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|title=Stick Dog Wants a Hot Dog
|author=Tom Watson
|rating=3
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''Time'' magazine were very perceptive when they put [[:Category:Jeff Kinney|Jeff Kinney]] on their most influential people lists. Many have been the people to take his snappy, over-illustrated young readers format and sense of humour to produce a franchise of witty, short novels about endearingly self-dismissive Average Joes. But with the signs that the whole thing has branched away from endearing Joes to hopefully endearing dogs, the message is getting clearer and clearer – just too many mimics are now on the shelf.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007511493</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Penguin Pandemonium - Christmas Crackers (Awesome Animals)
|summary=When Skye, Laura Marlin's three-legged Siberian husky, saves an actress's life, Laura and her friend Tariq get the chance to work on a film set in Russia. Heading to St Petersburg initially seems to be the chance of a holiday of a lifetime - but as 'accidents' start piling up, Laura and Tariq realise that they could be in yet another dangerous situation. Can they save the day again?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000233</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Stay Where You Are And Then Leave
|author=John Boyne
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Alfie is just five years old when the Great War breaks out in 1914. His father joins up straightaway. Cheerful letters come from Georgie for a while and Alfie's mother reads them to him. But then the letters grow miserable and frightening. Alfie's mother stops reading them aloud and hides them away - but Alfie finds them anyway. And then the letters stop altogether. Alfie is told that his father is on a secret mission and can't write, but he sees through the lie immediately. And then, one day, a chance meeting tells Alfie exactly what has happened to his father. He's home from the front but he's in hospital, suffering from a condition nobody understood at the time: shell shock.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857532936</amazonuk>
}}