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Flour Babies by Anne Fine |
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Simon and his class are given six-pound bags of flour to look after as though they were real babies. Through this curious school project Simon begins to understand something about the strains of parenthood and why his parents behave as they do.
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Northern Lights by Philip Pullman |
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Lyra must overcome terror and life-threatening perils in her quest to find a friend who has disappeared. Like a modern more grown-up version of Hans Christian Anderson's The Snow Queen, Pullman's beautiful, sparely written book is a real page-turner that even the most sophisticated adult would find hard to resist.
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River Boy by Tim Bowler |
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"You are not the same person at the end of this book" was the verdict of the Carnegie judges who awarded Bowler's book the Gold Medal back in 1998. There is something distanced yet intense about Bowler's writing style, as though the ordinariness of everyday life has been lifted into a kind of hyper-reality. And that is what it feels like for Jess, whose grandpa is dying in hospital and who refuses to let go.
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