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[[Category:New Reviews|Emerging Readers]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil EarleNigel Baines|title= SuperDad's Day Off|rating= 4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Stanley's dad is tired. It can be exhausting work being a Superhero. For six days of the week he saves the world from disasters and defeats the baddies as Dynamo Dan. Stanley decides his poor dad needs a day off and is determined to make sure that he gets a proper rest. So they head off to the park for some much needed Dad and Son bonding time. However people don't seem to understand that even Superheroes need time to recuperate. The requests for help keep on coming so what can poor Stanley do other than step in to save the day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126844</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Yuval Zommer|title=The Big Book A Tricky Kind of Beasts (Big Books)Magic
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|summary=If you haven't already, meet DotCooper loves to perform magic tricks. She's an ace child detective, inspired by her favourite TV programmeHis father was a magician, and her pet dog and best friend from schoolnamed Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But at least one of those is left behind this timesadly Cooper's father died suddenly, as Dot and the rest of her class go now Cooper doesn't quite know who to an adventure camp playground for a couple of nights. Daytimes are spent being sporty and adventurousbe, as are the evenings supposed or how to be, but someone seems intent on ruining things for Dot. What is the evil and bragging Laura up And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to?him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008132429</amazonuk>1444960261
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg McLarenJane Lightbourne|title=Pigeon P.I.My Cat Called Red|rating=34
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|summary=The world Robin has red hair. He hates it, and the freckles that go along with it. He's been bullied and mocked at school because of birds it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are mean. But red hair is not Robin's only misery in a flaplife. TheyHe're being nabbed – plucked from the air (or at least from their cages)s already lost his dad to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and is taken into hospital. Murray MacMurray, the brilliant pigeon private eye, She doesn't want anything to do with crime now his old partner has flown the roost, but an eager and bright young thing might just about persuade him to take up the casecome home again. But both will have to be plucky to survive the dangers it leads to…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783444835</amazonuk>1838216812
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catharina Valckx Francesca Simon and Nicolas HubeschSteve May|title=BrunoTwo Terrible Vikings
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|summary=Meet Bruno. NoIn a small Viking village there live two twins, not that Bruno – for pity's sakeHack and Whack, this is a book for who are eager to be the under-eights and not a character from teen comedy movies. very worst Vikings ever! NoNothing can stop their mad marauding, Bruno is as they cause havoc at a quite unmistakeable catbirthday party, in chaos whilst tracking a bright blue cloth captroll, and this is undertake a book regarding various days in his life that he thinks are of note – whether they're the day the power goes out, or a day that would be completely uninteresting were it not for a joke from his best friend. grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! But don't you dare make the mistake They get up to all kinds of thinking this sounds mundane – here is a background couple, of a hippo mischief and a crocodile, just walking past the heroes. Here is said best friend, an elderly ponynaughty behaviour, forced somehow to walk backwards. Here is when Bruno is playing host to a turtle dove addicted to jam, who is forced to hide when a wet along with their wolf gate-crashes. I think you'll agree that any day spent reading this book will not be a boring onecub Bitey-Bitey, and their crazy cast of friends.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1776571258</amazonuk>0571349498
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Colgan1838593187|title=Polly and Guess What I Found in the Puffin: The New FriendPlayground!|author=Victoria Thompson
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|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Polly was just about to start Big School and, being honest, she wasn't keenTilly is excited. She couldn't wear her spotty wellies for one thing, but worst s just come dashing out of allthe classroom, she couldn't take Neil with pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on herface. We heard about Neil the rescued puffin in the [[Polly Dad's come to collect her and the Puffin by Jenny Colgan|first book]] in this series her brother and although Neil now he ''has a nest '' to try to guess what she found in the nearby lighthouseplayground today, although she concedes that he and Polly are still very closewill never guess. When she gets Dad wants to know how school Polly doesnwas, but ''obviously''t really feel like joining in any of the games: shethat's the lonely little figure on the edge of everythingnot important. Her teacher suggests that she and Ronita make friends: Could Tilly have you ever noticed how ''difficult'' it is to even speak when someone suggests something like thatfound more collectable things for her scrap box? Polly and Ronita don(Isn't make friends - they end up shouting at each other in that so much more sensible than a scrap 'mine's bigger/better than yoursbook'' argument. ?) What about? Well, birds of courseactually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. Ronita has a macawThere are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to guess.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510200908</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Frau IsaInnosanto Nagara|title=Little People, Big Dreams: Marie CurieM is for Movement
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers|summary=Some little girls want to be princessesSet in Indonesia, but in the girl who would become Marie Curie wanted to be not too distant past, this is a scientiststory about social change. She was from a poor family in Warsaw but she was determined to do well Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and won a gold medal for her studiesnepotism, the book is neither boring nor preachy. In PolandIt educates gently, in the middle of the nineteenth centurywith vibrant, only men were allowed to go to Universitychallenging illustrations, so Marie moved to Paris where she had to study in an unfamiliar languageand it portrays how social movements need people who will try, but was soon the best maths and science student. It was here even when it seems that she met and married Pierre Curie, another scientist and they jointly discovered radium and polonium: they would eventually win the Nobel Prize for Physics for this workwill fail. Marie was the first woman to receive the honour. Pierre was killed The message is a positive one; that in a road accidentan increasingly uncertain world, but Marie went on we do still have the power to win a second Nobel Prize, this time for Chemistry. Her work is still benefiting people todayinstigate change.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809618</amazonuk>1609809351
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Elisa Munso1949471004|title=Little People, Big DreamsDog on a Log Chapter Books: Agatha ChristieStep 1|author=Pamela Brookes
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=As a What do you do when your child Agatha Christie has dyslexia and her mother would read a book together every afternoonyou need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but there were early signs the sounds in the book might not be the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of what a negative effect on the future novelist would become: she always had young dyslexic than a better idea about how the story should endchild without that problem. She would read in bed You need to be able to buy books at night and detective novels were always her favouritesa reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. In You need a story which engages the First World War Agatha, who was then in her early twenties, nursed wounded soldiers in hospitals: her experiences with poisons young mind and toxic potions would be put to good use when her first detective novels were published just after you need stages which progress steadily through the end of the warlearning process without there being any large jumps. Most people have heard of her first Some online support and most famous detective games wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - Hercule Poirot and ''learning'' to read - or of Miss Marpleshould be a pleasure. Mrs ChristieIt should be ''fun''s novels were widely read and her plays were very popular in theatres.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809596</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen and Tony Ross099334030X|title=Barking for BagelsCan You Draw the Dragosaur?|author=Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts
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|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=You're going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. When you see the title page, you'Barking for Bagelsll find out what the book's called and that it' is s been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the story of Schnipp the dog, who loves her owners very much, though she does find their snickering illustration - and there's a little annoying from time gap. ''You'' are going to timeput your name there. One day, whilst out It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for a walk in this book about one of the park, she starts largest creatures ever to run away, and she finds that once she starts running she canroam the earth. There't stops some help available, and she runs and she runs until she finds Bessie but your name is on the Bagel lady title page - and thus discovers her new favourite food, and her new home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178344505X</amazonuk>you have work to do!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Szirtes and Tim Archbold1609809335|title=How to be a TigerThe Lizard|author= Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|rating=4.52|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseEmerging Readers |summary=One day a giant lizard appears in the city. We don''Wet againt even get told how it arrived, yet again! but it certainly appeared. Down People took against it drips, little fingertips, tapping and snapping as if the rain were cross.they weren''<br>''See the branches toss? See the puddles grow? Has t shrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it stopped raining?NO.'' Yes, sometimes only a quote will dothey wanted something done about it. After allCan something be done about it, we do come to poetry for snappy concision, and that's what we get here…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959200</amazonuk>though?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Gough and Jim Field1789016320|title=Rabbit Tadcaster and Bear: The Pest in the NestBullies|author=Richard Rutherford
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|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Rabbit was struggling. There he In some ways it was having a nicegentler time: video games were around, peaceful sleep in his friend Bear's cave when a terrible noise woke himbut children usually went outside to enjoy themselves. Was it thunder? No, it They flew kites and went sledging if there was Bear snoringsnow around. Very loudlyTim and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventies. Rabbit tried putting his paws over his ears although thatSomething which hasn's t changed, unfortunately, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not very successful when you have small paws just for Tim and very big earsMary but for other children who gather in the playground. But there was something good: when Rabbit went outside Tim's probably about ten - just at the cave stage where he realised that spring had sprung. Suddenly he felt 's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who'strong''. After a winter spent in his friend Bears two years younger than him, but he's cave it was time not yet at the stage where he knows how to go home to his burrow. Only there was a surprise lurking there - and it looked suspiciously like a snakedeal with bullies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934260</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amy LeeB01N0OZQOD|title=Amy Lee and the Darkness HexNickerbacher|author=Terry John Barto|rating=34
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|summary=Amy Lee wakes up from one Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of her usual dreamscourse, where she combats an evil pirateprincess-guarding. You would think that was the only nastiness in her life – she lives in a lovely place in the Land of LoveThat's what dragons are for, and doesnafter all. But Gwendolyn isn't have to worry about paying for steaks for her nine dogs, nor salmon for her catsany princess. She can go to her favourite tree who will entertain her with a story, finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she can go adventuring with her bottomless rucksack, and spend all day daydreaming of a wicked new house for her dogs… Until is much less interested in fairy tales than she sees threatening purple clouds over the forestsis in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. And not even Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in this fantasy world do you want fact, it's his favourite TV show because he wants to see purple clouds…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407172239</amazonuk>be a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilary McKay0008265836|title=The Sticky WitchRory Branagan Detective|author=Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyEmerging Readers |summary=Tom and EllieTen-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. He's parents have set sail around the world on a raft made of rubbish! They tell the children that they will be gone for detective and he has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three years? Rory doesn't know where to start but, but it will go by very quickly then, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. This is just as well as theysoon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy'll be safe s dad has been poisoned and happy is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in the company of Aunt Tabdanger. But who is this strange lady who applied for the job of caring for two wonderful children It's up to Rory and their cat, Whiskers? She doesn't seem Cassidy to be uncover the kind guardian that the children need, truth and why is everything in her house so very, very sticky?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125996</amazonuk>save a life.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Escoffier and Kris Di Giacomo0192758748|title=Where's Horace & Harriet Take on the BaBOOn?Town|author=Clare Elsom|rating=3.54|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=The title of When Harriet, aged seven and a book quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the Park on Her Own' (i.e. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can be an important indication 't believe her eyes. The statue of what you are about Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Third (or Horace for short) starts to move. He not only moves but stamps his foot, shouts something that would get yourself intohim in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, and climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can''Wheret resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the town as Horace searches for a new – and more suitable – home. His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's the BaBOOn?'' is mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a subtly different than ''Wherebetter alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to the Baboon?'' Can you spot the surprising difference? One book is about finding the missing monkeymuseum, cinema, train station, playground, the other is waiting for the missing monkey to find youbank and library all cause mayhem. ThereforeLuckily, grab this book at your perilhowever, knowing that at some point a Baboon will say BOO!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444827</amazonuk>competition in the park reveals the perfect answer.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andy Croft and Alan MarksSaulles_Bee|title=Tarzan and Bee Boy: Clash of the BlackshirtsKiller Queens|author=Tony De Saulles
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|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=1930s London, Young Mel's friend has left and the streets are rife with racial dividesbeehive is now his to look after. Unfortunately, to Mel lives in a tower block and not all of his neighbours agree that it is the extent that people on correct place for a hive. Things change when Mel suddenly realises he has an amazing superpower; he can become a bee.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Davidson_Night|title=Night Zookeeper: The Giraffes of Whispering Wood|author=Joshua Davidson|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers |summary=A straight-laced student makes one side defiant act of creativity and has a world of magic and imagination opened up for him. Will is the road, generally new Night Zookeeper and his tenure in the role of one ethnic origin, hate protector to a magical world starts with the residents from some other background living on the otherrepulsion of a dangerous invasion. Our narrator Sam Joshua Davidson has no reason written about the Night Zookeeper before and there are online cartoons devoted to hate anyone, apart from those in the other gangs, like Alfcharacter but this marks a new launch and a new series. But when they latch on This is not just a book but a whole online event with huge educational tie-ins and a push to each other as best friends, despite Sam being Jewish and Alf having Irish blood, it seems nothing can stop themget children using their own imagination. But The story itself mirrors what the author is trying to achieve in times like that – and, real life; the power of course, in times like 2017 – that doesn't necessarily mean friendships can't be broken…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910170399</amazonuk>the imagination makes everything better.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody RevensonSeuss_Read|title=Incredibuilds: House-Elves: Deluxe Book and Model Set (Harry Potter)I Can Read With My Eyes Shut|author=Dr Seuss
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers |summary=How do ''The more that you create a house-elf like Dobby? Wellread, ''<br>''The more things you have a tennis ball on a string, and point actors so they look at it, and say their lines to a pretty-much empty spacewill know. You then film Toby Jones doing the elf's lines'<br>''The more that you learn, and use that sound file and his facial expressions as basis for your CGI creation – the first major character to come from the digital realm in the ''Harry Potter<br>''The more places you' filmsll go. You can throw in '' This is a few puppetsclassic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and now and again a gifted small person, particularly at one that I painstakingly stickered onto the end wall of film #7… my children's school library! OrThe book is very silly, of courseas Dr Seuss always is, you can get this gift set, and press but is also a good rhyming ode to the wooden parts out, muckle them together – and lo and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsilljoys of reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul ThurlbyNeal_Words|title= NY is for New YorkWords and Your Heart|author=Kate Jane Neal|rating= 54|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Long gone are the days when children didn't travelTrolling, bullying, and picture books had to be about animals. And while your precyber-schoolers might not be planning solo trips to the States any time soonshaming, whatever-it's never too early -called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and stones is actually a lot of piffle. In a world where we all have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say to get them and older siblings interested in other places people is positive. We can examine our world and the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other cultures. ''NY is for New York'' is a themed alphabet booksmile, based around the city that never sleepslaugh, sing and it's chock full of facts be happy together, and figures about bit by bit the world can be a city I lovebetter place. And hang the 'no, teaching me many new things I didnafter you't know about a place attitude some people would have in response. There, I'm familiar with from visits and TV shows and manyve given the entire plot of this book away in my summary, many Manhattan booksbut that's not really an issue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444930311</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr SeussTavares_Red|title=Dr Seuss: A Classic TreasuryRed and Lulu|author=Matt Tavares|rating=4.5 |genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Sitting on my shelf is well thumbed bookMeet Red and Lulu. I have had it since They're a child committed couple of cardinals and even to this day pick it up once they have lived for some time in a while and read its contents. What is this tome? A slice of classic childrensomeone's literature garden, safely in an evergreen tree. It seems to them that taught me all about every year people mention their home in a lovely song, which tells the absurd and that words could be played withtree thy leaves are so unchanging. This was not ''Wind in But one year, just as the seasons turn for the cold of winter, the Willows'' or 'Swiss Family Robinson''tree vanishes, my classic is a Dr Seuss Omnibus that contained four of his books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007234260</amazonuk>taking Lulu with it…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex T SmithDickens_Search|title=Santa ClaudeSearch and Find A Christmas Carol|author=Charles Dickens, Sarah Powell and Louise Pigott|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing Emerging Readers |summary=Ah Claude! He is such an endearing little dog. HeRecently I got to applaud a book that branched away from the Where's back on an adventure with Sir Bobblysock Wally? style volume, and this time taught the explorer about a non-fiction subject as they went a-searching. Well, it seems tweaking the form is going to be a big thing, for this book tries yet another different approach – to teach us about a Christmas adventurefictional story. There are baubles and trees and carols and reindeer They've started at the deep end, with a book hastening towards being two centuries old, andone that has been adapted countless times before now, yet always has people returning to it at a certain time of the year for its ageless lesson. But does the rich content of courseDickens, there's trouble! For who else but Claude would accidentally handcuff Santa to an armchair on Christmas Eveeven at his most populist, and then need to deliver all the presents himselfsurvive this quirky variation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444926497</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Benji DaviesSeuss_Eggs|title= The Storm Whale in WinterScrambled Eggs Super|author=Dr Seuss|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingEmerging Readers |summary= Peter T. Hooper doesn't mean to show off, but he is ''very'' good at cooking. Some would say he is ''The Storm Whale in Winter Best'' capital T, capital B. And his signature dish is a sequel to the highly popular The Storm Whalescrambled eggs. NoiYou might think that's father embarks on quite an easy dish, one last fishing trip before the Arctic Winter sets in. All alone, with his six cats, Noi patiently waits for his fatherwhich it's return. As night sets and the sea begins a little hard to freeze, Noi starts to worry and believes he can see his Dadshowcase one's boat from his bedroom windowprowess, but not so. For Peter T. Full of courageHooper, he sets off out in the snow to find what makes his Dad. Getting lost in the blizzard, Noi scrambled eggs so super is in need of help which comes in the form of his old friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147111998X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jill Tomlinson and Paul Howard|title= The Owl Who Was Afraid choice of the Dark|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= If you think you know everything about owlsegg itself, think again. Even the basic things that you THINK are a given may turn and he will go out of his way to be wrong. Plop is an adorable 8 week old baby owl and he has procure the feathers and the beak and the all-around owl look, with two crucial differences: he's not very good at flying, and he's afraid best of the darkbest from whatever nest. Which, for a nocturnal creature, is a bit of a problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281847</amazonuk>
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