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|author=Michael Roll
|title=Granddad Bracey and the Flight to Seven Seas
|rating=3
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Sally and her brother Peter are staying at their grandfather's house because their father has died in a car accident. Granddad Bracey (named after the accessories for trousers) is the perfect person for the grieving children at such an awful time. He's kindly and loving but also funny and entertaining - as a retired merchant navy captain, he has plenty of stories to tell. But then a second catastrophe occurs: their mother, Mary, decides to remarry. Sally distrusts her new stepfather, Ned, and his daughter, Mona, immediately. But even Sally doesn't realise the extent of their villainous intentions. Until, that is, Mary is rushed into hospital with a mysterious illness.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1300791624</amazonuk>
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|author=Michael Roll
|title=Happenings at Hookwood
|rating=3
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It all begins when a pair of newlyweds move into their first home, observed by the local wildlife with varying grades of alarm. But Startup the rabbit isn't alarmed. While his mother scarpers at her first glance of the ginger cat the couple have brought along and his father watches worriedly from deep cover, Startup finds it all very interesting and exciting. Startup has a lot to learn...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1291425411</amazonuk>
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