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|title=Rosie Revere, Engineer
|author=Andrea Beaty and David Roberts
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Andrea Beaty and David Roberts make a great team. Their previous book, ''Iggy Peck, Architect'', is a best seller and has a lot in common with ''Rosie Revere, Engineer''. Both stories offer hope and encouragement to children who feel at odds and left out of the mainstream. Rosie is very shy and cannot bring herself to join in at school. But at home she sparkles and comes to life while building inventive gadgets from odds and ends, often using things rescued from the bin. When her favourite uncle laughs at one of her contraptions (made especially for him), Rosie is mortified and it takes the exuberant help of another relative to bring her back out of her shell.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419708457</amazonuk>
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|summary=Sally and her brother Peter are staying at their grandfather's house because their father has died in a car accident. Granddad Bracey (named after the accessories for trousers) is the perfect person for the grieving children at such an awful time. He's kindly and loving but also funny and entertaining - as a retired merchant navy captain, he has plenty of stories to tell. But then a second catastrophe occurs: their mother, Mary, decides to remarry. Sally distrusts her new stepfather, Ned, and his daughter, Mona, immediately. But even Sally doesn't realise the extent of their villainous intentions. Until, that is, Mary is rushed into hospital with a mysterious illness.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1300791624</amazonuk>
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