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|author= Matt Ralphs
|title= Fire Girl
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Confident Readers
|summary= It's 1656 and England is in the middle of the Civil War. Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector, has sent Witch Hunters out across the land, so for her own safety twelve-year-old Hazel's mother Hecate confines her to a magic and invisible glade. But there's stronger magic than Hecate's around, and when a demon seizes and carries off her mother, Hazel is left entirely on her own with no knowledge or experience of the outside world. Well, not entirely on her own - if you count a rather tetchy and opinionated dormouse as a companion...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447283554</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Andrew Miller
|summary= Amber Lamont was a relatively ordinary 16-year-old, living a pretty quiet, uneventful life; she went to school, had a part-time job, and a decent relationship with her aloof but loving parents. But over the course of just one day everything goes completely to hell. Amber discovers that she can turn into a demon, a genuine, red-skinned, satanic monster, with horns and talons that can rip a human to shreds. Her demon side is the least of her problems, however. For Amber's parents are also demons, and now that her powers have manifested, they are intent on eating her and absorbing her power for themselves. Amber finds herself on the run, travelling the Demon Road across America in a desperate attempt to escape her parents, accompanied by Milo, an enigmatic guardian, who has dark secrets of his own.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008140812</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=C B Calico
|title=Dandelion Angel
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In her Author's Note, debut novelist C.B. Calico reveals that ''Dandelion Angel'' was inspired by a non-fiction work, ''Understanding the Borderline Mother'' by Christine Ann Lawson. The four mother/daughter relationships in this Germany-set novel – all marked to some extent by dysfunction, physical and/or verbal abuse, and borderline personality disorder – are based on Lawson's metaphorical classifications: the hermit, the queen, the waif, and the witch. Looping back through her four storylines in three complete cycles, Calico shows how mental illness is rooted in childhood experiences and can go on to affect a whole family.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0112SC9CA</amazonuk>
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