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• Star Wars: A New Hope Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 1) by Ryder Windham
  |title=Star Wars: A New Hope Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 1) ...ke out, minus the pictures. You do get, on this first one, a '40 years of Star Wars' sticker, which is proof this is a classic we're looking at, but more
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• Star Wars Bounty Hunt: Lift the Flap by Katrina Pallant and Robert Ball
  |title=Star Wars Bounty Hunt: Lift the Flap ...ary=A flawed way to get temporary fun for the very literate young from the Star Wars Universe.
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• Star Dancer by Beth Webb
  |title=Star Dancer ...evil is drawing close, yet they cannot bring themselves to accept that the Star Dancer is a woman, not a man. And so Tegan is brought up with her silversmi
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• Star Wars Where's the Wookiee? 2 Search and Find Activity Book by Katrina Pallant and Ulises Farinas
  |title=Star Wars Where's the Wookiee? 2 Search and Find Activity Book |summary=A difficult task – perhaps excessively so – lies in wait for the Star Wars fan.
  4 KB (641 words) - 09:19, 25 April 2018
• A Gold Star for George by Alice Hemming and Kimberley Scott
  |title=A Gold Star for George |sort= Gold Star for George
  3 KB (591 words) - 13:20, 28 March 2018
• Star Wars: Imperial Assault Activity Book and Model (Star Wars Construction Books) by Emil Fortune and Neal Manning
  |title=Star Wars: Imperial Assault Activity Book and Model (Star Wars Construction Books) ...n U-Wing, turn [[Star Wars Rogue One Book and Model: Make Your Own U-wing (Star Wars Construction Books) by Katrina Pallant and Neal Manning|here]] – but
  3 KB (541 words) - 15:36, 9 April 2018
• Invitation to Die by Helen Smith
  ...he scene is played for laughs, with Emily flitting between each suspect in turn, explaining their motives and then exonerating them one by one until only t ...member of said club and have no intention of giving her wonderful book one star.
  3 KB (550 words) - 15:10, 9 March 2018
• Night Monkey, Day Monkey by Julia Donaldson and Lucy Richards
  ...nce the 'wrong' side of their routine. But what happens when they each in turn wake the other up, and night monkey has to suffer the brightness of day, an ...night monkey was the paler of the two – tufty topknot, perky features, and star in her hair. I had assumed the sense of night and day, light and dark, als
  3 KB (441 words) - 07:57, 25 April 2018
• Ember Fury by Cathy Brett
  ...om pyromania. With a dead mother, an absentee rock-star father and a film star step-mother how is she going to cope? Recommended - and the semi-graphic n Ember Morton-Fury is the daughter of rock super-star Lyndon Fury and artist Amica Morton, who died when Em was a small child. I
  4 KB (602 words) - 12:49, 25 August 2020
• The Radleys by Matt Haig
  ...who has to wear factor 60 sunblock. Clara is wasting away as she tries to turn vegan. Their parents are a normal suburban couple – aren't they? When a b ...nce they gave up drinking human blood – so in a moment of desperation they turn to Will, Peter's brother, who's rather more of a traditional vampire. Thing
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• Reap by Marilyn Bennett
  Melissa's parents turn tragedy into something positive and they become campaigners. Bennett's ver ...nd [[Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Marilyn Bennett|Twinkle Twinkle Little Star]].
  3 KB (547 words) - 08:45, 5 May 2019
• Star Gazing by Linda Gillard
  |title= Star Gazing ...erself and her motives with a clarity we should all envy. She has a pithy turn of phrase and despite all the problems she has an adventurous spirit, so wh
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• Jelly Baby by Jean Ure
  ...ith her own employment agency and she's the sort of person who makes heads turn when she walks into a room. Bitsy (Caroline ''insists'' on calling her 'Fl ...Jean Ure can oblige here too - have a look at [[Star for a Day by Jean Ure|Star for a Day]] which is dyslexia friendly. We also appreciated [[Too Many Blo
  3 KB (571 words) - 11:26, 28 August 2020
• Creepy Caves (Elf Girl and Raven Boy) by Marcus Sedgwick and Pete Williamson (illustrator)
  ...you want now that the shelf is full of these splendid volumes and you can turn the combined thousand pages and pore over the whole adventure again and aga ...for the target audience, which will find nothing to fault. As regards our star rating, you ought to feel free to disregard it for this volume – it is a
  3 KB (502 words) - 07:51, 9 October 2020
• To Hold the Bridge by Garth Nix
  ...d challenge me to add another star. Those new to Garth’s writing might, in turn, think I’ve been over-generous given the mixed nature of the stories in t
  4 KB (647 words) - 10:51, 24 April 2018
• The Story of Matthew Buzzington by Andy Stanton
  ...w held on to one fact though - he knew that he had a superpower. He could turn himself into a fly. There's only one problem. It didn't work. No matter Girls will enjoy [[Star for a Day by Jean Ure]] and [[Bright Star by Jenny Oldfield]]. Boys with a similar reading age will enjoy [[Klaus Vo
  3 KB (570 words) - 16:59, 11 March 2018
• Blackwater (Pendragon) by D J MacHale
  ...series reaches half way with a fifth book that shows no diminishing of its star qualities, with a cat and mouse saga on a world vaguely familiar to fans of ...ertainly enough here that is original. Also, wherever Charlton Heston did turn up, he never found himself as low down the food chain as Bobby Pendragon do
  3 KB (607 words) - 10:14, 23 September 2020
• Trio by William Boyd
  ...use his catchphrase, or include a song from the leading man, whose musical star is fading. ...one must know. Anny's boyfriend, French philosopher Jacques Soldat, could turn up on the set at any time and Ben is Emily's driver, so the relationship wo
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• The Vinyl Detective - The Run-Out Groove: Vinyl Detective 2 by Andrew Cartmel
  ...tep requesting his help in tracing a missing child of a 1960's female rock star whose own death was shrouded in now somewhat cultish mystery, he says no. T ...cluding their friends, enemies and passers-by (not forgetting the cats who turn out to play a nearly-pivotal role at some of the most climactic moments) ta
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• Gone by Midnight by Candice Fox
  |summary=A five star thriller, this starts with a familiar premise but tells its own story with This is a five star thriller of the highest order, and I felt like I was plunged right into the
  3 KB (593 words) - 12:05, 20 December 2018

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