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|title=A World Elsewhere
|author=Wayne Johnston
|rating=3
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Landish Druken is a great hulk of a man who lumbers through his hometown of St John's, Newfoundland. Although he thinks of himself as a writer, he has never written a word he didn't feel compelled to burn, and everyone knows him as the wayward son of accomplished sealing captain Abram Druken. Landish escaped to study literature at Princeton, where he met best friend Padgett 'Van' Vanderluyden, the 'dud' son of an industrial tycoon and a rumoured homosexual, but he broke his promise to join his father's sealing empire on his return in 1893, and now lives in poverty and disgrace.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099572036</amazonuk>
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|summary=I would have been useless during ''Take your pet to school'' week. The goldfish who lived with us for short moments of my life (and the entirety of their short lives) wouldn’t have been very portable and even if they had, they’d have been a bit boring, swimming in circles mouthing 'o-o-o' . I would have been immensely jealous of anyone who brought in a lively puppy or a cute snuffly bunny rabbit. As a bit of a trophy whore even at a young age, I would have been very sad that I wasn’t really in the running for the ''Best Pet'' cup.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407132067</amazonuk>
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|title=Thor and the Master of Magic
|author=Kevin Crossley-Holland and Siku
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=I grew up with tales of the heroes of Asgard, and this story was always a firm favourite, but today's children are more likely to know Thor from ''The Avengers''. This book is sure to interest any young comic book fans, and the illustrations will certainly help with this, but it is still faithful to the original myth, and in my mind would count as literature, rather than just a fun read - but I wouldn't tell the children that. This is an excellent retelling of Thor's visit to Utgarda - Loki ( the giant king's hall) from Prose Edda a collection of Norse poetry thought to have been compiled by the Icelandic poet Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122210</amazonuk>
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