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|author=Cynthia Ryland and Mary BlairDK|title=Walt Disney's Cinderella: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)My Encyclopedia of Very Important Animals|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I'm sure almost The animal kingdom is a diverse one, full of creatures that do all my readers are au fait with the story sorts of Cinderella, and things. The number of how she went from the gutter animals out there is so vast that even vets need to the stars do a quick google when something strange appears in one romantic swooptheir practice. It's only For budding vet-to-be animals are a good thing the relevant people didn't have foot fetishes or phobias, for then the tale would have been utterly differentconstant source of fascination and they will absorb as much knowledge as you can give them. Disney made it slightly different, of course, when they made the animated classic based on It is not practical to visit the legendzoo every day, but getting an educational and this book, complete with art from the time the film was being made, entertaining animal encylopedia is evidence of just how the look and the emotion of the piece were intended to be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052869970241276357</amazonuk>

|author=Jon Scieszka and Mary BlairDK|title=Walt DisneyDK Children's Alice in Wonderland: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)Encyclopedia

|genre=Emerging ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I'll take is as read you have some knowledge of the story of Alice in Wonderland – certainly when she got to be 150 More than sixty years old ago my grandparents bought me an encylopedia: it was a couple of years back there were no end of editions of her story. And major purchase for them as you knowthey didn't really ''do'' books, 150 years is but it was a heck of a lot of unbirthdaystreasure trove for me and I still have it today. It didn't just teach me facts - it taught me how to find out information for myself and how to use an index. But her story got It opened my eyes to be slightly different, subjects I'd never considered and if anything only more widened my knowledge on those I already loved. In format, courtesy of the Disney cartoon, in size and content it was very similar to ''DK Children's Encyclopedia'' and I can imagine a younger me hunched over it and the fact that begging just to be allowed to finish this book features artwork that was generated during the production of that film is the unique selling pointbit before I went to bed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052870040241283868</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=MoonriseKelly Barnhill|authortitle=Sarah CrossanThe Girl Who Drank the Moon|rating=54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Joe Every year the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest, in the hope that this sacrifice will keep their town safe. Little do they know that the witch, Xan, is seventeen a kind soul who rescues the children and he hasn't seen his brother for ten yearsfinds them new homes with families on the other side of the forest. And She feeds the reason for that is brutal - Ed is babies on Death Row in Texasstarlight to keep them nourished throughout their journey, convicted of but one year she accidently feeds a baby moonlight which fills the murder of child with a police officerpowerful magic. Ed says heXan names the baby Luna and realises she must raise this magical child as her own, locking away her magical abilities until her thirteenth birthday. But as the day approaches where Luna's innocent. Aunt Karen doesn't believe him. And Mum is long gonemagic will emerge, no-one knows where. When she will have to learn to protect the execution date comes through, Joe passes up on his job safe and a spot on a summer athletics scholarship and treks from New York across the country so that Ed is not alone. He is determined to spend these last weeks with his brother no matter what anybody else thinksloving world she has always known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886780X1848126476</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=I am TraitorRobin Jarvis|authortitle=Sif Sigmarsdottir Time of Blood|rating=4.5

|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 man-eating moths… for these books, no plot was too ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, no evil too despicable. Now horror author Grady Hendrix risks his soul and his sanity (not to mention the best-selling ''Land of Stories'' is here. The previous book [[The Land of Stories: An Authorreader's Odyssey by Chris Colfer|The Land !) to relate the true, untold story of Stories: An Author's Odyssey]] left us dangling on an almighty cliffhanger, as well as leaving many plot threads unresolveda fascinating and often forgotten era in publishing. We have been with  Read the Bailey twins from synapse-shattering story summaries!<br>See the very beginning; seen them grow horrific hand-painted cover imagery!<br>And learn the true-life tales of the writers, artists, and mature from awkward pre-teens to confident young adultspublishers who gleefully violated every literary law but one – never be boring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749817</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Luke Dittrich|title= Patient H.M. Orson Welles famously said: ''If you want a happy ending, that depends, A Story of courseMemory, Madness and Family Secrets|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular Science|summary= Luke Dittrich seeks to shed light on where you stop your story.'' Is the fact that man behind the book begins with this quote an ominous warning that the Bailey twins may not get their 'happily ever after' after all?initials, and in doing so, uncovered quite a bit more than he expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03163558950099571862</amazonuk>

|author= Brian MastersSita Brahmachari and Jane Ray|title= Killing for CompanyWorry Angels|rating= 54|genre= True CrimeDyslexia Friendly|summary= Killing for Company is 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 detailed criminal study of Dennis Nilsen'garden flat'. That didn't mean that it had a garden, unique in just that it was produced with Nilsen's full cooperation and includes material from Nilsen's prison diarieson the ground floor. Covering Nilsen They didn's early life, his career and subsequent murders, this is t have a detailed analysis lot of possessions as the man behind the murder bailiffs had taken most of them. Her father was living in another old cottage now and an attempthopefully he'd be able to set up his kiln, on Mastersbut he wouldn't be able to home-school Amy-May. The alternative was Sandcastles Secondary School but the rather nervous Amy was considered to be too ''anxious'' part, to understand what shaped Nilsen and what could have caused such apparently senseless violencestart at the school full time. As a gentle introduction to schooling she went to Grace's art school instead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784759422178112695X</amazonuk>

|author= E V HarteCassandra Parkin|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly GreeneWinter's Child

|genre= CrimeParanormal|summary= I ''A modern Gothic tale of twisted love reading full stop so , secrets and hauntings'' it says on the cover. I was excited 'll go along with that. Suzannah Harper doesn't believe in life after death or gypsies being able to have tell the chance to read the first crime novel from established, well-regarded author Daisy Waughfuture, writing under a pseudonym. But, as a self-confessed chicklit fan, whobut that hasn's never read t stopped her spending a crime novel before, I wasn't sure if I was going to like it.fortune on psychics and fortune tellers in the desperate hunt for her son. Joel has been missing for five years. He skipped out of school one day after an argument at home and has not been seen since.turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721242431785079034</amazonuk>

|author=Vicky HaywardClare Foges and Al Murphy|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookBathroom Boogie

|genre=CookeryFor Sharing|summary=In 1745 Every day I leave the house with the feeling that I left it in a Spanish friary cookpretty tidy state, Juan Altamiras, published the first edition but on my return some things always seem out of place. his ''New Art This is especially true of Cookerymy bathroom. Why is there toothpaste on the mirror, Drawn From or a flannel on the School of Economic Experience''. floor? It contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and desserts. The style was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimed, would appear that I may not at those who could afford actually be to cook on a grand scale, but blame and that when I'm at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbers. Whilst work all the ingredients were - bathroom items come out for the most part - modestly priced there is a stress on the careful combination of flavours and aromasboogie. Spices are used conservatively and the bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed Will I ever catch them in favour of something much more subtle and we see influences from Altamiras' own region, Aragon, the Iberian court and the New World.act?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14422794190571337317</amazonuk>

|author= Clar Ni ChonghaileMark Alder|title= Rain Falls On EveryoneSon of the Night|rating= 54|genre= Literary FictionFantasy|summary= It's a cliché that In [[Son of the Irish have a picturesque turn Morning by Mark Alder|Son of phrasethe Morning]], but clichés only exist because they're true. Roddy Doyle put it differently in author Mark Alder plunges the reader into a recent interview with ''Writing'' magazinechaotic, when he said that ''With Irishdangerous world, there's another language bubbling under taking them back to the English''. However you express it, that art turbulent reign of expression is woven into every other line Edward III and the dangers of Clár's prosethe Hundred Years War. Pick a page at random Adding elements of fantasy and you'll find something like ''theology to the sickness that had come to roost mix, Alder created an intriguing read which is continued in her home like a cursed owl'' or Son of the Night''like he was . With Lucifer, Satan, God, Jesus Devils and Justin Timberlake rolled into one'' or ''Angels interacting with a low sobbingcast of real and well researched characters, slow and inevitable Alder continues his exploration of the Hundred Years war whilst rather incredibly keeping his readers as educated as rain on a Sunday'': expressions that catch your smile unawares, or tear at your heart in their mundane sadness. Or sometimes boththey are entertained.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850790180575115203</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Salt CreekKenneth Grahame and Robert Ingpen|authortitle=Lucy TreloarThe Wind in The Willows|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Kenneth Grahame's ''The Wind in the Willows'' was one of the defining books of my childhood and more than sixty years after I first chapter read the book I've just recently passed it onto another young reader. Since the book was first published in 1908 there have been some notable illustrators: Paul Bransom provided illustrations for the 1913 edition, Ernest H Shepard (perhaps better known for his illustrations of ''Salt CreekWinnie the Pooh'' opens ) in Chichester, England1933, Arthur Rackham (possibly the leading illustrator from the golden age of book illustration) in 1874. Hester Finch is a respected 1940 and reasonably wealthy member Robert Ingpen who illustrated the centenary edition of her community. But she can't stop her thoughts wandering back to her adolescence, spent on Salt Creek Station 'The Wind in the remote South Australian Coorong region. Hester feels ''has never felt so alive as then, when we had so littleWillows''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19107094171786751062</amazonuk>

|author= Bali RaiSimon Jenkins|title= Tales from IndiaBritain's 100 Best Railway Stations|rating= 45|genre= Confident ReadersReference|summary=Fairy stories, folk tales and fables are a rite of passage for an inquiring mind. They open In the mid twentieth century the door railway was something which harked back to enchantment, magic the Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and moral lessons. Many European collections existplanes, some of the most notable but steam was being that of Aesop, Hans Christian Andersenreplaced by oil, even then and in the Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang and Perrault. Tales can also originate from exotic climestwenty-first century oil is giving way to electricity. An endless source of delight for me as a child was my great grandmother It's much cherished copy of The Arabian Nights. Full of mysterycleaner, imagination more environmentally friendly and charmthe stations which we'd all rushed through as quickly as possible, it communicated keen to me the power of storytelling escape their grime, were restored and transported me became places to different worldsbe admired, possibly even lingered in. This is what Bali Rai aims to do for young readers with Simon Jenkins has chosen his latest offering. Inspired by the collected tales of the C19th Sydney-born English folklorist Joseph Jacob, Rai has lovingly created a tribute to the traditional stories of Indiahundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141373067024197898X</amazonuk>

|author=Lucy AdlingtonSarah Baker|title=The Red RibbonEloise Undercover|rating=4.5

|summary=Ella Eloise has a wonderful life with her two best friends, Albert and Maddie, until the German soldiers start to arrive and everything changes. Nazi-occupied France is rushing not a place Eloise wants to be. Maddie and her audition for a job in fashion, as family are several other young womentaken away and Albert starts to act very strangely. Then her father disappears. Thrown in at Eloise is lost until she discovers her father has been working for the deep end in the high-pressure workplaceresistance and there might, if she is tasked with creating brave enough, be a dress from scratch for an important client way to rescue him before four pm that dayhe's deported to Germany. She now has hope and a plan. But she manages it, even working through will the nonresistance let a twelve year old schoolgirl join them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910611131</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nalini Singh|title= Silver Silence A Psy-existent lunch break, to design Changling Trinity Novel|rating= 4|genre= Paranormal|summary= Jump straight into a rich and diverse universe at this designated jumping on point. Visit a silk wonder worthy world of any environment. But this is no typical make-or-break-'em fashion design househumans, changelings and this is no normal environment for Psy. The world the recipient to be wearing the frockbooks have set in has faced a dramatic change and a new world-order of peace has been declared. This The peace is Birchwood – or Auschwitz-Birkenau to you painful and Inot universally loved.Into this world a bear falls in love with an emotionless Psy – how'd ya reckon it'll turn out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714062881473217571</amazonuk>

|author=Andy BellColin Thubron|title=The DIY Investor: How Mirror to take control of your investments and plan for a financially secure futureDamascus|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceTravel|summary=Investments are confusing. They're also rather frightening unless you have Damascus today is a background in finance: you could invest in equities which seem likely monument to make your fortuneher past, only to find that you've lost all your money. On the other hand you could put all your savings into a nice, safe building society or bank account only to find people and civilisations that the interest is so derisory that your capital doesn't actually have the same buying power that it did when you opened the accounthelped shape her. You could, In this enthusiastic piece of coursetravel writing, spend Collin Thubron tells the money, but what about when you want to buy tale of a housecity that has seen empires rise and fall, replace the roof or retire? The roof might be relatively cheap but the other conquerors come and go and has lasted for over two are going to need a substantial investment potthousand years. It's rich in impressive history and this book is rich in impressive detail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08571960140099532298</amazonuk>

|author= E LockhartFearne Cotton and Sheena Dempsey|title= Genuine FraudYoga Babies

|genre= TeensFor Sharing|summary= I'm going to straight up say that I'm not going to mention the plot in this reviewRadio host, TV presenter, fashion designer, because I author – is there anything Fearne Cotton can't without inevitably spoiling something in do? Based on the content of this twistingbook, turning, great suspense of a novel. All I will say is that I felt like I was watching a proper thriller movie while I was reading it; I feel like I might see this advertised as a film on we can undoubtedly add Yogi to the side ongoing list of a bus any time soontalents, and if that happens, then because it will have an excellent female lead that kicks some serious backside's hard to imagine any other way in which this came into being. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714066281783445645</amazonuk>

|author= Jackie Morris Claire Freedman and James MayhewJane Massey|title= Mrs Noah's PocketsFlorence Frizzball|rating= 4.5

|summary= The heavy rainsFlorence Frizzball has the frizziest, curliest, most out of control mop of hair you've ever seen! And she longs for smooth, sleek, Noah building his ark and brushable locks like all her friends. As a kid, I remember being chased round the animals going in two garden by two my mother, brandishing a hair brush and trying to be saved. This most familiar of stories has been retold time get me to sit still and time again but not like thishave my frizz sorted out. This time there is twist and someone else quietly takes centre stageTo say I identified with Florence would be an understatement. When Mr Noah builds As the arktale goes on, though, he makes two lists - one for all we see another side to the animals who will come on board and one for those troublesome creatures he will leave behindstory. MeanwhileFlorence gets what she wants, Mrs Noah gets out but when her sewing machine dream comes true she quickly learns that maybe she was wanting all the wrong things, and makes a coat with very deep pockets. Lots that actually her frizzball is part of pocketsher identity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095909X1471144542</amazonuk>

|author=Jem VanstonStuart Maconie|title=A Cat Called Dog 2 - The One with the KittensLong Road From Jarrow|rating=45|genre=General FictionTravel |summary=George, Dog the cat I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and Eric the stray were indulging themselves with a philosophical discussion when they heard some strange mewingonly thing I miss is Stuart Maconie's column. Three kittens had found their way into the garden His down-to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and told the resident cats that their mother had told them a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to run away when a two-legs cat catcher came for them alladmit. Mother couldn Let't run as she had a sore paws be honest, though, but DaisyI picked this one up because of someone else's review, Maisie in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Boo had run and run and runNewton Aycliffe. Places I grew up in. They'd Like Maconie I have no idea what happened connection (that I know of) to her - or how the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being ''a whole matrix of events reducible to get back home again. George is getting on in years and wouldn't one word like to upset his two legsAberfan, The LadyHillsborough, by being away from home for or Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part of my history too long. Tangentially, so he appoints Dog as leader of an expedition to reunite the kittens and their Motherat least.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17862933901785030531</amazonuk>

|author= Cressida CowellKieran Larwood|title= The Wizards Gift of OnceDark Hollow

|summary= Xar and Wish only meet because they are both where they are not supposed to be. Xar This is an impetuous young wizard keen to prove his magical prowess. Wish is a young warrior desperate to demonstrate her worth. They live in a world in which Iron vanquishes Magic - and the Magic second marvellous book featuring the rabbits of the witches is pretty evil stuff. ThankfullyEnderby, and the warriors have used Iron to keep the witches at bay. And nowdelightful young rabbit hero, they are turning their attention to the wizardsPodkin One Ear. But what if not all Magic is bad? What if I love the witches are format of a story within a threat to warrior and wizard alike? What then? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444936700</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 10/9 -->|author=Stuart Burrell|title=Twelve Times To story. The Max: One Manadventures of Podkin in ''s Journey to, and Recollections of, Setting Twelve Verified World Records|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=The first Gift of Stuart BurrellDark Hollow''s world records, well, are told by an old rabbit who has been a Bard all his life - a teller of stories and legends from the first tworabbit world. The Bard has an apprentice, actuallyRue, as he's not a man desperately eager to do things by halves, came about by accidentlearn his trade. There had been a plan to raise some money for the Children in Need Charity and quite late He hangs on every word spoken by the people who were Bard as they travel together to have been the main attraction got a better offer and Burrell is not a man to let people downfestival. What could be done Rue is hungry to bring people in and raise some money? Most learn the art of us would have thought of jumble sales and cake bakesstory-telling, but Burrell had made a hobby of escapology also wants to know all about Podkin One Ear, and idea of a sponsored escape had life breathed into itwhat better way to do this than to hear from the Master himself. On 3 November 2002 The tale he went for the Fastest Handcuff Escape world record tells Rue (and us) is a gripping and scary one, featuring Podkin and immediately afterwards Most Handcuffs Escaped his friends in One Hour. Both were successful their ongoing battle to overturn the ruthless Gorm, and more than £300 was raised for Children in Needtheir cruel leader, Scramashank.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>154712251X0571328415</amazonuk>

|author= Susan Duxbury-NeumannPhil Allcock and Richard Watson|title= What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great BritainClumpety Bump

|genre= HistoryFor Sharing|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some time to provide Clumpety Bump likes apples. Nothing wrong with that, after all: they're tasty and full of goodness. But you don't get delicious, juicy treats like that unless you deserve them, and naughty Clumpety is a full answerbit too keen on saying ''I can't be bothered'' when his friend Wally asks for help. So, after several disasters, Wally decides he'd be better off leaving Clumpety at home and this slim but useful volume does so very using his tractor instead. Unfortunately, things don't turn out too well, and our two heroes learn that if you want to be properly happy, other people need to be happy too. Selfishness just makes everyone sad. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456648601848862458</amazonuk>

|author= Holly HepburnRoger Moore|title= The Picture House by the SeaA Bientot...|rating= 4|genre= Women's FictionAutobiography|summary=So The news of the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as another typically dreary British summer is drawing to a close, I found myself craving a fix great shock: he was one of literary sunshine and sea kissed romancethose people you knew would go on for ever. In such a mood it There was then, just one small glimmer of light in the sadness - the news that I came across a matter of days before his death he'd delivered the cover for finished manuscript of his book, ''The Picture House by the SeaÀ bientôt…'', to his publishers. Perfect blue skies, glistening sea, Just a few months later a beautiful Art Deco building copy landed on my desk and I didn't even bother to top look as though I could resist reading it off an old fashioned ice-cream cartstraight away. Consider me sold!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711617141782438610</amazonuk>

|author=Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreJonathan Stroud|title=Pug-a-Doodle-Do!Lockwood and Co: The Empty Grave|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=I was reading In a book so utterly different to this world that takes the best and worst of Victorian times (atmospheric fogs, candles, mudlarks who scavenge along the other banks of the Thames for treasures) and the modern day(leggings, skinny jeans, cabs and concrete underpasses) absolutely anything can happen – and it has to bear mentiondoes. It was an exceedingly academic book about graphic novels For fifty years ghosts of all kinds have infested Britain, and comics for as only children and young people can see them, theirs is the task of protecting the YA audience, adults and it featured an essay picking up on ridding the way books like country of the fill-in-bits-yourself entries in the Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries series (such as [[Dork Diaries: How to Dork Your Diary menaces, one by Rachel Renee Russell|this painful one]]) let you interact with . Lucy, George, Holly and Lockwood are the members of the franchisesmallest and most ramshackle independent agency, and also to create your own content. There was some weird high-falutin' academic language to describe such books – but you know what? I say their constant success (redactedand survival despite forever lengthening odds) to that – let's just hang 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 thorn in the flesh of thatthe elite Fittes Agency, which has acquired almost total control over the whole ghost-bashing business.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>01927640470552575798</amazonuk>

|author=Jeremy Strong and Jamie SmithKenneth Steven|title=Nellie Choc-Ice, Penguin Explorer (Little Gems)Winter Tales|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyShort Stories|summary=Meet Nellie Choc-Ice. Thus named by her grandparents (and grandparents have a habit in Upon opening this book you are presented with an eclectic collection of making unusual names for their grandchildren, whichever species they belong to), she is twelve short stories centred around a pretty little Macaroni penguin, complete with pink feet, bright yellow eyebrows and a woolly hat with common theme of Winter. You are taken around the world's biggest pompom on the endas you read stories set in a variety of places from Helsinki to New York, Germany to Russia. She has Kenneth Steven cleverly utilises a habit key component of going exploring and finding out what's over the next ridge short stories - that you can read each story in the iceone sitting - to his advantage as he gives each story an individual focal subject, and the nextsuch as bullying, and ensuring that you are reading a distinct story every time you open the nextbook. But when disaster happens and the ice she is on is knocked off Antarctica by a submarine, even she can have no idea as to where she will end up…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811272121910674508</amazonuk>

|author= Sally NichollsWilliam Sutton|title= Things A Bright Girl Can DoLawless and the House of Electricity|rating= 45|genre= TeensCrime (Historical)|summary=''Things Campbell Lawless is back, this time tasked with solving a Bright Girl Can Do'' tells series of terrorist attacks across the nation. Is it the story work of three teenage girlsthe French, all of whom as police and public are fighting for women's suffragebeing led to believe, despite coming from very different backgrounds. There's Evelynor someone closer to home? Who can be trusted and what does Roxbury, an upper-class girl expected innovative inventor previously disgraced, have to marry at a young age, May, a middle-class girl do with an opinionated Motherthe bombs used to cause chaos across the country? Employing the services of Molly, and Nellthe effervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, he sets in motion 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 suffragecampaign of subterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, skulduggery and the way their lives change when World War One beginsdesperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant invention.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17834452541785650130</amazonuk>

|author= Neil WhiteK J Lawrence|title= From The ShadowsCossack|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= IDaniel Brooking is not what you'm a bit old-fashioned and therefore not a great fan d think of stories that can't keep their timeline straight. I'll go with a prologue – even if itas hero material: he's becoming a bit photographer of clichéd way of creating some merit and in his fifties he has a mystery at settled life. It was the beginning disappearance of a story – his assistant, Ivan Shevchenko, which disrupted everything. It wasn't unknown for him to disappear occasionally, but switching between 'now' and 'missing an exhibition was a fortnight agofirst for him. He' – just feels d been distracted for a little lazyfew days - and then there were the strange papers which arrived, to be kept safe. The authorities, in the form of a way shadowy senior member of creating tension when all else fails. Thatthe security services, howeverconfirmed the view that Ivan was probably dead, is my only little gripe about ''From The Shadows'' because of some supposed connections with organised crime and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less workdrug dealing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17857609201999782704</amazonuk>

|author=Lisa PappJames Goss and Russell T Davies|title=Madeleine Finn and the Library DogDoctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)

|genre=For SharingChildren's Rhymes and Verse |summary=Madeleine Finn doesn't like to read - not anythingConsider the Doctor. It's not really her faultJust how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, you know. were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? Her teacher tries to encourage herHe would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, but whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of the other kids giggle when she makes mistakeshis friends and enemies. And they pull faces of the type which As luck would have given me my head it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my hands advice to play with when I was a child. The words just don't seem him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to come out right for herhis local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. The other children are getting gold stars (IAnd if you've ''never'' liked that system) but all Madeleine gets re working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is a heart sticker which tells her to keep trying. She's got plenty of those. All week she tries her best but doesn't get pretty much the star she longs forsame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19106463261785942719</amazonuk>