Karavasil, Josie School's OK. 1982. Read by Robin Browne, 3 hours 21 minutes. TB 4626.
A collection of ten short stories about school life, set in the past, present and future. Well-known authors explain briefly how the stories came to be written.
Kaye, Geraldine Comfort herself. 1984. Read by Nina Holloway, 5 hours. TB 5851.
When 11 year old Comfort's mother dies, she is sent to her English grandparents in Kent. They find it hard to accept her ways, and she yearns to live with her father in Ghana. When she gets there she finds life is not as idyllic as she expects; where does she belong?
Kelleher, Victor The hunting of Shadroth. 1981. Read by Robert Gladwell, 8 hours 30 minutes. TB 3926.
Tal, a boy possessed of the mysterious Gift, is convicted of cowardice because he refuses to kill the Feln, huge cat-like animals, whom the clan suspects of killing their cattle. But Tal knows that it is Shadroth, the dark unknown being that he has to destroy.
Kennemore,Tim Wall of words. 1982. Read by Marjorie Anderson, 4 hours 44 minutes. TB 4663.
When her father left home eighteen months ago to write a bestseller, Kim, eldest of four very different sisters, took on some of the responsibility for the family. Her chief concern is for Kerry who hates school so intensely that it is making her ill - an interesting account of the effect of dyslexia, while the bright youngest member is bubbling her way onto local radio.
Kerr, Judith When Hitler stole pink rabbit. 2008. Read by Judith Kerr, 7 hours 30 minutes. TB 19726.
When Anna's father flees Germany in the dead of the night, it is a matter of life and death to keep it secret. Two weeks later on the eve of the Nazis coming to power, Anna, her brother Max, and their mother secretly join him in Switzerland. It is the beginning of their adventures.
Lost riders. 2008. Read by Di Langford, 6 hours 50 minutes. TB 16542.
Taken to work in a strange country, Rashid and his little brother Shari cling to each other. Then they are separated and forced to become jockeys in the lucrative camel-racing business. Rashid is starved and worked to exhaustion by harsh supervisors - but he has a talent for racing and quickly becomes his stable's star jockey. Soon he begins to forget what life was like when he had a proper home. He almost begins to forget about Shari.
Landy, Derek Skulduggery Pleasant. 2007. Read by Gareth Jameson, 7 hours 10 minutes. TB 16906.
Skulduggery Pleasant series; book 1. Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn't fiction.
Landy, Derek Playing with fire. 2008. Read by John Cormack, 7 hours 37 minutes. TB 18013.
Skulduggery Pleasant series; book 2. You know how it is - you think you've saved the world, and then ANOTHER evil villian turns up with an unbeatable monster and starts breaking. Oh yes, and you've got a skull for a head. A thirteen-year-old girl for a sidekick. And no clue what to do.
Lee, Tanith Prince on a white horse. 1982. Read by Elizabeth Proud, 4 hours 6 minutes. TB 4440.
He is a prince but who is he, or where is he going, is an utter mystery and the horse he is riding has an unusual habit of turning into something else at times. Meanwhile there are Beezles and Oggrings behind every bush and the awful Nulgrave lurks, a black coiling `something', in this science fiction world.
Leeson, Robert Grange Hill goes wild: by Robert Leeson; based on the BBC television series Grange Hill by Phil Redmond. 1980. Read by Richard Earthy, 4 hours 6 minutes. TB 6535.
More than one of the 56 Grange Hillites waiting on Paddington Station for the train to take them to camp was certainly prepared, but not quite as any scout master would have wished: young Duane Orpington has planned to use it as a jumping-off point for a real bunk from home and school and Tucker Jenkins had no intention whatsoever of going - he, Alan and Benny had plans for a very different trip. In the end it didn't work out as anybody had planned - even the staff.
The Earthsea trilogy. 1979. Read by David Banks, 19 hours 56 minutes. TB 8086.
Contains: A wizard of Earthsea; The tombs of Atuan; The farthest shore. As long ago as forever and as far away as Selidor, there lived the dragonlord and Archmage, Sparrowhark, the greatest of the wizards - he who, when still a youth, met with the evil shadow-beast; he who later brought back the Ring of Erreth-Akbe from the Tombs of Atuan.
Le Guin, Ursula K A wizard of Earthsea. 1971. Read by Carol Marsh, 8 hours 15 minutes. TB 3594.
Earthsea series; book 1. Sparrowhawk, a young boy with un-common powers, goes to a school for Wizards, but pride drives him to try certain dangerous powers too soon and a terrible evil is let loose.( Also contained in The Earthsea trilogy, TB 8086)
Le Guin, Ursula K Tehanu: the last book of Earthsea. 1992. Read by David Banks, 7 hours 31 minutes. TB 10094.
Earthsea series; book 4. Sequel to: The farthest shore (contained in The Earthsea trilogy, TB 8086). Therru, the child Tenar has rescued, has burns not even the dying mage Ogion can heal. Ged, once Archmage of Earthsea also returns to be nursed. Tenar sets her mind on the white summer star, Tehanu, but the dark forces that cast Therru into fire are still abroad and the source of this evil can only be challenged by a new kind of power.
Lingard, Joan The eleventh orphan. 2008. Read by Wendy Woolfson, 5 hours 35 minutes. TB 16546.
Mr and Mrs Bigsby of the Pig and Whistle, Stoke Newington already look after ten children. When Constable O'Dowd brings them an eleventh orphan he found on the streets, Ma Bigsby is reluctant to take her. But there's something about Elfie, it's the first day of a new century and Ma loves a mystery. Just why does Elfie possess a little water colour of the Pig and Whistle?
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