The Austere Academy (#5 A Series of Unfortunate Events) by Lemony Snicket
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Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events 5
NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home Prufrock Preparatory School, they can't help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school's motto Memento Mori or "Remember you will die." This is not a cheerful greeting and certainly marks an inauspic ...Show more
The Wide Window (#3 A Series of Unfortunate Events) by Lemony Snicket
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Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events
If you like stories with happy endings, listen to something elseDear Listener,If you have not heard anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted, but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of ...Show more
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grim Grotto 11 by Lemony Snicket
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Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events
Dear Listener, Unless you are a slug, a sea anemone, or mildew, you probably prefer not to be damp. You might also prefer not to listen to this audiobook, in which the Baudelaire siblings descend into the depths of despair, underwater. The horrors they encounter are too numerous to list, and include mus ...Show more
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
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Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: Vintage Children's Classics Ser.
'Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone.' Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the 'Fury'? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to 'Out-With' ...Show more
The Miserable Mill (#4 A Series of Unfortunate Events) by Lemony Snicket
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Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events
Dear reader, There is nothing to be found in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-selling series to read. But if you insist on discovering the unpleasant adventures of the Baudelaire orphans, then proceed with c ...Show more
The Reptile Room (#2 A Series of Unfortunate Events) by Lemony Snicket
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Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events
Dear reader, There is nothing to be found in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-selling series to read. But if you insist on discovering the unpleasant adventures of the Baudelaire orphans, then proceed with ca ...Show more
The End by Lemony Snicket
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Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events
Dear Listener, You are presumably looking at the back of this audiobook, or the end of the end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if you listen to the end from the beginning of the beginning of the end to the end of the end of the end, you will arrive at the end of the end o ...Show more
The Silent One by Joy Cowley
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Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
The Silent One is Jonasi, sent from the sea as a baby to grow up in an isolated Pacific village. Separated from the villagers by his silence and their prejudices, Jonasi finds solace in his underwater world where he develops a special relationship with a huge white turtle. However, the superstitious vil ...Show more
The Vile Village (# 7 A Series of Unfortunate Events) by Lemony Snicket
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Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events
NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Dear Reader, You have undoubtedly picked up this book by mistake, so please put it down. Nobody in their right mind would read this particular book about the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire on purpose, because each dismal moment of their stay in the village o ...Show more
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1) by Lemony Snicket
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Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky. In the tradition of great storytellers, from Dickens to Dahl, comes an exquisitely dark comedy that is both literary and ir ...Show more
The Girl, the Dog and the Writer in Rome by Katrina Nannestad
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Category: Adventure and Real Life Stories | Series: The Girl, the Dog and the Writer
He's the world's vaguest novelist. She's a shy and unusual child. Together, they're travelling the world, one book a time. For the first ten years of Freja's life, she and her mother Clementine have roamed the Arctic in search of zoological wonders. Happy, content, together. Freja and Clem. Clem and Fre ...Show more
Project Huia by Des Hunt
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Category: NZ Middle Fiction 8-12-year-olds
As children, Logan's grandfather and his sister Mavis spotted a beautiful and unusual bird in the kowhai tree outside their house: it was a huia, which was believed to be extinct. In an attempt to photograph it they tracked it deep into the Manawatu Gorge. This was a dangerous journey, made even more s ...Show more