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|author= Emma Carroll
|title=Strange Star
|rating= 5
|genre= Confident Readers
|summary= It is June 1816 at a villa on the shores of Lake Geneva and a group of friends are gathered together to tell ghost stories. There is one rule for the evening and that is that their stories must be ''a tale to freeze the blood.'' As the summer storm builds up outside there is a frantic knocking at the door and events take a more chilling turn than any of their stories.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571317650</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lewis Carroll and Tony Ross
|summary= The Victorian era in London – a time of expansion and exploration, but also of poverty, dark alleyways, youthful pickpockets and moustache-twirling villains. Well, so writers like Charles Dickens would have us believe, and readers can be pretty sure that a detective mystery set in the glittering world of the nineteenth century music hall will have colour, excitement and danger in profusion.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857634860</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lincoln Peirce
|title=Big Nate Blasts Off
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=First things first, no – that title is not the puerile British schoolboy's meaning of blasting off. I'm not entirely sure why the book is called that, to be honest. But I do know that said British schoolboy – and many from many other countries too – will take to these pages, even if they have never seen any of the other books in [[:Category:Lincoln Peirce|this series]]. The humble hero with the spiky hair and quick wit is in trouble with (a) his comics of the teachers, (b) his finding the time to practise Ultimate Frisbee for an interschool cup, and (c) his emotions, as he falls big-time for the delightful Ruby Dinsmore. Yes, the very Ruby Dinsmore the main school bully also wants to hang out with…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008135312</amazonuk>
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