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|title=Dork Diaries: TV Star
|author=Rachel Renee Russell
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Oh dear – Nikki Maxwell is on TV. It could be worse – her younger sister or her embarrassing parents could be on TV with her, but for now it's just her. And that's a problem. Several books after surprisingly winning the school pop talent contest, Nikki and her friends get a contact with a top entertainment supremo called in, and Nikki is thrust into the limelight of reality TV, and pop boot camp. But how can she possibly juggle that, and learning martial arts at school, and keeping all her friends and boyfriend happy, and avoiding the evil Mackenzie?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117677</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jenny Oldfield
|summary=Greek Myths are fantastic. They are full of action, characters and more gore than a truck load of video nasties, but how do you tell them to children? Remove the grisly bits for one and write them in a way that will appeal to the modern adolescent. This is exactly what writer Juliet Rix and illustrator Juliet Snape set out to do in ‘A-Maze-ing Minotaur’. Anything that uses the word “a-maze-ing”, must appeal to kids, right?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804314</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|title=House of Secrets: Battle of the Beasts
|author=Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Columbus and Vizzini’s sequel to ''House of Secrets'' is action packed, cinematic and compelling. Their influences are myriad and range from the ''Goonies'' and early [[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J K Rowling|Harry Potter]] (directed by Columbus) to the fantastical and creepy writings of pulp novelist Robert E Howard, Gothic author [[:Category:H P Lovecraft|H P Lovecraft]] and Ray Bradbury. The result resembles an explosion of colours from a renegade paint box of genres crossed with high octane movie plots. Fantasy, science fiction, magic, action, horror and war combine to create a curious mix of the supernatural and the historical.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000749016X</amazonuk>
}}