Kids Club

Mayowa and the Sea of Words

By: Chibundu Onuzo
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

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

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

—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

FunJungle

By: Stuart Gibbs
Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

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

The Terrible Two Series: Book #1

By: Mac Barnett & Jory John
Narrated by: Adam Verner
Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

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

Gold Medal Mysteries: Book #2

By: Ellie Robinson
Narrated by: Nadia Albina
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

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

Your favourite fairytales from million-copy selling Ben Miller

Fairytale Woods: Book #2

By: Ben Miller
Narrated by: Ben Miller
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

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

Archibald Finch: Book #2

By: Michel Guyon
Narrated by: Steve Hendrickson
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

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

Temple Grandin

How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World

By: Sy Montgomery
Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell
Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

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

Alone

By: Megan E. Freeman
Narrated by: Andre Bellido, Michael Crouch, Angel Pean, Alejandra Reynoso & Eunice Wong
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

“I've always been displeased with the ending of Alone. I've taught the book in my 6th grade English classes when we talk about novels in verse and I always let students know that I think the ending leaves something to be desired, but now!! Away is here and gives me all the answers I craved and helps close up the gaps Alone left. The physical book... Read more

Homesick

My Own Story

By: Jean Fritz
Narrated by: Jean Fritz
Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

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

Tales of Uncle Remus

The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

By: Julius Lester
Narrated by: Julius Lester
Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

It seems animals are like people in many ways--they just can't get along with one another. And Brer Rabbit has the most trouble of all. Maybe it's his mischievous ways, or maybe it's because adventures always come looking for him. There was the frightening day that Brer Rabbit found himself attached to a baby made of sticky tar. Brer Fox would... Read more

Lives of the Scientists

Experiments, Explosions (and What the Neighbors Thought)

The Lives of … Series

By: Kathleen Krull
Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

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

Jumanji: Book #2

By: Chris Van Allsburg
Narrated by: Ensemble Cast
Length: 19 minutes

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

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

FunJungle: Book #3

By: Stuart Gibbs
Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

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

Sky Pirates: The Dragon's Gold

Sky Pirates

By: Alex English
Narrated by: Nicky Diss
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

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

Ember Spark and the Frost Phoenix

Ember Spark: Book #2

By: Abi Elphinstone
Narrated by: Paula Masterton
Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

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!

Granny Jinks: Book #2

By: Serena Holly
Narrated by: Debra Michaels
Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

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

The Hollow Hills

A Goblyn Wood Adventure: Book #2

By: Anna Kemp
Narrated by: Aysha Kala
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

'A magical, fairy-filled read with a twisty plot and main character you'll adore' A.F. Steadman, author of the internationally bestselling Skandar and the Unicorn Thief

Nobody knows what lies inside the Knoll nor what form the Fae have taken after all these years . . . join a quest of a lifetime to rescue Goblyn Wood from the fae, with a sequel... Read more