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|title=The Diary of Dennis the Menace
|author=Steven Butler
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Wimpy Kid-styled books, from those by [[:Category:Jeff Kinney|Jeff Kinney]] right down to those by [[:Category:Jim Smith|Jim Smith]] have always served as a bridge for the reluctant reader, taking him or her into a world halfway between a comic book and an actual novel. With careful design and a healthy picture-to-word ratio the child only used to reading speech bubbles and cartoon captions has managed a proper book before they've realised it. So it makes perfect sense for publishers to allow a franchise to cross over from one format to the other – and this example is the first one to come to my attention. Even if, when you think about it, it seems a very unlikely book in the first place…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141350822</amazonuk>
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|title=Choosing Crumble
|summary=Henry 'The Onion' Shackleford lives as Henrietta (or just plain Onion) until he's 17 due to a misunderstanding that may prove too dangerous for him to correct. The reason is that the person under this misapprehension is the fiercely well-meaning slavery abolitionist (with the emphasis on the 'fiercely') John Brown. As Onion accompanies him on his quest to free every slave they encounter, he discovers that Brown's philanthropy only stretches so far. Meanwhile it's that time of the 19th century when a shadow spreads over America, one that will cause a historic scar almost as great as that of slavery but Brown is oblivious to this. He doesn't; want to start a civil war, just an armed slave revolt.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594486344</amazonuk>
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