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|title=Unleashed 2: Mind Over Matter

|author=Ali Sparkes

|reviewer=John Lloyd

|publisher=OUP Oxford

|date=January 2013

|summary=Some of Ms Sparkes's typically great writing, but the place this has in a huge ten-book undertaking means this is definitely not for all.

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To recap; this is the second in a series of five stand-alone books, where [[:Category:Ali Sparkes|Ali Sparkes]] drags all the minor characters from her first, Shapeshifter, set of five books out into the daylight. They've all got to be introduced with the intention to make us aware how rare it is that they see the light of day – as Children of Limitless Ability they're normally stuck in a school for the superpowered. But here are Gideon and Luke, the boys who can move things with thoughts alone, on holiday. For their own adventure Sparkes has put them together with prehistoric animals, a girl with a weirdly old-fashioned, almost Dickensian problem, and a dog called Fish. Oh, and some very nasty men with guns…

[[Into That Forest by Louis Nowra]] will pack a punch with its tale of isolated children, and appeal to fans of the outdoorsy side of Ali Sparkes' writing.

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