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|title=The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
|author=Catherynne M Valente
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=A while ago a friend recommended a book called [[The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M Valente|The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making]]. I have to say, the title alone intrigued me, but somehow that title sat on my 'to get' pile and I never actually got around to reading it. Since then several other people (all adults) have suggested I might like it, so when I saw the latest book in this series was available I decided to give it a try. I really should have read the first two books, I think. This is the third in the series, and I believe there are going to be five altogether. There are some series which you can dip into without feeling too lost, but this isn't one of them!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472110218</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Old Dog, New Tricks
|summary=Easter Quilby is twelve years old. She and her sister Ruth are in a children's home. Not so long ago they woke up to find their mother slouched across the bed, dead. Drink and drugs and a hard, sad life had finally got to her, or maybe her body just gave up on it. Their father, Wade Chesterfield, sometime baseball star, had lit out on them three years earlier.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085752223X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Pamela Erens
|title=The Virgins
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Set in 1979-80 in an elite boarding school on the east coast of the USA ''The Virgins'' tells the story of two young people. The story is mainly narrated by Bruce Bennett-Jones who would have liked to have a close relationship with Aviva Rossner but her unlikely choice was Seung Jung. They're not shy about flaunting their relationship and it's the talk of Auburn Academy, but whilst the watchers believe that the relationship is one of unalloyed passion, the truth is rather different and the couple are set on a path to an inevitable tragedy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848549873</amazonuk>
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