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|titleauthor=MoonriseDK|authortitle=Sarah CrossanMy Encyclopedia of Very Important Animals|rating=4.5|genre=TeensChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Joe The animal kingdom is seventeen and he hasn't seen his brother for ten years. And the reason for a diverse one, full of creatures that is brutal - Ed is on Death Row in Texas, convicted do all sorts of the murder things. The number of animals out there is so vast that even vets need to do a police officerquick google when something strange appears in their practice. Ed says he's innocent. Aunt Karen doesn't believe him For budding vet-to-be animals are a constant source of fascination and they will absorb as much knowledge as you can give them. And Mum It is long gone, no-one knows where. When not practical to visit the execution date comes throughzoo every day, Joe passes up on his job but getting an educational and a spot on a summer athletics scholarship and treks from New York across the country so that Ed is not alone. He entertaining animal encylopedia is determined to spend these last weeks with his brother no matter what anybody else thinks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886780X0241276357</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=I am TraitorDK|authortitle=Sif Sigmarsdottir DK Children's Encyclopedia

|summary=Alien ships have arrived in the skies above London. The Prime Minister appeared on TV to announce this ominous visitation and order Travel back over a curfew. After that, he went AWOL and took all reliable information with him, leaving the army hundred years into Whitby's past to patrol the streetssee two witches battle an ancient evil. Not that the army has any answer Follow young Lil as she tries to the long pipes that snake down from the ships avoid spoilers and gobble up teenagers. To where, nobody knowsfind her best friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14449344731405280255</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Charlotte SaysJ M Barrie and Robert Ingpen|authortitle=Alex BellPeter Pan and Wendy|rating=4.5|genre=TeensFor Sharing|summary=It''Charlotte says... don't open s a childhood staple - the door.'' Jemima's mother died in an awful fire not long ago story of Wendy, John and that is why Jemima decides to leave London Michael Darling and take up a job as a teacher on their beloved nurse, Nana the Isle of SkyeNewfoundland dog who took them to school each day. But leaving It's George Darling, their father, who makes the place doesn't mean escaping mistake when he locks Nana in the memories yard and Jemima is tormented the children are whisked away to Neverland by second-guessing what actually happened on that terrible nightPeter Pan and Tinkerbell. It doesn There't help that Miss Graysons a wonderful mix of characters, from Peter Pan, the mistress at boy who never wants to grow up, Tinkerbell, the schoolrather unpleasant fairy, is a strangeCaptain Hook, forbidding sortTiger Lily, while the school itself is lost boys and - of course - Wendy, but then it wouldn't have been a thoroughly creepy old buildingclassic since the original stage production in 1904 and the novel of 1911 if it were otherwise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18471584041786750856</amazonuk>

|author= J Jefferson FarjeonEmily Winslow|title= Seven DeadLook For Her

|genre= Historical FictionCrime|summary=Ted Lyte was petty criminal, but not usually the housebreaking type. He lacked the courage. However, needs mustIn 1976, Annalise Wood disappeared on her journey home from school and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with instantly became a shuttered windowlocal celebrity. ''...he might find a bit For decades the town of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind Lilling tried to solve the shutters, but it definitely isnmystery of Annalise't what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman. Fleeing the house in horrors disappearance until, he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsmanalmost twenty years later, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be a journalisther body was discovered. Fascinated by TedAnnalise's story (body was badly decomposed and a possible scoop)there was lack of DNA available, Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case the only trace on the body was found in her skirt and its assortment does not match anyone on record. The chances of odd clues, including a portrait shot through finding her killer were extremely low and the heart, an old cricket ball and murder soon becomes a mysterious note written by one of 'cold case' – but still the victimsmost famous Lilling has ever seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07123568860749022663</amazonuk>

|author= Chris ColferGrady Hendrix|title= The Land Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Stories: Worlds CollideHorror Fiction from the '70s and '80s

|genre= Confident ReadersHorror|summary=FinallyDemonic possession, after much anticipationmurderous babies, the grand finale to the bestman-selling ''Land of Stories'' is here. The previous book [[The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey by Chris Colfer|The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey]] left us dangling on an almighty cliffhangereating moths… for these books, as well as leaving many no plot threads unresolvedwas too ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, no evil too despicable. We have been with the Bailey twins from the very beginning; seen them grow Now horror author Grady Hendrix risks his soul and mature from awkward pre-teens his sanity (not to confident young adults. Orson Welles famously said: mention the reader''If you want a happy ending, that dependss!) to relate the true, untold story of course, on where you stop your a fascinating and often forgotten era in publishing. Read the synapse-shattering story.'' Is summaries!<br>See the fact that horrific hand-painted cover imagery!<br>And learn the book begins with this quote an ominous warning that true-life tales of the Bailey twins may not get their 'happily ever after' after all?writers, artists, and publishers who gleefully violated every literary law but one – never be boring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03163558951594749817</amazonuk>

|author= Brian MastersLuke Dittrich|title= Killing for CompanyPatient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets|rating= 4.5|genre= True CrimePopular Science|summary= Killing for Company is a detailed criminal study of Dennis Nilsen, unique in that it was produced with Nilsen's full cooperation and includes material from Nilsen's prison diaries. Covering Nilsen's early life, his career and subsequent murders, this is a detailed analysis of Luke Dittrich seeks to shed light on the man behind the murder initials, and an attemptin doing so, on Masters' part, to understand what shaped Nilsen and what could have caused such apparently senseless violenceuncovered quite a bit more than he expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847594220099571862</amazonuk>

|author= E V HarteSita Brahmachari and Jane Ray|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly Greene|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= I love reading full stop so I was excited to have the chance to read the first crime novel from established, well-regarded author Daisy Waugh, writing under a pseudonym. But, as a self-confessed chicklit fan, who's never read a crime novel before, I wasn't sure if I was going to like it....turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472124243</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Vicky Hayward|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookWorry Angels

|genre=CookeryDyslexia Friendly|summary=In 1745 Amy-May was devastated when her parents split up: she and her mother left the delightful seaside cottage where the waves had sung her to sleep and moved into a 'garden flat'. That didn't mean that it had a Spanish friary cookgarden, Juan Altamiras, published just that it was on the first edition of ground floor. his They didn''New Art t have a lot of Cookery, Drawn From possessions as the School bailiffs had taken most of Economic Experience''them. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted Her father was living in another old cottage now and fresh fishhopefully he'd be able to set up his kiln, vegetables and dessertsbut he wouldn't be able to home-school Amy-May. The style alternative was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and it Sandcastles Secondary School but the rather nervous Amy was aimed, not at those who could afford considered to be too ''anxious'' to cook on a grand scale, but start at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbersthe school full time. Whilst the ingredients were - for the most part - modestly priced there is As a stress on the careful combination of flavours and aromas. Spices are used conservatively and the bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed in favour of something much more subtle and we see influences from Altamirasgentle introduction to schooling she went to Grace' own region, Aragon, the Iberian court and the New Worlds art school instead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442279419178112695X</amazonuk>

|author= Clar Ni ChonghaileCassandra Parkin|title= Rain Falls On EveryoneThe Winter's Child

|genre= Literary FictionParanormal|summary= It's a cliché that the Irish have a picturesque turn 'A modern Gothic tale of phrasetwisted love, but clichés only exist because theysecrets and hauntings''re trueit says on the cover. Roddy Doyle put it differently in a recent interview I'll go along with that. Suzannah Harper doesn''Writing'' magazinet believe in life after death or gypsies being able to tell the future, when he said but that hasn''With Irish, there's another language bubbling under t stopped her spending a fortune on psychics and fortune tellers in the English''desperate hunt for her son. However you express it, that art of expression is woven into every other line of Clár's proseJoel has been missing for five years. Pick a page He skipped out of school one day after an argument at random and you'll find something like ''the sickness that had come to roost in her home like a cursed owl'' or ''like he was God, Jesus and Justin Timberlake rolled into one'' or ''a low sobbing, slow and inevitable as rain on a Sunday'': expressions that catch your smile unawares, or tear at your heart in their mundane sadness. Or sometimes bothhas not been seen since.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850790181785079034</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Salt CreekClare Foges and Al Murphy|authortitle=Lucy TreloarBathroom Boogie|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionFor Sharing|summary=The first chapter of ''Salt Creek'' opens Every day I leave the house with the feeling that I left it in Chichestera pretty tidy state, England, in 1874but on my return some things always seem out of place. Hester Finch This is a respected and reasonably wealthy member especially true of her communitymy bathroom. But she can't stop her thoughts wandering back to her adolescence Why is there toothpaste on the mirror, spent or a flannel on Salt Creek Station in the remote South Australian Coorong region. Hester feels ''has never felt so alive as then, floor? It would appear that I may not actually be to blame and that when we had so little'I'm at work all the bathroom items come out for a boogie. Will I ever catch them in the act?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19107094170571337317</amazonuk>

|author= Bali RaiMark Alder|title= Tales from IndiaSon of the Night

|genre= Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=Fairy stories, folk tales and fables are a rite In [[Son of passage for an inquiring mind. They open the door to enchantment, magic and moral lessons. Many European collections exist, some Morning by Mark Alder|Son of the most notable being that of Aesop, Hans Christian AndersenMorning]], author Mark Alder plunges the Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang and Perrault. Tales can also originate from exotic climes. An endless source of delight for me as reader into a child was my great grandmother's much cherished copy of The Arabian Nights. Full of mysterychaotic, imagination and charmdangerous world, it communicated taking them back to me the power turbulent reign of storytelling Edward III and transported me to different worldsthe dangers of the Hundred Years War. This is what Bali Rai aims Adding elements of fantasy and theology to do for young readers with his latest offering. Inspired by the collected tales mix, Alder created an intriguing read which is continued in ''Son of the C19th Sydney-born English folklorist Joseph JacobNight''. With Lucifer, Satan, God, Rai has lovingly created Devils and Angels interacting with a tribute to cast of real and well researched characters, Alder continues his exploration of the traditional stories of IndiaHundred Years war whilst rather incredibly keeping his readers as educated as they are entertained.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>01413730670575115203</amazonuk>

|author=Lucy AdlingtonKenneth Grahame and Robert Ingpen|title=The Red RibbonWind in The Willows|rating=4.5

|summary=Ella is rushing to her audition for a job Kenneth Grahame's ''The Wind in fashion, as are several other the Willows'' was one of the defining books of my childhood and more than sixty years after I first read the book I've just recently passed it onto another young womenreader. Thrown in at Since the deep end book was first published in 1908 there have been some notable illustrators: Paul Bransom provided illustrations for the high-pressure workplace1913 edition, she is tasked with creating a dress from scratch Ernest H Shepard (perhaps better known for an important client before four pm that day. But she manages ithis illustrations of ''Winnie the Pooh'') in 1933, even working through Arthur Rackham (possibly the leading illustrator from the non-existent lunch break, to design a silk wonder worthy golden age of any environment. But this is no typical make-or-break-'em fashion design house, book illustration) in 1940 and this is no normal environment for Robert Ingpen who illustrated the recipient to be wearing centenary edition of ''The Wind in the frock. This is Birchwood – or Auschwitz-Birkenau to you and IWillows''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714062881786751062</amazonuk>

|author=Andy BellSimon Jenkins|title=The DIY Investor: How to take control of your investments and plan for a financially secure futureBritain's 100 Best Railway Stations

|genre=Business and FinanceReference|summary=Investments are confusing. They're also rather frightening unless you have a background in finance: you could invest in equities In the mid twentieth century the railway was something which seem likely harked back to make your fortunethe Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, only but steam was being replaced by oil, even then and in the twenty-first century oil is giving way to find that you've lost all your moneyelectricity. On It's cleaner, more environmentally friendly and the other hand you could put stations which we'd all your savings into a nicerushed through as quickly as possible, keen to escape their grime, safe building society or bank account only were restored and became places to find that the interest is so derisory that your capital doesn't actually have the same buying power that it did when you opened the accountbe admired, possibly even lingered in. You couldSimon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024197898X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Baker|title=Eloise Undercover|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Eloise has a wonderful life with her two best friends, of courseAlbert and Maddie, spend until the money, but what about when you want German soldiers start to buy arrive and everything changes. Nazi-occupied France is not a house, replace place Eloise wants to be. Maddie and her family are taken away and Albert starts to act very strangely. Then her father disappears. Eloise is lost until she discovers her father has been working for the roof or retire? The roof resistance and there might , if she is brave enough, be relatively cheap but the other two are going a way to rescue him before he's deported to need Germany. She now has hope and a substantial investment potplan.But will the resistance let a twelve year old schoolgirl join them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08571960141910611131</amazonuk>

|author= E LockhartNalini Singh|title= Genuine FraudSilver Silence A Psy-Changling Trinity Novel

|genre= TeensParanormal|summary= I'm going to Jump straight up say that I'm not going to mention the plot in into a rich and diverse universe at this reviewdesignated jumping on point. Visit a world of humans, because I can't without inevitably spoiling something changelings and Psy. The world the books have set in this twisting, turning, great suspense has faced a dramatic change and a new world-order of a novelpeace has been declared. All I will say The peace is that I felt like I was watching a proper thriller movie while I was reading it; I feel like I might see painful and not universally loved. Into this advertised as world a film on the side of a bus any time soon, and if that happens, then bear falls in love with an emotionless Psy – how'd ya reckon it will have an excellent female lead that kicks some serious backside. 'll turn out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714066281473217571</amazonuk>

|author= Jackie Morris and James MayhewColin Thubron|title= Mrs Noah's PocketsMirror to Damascus|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingTravel|summary= The heavy rainsDamascus today is a monument to her past, Noah building his ark to all the people and civilisations that helped shape her. In this enthusiastic piece of travel writing, Collin Thubron tells the animals going in two by two to be saved. This most familiar tale of stories a city that has been retold time seen empires rise and time again but not like this. This time there is twist and someone else quietly takes centre stage. When Mr Noah builds the arkfall, he makes two lists - one for all the animals who will conquerors come on board and one go and has lasted for those troublesome creatures he will leave behindover two thousand years. Meanwhile, Mrs Noah gets out her sewing machine It's rich in impressive history and makes a coat with very deep pockets. Lots of pocketsthis book is rich in impressive detail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095909X0099532298</amazonuk>

|author=Jem VanstonFearne Cotton and Sheena Dempsey|title=A Cat Called Dog 2 - The One with the KittensYoga Babies|rating=4|genre=General FictionFor Sharing|summary=GeorgeRadio host, TV presenter, fashion designer, Dog the cat and Eric the stray were indulging themselves with a philosophical discussion when they heard some strange mewing. Three kittens had found their way into the garden and told the resident cats that their mother had told them to run away when a two-legs cat catcher came for them all. Mother couldnauthor – is there anything Fearne Cotton can't run as she had a sore pawdo? Based on the content of this book, but Daisywe can undoubtedly add Yogi to the ongoing list of talents, Maisie and Boo had run and run and run. Theybecause it'd no idea what happened s hard to her - or how to get back home again. George is getting on imagine any other way in years and wouldn't like to upset his two legs, The Lady, by which this came into being away from home for too long, so he appoints Dog as leader of an expedition to reunite the kittens and their Mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17862933901783445645</amazonuk>

|author= Cressida CowellClaire Freedman and Jane Massey|title= The Wizards of OnceFlorence Frizzball

|genre= Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary= Xar Florence Frizzball has the frizziest, curliest, most out of control mop of hair you've ever seen! And she longs for smooth, sleek, brushable locks like all her friends. As a kid, I remember being chased round the garden by my mother, brandishing a hair brush and Wish only meet because they are both where they are not supposed trying to get me to sit still and have my frizz sorted out. To say I identified with Florence would be. Xar is an impetuous young wizard keen to prove his magical prowessunderstatement. Wish is a young warrior desperate to demonstrate her worth. They live in a world in which Iron vanquishes Magic - and As the Magic of the witches is pretty evil stuff. Thankfullytale goes on, the warriors have used Iron to keep the witches at bay. And nowthough, they are turning their attention we see another side to the wizardsstory. But Florence gets what if not she wants, but when her dream comes true she quickly learns that maybe she was wanting all Magic is bad? What if the witches are a threat to warrior wrong things, and wizard alike? What then? that actually her frizzball is part of her identity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14449367001471144542</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 10/9 -->|author=Stuart BurrellMaconie|title=Twelve Times To The Max: One Man's Journey to, and Recollections of, Setting Twelve Verified World RecordsLong Road From Jarrow|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyTravel |summary=The first of Stuart BurrellI cancelled my ''Country Walking''s world records, well, magazine subscription about a year ago and the first two, actually, as heonly thing I miss is Stuart Maconie's not a man to do things by halves, came about by accidentcolumn. There had been a plan His down-to raise some money for the Children in Need Charity -earth approach and quite late on the people who were to have been the main attraction got a better offer sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and Burrell is not a man soul more sensitive than he might be willing to let people downadmit. What could Let's be done to bring people honest, though, I picked this one up because of someone else's review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and raise some money? Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up in. Most of us would Like Maconie I have thought no connection (that I know of jumble sales and cake bakes, ) to the Jarrow Crusade but Burrell had made when he talks about it being ''a hobby whole matrix of escapology and idea events reducible to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part of a sponsored escape had life breathed into itmy history too. On 3 November 2002 he went for the Fastest Handcuff Escape world record and immediately afterwards Most Handcuffs Escaped in One Hour. Both were successful and more than £300 was raised for Children in NeedTangentially, at least.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>154712251X1785030531</amazonuk>

|author= Susan Duxbury-NeumannKieran Larwood|title= What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?: A History of the German Population The Gift of Great BritainDark Hollow|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryConfident Readers|summary= This is the second marvellous book featuring the rabbits of Enderby, and the delightful young rabbit hero, Podkin One Ear. I love the format of a story within a story. The adventures of Podkin in ''The Gift of Dark Hollow'', are told by an old rabbit who has been a Bard all his life - a teller of stories and legends from the rabbit world. The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some time Bard has an apprentice, Rue, desperately eager to learn his trade. He hangs on every word spoken by the Bard as they travel together to provide a full answerfestival. Rue is hungry to learn the art of story-telling, but also wants to know all about Podkin One Ear, and what better way to do this slim but useful volume does so very wellthan to hear from the Master himself. The tale he tells Rue (and us) is a gripping and scary one, featuring Podkin and his friends in their ongoing battle to overturn the ruthless Gorm, and their cruel leader, Scramashank. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456648600571328415</amazonuk>

|author= Holly HepburnPhil Allcock and Richard Watson|title= The Picture House by the SeaClumpety Bump

|genre= Women's FictionFor Sharing|summary=So as another typically dreary British summer is drawing to a closeClumpety Bump likes apples. Nothing wrong with that, I found myself craving a fix after all: they're tasty and full of literary sunshine and sea kissed romancegoodness. In such a mood it was thenBut you don't get delicious, juicy treats like that unless you deserve them, and naughty Clumpety is a bit too keen on saying ''I came across the cover for can't be bothered'The Picture House by the Sea'when his friend Wally asks for help. So, after several disasters, Wally decides he'd be better off leaving Clumpety at home and using his tractor instead. Perfect blue skiesUnfortunately, glistening seathings don't turn out too well, a beautiful Art Deco building and our two heroes learn that if you want to be properly happy, other people need to top it off an old fashioned ice-cream cartbe happy too. Selfishness just makes everyone sad. Consider me sold!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711617141848862458</amazonuk>

|author=Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreRoger Moore|title=Pug-a-Doodle-Do!A Bientot...|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsAutobiography|summary=I was reading a book so utterly different to this The news of the other day, it has to bear mention. It was an exceedingly academic book about graphic novels and comics for the YA audience, and it featured an essay picking up on the way books like the fill-death of Sir Roger Moore in-bits-yourself entries in the Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries series (such May 2017 came as [[Dork Diariesa great shock: How to Dork Your Diary by Rachel Renee Russell|this he was one]]) let of those people you interact with the franchise, and also to create your own contentknew would go on for ever. There was some weird highjust one small glimmer of light in the sadness -falutinthe news that a matter of days before his death he'd delivered the finished manuscript of his book, ' academic language 'À bientôt…'', to describe such books – but you know what? his publishers. Just a few months later a copy landed on my desk and I say (redacted) didn't even bother to that – let's just hang look as though I could resist reading it and have fun. And this book, spinning off from the four books this partnership has so far been responsible for, is certainly a provider of thatstraight away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>01927640471782438610</amazonuk>

|author=Jeremy Strong and Jamie SmithJonathan Stroud|title=Nellie Choc-Ice, Penguin Explorer (Little Gems)Lockwood and Co: The Empty Grave|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Meet Nellie Choc-Ice. Thus named by her grandparents In a world that takes the best and worst of Victorian times (and grandparents have a habit in this book atmospheric fogs, candles, mudlarks who scavenge along the banks of making unusual names the Thames for their grandchildren, whichever species they belong totreasures)and the modern day (leggings, she is a pretty little Macaroni penguinskinny jeans, complete with pink feetcabs and concrete underpasses) absolutely anything can happen – and it does. For fifty years ghosts of all kinds have infested Britain, bright yellow eyebrows and a woolly hat with as only children and young people can see them, theirs is the world's biggest pompom on task of protecting the end. She has a habit of going exploring adults and finding out what's over ridding the next ridge in country of the icemenaces, one by painful one. Lucy, George, Holly and Lockwood are the nextmembers of the smallest and most ramshackle independent agency, but their constant success (and survival despite forever lengthening odds) is a thorn in the next. But when disaster happens and flesh of the ice she is on is knocked off Antarctica by a submarineelite Fittes Agency, even she can have no idea as to where she will end up…which has acquired almost total control over the whole ghost-bashing business.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811272120552575798</amazonuk>

|author= Sally NichollsKenneth Steven|title= Things A Bright Girl Can DoWinter Tales|rating= 4|genre= TeensShort Stories|summary=''Things Upon opening this book you are presented with an eclectic collection of twelve short stories centred around a Bright Girl Can Do'' tells common theme of Winter. You are taken around the story world as you read stories set in a variety of three teenage girls, all of whom are fighting for women's suffrage, despite coming places from very different backgrounds. There's EvelynHelsinki to New York, an upper-class girl expected Germany to marry at Russia. Kenneth Steven cleverly utilises a young age, May, a middlekey component of short stories - that you can read each story in one sitting -class girl with to his advantage as he gives each story an opinionated Motherindividual focal subject, and Nellsuch as bullying, ensuring that you are reading a working-class girl who does what she can to help her large family scrape by. The novel chronicles both their contributions to the fight for suffrage, and distinct story every time you open the way their lives change when World War One beginsbook.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17834452541910674508</amazonuk>

|author= Neil WhiteWilliam Sutton|title= From The ShadowsLawless and the House of Electricity|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime(Historical)|summary= I'm a bit old-fashioned and therefore not Campbell Lawless is back, this time tasked with solving a great fan series of stories that can't keep their timeline straightterrorist attacks across the nation. I'll go with a prologue – even if Is it's becoming a bit the work of clichéd way the French, as police and public are being led to believe, or someone closer to home? Who can be trusted and what does Roxbury, an innovative inventor previously disgraced, have to do with the bombs used to cause chaos across the country? Employing the services of creating a mystery at Molly, the beginning of a story – but switching between 'now' and 'a fortnight ago' – just feels a little lazyeffervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, he sets in motion a way campaign of creating tension when all else fails. Thatsubterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, however, is my only little gripe about skulduggery and the desperate yearnings beneath Roxbury''From The Shadows'' and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less works constant invention.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17857609201785650130</amazonuk>

|author=Lisa PappK J Lawrence|title=Madeleine Finn and the Library DogThe Cossack|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=Madeleine Finn doesnDaniel Brooking is not what you't like to read - not anything. Itd think of as hero material: he's not really her fault, you knowa photographer of some merit and in his fifties he has a settled life. Her teacher tries to encourage her, but some of It was the other kids giggle when she makes mistakes. And they pull faces disappearance of the type his assistant, Ivan Shevchenko, which would have given me my head in my hands to play with when I was a childdisrupted everything. The words just donIt wasn't seem unknown for him to come out right disappear occasionally, but missing an exhibition was a first for herhim. The other children are getting gold stars (IHe've ''never'' liked that system) but all Madeleine gets is d been distracted for a heart sticker few days - and then there were the strange papers which tells her arrived, to keep tryingbe kept safe. She's got plenty of those. All week she tries her best but doesn't get The authorities, in the star she longs for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646326</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rose Blake|title= Going to School|rating=4|genre= For Sharing|summary= At the start form of a new school year parents often ask for recommendations for books that would help make things a little easier for those about to start school for shadowy senior member of the first time or for slightly older children making security services, confirmed the transition to Junior School. This vibrant and cheerful picture book contains much in both text and images view that would be useful and encouraging for anxious children Ivan was probably dead, because of some supposed connections with organised crime and equally anxious parentsdrug dealing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18478089801999782704</amazonuk>

|author=Mathieu Reynes, Valerie Vernay James Goss and Jeremy Melloul (translator)Russell T Davies|title=Water MemoryDoctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)

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