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{{newreview
|author=Michael Evans
|title=Poggle and the Treasure
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Poggle and his friend Henry are spending a fun day together at the beach playing pirates. They have made a pirate ship, eaten a pirate picnic, and fought a sea monster! Now they're hunting for buried treasure, but rather than a chest full of gold they discover a large, pink egg!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248122</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Janni Howker
|summary=Tristan Jarry is the world's most famous artist but he's rather moved on from selling his work for millions and has just kidnapped Angelique Burr, the step-daughter of the President of the United States. She's not an innocent child but an abused and abusing woman, now a journalist and at times well able to hold her own with Jarry. He's got helpers though - and forward planning - and it's not long before Angelique finds herself involved in a trail of destruction and death as Jarry works towards his purpose. He intends to resurrect Dada, the iconic movement founded in 1916 in Zurich with the intention of protesting against the war. He'll tell Angelique so much – but not what he finally intends to do.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849235104</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joan Lennon
|title=Slightly Jones Mystery: The Case of the Glasgow Ghoul
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There are spooks and ghouls aplenty in this story: readers avid for a delicious shiver or two will be pleased to know they appear right from the very first chapter. And in keeping with the wonderfully Victorian flavour of the book, it is body-snatchers, digging up a corpse to sell to a local doctor, who encounter the terrifying spectres. This is not a horror story, however, despite the scary setting of its opening pages: the haunted cemetery is simply one element in the complicated case of the disappearing treasures.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846471141</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Karen Russell
|title=Swamplandia!
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Ava Bigtree is a teenage alligator wrestler. Her older sister Ossie is in love with a ghost. They have grown up on a Florida island theme park with their parents, their grandfather and their big brother Kiwi. Now though, all they have known is threatened. Their mother Hilola was the star attraction, but she died a few months before, not in the jaws of an alligator but of ovarian cancer. As well as being the glamorous figure on billboards who everyone came to see, she ran the show and did all the jobs that needed to be done, and the family is lost without her.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>070118602X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lois Duncan
|title=I Know What You Did Last Summer
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=A year ago, four teenagers committed a shocking crime after a party where they all had too much to drink, and overwhelmed by indecision, fear and desperation they made a pact to keep the incidents of the fateful night a secret. However, someone knows their secret and that someone is determined to make them face up to the consequences of their actions. Their binding pact has held together for a year, partly out of the friendship they shared and mostly out of guilt, but when it becomes apparent that there is someone who is looking for revenge, it suddenly becomes deadly important that they face up to the truth, for their own sakes.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410600</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Clara Vulliamy
|title=Muffin and the Birthday Surprise
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It's Fizz and Flora's birthday, so Muffin the bear gets ready for the party, and decides to take them a big bag of sugar buns as a present. On his walk to the party, Muffin gets a little bit peckish and has a bit of a nibble of one bun, then another, then another. Erk! He puts the empty bag on the pile of presents and enjoys the party game. Will there be a way to turn an empty bag into a much-loved present?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408312441</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Francesca Simon and Emily Bolam
|title=Where Are My Lambs?
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=When you're just coming to terms with this thing called ''reading'' there's a big jump to be made. Gone are those nice big picture books with not too many words and in their place is something much smaller (and not nearly so easy to handle – you have to do it yourself) with a lot more words and probably just a few black and white pictures to break the page up and if you're lucky to give you a clue as to what those pesky words mean. There's a stepping stone along the way now and it might just help children who find that big leap a little daunting.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001965</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Leo Benedictus
|title=The Afterparty
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I opened the front cover and was confronted with the lines 'This book is different. You've really never read a book like this before.' Confident words, I thought but will the book live up to this lofty expectation I now had? And when I got round to reading the notes at the end of the novel, I was pleasantly surprised and also rather taken aback, I have to say. So, a refreshing take on the modern work of fiction, I thought, as I started on Chapter One.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022409114X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Brett McKee and David McKee
|title=The Tickle Ghost
|rating=3
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=It's Dylan's bedtime, but the Tickle Ghost (very possibly his dad with a sheet) is out to get him. Cue plenty of giggles and not very much going to bed. Dylan's mum shouts upstairs for them to be quieter, but when the noise continues, she heads up to sort them out. ...Will the Tickle Ghost get her too?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392463</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joanne Partis
|title=My Cat Just Sleeps
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The little girl in this story has a pet cat who she loves, but she's noticed that whilst her cat spends his days sleeping all her friends' cats seem to lead much more exciting lives, hunting and playing and climbing and fishing...she attempts to entice him into doing something active, but he sleeps through it all until, finally, she realises that even if he is very sleepy he's also warm and cuddly and affectionate and she loves him very much. But she still wonders what it is that makes him so sleepy...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192731610</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Foreman
|title=Superfrog!
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Pond City is a peaceful place in the daytime. Little Frank the frog loves simply dangling his toes in the water and watching the world pass by. However, come nighttime, things take a turn for the worse: the Big Boss oversees a crime wave. When the Big Boss' creeps frighten Frank's granny and kidnap some frogspawn she'd been babysitting, enough is enough and Frank turns into Superfrog.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392099</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Giles Andreae and Emma Dodd
|title=I Love My Mummy
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Mummies are good for lots of things - wiping noses, singing in the car, helping with wee-wee's! This sweet story tells us the best things about mummies from a baby's point of view.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408309572</amazonuk>
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