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|author=Alexander McCall Smith
|title=Precious and the Zebra Necklace
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There is a new girl at Precious Ramotswe's school. Her name is Nancy, and Precious is asked to look after her and make sure she settles into school. Precious, already a budding detective at such a young age, soon sniffs out that there is a little bit of a mystery surrounding Nancy and on discovering that all Nancy has left of her parents is a fading photograph and a zebra necklace she decides that she must try to help Nancy discover the truth about what happened to them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780273274</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Hilary McKay
|summary=It can hardly have escaped anyone's attention that 2015 is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll's ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' and we've seen numerous anniversary editions.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447287118</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Guy Bass and Pete Williamson
|title=The Beast of Grubbers Nubbin (Stitch Head)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It's all wrong in Castle Grotteskew. The very walls should be terrified by the monsters the Mad Professor in the basement is creating, out of various body parts and different animals. But no, the clamour of noise, the unlikely activities and horrendous appetite for food come from something else entirely – a hundred rescued human orphans. That appetite needs feeding – so it’s perfect timing for the village below the castle, Grubbers Nubbin, to have their annual podge-a-thon feast. But when Stitch Head and his human friend Arabella go to purloin some human food – there being no decent alternative – they're horrified to find something even worse than the monsters trapped in the castle above…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156096</amazonuk>
}}