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|author=Michael Morpurgo
|title=An Eagle in the Snow
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It's 1940 and Barney and his mum are on the train out of Coventry. They're escaping to the country having lost everything in the city's bombing. Sadly trouble seems to follow them and their train is attacked by German fighter planes. The train manages to find shelter in a tunnel but that only makes matters worse for young Barney because he's terrified of the dark. Luck is, however, finally on their side and the stranger in their carriage is able to provide a much needed distraction. The stranger tells the story of a young solider in World War One, including the moment when he could have prevented the Second World War.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008134170</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=A Very Good Chance
|summary=Meet Dani – and if you haven't throughout [[:Category:Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|the three previous books]] then you certainly should. Her life has been up and down, considering she's only just finished the first year of primary school, but at the moment it's on the up, with caveats. She's in an idyllic place – staying with the best friend imaginable for the entire summer holidays, on what might as well be a private island, and in constant contact with her father. The caveats concern what happened in [[When I Am Happiest by Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|book three]] and the fact that her father has been run over, but at least he calls every night at teatime. Until, that is, the night that he doesn't…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570715</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Francesco D'Adamo
|title= Oh, Freedom!
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Confident Readers
|summary=''I don't want my children to grow up as slaves…''
 
Oh, Freedom, set in 1850 Alabama, follows the journey of a black cotton-picking family as they attempt a perilous journey to Canada in search of freedom. Before their escape, they simply existed as slaves living on a plantation under the ownership of the infamous Captain Archer - a white man who, to their eyes, owned the world. The family knew nothing else of the world except toiling the land under the watchful master's gaze and whip from dusk till dawn. One early evening in May 1850, the family are visited by a mysterious stranger known only as Peg Leg Joe who carried a large bottle of beer, a banjo and a promise of freedom. He becomes the family's guide to lead them from the plantation along the Underground Railroad; in search of Canada for a life they have barely dared to dream of. The family knew of only one thing: the journey would be fraught with danger which Francesco D'Adamo captures brilliantly with his atmospheric writing style.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1850772851</amazonuk>
}}

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