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|title=Cheeky Charlie: Bugs and Bananas (My Crazy Brother Book 2)

|author=Mat Waugh

|rating=4

|genre=Confident Readers

|summary=Cheeky Charlie has already had [[Cheeky Charlie by Mat Waugh|one book]] written about him and now he has another. His slapstick adventures are related once more by his sister Harry. I love Harry. Harry is by turn infuriated and amused by her brother Charlie. And Harry also brims over with enthusiasm.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B072F58644</amazonuk>

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|author= Claire Fayers

|summary= It's great to welcome our old friends back in this, the second of their adventures, even though we know it means they'll be going through all sorts of terrors and dangers once more as they battle not one but two enemies bent on destroying Gehenna. Lady Lilith Shadow may be the sole heir to her country, but she's still just a girl and therefore expected to do nothing more useful than marry some feeble-witted prince to forge an alliance with a stronger kingdom. Her friend Thorn, on the other hand, is a peasant boy from a neighbouring country with a talent for getting into scrapes and an absolutely wonderful giant bat he uses to travel round on (when the bat's in the mood to be helpful, that is). Together they make a great team.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407172093</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo~~

~~|title=Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Children's Non-Fiction~~

|summary=It's been said very often that 'history is told by the winners'. Well, too often history, the news and even destinies are written by men, and the proof is between these covers. I didn't know anything about this before reading it, even if it has become the most richly-backed crowd-funded book ever. I'd never heard of the Hollow Flashlight, powered purely by body warmth – which is rich if you're old enough to remember the brou-ha-ha when a maverick British bloke did a wind-up radio. I'd never read about the Niger female who has successfully made a stand against forced, arranged marriage, rejecting a cousin for a fate she wishes to write for herself. My ignorance may, perhaps, show me up to be a chauvinist of sorts, but I think it is further evidence that 'the gaze is male' and that the media are phallocentric. I hope too that this book doesn't turn any of its readers into a feminist, for that would be as bad as the chauvinist charge against me. If anything it is designed to create equals, and that is as it should be, even if there is still a long way to go…

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014198600X</amazonuk>~~

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