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|title=Frost Hollow Hall
|author=Emma Carroll
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The ten year old me would have absolutely adored this Victorian ghost mystery and I’m now considerably older than 10 and still devoured this lovely book in one sitting. Winter, 1881 and Tilly has sneaked into the grounds of Frost Hollow Hall. She is not supposed to be there. Ten years previously a young boy, Kit Barrington, drowned in the lake and as Tilly skates on the frozen surface she forgets the stories she has heard in the village and is no longer afraid. Then the ice breaks and she is underwater. Close to death, Tilly is saved by a beautiful boy. It is Kit’s ghost and he needs Tilly’s help.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571295444</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of Pig
|summary=You can approach Bernardo Atxaga, one of the most renowned Basque-language writers currently working, from two ways. Either start at the [[The Accordionist's Son by Bernardo Atxaga|literate end]], finding out if his voice is unique, his content exotic or universal enough for your tastes, and see if his Basque roots make him special in any way. Or you can just approach him as a wordsmith, and enjoy him enjoying himself, such as with these small children's stories put into this most handsome anthology. From the original, where the title character is spelled Xola, Atxaga has himself translated them into Spanish – even if the fourth is yet to appear there – and this is a fine English language version of all four tales.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782690093</amazonuk>
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