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|author=Ryder Windham
|title=Star Wars: A New Hope Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 1)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It takes a greater mind than mine to keep track of all the different versions of ''Star Wars – A New Hope'' that there have been. That was never the name it was known under at the start, for one thing, but beyond the exuberant cinema classic known to so many, you get the digitally retouched version, then the DVD version, which both added to and took away some of those changes. And as it is with the film, so it is with the novels. This new presentation of the YA trilogy, while bearing the 2017 Copyright mark, is the 2004 children's novelisations, as far as I can make out, minus the pictures. You do get, on this first one, a '40 years of Star Wars' sticker, which is proof this is a classic we're looking at, but more than that, just goes to make me feel old…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285427</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt Tavares
|summary=1586: Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has time to look back over her past life as she sits, incarcerated by her second cousin Queen Elizabeth I. Mary's life hasn't been one of totally pampered royalty. Growing up in France, away from her mother, widowed and then returning to Scotland to claim the throne before she was even 19, her struggle with fate started early. The tensions between Mary the woman, Mary the Catholic and Mary the political force continue through three marriages, an unsolved murder and the thwarted desire to serve her people. Now it's come to this prison cell but while there's life, there's still hope…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905916787</amazonuk>
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