==Children's non-fiction==
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{{newreview
|author=Claudia Myatt
|title=Go Green! A Young Person's Guide to the Blue Planet
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Go Green!? Forget that title. What planet does that come from? Let's start again. This fantastic book is about the ''blue'' stuff, everything from oceans to raindrops. The book covers just about every angle that a child passionate about water might conceivably find of interest – marine creatures, icebergs, sunken volcanoes, tsunamis, undersea exploration, bores and whirlpools, inland waterways, tides, lochs and locks. There are answers to lots of questions of the 'Why is the sea blue?' variety. Sandwiched into this comprehensive guide to the physical geography and biodiversity of the seas (probably enough for GCSE) is a large dollop of green ketchup, to be sure, but my instinctive reaction is that here is the best children's introduction to 'water' that I've ever seen.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906435014</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lindsey Fraser
|summary=Did you know that there are more than 430 types of parasites that can live on humans? Are you scratching? Good! Now you know what it was like for me reading What's Eating You? It's a fantastically detailed introduction to parasites - on humans and other animals - that any science-loving child will love.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406313548</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Aidan Potts
|title=The Smash! Smash! Truck
|rating=3
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=The Smash! Smash! Truck looks at the process of recycling glass, taking in a brief look at the Big Bang, atoms and the water cycle, to explain why recycling is a good idea.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385608934</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Leo Hickman
|title=Will Jellyfish Rule the World?
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Have you ever wondered why it rains so much in Britain? What a glacier and a canary have in common? Or how lizards once managed to sunbathe in Antarctica? Green expert Leo Hickman is here to answer all these questions and more in his new book, ''Will Jellyfish Rule the World?''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141323345</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cylin Busby and John Busby
|title=The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''When my dad dies, his body will go to the Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston,'' ''though I suspect they are mostly interested in his head... His was in an interesting case - the lower half of his jaw'' ''was removed when he was shot in the head with a shotgun. His tongue was torn in half, his teeth and gums blown'' ''away, leaving a bit of bone that was once his chin connected with dangling flesh at the front of his face.''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802015</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Phil Robins
|title=Can I Come Home, Please?
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Using the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum and other primary sources, this affecting volume gives an overview of the progress of Nazism as seen through the eyes of children in different parts of Europe. The simplicity of the language used in the transcribed interviews means it is accessible to children from Y6, yet remains useful to GCSE students as a succinct, linear timeline of WW2.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407109030</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anthony Adolph
|title=Who Am I?: The Family Tree Explorer
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=A fascination with family history seems more than just a passing fad: for many it's a hobby approaching an obsession and in a mobile (both geographically and socially) and globalised society, people unable to answer a 'where we are all going' question find security and identity in pursuing an answer to 'where do I come from?'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847245099</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Various
|title=Bob's Great Green Book (Bob the Builder)
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Bob the Builder and his crew of machines live in the glorious Sunflower Valley and enjoy their work. However, as well as building new developments, they like to look after the world around them. Their motto is ''Reduce,'' '' Reuse and Recycle'' and they apply this to everything that they do. This book aims to introduce the youngest of children to the benefits of recycling, how to recycle and look after the world around them using characters that are familiar and in a way that teaches, not preaches.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140524657X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ali Valenzuela
|title=Weighing It Up
|rating=3
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Although never having had an eating disorder myself, I have been interested in them since I was young. I was a competitive gymnast and that is a world where eating disorders do creep in. Now I'm a mother of three teenage daughters, I worry about the subject from a whole new angle, especially as one of them is a size 6-8 and idolises those super-skinny celebrities.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988401</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anita Ganeri and Mike Phillips
|title=Planet In Peril
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Saving the Earth is the latest bandwagon upon which authors seem determined to jump with children's authors at the forefront of the charge. I've seen quite a few which were little more than a watered-down version of the sort of information which would be given to an adult and I can imagine that a lot of children would feel patronised. This ''Horrible Geography Handbook'' – ''Planet in Peril'' is a breath of fresh air. Well, apart, that is, from when the loo gets a little too well used.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407105779</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Blackest Hole in Space
|author=Penny Little and Vincent Vigla
|rating=2.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Charlie and his dad build a rocket, then Charlie and Doggo head off into space, where they're sucked into a black hole. They have a bit of a look around (as one does in a black hole, apparently), then head off home for their tea.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340944676</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stewart Ross
|title=Moon: Science, History, and Mystery
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=By now we should be living in colonies on Mars and still using computers that take up a whole room: futurologists have a talent for getting things spectacularly wrong, but their predictions express the human ability to dream and transcend its limitations and conditions: we dream of reaching for the stars – and humans actually walked on the Moon. It's hard to believe that first landing happened forty years ago!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0545127327</amazonuk>
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