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|title=Manifest Destiny Volume 1
|author=Chris Dingess, Matthew Roberts and Owen Gieni
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=It's 1804 and some newly-American soldiers are expanding the territory to the west, at the orders of President Jefferson – orders which allude to the pioneering party encountering some very unusual things. And they do – first a huge arc of greenery, putting the modern reader in mind of the Missouri landmark arch as bastardised by something along the lines of the Statue of Liberty in the original 'Planet of the Apes'. But when that site gets attacked the weirdness certainly starts to show itself…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1607069822</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joanna Rakoff
|summary=Greek Myths are fantastic. They are full of action, characters and more gore than a truck load of video nasties, but how do you tell them to children? Remove the grisly bits for one and write them in a way that will appeal to the modern adolescent. This is exactly what writer Juliet Rix and illustrator Juliet Snape set out to do in ‘A-Maze-ing Minotaur’. Anything that uses the word “a-maze-ing”, must appeal to kids, right?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847804314</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=House of Secrets: Battle of the Beasts
|author=Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Columbus and Vizzini’s sequel to ''House of Secrets'' is action packed, cinematic and compelling. Their influences are myriad and range from the ''Goonies'' and early [[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J K Rowling|Harry Potter]] (directed by Columbus) to the fantastical and creepy writings of pulp novelist Robert E Howard, Gothic author [[:Category:H P Lovecraft|H P Lovecraft]] and Ray Bradbury. The result resembles an explosion of colours from a renegade paint box of genres crossed with high octane movie plots. Fantasy, science fiction, magic, action, horror and war combine to create a curious mix of the supernatural and the historical.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000749016X</amazonuk>
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