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|author=Nina Grunfeld
|title=How To Get What You Want
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=How To Get What You Want is a self help book aimed at young people 'at a crossroads in their life', who are unsure what to do next. The author is a Life Coach who recognises that simply knowing what you want to do is half the battle towards achieving it, and sets out to help the reader identify who they are and what they really want using self awareness type exercises like the 'Balance Chart'. Later on the book deals with how to achieve those goals by giving advice on how to focus and think positively.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323845</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=Aesop's fables have been known for centuries all around the world, and here is a new edition where a selection of the fables have been given some new embellishments. Aesop features in the stories himself, as a teller of tales himself with a stall in the market where people, especially children, gather to listen and hear him. His stories are often set within the context of an understandable situation, making it easier for children to see parallels between the animals in the tales and the real life action.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745969151</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ally Condie
|title=Matched
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=When the Society Matches Cassia to her best friend Xander, she couldn't be more thrilled. Unlike the other girls, she knows her Match – doesn't need to read his details, go through the motions of dating as dictated by the Society, doesn't need to worry they won't get along.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141333057</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Shirley Hughes
|title=The Christmas Eve Ghost
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Bronwen and Dylan live in the poor part of 1930s Liverpool. Their mam takes in washing to make ends meet, and often has to leave them alone whilst she's pushing the big old pram full of washing to the part of the city where the well-off people live. They're under strict instructions to have nothing to do with their neighbours, the O'Rileys. Then, on Christmas Eve, when they're alone, Bronwen and Dylan hear a plonk, plonk, plonk and are sure it's a ghost...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406320633</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ruth Wickings and Frances Castle
|title=Pop-Up: A Paper Engineering Masterclass
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=With its subtitle of ''A Paper Engineering Masterclass'', you know exactly what you're getting from ''Pop-Up''. You'll see how pop-up books are made, learn the tips of the trade, and make four elaborate 3D models yourself. If you're not rushing out to buy it immediately, there's something wrong with you!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140633085X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Simon Scarrow
|title=The Legion (Roman Legion 9)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Ajax and his crew of fellow renegade gladiators have been stirring things up in Egypt. Attacking small naval bases, merchant ships and villages along the coast, they're successfully stirring some unrest. Because Ajax isn't silly. Not only is he a skilled fighter and capable commander, he's also full of guile. The band pose as Roman soldiers when raiding, so their victims are left with anti-Roman sentiment in addition to their losses.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755353749</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Adrian Dawson
|title=CODEX
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When I read the resume on the back cover I immediately thought that it was going to be one of those high-octane, action every second paragraph, type of thrillers. All action and perhaps very little substance. I was happily proved wrong. And very early on in the novel, as well, which was good.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956577008</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Adam Kolczynski
|title=The Oxford Virus
|rating=3
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Dr Olembé discovers a potential cure for cancer and is given the go-ahead to begin human trials, the potential rewards are huge. Sadly, his first human patient dies shortly afterwards. Medical neglect? Is Dr Olembé's reputation finished? Well, before we have much time to consider these things, a second body is discovered. This time it's a career academic at the university. Was this suicide? Are the two deaths linked? Part medical crime story, part academic satire, part speculative fiction, The Oxford Virus addresses this case.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095658800X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nicky Haslam
|title=Redeeming Features
|rating=3
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Nicholas Haslam, interior designer, columnist, reviewer, the man whom it was said would attend a lighted candle, let alone a party, socialite and name dropper - this is your life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009954623X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Scott McIntyre and Laura Raine
|title=Jake and Dixie: Super Magic Lightning Boy
|rating=3
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Meet Jake, Super Magic Lightning Boy, the fastest kid in town, and his sidekick Dixie Thunder Paws, the meanest cat around!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848860609</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Faye Durston
|title=The Wychwood Fairies
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There are some books that manage to be something more than a story and become, instead, an experience. Sometimes they're pop-up stories, sometimes they're simple lift the flap books like [[Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell|Dear Zoo]] (which I have read to my daughter again and again and again!) Then there are extra special books like The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg which, if you haven't read yet then you really ought to, but I have now discovered the delightful Wychwood Fairies which is another utterly delightful reading experience.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023071496X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Spencer Quinn
|title=Thereby Hangs a Tail
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I have to admit to both skepticism and curiosity when I realised that this novel is narrated by a dog. It's crime fiction, which isn't my usual genre of choice; I don't like anything gorier or more suspenseful than Agatha Christie's relatively tame works. But the pun in the book's title suggested that there might be an element of humour, so I succumbed to my instincts and requested this book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847398375</amazonuk>
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