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|title=The Very Nearly Honourable League of Pirates: Magic Marks the Spot
|author=Caroline Carlson
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Take one Victorian finishing school for delicate ladies, full of classes on how to waltz and swoon gracefully (not necessarily at the same time), perform a water ballet and use a bow and arrow without perspiring. If you're feeling very brave, you could even (shudder) stir in a smattering (just a tiny amount, for pity's sake!) of the fine art of embroidering Improving Sayings on a sampler. Add a bunch of unruly, unscrupulous and unwashed pirates (except, of course, for the dashingly handsome and gallant ones: they're generally quite hygienic). Chuck in a substantial dollop of magic and stand well back—the result is an action-packed and wondrously silly adventure on the high seas.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857078275</amazonuk>
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|title=When Did You See Her Last?
|summary=I've said before now that it strikes me as odd that pirates have hung around so long. You can't blame it all on Johnny Depp either, yet people are still willing to revisit stories of old, pieces of eight, legs of wood and spots of black. Saviour Pirotta offers a four page truncation of [[Silver: Return to Treasure Island by Andrew Motion|Treasure Island]] in his book here, along with five other short tales from the genre. The others are more original, just as is the bonus element you get when you buy this title…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804837</amazonuk>
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