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Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle....

Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car!....

When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry....

The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter - but that doesn't stop Harry dreaming that he will win the competition....

Dark times have come to Hogwarts. After the Dementors' attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry Potter knows that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him....

When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why....

When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island....

In his continuing quest to earn college recommendation letters from the gods, Percy has to pet sit the goddess Hecate's polecat and giant mastiff during Halloween week. What could go wrong?

Stephen Fry brings the richness of these magical stories to life in the original British recordings, available for the first time in the United States and Canada.

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of boarding school...again....

Stephen Fry brings the richness of these magical stories to life in the original British recordings, available for the first time in the United States and Canada.

Stephen Fry brings the richness of these magical stories to life in the original British recordings, available for the first time in the United States and Canada.

Stephen Fry brings the richness of these magical stories to life in the original British recordings, available for the first time in the United States and Canada.

Stephen Fry brings the richness of these magical stories to life in the original British recordings, available for the first time in the United States and Canada.

Stephen Fry brings the richness of these magical stories to life in the original British recordings, available for the first time in the United States and Canada.

This audio collection includes the first eight stories from The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne....

When Percy Jackson receives an urgent distress call from his friend Grover, he immediately prepares for battle....

Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse....

Newbery Award-winner Gary Paulsen's best-known book comes to audio in this breathless, heart-gripping drama about a boy pitted against the wilderness with only a hatchet and a will to live...

While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded....

Shipwrecked on a remote, wild island, Robot Roz learned from the unwelcoming animal inhabitants and adapted to her surroundings—but can she survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island? Find out....

Jason has a problem. He doesn't remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. Apparently she's his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they're all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for "bad kids"....

Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake....

The New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot series returns, taking Roz on an action-packed under-the-ocean journey to save her beloved island....

The other five demigods have to put aside their grief and follow Percy's instructions to find the mortal side of the Doors of Death....

Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal—including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world. Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want. But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other...

Joey and Harry do NOT like each other. Stuck together on a school trip to a museum, things couldn’t get any worse, until they meet some incorrigble monsters! The monsters are on a field trip of their own, bringing BAD LUCK to the human world. Quickly, they decide to take the children back to where they’ve come from and feed them to their king. But what exactly lies ahead for Joey and Harry at the Ministry of Mischief? Will they make it back home in time for tea? Or will they be stuck with these misbehaving monsters forever?

When a twelve-year-old girl named Cleo and her cat, Muffin, become the newest members of PURR (Peace Urgently Requires Reasonableness), a secret society of cats fighting for peace, they aren’t exactly sure what they’re getting themselves into. Then, PURR discovers that KLAW (Cats Loving Awful Warfare), an evil secret society of cats, is planning to send dogs to space for ransom. PURR tasks Cleo to infiltrate KLAW as a secret spy so together they can stop them.

When Avery returns to her hometown after moving away a year earlier, she is hoping to jump back into her friend group as if nothing’s changed. Unfortunately, new interests, secret crushes, and changing dynamics get in her way. To reunite her BFFs, she suggests they host a séance at an abandoned theater that was the site of a horrible tragedy. What starts as a fun outing, soon becomes a fight for survival after the group gets locked in…and discovers they’re not alone.

A contemporary My Side of the Mountain, Stranded is the story of a wilderness-hungry Black girl from Manhattan whose journey in the Adirondack mountains becomes a nail-biting story of courage, independence, and survival.

In the midst of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Archibald Shrew and Garbage Island’s mouse mayor, Mr. Popli, constantly clash over Archibald’s bungled inventions. In fact, Archie and Mayor Popli are so busy arguing that they don’t realize their island is falling apart until it’s too late. Caught in a current, these unlikely companions are swept far from home on a rip-roaring adventure neither could have imagined. As they try to find their way back, they’ll face many perils—a massive storm, deadly predators, a formidable enemy army—and discover new strengths in themselves and in each other.

Spotty - is a 14-year-old boy genius, gifted with the power of total recall. Spotty forgets nothing and remembers every word of every book that he has read. He is also a daydreamer and likes nothing better than to imagine himself as the hero of those books - a superhero. One day, while sitting in the classroom listening to the endless drone of Mrs Malchite the schoolteacher, his daydream takes him to the Serengeti Plain in Africa where he is attacked by a lion. He returns to classroom reality to find that underneath his school uniform , his arm bares the deep scratch marks inflicted. This ...

Les incroyables épopées de Tomek et Hannah sur les traces de l'eau de la rivière qui rend immortel enfin réunies dans une intégrale ! La Forêt de l'Oubli, le village des Parfumeurs, l'Île Inexistante... C'est un voyage fabuleux qui va entraîner Tomek et Hannah, deux jeunes orphelins, jusqu'au bout du monde. Trouveront-ils cette rivière qui coule à l'envers et dont l'eau empêche de mourir ? Ou bien autre chose qu'ils ne cherchaient pas ? Prix Astrid Lindgren 2021

Little Toot hears of the monster at Loch Ness and goes off to see for himself. The riverboats make fun of him, the search boats on the loch order him away, the fishing boat won't talk to him. But Little Toot perseveres, and finally meets the soft-spoken Nessie.

Aufgepasst, ihr Bösewichter, hier kommt Superheld Robodog! Ein neues superwitziges Abenteuer von Bestsellerautor David Walliams. Willkommen in Bedlam, der Heimat einer ganzen Schar böser Schurken! Nichts und niemand ist vor diesen fiesen Verbrechern sicher. Die Stadt braucht dringend ihren eigenen Superhelden, um die Superschurken zu besiegen. Aber wen? Natürlich Robodog! Er ist der neueste Rekrut an der Polizeihundeschule, und er steckt voller Abenteuerlust.

For twelve-year-old Nox Winters, the town of Evergreen isn’t home—it’s a tourist trap in middle-of-nowhere Maine for amateur cryptozoologists hoping to spot its infamous legend, a batlike creature known as the Evergreen Devil. But his twin brother, Noah, has been wasting away from an illness that has left medical professionals stumped, and the doctors here in Evergreen are his last hope. And Nox goes where Noah goes.

Andy thought he was just an average sixteen-year-old kid... But one day his world is completely turned upside down as he learns the unbelievable truth of his identity: he is the prince of a faraway kingdom called Filligrim in the Valley of the Misfits - a magical place where pixies, elves, wizards, and dragons are just as likely to be inhabitants as humans. He was brought to this world following his birth - the only way to keep him from being murdered by his evil malicious grandfather.

In a magical world where heroes go on exciting quests while witches keep everything running behind the scenes, Laurel works in her parents’ shop, supplying everything from enchanted yarn to magical carpets. The shop is struggling after the opening of a big shopping centre nearby, so when a hero waltzes in with a long list of expensive items, Laurel sees an opportunity to help. But there’s one item on the list that isn’t in stock, and it’s going to be very tricky to find, so join Laurel and her wise cat familiar as they take the reluctant hero on a quest to save her parents’ shop.

Alles fein mit Schleim, oder was?! So ein Hörbuch hast du noch nie gehört! Für alle, die sich mal wieder kringelig lachen wollen! Akim traut seinen Augen nicht, als plötzlich ein Haufen Pudding vor der Tür steht: der Schwobbel. Das neue Familienmitglied ändert seine Form fast so häufig wie seine Meinung, knuspert jede Art von Müll... und hält rein gar nichts von Büchern, in denen aus heiterem Himmel ein Fabelwesen im Leben der Hauptfigur auftaucht und alles durcheinanderwirbelt. Das sagt der Richtige! – Denn seit der Schwobbel bei Akim eingezogen ist, passiert genau das.

Tras ser secuestrado por un buceador, Nemo, un pequeño y valiente pez payaso, se encuentra de repente en un aburrido acuario con un montón de peces tropicales medio locos. Mientras Nemo y sus amigos planean una arriesgada huida, su padre, Marvin, atraviesa el inmenso océano para encontrar a su hijo y, por el camino, se topa con tiburones hambrientos, divertidas tortugas y una olvidadiza pez llamada Dory.

Los PJ Masks están impacientes por usar sus vehículos contra Carly y Cartoka en una trepidante carrera en Zoomzania, pero tienen que elegir sabiamente, ya que su buen amigo Newton Star les pide que averigüen por qué los PJ Riders se muestran tan ansiosos. Deciden ir a Zoomzania para enfrentarse a los gemelos malvados, pero cuando regresan… ¡los PJ Riders y Newton han desaparecido! Para arreglar el día tendrán que enfrentarse a una nueva banda de villanos: ¡el Terrible Trio! Únete a este episodio especial de cuatro partes de los PJ Masks.

This book introduces Planet Venesha and its inhabitants, most importantly, Mordokai and his friends. Join them as they wander a colorful, thriving landscape inhabited by all sorts of weird and wonderful creatures.

Carly y Cartoka, unos gemelos malvados obsesionados con la velocidad, destruyen los vehículos PJ Masks con la ayuda de su Gigantogaraje y el Rayomóvi, su vehículo increíblemente rápido. Gatuno entra en una dimensión completamente nueva e intenta superar en velocidad a los nuevos villanos, mientras Gekko y Buhíta intentan resolver el misterio del Cristal PJ Mask junto a sus mascotas.

This book is about a big friendly bear called Bruno and a small fluffy rabbit called Rosie. Bruno and Rosie are lonely in the forest until one day they stumble across each other in the forest and soon became best friends forever.

Dunkle Familiengeheimnisse und verschollene Wahrheiten: Wie die meisten Menschen hat Ben Greenwood keine Ahnung, dass es eine Behörde gibt, die sich mit magischen Belangen jeglicher Art beschäftigt und Beziehungen zu den verborgenen Königreichen dieser Welt pflegt - das Royal Institute of Magic. Als Ben einen Brief des Instituts erhält, landet er plötzlich inmitten fantastischer Wesen und magischer Abenteuer.

Follow the exciting escapades of Bob and Fernando, two preteen boys who learn that with faith in God, determination, and creativity, anything is achievable. Their adventures include trying out for the school baseball team, competing for the prestigious title of "The World's Greatest Checker Player of Awesomeness," attending church camp for the first time, and even building a time machine where they encounter dinosaurs, pirates, and even Jesus himself!

Gatuno, Buhíta y Gekko persiguen a Ninja Nocturno y a sus Ninjalinos, derrotando al villano con facilidad. Pero las Máscaras PJ confían demasiado en sus propias habilidades y pronto se encuentran en serios problemas, ya que Ninja Nocturno trama en secreto adquirir los poderes de los PJ para sí mismo. ¿Serán capaces las Máscaras PJ de derrotar a Ninja Nocturno una vez más? PJ Masks ¡Únete a Gatuno, Gekko y Buhíta en sus aventuras superheroicas!

Herrlich schleimig: Das zweite lustige Abenteuer gelesen von Stefan Kaminski. Juhuu! Endlich Projektwoche! Lous Klasse bringt zusammen ein Musical auf die Bühne. Aber Lous Vorfreude verfliegt, als sie bei der Rollenverteilung leer ausgeht. Schuld daran ist niemand anderes als Schwapp, der Geheimschleim. Warum muss er auch Lou und Lukas immer wieder in Schwierigkeiten bringen? Und dann lässt sich Lou auch noch auf eine aussichtslose Wette mit den beliebtesten Schülerinnen aus ihrer Klasse ein. Schwapp muss helfen. Schließlich hat er einiges wiedergutzumachen.

Naomi freut sich auf einen Friseurbesuch und träumt davon, so schön auszusehen wie ihre Mama. Doch nachdem sie heimlich einige Tuben aus dem Salon mitgenommen hat, endet ihr Experiment in einem Desaster: Ihre Haare werden fleckig, strohig und brechen ab. Schließlich kehrt sie mit ihrer Mama zum Friseursalon zurück, in der Hoffnung, ihre Haare retten zu können. Zu Hause angekommen, wird die Situation noch angespannter, als ihre Cousine Angelina auftaucht. Als Angelina einen privaten Brief von Naomi liest und sich in Naomis Sachen einmischt, wird Naomi wütend.

Join Mole, Ratty, Badger and, of course, Mr Toad on their adventures by the Riverbank. Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of friendship, nature, and fast cars and fast living, is lovingly brought to life in this new production, performed by Callum Hale with sound effects and beautiful music by Dylan Allcock that truly immerses you in the world of the Riverbank, the Wild Wood and even The Wide World!