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|author= Xinran, Esther Tyldesley and David Dobson
|title= Buy Me The Sky
|rating= 3.5
|genre= Politics and Society
|summary=''These single-sprout children are more precious than gold'', says a Chinese woman to the author. Buy Me The Sky asks what it's like to grow up as ''gold'' through Xinran's conversations with ten adults from the first generation of China's only children. In the highly informative introduction, she tells the story of a 22 year old male student who, in 2010, ran over a female migrant worker in his car, and then was so fearful of the consequences that he brutally murdered her. He was tried and executed in a hugely divisive case with some seeing him as an evil perpetrator and others, a victim.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044731</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Ali Benjamin
|summary=Sputnik Mellows set himself a mission – to discover whether Earth exists. Now he's found it, he needs to prove it ''should'' exist and, to do this, he enlists the help of schoolboy Prez Mellows. Together they need to find ten things that will justify Earth's existence. If they fail to do this by the end of the summer holidays, Earth will be shrunk by Planetary Clearance as part of the pan-galactic decluttering programme.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230771378</amazonuk>
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