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|author=Roland Chambers and Ella Okstad
|title=Nelly and the Quest for Captain Peabody
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Ella's father, Captain Peabody, sailed away when she was a baby. He remembered her birthday once or twice sending her a gift of painted snails and an egg which hatched into a visionary turtle. This turtle, Columbus, has grown to become Ella's closest friend and companion as her mother sits silently knitting and nothing more has been heard from her father. There may be a lesson about parental inadequacy and unreliability here but if so it's understated. I have rarely met a less angst-ridden heroine than Ella though she can give a firm lecture about keeping one's promises.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192742698
}}
{{newreview
|author= Roger Stevens
|summary=Ask most children if dinosaurs are cool and you will get an emphatic – Yes! The thought that giant looming monsters once roamed the Earth, fighting and eating eat one other, sounds exciting. It is important to encourage this enthusiasm and there are loads of books that are full of dinosaur facts, but are there any full of dinosaur fun as well?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806651</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Jenny Downham
|title=Unbecoming
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Three women. Three sets of secrets about to be laid bare.
Katie lives with her learning-disable brother Chris and her rather controlling mother. They've recently moved to her mother's childhood town after Katie's father got a girlfriend and a new baby. Katie, a hardworking and dutiful girl, is halfway through her AS levels when everything - and I mean everything - goes wrong. First up, Katie kisses her best friend Esme. Esme rejects her and, worse still, tells all the mean girls at school what happened. They miss no opportunity to mock and name call. And then a phone call one night brings Mary into their lives...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200646</amazonuk>
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