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{{newreview
|author=Susan Cooper
|title=Ghost Hawk
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=I loved Susan Cooper's [[The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper|The Dark is Rising Sequence]], but as surprised as I am to say this - this book is far better. While still suitable for older children, this is definitely a book that adults will want to read as well. The book is more mature than her early works, and while obviously gifted from the start, Cooper's talents have matured as well. This book is nothing short of a masterpiece.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782300007</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=Who doesn’t like to jump? Jumping on the bed, jumping with friends, jumping like a kangaroo – it’s all good!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184643615X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Boris Gets Spots
|author=Carrie Weston and Tim Warnes
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The pupils in Miss Cluck’s class have an awful lot of fun at school. In fact, if our schools were like theirs, you’d want to go every single day and never make a fuss. The latest news is that Mr Gander from the farm is coming to visit! Everyone’s excited – everyone, that is, except Boris who asks if he can sit quietly inside instead. Miss Cluck is a lovely teacher so of course she says yes but in the flurry of excitement, no one really stops to ask why the big, lively bear wants to miss out on the fun.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192734164</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=A World Elsewhere
|author=Wayne Johnston
|rating=3.5
|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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{{newreview
|title=Snowflakes
|author=Cerrie Burnell and Laura Ellen Anderson
|rating=2.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Mia is a little girl from the city who moves to the village of Silver Vale to live with her Grandmother in the forest. The first question you might encounter from curious readers is why this happens. And where her mummy and daddy are. What’s happened to them? Was it something bad? Did they just leave Mia behind one day, go to work and not return? It’s not too clear and the opening picture which shows a little girl, all alone, looking out of the window to the city below, is rather sad.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135031</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Harvest
|author=Jim Crace
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=As harvest comes in, a village finds itself under threat. Invaded by a series of unfamiliar visitors, it will find itself utterly transformed over a short but apocalyptic seven days. We watch through the eyes of Walter Thirsk as three vagabonds escaping the enclosure of their fields are blamed for the trangressions of others, as the chartmaker Mr Quill enumerates the common land, and as Master Kent's benevolent rule is overtaken by a new owner, who comes with enforcers in the name of ''profit, progress and enterprise'' - or sheep farming as Walter quickly realises.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330445669</amazonuk>
}}
