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|author=Cornelia Funke

|title=Dragon Rider

|rating=4

|genre=Confident Readers

|summary=My daughter first read ''Dragon Rider'' when she discovered it in her school library aged about 8. She loved it, so much so that she borrowed it over and over, reading and re-reading it, her head full of dragons. I finally sat down to give it a read myself, excited at the prospect of a good fantasy story. Firedrake is the one, brave dragon from a small dragon community who, when faced with the incoming humans who will destroy their home, decides to go out into the world to try to find the Rim of Heaven, a hidden home for the dragons. There's a far-ranging, adventurous journey, and there are fantasy creatures galore, such as Firedrake's brownie friend, Sorrel, a djinn, a basilisk, a sea serpent and the big baddie, Nettlebrand.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911077856</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author= Cassandra Clare

And to save the lives of others, she must risk her own...

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762907</amazonuk>

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~~|author= Fleur Jaeggy and Gini Alhadeff (translator)~~

~~|title= I Am The Brother Of XX~~

~~|rating= 4~~

~~|genre= Short Stories~~

|summary=''I Am The Brother of XX'' is a collection of twenty one short stories from Fleur Jaeggy, who expertly wields malevolence and spite throughout, from the evil done between husband and wife in ''The Aviary'', a nasty tale of Oedipal menace and vicious, although admittedly, artful cruelty, to senseless annihilation and immolation in ''The Heir''. Jaeggy also appears to have a particular fascination with religion, from the nun receiving a rather special sort of communion in ''The Visitor'' to general references to the Church and religious devotion throughout many of her stories. Family is also a recurrent theme; whether focused on the distance between siblings in the titular story, told from the point of view of a brother filled with longing and loneliness trying to create a bond with his distant older sister, or the primal need to protect the bond between mother and son, regardless of the cost in ''Adelaide''.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911508024</amazonuk>~~

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