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|summary=Aria lives in the dome of Reverie, where she has pretty much everything she ever wanted. By travelling the Realms, she can find entertainment in a host of different settings, meet up with friends, and generally live a life of luxury. But when a real world excursion goes horribly wrong, and she's left to take the blame for someone else's mistake, she finds herself cast out into the dangers of the wild. Luckily for her, she meets an Outsider called Perry. He has his own reasons for needing to get into Reverie, and the two form an uneasy alliance.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411054</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Bedford and Tor Freeman
|title=Babies Don't Bite
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Hegley the pony is excited. His mummy is having a baby! His friends, however, don't seem to share his excitement...their mums are all having babies too, but they know that babies just mean trouble!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444903527</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gervase Phinn and Tony Ross
|title=Who Am I?
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=When a funny little creature hatches out of an egg deep in the jungle, all alone, he sets off to try and discover who he is. Wandering through the jungle he meets lots of different creatures and he asks each of them ''Who'' ''am'' ''I?'' but they are all mystified, able only to tell them who they are. Will he ever meet another creature just like him?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392889</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rachel Mortimer and Liz Pichon
|title=Red Riding Hood and the Sweet Little Wolf
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary='Once upon a time there was a Big Bad Wolf who lived in the woods. Well. That's not quite true... Really, she was a Sweet Little Wolf who loved all things pretty and pink, especially fairy tales.'
 
From the very start of this wonderful book the reader discovers that not all wolves are big and bad and is introduced to the sweetest, mildest wolf that ever lived. The only problem is that her parents are big and bad and they want her to be exactly like them. This is why they send her out with a shopping list for dinner which along with the onions, potatoes and carrots includes 'one little girl (tender and juicy)'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900668</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Annabelle R Charbit
|title=A Life Lived Ridiculously
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Maxine is from a Jewish family who think that as her 20s are nearing their end, she should be married. Maxine, for her part, hasn't found anyone to interest her and is more concerned with combining her job and her studies and getting away from the yoke of her parents. She is also worried about her possessions and worries that she has too many and that they make her flat look untidy. She just can't get her flat organised the way she likes it, either, with the light not being quite right and never quite being able to decide which room her television should be in.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0984642862</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Helen Oakwater
|title=Bubble Wrapped Children
|rating=3
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''Bubble Wrapped Children'' takes a look at the state of adoption in the UK, and how aspects of it are being threatened by the use of social networks. The author, with over 20 years' experience in the adoption world, paints a broad picture of the issues facing adopters and adoptees. Peppering the text are some examples of unwanted Facebook contact from birth parents, which have had massive knock-on effects for the adopted children.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920970</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jean Ure
|title=Pumpkin Pie
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There are three children in the Penny family. Petal is the eldest and she is gorgeous - long legs, long blond hair and pretty with it. Pip is the youngest and he's the one with brains and has to be surgically separated from his computer. In the middle is Pumpkin - well, her real name is Jenny, but she's Pumpkin to the family - and she's ''cuddly'' with curly hair. Mum's the breadwinner in the family, with Dad being at home during the day as house husband and working as a chef of an evening. He's got a relaxed attitude to the home and to what the kids do: his obsession is food. He loves making it - and Pumpkin loves eating it. She's conscious about her weight but it still comes as a shock when her father starts to call her ''Plumpkin''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007424841</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Brian Freeman
|title=Spilled Blood
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=One night seventeen-year old Ashlynn is driving home. She gets a flat tyre and of all the places in the world finds herself stranded in the ghost town: an abandoned farm community that no longer exists on the map and that no-one with any sense would be driving through at the dead of night. But there is more than one kind of sense. These days, another kind says that if you are from the town of Barron (home to Mondamin Research) you don't drive through St Croix – a neighbouring community that is the focus of a recent cancer cluster. The people of St Croix blame Mondamin and by extrapolation everyone in Barron. For the young people this has spilled over into an outright old-fashioned feud.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857383035</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=B R Collins
|title=The Broken Road
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''There's going to be a crusade. A boy came to the cathedral and preached. He's going to lead a crusade of children...''
 
Rufus is about to begin his apprenticeship in his father's goldsmith workshop in Cologne. The prospect doesn't thrill him, but what choice is there? And then a boy comes to the city to preach. He wants to lead a crusade of children, believing that their innocence will part the seas and win Jerusalem back without the need for violence. It's a powerful message and Rufus, along with countless other Cologne children and apprentices, find themselves following the charismatic Nick on a doomed journey to the Holy Land.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408806495</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Charles Dickens
|title=The Mystery of Edwin Drood
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=
If you have never come across 'Drood' before, there are certain significant factors which make this a 'must read'. It is Dickens' last work, and he died without completing it. Given that this is a detective story, one of the very first in that tradition, it is doubly intriguing, because although we are clearly being fed clues and hints throughout, at the point where the text ends we aren't even fully sure even if a crime has been committed. So as the basis for endless speculation about what really happens this novel could hardly be bettered. We certainly have potential villains and victims, but we also have a number of likely red herrings; complex threads of romantic interest, but again it is by no means clear exactly which way these will resolve; and a shadowy detective figure, whose speculations certainly have no sense of conclusion.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849904278</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Debbie Foy
|title=BO|OK
|rating=RA|TE
|genre=GE|NRE
|summary=#
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750265825</amazonuk>
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