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|author=Kjartan Poskitt and Philip Reeve
|title=Borgon the Axeboy and the Whispering Temple (Borgon the Axeboy 3)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''The middle's nice and crunchy but the squishy bits are horrible.'' No, that's not a predator in prehistoric times discussing the eating of us humans. Instead, it's Borgon the Axeboy's mother, discussing peaches. Yes, even in a world where a lot of nasty animals are still around to potentially eat the likes of Borgon, there are still things for people to learn. Borgon for one, in this third adventure in the series, has a lot to learn about religion – he scoffs at the idea there's a god resident in a temple he and his friends have discovered, even if his friend Hunjah insists otherwise. The lesson is forced and the truth comes out, however, when some thieves turn up, having pegged the site as a location of many earthly riches…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057130737X</amazonuk>
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|title=Dead End Kids: Heroes of the Blitz
|summary=It's a three-way battle in the Slurring Mariner pub. On the one hand, four Steampunk Pirates – a fine mix of vicious, nefarious and metallic mariners who would make any passing human gulp (which is more than you could ever say of the beer). On another, the Dread Captain Inkybeard, who is married to a squid who lives on his head and keeps his facial hair dark. On the third, a ridiculously rich, ridiculously French and ridiculously successful recruiter – but to just what is he taking so many seamen? Whatever it is, it's enough to get the Pirates and Inkybeard working together (ish) to solve the problem – but someone else might just be controlling the whole farrago…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847155995</amazonuk>
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