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|author=Rachel Joyce
|title=Perfect
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In 1972 two seconds were added to the year. 11 year old Byron Hemmings heard about it from his friend James and felt it wouldn't be a good thing. In fact at the moment Bryon's watch's second hand reversed something happened that would mean neither his or James' lives would ever be the same again.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520660</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=Tom Patrick is a far from popular air crash investigator, who is nonetheless the best there is. He has more than ruffled a few feathers and is suspended from working on cases. Despite this the largest case of his career is forced upon him when not one but two Boeing 737 jets encounter catastrophic failures resulting in many fatalities. Tom recognises a possible link between the two and potentially many more airplanes, a link that could uncover a far reaching and very dangerous conspiracy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593070925</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Sam's Spitfire Summer
|author=Ian MacDonald and Charlie Clough
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary='Sam's Spitfire Summer' is billed as a thrilling WW2 adventure. In my opinion it is not. This is not a high octane adventure. Instead it is the story of a rather ordinary boy, homesick, terribly frightened and unsure of himself after being evacuated from London. This book describes the life of a child during WW2 with such realism that I honestly wonder if it might have some basis in fact. It describes Sam's loneliness, and fear, being separated from his parents as his father goes away to fight the Germans, and his Mother remains in London, with the risk of bombing. This book really gives a good glimpse at how Sam feels being evacuated. He misses his home desperately and is frightened by the large animals in the country - such as cows.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905637438</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Anton and Piranha
|author=Milena Baisch and Chantal Wright
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Anton just can't understand his grandparents. He was looking forward to a camping holiday, but only because he expected a pool. The campground his grandparents chose has a lake instead of a pool and Anton is terrified of the dark water and creeping aquatic vegetation. What's worse his grandparents want him to swim in it. There are fish in the water, and snails and all sorts of slimy things. So Anton watches the other children have fun and gets nasty because he is left out. He isn't happy with his grandparents other ideas either. They want him to play board games instead of watch the telly at night, and they even want him to make friends. Not the internet sort, he has plenty of those. They want him to make friends with real children. How positively uncivilised of them. But when Grandpa takes him fishing, he does make a friend, a very close friend, even if it is a fish.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396191</amazonuk>
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