeing the final prophecy, The Prophecy CATI, THE BOLD Watcher whom of Time. It says something readers met in “The Navigator”, awful: It calls for the warrior’s returns from the shadows of death. The warrior being time to summon Owen and Dr. Gregor, of course. Now, an Diamond, for time is literally army of rats is quickly running out. The moon is comi ng approaching and Gregor’s closer to the earth, causing mom and little sister, Boots, havoc with weather, tides, and are still in Regalia. The entire other natural cycles; people fear existence of the Underland is the world will end. To discover in Gregor’s hands and time is what’s gone wrong, Cati, Owen, running out. There is a code and the Doctor must take an that must be cracked, a new astonishing journey to the City of princess to contend with Time, where time is bought and Gregor’s burgeoning dark side, and a war designed to end all sold. There, Owen begins to wars. understand his great responsibility and power as the Navigator. In this suspenseful final instalment in the acclaimed Underland 7CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Kirby Heyborne Chronicles , Suzanne Collins unfolds the fate of the Underland and the great warrior, Gregor the Overlander, in a manner that Also available in the same series: can only be described as masterful. Book 1, The Navigator 7CDs UA $69.95 7CD UA $89.95 Narrated by Paul Boehmer

Page 5 of 18. All prices are in Australian dollars and include G.S.T. Gilman, David . The Devil’s Breath Stine, R. L. The Scream of the Haunted Mask Book 1 of Danger Zone Goosebumps: HorrorLand “The start of an awesome The MASK is back! adventure... fantastic.” – After the worst Halloween National Geographic Kids ever, Carly Beth assumed WHEN AN ASSASSIN bursts that nothi ng could be scarier from the shadows to try to kill than a drooling rubber mask him on the dark, windswept with a mind of its own. The grounds of his boarding school Haunted Mask is its name. in England, Max Gordon realises his life is about to change Don’t wear it out. forever. Wear and Scare! Face your His father is missing. Fears! He’s an assassin’s target. One year later, the ugly, A secret clue his father left green mask mysteriously behind leads Max to the calls out to her again, and inhospitable wilderness of Namibia, where he soon discovers a ugly, green masks don’t like potentially massive ecological disaster masterminded by Shaka to be ignored. Chang, a very powerful and completely ruthless man – a man If Carly Beth can survive the Max fears may have put his father in mortal danger. Max needs night, even a terrifying amusement park like HorrorLand might all the help he can get. Because whoever is behind his father’s seem like a vacation. Then again, maybe not... disappearance is determined to get rid of Max, too. For good. 2CD UA $29.95 Narrated by Kate Simses 9CD UA $99.95 Narrated by David Thorn Stine, R. L. Monster Blood for Breakfast! Nimmo, Jenny . Charlie Bone and the Beast Goosebumps: HorrorLand Book 6, Children of the Red King It’s SLIME TIME! Life should be perfect for For an athlete like Matt Charlie now that his parents Daniels, breakfast is the have been reunited. But most important meal of the mystery and adventure always day. It’s also the most find him. This time Asa, a fellow dangerous. That’s because classmate who changes into a somebody is about to pull a beast at dusk and Charlie’s mean prank. The recipe is sometime enemy, is missing. simple: Just add gooey, His parents seek out Charlie for green Monster Blood. help, and now Charlie needs the Eat and Run! Book your help of the Flames to rescue his Frights, Travellers! classmate. As if Matt’s problems Manfred Bloor has also taken weren’t big and slimy the new endowed student, enough, a surprise Dagbert Endless, under his wing invitation will lead to even and Charlie is highly suspicious more trouble. How long can of the pair. Can the Flames and Charlie rescue Asa without Matt survive inside a terrifying theme park? Not very long if his being caught by Manfred and Dagbert? friends keep disappearing! 6CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Simon Jones 2CD UA $29.95 Narrated by Charlie McWade Nimmo, Jenny . Charlie Bone and the Shadow Dowd, Siobhan . The London Eye Mystery Book 7, Children of the Red King When Aunt Gloria’s The enchanter Count Harken is son, Salim, back to take his revenge on the mysteriously Red King’s heirs, starting with disappears from a Charlie Bone’s family! Charlie’s sealed pod on the ancestor has been kidnapped London Eye, and imprisoned in the dark, everyone is frantic. forbidding land of Badlock, and Has he it’s up to Charlie to save him. spontaneously Travelling through a painting to combusted? [This is the terrifying countryside, Ted’s theory.] Charlie and his best friend’s Has he been dog, Runner Bean, take up the kidnapped? [This is quest. But when Runaner Bean Aunt Gloria’s gets trapped, Charlie needs the theory.] help of his friends. Can Charlie outwit Court Harken and his sinister troops, or will the prisoners Is he even still alive? be doomed to being held captive in Badlock forever? [This is the family’s unspoken fear.] 6CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Simon Jones Even the police are Also available in the same series: baffled. Ted, whose brain runs on its own Book 1, Midnight for Charlie Bone 6CDs UA $59.95 unique operating Book 2, Charlie Bone & the Time Twister 6CDs UA $189.95 system, and his older sister, Kat, overcome their prickly Book 3, Charlie Bone & the Invisible Boy 6CDs UA $189.95 relationship to become sleuthing partners. They follow a trail of clues across London in a desperate bid to find their cousin, Book 4, Charlie Bone & the Castle of Mirrors 6CDs UA $79.95 while time ticks dangerously by... Book 5, Charlie Bone & the Hidden King 7CDs UA $89.95 5CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Alex Kalajzic

Page 6 of 18. All prices are in Australian dollars and include G.S.T. DuPrau, Jeanne . The City of Ember DuPrau, Jeanne . The Diamond of Darkhold Book 1, Book of Ember Book 4, Book of Ember The city of Ember was built It’s been several months as a last refuge for the since Lina and Doon escaped human race. Two hundred the dying city of Ember and, years later, the great lamps along with the rest of their that light the city are people, joined the town of beginning to flicker. When Sparks. Now, struggling Lina finds part of an ancient through the harsh winter message, she’s sure it holds aboveground, they find an a secret that will save the unusual book. Torn up and city. She and h er friend Doon missing most of its pages, it must decipher the message alludes to a mysterious before the lights go out on device from before the Ember forever! This stunning Disaster, which they believe debut novel offers is still in Ember. Together, refreshingly clear writing and Lina and Doon must go back fascinating, original characters. underground to retrieve what CD UA $ Narrated by was lost and bring light to a dark world. In the fourth Book of Ember , bestselling author Jeanne DuPrau juxtaposes yet another action-packed adventure with DuPrau, Jeanne . The People of Sparks powerful themes about hope, learning, and the search for truth. Book 2, Book of Ember 6CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Katherine Kellgren Lina and Doon have emerged from the underground city to Buzee, Lewis . Steinbeck’s Ghost the exciting new world It’s been two months above, and it isn’t long now since Travis’ before they are followed by family moved from the other inhabitants of their shabby old Ember. The Emberites soon house to a come across a town where development so new they are welcomed, fed, and that it seems totally given places to sleep. But unreal. There’s one the town’s resources are place, though, where limited and it isn’t long Travis can connect before resentment begins to with his old life: the grow between the two Salinas library. He groups. When anonymous and his parents used acts of vandalism push them toward violence, it’s up to Lina to go there together and Doon to discover who’s behind the vandalism and why, every Saturday, but before it’s too late. now he bikes to it alone, re-reading his favourite old books. 6CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Wendy Dillon It’s only natural that Travis likes the work of John Steinbeck - after all, Salinas is Steinbeck’s hometown. But that can’t DuPrau, Jeanne . The Prophet of Yonwood explain why Travis is suddenly seeing Steinbeck’s characters Book 3, Book of Ember spring to life. There’s the homeless man in the alley behind the It’s 50 years before the library, the boy who writes by night in an attic bedroom. Travis settlement of the city of has met them all before - as a reader. But why are they here, Ember, and the world is in and how? As Travis struggles to solve this mystery, budg et cuts crisis. War looms on the threaten his library… horizon as 11-year-old 6CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Christopher Lane Nicki e and her aunt travel to the small town of Yonwood, Stevenson, Robert Louis . Treasure Island North Carolina. There, one Robert Louis of the town’s respected Stevenson’s cherished, citizens has had a terrible unforgettable adventure vision of fire and magically captures the destruction. Her garbled words are taken as prophetic thrill of a sea voyage instruction on how to avoid and a treasure hunt the coming disaster. If only through the eyes of its they can be interpreted teenage protagonist, Jim correctly. . . . Hawkins. As the people of Yonwood scramble to make sense of the Crossing the Atlantic in woman’s mysterious utterances, Nickie explores the oddities search of the buried she finds around town--her great-grandfather’s peculiar cache, Jim and the journals and papers, a reclusive neigh bor who studies the ship’s crew must brave heavens, a strange boy who is fascinated with snakes-- all while the elements and a keeping an eye out for ways to help the world. Is this vision her mutinous charge led by chance? Or is it already too late to avoid a devastating war? the quintessentially In this prequel to the acclaimed “The City of Ember “and “The ruthless pirate Long People of Sparks, “Jeanne DuPrau investigates how, in a world John Silver. Brilliantly that seems out of control, hope and comfort can be found in the conceived and splendidly executed, it is a novel that has seized strangest of places. the imagination of generations of adults and children alike. 6CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Becky Ann Baker 6CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Alfred Molina

Page 7 of 18. All prices are in Australian dollars and include G.S.T. Twain, Mark . The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Winkler, Henry & Oliver, Lin. I Got a “D” in Salami! One of the greatest treats Hank Zipzer – the World’s in all world literature, t his Greatest Underachiever. masterpiece from Mark Hank Zipfer’s report is Twain is revolutionary. It due, and he’s dreading it. offers both brilliant Then he gets his grades humour and tragedy as and they aer the worst Huck and Jim explore nightmare comes true: moral dilemmas of three Ds. slavery and freedom. His parents are not going Huck, the narrator, is to be happy. Hank thinks shrewd, ingenious and he has found a way to literal – he reports on make those grades everything he sees, which disappear... until his allows the listener to clever plan backfires, big experience the hypocrisy time! of “sivilization”. 3CD UA $19.95 Narrated by Henry Winkler Patrick Fraley’s superb narration is rich in the colour and the adventurous spirit of the Winkler, Henry & Oliver, Lin. Day of the Iguana Mississippi River. It captures the world and people that Mark Hank Zipzer – the World’s Twain knew and loved. Author and actor together provide Greatest Underachiever. storytelling genius, balancing youthful escapades against an It’s science-project time, important social message. which is bad news for Hank 10CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Patrick Fraley Zipzer. He loves science and Also available in another unabridged reading: he loves doing experiments, but writing a report...? 8CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Tom Parker No way! Finally Hank Zipfer comes up Mortenson, Greg . Three Cups of Tea with the perfect project - (Young Reader’s Edition) until his sister’s pet iguana gets in the way... The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian 2CD UA $19.95 Narrated by Henry Winkler campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Winkler, Henry & Oli ver, Lin. The Zippity Zinger Taliban’s backyard Hank Zipzer – the World’s Anyone who despairs of the Greatest Underachiever. individual’s power to change It’s time for the annual lives has to read the story of Olympiad: the most Greg Mortenson, a homeless anticipated day of the school mountaineer who, following a year! 1993 climb of Pakistan’s When Hank Zipfer is chosen treacherous K2, was inspired as his team’s softball pitcher, by a chance encounter with the pressure is on. Can Hank impoverished mountain lead his team to victory - villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next even though he thinks he’s decade he built fifty-five schools-especially for girls-that offer a the worst athlete in the balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous history of the world? regions on earth. 4CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Atossa Leoni & Vanessa 2CD UA $19.95 Narrated by Henry Winkler Redgrave Wiseman, Debbie . Different Voices ‘“ How about composing a new Young Person’s Guide to the Children’s Audiobooks Orchestra?” suggested Ian Winkler, Henry & Oliver, Lin . Niagara Falls - Or Does It? Maclay, the General Manager Hank Zipzer – the of the Royal Philharmonic World’s Greatest Orchestra. I’ve always loved Underachiever. composing for full symphony Meet Hank Zipzer. orchestra, so this was a He’s smart. He’s challenge that simply had to creative. He’s funny. be met! I conducted the And he wants to do well Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in school – he really at the first live performance does. But things always at London’s Cadogan Hall seem to go wrong, like with Hayley Westenra adding the time he floods the her special touch to the song and Stephen Fry narrating in his own inimitable fashion. The result of that live performance is classroom with his this CD. It was a truly memorable and exciting experience, and Niagara Falls project. I hope you enjoy listening to Different Voices as much as I With his teacher, the enjoyed composing the piece.’ – Debbie Wiseman. principal and the school bully all soaking wet, Hank knows he is going to be in trouble... 1CD UA $16.95 Performed by Hayley Westenra & Royal again! Philharmonic Orchestra, with Stephen 2CD UA $19.95 Narrated by Henry Winkler Fry narrating

Page 8 of 18. All prices are in Australian dollars and include G.S.T. Clark, Sherryl . Tracey Binns is Trouble Dahl, Roald . Roald Dahl re ads Five Favourite Stories Tracey Binns spends a ● Charlie and the lot of time working on Chocolate Factory her troublesome ● James and the reputation. She never Giant Peach does her homework and ● The Magic Finger answers questions ● The Enormous incorrectly on purpose. Crocodile That is until a new girl ● Fantastic Mr Fox comes to school – Isabella – who sees “And above all, watch through Tracey’s tough with glittering eyes girl exterior. the whole world She enters Tracey into around you because the inter-school Best Brands Computers competition and the greatest secrets suddenly everything starts to change. But Tracey isn’t the only are always hidden in one with something to hide; Isabella has a few secrets of her the most unlikely own. Will their friendship survive once they are discovered? places. Those who don ’t believe in magic will never find it.” - A light and humorous story about the importance of friendship, Roald Dahl acceptance and not being afraid to be yourself. What’s so wonderful about Dahl is that he manages to tell his 2CD $29.95 Narrated by Annie Maynard tales so beautifully through the eyes of a child. He would portray his characters and surroundings in such a way that you Simon, Francesca . Horrid Henry Wakes the Dead could almost be placed in the story yourself - and that is the Horrid Henry finds a true beauty of his talent. Adults and Children alike can envisage surefire way of wielding the unusual. Welcome to the world of Dahl. the remote control to 5CD $35.00 Narrated by the author ensure he always watches his programme Dunca n, Lois . Hotel for Dogs of choice, vies with The Walkers are moving to Moody Margaret to become the head of the a new town, and staying school, shows off his with an aunt who’s allergic prowess as a magician in to dogs. Too bad for Andi the school talent show, and her brother Bruce, who and battles it out with love dogs – and happen to Perfect Peter over who meet a stray that needs gets the green dinosaur help. and who gets the purple Soon, Andi hatches a plan, one. turning the abandoned “Everybody’s favourite bad boy is back for a new set of house down the block into shocking adventures. Horrid Henry and his brother Perfect Peter will squabble over anything and everything - and, as his fans a hotel for dogs. But as will know, his behaviour is getting worse! […] Whatever Henry more and more tenants does he is perfectly dreadful and wickedly funny.” – Julia move in, the secret gets Eccleshare. too big to keep. Can the 1CD UA $19.99 Narrated by Miranda Richardon kids save their canine castle? Or will the hotel have to close? 3CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Katherine Kellgren 3rd & Bird . The Muffin Express and other stories Each fun episode is filled Bond, Michael . Paddington: Please Look After with music and songs This Bear & other stories revolving around the lives This work contains of Samuel and Muffin four dramatised Lovebird and their friend Rudy, who live, learn and stories starring play in the branches of a everyone’s favourite beautiful old tree. Through bear, introduced by the stories told in the Michael Hordern, who series about diversity, narrated the original tolerance and “BBC TV” series perseverance, it will help “Paddington ”. It children to develop social includes “Please Look skills that are integral to After This Bear ”, “A the functioning of a Bear in Hot Water ”, healthy community. Each episode sees Samuel and Muffin encountering a problem “A Disappearing relevant to the pre-school age, such as making a new friend, Trick ” “Paddington learning a new skill or going somewhere for the first time. and the Amateur Though covering important social issues, the programme is Dramatics ”. clever, playful and full of comedy. ‘Please look after this bear’ said the label around Paddington’s Episodes include: A Chorus for Us!, Rolling Along!, To Play or neck, so the Brown family take him home and do just that. Life Not to Play!, The Muffin Express!, Samuel′s Dance! with Paddington, however, is full of surprises - as you’ll find out 1CD UA $14.99 Performed by Samuel, Rudy and Muffin in these four great dramatised stories! as seen on BBC TV 1CD UA $19.95 Narrated by Michael Hordern, cast

Page 9 of 18. All prices are in Australian dollars and include G.S.T. Lobel Arnold . The Arnold Lobel Audio Collection Gleitzman, Morris & Jennings, Paul . Deadly! Includes four (All six books in one!) unabridged recordings: Sprocket’s lost his memory; GRASSHOPPER ON Amy’s lost her dad. So now the THE ROAD; OWL AT two of them are on a quest that HOME; SMALL PIG; will take them to the weirdest UNCLE ELEPHANT. nudist colony in the world - a Grasshopper wanted to hidden community whose go on a journey. dangerous experiments are “I will find a road,” he keeping the nudists alive said. “I will follow that artificially. Now that their secret road wherever it is out, are Amy and Sprocket’s goes.” lives in peril? Four of your favourite Shortlisted for the Young Arnold Lobel stories Australia Best Book Award (YABBA) 2001 & 2002. together in one audio collection! 9CD UA $29.95 Narrated by Francis Greenslade, From Owl’s surprising house-guest to the small pig’s quest for Melissa Eccleston the perfect mud puddle, Arnold Lobel’s stories are filled with one-of-a-kind characters and with more than a little silliness McCombie, Karen & Monks, Ly dia . How To Be too. Good(ish) 1CD UA $24.95 Narrated by Mark Linn-Baker Indie Kids First audiobook in the funny Plitzco, Adrian . Lancelot, the one-armed series about pet-mad ten- kangaroo year-old Indie Kidd and Lancelot is a joey. His friends! mother died in an Meet Indie Kidd, ten years old accident, he has no idea today – and stressed! Indie’s who he is and where he teacher has asked the class to comes from. He grows up name their three top talents. on a farm with a farmer Three! Indie can barely think of and his wife. one! With the help of her best One day Lancelot comes friends Soph and Fee, she’s across a kangaroo mob – prepared to try anything. But it a truly big moment – might take a shy, black, blob- because now he realises like dog to reveal what Indie Kidd is really good(ish) at! that he is not a human 2CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Clare Corbett but a kangaroo! Lancelot’s efforts to join McCombie, Karen & Monks, Lydia. I Lost My the kangaroo mob lead him into danger, trouble, adventure – and finally, to friendship and acceptance. Best(est) Friends 2CD UA $24.95 Narrated by David Tredinnick, Anne Indie Kids Phelan,Matthew Whittet, Samantha Second audiobook in the funny series about pet-mad ten-year- Kenny, Alex Menglet old Indie Kidd and friends! Indie Kidd wouldn’t be without Dah l, Roald . Phizz-Whizzing Audio Collection her bestest friends, Soph and Spread over ten CDs, these Fee, but her step-brother Dylan three sumptuous recordings has no close mates. It’s time for Roald Dahl’s best-loved Indie to help him become more stories are complete and friend-friendly... But what if unabridged, allowing Dylan drives Indie mad in the listeners to enjoy Dahl’s process? And what if – oops – work word for word. The set Soph and Fee begin to feel left contains the following out? stories: 2CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Clare Corbett Charlie and the Chocolate Factory read by Eric Idle McCombie, Karen & Monks, Lydia. Being Grown Up Charlie Bucket thinks he is the luckiest boy alive when Is Cool (Not!) he wins an amazing tour of Indie Kids Willy Wonka’s famous Third audiobook in the funny chocolate factory. It’s a tour series about pet-mad ten-year- of a lifetime that changes old Indie Kidd and friends! his life beyond belief! Indie Kidd is fed up with being The BFG read by Natasha Richardson treated like a brainless little The BFG is a Big Friendly Giant who spirits Sophie out of bed baby. Why are her friends so one night. Together, Sophie and the BFG cook up an ingenious childish? And what is with her plan to rid the world of child-eating giants forever! mu m, acting like a total control James and the Giant Peach read Jeremy Irons freak? Not even her dad will James lives a lonely life with his two beastly aunts. Then one listen to her. If only Indie was day, something very peculiar happens, something magical that grown-up, like Caitlin, their will take him on the most amazing journey... lodger, that would be totally 8CD UA $34.95 Narrated by Eric Idle, Natasha cool! Wouldn’t it? Richardson, Jeremy Irons 2CD UA $39.95 Narrated by Clare Corbett

Page 10 of 18. All prices are in Australian dollars and include G.S.T. Griffiths, Andy . Just Macbeth! Prior, Natalie Jane . Lily Quench and the Dragon of Take one Shakespearan Ashby tragedy: Macbeth. Inside the dragon’s mouth, Add Andy, Danny and Lisa - Lily screamed. Great globs of the JUST trio, whose madcap slobber sloshed under her exploits have already feet and she felt herself delighted hundreds of sliding down... thousands of readers for the As a family of dragon last ten years. slayers, the Quenches of Mix them all together to Ashby have always been a create one of the most burning success until the evil hilarious, most dramatic, Black Count invades, and the moving story of love, Whizz family’s fortunes go into a Fizz, witches, murder and downward spiral. madness from the bestselling and funniest children’s author in When a dragon unexpectedly Australia. arrives, Lily, the last of a long line of dragon-slaying Quenches, The play Just Macbeth! attracted enormous critical acclaim for is called upon to fight it, and she finds herself on a desperate, Andy.. magical quest to save Ashby from destruction... 3CD UA $19.95 Narrated by Stig Wemyss 3CD UA $34.95 Narrated by Jennifer Vuletic Dahl, Roald . Danny the Champion of the World Child, Lauren . My Extremely Good Story “This book is about a most Collection private and secret habit my Following on from the hugely father had, and about the strange adventures it led us popular My Completely Best both into…” Story Collection , Charlie, Lola, Danny thinks the world of Lotta, and Marv return for a his father, who has looked second round of zany audio after him ever since his adventures. mother died when Danny This new collection includes five was just four months old. favourite and best stories which But as he grows up, Danny ever so cleverly weave together discovers that his father’s original voice recordings, secret spells adventure and music, and sound effects from trouble for both of them! the hit television series. Stories on this eagerly awaited 4CD UA $26.95 Narrated by Will Young compendium include: I’ll be VERY Especially Careful; I Know Completely EVERYTHING about Guinea Pigs; I’m Ever So Not Lindsay, Norman . The Magic Pudding Well; Say Cheese!; and This is Actually MY Party .. Bunyip Bluegum and his 1CD UA $19.99 Narrated by various friends, Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff, all try to Dalgliesh, Alice . The Bears on Hemlock Mountain make a meal of the There are no bears on Hemlock magic pudding – a Mountain, No bears, no bears at walking, talking, all... cantankerous pudding Or so young Jonathan is told by who likes to be eaten the grown-ups as he sets out alone and never runs out. But over Hemlock Mountain. But as a magic pudding is a Jonathan discovers on the cold hard secret to keep and there are professional winter night, grown-ups don’t pudding thieves on the always know... loose... And there are bears on Hemlock This story of the hilarious adventures of Bunyip Blugum is a Mountain! true Australian children’s classic. 2CD UA $29.95 Narrated by Jonathan Biggins 1CD UA $29.95 Narrated by William Dufris Davis, Tony . Roland Wright: Future Knight Juster, Norton . The Phantom Tollbooth Young Roland Wright For Milo, everything’s a bore. dreams of being a Knight When a mysterious tollbooth but, as the son of a appears in his room, he drives blacksmith, he has little through only because he’s got chance of making this nothing better to do. But on the happen until one day the other side, things seem opportunity of a lifetime different. Milo visits the island of presents itself and Roland Conclusions, learns about time is forced to use his wits, from a ticking watchdog called skill and courage to Tock, and goes up against the realise his ambitions. dastardly Discord and Dynne. Together with his pet By the time Milo and Tock set mouse Nudge, Roland off toward the Mountains of embarks upon an Ignorance to rescue the twin adventure told in a funny and warm-hearted style will delight Princesses, Rhyme and Reason, Milo realises that life is far from listeners. dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams... 1CD UA $29.95 Narrated by Stephen Pease 4CD UA $44.95 Narrated by David Hyde Pierce

Page 11 of 18. All prices are in Australian dollars and include G.S.T. Kinney, Jeff . Diary of a Wimpy Kid Clare, Cassandra. The Mortal Instruments Audio It’s a new school year, Collection: City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass and Greg Heffley finds Unabridged mp3-CD himself thrust into edition middle school, where Book one, City of Bones undersized weaklings share the hallways with Fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is introduced to the kids who are taller, world of the meaner, and already Shadowhunters, a secret shaving. cadre of warriors Greg is happy to have dedicated to driving Rowley, his sidekick, demons out of our world. along for the ride. But And she’s introduced when Rowley’s star with a vengeance, when starts to rise, Greg tries Clary’s mother to use his best friend’s disappears and Clary newfound popularity to herself is almost killed by his own advantage, a grotesque monster kicking off a chain of events that will test their friendship in sent by the evil and hilarious fashion. powerful Shadowhunter, Valentine. How could a mere human As Greg says in his diary, Just don’t expect me to be all Dear survive such an attack. Diary this and Dear Diary that . Luckily for us, what Greg Heffley says he won’t do and what he actually does are two very Book two, City of Ashes different things. Clary just wants her life to go back to normal - but that turns 2CD UA $35.00 Narrated by Ramón de Ocampo out to be impossible. For one thing, her mother is still in the hospital, in a mysterious coma. For another, she and her newfound brother Jace have fallen under a cloud of suspicion Young Adult Audiobooks now that the Shadowhunter world knows that Valentine is still alive - and that Jace and Clary are his son and daughter. Then Hopkins, Cathy . Mates, Dates and Diamond Destiny Clary’s best friend Simon is turned into a vampire and Nesta’s life is thrown kidnapped by Valentine, who intends to sacrifice him as part of into upheaval when she a bloody ritual that will make the Mortal Instruments gets involved in charity Valentine’s forever. work thinking that it Book three, City of Glass might be a cool way to Clary has to use all her ingenuity and newfound magical skills meet people (mainly to get herself to the Glass City in Idris, the secretive boys.) But as her eyes Shadowhunters’ home country, where she is forbidden to go-- are opened to the plight for it is only there that she can find the cure to the enchanted of the world, she begins sleeping sickness to which her mother has succumbed. When to genuinely want to get Valentine attacks the city and destroys the d emon towers, Clary involved and help and her allies are all that stand between him and the total others. On top of this, annihilation of all Shadowhunters. Love is a mortal sin and the Nesta meets William, a past tangles inextricably with the present as Clary and Jace boy who questions her face down their father in this final title of the series. motives. At times, she’s convinced he hates her and the feeling is mutual. But Izzie, 3mp3-CD UA $69.95 Narrated by Natalie Moore Lucy and TJ think it is something more like love. 4CD UA $24.95 Narrated by Nicky Talacko Dashner, James. The Maze Runner When Thomas wakes up Cashore, Kristin . Fire in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his She is the last of her first name. His memory is kind... blank. But he’s not alone. It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. In When the lift’s doors King City, the young open, Thomas finds King Nash is clinging to himself surrounded by the throne, while rebel kids who welcome him to lords in the north and the Glade, a large, open south build armies to expanse surrounded by unseat him. War is stone walls. coming. And the Just like Thomas, the mountains and forest Gladers don’t know why are filled with spies or how they got to the and thieves. This is Glade. All they know is where Fire lives, a girl that every morning the whose beauty is stone doors to the maze impossibly irresistible that surrounds them have opened. Every night they’ve closed and who can control tight. And every 30 days a new boy has been delivered in the the minds of everyone around her. lift. Exquisitely romantic, this companion to the highly praised Thomas was expected. But the next day, a girl is sent up – the Graceling has an entirely new cast of characters, save for one first girl to ever arrive in the Glade. And more surprising yet is person who plays a pivotal role in both books. You don’t need the message she delivers. to have read Graceling to love Fire . But if you haven’t, you’ll Thomas might be more important than he could ever guess. If be dying to read it next. only he could unlock the dark secrets buried within his mind. 10CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Xanthe Elbrick 9CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Mark Deakins

Page 12 of 18. All prices are in Australian dollars and include G.S.T. Beddor, Frank . Arch Enemy Downing Hahn, M ary . The Old Willis Place Book 3, The Looking Glass Wars Diana and her little brother Georgie As Seeing Redd ended, King have been living in the woods behind Arch had been successful in the old Willis place, a decaying sapping Wonderland - Victorian mansion, for what already including Alyss and Redd - of seems like forever. They aren’t Imagination. Now the two allowed to leave the property or enemy queens are forced to show themselves to anyone. But come together in an attempt when a new caretaker comes to live to reclaim Wonderland and there with his young daughter, Lissa, their imaginative powers. Diana is tempted to break the Hatter M is AWOL as he mysterious rules they live by and escorts his daughter, Molly, reveal herself so she can finally have to our world, leaving her in a friend. the care of Charles Dodgson Somehow, Diana must get Lissa’s help if she and Georgie ever (aka Lewis Carroll). It hope to release themselves from the secret that has bound appears that the caterpillar them to the old Willis place for so long. oracles are in cahoots with 4CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Ellen Grafton Arch, but we learn they are manipulating him to save the Heart Crystal, also known as ‘Everqueen’ – the source of imaginative power. How far will Werlin, Nancy . The Killer’s Cousin Alyss regain her power? 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Page 13 of 18. All prices are in Australian dollars and include G.S.T. Spradlin, Michael P. Keeper of the Grail Hartnett, Sonya . Of a Boy Book 1, The Youngest Templar The year is 1977, and Adrian is Raised by monks, the orphan nine. He lives with his gran and Tristan never dreamed that he his uncle Rory; his best friend is might see the world or discover Clinton Tull. He loves to draw the truth about his past. But and he wants a dog; he’s afraid that changes the day that the of quicksand, shopping centres Knights Templar ride through and self-combustion. Adrian the abbey on their way to fight watches his suburban world, but in the Holy Land for Richard the there is much he cannot Lionheart’s Crusade. Overnight understand. He does not for Tristan becomes a squire to Sir instance, know why three Thomas, one of the Templar’s neighbourhood children might most courageous knights. 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Page 14 of 18. All prices are in Australian dollars and include G.S.T. Pierce, Tamora . Alanna: The First Adventure White, T. H. The Once and Future King Book 1, Song of the Lioness Kay and his foster- Becoming a legend is not easy, brother (known as the as young Alanna of Trebond Wart) are living in the discovers when she disguises glorious castle of Sir herself as a boy and begins Ector amid the wild and training to be a knight. Alanna’s beautiful Forest Sauvage. skills and stubbornness help her But they are given a befriend Prince Jonathan but tutor – the magician alienate his evil uncle, Duke Merlyn. And so begins Roger. Filled with swords and one of the most inventive sorcery, adventure and intrigue, and charming retellings good and evil, this book is a of the Arthurian legend, rousing introduction to the the first part of The Once intensely satisfying story of and Future King. Alanna. Through a series of adventures that involve 4CD UA $59.95 Narrated by Trini Alvarado being turned into animals, an encounter with a very hungry witch and a meeting with the real Robin Hood, Merlyn instructs Pierce, Tamora . Melting Stones his young charges in the ways of the world, and broader Four years have passed since wisdom too. One of them will need it – the King has died Evvy left the streets of leaving no heir, and a rightful one must be found by pulling a Chammur to begin her sword from an anvil resting on a stone... training as a stone mage. At The complete box set of T.H. White’s epic fantasy novel of the fourteen, she’s unhappy to be Arthurian legend. The novel is made up of five parts: The on a new journey with her Sword in the Stone, The Witch in the Wood, The Ill-Made mentor, prickly green mage Knight, The Candle in the Wind and The Book of Merlyn. Rosethorn, who has been 29CD UA $279.95 Narrated by Neville Jason called to the Battle Islands to determine why the plants and animals there are dying. Kluver, Cayla. Legacy Evvy’s job is to listen and The first boy disappeared on learn, but she can’t keep the day of his birth, on the quiet and do nothing. With same night the Kingdom of the help of Luvo, the living Cokyri abruptly ceased its stone heart of a mountain, Evvy uncovers an important clue. merciless attack. Now, with the island on the brink of disaster, it’s up to Evvy to Across the land of Hytanica, avert the destruction that looms ahead. under the shadow of the crimson moon, infant boys 8CD UA $79.95 Narrated by Grace Kelly & cast continued to vanish. Not until the blood had faded from the Pierce, Tamora . In the Hand of the Goddess sky did the disappearances Book 2, Song of the Lioness stop and the bodies of the Disguised as a boy, Alanna of murdered infants were found Trebond becomes a squire – to outside the gates of the city. none other than the prince of the For the next 16 years, peace realm. But Prince Jonathan is reigned, but one mystery much more to Alanna; he is her remained unsolved. The ally, her best friend, and one of Cokyrians had abducted 49 newborns, but returned only 48 the few who knows that she’s bodies. really a girl. Now it will take all of Now, as seventeen-year-old Princess Alera of Hytanica is Alanna’s awesome skill, strength, besieged from all sides by suitors vying for the Throne, a and growing magical powers to teenage Cokyrian boy, Narian, is encountered within the walls protect him from the mysterious of her Kingdom… evil sorcerer who is bent on his 12CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Anna Chlumsky destruction – and hers! 4CD UA $49.95 Narrated by Trini Alvarado Pre-school Audiobooks BBC . Paper Plane Down & other stories Marsden, John . Hamlet To be or not to be. That is still the Fireman Sam question... This title includes seven John Marsden, one of Australia’s episodes from the hugely most-loved writers, takes popular all-new animated Shakespeare’s famous play and series featuring Fireman turns it into a moving and full- Sam and his friends from blooded novel. Pontypandy - as seen on Hamlet’s father has just died. By TV. It includes “Paper the time they’ve filled in the grave Plane Down Hot”, “Cold his mother has remarried. Hamlet Running Sniffer Dog”; suspects foul play, and it’s “Perilous Path”; “The New troubling his spirit. Or maybe he was always troubled. Ophelia Hero Next Door”; “Santa is in love with him. His best friend Horatio can’t work him out. Overboard”; “Best Foot Then, on a cold, still night, Hamlet meets the ghost of his Forward”; and, “Baa Baa father... Baby”. 5CD UA $34.95 Narrated by Humphrey Bower 1CD UA $19.99 Performed by various

Page 15 of 18. All prices are in Australian dollars and include G.S.T. BBC . Five Little ducks and other stories A fantastic selection of songs, Children’s Readalongs stories and nursery rhymes Chichester Clark, Emma . It Was You, Blue from the BBC radio series, Listen and Play! Kangaroo! Join in with actions, words Lily and Blue Kangaroo are and games. The stories inseparable. Whatever Lily featured in this work include: does, Blue Kangaroo does too. “Dr Foster Went to But Lily is not always fair, and Gloucester”; “Five Little when she is naughty it is Blue Ducks”; “The House that Jack Kangaroo who gets the and Jill Built”; “Pat-a-Cake”; blame. and, “Twinkle Twinkle Little One day Lily is very bad Star”. indeed, and Blue Kangaroo is 1CD UA $14.95 Performed by various taken away from her and placed on a shelf downstairs until he learns to behave… BBC . Incy Wincy Spider But will he? A fantastic selection of songs, nursery rhymes, stories, “Enormously appealing” – The puzzles and tongue-twisters. Bookseller Join in with actions, words, and games! The songs and Bk+1CD UA $19.99 Narrated by Joanna Lumley rhymes include: “The Animal Fair”; “The Bear Went Over Chichester Clark, Emma . What Shall We Do, Blue the Mountain”; “Who Cares If The Bear?”; “The Animal Kangaroo? Song”; “How Doth the Little The fourth title in this Crocodile”; “The Pelican’s popular series about Lily Beak”; “The Day the Animals and her loveable toy, Lost Their Voices”; and “5 Blue Kangaroo Little Monkeys”. Lily and Blue Kangaroo are the best of friends 1CD UA $24.95 Performed by Sophie Aldred, Richard and when Lily doesn’t Mitchley know what to do next she often asks, ‘What BBC . Willo the Wisp shall we do, Blue Contains 12 stories from the Kangaroo?’ But Blue BBC TV series “Willo the Kangaroo doesn’t Wisp”. always know, so he says Featuring Mavis Cruet, the nothing. Fat Fairy; Arthur, the But one day, in a crisis, Cockney Caterpillar; Evil Blue Kangaroo has to Edna, the Wicked Witch; work out what to do all Carwash, the Prissy Pussy; by himself… and The Moog, the Droopy “Emma Chichester Dog. Of course, we mustn’t Clark’s Blue Kangaroo is forget “the Beast”, who is rapidly becoming an all-time classic children’s character” – The really Prince Humbert the Bookseller Handsome, changed into Bk+1CD UA $19.99 Narrated by Joanna Lumley various shapes and sizes by Evil Edna’s spells. Chichester Clark, Emma . I’ll Show You, Blue They all just happen to be in Doyley Woods when Willo the Wisp is flitting about so he can tell us all the adventures and Kangaroo? mishaps that befall them. The fifth story in this popular series about 1CD UA $14.99 Narrated by Kenneth Williams Lily and her adorable toy, Blue Kangaroo. Various composers . Bedtime for Babies Lily and Blue Kangaroo Timeless and beloved classical are best friends. But melodies by famous when Lily starts to composers to lull a baby into a show off, Blue peaceful sleep. Kangaroo wishes he Debussy Clair de lune “Suite wasn’t around. Bergamasque”; Vivaldi Especially when Lily Concerto op. 8 n. 3 gets up to scary “Autumn”:; Bach Suite BWV things, even though 1066: Air ; Vivaldi Concerto she has been told not op. 8 n. 4 “Winter”; Puccini to. Madam Butterfly “Humming Inevitably, the day Chorus”; Chopin Berceuse; comes when Lily goes Gluck “Dance of the blessed too far, and poor Blue spirits”; Granados Villanesca; Kangaroo is left Tchaikovsky Nutcracker “Danse de la fée dragée”; “Danse clinging on for dear Arabe”; Brahms Wiegenlied; Fauré Berceuse for Violin and life! Just what will it Orchestra; Offenbach “Barcarole”; Satie Gymnopédie n. 1 take for Lily to be good? 1CD $28.95 Performed by various Bk+1CD UA $19.99 Narrated by Joanna Lumley

Page 16 of 18. All prices are in Australian dollars and include G.S.T. McKee, David . Elmer Kerr, Judith . Mog and the Baby Elmer the colourful Mog’s peaceful day is shattered patchwork elephant when a baby comes to visit. All has been a nursery Mog wants to do and sleep and favourite since this play but there is no chance of first book was that with a little baby around! published in 1989. A “Mog loves babies”, says Mrs modern classic, this Thomas but suddenly Mog isn’t picture book is quite so sure... known to millions, Read by Andrew Sachs and brought to life through his and continues to be characters’ voices and humour! the strongest seller of the whole series, having sold over 2 million copies around the world. The subtle message is that it is Bk+1CD UA $19.99 Narrated by Andrew Sachs OK to be different, and combined with Alborough, Jez . Duck in the Truck the vibrant colour and cheeky humour of the main character, this paperback and This is the tal e of a duck in a CD edition is a celebration of its continued popularity. truck – a truck that was stuck in Bk+1CD UA $21.95 Narrated by Joss Ackland some yucky brown muck. A sheep in a jeep and a frog McKee, David . Elmer in the Snow in the bush At the first hint of a saw the truth stuck and gave chill in the air, Elmer’s it a push. friends start But the truck stayed stuck? complaining about the What now, can you guess? cold, so Elmer decides Could a goat in a boat to show them what get them out of this mess? cold weather is really like. They set off for a Bk+1CD UA $19.99 Narrated by Harry Enfield walk up a mountain, and the higher they Impey, Rose . The Orchard Book of Fairy Tales get, the colder it gets. In this delightful collection, Rose Elmer’s determined to Impey brings fourteen best-loved show them just how fairy tales to life for children of much fun winter can today. The stories include be! Cinderella, Jack and the Read along with the Beanstalk, The Sleeping audio CD included to Beauty, Puss in Boots, Beauty bring the story to life! and the Beast, Tom Thumb, Hansel and Gretel, The Frog Bk+1CD UA $21.95 Narrated by Joss Ackland Prince, The Three Wishes , and many more. Grey, Mini . The Adventures of the Dish and the Ian Beck’s charming illustrations Spoon cannot fail to enthral children and Hey Diddle adults alike. This timeless product Diddle, The Cat is a must-have for every child’s bookshelf. and the Fiddle, Bk+3CD UA $35.00 Narrated by Martin Jarvis The Cow jumped over the Moon. Simon, Francesca . Horrid Henry’s Underpants The Little Dog Horrid Henry for Younger laughed to see Readers. such fun, Utterly wicked. And the Dish ran Totally brilliant. away with the When Henry receives an Spoon. unexpected package, he is NOT That’s the bit we impressed to find a hideous pair know - but have of frilly pink pants inside. He’s you ever wondered got to get rid of them – and what happened quickly! next? Mini Grey EARLY READER has this brilliantly 1. Horrid Henry’s Underpants funny and (complete with music and sound wonderfully inventive suggestion, narrated by one of the effects) principal players - the Spoon himself. Part love story, part 2. A read-along version of the crime caper, “The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon” is the story with page-turning sound rags-to-riches and back again tale of the most dazzling effects crockery-cutlery duo of all time. Bk+1CD UA $21.95 Narrated by Mark Gatiss Bk+1CD UA $24.99 Narrated by Miranda Richardson

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