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|author=Hans Christian Andersen, Lucie Arnoux and Misha Hoekstra (translator)
|title=The Snow Queen
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''Listen closely! We're about to begin.'' Once upon a time, the devil created a hellish mirror, which only showed evil, ill intent and ugliness, and which was en route to Heaven to cast a new light on it when it shattered. One of the people affected by the numerous shards was Kai, who abandoned his childhood friend Gerda, and went off with the Snow Queen. Gerda was forlorn and fearing for his life, but soon found her way to start a miraculous journey to find the truth behind his disappearance and behaviour…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691030</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Jonathan Stroud
|summary=Most girls starting out Brook City School are hoping for something new and different, but Kirsten just wants things to be ''normal''. Even good things seem to come with a sting in the tail and worst of all, Mum and Dad are really not getting on. In fact Kirsten is happiest at school and does all the after-school activities she can manage just to keep away from home for as long as she can. Her elder brother, Finn, who's at sixth form college, is struggling too: what used to be thought of as ''cheeky'' at school has turned into ''disruptive''. When things get really bad Kirsten is suddenly reminded of her old friend Honey and wonders if she can get in touch with her.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124752</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Philip K Dick
|title=Nick and the Glimmung
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Nick. He lives on a future Earth, where multiple large classrooms are taught by just one holographic teacher, which might sound impractical but can actually help with advice when you declare to the class that you are breaking the law. Nick, you see, has a pet cat, and in this massively over-populated and under-resourced world, pets are illegal. There's a simple solution – wait for the ''anti-pet man'' to turn up with his weaponry and armour and dispose of it, but the family have decided to take the other way out – emigrate to an entirely different world. Hence they embark on the trip to be pioneer farmers on Plowman's Planet, even when they're forewarned of a host of different and most unusual animals already resident there. That advice still doesn't really prepare them for the battle whose crossfire in which they immediately get caught…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057513299X</amazonuk>
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