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|author=Michael Bond

|title=Love from Paddington

|rating=4.5

|genre=Confident Readers

|summary=Consider some of the more pertinent questions of literature. Would things have been better if Rhett Butler ''did'' give a damn? What would Jane Eyre have done if the men with the truth hadn't made the church in time? And, of course, how does a little bear with a fondness for marmalade actually turn up in Paddington Station, so very, very far from home? Well, while the actual short stories may never have answered any of those questions, this work does – in amongst suggesting why bears don't play cricket, and a host more. As a result it may have a very different structure to the original books of linked short stories, but it's just as wonderful and characterful.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008164355</amazonuk>

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|author= Michelle Robinson

|summary=Skye's sister, Luisa, died in a tragic accident last summer and Skye is still struggling to come to terms with both the events she witnessed and the loss of her sister. It's, therefore, not surprising that she welcomes the opportunity to escape – even if it is on a holiday for bereaved teens. She's up for anything that will stop her thinking about the past so she's totally unprepared when she starts receiving text messages from an account only Luisa had access to. Rather than erasing all thoughts of the past, Skye finds herself having to confront her worst fears.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407165364</amazonuk>

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~~|author= Xinran, Esther Tyldesley and David Dobson~~

~~|title= Buy Me The Sky~~

~~|rating= 3.5~~

~~|genre= Politics and Society~~

|summary=''These single-sprout children are more precious than gold'', says a Chinese woman to the author. Buy Me The Sky asks what it's like to grow up as ''gold'' through Xinran's conversations with ten adults from the first generation of China's only children. In the highly informative introduction, she tells the story of a 22 year old male student who, in 2010, ran over a female migrant worker in his car, and then was so fearful of the consequences that he brutally murdered her. He was tried and executed in a hugely divisive case with some seeing him as an evil perpetrator and others, a victim.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044731</amazonuk>~~

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