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|title=A Sting in the Tale
|author=Dave Goulson
|rating=5
|genre=Reference
|summary=It seems that Dave Goulson, founder of the incredibly successful Bumblebee Conservation Trust, did not always have natural aptitude for helping wildlife if his early recollections are anything to go by. Despite boundless enthusiasm and a passion for the natural world, his childhood efforts to give nature a helping hand quite frequently ended in some sort of gory aftermath. For example, there was the incident with the drowned bumblebees, in which a young Goulson unwisely decided to dry the bedraggled victims out on the hotplate of the electric cooker. Then there was the time he accidentally dropped a live electrical heater into his aquarium, frying the poor fish instantly. I could go on to mention the beheading of the footless quail, the snake wrapped in sticky tape and the countless taxidermy experiments, but alas, time does not permit. Suffice to say that despite this unpromising start in life, things did eventually improve...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575124</amazonuk>
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|title=Stories of World War One
|summary=Something strange is happening on or near the river. Finding a pirates' chest is surely likely to be the weirdest thing that happens to most people in an average week, but not Sesame, Toby and Gemma. As well as the possibility of pirates, there's a chance that nefarious goings-on are responsible for the university rowing team dropping like flies. Can Sesame save the day again?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912542</amazonuk>
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|title=A Single Breath
|author=Lucy Clarke
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Eva is blissfully content with life. She has a fulfilling career in her job as a midwife and a happy marriage to the man of her dreams who clearly adores her. Her contented existence is thrown into complete turmoil when, early one morning, her beloved husband Jackson is swept out to sea whilst fishing on the Dorset coast. It seems that in one fell swoop, all of her hopes and dreams have been washed away into the cold, white water.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007481365</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Sesame Seade Mysteries 2: Gargoyles Gone AWOL
|author=Clementine Beauvais and Sarah Horne
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Sesame Seade is in trouble. So much trouble that our intrepid heroine has already started planning her epitaph. ''Sesame Seade, sensational supersleuth. Sufficiently scolded, seldom scared.'' Even with danger around every corner, her stunning voice can't be silenced. But what is the danger lurking in the university? Is it to do with the disappearing gargoyles, or is there something even more worrying going on?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912534</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Daughters of Time
|author=Mary Hoffman (editor)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This is an anthology aimed at tweens and younger teens on the subject of ''some of history's most remarkable women''. It's an interesting idea, particularly as the usual suspects are perhaps avoided. No Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, Victoria, or Florence Nightingale. Instead we get Boudica, Mary Seacole, Aphra Behn and Julian of Norwich, amongst others. It doesn't altogether work for me but there are enough strong stories to make it well worth a look.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184877169X</amazonuk>
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