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{{newreview|author=Sarah Vaughan|title=Anatomy of a Scandal|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Sophie had been married to James for twelve years and two children: to be honest she was more than a little bit in awe of him. James Whitehouse was an MP and junior minister: perhaps most importantly he was a friend of the prime minister, so when he had to admit that he'd been having an affair he was confident that some contrition, a public admission that he'd been wrong, that he was not perfect, would soon have his career back on track. And it seemed as though that was the way it was going, until a friend of the 'other woman', parliamentary researcher Olivia Lytton, persuaded her to go to the police. There was no dispute that the relationship had been consensual, but after James had finished the affair there was an incident in a lift in House of Commons and the police and the Crown Prosecution Service were both of the opinion that this amounted to rape. The prosecuting counsel is Kate Woodcroft and she's very determined that Whitehouse is going to be brought to book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471164993</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Everless|author=Sara Holland|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jules and her father live in the kingdom of Sempera. In Sempera, everything is reckoned in terms of time. Wages come in the form of blood-coins, currency taken from actual blood and denominated in weeks, months or even years of life. In Sempera, as you'd imagine, the rich live for a long time and the poor do not. In debt and struggling to afford the rent, Jules decides to ignore her father's warnings and take a job at Everless, an estate belonging to the Gerling family. 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It's about Malin growing up, struggling at school, having a first date, and dealing with family difficulties, all at the same time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474940633</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 10/1 Bancroft -->|author=Jnr Rademeyer|title=Hero From Another Planet|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jason Bronkurts is the kid the teachers like[[image: he's always on time and puts his school work first. He isn't a great socialiser and certainly not one of the cool kids, although he's had something of a crush on Rosie, but he's known her since kindergarten and done nothing about it. At the other end of the scale are Jack Radogerens and his friend Ryan, who bully Jason. It might be Wednesday, but Jason will be glad when the week's overBancroft_Senlin2. His home life is a bit strange too: when we meet thirteen-year-old Jason, his dad has just phoned to say that he's going to be away for three days. Jason's on his own. 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With help from 'the wild', they set off on a quest to find the legendary 'Frost Horn' and the magical 'Sky Song' that will free Erkenwald from the Ice Queen's control.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471146073</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dan Smith|title=Below Zero|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Twelve year old Zak Reeve is supposed to be enjoying a relaxing holiday in the sunshine with his family before he goes into hospital for surgery. Instead, the whole family are on a plane to the Antarctic because the 'spider drones' his parents have designed to support the Exodus mission to Mars have started to malfunction. His parents assure Zak and his older sister, May, that this will be a flying visit but, as you'd expect with any action adventure story, things go wrong from the moment their plane crashes into the ice outside Outpost Zero. Zak and his family are about to find themselves in a chilling adventure that will leave them fighting for survival.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655929</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Marissa Meyer|title= Renegades|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= ''So long as there are heroes in this world, there's hope that tomorrow might be better''Once the minority in a world of chaos and disorder, the Renegades fought for freedom and justice. Victorious in driving their opponents, the leaderless Anarchists underground, those specially gifted with an extraordinary range of abilities are now the lawmakers and leaders of the future, governing a new peaceful and prosperous society. They are the heroes of society; the role models young children look up to, the officers people look to for justice and strength. All except the fraction of Anarchists that hide in the darkness, plotting and planning until they are able to get back what was stolen from them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 29/12 -->|title=Servants of the Underground|author=David Ssembajjo|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Having experienced a terrible famine in his own country, Kalamchi leaves to travel and learn. He returns with a burning desire to feed his people - but not only to feed their stomachs but to feed their minds, too. Kalamchi wants to raise his people's consciousness so that they can fight against the dictator Bamutu - chillingly known as ''president for life and after death''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848765800</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->|author=Rob Murphy|title=Rotten to the Core|rating=4|genre=Thrillers |summary=It's 2009, and Russia look like being awarded the football World Cup hosting rights for the oh-so-distant 2018 tournament - that is, until England stick their oar in. They have solved their hooligan problem, and improved their transport system, and so at last are valid final holders. Watching this is France, who have to reciprocate with the Russians who helped them get France '98, and they have a plan. At this stage the UEFA European championship of 2016 has not been awarded, and while France remain favourites to get the job, again some upstart idea has poked its head above the parapet - a joint offering from Wales and Scotlandwww. Yes, these two tiny countries, separated by 200 miles and without a brilliant connection from one to the other, and without some vital posh hotels here and there, and with no serious claim to soccer fame when it comes to winning things, are unlikely hostsamazon. But what if France could persuade the world it was a good idea - and let Russian espionage prove it not to be so, with all the while the French around to pick up the pieces? All of the UK would be damaged, meaning England '18 would be dead in the water, and Russia would win outco. And who's to say the Brits, with their devolution habits, and their first coalition government in a long time, could not get through without damaging themselves?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546282998<uk/amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 28gp/12 -->|author=Paul Stidolph|title=Forests in the Sahara|rating=4|genre=Thrillers |summary=''Everyone I speak to thinks you are going to come to some sort of sticky end.'' Those are not the most promising words a man can hear from his new partner, but she doesn't lie in this instance. He is Jeffrey Harvey, a young Cambridge professor, who has been dabbling with some extra-curricular work, creating GM trees that can keep vast quantities of water purified. Get an iceberg or three worth of H2O near Africa, where clean water is still a scarce resource, and the trees can do their bit and the water will advance the place and make Jeffrey a well-respected global entrepreneur. If, that is, he can get round all the problems in his life - fractions in the start-up involved in the project, a finance officer embezzling the funds for gambling - oh, and a man ready to accuse Jeffrey of murder and theft of research data on a case reaching back several years. 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Tommy is in terrible danger and what if the fire brigade doesn't arrive in time?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546282718</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!thebookbag-- remove 21/12 -->|author&linkCode=Andrew Mackay|titleas2&camp=Trials and Tribulations of a Travelling Prostitute|rating=3.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Just chance you think that you're picking up a book about what can go wrong in life for an itinerant sex worker I'd better explain exactly what it was that author Andrew Mackay did for thirty three years. A travelling prostitute is a worker who is employed by one company but his services are sold out to other countries, usually at a substantial profit to the employing company and a lot of inconvenience to the employee. Mackay was an engineer who knew all that there was to be know about turbines and generators, or if he didn't could soon be up to speed to the extent of being able to teach other people. Occasionally his skills were used in the UK, but frequently he was abroad. Just every now and again he would be in those parts of the world which has the rest of us green with envy, but then there were those areas which feature heavily in the news and not in a good way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524683094</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Banks|title= W|rating1634&creative= 4|genre6738&creativeASIN= General Fiction |summary=On the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored and with his world in turmoil. Beginning a journey westward, he's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupt. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0983333416</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= SM Wilson|title= The Extinction Trials|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for new, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded shelters, goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister is dying from the blistering disease and he has no access to the healthcare that could save her. It's a mean, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474927343</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Erica James|title= Coming Home to Island House|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= Much to the disgust of the village and his estranged children Jack Devereux has a new wife, the 'scarlet woman' Romily Temple. But, can his death and final demand that his children spend seven days together at childhood home, Island House, bring about a reconciliation and forgiveness from his much loved family? With sadistic Arthur, grief-consumed Hope, remorseful Kit and fiery Allegra this seems like an impossibility but then war is declared and the family find themselves pulling together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409159590</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Joshua Davidson|title= Night Zookeeper: The Giraffes of Whispering Wood|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= A straight-laced student makes one defiant act of creativity and has a world of magic and imagination opened up for him. Will is the new Night Zookeeper and his tenure in the role of protector to a magical world starts with the repulsion of a dangerous invasion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192764055</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alison Donald and Ben Whitehouse|title=Pirates in Classroom 3|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= Not all of us were the child that paid attention in class. Some would look out of the window and let their minds wander. Why be stuck in a stuffy room when you could be in space or on the high seas? Sometimes you do not need to seek adventure as it may just find you. It makes perfect sense to me that if the teacher leaves the classroom there is ample time for a pirate to enter and ask all the children to help him find some lost treasure. Who could possibly give up this opportunity?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862474</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=James Thorp and Angus Mackinnon|title=The Elephant in the Room|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Somebody has smashed Father Giant's elephant. Who on earth could it be? Can Father Giant unravel the mystery of what happened, and who will face being banished from the house forever once he discovers the truth? Told in a rhyme that gets more and more surreal as it goes along, this is a wild and brightly illustrated mystery story, with an interesting moral at the end.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707739</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 13/12 -->|title=It's Worth a Try|author=Nicola Goodland|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=This is how Nicola Goodland introduces her book, ''It's Worth a Try'':0356510816]]

The intention is for any adult who knows [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Thomas Senlin embarks on his honeymoon with high hopes. He and his young wife Marya are travelling on a child - whether family friendsleeper train across Ur to that engineering marvel, that fabled centre of culture, godparent or relative - to create the Tower of Babel. It's a relationship that is openplace he's read books about, has trusttaught his pupils about, and creates a space for children longed to able to share both visit, but the good bustling and bad things that chaotic surroundings of the Tower in the desert are currently going on a long way from the quiet fishing village in which Senlin teaches. When he loses sight of Marya shortly after their livesarrival, he has no option but to look for her in this strange and overwhelming place. For all his background reading before the trip, he is ill-prepared for what he finds in the Tower, both its marvels and its horrors, with confidenceand thus begins Thomas Senlin's arduous quest to recover his wife.[[Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>1546281398 </amazonuk!-- Stewart -->}}[[image:Stewart_Rebel2.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1526300230?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1526300230]]{{newreview|author= Ellen Wiles|title==[[Rebel Voices: The Invisible CrowdRise of Votes for Women by Louise Kay Stewart and Eve Lloyd Knight]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating= 4}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]|genre= General Fiction|summary=This novel follows ''Rule breakers. Risk takers. Rebel women. Law makers. A celebration of women rallying around the globe to win the plight vote.'' Let's just get straight to it. I loved ''Rebel Voices: The Rise of Eritrean Yonas Kelati Votes for Women''. And I can't let a review pass without a brief note on the fabulous production values. The cover is stunning and deeply impactful as he tries you can see. It has that lovely, bookish smell. The paper is thick and heavy. Everything about it tells you that this is a book with interesting and important information. It simply begs to be picked up and read. Full marks to make a life Wren and Rook for himself in Englandthis investment. He [[Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women by Louise Kay Stewart and a good friendEve Lloyd Knight|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Ure -->[[image:Ure_Star.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0008164533?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0008164533]] ===[[Star Quality (Dance Trilogy 2) by Jean Ure]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Maddy, GebreCaitlyn, escape from prison only to be thrown into captivity again: trafficked in a shellfish factory where they Roz and Alex have all just been tested to earn their ‘payment’ go to the malicious Aziz for entering prestigious City Ballet School full time. Caitlyn, Roz and Alex all get their acceptance about a week later, but Maddy's is a little slower in coming. It was obviously delayed in the UK illegallypost. She was never actually worried that she wouldn't be accepted: well, she's an exceptional dancer and her family is ballet royalty. When Yonas escapesWhere else would she be but City Ballet School? Caitlyn still can't quite believe the opportunity she's been given, particularly as she's not been dancing anywhere near as long as the story really startsothers. It means so much to her.[[Star Quality (Dance Trilogy 2) by Jean Ure|Full Review]]<br><br> <!-- Ahmed -->[[image:Ahmed_Love.jpg|amazonukleft|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471407144?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471407144]] ===[[Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Love, Hate and Other Filters tells the story of Maya, a Muslim of Indian heritage. Like many other American teenagers, she is struggling to convince her parents to allow her to move away to attend university. However, in Maya's case, things are more complicated than usual, after instances of Islamophobia make her parents extra protective. [[Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed|Full Review]]<br><amazonukbr>0008228817</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 9/12 Simmons -->[[image:Simmons_Swapped.jpg|left|authorlink=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408877759?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408877759]] ===[[I Swapped My Brother On The Internet by Jo Simmons]]===Patricia Watkins [[image:4star.jpg|titlelink=Hurricane JusticeCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] After a terrible argument over the Hanging Pants of Doom (don't ask), the sibling rivalry between Jonny and his older brother Ted comes to a head. Jonny fills out an application form at siblingswap.com and sits back to wait for a new brother who is bound, surely, to be infinitely better than patronising, mocking, bullying, Ted. Right? Any brother would be better than Ted. Right? Of course! What on earth could go wrong? Well, plenty as it happens. [[I Swapped My Brother On The Internet by Jo Simmons|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Morris -->[[image:Morris_Auschwitz.jpg|ratingleft|link=4https://www.amazon.co.5uk/gp/product/1785763644?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785763644]]|genre===[[The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris]]===Thrillers [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=Finn Westlake was first amused Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] So, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see the horror there, and then horrified when he saw immediately swear to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind it, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demand, to the extent you get the attractive young woman jumping up word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare to stick your neck out and down get a job that means you're actually a Jew working in the road as his jeep turned political wing of the SS, answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the corner: place, and trade the amusement came loot purloined from the fact incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for you, under the eyes of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, and survived to tell the tale, but he also managed to do something even more daring, and unexpected – he dared to invest hope in a burgeoning love that she was wearing just soaking he found in the camp. 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So what made me listen to get him out. this book? Sending her Well, Donald Trump didn't want me to get more help Finn dived into the river read it: US presidents don't often go down that road and managed rarely to extract Chester McGuire a good destination (I'm thinking of Richard Nixon here) and his business associate, Sandy Moseley, but whilst checking that there made me really want to know what was no one else in between the plane he was seriously injuredcovers. But how did the book stack up? 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[[Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord by Mario Giordano|Full Review]]<br> <br> <br><br>  <!-- Ellis -->[[image:Ellis_Dark.jpg|ratingleft|link=4https://www.amazon.co.5uk/gp/product/147366277X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147366277X]]|genre===[[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis]]===For Sharing [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=One Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing children. There's a link back to her childhood here, as she might not have been missing but she was certainly lost. Her mother was abusive and her father preferred not to do anything about it: there might have been a bit of pretense but there was no protection. All that should be in the best things about modern online shopping past, although Elsa is still self-harming when under pressure, but her father is the knock on the door dying of lung cancer and although she would have hoped for some personal time with him, her boss has allocated her to a new case, that of 17-year-old Ruby Haverstock, and you can't waste any time when children go missing. [[A Map of the parcel arrivingDark by Karen Ellis|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Tudor -->[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg|left|link=https://www. What was it I ordered againamazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431? It could be something as exciting as ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]] ===[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. By the time the new toyterm begins, or something as boring as friendships will be fractured, and a new mixer for your showergirl will be dead. But who is the killer; is it The anticipation Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to forget about that summer, about all the poisoned, sinister memories of opening The Chalk Man. However, someone seems determined not to let him and when the box is as close letters start to arrive, the feeling past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of Christmas that an adult the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is going to get (except perhaps for Christmas). Rooster has ordered something online The Chalk Man, and it arrived quickly. Will his farmyard pals appreciate his buy as much as will he doesever let Ed go?[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>1848862822 </amazonuk!-- Robins -->}}{{newreview[[image:Robins_Bodies.jpg|author= Karen Perryleft|titlelink= Can You Keep a Secrethttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0008217548?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0008217548]] |rating= 5==[[White Bodies by Jane Robins]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|genrelink= Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]|summary=Thornbury Hall Callie and Tilda are very different twins. Callie lives a quiet life, with a menial job, whereas Tilda craves the spotlight, and is a moderately successful actress. Callie is the grand ancestral home awkward, suffering from a lifetime of the Bagenal family headed by taciturn Peter with his wistful wife Heather acne, weight issues and their two children, Patrick comparing herself to her sister and Rachelher beautiful white body. It is also the setting Callie has very strong feelings for many secrets her sister, envy, admiration, anger, love, and tragedies Tilda laps all of which resurface twenty years later as Patrick reunites childhood friendsthese feelings up. They are grown, and see each other with relative frequency. But now Tilda has met a new man, NiallFelix. He's smart, Marcuscharismatic, Hilary successful and main character Lindseyvery intense, very particular. At first Callie loves him, for one final party before selling loves the houseway he includes her in their relationship, but after a boating trip, fun turns into something more sinister, Callie begins to worry about this dynamic, to obsess ...[[White Bodies by Jane Robins|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>1405920335 <!-- Vaughan -->[[image:Vaughan Scandal.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/amazonuk>gp/product/1471164993?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471164993]] ===[[Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]{{newreviewSophie had been married to James for twelve years and two children: to be honest she was more than a little bit in awe of him. James Whitehouse was an MP and junior minister: perhaps most importantly he was a friend of the prime minister, so when he had to admit that he'd been having an affair he was confident that some contrition, a public admission that he'd been wrong, that he was not perfect, would soon have his career back on track. And it seemed as though that was the way it was going, until a friend of the 'other woman', parliamentary researcher Olivia Lytton, persuaded her to go to the police. There was no dispute that the relationship had been consensual, but after James had finished the affair there was an incident in a lift in House of Commons and the police and the Crown Prosecution Service were both of the opinion that this amounted to rape. The prosecuting counsel is Kate Woodcroft and she's very determined that Whitehouse is going to be brought to book. [[Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan|author=Anne Rooney and Suzanne CarpenterFull Review]]<br> <!-- Holland -->[[image:Holland Everless.jpg|titleleft|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408349159?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=Discovering Dinosaursas2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408349159]]|rating===[[Everless by Sara Holland]]===4 [[image:4star.jpg|genrelink=ChildrenCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jules and her father live in the kingdom of Sempera. In Sempera, everything is reckoned in terms of time. Wages come in the form of blood-coins, currency taken from actual blood and denominated in weeks, months or even years of life. In Sempera, as you'd imagine, the rich live for a long time and the poor do not. In debt and struggling to afford the rent, Jules decides to ignore her father's warnings and take a job at Everless, an estate belonging to the Gerling family. But Jules's father objects for a reason: there is a royal wedding coming up, between Lord Roan Gerling and a ward of Sempera's Nonqueen, and secrets long concealed that, if revealed, would change everything... [[Everless by Sara Holland|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Ingemundsen -->[[image:Ingemundsen_Human.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1474940633?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-Fiction21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1474940633]] ===[[The Unpredictability of Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|summarylink=Lift the flap books have progressed somewhat since Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] I was came to this book expecting only a child. This one comes with sounds! Taking us layer by layertypical teenage coming of age story, through various different ages of dinosaursyet somehow, we meet within only a variety matter of creaturespages, some I was utterly engrossed by the wonderful character of whom are very familiar but some Malin. I read this book faster than any other I'd never heard of beforeve read this year! Each scene peels openMalin is a fourteen year old girl, layer by layerwho is very naive and innocent, showing you and she struggles with social interaction. It is never stated within the book (a fact that I liked) but I suspect that she's somewhere on the autistic spectrum. But that isn't really what the various dinosaurs are getting book is about. It's about Malin growing up to, struggling at school, having a first date, and dealing with background noisesfamily difficulties, roars and squawks to accompany themall at the same time. [[The Unpredictability of Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen|Full Review]]<br> <! The book creates -- Norris -->[[image:Norris_Mike.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788450094?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788450094]] ===[[Mike by Andrew Norriss]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Floyd is a dinosaur experiencerising teen tennis sensation. At only fifteen, rather than he is set to become the youngest ever champion of the national under 18s, his tennis career is written in the stars. Until Mike shows up. At first, Floyd thinks Mike is just being facts about dinosaurs ita weird kid following him around. Why else would he be at tennis practice in the school so early? But when he appears on the tennis court in the middle of the match, Floyd can's very visual, placing t understand why everyone is acting so calm … until Floyd realises he is the dinosaurs in their habitats only one who can see him. Floyd is referred to a specialist and giving us sounds too that spike your imaginationtogether they unpick the mystery of Mike. [[Mike by Andrew Norriss|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>1784938750 <!-- Dean -->[[image:Dean Dark.jpg|left|link=https:/amazonuk>/www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178607253X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=178607253X]] ===[[Dark Pines by Will Dean]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]{{newreviewTuva Moodyson works for a local paper in small town Sweden - there to be near an ailing Mother, but desperate for the big break that will have her moving on to pastures new. Just outside of her town, Gavrik, two bodies lie deep in the forest - brutally murdered and their eyes ripped out. They bring back dark memories for a town that has seen this crime before - and Tuva is desperate to find the killer. At first, she's just out to write a good story - but as the crimes continue she finds herself drawn deeper and deeper into the forests outside of Gavrik, filled with stranger characters and dark secrets. Will she find the killer before they find her? [[Dark Pines by Will Dean|author=Paul Mason and Tony de SaullesFull Review]]<br> <!-- Ignotofsy -->[[image:Ignotofsky_Sport.jpg|titleleft|link=The Poo That Animals Dohttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1526360926?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1526360926]] |rating=5==[[Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win by Rachel Ignotofsky]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]]|summary=I know, I know, sometimes you really don''Women in Sport''t want is coming to encourage your childrenus just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of the development of women's poo jokessport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, but and much more. Think of a sport and a pioneering women succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is brilliant! I sat a double page spread with a brief biography and read it a striking portrait. [[Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win by myself when the kids had gone to school and found it fascinatingRachel Ignotofsky|Full Review]]<br> <! Who knew there was so much I didn't know about poo-- Elphinstone -->[[image:Elphinstone Sky.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471146073? ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471146073]] ===[[Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] The book manages to be both funny (Ice Queen has cast a spell on Erkenwald, separating the Fur and silly) as well as being very interesting Feather Tribes and educationalmaking the third – the Tusk Tribe – the enemy of both. Using a mixture Eager to secure her position by gaining eternal life, the Ice Queen is consuming the voices of facts and figuresthe Erkenwald people. There seems little anyone can do until three children – Eska, photographs Flint and funny cartoons, you Blu – come away having sniggered a little at together. With help from 'the vulture who poos wild', they set off on its own feet, but also knowing a lot about different types of poo, why poos smell, quest to find the legendary 'Frost Horn' and why wombats do square poosthe magical 'Sky Song' that will free Erkenwald from the Ice Queen's control.[[Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526303949</amazonukbr>}}