Sparks, to be a work of fiction – contains explicit material. Full of compassion for the angst of adolescence, we recommend it as a cautionary tale about the dangers of drug use; but be sure your teen is ready.
3 Best enjoyed after having read the previous two titles in the Earthsea cycle.
4 Adventures are to chapter books as gin is to tonic. How could we restrict ourselves?
5 Yes, you read that right. The centipede would like others to believe he has the full quotient of a hundred feet, as his name would suggest. But, as Dahl clearly knew, most centipedes in fact do not.
6 We did say our cures were ‘almost’ always fiction.
7 By, respectively, Sam McBratney, illustrated by Anita Jeram; Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd; the Rev. W Awdry; and Arnold Lobel.
8 By Daniel Defoe.
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