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}{{newreview<!-- remove 5/8 -->|authortitle=Anthony RyanEye Spy II|titleauthor=The Legion of Flame: Book Two of the Draconis MemoriaTessa Buckley|rating=54|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=WARNING: There are spoilers for [[The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria by Anthony Ryan|Book 1]] Fresh from the beginningsuccess of solving its first case, Eye Spy Investigations is certainly up for another.Lizanne Lethridge, Blood-Blessed So twins Alex and secret agent of Donna jump at the chance to investigate the strange things happening at the Exceptional Initiatives Division has survived another missionPriory, only to be forced home to go out againschool friend Jimmy Devlin. This time it entails a man-hunt in a place from which no one has emerged alive. Talking about alive, Claydon Torcreek, having escaped several types of death in the jungles now goes to the southern ice with Hilemore Alex doesn't believe in their current attempt to defeat the dragons ghosts and put the world on a safe footing. What if all that waits for them he is more dragons and more inventive ways very keen to die? That's a thought persuade Donna thatthey don's soon banished from his mindt exist. 'This is where we save the world' says Clay… but he's been wrong before!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03565064011788032667</amazonuk>
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{{newreview <!-- remove 264/7 8 -->|author=Ritchie Valentine SmithGeoffrey Arnold|title=Words of Fury: Volume 2 (Words of Power)Hunted|rating=4|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=Warning: Spoilers ahead…Emmanuel (Man) Kinross, Yoshi, Joah, Tullia learns about survival in the Voice bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youth's life during a hunt. Adopted into a Bushman family and Dirk Faslane are all fleeing the Lord of tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the North in young men and women, a giant floating bubblemixture of awe, desire, fear and hate. This Living a very different life, Qwelby, Tullia's twin, is a delicate conveyance when you consider that deeply shocked by the stakes are high and, if caught violence on Earth. As he is rescued by his four best friends from the evil Lord Pit of the NorthDespair, he experiences his first feelings for Tamina, the 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 they know it will endhe and Tullia seek to restore their telepathic link. They just need Forming a connection with the twins during the attack, the girl, Xaala, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to get mentally reconnect – and to prevent them. Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the Waning of twins and obeying her orders. Meanwhile, on the Moonplanet Vertazia and in secret, a psychic fortress that spells safety but thereQuelby's still family and friends build what they hope will be the first ever inter-dimensional transport. On a long way to go and short test run, the odds are very much against themvillage where he is staying is discovered. The Lord of When Quelby finds out he is being watched, he flees from the North has more power than they've seen yet and more devastating ways to use itvillage...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15442148391785891855</amazonuk>
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|author= Elena Varvello and Alex Valente (translator)Ed McDonald |title= Can You Hear Me?Blackwing: The Raven's Mark Book One|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeFantasy |summary= In 1978Perfect for fans of Scott Lynch, in a small town in Northern Italy Elia Furenti is sixteen Joe Abercrombie and troubled. His mundanely stableMark Lawrence, loving this dark adventure is gripping and ordered life bloody; it is rocked by the murder of a young boy and the disappearance of twisted story that spins a young woman, who vanishes into the woods. As Elia struggles to make sense web of his shifting relationship with his increasingly erratic and unpredictable father, he begins to question what role this volatile man may play in these acts of senseless violencedeceit. Into this steps AnnaNothing is as it seems, as ageless powers manipulate and control the mother lives of Elia's friend, a woman bowed under the strain of life and haunted by her choicescharacters. As the heat of summer intensifies, so does Elia's certainty that something The world is desperately wrong in his home. Drawn, seemingly inevitably, to the mysteriously sensual and sad Anna, Elia feels the a staging ground start to shift under his feet, all leading to feel the wind whipping his face from one dramatic confrontation that has been a century in the cliff edge of adolescence and the unavoidable pull of adulthoodmaking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473654874147322201X</amazonuk>
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|author= Gavin Herbertson Jeff Brown and Rob Biddulph|title= William and Dorothy Wordsworth: A MiscellanyFlat Stanley|rating= 4.5|genre= AnthologiesEmerging Readers|summary= William Wordsworth ''Stanley was four feet tall, about a defining member of the romantic literary erafoot wide, and half an inch thick. He was part of '' Yes, there's proof that this is the first wave, and his poetry helped to shape a large part original text of this classic children's book – at least it's not been updated to metric. Nature is So while the illustrations are new, we get the key: existing in naturereal deal, finding with the young Stanley squished onenight, to such an extent he can limbo under shut doors, get airmailed to America to visit relatives, become a kite for his younger brother to play with, and more. But then you don's own true nature and becoming natural in the process were the driving forces behind itt need to update perfection. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>19033855981405288108</amazonuk>
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|author=Chae Strathie and Anna ChernyshovaKate Ellis|title=Captain FirebeardThe Mermaid's School for Pirates: The Sneaky Sweet StealerScream (Wesley Peterson)
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The In 1884 a wealthy young woman became infatuated with the man who ran a travelling puppet show. We'll follow the story of John Lipton'Rusty Barnacles courtship through excerpts from his journal. In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson was writing the biography of the reclusive novelist Wynn Staniland. It's not easy work as Staniland isn' t inclined to give more away than he has to and is set unwilling to discuss the one thing which the public will want to know about: his wife's suicide which seemed to sail again, with follow a second term for the wannabe pirates and their teachers and crewscene from his most famous book. Tommy, despite being late, Wilkinson is doing his best to drum up interest in the keenest pupil there – after all, forthcoming book: he has great friends, enemies does talks at local libraries which are well attended and he can easily vanquish, and a very good novice parrot for company. But everyone was seemingly on board has reason for concern his way to one of these talks when they set sail – the prize sweets from the tuck shop are going missing in great quantitieshe disappeared. Who could possibly be behind this mystery?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140716340X0349413118</amazonuk>
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|author=Sarah HuttonNaoki Higashida and David Mitchell|title=Cool PhysicsFall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism|rating=45|genre=Popular ScienceReference|summary=If you arenNaoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller 't entirely sure about a phrase such as ''Christiaan Huygens states his principle of wavefront sourcesThe Reason I Jump.'', don't worry – it The book was only in 1678 that popular because it happenedgave a rare glimpse into the workings of the autistic mind, so you're not too far behind in physicsas told from the unique perspective of a teenager with non-verbal autism. Brownian motionNaoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, and or by tracing letters on the gravitational constant being measured both date from before the Victorian era, palm of a transcriber. Despite this slow and all laborious method of these three things are on the introductory timeline writing, he has published several books in this bookhis native Japan, which I think might well be proof enough that and manages to give public presentations to raise awareness of his condition. ''Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8'' reintroduces us to Naoki as a primer young adult in the world of physics is very much neededhis 20s and explains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18436532491444799088</amazonuk>
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|author=Cathy HopkinsCaz Frear|title=The Valentine's Day KittenSweet Little Lies|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyThrillers|summary=Marcie is distraught. On Valentine's Day last year she'd didn't receive a single card and her parents could see that she was upset, so when she came home from school there was In 1998 a box on the kitchen table and girl called Maryanne disappears in it was the most gorgeous fluffy silver kittenIreland. Misty and Marcie were soon inseparable until the day that Misty went out without In 2017 a collar on - and didn't come homewoman called Alice is found dead in London. Marcie blamed herself: Misty's collar had broken and she'd never got round to buying a new one. Mum has put notices up everywhere she can think of and rung the local vets and animal rescue centresIn both cases, Detective Constable Cat Kinsella is coincidentally close by, but thereshe's no sign of Mistymore worried by the fact her father is too. Then Marcie starts having dreams, about a boy, a hotel, a painting - and MistyAnd he cannot be trusted. Will there be a happy ending?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112678X1785763350</amazonuk>
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|author= Shane HegartyMayim Bialik|title= Darkmouth: Hero RisingGirling Up
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|genre= Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Things seem Aimed at teenagers, this book focuses on growing up as bad as they can get for Finna girl, trainee Hunter of all those nasty things that keep trying to get through to our world from the Infested Side. His dad has been sacked, leaving him practically alone to face the baddies, both monstrous and human, he has no weapons or back-''Girling up apart from his friend Emmie'' if you will, and the family has even been kicked out of the house they've lived in for generations. Of course, in the way of the best stories, you only have to hint that things couldn't get worse for them what it means to do exactly that. And any beastie that's got all the monsters transition from the other dimension scared is not going school girl to be a doddle to fight. Fargrown up, far from itvia that hideous detour of teenage years. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>00075456220399548602</amazonuk>
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|author= Lucy DanielsPhilippa Pearce and Cate James|title= Summer at Hope MeadowsThe Ghost in Annie's Room (Little Gems)|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=''Animal Ark'' was Emma is on a popular series of childrenfamily holiday in an older relative's books written between 1994 and 2008. The stories focus on a young girl called Mandy Hopeseaside cottage, where she is to sleep in the daughter of two vets who run a practice, Animal Ark, room in the Yorkshire town of Welfordattic. Her brother has passed on what he says he has overheard – that it is haunted. Along But even with the mementos of the person that once lived there all around her best friend James, the children seek to help out creatures in need. The series consisted of 94 books in total and was written by with a collection strange feeling of authors writing under being watched, even with the pseudonym Lucy Danielsstormy winds knocking tree limbs on to the window – Emma can sleep through it all. ''Summer at Hope Meadows'' is the first in a new series for adult readers, continuing grown-up Mandy But that's story now not to say things will forever be that she is a fully qualified vet.way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14736538781781126852</amazonuk>
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|author=Frederic Dard Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear and Louise Rogers Lalaurie Larissa Volokhonsky (translatortranslators)|title=The King Unwomanly Face of FoolsWar|rating=45|genre=CrimeHistory|summary=Having sort ''War'', says Svetlana Alexievich, ''is first of split up with his partnerall murder, Jean-Marie is on holiday alone on the southern French coastand then hard work. And then simply ordinary life: singing, when he chances to meet a married English womanfalling in love, Marjorieputting your hair in curlers…''. They meet This extraordinary book is a collection of first-hand accounts by Russian fighting women in the most unusual ways – with two identical cars parked next to each otherSecond World War. A million women joined Russian military forces as soldiers of all ranks, medics, pilots, drivers, snipers, she gets in the wrong one by mistakecryptographers. Most were very young, then leaves her beach bag behindlittle more than girls of 18 or 19. Lo They were passionate about defending their homeland and behold they find each other at the casinooften extremely keen to join up, returning again and the following dayagain to recruitment offices until someone could be persuaded to take them. Their ambition was to help their brothers, when she arrives at his hotel to reclaim her bagfathers, they meet heart husbands to heartfight the terrible invader. Jean-Marie sees her They were trained and sent to be a very unhappily married womanthe front, where they were greeted at first with disappointment and not even the arrival disgust by fighting men, who had hoped for reinforcements of his partner and makeable-up sex can convince him he is not in love with Marjoriebodied men. But finding her again will take him The women had to Edinburgh – and into no end of trouble…prove themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227197X0141983523</amazonuk>
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|author=Tania HershmanAlison Jay|title=Some of Us Glow More Than OthersAlison Jay's ABC|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories For Sharing|summary=I won't be alone in stating that reading short story collections can be slightly awkward. Going through from A-ZAt first glance, witnessing this is a beautiful but fairly standard alphabet book: one letter per page with a bounty nice big picture of ideas an apple or a panda front and characters in short order can be too muchcentre - after all, but do you have the right to pick and choose according to what appealsABC format is pretty restrictive, and what time you have to fillisn't it? The sequence has carefully been consideredAnd truth be told, surely. Such would appear to be the case here. The last time I read one of this authorthat's collections, with [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]], the only real difficulty was holding back and rationing them, but here you not only get all most small people will see first time round. But look a whopping forty pieces of writing, they are also spread into sectionslittle closer . . .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19100614841787410196</amazonuk>
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|author= John BudeAnna Kovecses|title= Death Makes A ProphetOpposite Things|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeFor Sharing|summary= Two pages Rearing a child is not a competition, but have a conversation with a certain type of parent and they won't agree. Their child can speak four languages. Their child wrote their first sonnet at the age of three. Their child can be seen wistfully looking into this ''Crime Classic'' I had the middle distance just wanting to check play on the first publication datebouncy castle. Reading the first two pagesFor me, I am happy, it could easily have been written in 1967if my child is happy; be that doing sums, or '87eating play-doh. However, or even (possibly as with a pastiche) in 2017. Given that Bude's witty caper originally came out in 1947relaxed attitude to educating your kid, itcan be fun to learn a little, especially when a book is as fun as Little Mouse's slightly criminal that it's taken this long to resurface'Opposite Things''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07123569161786030381</amazonuk>
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|author= Michael Morpurgo and Shoo Rayner
|title= Mudpuddle Farm: Alien InvasionHee-Haw Hooray
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|summary=This Two collected edition contains two stories from Mudpuddle Farm: series – ''Alien InvasionNowt to Worry About'' and ''Mum's the WordTickety-Boo''. When How will the bees swarm animals react when the animals panic over a new creature sky goes strange and horrifying noises abound? Changes are afoot that appears in could mark the end of Mudpuddle farm; or is it just a new beginning?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008241988</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 1/8 -->|author=Stephan Santiago|title=Returning Home|rating=3. In the second story 5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=[[:Category:Stephan Santiago|Stephan Santiago]] has experienced life in a way that's led him to believe we're all on a soul journey back home – that greedy goat has vanished place we inhabited before we were born. This book is a guide as to how we can optimise this journey for ourselves, those around us and when he returns something darned odd happens…our children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00072751371504305272</amazonuk>
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|author=Tamsin CookeJulia Blackburn|title=Stunt DoubleThreads: The Delicate Life of John Craske
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|genre=Confident ReadersBiography|summary= Finn wants to be actor butJohn Craske was a fisherman, when his first ever lines in from a film are cutfamily of fishermen, he's happy who became too ill to go to settle for stunt-doublesea. He has all was born in Sheringham on the north Norfolk coast in 1881 and would eventually die in the skills for this demanding role: he's Norwich hospital in 1943 after a natural dare devil with a karate black-belt (almost)life which could have been defined by ill health. The only downside is the person Finn has There were various explanations for what ailed him, what caused him to double sink into a stupour, sometimes for: Finn and teen-star Blake have history years at a time and he was on occasions described as 'an imbecile'. But John had a relationship of mutual hatred. Pretty soonnatural artistic talent, however, this is albeit that his work had to be done on the least of Finn's worriesavailable surfaces in his home. The eccentric film director Chair seats, Novakwindow sills, pushes him to the limits with increasingly dangerous stunts, manipulating Finn into doing backs of doors all carried his wonderful pictures of the stunts without safety gearsea. But that seems tame when they transfer Then he moved on to film on location in a remote part embroidery, producing wonderful pictures of Papua New Guinea the Norfolk coast - and Finn discovers what Novak really has planned for him, most famously, of the evacuation at Dunkirk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019274982X0099582198</amazonuk>
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|author= Simon Puttock and Daniel EgneusM J Tjia|title= The ThingShe Be Damned|rating= 54|genre= For SharingCrime (Historical) |summary= One day ''London, 1863: prostitutes in the Thing'' falls from Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the sky and four strangers stumble across itkiller may have claimed their latest victim. At first they The police are confused. What is ''the Thing''? What does at a loss and so it do? What is it for? Then the four of them decide falls to work together courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to look after and care for '''the Thing''investigate. Soon word spreads about ''With the Thing'' and others come from far and wide assistance of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to find out more. Gradually a media circus builds up around ''the Thing''truth. Throughout all of this ''But when Amah is implicated in the Thing'' remains silent. Then just as suddenly and silently as it arrived ''brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the Thing'' departskiller strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405283718178507931X</amazonuk>
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|author=Thomas FlinthamSarah Powell|title=Around the World Colouring Search and Find: Pride & Prejudice: A Jane Austen Search and Find Book|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers|summary=Colouring Search and find books are usually aimed at children. They are a good bit of fun, but they are also a useful way good study tool for children to relax, develop manual dexterity and explore colouradult readers alike. Jane Austen is a fantastic novelist, but in the dash her style of writing can be daunting for those not used to appeal such heavy prose. It is very easy to become lost in the child so many miss the opportunity to be gently educational ''myriad of dialogue, characters and'' to still appeal to the youngevents. The two are not mutually exclusive! Look for instance at I find a good plot summary helps when approaching her works, this colouring book: it's got page upon page was especially so in the case of pictures to colour (with just a little narrative to set the scene) with the added attraction of four pages of stickersperplexing and long-winded Emma. You'll see grey shapes - and that's the signal to get stickering!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17880000051783708271</amazonuk>
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|author=Various AuthorsPatrice Lawrence|title= A Change Is Gonna ComeIndigo Donut|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= ''A Change Is Gonna ComeIn Bailey's opinion, Indigo didn' is an anthology of stories t look like she needed a hero. One by one, she looked Mona, Saskia, Betti and poems interpreting Kay in the eye. Then she gave them the theme of change by twelve BAME writersfinger: slow motion. Headphones on again, she sauntered off towards the science wing. Hell. That was... She was... It'' That's Stripes PublishingIndigo for you! Indigo is seventeen. And on her umpteenth school. Pitt Academy is a last chance for Indigo and her foster mother Keeley is anxious that she makes it there. But it's response to the undernot easy for Indigo -representation of BAME authors in the UKher reputation for kicking off always precedes her. And that's the least of it- because someone always finds out about her past: that 's a great response'she'' is the tiny little girl who was found by the body after her father killed her mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18471583901444927183</amazonuk>
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|author= Andrew ShvartsBethan Woollvin|title= Royal BastardsRapunzel|rating= 54|genre= TeensFor Sharing|summary= A group of teens witness something that they shouldn't Ah Rapunzel, how well we all know about her long golden hair and find themselves hunted her difficult-to-escape tower! Here, however, the story is told with a twist, because there is no handsome Prince who comes riding by half the kingdomto save Rapunzel from her incarceration. Royal plots No, magicinstead we see Rapunzel is smart enough to figure her own way out, defeating the witch, adventure and going on to a rich culture to immerse yourself insuccessful witch-hunting career. Can the pack of bastards make it to safety before the vicious warriors chasing them catch them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14847676591509842675</amazonuk>
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|author= Matt StantonCatherine Barr and Hanako Clulow|title= Funny Kid for President10 Reasons to Love an Elephant|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Max Walburt has a real problem with his teacher 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 gentle giants of Africa and nothing seems to make India, but it better. Running for class president seems like a was good way to find out of his problems but inevitably it doesnmore about them. Perhaps the most surprising fact which I discovered was that they live in herds headed by their ''grandmothers''t run smoothly. Female elephants and their calves stay together and the oldest female elephant is the one in charge as she knows where to find food and water - and she knows her herd. She remembers about people too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008220166184780943X</amazonuk>
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|author= Emily ClarksonAndrew Lacey|title= Can I Speak to Someone The English Civil War in Charge?100 Facts
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|genre= Politics and SocietyHistory|summary=The '100 Facts'Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?'', blogger Emily Clarkson's debut book, series is a fierce, witty and laughnow sufficiently well-out-loud funny ode to feminism. In established as a series guarantee of open lettersuseful introductory histories. This latest addition, she addresses recounting the issues faced by every modern woman, discussing everything from dealing with body hair to being made to feel uncomfortable in the gym, as well as more personal issuesstruggle between King and Parliament, like her experiences of being 'catfished' and sent abuse online. This is a vital read for any girl born in the 1990s, tackling some very serious social injustices beneath its fun exteriorno exception.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711569071445649950</amazonuk>
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|author= Riley SagerPeter Cottrill|title=Final GirlsTerrible True Tales from the Tower of London|rating=45|genre= ThrillersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=A 'final girl' is The history of the last girl alive at the end infamous Tower of a horror movie, a gruesome description which has defined the life London is full of Quincy Carpenter, as much as she tries gore and death. Its rich history dates back to persuade you differently. Quincy, the sole survivor of a teenage massacre, eleventh century and since then it has spent her adult years trying played host to put many famous figures, many of them ill-fated prisoners. The history of the past behind her. But when another Tower is told within this book'final girls pages, only this time it' dies, s told by the media, who have always been obsessed with the girls' dark glamour, swarm upon herravens that live there. And to make matters worse for Quincy, They are the other Tower'final girl' a survivor from another massacre, s guardians who has been in hiding for years, appears on her doorstep. Suddenly, Quincy is not only able reside there permanently due to move past her pastan ancient legend that all of London will fall should they be removed, her past starts to intermingle with her present and she is drawn back in. Was after centuries of watching over the first 'final girl's death an accident? Why has the second 'final girl' come out Tower they have their own version of hiding? And what isn't Quincy telling us about her own massacre? history to tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850340221406376884</amazonuk>
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|titleauthor=No FilterCara Black|authortitle=Orlagh CollinsMurder in Saint-Germain|rating=4|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Em - Emerald - has led a pretty privileged life. Her wealthy parents Who is Aimee Leduc? I have sent her to a posh private school. She's friends with all be honest and say that though this novel may be seventeenth in series from the right peoplebest-selling Cara Black, as her social media accounts will attest. Everything it is sweetness and light in Emfact my first outing with the deft Parisienne detective. And so, if I'm honest, I wasn's worldt sure what to expect. Or is it? Equivocation over covering up bullying has put Em in How does a character with so many investigations under her belt retain the crosshairs of the schoolgusto we's cool girl pecking order. Friends are suddenly less friendly. There are secrets at home about ve come to turn expect from secret all good literary detectives? Moreover, how does an author with so well established a character as Aimee Leduc keep her interesting enough for those of us coming late to open crisis. And when Emthe party? After reading ''Murder in Saint-Germain''s mother overdoses, the dominoes start to toppleI would suggest that Black manages it quite easily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14088845181616957700</amazonuk>
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|titleauthor=Kid NormalPierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne (translator)|authortitle=Greg James Three Days and Chris Smitha Life
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Murph Cooper is fed upChristmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasn't got the best of situations. He and Some of his mum friends have moved house. Again. This means another parted company with him because of the new home to get used -fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses tolet him waste his time on. This means another new school He's built a treehouse all by himself, and decided it was solely to get used to. This means another set of friends left behind. And if woo the girl next door that weren't enoughhe loves, this time he doesnbut she't even have a new school to go tos rejected it. Everywhere is full. Eventually And his best company, a place is found - at ''The School''the dog from the other house next door, a strange place hidden away was injured in a back streethit and run, and shot to be put out of its misery. In the process of angrily demolishing the treehouse, he's visited by his very friendly and adorable neighbour, the dog'The Schools six-year-old owner, and Antoine'' is a school unlike any other. It caters for children s swung some of the wood at him – and killed him with superpowersone fell and very foul sweep. But Murph doesn't have any superpowers As the title suggests, there will be a very tense few days and is soon consigned to nights while the socially undesirable super zeroes gang. The kids guilt amasses with superpowers are not kind to the super zeroes...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408884534<lad – and/amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Max Brooks|title= Minecraft: The Island|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Max Brooks perfectly captures the experience or a lifetime of playing Minecraft without instructions or assistance from the random punching stage through living on a knife-edge, where any false move could lead to building towers that touch the sky. Just as schools around the world are using Minecraft to teach computer science and other skills Brooks uses his novel to demonstrate how valuable life lessons can be learned from this online phenomena.him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178089774X085705662X</amazonuk>
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|author= Hayley LongHendrik Groen and Hester Velmans (translator)|title= The Nearest Faraway PlaceSecret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ years Old
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|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= On GriffAs the old adage goes, to walk a mile in someone else's thirteenth birthdayshoes is to gain some understanding of what it is to be that person. Admittedly, he and his brotherHendrik Groen isn's lives change forever when their entire family is caught t much up for long walks any more, but he does acquire a swish mobility scooter to zoom around in ; one could say that we get to zoom a road accident. mile in Groen''The Nearest Faraway Place'' is told from the point of view of his brothers shoes, Dylanand oh, as they both try to come to terms with the end of their world as they know it. what fun shoes he wears!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714062611405924004</amazonuk>
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|author= Charles HarrisCathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy|title= The Breaking of Liam GlassExile|rating= 34|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media. ThereAn account of the fate of Al Qaeda and the Bin Laden family since the events of 9/11, ''The Exile''s plenty here to likeplunges into the murky waters of international terrorism, espionage and plenty not topolitics. But good structure Detailed and meticulous, the book tackles the subject from all angles, providing a panoramic view of the subject and scramjet pace keep this one flying acting to enlighten and inform the final pagereader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19089438231408858762</amazonuk>
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|author=Michael Bond and R W AlleyJo Cotterill|title=Best-loved Paddington StoriesA Storm of Strawberries|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=With the sad passing of Michael Bond there Darby lives on a strawberry farm with her mum, big sister, step dad and step brother. She loves music, dancing, chocolate egg hunts and her big sister Kaydee. She is no time like the present to revisit some of the adventures of his most iconic creation; Paddingtonwarm and funny, and she has Down's syndrome. As The story looks at the character has proved so timeless regular re-issues events of one weekend in Darby's life when the books have appeared farm is threatened by a tornado, and ''Besther family is threatened by the revelation of a closely-loved Paddington Stories'' brings three of these stories togetherguarded secret. 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>00082450371848126166</amazonuk>
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|author= Jane JohnsonSarah Franklin|title= Court of LionsShelter
|rating= 5
|genre= Historical Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit Connie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city of Granada a year ago. In the shadow of the Alhambrahome, one of finding refuge in the most beautiful places on earth, she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends sheWomen's happy with Timber Corps. For her new life – but how could she be? Kate's alone, afraid and hiding under this remote community must now serve a false namesecret purpose. And fate <br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner of war, is about to bring her face-to-face with her greatest fearhaunted by his memories. Five centuries ago, a message, in a hand few could readIn the forest camp, was inscribed in blood on he finds a stolen scrap strange kind of paperfreedom. The paper was folded and pressed into one of the Alhambra's wallsTheir meeting signals new beginnings. There it has lainBut as they are drawn together, undisturbed by the tides of history – the Fall of Granada, the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers itworld outside their forest haven is being torn apart. Born of loveOld certainties are crumbling, in and both must now make a time of danger and desperation, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life forever-defining choice. <br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866943361785762990</amazonuk>
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