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|summary=Sometimes when you have clear expectations of a book based on its blurb, and then you get an utterly different story, it can be frustrating. While I think ‘misleading’ is too strong a word for it, I really could not have predicted the story of this book from what I read on the back cover. It sounded like an excellent story about a baby snatched from a hospital ward but instead it was…an excellent story about something else entirely.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958476X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Tiger Lily
|author=Jodi Lynn Anderson
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=
''Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy, he belonged to the girl with a feather in her hair...''
 
''Tiger Lily'' tells the story of Neverland after Peter Pan arrived but before Wendy came. Our narrator is Tink, the silent, sometimes jealous, fairy. And our heroine is Tiger Lily, the native girl who is strange even to her fellow villagers. Tiger Lily doesn't believe in love stories but when she meets Peter Pan in the forbidden woods of Neverland, her heart burns with a fire she had never expected.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833044X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Hugless Douglas Finds A Hug
|author=David Melling
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The fun in ''Hugless Douglas Finds A Hug'' jumps out at you. Literally. In the form of a Douglas puppet who arrives poking his head through the centre of the book. He pops up on every page of the story, sporting his red scarf and his slightly dopey look, and as his body seems to grow with every page that’s turned, you just know there’s something special waiting for you on the last page. Can you guess what it is? Hint: the clue’s in the title.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912674</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Poppy Cat's Counting Adventure
|author=Lara Jones
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Just how much can you pack in one short book? That’s the question you’ll be asking when you pick up ''Poppy Cat’s Counting Adventure''. How about: rhyme (check), flaps to lift (check), holes to peep through (check), bright colours, happy characters and a fun, educational aspect (check, check, check). This book really has it all.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023075404X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=United We Spy (Gallagher Girls)
|author=Ally Carter
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The Circle of Cavan are still on the hunt for Cammie Morgan. Their other plans, though, might be even more terrible than their hunt for the young spy. Can Cammie and her friends save themselves, and take down the Circle before they carry out their deadly mission?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408314754</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The World is a Wedding
|author=Wendy Jones
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=They say one door doesn't shut but for another opens. Wilfred Price, the most amenable 1920s Welsh undertaker in literature, is living proof of that. He took his beloved Flora Myffanwy to be his, after they both fell in love at her father's funeral. It did leave Grace alone and bereft, and forced out of town in a very unsavoury fashion, but for Wilfred and Flora married life is fine. Hesitant, but fine. He's finally got into the swing of things as regards calling her ''dear'', and conjugal relations, and she has finally felt able to speak up about her place in the household of her husband and his father – and whoever happens to be left to settle in the workshop, having died on the loo and got stuck in a non-coffin-shaped pose. But do those doors stay firmly shut…?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178033379X</amazonuk>
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