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World Book Day - A World of Stories Online

A World of Stories Online in association with World Book Day

Welcome to the official audioBoom channel for World Book Day - A World of Stories Online. Like what you hear? Pick up the books at your local bookstore or library and discover a world of stories.

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6:46

The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge

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2017/02/24

The Lie Tree By Frances Hardinge Read by Emilia Fox Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015. The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric novel by Frances Hardinge, award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly By Night. Faith's father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and as she is searching through his belongings for clues she discovers a strange tree. The tree only grows healthy and bears fruit if you whisper a lie to it. The fruit of the tree, when eaten,

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6:10

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

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2017/02/24

A Monster Calls By Patrick Ness Based on an original idea by Siobhan Dowd Read by Jason Isaacs Costa Award winner and Guardian Prize winning author, Patrick Ness delivers an extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss. The monster showed up after midnight. As they do. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting. He’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and

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7:16

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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2017/02/24

The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins Read by Carolyn McCormick First in the ground-breaking Hunger Games trilogy. Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen steps forward to take her younger sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence. But Katniss has been close

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7:11

Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner

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2017/02/24

Maggot Moon By Sally Gardner Read by Robert Madge A starkly original and heartbreaking tale of friendship and rebellion Winner of the Carnegie Medal and a 2012 Costa Award winner. Narrated against the backdrop of a ruthless regime determined to beat its enemies in the race to the moon, MAGGOT MOON is a starkly and heartbreaking tale of friendship and rebellion from award-winning author, Sally Gardner.

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5:51

Mortal Instruments: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

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2017/02/24

Mortal Instruments: City of Bones By Cassandra Clare Read by Ari Graynor Clary Fray is seeing things: vampires in Brooklyn and werewolves in Manhattan. Irresistably drawn towards a group of sexy demon hunters, Clary encounters the dark side of New York City – and the dangers of forbidden love.

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7:18

CHERUB: The Recruit By Robert Muchamore

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2017/02/24

CHERUB: The Recruit By Robert Muchamore Read by Simon Scardifield A terrorist doesn't let strangers in her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place. The terrorist doesn't know that a kid has bugged every room in her house, cloned the hard drive on her PC, and copied all the numbers in her phone book. The kid works for CHERUB. CHERUB agents are aged between ten and seventeen. They live in the

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6:21

Geek Girl by Holly Smale

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2017/02/24

Geek Girl By Holly Smale Read by Kate Sobey “My name is Harriet Manners, and I am a geek.” Harriet Manners knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a “jiffy” lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. She knows that bats always turn left when exiting a cave and that peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. But she doesn’t know why nobody at school seems to like her. So when Harriet is spotted by a top model agent, she grabs the chance to reinvent

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7:01

Half Bad by Sally Green

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2017/02/24

Half Bad By Sally Green Read by Carl Prekopp A debut novel about one boy's struggle for survival in a hidden society of witches. You can't read, can't write, but you heal fast, even for a witch. You get sick if you stay indoors after dark. You hate White Witches but love Annalise, who is one. You've been kept in a cage since you were fourteen. All you've got to do is escape and find Mercury, the Black Witch who eats boys. And do that before your seventeenth birthday. Easy. Sally Green lives in

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6:29

How I Live Now by Meg Rossoff

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2017/02/24

How I Live Now By Meg Rossoff Read by Amber Sealey Meg Rosoff's charming coming-of-age novel, How I Live Now is set over a summer of love and destruction. American girl Daisy has had a troubled background, and is sent from New York to stay with her charmingly shambolic family of British cousins, who she has never met. They are Isaac, Edmond, Osbert, and Piper. And two dogs and a goat. Daisy has never met anyone quite like them before and, as a dreamy English summer progresses, Daisy finds

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6:45

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

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2017/02/24

Noughts and Crosses By Malorie Blackman Read by Paul Chequer Sephy is a Cross - a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a nought - a 'colourless' member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood. But that's as far as it can go. Until the first steps are taken towards more social equality and a limited number of Noughts are allowed into Cross schools... Against a background of prejudice and distrust, intensely highlighted

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6:51

The Bolds by Julian Clary

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2017/02/24

The Bolds By Julian Clary Read by Julian Clary Mr and Mrs Bold are just like you and me: they live in a nice house, they have jobs and they love to have a giggle. One slight difference: they're hyenas. That's right - covered in fur, tails tucked into their trousers, and they really like to laugh. So far, the Bolds have managed to keep things under wraps.. But the nosy man next door smells a rat, could this be the end of Teddington's best-kept secret? Nominated for the CILIP Greenaway Medal

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6:19

Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell

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2017/02/24

Rooftoppers By Katherine Rundell Read by Gordon Griffin Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, Rooftoppers is a charming novel. Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. Found floating in a cello case, she is the only recorded female survivor of a shipwreck on the English Channel. But Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help… When the child welfare agency threatens to send Sophie to an orphanage, Sophie and her guardian flee to Paris to find

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6:39

How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

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2017/02/24

How to Train Your Dragon By Cressida Cowell Read by David Tennant Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, was a truly extraordinary Viking Hero. Warrior chieftain, awesome sword-fighter and amateur naturalist, he was known throughout Vikingdom as 'the Dragon Whisperer', on account of his amazing power over these terrifying beasts. But it wasn't always like that. In fact, in the beginning, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was the most put upon Viking you'd ever seen. Not loud enough to make himself

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6:02

Darcy Burdock by Laura Dockrill

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2017/02/24

Darcy Burdock By Laura Dockrill Read by Laura Dockrill Ten-year-old Darcy Burdock is one of life's noticers. Curious, smart-as-a-whip, funny and fiercely loyal, she sees the extraordinary in the everyday and the wonder in the world around her. In this first book, we are introduced to her family: Mum, who Darcy loves as much as her favourite fried egg and chips, Dad, who is kind and fair if a bit hopeless, and little siblings Hector and Poppy, who Darcy likes dressing up in ridiculous outfits

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10:15

Grandpa's Great Escape by David Walliams

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2017/02/24

Grandpa's Great Escape By David Walliams Read by David Walliams & Michael Gambon Jack’s Grandpa… *Wears his slippers to the supermarket *Serves up Spam a la Custard for dinner *and often doesn’t remember Jack’s name But he can still take to the skies in a speeding Spitfire and save the day… An exquisite portrait of the bond between a small boy and his beloved Grandpa – this book takes readers on an incredible journey wit Spitfires over London and Great Escapes through the city in a high

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5:51

Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens

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2017/02/24

Murder Most Unladylike By Robin Stevens Read by Gemma Chan When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own secret detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls, they struggle to find any truly exciting mysteries to investigate. (Unless you count the case of Lavinia's missing tie. Which they don't.) Then Hazel discovers the Science Mistress, Miss Bell, lying dead in the gym. She assumes it was a terrible accident - but when she and Daisy return five minutes later, the body has

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6:59

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

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2017/02/24

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief By Rick Riordan Read by Jesse Bernstein "Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That's when things started really going wrong. Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends, and generally trying to stay alive. This is the one where Zeus, God of the

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6:45

George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl

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2017/02/24

George's Marvellous Medicine By Roald Dahl Read by Derek Jacobi George Kranky is eight years old and wondering what sort of mischief he might get into. George's Grandma is a grizzly old grouch and George wants to teach her a lesson.... And when Grandma's finished drinking George's marvellous medicine, she'll really have something to grumble about.

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6:43

Skellig by David Almond

World Book Day - A World of Stories Online ·

2017/02/24

Skellig By David Almond Read by David Almond When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain. Then, one Sunday afternoon, he stumbles into the old, ramshackle garage of his new home, and finds something magical. A strange creature - part owl, part angel, a being who needs Michael's help if he is to survive. With his new friend Mina, Michael nourishes Skellig back to health, while his baby sister languishes in the

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5:00

Am I Normal Yet? by Holly Bourne

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2017/02/24

Am I Normal Yet?By Holly Bourne Read by Charlie Sanderson First book of The Spinster Club series All Evie wants is to be normal. And now that she's almost off her meds and at a new college where no one knows her as ‘the-girl-who-went-nuts,’ there's only one thing left to tick off her list... a boyfriend. But relationships can mess with anyone's head - something Evie's new friends Amber and Lottie know only too well. The trouble is, if Evie won't tell them her secrets, how can they stop her

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