A wish come true. That's what Portia thinks when her parents buy Villa Caprice, a tumbledown Victorian house along the swampy edge of Gone-Away Lake. A new house is always full of surprises, but Porcia is completely unprepared for the extraordinary things that happen when her family moves into a new old house.
Empty for half a century, ugly as a horned toad, Villa Caprice is a mildewy, cobwebby, boarded-up, junk-cluttered museum to a way of life long forgotten. But it is also a wonderland, filled to the rafters with fifty years' worth of treasures and secrets - small mysteries that Portia and Julian must solve to uncover the greatest secret of all...
This is the best kind of book ever. I did the calculations and these books are about 50 years old.
Author : Francesca Simon
Miranda Richardson
Orion Publishing Group
Length : 1 hour
Type : Under 10s
Humor
Short Stories
Download Price : $5.75
Horrid Henry has a bad day and decides to run away... only to be lured back by pancakes. Then he cheats in every possible way at sports day. Watch the little monster in more naughty antics... View... |
Author : Elizabeth Enright
Pamela Dillman
Listen & Live
Length : 5 hours
Type : Under 10s
Over 10s
General
Download Price : $17.95 $11.75
The enjoyable and amusingly told story of the four Melendy children View... |
Author : Ann Twigg
Ann Twigg
Playtime Books
Length : 14 minutes
Type : Short Stories
Under 10s
Action & Adventure
Download Price : $2.99
The first in the series of two exciting and simple tales for young children View... |
Author : Peggy Parish
Suzanne Toren
Harper Collins US
Length : 1 hour 10 minutes
Type : Short Stories
Under 10s
Humor
Download Price : $13.95 $9.95
Five of the most popular Amelia Bedelia books in one collection. View...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography
Biographical
Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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