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|summary=Subhi is ten years old. He has lived his whole life in a detention centre for refugees in Australia. He is Rohingya and his mother and sister fled persecution in their native Burma while his mother was expecting him. They left Subhi's father behind and are waiting for him to join them. Subhi believes that his father is sending him secret messages contained in tokens that wash up from the Great Sea of his imagination. And these tokens mean a great deal to Subhi because the camp isn't a very nice place. His tent sleeps fifty people. The food is inedible. Water runs out on a regular basis. There's no school because the classroom burned down. And the guards? Well, with the exception of Harvey, they are not very nice people.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510101543</amazonuk>
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|title=Children of Icarus
|author=Caighlan Smith
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Daedalum's children have one collective ambition. They pray to be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between the ages of ten and sixteen who will enter the labyrinth, find their way through it to Alyssia, and become angels. Every child yearns to be chosen. Every parent yearns for their child to be chosen. Clara, our girl's best friend, is the most devout of everyone. She knows she is destined to become an angel. Our girl, though, does not want to be chosen. In her society, this is such a badge of shame that she keeps silent. And, along with Clara, chosen she is.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>
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|author= Claire Hennessy
|title= Nothing Tastes as Good
|rating= 4
|genre= Teens
|summary= As warnings against disordered eating go, this one is quite interesting. Annabel, you see, is already dead when we meet her. She got too thin and one day that was it, her body ceased to function. Her mind, however, is still sharp.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405745</amazonuk>
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|author= Jennifer Bell
|title= The Uncommoners: The Crooked Sixpence
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Confident Readers
|summary= What exactly happened all those years ago when Granma had that car accident and lost her memory? Why is the man with the withered hands sneaking in and out of hospital rooms? And why is the policeman standing outside their house brandishing a . . . toilet brush? In this, the first in a series of three books about eleven-year-old Ivy and her fourteen-year-old brother Seb, we explore the mystery of the land beneath London, and why Ivy's family is so crucial to the future of life in both worlds.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552572500</amazonuk>
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|author= Amnesty International
|title= Here I Stand
|rating= 5
|genre= Teens
|summary= Every so often Amnesty International gets together a number of great authors and produces an anthology of writing. This time, they've done it for younger readers with ''Here I Stand''. Twenty-five contributions explore where we are with human rights in today's society: the sacrifices many made to win them; the sacrifices that still need to be made to spread them; how, where and why these rights are under attack and how deep is the need to defend them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140635838X</amazonuk>
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