|summary=Set in the days and months following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno is an inventive and highly entertaining story of the life of the ''curiosities'' performing in the great PT Barnum's great American Museum.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330533819</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Pipa Funnell
|title=Tilly's Pony Tails: Moonshadow the Derby Winner
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We've met Tilly Redbrow before. She's of native American Indian descent but living with her adoptive family in the UK. To say that she is mad on horses is something of an understatement – just about everything she does revolves around them. This time she and her friends are having a sleepover at the Silver Shoe Stables, where – although no one is supposed to know about it – a famous racehorse is staying incognito because his history as a Derby winner means that horse thieves are after him.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000918</amazonuk>
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|summary=There's a crime wave at Blandings Castle and bumbling Lord Emsworth is right at its centre. This is somewhat surprising as Emsworth (or 'Clarence!' to his sister Constance) is really only happy when he's reading his favourite book, Whiffle's 'The Care of the Pig'. It frequently soothes where other restoratives fail. The problem began with an air rifle and an unwanted tutor, but before the afternoon was out most of the inhabitants of Blandings Castle seemed to have shot, been shot at or left. If it hadn't been written by P G Wodehouse it would all be most confusing.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141196289</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ali Sparkes and Ross Collins
|title=S.W.I.T.C.H: Spider Stampede
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Josh and Danny. Eight year old twins, both think they are taller than their brother, and both think the other is weird - Danny because Josh loves creepy crawlies, bugs and insects, and Josh because Danny doesn't. But they're about to be joined in equal amounts of terror when a mad scientific experiment turns them into spiders.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729322</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Christopher Russell and Christine Russell
|title=The Warrior Sheep Go West
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=I like these Warrior Sheep, and the scrapes they get in by following their ancient prophecies and in trying to save their world. [[The Quest of the Warrior Sheep by Christopher Russell and Christine Russell|Last time]] they thought a mobile phone was itself a call from the gods, but still did have to save the day. Here they misread a page on the Internet - and if you can't accept Internet-using sheep, your children surely will - and decide to go to America to save their whole species.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405243775</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul R Spiring and Hugh Cooke
|title=Wheels of Anarchy by Max Pemberton
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=This mystery-adventure book was written and published around 100 years ago. Will it stand the test of time? The back cover blurb says confidently that this '' adventure story ... makes James Bond look like a stay at home ...'' Before you get into the story proper there's quite a lot of information in the introductory pages. Some of it I did find interesting (the page about Max Pemberton and Sherlock Holmes for instance) but some readers may feel a little bogged down before they've even started to read chapter one. Both Pemberton and Holmes belonged to a small, elite criminology society in London. I got the impression that the two co-compilers felt as if they had to justify themselves somehow. I ploughed on ...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685316</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Gimlette
|title=Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge
|rating=4.5
|genre=Travel
|summary=Apart from knowing that it borders Venezuela, Brazil and Suriname, a fact hammered into me in Year 8 Geography, I know very little about Guiana. And while you may think that's understandable, I'm not sure that it is, seeing as I read this book while living just two countries over. The thing is, it's a sort of tiny, forgotten country, isn't it? Over the years it has been involved in border disputes, has come under various nations' rule, and has changed names more often the P Diddy, and even after you take all that into account, I bet you can't think of a single thing there to go and see.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846682525</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julia Jarman and Adrian Reynolds
|title=When Baby Lost Bunny
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=A little boy goes for a walk with his mum, dad, baby brother and dog. Along the way baby is trying very hard to tell them all something, but they misunderstand him over and over again until, frustrated, he starts to cry. Suddenly his big brother figures out what the problem is and is able to make his baby brother smile again.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846160618</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mick Inkpen
|title=Rollo and Ruff and the Little Fluffy Bird
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Somebody has been chewing Rollo's mat...and somebody has taken Rollo's little red ball...and somebody has been leaving wet footprints all over the floor. But who could it be? Mick Inkpen's latest book introduces us to three new characters: Rollo the cat, LFB (as she's referred to in the book, standing for little fluffy bird) and Ruff the rat.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340989580</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Dinsdale
|title=Three Miles
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Captain Abraham Matthews is so desperate to catch the villainous Albie Crowe and bring the youngster to justice that some people would say he was obsessed. After six months, Matthews has finally tracked down his prey, and captures him just three miles from the police station. But with Albie's boys trying to rescue him, other men without Abraham's moral compass more interested in vengeance than justice, and the Luftwaffe dropping bombs on Leeds, this is set to be the longest three miles of either of their lives...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057126025X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross
|title=A Horrid Factbook: Horrid Henry's Bodies
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=When you eat or chew, did you know that little clumps of earwax fall out of your ears! And in a lifetime you produce enough urine to fill about 450 baths! Do you know how loud the loudest burp was? Or what a bogey is made of? If these are the sort of facts and figures, complete with a handful of Horrid Henry and Tony Ross' illustrations, that would rock your child's world then this is the book for you!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001620</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Karen Mahoney
|title=The Iron Witch
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Donna has always been an outcast. The arms she hides underneath long gloves are covered in iron tattoos that give her enhanced strength – strength she has tried to hide. But, despite her best efforts, Donna was involved in an incident at school, an incident that means she's now homeschooled and a social pariah.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552563811</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Christina Courtenay
|title=The Scarlet Kimono
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=It's 1611 and young Hannah's life in Plymouth is anything but exciting. She has a horrid elder sister to deal with, and is jealous of her brother Jacob's career aboard a merchant ship. Realising the life her parents have mapped out for her as wife to a man she loathes is not for her, Hannah decides to take action and control of her own destiny. Soon she runs away from home, disguising herself as a boy and stowing away on one of the ships under her brother's command.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906931291</amazonuk>
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