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|title=Cakes in Space
|author=Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Astra. She's a young girl who doesn't like the idea of being 209 years old. Well, who would? Technically she will be ageing, but not in reality, for she is to spend two whole centuries asleep on a spaceship as her family travel the massive distance to Nova Mundi. Given the chance to explore the ship a little before everyone is shut down for the journey she finds a food replicator in the dining hall, and helps herself to a sneaky chocolate biscuit supper. She then realises the machine could make her the ultimate cake, but is unsuccessful when the small food factory seems to break down, and she is forced to be frozen in her pod. Unfortunately, the machine itself is far from frozen…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192734563</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Criminal Enterprise
|summary=1980s Melbourne. A triple zero (=999) call has been received from a house on a notorious estate. A child is unresponsive. The story of how it happened is sketchy to say the least. And pretty soon, as it turns into a murder enquiry, people want answers. Need answers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099584751</amazonuk>
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|title=The Leopard of Dramoor
|author=P De V Hencher
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Stephen, Earl of Northumbria, known to popular legend as the Leopard of Dramoor, is past his best fighting days. But warfare is never far away in medieval England, particularly in the border country. And it's not far away now. A combined force of Scottish and French troops are massing and intend to attack one of Stephen's castles. Stephen's son David is captain of the castle but he's spoiled and lazy and his father knows he won't defend it successfully without help. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1493588192</amazonuk>
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