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Let's just get straight to it. I loved ''Rebel Voices: The Rise of 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 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 Wren and Rook for this investment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526300230</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jean Ure|title=Star Quality (Dance Trilogy 2)|rating[[Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft]]=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Maddy, Caitlyn, Roz and Alex have all just been tested to go to the 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 post. She was never actually worried that she wouldn't be accepted: well, she's an exceptional dancer and her family is ballet royalty. Where 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 others. It means so much to her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008164533</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Samira Ahmed|title= Love, Hate and Other Filters|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=''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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471407144</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=I Swapped My Brother On The Internet|author=Jo Simmons|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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[[image:4.5star. jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1408877759</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreviewStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|author=Heather MorrisFantasy]]|title=The Tattooist of Auschwitz|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=SoThomas Senlin embarks on his honeymoon with high hopes. He and his young wife Marya are travelling on a sleeper train across Ur to that engineering marvel, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitzthat fabled centre of culture, and see the horror thereTower of Babel. It's a place he's read books about, taught his pupils about, and immediately swear longed to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind itvisit, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demandbustling and chaotic surroundings of the Tower in the desert are a long way from the quiet fishing village in which Senlin teaches. When he loses sight of Marya shortly after their arrival, 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 extent you get the word Tower, both its marvels and its horrors, and thus begins Thomas Senlin''collaborator'' muttered behind your backs arduous quest to recover his wife. [[Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Stewart -->[[image:Stewart_Rebel2.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1526300230? Do you dare to stick your neck out ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1526300230]] ===[[Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women by Louise Kay Stewart and get a job that means you're actually a Jew working in the political wing Eve Lloyd Knight]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] ''Rule breakers. Risk takers. Rebel women. 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Full marks to do something even more daring, Wren and unexpected – he dared to invest hope in a burgeoning love that he found in the campRook for this investment.[[Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women by Louise Kay Stewart and Eve Lloyd Knight|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>1785763644 </amazonuk!-- Ure -->}}{{newreview[[image:Ure_Star.jpg|author=Michael Wolffleft|titlelink=Fire and Furyhttps: Inside the Trump White House|rating=4//www.amazon.5|genreco.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]]===Politics and Society [[image:5star.jpg|summarylink=As I began listening to ''Fire Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Maddy, Caitlyn, Roz and Fury: Inside the Trump White House'' we were treated Alex have all just been tested to go to the unedifying spectacle of the President of the United States taking to Twitter to establish that he was 'prestigious City Ballet School full time. Caitlyn, Roz and Alex all get their acceptance about a week later, but Maddy's is a stable genius'', as opposed, we must conclude to being an unstablelittle slower in coming. It was obviously delayed in the post... WellShe was never actually worried that she wouldn't be accepted: well, letshe's not go therean exceptional dancer and her family is ballet royalty. ItWhere else would she be but City Ballet School? Caitlyn still can't quite believe the opportunity she's been given, particularly as she's a little too frightening: this is the most powerful man in not been dancing anywhere near as long as the worldothers. So what made me listen It means so much to this book? Well, Donald Trump didn't want me to read it: US presidents don't often go down that road and rarely to a good destination (I'm thinking of Richard Nixon here) and that made me really want to know what was between the covers. But how did the book stack upher. [[Star Quality (Dance Trilogy 2) by Jean Ure|Full Review]]<br><br> <!-- Ahmed -->[[image:Ahmed_Love.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471407144?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471407144]]|amazonuk===[[Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed]]===<amazonuk>1408711400</amazonuk>}}[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{newreview{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]|author= Mario Giordano|title= Auntie Poldi Love, Hate and Other Filters tells the Fruits story of Maya, a Muslim of the Lord|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= How Indian heritage. Like many other American teenagers, she is struggling to convince her parents to allow her to describe this book - well for starters it's unlike anything I've ever read beforemove away to attend university. ItHowever, in Maya's chaoticcase, madthings are more complicated than usual, funnyafter instances of Islamophobia make her parents extra protective. 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All that should be in the past, between Lord Roan Gerling and a ward of Sempera's queenalthough Elsa is still self-harming when under pressure, and secrets long concealed thatbut her father is dying of lung cancer and although she would have hoped for some personal time with him, if revealedher boss has allocated her to a new case, would change everything..that of 17-year-old Ruby Haverstock, and you can't waste any time when children go missing.[[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>1408349159 </amazonuk!-- Tudor -->}}{{newreview[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg|left|authorlink=Linni Ingemundsen|titlehttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=The Unpredictability of Being Human|ratingUTF8&tag=5|genrethebookbag-21&linkCode=Teensas2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]] ===[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|summarylink=I came to this book expecting only a typical teenage coming of age story, yet somehow, within only Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''The Chalk Man'' follows a matter group of pagesfriends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, I was utterly engrossed by conjured during one fateful summer. By the time the wonderful character of Malinnew term begins, friendships will be fractured, and a girl will be dead. I read this book faster than any other I've read this year! Malin But who is the killer; is a fourteen year old girlit The Chalk Man, who is very naive and innocentwhose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, and she struggles with social interaction. It is never stated within or someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to forget about that summer, about all the book (a fact that I liked) but I suspect that she's somewhere on the autistic spectrumpoisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Man. But that isn't really what However, someone seems determined not to let him and when the book is about. It's about Malin growing upletters start to arrive, struggling at school, having a first datethe past follows, plaguing him and dealing with family difficulties, all at dredging up the same timefever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474940633</amazonuk>}}{{newreview Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor|Full Review]]<br> <!-- remove 10/1 Robins -->[[image:Robins_Bodies.jpg|left|authorlink=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0008217548?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=Jnr Rademeyer0008217548]]|title=Hero From Another Planet|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jason Bronkurts is the kid the teachers like[[White Bodies by Jane Robins]]=== [[image: he's always on time and puts his school work first4star. 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Insteada royal wedding coming up, the whole family are on between Lord Roan Gerling and a plane to the Antarctic because the ward of Sempera'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, s queen, and secrets long concealed that this will be a flying visit but, as you'd expect with any action adventure storyif revealed, things go wrong from the moment their plane crashes into the ice outside Outpost Zero. 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