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|title=The First Book of Calamity Leek

|sort=First Book of Calamity Leek, The

|publisher=Hutchinson

|date=February 2013

|video=v32IZBgvYlM

|summary=Unusual and compelling. Even though some aspects of the story aren't convincing I couldn't stop reading.

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I know I'm going to face a dilemma in reviewing this book, because, really, the best way to approach it is to come at it knowing nothing at all. And it's very hard to write about it without giving some important things away! Let's start with the basics, in that this is a story told by Calamity Leek, a child living together with her 'sisters', taken care of by 'aunty' and occasionally visited by 'mother'. Calamity is in charge of a book called the Appendix, in which everything the girls could possibly need to know about their lives is written. They live closeted in their own small farmyard area, protected from the outside world by 'the wall', their enemies being the 'injuns' and 'demonmales'. I know, that's a lot of words in quotes. Let me explain...