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How Hedley Hopkins Did a Dare... by Paul Jennings

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How Hedley Hopkins Did a Dare...

by Paul Jennings

Narrator Jerome Pride

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Length 4 hours 7 minutes

Language English

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Hedley Hopkins has a few problems: he is the new kid at school, straight off the boat from England in the 1950s. The only friends he has made are the kids at the Loony Bin. But if he could just fulfil a dare and dig out the hideous skull hidden in a grave in the sand dunes, he could impress the bullies at school and become their friend. But Hedley is not so sure. Weird things are happening to his body. Is he being punished for his terrible actions? And if his uptight parents ever found out what he was up to, they might blow up.

Full-moon murderers, an open grave, religious conversions and sexual awakening meld sometimes poignantly, sometimes hilariously, in this riveting, stunningly original account of growing up in 1950s Australia.

YA Fiction

Paul Jennings has written over one hundred stories and has been voted favourite author over forty times by children in Australia, winning every children's choice award. The top-rating television series Round the Twist and Driven Crazy are based on a selection of his enormously popular short-story collections. In 1995 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to children's literature and was awarded the prestigious Dromkeen Medal in 2001. Paul has sold more than 8 million books worldwide.

Jerome Pride is an actor who has trained in both England and Australia and has worked extensively in film, television, radio plays, commercials, theatre, voiceover and audiobook narration. Jerome has appeared in television shows like Frayed, Blue Heelers and McLeod’s Daughters. He has many audiobooks to his name, including Fiona McIntosh’s DCI Jack Hawksworth series, the Two Steps duology by Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion and Marlborough Man by Alan Carter.