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|title=Princess DisGrace: First Term at Tall Towers

|author=Lou Kuenzler

|rating=5

|genre=Confident Readers

|summary=We all know how princesses are supposed to be, don’t we? Pretty, dainty, delicate and feminine, with perfect manners and charm, of course. Unfortunately, it seems that nobody pointed this out to Princess Grace of Cragland; a scruffy, grubby, ungainly girl with spindly legs and huge feet. Her clumsiness earns her the nickname 'Princess Dis-Grace' from her fellow classmates, including her obnoxious cousin, Princess Precious. Can Grace rise to the challenge and become the well-groomed, elegant princess that she is expected to be in her first term at Tall Towers?

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407136283</amazonuk>

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|title=Stories of World War One

|summary=Raised as a monster and sent to a freak show because of the hair that covers his body, Wild Boy is loathed and feared by nearly everyone, but has an incredible power of observation. When he's accused of murder, he's forced to run from the freak show and team up with circus acrobat Clarissa to try and clear his name.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140634138X</amazonuk>

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~~|title=City of Fate~~

~~|author=Nicola Pierce~~

~~|rating=4~~

~~|genre=Confident Readers~~

|summary=Just as war can tear families apart, so it can create them. One family we meet in this book is teenaged Yuri, forced out of kindness and duty to look after an abandoned five year old boy, and the older teenaged Tanya and her mother. Yuri was left alone to fend for himself when his own mother and child-in-arms surrendered, young Peter's mourning his Mama, and Tanya's is just shellshocked and crabby from living in a basement room. It's Hitler's invading soldiers that have done the killing – and, therefore, the forging of unlikely bonds. Elsewhere, four other youngsters, including Vlad and the militarily-minded Anton, are forced to leave their secondary school to sign up and face the consequences alone. It's Stalin's ignorant tactics that have led to that order being sent down. We are in Stalingrad, in one of the prime killing fields of World War Two, and the actions of two fighting superpowers are having their shocking effect on those who can cope the least – the young.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847173373</amazonuk>~~

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