 | The Secret Garden (Puffin Classics) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Buy used from: £0.01 Listened to on tape (subsequently watched the video). It is real wick !
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 | Island of the Blue Dolphins (Puffin Books) by Scott O'Dell
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £0.01 A book to take you to a desert island.
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 | Eagle of The Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
Buy new: £5.21 / Used from: £1.81 Long live the legion !
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 | The Midnight Fox (Faber Children's Classics) by Betsy Byars
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £0.01 A wonderful tale
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 | Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian
Buy used from: £4.48 A beautiful human story set in WWII
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 | Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 A poetic story from the Great War - we listened to the audio version
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 | The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Michael Morpurgo
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Amazing WWII tale of childhood. Very evocative. Mr Morpurgo has never written a bad story in my experience
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 | The Boggart by Susan Cooper
Buy used from: £0.01 Beware ! It's alive ! Funny story. We listened to the audio version
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 | Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Buy new: £9.74 / Used from: £4.99 John, Susan, Titty, Roger, Nancy, Peggy and two boats. The adventure begins . . . Swallows and Amazons Forever
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 | The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: £4.02 / Used from: £0.43 Fantastic writing and really enjoyed by my 7 year old
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 | The Wind in the Willows (Penguin Popular Classics) by Kenneth Grahame
Buy new: £2.22 / Used from: £0.01 Live in the natural world. Lots of fun too with very memorable characters
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 | Tales from Moominvalley by Tove Jansson
Buy used from: £2.71 Touches our primative self. You and your child will inhabit their world
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 | Spirit Walker (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness) by Michelle Paver
Buy used from: £2.00 Listened to on tape . Sir Ian McKellen narrates. An ancient world of clans and wolves and the fight to survive
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 | Stig of the Dump (Puffin Books) by Clive King
Buy new: £4.22 / Used from: £0.01 Barney befriends a stone-age cave-dweller . . .
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 | Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
Buy used from: £0.01 A Classic tale . . . The clock chimes 13 . . . the adventure begins
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 | War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Buy used from: £1.17 Set in the Great War. Excellent historical narrative with strong emotional tension
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 | The Fire-eaters by David Almond
Buy used from: £0.01 Listened to the audio version. Narration by the author - this adds to the sense of being there in the 60's. Keely Bay. It's a tiny corner of the world. It's nothing to the universe . . .
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 | Coram Boy by Jamila Gavin
Buy new: £4.86 / Used from: £0.49 A long historical story set in the 18th Century. We listened to the audio of the book. Utterly compelling !
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 | Clockwork: Complete & Unabridged by Philip Pullman
Buy used from: £6.00 A short story. You MUST listen to this on tape at night in a lonely place !!
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 | The Ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively
Buy used from: £0.01 Children's ghost story set in the present with a ghost from the past . . .
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 | How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
Buy new: £12.59 / Used from: £10.07 Listened to on tape. Very funny. All about Vikings . . .
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 | Atticus the Storyteller: 100 Stories from Greece by Lucy Coats
Buy new: £8.41 / Used from: £4.92 All the classic Greek myths wrapped up in a linking story of Atticus on his Greek travels
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 | Wolf Brother: Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Book 1 by Michelle Paver
Buy new: £4.37 / Used from: £0.01 The story of Torak . . . the first in the series of Chronicles of Ancient Darkness - followed by spirit walker
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 | Skellig by David Almond
Buy used from: £10.00 A beautiful, haunting tale . . . 27 and 53 food of the Gods
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 | The Children of the New Forest (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Captain Marryat
Buy new: £1.99 / Used from: £0.01 My daughter loved the children living in the new forest
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