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|title=The Four Seasons of Lucy Mckenzie
|author=Kirsty Murray
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''For the first time in her life, Lucy dreaded Christmas.''
She has been sent to stay with her Great-Aunt Big, who lives in a homestead in the Australian wilderness. Her family, meanwhile, will be spending Christmas in Paris, tending to Lucy’s older sister who is in a coma following a tragic accident. Lucy is deeply worried about her big sister and understands why she has been left behind, but she is filled with trepidation at the idea of spending such a long time with her eccentric Aunt, miles away from civilization without even as much as a mobile phone signal.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743361246</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Dream On Amber
|summary=Wimpy Kid-styled books, from those by [[:Category:Jeff Kinney|Jeff Kinney]] right down to those by [[:Category:Jim Smith|Jim Smith]] have always served as a bridge for the reluctant reader, taking him or her into a world halfway between a comic book and an actual novel. With careful design and a healthy picture-to-word ratio the child only used to reading speech bubbles and cartoon captions has managed a proper book before they've realised it. So it makes perfect sense for publishers to allow a franchise to cross over from one format to the other – and this example is the first one to come to my attention. Even if, when you think about it, it seems a very unlikely book in the first place…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141350822</amazonuk>
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