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|author= Sara Pennypacker

|title= Pax

|rating= 5

|genre= Confident Readers

|summary= Young readers will be well aware of the horrors of war. It kills people, destroys families and homes, creates waves of desperate refugees and devastates the landscape. But there's one aspect of fighting which, apart from a few notable exceptions, isn't often touched upon – the fate of animals caught up in conflicts. We know a little about horses participating in cavalry charges, and homing pigeons carrying messages, but what about those animals which live in the wild? And worse still, what about all those well-loved pets which can no longer be fed or protected by owners close to starvation themselves?

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008124094</amazonuk>

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|author= Harriet Whitehorn and Becka Moor

|summary= Thought the previous three books in this excellent series were heart-stopping? Reckon there's no way the tension could be ratcheted up any higher? Well hang on tight, brave reader, because this book's going to make you forget to eat, sleep, do your homework and (unless you're very, very careful) breathe, even. It's epic!

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408851490</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Alan MacDonald and David Roberts~~

~~|title=Fame! (Dirty Bertie)~~

~~|rating=4~~

~~|genre=Confident Readers~~

|summary=Book eleventy-thump in this series, and there is still no let-up in the situations that Dirty Bertie can be clumsy in, have a naughty approach about, or be accident-prone throughout. And while these three short stories may not be everyday circumstances, they have a universal recognition for the very young target audience – probably the seven-to-tens. So we have Bertie successfully apply for a part in a TV presentation – only to find it crosses a line; we see him get taken fishing, only for him to be bored and therefore naughty (and therefore successful, of course); and we have him and his friends trying to play as Robin Hood, only to find the sharing-out bit that normally follows the robbing just that bit too hard…

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156665</amazonuk>~~

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