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}{{newreview<!-- remove 5/8 -->|authortitle=Cathy HopkinsEye Spy II|titleauthor=The Valentine's Day KittenTessa Buckley

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Marcie Fresh from the success of solving its first case, Eye Spy Investigations is distraughtcertainly up for another. On Valentine's Day last year she'd didnSo twins Alex and Donna jump at the chance to investigate the strange things happening at the Priory, home to school friend Jimmy Devlin. Alex doesn't receive a single card believe in ghosts and her parents could see he is very keen to persuade Donna that she was upset, so they don't exist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788032667</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 4/8 -->|author= Geoffrey Arnold|title= Hunted|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary=Tullia learns about survival in the bush when she came home from school there was is taken hostage and later saves a youth's life during a hunt. Adopted into a box on Bushman family and the kitchen table and in it was tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the most gorgeous fluffy silver kitten. Misty young men and Marcie were soon inseparable until the day that Misty went out without women, a collar on - mixture of awe, desire, fear and didn't come homehate. Marcie blamed herself: MistyLiving a very different life, Qwelby, Tullia's collar had broken twin, is deeply shocked by the violence on Earth. As he is rescued by his four best friends from the Pit of Despair, he experiences his first feelings for Tamina, a girl he has known for years. Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to help during a violent attack from his own world as he and she'd never got round Tullia seek to buying restore their telepathic link. Forming a new oneconnection with the twins during the attack, the girl, Xaala, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – and to prevent them. Mum has put notices up everywhere she can think of Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the twins and rung obeying her orders. Meanwhile, on the local vets planet Vertazia and animal rescue centresin secret, but thereQuelby's no sign of Mistyfamily and friends build what they hope will be the first ever inter-dimensional transport. Then Marcie starts having dreams, about On a boyshort test run, a hotelthe village where he is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out he is being watched, a painting - and Mistyhe flees from the village... Will there be a happy ending?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112678X1785891855</amazonuk>

|author= Shane HegartyEd McDonald |title= DarkmouthBlackwing: Hero RisingThe Raven's Mark Book One

|genre= Confident ReadersFantasy |summary= Things seem as bad as they can get Perfect for Finn, trainee Hunter fans of all those nasty things that keep trying to get through to our world from the Infested Side. His dad has been sackedScott Lynch, leaving him practically alone to face the baddies, both monstrous Joe Abercrombie and human, he has no weapons or back-up apart from his friend EmmieMark Lawrence, this dark adventure is gripping and the family has even been kicked out bloody; it is a twisted story that spins a web of the house they've lived in for generationsdeceit. Of courseNothing is as it seems, in as ageless powers manipulate and control the way lives of the best storiescharacters. The world is a staging ground, you only have all leading to hint one dramatic confrontation that things couldn't get worse for them to do exactly that. And any beastie that's got all the monsters from has been a century in the other dimension scared is not going to be a doddle to fight. Far, far from itmaking. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007545622147322201X</amazonuk>

|author= Lucy DanielsJeff Brown and Rob Biddulph|title= Summer at Hope MeadowsFlat Stanley|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionEmerging Readers|summary=''Animal ArkStanley was four feet tall, about a foot wide, and half an inch thick.'' Yes, there' was a popular series s proof that this is the original text of this classic children's books written between 1994 and 2008book – at least it's not been updated to metric. The stories focus on a young girl called Mandy HopeSo while the illustrations are new, we get the daughter of two vets who run a practicereal deal, Animal Ark, in with the Yorkshire town of Welford. Along with her best friend Jamesyoung Stanley squished one night, the children seek to help out creatures in need. The series consisted of 94 books in total and was written by a collection of authors writing such an extent he can limbo under the pseudonym Lucy Daniels. ''Summer at Hope Meadows'' is the first in shut doors, get airmailed to America to visit relatives, become a new series kite for adult readershis younger brother to play with, continuing grown-up Mandyand more. But then you don's story now that she is a fully qualified vett need to update perfection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14736538781405288108</amazonuk>

|author=Frederic Dard and Louise Rogers Lalaurie (translator)Kate Ellis|title=The King of FoolsMermaid's Scream (Wesley Peterson)

|summary=Having sort of split up In 1884 a wealthy young woman became infatuated with his partner, Jean-Marie is on holiday alone on the southern French coast, when he chances to meet man who ran a married English woman, Marjorietravelling puppet show. They meet in We'll follow the story of John Lipton's courtship through excerpts from his journal. In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson was writing the most unusual ways – with two identical cars parked next to each other, she gets in biography of the wrong one by mistake, then leaves her beach bag behindreclusive novelist Wynn Staniland. Lo It's not easy work as Staniland isn't inclined to give more away than he has to and behold they find each other at is unwilling to discuss the casino, and one thing which the following day, when she arrives at public will want to know about: his hotel wife's suicide which seemed to reclaim her bag, they meet heart to heartfollow a scene from his most famous book. Jean-Marie sees her Wilkinson is doing his best to be a very unhappily married woman, and not even drum up interest in the arrival of his partner forthcoming book: he does talks at local libraries which are well attended and make-up sex can convince him he is not in love with Marjorie. But finding her again will take him was seemingly on his way to Edinburgh – and into no end one of trouble…these talks when he disappeared.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227197X0349413118</amazonuk>

|author=Tania HershmanNaoki Higashida and David Mitchell|title=Some Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Us Glow More Than OthersAutism|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories Reference|summary=Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller ''The Reason I wonJump.''t be alone in stating that reading short story collections can be slightly awkward. Going through The book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the autistic mind, as told from Athe unique perspective of a teenager with non-Zverbal autism. Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, witnessing or by tracing letters on the palm of a bounty transcriber. Despite this slow and laborious method of ideas and characters writing, he has published several books in short order can be too muchhis native Japan, but do you have the right to pick and choose according manages to what appeals, and what time you have give public presentations to fill? The sequence has carefully been considered, surelyraise awareness of his condition. Such would appear ''Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8'' reintroduces us to be the case here. The last time I read one of this author's collections, with [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]], the only real difficulty was holding back Naoki as a young adult in his 20s and rationing them, but here you not only get a whopping forty pieces of explains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing, they are also spread into sectionshis first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19100614841444799088</amazonuk>

|author= John BudeCaz Frear|title= Death Makes A ProphetSweet Little Lies

|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= Two pages into this ''Crime Classic'' I had to check the first publication dateIn 1998 a girl called Maryanne disappears in Ireland. Reading the first two pages, it could easily have been written in 1967, or '87, or even (possibly as In 2017 a pastiche) woman called Alice is found dead in 2017London. Given that Bude's witty caper originally came out in 1947In both cases, Detective Constable Cat Kinsella is coincidentally close by, itbut she's slightly criminal that it's taken this long to resurfacemore worried by the fact her father is too. And he cannot be trusted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07123569161785763350</amazonuk>

|author= Michael Morpurgo and Shoo RaynerMayim Bialik|title= Mudpuddle Farm: Alien InvasionGirling Up|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=This collected edition contains two stories from Mudpuddle Farm: Aimed at teenagers, this book focuses on growing up as a girl, or ''Alien InvasionGirling up'' if you will, and ''Mum's the Word''. When the bees swarm the animals panic over a new creature what it means to transition from school girl to grown up, via that appears in the farmhideous detour of teenage years. In the second story that greedy goat has vanished and when he returns something darned odd happens…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00072751370399548602</amazonuk>

|author=Tamsin CookePhilippa Pearce and Cate James|title=Stunt DoubleThe Ghost in Annie's Room (Little Gems)

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary= Finn wants to be actor but, when his first ever lines Emma is on a family holiday in a film are cut, hean older relative's happy seaside cottage, where she is to settle for stunt-doublesleep in the room in the attic. He Her brother has passed on what he says he has overheard – that it is haunted. But even with the mementos of the person that once lived there all around her, and with a strange feeling of being watched, even with the skills for this demanding role: hestormy winds knocking tree limbs on to the window – Emma can sleep through it all. But that's a natural dare devil with a karate black-belt not to say things will forever be that way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126852</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (almosttranslators). |title=The only downside Unwomanly Face of War|rating=5|genre=History|summary=''War'', says Svetlana Alexievich, ''is the person Finn has to double for: Finn and teen-star Blake have history first of all murder, and a relationship of mutual hatredthen hard work. Pretty soonAnd then simply ordinary life: singing, howeverfalling in love, this putting your hair in curlers…''. This extraordinary book is a collection of first-hand accounts by Russian fighting women in the least Second World War. A million women joined Russian military forces as soldiers of Finn's worriesall ranks, medics, pilots, drivers, snipers, cryptographers. The eccentric film directorMost were very young, Novaklittle more than girls of 18 or 19. They were passionate about defending their homeland and often extremely keen to join up, pushes him returning again and again to recruitment offices until someone could be persuaded to take them. Their ambition was to the limits with increasingly dangerous stuntshelp their brothers, fathers, manipulating Finn into doing husbands to fight the stunts without safety gearterrible invader. But that seems tame when They were trained and sent to the front, where they transfer to film on location in a remote part of Papua New Guinea were greeted at first with disappointment and Finn discovers what Novak really has planned disgust by fighting men, who had hoped for himreinforcements of able-bodied men. The women had to prove themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019274982X0141983523</amazonuk>

|author= Simon Puttock and Daniel EgneusAlison Jay|title= The ThingAlison Jay's ABC|rating= 4.5

|summary= One day ''the Thing'' falls from the sky and four strangers stumble across it. At first they are confused. What glance, this is ''a beautiful but fairly standard alphabet book: one letter per page with a nice big picture of an apple or a panda front and centre - after all, the ThingABC format is pretty restrictive, isn''? What does it do? What is t it for? Then the four of them decide to work together to look after and care for '''the Thing'And truth be told, that's all most small people will see first time round. Soon word spreads about ''the Thing'' and others come from far and wide to find out more. Gradually But look a media circus builds up around ''the Thing''little closer . Throughout all of this ''the Thing'' remains silent. Then just as suddenly and silently as it arrived ''the Thing'' departs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052837181787410196</amazonuk>

|author=Thomas FlinthamAnna Kovecses|title=Around the World Colouring BookOpposite Things|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Colouring books are Rearing a useful way for children to relax, develop manual dexterity and explore colourchild is not a competition, but in the dash to appeal to the child so many miss the opportunity to be gently educational ''have a conversation with a certain type of parent andthey won'' to still appeal to the youngt agree. The two are not mutually exclusive! Their child can speak four languages. Look for instance Their child wrote their first sonnet at this colouring book: it's got page upon page the age of pictures to colour (with three. Their child can be seen wistfully looking into the middle distance just a little narrative wanting to set play on the scene) with the added attraction of four pages of stickersbouncy castle. You'll see grey shapes For me, I am happy, if my child is happy; be that doing sums, or eating play- and thatdoh. However, even with a relaxed attitude to educating your kid, it can be fun to learn a little, especially when a book is as fun as Little Mouse's the signal to get stickering!''Opposite Things''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17880000051786030381</amazonuk>

|author=Various AuthorsMichael Morpurgo and Shoo Rayner|title= A Change Is Gonna ComeMudpuddle Farm: Hee-Haw Hooray|rating= 54|genre= TeensEmerging Readers|summary= Two collected stories from Mudpuddle Farm series – ''A Change Is Gonna ComeNowt to Worry About'' is an anthology of stories and poems interpreting the theme of change by twelve BAME writers. It's Stripes Publishing's response to Tickety-Boo''. How will the animals react when the sky goes strange and horrifying noises abound? Changes are afoot that could mark the under-representation end of BAME authors in the UK. And Mudpuddle farm; or is it's just a great response.new beginning?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18471583900008241988</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 1/8 -->|author= Andrew ShvartsStephan Santiago|title= Royal BastardsReturning Home|rating= 3.5|genre= TeensSpirituality and Religion|summary= A group of teens witness something [[:Category:Stephan Santiago|Stephan Santiago]] has experienced life in a way that they shouldn't and find themselves hunted by half the kingdoms led him to believe we're all on a soul journey back home – that place we inhabited before we were born. Royal plots, magic This book is a guide as to how we can optimise this journey for ourselves, adventure those around us and a rich culture to immerse yourself inour children. Can the pack of bastards make it to safety before the vicious warriors chasing them catch them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14847676591504305272</amazonuk>

|author= Matt StantonJulia Blackburn|title= Funny Kid for PresidentThreads: The Delicate Life of John Craske|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersBiography|summary=Max Walburt has John Craske was a fisherman, from a real problem with his teacher family of fishermen, who became too ill to go to sea. He was born in Sheringham on the north Norfolk coast in 1881 and nothing seems would eventually die in the Norwich hospital in 1943 after a life which could have been defined by ill health. There were various explanations for what ailed him, what caused him to make it bettersink into a stupour, sometimes for years at a time and he was on occasions described as 'an imbecile'. Running for class president seems like But John had a good way out natural artistic talent, albeit that his work had to be done on the available surfaces in his home. Chair seats, window sills, the backs of doors all carried his problems but inevitably it doesn't run smoothlywonderful pictures of the sea. Then he moved on to embroidery, producing wonderful pictures of the Norfolk coast - and, most famously, of the evacuation at Dunkirk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082201660099582198</amazonuk>

|author= Emily ClarksonM J Tjia|title= Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?She Be Damned|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyCrime (Historical) |summary=''Can I Speak to Someone London, 1863: prostitutes in Charge?''the Waterloo area are turning up dead, blogger Emily Clarkson's debut booktheir sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, is fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a fierceloss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, witty and laugh-out-loud funny ode to feminisminvestigate. In a series With the assistance of open lettersher trusty Chinese maid, she addresses the issues faced by every modern womanAmah Li Leen, discussing everything from dealing with body hair Heloise inches closer to being made to feel uncomfortable in the gym, as well as more personal issues, like her experiences of being 'catfished' and sent abuse onlinetruth. This But when Amah is a vital read for any girl born implicated in the 1990sbrutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, tackling some very serious social injustices beneath its fun exteriorbefore the killer strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471156907178507931X</amazonuk>

|author= Riley SagerSarah Powell|title=Final GirlsSearch and Find: Pride & Prejudice: A Jane Austen Search and Find Book|rating=4|genre= ThrillersEmerging Readers|summary=A 'final girl' is the last girl alive Search and find books are usually aimed at the end children. They are a good bit of a horror moviefun, but they are also a gruesome description which has defined the life of Quincy Carpenter, as much as she tries to persuade you differentlygood study tool for adult readers alike. Quincy, the sole survivor of Jane Austen is a teenage massacrefantastic novelist, has spent but her adult years trying style of writing can be daunting for those not used to put the past behind hersuch heavy prose. But when another 'final girl' dies, It is very easy to become lost in the mediamyriad of dialogue, who have always been obsessed with the girls' dark glamour, swarm upon hercharacters and events. And to make matters worse for Quincy, the other 'final girl' I find a survivor from another massacre, who has been in hiding for years, appears on her doorstep. Suddenly, Quincy is not only able to move past good plot summary helps when approaching her pastworks, her past starts to intermingle with her present and she is drawn back this was especially so in. Was the first 'final girl's death an accident? Why has case of the second 'final girl' come out of hiding? And what isn't Quincy telling us about her own massacre? perplexing and long-winded Emma. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850340221783708271</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=No FilterPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Orlagh CollinsIndigo Donut|rating=45

|summary=Em - Emerald - has led ''In Bailey's opinion, Indigo didn't look like she needed a pretty privileged lifehero. One by one, she looked Mona, Saskia, Betti and Kay in the eye. Then she gave them the finger: slow motion. Headphones on again, she sauntered off towards the science wing. Hell. That was.. Her wealthy parents have sent her to a posh private school. Shewas...'' That's friends with all the right people, as Indigo for you! Indigo is seventeen. And on her social media accounts will attestumpteenth school. Everything Pitt Academy is sweetness a last chance for Indigo and light in Em's worldher foster mother Keeley is anxious that she makes it there. Or is But it? Equivocation over covering up bullying has put Em in the crosshairs of the school's cool girl pecking order. Friends are suddenly less friendly. There are secrets at home about to turn from secret to open crisisnot easy for Indigo - her reputation for kicking off always precedes her. And when Emthat's the least of it - because someone always finds out about her past: that ''she'' is the tiny little girl who was found by the body after her father killed her mother overdoses, the dominoes start to topple.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14088845181444927183</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Kid NormalBethan Woollvin|authortitle=Greg James and Chris SmithRapunzel

|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Murph Cooper is fed up. He Ah Rapunzel, how well we all know about her long golden hair and his mum have moved house. Again. This means another new home her difficult-to get used to. This means another new school to get used to. This means another set of friends left behind. And if that weren't enough-escape tower! Here, however, this time he doesn't even have a new school to go to. Everywhere the story is full. Eventually, told with a place is found - at ''The School''twist, a strange place hidden away in a back street. ''The School'' because there is a school unlike any otherno handsome Prince who comes riding by to save Rapunzel from her incarceration. It caters for children with superpowers. But Murph doesn't have any superpowers and No, instead we see Rapunzel is soon consigned smart enough to figure her own way out, defeating the socially undesirable super zeroes gang. The kids with superpowers are not kind witch, and going on to the super zeroes..a successful witch-hunting career.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14088845341509842675</amazonuk>

|author= Max BrooksCatherine Barr and Hanako Clulow|title= Minecraft: The Island10 Reasons to Love an Elephant|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Max Brooks perfectly captures Ten reasons to love an elephant, eh? Well, personally, I've never needed ten reasons as they've always been my favourite large animal, the experience gentle giants of playing Minecraft without instructions or assistance from Africa and India, but it was good to find out more about them. Perhaps the random punching stage through to building towers most surprising fact which I discovered was that touch they live in herds headed by their ''grandmothers''. Female elephants and their calves stay together and the oldest female elephant is the sky. Just one in charge as schools around the world are using Minecraft she knows where to teach computer science find food and water - and other skills Brooks uses his novel to demonstrate how valuable life lessons can be learned from this online phenomenashe knows her herd. She remembers about people too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178089774X184780943X</amazonuk>

|author= Hayley LongAndrew Lacey|title= The Nearest Faraway PlaceEnglish Civil War in 100 Facts

|genre= TeensHistory|summary= On GriffThe 's thirteenth birthday, he and his brother100 Facts's lives change forever when their entire family series is caught up in now sufficiently well-established as a road accidentguarantee of useful introductory histories. ''The Nearest Faraway Place'' is told from This latest addition, recounting the point of view of his brotherstruggle between King and Parliament, Dylan, as they both try to come to terms with the end of their world as they know itis no exception. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714062611445649950</amazonuk>

|author= Charles HarrisPeter Cottrill|title= The Breaking Terrible True Tales from the Tower of Liam GlassLondon|rating= 35|genre=CrimeChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern mediaThe history of the infamous Tower of London is full of gore and death. There's plenty here Its rich history dates back to like, the eleventh century and plenty not since then it has played host tomany famous figures, many of them ill-fated prisoners. But good structure and scramjet pace keep The history of the Tower is told within this book's pages, only this one flying time it's told by the ravens that live there. They are the Tower's guardians who reside there permanently due to an ancient legend that all of London will fall should they be removed, and after centuries of watching over the final pageTower they have their own version of history to tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19089438231406376884</amazonuk>

|author=Michael Bond and R W AlleyCara Black|title=BestMurder in Saint-loved Paddington StoriesGermain|rating=4|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=With Who is Aimee Leduc? I have to be honest and say that though this novel may be seventeenth in series from the sad passing of Michael Bond there best-selling Cara Black, it is no time like in fact my first outing with the present deft Parisienne detective. And so, if I'm honest, I wasn't sure what to revisit some of the adventures of his most iconic creation; Paddingtonexpect. As How does a character with so many investigations under her belt retain the gusto we've come to expect from all good literary detectives? Moreover, how does an author with so well established a character has proved so timeless regular re-issues as Aimee Leduc keep her interesting enough for those of us coming late to the books have appeared and party? After reading ''BestMurder in Saint-loved Paddington StoriesGermain'' brings three of these stories togetherI would suggest that Black manages it quite easily. Does this collection really reflect the best that the bear has to offer or are they just three random tales stuck together with marmalade?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082450371616957700</amazonuk>

|author= Jane JohnsonPierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne (translator)|title= Court of Lions|rating= 5|genre= Historical Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city of Granada a year ago. In the shadow of the Alhambra, one of the most beautiful places on earth, she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends she's happy with her new life – but how could she be? Kate's alone, afraid and hiding under a false name. And fate is about to bring her face-to-face with her greatest fear. Five centuries ago, a message, in a hand few could read, was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of paper. The paper was folded Three Days and pressed into one of the Alhambra's walls. There it has lain, undisturbed by the tides of history – the Fall of Granada, the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of love, in a time of danger and desperation, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life forever. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694336</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lauren Elkin|title=Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and LondonLife

|genre=History Crime|summary=Lauren Elkin is down Christmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasn't got the best of situations. Some of his friends have parted company with him because of the new-fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses to let him waste his time on suburbs: they. He're places where you cans built a treehouse all by himself, and decided it was solely to woo the girl next door that he loves, but she't or shouldn't be seen walking; places wheres rejected it. And his best company, the dog from the other house next door, was injured in fictiona hit and run, women who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking and shot to be put out of everything from ''Madame Bovary'' to ''Revolutionary Road'')its misery. When she imagines to herself what In the female version process of that well-known historical figureangrily demolishing the treehouse, he's visited by his very friendly and adorable neighbour, the carefree ''flâneurdog's six-year-old owner, and Antoine's swung some of the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweep. As the title suggests, might there will be, she thinks about women who freely wandered a very tense few days and nights while the world's great cities without having guilt amasses with the more insalubrious connotation lad – and/or a lifetime of the word 'streetwalker' applied living on a knife-edge, where any false move could lead to them.him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593378085705662X</amazonuk>

|author=Julie CohenHendrik Groen and Hester Velmans (translator)|title=TogetherThe Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ years Old|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=This is a love story told backwards, in As the most beautiful mannerold adage goes, so that we know from the very beginning that Emily and Robert love each other enormously, and that he is about to break her heart walk a mile in the most dreadful way in order to protect a secret that theysomeone else've lived with for decades. Seeing their love unfold in reverse s shoes is beautiful. We get to know them once they have already gotten to know each other, and gain some understanding of what it makes for an unusual and interesting structure. The secret they hold is referred to throughoutbe that person. Admittedly, but it Hendrik Groen isn't revealed until very late much up for long walks any more, but he does acquire a swish mobility scooter to zoom around in the book. I; one could say that we get to zoom a mile in Groen'm guessing very few readers will figure it out. Even once you knows shoes, you want to go back and read the whole story again in the light of the information you now hold.oh, what fun shoes he wears!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14091717441405924004</amazonuk>

|author= Heather Pindar Cathy Scott-Clark and Sarah JenningsAdrian Levy|title=WishkerThe Exile|rating=4|genre= For SharingPolitics and Society|summary= Mirabel is a small girl who wants rather An account of the fate of Al Qaeda and the Bin Laden family since the events of 9/11, ''The Exile'' plunges into the murky waters of international terrorism, espionage and politics. Detailed and meticulous, the book tackles the subject from all angles, providing a lot from life panoramic view of the subject and is sadly frustrated when everyone says no acting to her. Then a stray cat appears in her garden. He's a rather special cat with wish-granting whiskers. All Mirabel's problems will be instantly solvedenlighten and inform the reader. Or so she thinks…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184886244X1408858762</amazonuk>

|author=Guy Griffith and Michael OakeshottJo Cotterill|title=A Guide to the Classics: Or How to Pick the Derby WinnerStorm of Strawberries|rating=4.5|genre=SportConfident Readers|summary=It's not often that you get Darby lives on a glimpse into the personalstrawberry farm with her mum, youthful interests of one of the greatest Conservative philosophers of the twentieth centurybig sister, but ''A Guide to the Classics'' co-authored by Michael Oakeshott is a light-hearted look at how to pick the Derby winnerstep dad and step brother. Originally written in 1936 it isShe loves music, amazinglydancing, as relevant today as it was thenchocolate egg hunts and her big sister Kaydee. In factShe is warm and funny, and she has Down's syndrome. The story looks at the events of one weekend in Darby's life when the techniques farm is threatened by a tornado, and analysis employed her family is threatened by the authors were way ahead revelation of their time and have only come into general use relatively recentlya closely-guarded secret.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184540937X1848126166</amazonuk>

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