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|author=Marie HarbonLinda Howard|title=Seven Point Eight: The First ChronicleShadow Woman|rating=3.54|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=Following several main characters - scientist Paul, businessman Max, remote viewer Tahra Prelude: the President of the United States and mystery woman Ava the First Lady are on what is not being called a campaign tour. It is. It is most definitely a re- across two time frames spanning the 1940s election campaign; it's just not supposed to be. They retire to their suite for the present daynight, ''Seven Point Eight'' blends science fiction and fantasy in the protection detail of the Secret Service are looking forward to a sprawling, absorbing, diffuse novel that will attract fans shift change at the end of both genresa long day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005IBYKC00749955848</amazonuk>

|author=Manuel RivasAnthony Quinn|title=All Is SilenceThe Streets|rating=34.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Anthony Quinn's ''The small community of Noitía Streets'' is a place where everyone knows each other and each other’s business, which considering most of set in London in the adults are involved early 1880s in the one businessarea known as Somers Town, smugglingwhich to those not familiar with London geography is the area around Euston, is potentially dangerous knowledgeSt Pancras and King's Cross stations. We follow a small group Today, much of three young friends growing up this falls under the trendy Camden area, but in the area as they play and learn and even experience a little 1880s, was the site of some of the black market dealingsworst slum tenements in the capital. They stumble across a stash Some 50 years' earlier, Charles Dickens lived in this part of smuggled whisky London and are caught although he had died by the charismatic king pin responsible for time this is set, the depiction of the traffickingpoverty is not far from what we would term Dickensian. The book is narrated by David Wildeblood, who teaches them that silence is a principled but naive young man who finds employment as an 'investigator' for the charismatic Mr Marchmont's ''The Labouring Classes of London'' - a strange mix of social geography and journalism publishing regular stories of the most important lesson to learn when growing up poor who reside in Noitíathe slums of London.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655568X0099575159</amazonuk>

|author=Royce ProutyJulia Green|title=Stoker's ManuscriptThis Northern Sky|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=In a world where vampires are Kate is not happy. Still raw from the new romantic heroesdisaster with Sam, Stoker’s Manuscript is she's been whisked away on a bit of long holiday with her parents to a Godsendremote Hebridean island. IEven discounting a broken heart, for one, am absolutely delighted this is not the type of holiday a vivacious teenage girl wants to find some good old fashioned evil as sin, night dwelling, blood guzzling, crucifix hating Romanian villainsgo on. And there's more. Kate's parents have been rowing of late. Of course, And she knows that this means sacrificing sexiness, romance and attractively sulking out of a window but since what we get in exchange holiday is stunning views of Transylvania, thought-through biology (for want of a better word) of the creatures last ditch attempt to save their marriage. It's not something she wants to sit and stakes that are elevated beyond one personobserve, I say sharpen up the spike pitday after day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995744541408820692</amazonuk>

|author=Paul HollywoodMargo Lanagan|title=Paul Hollywood's Bread: How to make great breads into even greater mealsYellowcake|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryShort Stories|summary=It was a happy accident which started me watching Paul Hollywood's television series about bread and baking - and it quickly became compulsive viewing. We were predisposed to the basic idea as it's many years since we last bought a loaf, but we've should always used a bread-makermake time for short stories. The results have been good and far better than anything you could buy anywhere but an artisan bakery, but there Especially if they are limitations as to what you can makewritten by Margo Lanagan. I was tempted to see what else we could achieve and whilst the television series didn't promise that it would be ''easy'In ' it did leave me with confidence that we could do 'Yellowcake'better''. Buying the book was the next step.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408840693</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mike Smith|title=The Hundred Decker Bus|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Can you imagine if one day, you're on the bus to town and suddenly the driver decides to take a different road? Perhaps he carries on down this road, just traveller boy uses three items to see where it might goreunite an old man with his memories. I know what I'd be doing, and it isn't sitting happily in my seat waiting to see where we end A boy with a crippled foot watches his townfolk butcher a beautiful creature washed up! However, in fiction anything can happen and their harbour. Rapunzel gets a makeover in this story, when which things turn out differently. We find out how the Ferryman of the Dead became the driver heads off on his own little jaunt, his passengers come along quite happily with him!Ferrywoman. And more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02307545891849921113</amazonuk>

|author=Gillian Shields David Levithan and Cally Johnson-IsaacsAndrea Cremer|title=Elephantantrum!Invisibility

|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=Ellie Stephen is one of ''those'' children. You know, the sort you see lying on the floor in the supermarket screaming that they won't go anywhere until you buy them the pink fairy doll cursed with the flashing wandinvisibility. WeHe've all s never been thereseen by anyone, or at least I have an awful memory of trying to fold my daughter back into her pushchair in M&S and her going stiff as a board and screaming a high pitched scream for what felt like 5 hours rather than 5 minutes! Anywayeven his parents. Elizabeth isn't invisible, Ellie gets whatever but sometimes she wants when wishes she wants itwas. After problems back home, and this time she's decided that hoping to make a new start in New York City by blending into the background. Then she wants an elephantmeets Stephen, and can see him. Her dad manages to get What is it about her one, but once the elephant arrives Ellie finds that sometimes getting what you wish 's so special? The two fall for isn't quite what you actually wanted...each other hard - but in a world full of spells and curses, does love stand a chance?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14449040190141348879</amazonuk>

|author=Peter MooreChris Ward|title=Damn His BloodOut of Office: Being a True Work Where You Like and Detailed History of the Most Barbarous and Inhumane Murder at Oddingley and the Quick and Awful RetributionAchieve More|rating=4.53|genre=True CrimeLifestyle|summary=In 1806 'Imbibe coffee and become imbued with an entrepreneurial spirit' would be an apt summary of the Reverend George Parker was Rector gist of 'Out of OddingleyOffice' by Chris Ward. If you choose to read the book, a quiet little Worcestershire villagebe prepared to receive inspiration rather than practical instruction on how to build an empire, if anything. Married with a small daughterThis is not to discredit the book; it is attractively designed, full of fundraising event photos and company founder portraits, he was also a part-time farmer motivational quotes and kept a herd brief enthusiastic testimonies of four dairy cows which were taken by a servant to graze the interviewees featured. But in a meadow in the north terms of his parish every morning. This gave him content, it doesn’t offer substantial advice on how to make that leap from the chance office cubicle – a context quite heavily vilified by Ward – to enjoy a gentle stroll along the peaceful lanes when he went to fetch them home in existence of the afternoon for milkingcreatively liberated mover and shaker.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995546740957612303</amazonuk>

|author=Hilary ReylRuth Thomas|title=Lessons In FrenchThe Home Corner

|summary=American graduate Kate leaves the States for When you finish your Highers, you’re supposed to go on to university, especially if you’re a job in Parisgirl like Luisa. But she’s failed hers, working so for a [[The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger]] style bossnow higher education is out, world famous photo-journalist Lydia Schelland working is unfortunately in. She’s lived in France beforeSo, so she thinks she knows what she’s letting herself finds a job working as a classroom assistant in fora primary school. She doesn’t. So while the title doesn’t refer It’s not something she ever wanted to the language itself (do, and she is beautifully fluent even before she arrives)finds herself in a weird sort of limbo, there are many lessons for her to learn, from how to act as at a go-life stage somewhere between for Lydia and the children in her husband Clarence (and his graduate students)class, to how to handle the handsome Olivier and the ''bon chic bon genre'' boys, to where to source the lavish ingredients her employer needs for dinner or how to make a proper timeline. The Berlin Wall is about to fall, the continent is buzzing, and Kate is a part of it, for better or worsegrown-up adult colleagues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007446268057123061X</amazonuk>

|author=Frances BrodyKate Maryon|title=Murder In The Afternoon: (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)Invisible Girl

|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=Kate Shackleton's business The day that it happened, that everything changed for Gabriella had felt the same as any other. If she had realised that she would not sleep in her own bed again she may have snuggled down for a private investigator is beginning to attract interest but when there's a loud banging on the door little longer. If she had known how very early one morning hungry she would get she soon learns the truth would have made time for an extra piece of the old adage toast that when family comes in, money doesn'tmorning. The visitor ''looks'' familiar but Kate can't quite place where If Gabriella had known what was going to happen she's seen may have begged her Dad to change his mind. However in the woman before. Eventually it emerges that Mary Jane Armstrong is Kate's sister. Kate space of twenty four hours Gabriella was adopted as a baby to lose her home, her Dad, her school and knew nothing of her natural family but Mary Jane needs helpbest friend. Her children had taken food for their father at the quarry where he worked She finds herself totally alone and ten-year-old Harriet reported finding her father dead stakes everything on the floor of the hut, but when searchers returned being able to the quarry there was no sign of a body or of Ethan Armstrong either. Local opinion said that find her husband had abandoned thembrother, Beckett, but Mary Jane believed her daughterwhom she has not seen for several years. She believes if she can find Beckett she will have found a home and a family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07499548760007466900</amazonuk>

|author=Ryu MurakamiPeter Bently and Russel Ayto|title=From The Fatherland, With LoveDustbin Dad|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionEmerging Readers|summary=From The Fatherland, With Love ''Dustbin Dad'' is a 2005 Japanese novel set in cautionary tale aimed at all of those children who leave food on their plate at the end of a meal. Dad likes nothing better than to polish off the then-near future leftovers, much to the disgust of his family. One day, however, he gobbles down a pint of 2011something that tastes like fish chowder. Fatherland (Unfortunately, it is cat medicine and it has some very strange side effects indeed, as I will abbreviate it) explores dad discovers when he hears a loud rip and a long tail pops out of the social and political ramifications back of one speculative scenario: what if North Korea invaded Japan?his trousers...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19089684511847388744</amazonuk>

|author=Elizabeth LoupasEllen Crimi-Trent|title=The Second DuchessMy School Day|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)For Sharing|summary=Elizabeth Loupas, it seemsThe feature that initially attracted me to ''My School Day'' was the huge, was not interactive clock face on the first author front cover. Learning to be inspired by tell the intrigue and scandal of time is such an important life skill, but sometimes young children can struggle with the renaissance court of Ferreraconcept. The poem 'My Last Duchess' by Robert BrowningA hands-on approach, first published in 1842 is combining the senses of sight and touch can be an elegiac account reflecting the popular view that Duke Alfonso d’Este murdered his first wife Lucrezia de Medici because effective method of her unfaithfulnessteaching. Loupas explores some of the themes raised in the poem The child is learning through play and cleverly combines elements having lots of Browning’s work with true historical accounts to create an appealing murder-mystery set against fun at the sumptuous backdrop of renaissance Italysame time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18480938371849158533</amazonuk>

|author=Emma StraubFuminori Nakamura|title=Laura Lamont's Life in PicturesEvil and the Mask|rating=34.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Small town girl Ella Emerson loves acting - her father runs The novel begins when the protagonist is only eleven years old, and spans the Cherry County Playhouserest of his life, alternating between the past and she's always been captivated by the stagepresent in the first half of the novel, until we catch up with the present day. She loves watching At the actors performstart young Fumihiro is summoned to the room of his elderly father, and getting involved in shows where she canthe present president of the Kuki Group of interlinked corporations across Japan. Following What transpires next is a family tragedymonologue from Fumihiro's father, though, she moves telling the boy he was bred to Hollywood to marry an actor be a cancer on the world and reinvents herself as Laura Lamontspread unhappiness. QuicklyFumihiro's father ends with introducing Fumihiro to his new adopted sister, she outshines her new husband. Can her successKaori, and their relationship, last?informing them both that when they turn fourteen Kaori will be an integral cog in the plan to break Fumihiro's spirit; to 'show him hell'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14472032081616952121</amazonuk>

|author=Suzanne RindellKatherine Longshore|title=The Other TypistTarnish|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The Other Typist is set in 1920s New York City, with Prohibition at its height and Rose Baker, an orphaned young woman, working as a police typist. While she has no real friends, she's good at her job and seems to have the respect of the Sergeant, whom she admires and the Lieutenant Detective, whom she's less keen on. Then a perfect storm comes into their lives, in the shape of the enchanting Odalie, and nothing will be the same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241002885</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alex Gutteridge|title=Last Chance Angel|rating=3.54

|summary=Jess turns up at Anne Boleyn is coming back to court. After suffering embarrassment and exile, Anne is not about to let this second chance slip through her fingers. But the gates trickery of Heaven a few days earlycourt life is difficult to navigate, causing and telling friend from foe can be the difference between social success and becoming a major headache for Darren pariah. Luckily she has the Angel help of DeathThomas Wyatt, poet and infamous womaniser. To keep her quietHe promises to make Anne the most popular woman at court, and when Anne starts to play his game, he agrees that she can go back things start to Earth in an invisible form escalate far further than anyone ever imagined. For not only does Anne manage to see get the court eating out of her friends hand, but the King is starting to sit up and family and say goodbyetake notice too... Can she find closure, or even a way to stay alive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18487729981471116964</amazonuk>

|author=Anna DewdneySahar Delijani|title=Llama Llama Shopping DramaChildren of the Jacaranda Tree|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=It's a few months since we [[Llama Llama Red Pyjama by Anna Dewdney|Azar is in labour and about to give birth to her first met]] Llama Llamachild. At the time he was suffering from night-time terrors, but today Mama is taking Llama Llama shopping and Elsewhere she promises that there'll d be looking forward to medical care for as long as she needs it and a treat when it's all finishedgood chance of a safe delivery. Llama Llama was happily playing But this is Iran in 1983 and Azar is in the sun: he doesn't ''want'' notorious Evin Prison for daring to go shopping and believe in something different from the trip doesn't begin wellgovernment. It's Amil saves date stones to make into a bracelet for his little baby as she grows into a big building, with lots of signs and lots of aisleschild without him; he too is incarcerated. He doesn't like Even those on the music, the ladies around all small far too sweet and heoutside need to be wary of what they say or do as Laila discovers when hair falls over her face while she's staring at their ''knees''out walking. And This isn’t the brave new world that's ''before'' he gets the revolution was meant to provide, however it is the agony of trying on sweaters world in which they, their children and shoes. You know whatchildren's going children will need to happen, don't you? Well, Llama Llama does it big timesurvive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14449109060297869027</amazonuk>

|author=Richard MabeyHelen Smith|title=The Ash and the BeechInvitation to Die|rating=54|genre=ReferenceCrime|summary=I must confess I feel a little apprehensive writing this review. Why? It has to do with the subject matter of the book, a murder mystery set in a London Hotel. The murder victim ''The Ash and The Beechjust'' is an updated version of Mabey’s popular ''Beechcombingshappens'', which has been given to be a new foreword blogger who writes book reviews [laughs to self nervously] and afterword by one of the author in light of key suspects is a writer who has taken offense at the recent issues concerning ash die-back, which currently threatens Britain’s ash populationpoor reception that her book has received online. Mabey expands on I keep telling myself that this topic by examining the history of British trees, particularly the Beech and how it has managed to survive and adapt over the centuries despite threats from war, felling, disease and stormsis only fiction. He raises some important and thought-provoking ideas and questions whether our constant intervention in such cases serves to do more harm than good''Only'' ''fiction''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995872381477807306</amazonuk>

|author=Ioanna Bourazopoulou and Yannis Panas (Translator)Victoria Eveleigh|title=What Lot's Wife SawJoe and the Hidden Horseshoe

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= Joe did not want to move. Birmingham suited him just fine. Itwas where his friends were and his school - and he's been over 20 years since The Overflow came, flooding half of Europed got life sorted quite nicely. Around But his father had got his dream job as head of a group of village primary schools and the same time Violet Salt, a new multifamily -functional mineralMum, appearedDad, its production now governed globally by the mysterious, allJoe and his younger sister Emily -powerful Consortiummoved to a farmhouse in Devon. Meanwhile back in Europe The Colony, a haven for those escaping floods His Mum was determined that she and indeed justice, is ruled by Governor Bera Emily would have ponies to ride and six officials, the 'Purple Starsnot being prone to thinking things through before acting it wasn't long before Lady and Lightning arrived in a horsebox. All seems to be well in a despotic, lawless way until Mum should have made checks on the six wake up ponies before deciding to buy them and she should have been even more wary when the realisation that the Governor has died mysteriously in the nightponies were delivered with little ceremony. The Consortium needs answers so choose the greatest crossword compiler of the age, Phileas Book, to investigate, whether he wants to or notBut she wasn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845025474144400591X</amazonuk>

|author=Sarah SkiltonJeremy Strong and Scoular Anderson|title=BruisedChuckle Bob's Great Escape

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Imogen is Chuckle Bob looks positively wicked in the first illustration of this book, but then who can blame him for feeling a bit cranky? He wants to swing in the trees and run in the grass, not sit in a cage all day. When he sees a black belt chance to escape, he takes it, causing all sorts of mayhem in Tae Kwon Dothe process. She's her grandmasterOnce out of his cage he turns the entire pet shop into a disaster zone. He lets the parrot loose, but it falls into the fish tank. Fish get knocked everywhere, including down the pet store assistant's top student, and then he lets out the gerbils and rabbits as well. Agile, strongWhile Mr Rush, the pet store owner and confident, she has dedicated years of her life his assistant Maya try to becoming this good. Then she gets deal with all the chance to use her skills when she's involved in mischief he has caused, an attempted hold-up at a diner - and freezes completely. The gunman gets shotunsuspecting customer enters the door, and she blames herselfChuckle Bob makes his escape, losing all with just a bit more mayhem of her confidencecourse. What good is Tae Kwon Do in the real world if she can't bring herself to do anything with it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14197038701781122156</amazonuk>

|author=Joanna PhilbinRobert Sellers|title=Rules What Fresh Lunacy is This?: The Authorised Biography of SummerOliver Reed|rating=2.5|genre=TeensBiography|summary=Rory wanted to get away from her motherFor rather more of his career than he, his family and closest friends might have liked, even if it means working as an errand girl for the wealthy Rule family. Isabel Rule just wanted name Oliver Reed was a summer romance with a hot guybyword for booze, brawls and all types of laddish behaviour. I wanted As Sellers’ very full and remarkably objective biography reveals, it was a fun read with engaging charactersfunny yet sad life all at once. Guess For although he repeatedly played up to the image of the lovable rogue which of he had created, underneath the three bad boy of us popular legend he was disappointed?at heart a professional actor who could always deliver a first-rate performance on the film set when required.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349001642147210112X</amazonuk>

|author=Alice ThompsonLisa Cutts|title=Burnt IslandNever Forget

|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Max Long is DC Nina Foster isn't ''that'' unusual in the police force. She's perhaps a semi-successful author little overweight and has had seven novels published, none a little too fond of wine. Her relationships don't tend to last but then the unpredictable hours which were bestsellersthe job demands don't help in that area. Max is unsatisfied with She has some good friends within the critical and sales responses for his books force - part camaraderie, part common interest and is determined to write a story lot of knowledge that will rocket him to stardom and that these are the bestseller listpeople you might be relying on in an emergency. Burnt Island is a remote rocky outpost in the ocean that he believes will inspire him Nina does have one secret though and it relates back to write a novel for the massesher childhood. He lodges with another author on the island She does her best not to give what happened to her any room in her head and although meaning to concentrate on his writing he is distracted by most of the time it works. Most people have no idea about her history. Then a frenzied stabbing pulls Nina into her first murder investigation and the creepy atmosphere of the isleMajor Incident Room. Something is not at all what it seems on Burnt Island, but is it of Max's creation or something that was already waiting for him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19077734871908434260</amazonuk>

|author=Bee RidgwayChristopher Fowler|title=The River of No ReturnBryant and May and the Invisible Code

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= Nick was born in England in 1790 and is rather partial to pickled bits of pig and beef jellyNever judge a book by its cover? Oh come on. He finds this rather difficult to explain to his girlfriends, him being a young man and this being America, 2013. His 19th century Napoleonic war wounds are hard to explain away too. His second lease on life in the 21st century is thanks Doesn't that do a huge disservice to the mysterious Guild whose main rule is that no one can return to army of graphic designers designing those covers? To be fair, the time or home country from which they originated. He doesndesigners don't mind as they pay him well for his silence but get the final say and we've all this is about to change. Eventually they seem to think read things that they can send him back and wondidn't take no for an answer. Any thought of a possible catch is suppressed by thoughts of Juliado what they said on the tin, the girl Nick left behind in England. Itbut I think it's all time we started giving a bit fishy thoughof credit to those that do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181769870857500953</amazonuk>

|author=Leo TimmersFrancesca Simon and Tony Ross|title=BangHorrid Henry's Nightmare

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Horrid Henry was the first chapter book my son ever read alone. It all starts with was quickly followed by a deer succession of books in a bright yellow carthe series and my son's confidence in reading grew by leaps and bounds with this engaging series that gets young children reading and keeps them reading. He has The simple fact is, with such a stack large number of books tied to in the back of his carseries, but couldn't resist any child who reads through the whole lot will improve their reading one while skills. As he drives. It might has grown older, his tastes in books have been OK if a bin had not fallen from the lorry in front of himchanged, but engrossed in his book he never notices until with a very loud as I sat down to read 'Horrid Henry'bang's Nightmare' to my four year old he comes crashing was happy to listen in as well and we all enjoyed sharing this book as a stopfamily. This sets off a chain reaction resulting |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000160</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Claudia Pineiro|title=A Crack in a ten-car pile up as every car but one comes crashing into the car in front Wall|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Pablo Simó is an architect on the verge of ita mid life crisis. The quick thinking of Mr Gecko means he His work, marriage and general life is able governed more by habit and routine than anything, leaving him to stop just in time ponder over the attractions of his colleague Marta with whom he suspects his boss may be having a relationship. When a young girl enters the office asking if anyone knows a screech of man called Nelson Jara, the brakesthree architects deny all knowledge, but Mr Penguin they do know him. He was involved in a claim that one of the ice cream van is not so lucky, crashing into practice's projects caused a crack in the gecko wall of his apartment and his truck load how this was resolved is something all three of multi coloured paint and forcing the Gecko forward to smash into the last car in the pile upthem would rather forget.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18775791811908524081</amazonuk>

|author=Tim ParksMarlen Haushofer|title=Sex is ForbiddenNowhere Ending Sky

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Tim Parks's ''Sex Little Meta is Forbidden'' is narrated by twenty-something, Beth. She's working as growing up in a volunteer server at childhood paradise with two parents who love her and a Buddhist retreat called younger brother to tease and train to do all the Dasgupta Institute where she has been for the last nine months although the book covers one ten day cycle of retreatthings that Meta wants him to. The Dasgupta Institute imposes bans on attendees, although the conditions are slightly less onerous on However the servers who, nevertheless are expected to join in the meditations. Thereworld outside Meta's no talking, no writing, no mingling of paradise will soon change beyond all recognition as the sexes Austria and no physical or even eye contact. One day Beth, still a rebel at heart, wanders into Germany of the men's side where she discoverers an attendee is keeping a diary where he is contemplating his moment of crisis and she is hooked. The revealing of 1920s makes way for the past that has driven both Beth Austria and the mysterious diary keeper to such an austere retreat is part Germany of the intrigue of the book, but while there is an inevitable focus on introspection and new age thinking, Beth's tone is delightfully sceptical and feels very authentic. It's almost impossible not to feel for her plight and to admire her approach1930s.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995658970704373130</amazonuk>

|author=Marguerite Abouet and Mathieu SapinLea Carpenter|title=AkissiEleven Days|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Many parents are becoming upset Sara raised Jason alone; even when she was with the over sexualisation of female characters in childrenhis father it felt as if she was a lone parent. Jason's films and booksfather always seemed to be away doing something indefinable abroad; then he disappeared leaving her completely. I know many are also fed up with the stereotyped princess character Two years later Jason's father was dead. If you are looking for a book for a little girl who doesn't suit the stereotypes, Akissi However Jason is absolutely perfect. In addition to breaking stereo types in children's literature, this book gives children a first hand look at life in another country. I have often read that children exposed lad to stories be proud of other cultures usually grow up more tolerant. Whether it is the stories themselves, or simply the type of parent who chooses that type of story, I donnever giving Sara a moment't know. Still I have always gone out of my way to make sure my children have books which depict children from a wide variety of locations s trouble and cultures. This book gives the reader now a very realistic vision of what life in Africa might be like. Best member of all though, this book lets the children just be childrenelite US Navy SEALS. They don Now he't look like adults s missing in action… Now she has to hang on and they don't act like adults. I think we need more books like thishope.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190926301X1444776231</amazonuk>

|author=Tor FreemanFiona McIntosh|title=The Toucan BrothersLavender Keeper|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=I hate to mention illustrations before mentioning Provence 1942: Lavender farmer Luc Bonet joins the story with Maquis (a children's book, but rural guerrilla wing of the illustrations are clearly French Resistance) to avenge the first thing you will notice with the bookdeath of his adoptive Jewish family. My children, drawn Meanwhile in London gifted linguist Lisette Forester is recruited by the illustrationsSpecial Operations Executive (SOE), had this pulled out a group of trained specialists parachuted into enemy territory to send vital information back to the box of books it came in and were sitting down reading it before I could even sort through the resthomeland. As soon Their paths will cross as I saw this, I thought Lisette is sent into France with the aim of [[:Category:Richard Scarry|Richard Scarry]]ingratiating herself with Nazi Colonel Markus Kilian. The illustrations are highly reminiscent of Scarry's workmission is clear cut on paper, but if anything these are bolder, brighter and busier. If you have a child who is a visual learner, or who needs plenty of visual cues when reading, this book is definitely one you want to take a closer look at. The expressions on the characters faces are perfect and each page literally seems to come to life with so many activities going oncan be messier than any plan can predict.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14472186390749013443</amazonuk>

|author=Gabriel WestonTatyana Feeney|title=Dirty WorkLittle Owl's Orange Scarf|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionFor Sharing|summary=#There are two women in an operating theatre and when one starts bleeding heavily - fatally - the other freezesLittle Owl's Mummy knitted him a scarf. A long, itchy, unableorange scarf, despite all her training and undoubted skills, Little Owl does not like it! He tries to do anything at all. Whatever the outcome get rid of it cannot pass unnoticed, unreported using it as wrapping for a gift, and surgeon Nancy Mullion is called to appear before hiding it in a tribunal appointed by the General Medical Councilsuitcase bound for Peru, but no luck! Mummy finds it every time. Over Then one day, Little Owl goes on a period of weeks she's forced school visit to confront the effect of being a doctor who has killed as well as cured. You're probably making assumptions now zoo and nodding wiselyhe comes home without his scarf. Don't - because you are almost certainly going to be wrong. This What will not be the story which you are expecting and it was certainly not the story which Nancy's hospital wanted to hear.Mummy say?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022409128X019279454X</amazonuk>

|author=Claire MerleSimon Urban and Katy Derbyshire (Translator)|title=The FallPlan D

|genre=TeensCrime|summary=In October 2011 and the future, a little way from now, people fall into one Berlin wall is still intact. Inspector Martin Wegener of two camps, the East German People's Police faces another day dividing his mind between thoughts of his luscious ex-lover Karolina and work. On this particular day 'Pureswork'' and is a body found hanging from the ''Crazies'', and society has changed almost beyond recognitionGDR section of gas pipeline that joins Russian to Europe. The distinction Not only is made through a scientific testhe hanging, but Ana the deceased has discovered something about the test which eight knots round his neck and his shoe laces are tied together: a Stasi trademark. Who is alarming. And when he and why are the rest of Stasi killing again? Martin needs answers and they're sending a West Berlin detective in to help him find them; not the country finds out what she knows, there will be uproarbest start to a day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>05712829111846556929</amazonuk>

|author=Sage BlackwoodLucy Cruickshanks|title=Jinx, the Wizard's ApprenticeThe Trader of Saigon

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Everybody knows you don't stray off In the Saigon of the 1980s the path when you're deep in Vietnam War is over but the woodstraces remain. And everybody knows, too, that stepparents usually want you out of Alexander has deserted from the way — permanentlyUS army and makes a comfortable living selling girls to local business men. So poor Jinx has no difficulty in understanding Phuc used to be a business man, even at complete with mansion and the tender age of six, that things are not going well for himmeans to keep his wife and three children in affluence. Rescued by Now his family live in a wizardshanty hut, he spends much afraid of the next few years quietly helping out round ruling government that spies through the houseeyes of children. It's not At last he finds a bad life: Simon Magus is gruff way out, his luck just needs to hold. Hanh also lives in poverty, desperately trying to help her sick mother with the point pittance she earns from cleaning one of rudeness, but the house city's many open latrines. Then one day she meets someone who offers so much more. His name is warm and the food is tasty and plentifulAlexander.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087247X1782063218</amazonuk>

|author=Rachel KushnerAlain Mabanckou|title=The FlamethrowersTomorrow I'll Be Twenty|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Set mainly in New YorkMichel is as carefree as any child can be during that difficult process called 'growing up's art district . Here in the late 1970sCongo Brazzaville he has his best friend Lounes, Rachel Kushnera crush on Caroline (his best friend's ''The Flamethrowers'' tells sister), the story hassles of school and a young girl, known only to family consisting of two mothers in two houses which seems perfectly normal. He's also being educated about the reader world by his father; a world that changes daily as Reno, after the city she comes from. Sheit's a girl who loves motorbikes and photography1979. Never mind, but struggles to find he can always marry Caroline as long as he meets her place in the New York art scene. When conditions: she falls for the estranged sonrequires children, Sandro, of the Italian motorbike manufacturer Valero, himself an artist in New York, Reno finds herself in situations she cannot controla red 5-seater car and a white dog.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18465579171846685842</amazonuk>

|author=Mur LaffertyMarie Harbon <!-- 6/12 -->|title=Seven Point Eight: The Shambling Guide to New York City (The Shambling Guides)First Chronicle|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=Zoe is an unemployed book editor who had to leave her last jobFollowing several main characters - scientist Paul, and indeed her last citybusinessman Max, in rather a hurry. Zoe's personal exodus brings her to New York remote viewer Tahra and mystery woman Ava - across two time frames spanning the possibility of a job that sounds perfect: editing a travel guide 1940s to NYC itself. Howeverthe present day, its projected readership isn't one for which Zoe has written before. New York City is full of monsters or coterie to be polite. Vampires'Seven Point Eight'' blends science fiction and fantasy in a sprawling, werewolves, demons, sprites, zombies… the list goes on as all alternative life is thereabsorbing, diffuse novel that will attract fans of both in and out of the officegenres. So the first question is if she survives her colleagues, will she survive her readership? The second question being, of course, who or what is Granny Good Mae?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356501906B005IBYKC0</amazonuk>