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|title=Charlie Merrick's Misfits in Fouls, Friends, and Football
|author=Dave Cousins
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The world, we are told, loves a trier, and Charlie Merrick is one of the world's biggest. His only hobby and only skill is in football, but his intent is never matched by his actual talent – a statement that stretches to most of his team-mates. With several under-12s league games under their belt and with no points to their name, Charlie must try his hardest to get the squad working as a team, which is hard considering what he has to put up with, and even harder when he makes some very unfortunate decisions…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736590</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|title=The Glass Bird Girl
|summary=Gemma has grown up on a housing estate in South Wales where muggings and burglaries are commonplace, her dad is in prison, her mum has given up hope for the future and Gemma argues with her younger brother. She has given up on finding happiness and escapes from her daily routine by riding her bike into the nearby countryside. On one of these trips she bumps into the notorious Cowgirl and after their initial hostilities have thawed an unlikely friendship blossoms and together the girls, with the help of a dozen cows, discover that kindness, cooperation and perseverance can restore hope to a broken community.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857632817</amazonuk>
}}