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|author= Michael Morpurgo and Shoo Rayner

|title= Mudpuddle Farm: Cock-A-Doodle-Doo

|rating= 5

|genre= Emerging Readers

|summary= This is an anthology book containing two titles from the Mudpuddle Farm series (''Mossop's Last Chance'' and ''Albertine, Goose Queen''). In the first of these we see all the animals work together to save the saggy old cat-puss from being fired. The second story sees our resident genius tested by an encounter with a crafty fox whilst the farmer decides to avoid all the fuss by going for a shave.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007270127</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author= Cornelia Funke

|summary=Emma is on a family holiday in an older relative's seaside cottage, where she is to sleep in the room in the attic. Her brother has passed on what he says he has overheard – that it is haunted. But even with the mementos of the person that once lived there all around her, and with a strange feeling of being watched, even with the stormy winds knocking tree limbs on to the window – Emma can sleep through it all. But that's not to say things will forever be that way…

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126852</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (translators)~~

~~|title=The Unwomanly Face of War~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=History~~

|summary=''War'', says Svetlana Alexievich, ''is first of all murder, and then hard work. And then simply ordinary life: singing, falling in love, putting your hair in curlers…''. This extraordinary book is a collection of first-hand accounts by Russian fighting women in the Second World War. A million women joined Russian military forces as soldiers of all ranks, medics, pilots, drivers, snipers, cryptographers. Most were very young, little more than girls of 18 or 19. They were passionate about defending their homeland and often extremely keen to join up, returning again and again to recruitment offices until someone could be persuaded to take them. Their ambition was to help their brothers, fathers, husbands to fight the terrible invader. They were trained and sent to the front, where they were greeted at first with disappointment and disgust by fighting men, who had hoped for reinforcements of able-bodied men. The women had to prove themselves.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141983523</amazonuk>~~

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