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BfK No. 98 - May 1996

Cover Story
Our illustration this month is from Going to Playschool by Sarah Garland. Sarah Garland is interviewed by Julia Eccleshare. We are grateful to Bodley Head and Puffin Books for their help in producing this cover.

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Nightmare Express

Linda Hoy
(Collins)
978-0006749264, RRP £3.99, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
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Yet another horror story but it's funny, full of terror and awful jokes, as it weaves three stories together. Marie and Teresa take a day trip away from their convent school to research the saint with the severed hand; Don Valley escapes from the mental hospital; and the pub quiz team battle for the final. All three come together in a wonderful pantomime of a story that has a nicely cathartic ending for Don, If only all teenage horror stories had as much life in them.

Reviewer: 
Adrian Jackson
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