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===[[The House with Chicken Legs Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Sophie AndersonNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
''My house has chicken legs[[image:4. Two or three times a year5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], without warning, it stands up in the middle of the night and walks away from where we've been living.''[[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]
OkJane Ashland is dying. I dare you to tell me that you That''don't'' want to read s a description of a story about very early scene here – but also, of course, a house with chicken legsplatitude that can apply to all of us. There Jane's life, if anything, is no way anyone could resistgoing up and down in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down place. I certainly couldn't! Marinka lives in this chickenHere then, scattered through a timeline-legged house with bending narrative, we have her grandmotherdays finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York, Baba Yagaglimpses of therapy, whose job it is a drive to guide dead people through The Gate. But Marinka is ''lonely''. The house, find her ancestors that takes her grandmother from rural America to Norway – and Marinka never stay anywhere long enough for Marinka a trip there with a new-found friend to make any friendswatch the musk oxen, of all things. And Marinka nowhere in sight is determined to change this. But the chicken-legged house has its own agenda... anything like a platitude… [[The House with Chicken Legs Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Sophie AndersonNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Pandora's Boy The Company of Eight by Lindsey DavisHarriet Whitehorn]]===
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RelaxFourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the Magical District, but as she hasn't the slightest ability in that direction she doesn't exactly fit in. She takes after her dad, die-hard fans of Falco and his spirited British daughter Albia. Rome continues to be as splendid she hopes desperately that she'll pass the upcoming auditions for acrobats and as sordid join the Circus Boat as it ever was, tours to give performances on all the islands of the crimes committed are as complex and intriguingLongest World. Her guardian Mrs Potts, and our heroine just as determined and cynicalhowever, with does ''not'' approve: her hope that light dusting of humour which made tales of Cass will demonstrate magical abilities like her fathermother's exploits (and make Mrs Potts very rich) has been disappointed so engaging. Newcomers to the series need not fear, by the way: each book contains just enough background detail to make you feel immediately at home. This time, despite some serious misgivings, Albia she is investigating the sudden death of determined her ward will take on a fifteen-year-old girlsedate, described as brightgenteel job instead: governess, affectionate and popular. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potionmaybe, or did she die of a broken heart? [[Pandoradraper's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] model. So poor Cass is reduced to practising her routines in secret, using an old book her father left her. [[Pandora's Boy The Company of Eight by Lindsey DavisHarriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
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===[[When the Mountains Roared Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Jess ButterworthIan Bremmer]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
''My fingers come away deep red[[image:4. My breath catches5star. Blood. I wipe my shaky hands on my trousers. There's a leopard out there, injured. And I have to find it before they do.''jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]]
Two months earlier, RubyIt wasn's dad had dropped a bombshell. They were moving from Australia t supposed to Indiabe like this, where her father had got a job at a hotel in the mountains. It was it? Every day seems to be a new start bring yet more news of doom and it would help both Ruby and her father get gloom. The spectre of terrorism hangs over most of the death of her motherworld, fuelling refugee crises and worries about national security. Ruby wasn't so sure about People keep saying that and didn't get more optimistic on arrival robots are coming to take all our jobs. Anti- to find a rundown building full of scary corners establishment political parties are making huge gains in a place where countries all around the dark world. And inequality is really dark and the wildlife includes scorpions, bears and, well, you get the picture. Ruby has struggled since her mother died and it pretty as much feels of a problem as though her father has brought her a place that makes everything worse..it ever was – if not more so. [[When the Mountains Roared Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Jess ButterworthIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[Me Mam. Me Dad. Me Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Malcolm DuffyNicola Edwards and Jem Maybank]]===
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''It was the day the clocks went back. That's when I decided to kill him.Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''
That's what 'I'Humanatomy' is fourteen-year-old Danny. ''Him'' is Danny's stepfather Callum. Up until a year ago, it was just Danny invites you to do and Mam. They lived in a damphonestly, cold council flat and didnI don't have much money to spare, but things were pretty goodsee how you could resist. Danny and his Mam got on well, they saw This informative book provides a lot of their lovely extended familywonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and Danny not only had mates but even a girlfrienddigestion, Amyright up to the DNA that makes who we are. But a lot has changed. They're now living in Callum's posh house and Danny gets holidays and plenty of Christmas presents. Great, right? [[Me Mam. Me Dad. Me Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Malcolm DuffyNicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|Full Review]]<!-- Forman Keeley -->
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===[[I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman]]===
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''I Have Lost My Way'' tells the story of three individuals who have each lost something important to them leading to them losing their way. Freya has lost her voice, Harun has lost his love and Nathaniel has lost everything. However, these three elements do not give justice to the extent of what each character has lost. In this expertly written novel, Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came to lose what was most important to them, causing them to all meet one fateful day in New York City[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman:Category:For Sharing|Full ReviewFor Sharing]]
In ''My Favourite People'' the central character takes us to meet all the important people in his life. There's Auntie Meg, who does brilliant haircuts and loves cats. She has four of them! There's Uncle Steve, who's a gentle giant and an inveterate joker. There's best friend Alice, who can do that clever whistle when you put your fingers in your mouth. There's Carmel the library lady, who always suggests brilliant books to read. And loads more. The book ends with a fabulous party to which everyone is invited. [[My Favourite People by Rob Keeley|Full Review]]<!-- Santorella Togawa -->
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===[[Dyed Souls The Lady Killer by Gary SantorellaMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)]]===
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The USAJapan, the early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, and he often is) is being taken back to his home by his drop-out, slutty mother1960s. The home is called a Cottage, and while the prologue of this book doesn't guide sets us to understand it perfectly, it seems to mean he has up in a lovely way with a private room in world of both innocence and seedy nightclubs. When a large self-contained bungalow, on young girl enters one alone for a gated compound drink she ends up singing along with round-the-clock adult supervision. There's musical duet doing the rounds of the venues for tips – as does a paddock man with horses for the kids a distinctive bass voice. They leave together. Six months later, she clings to ridea balcony at work, their own school thinks about it – and all the adults are armed with Thorazine drops to calm her death in suicide. She was pregnant. But the kids down. Charlieman involved, despite a rampant womaniser with an intricate diary of all his obvious bookish intelligencecomings and goings, is struggling not having a perfect time, either. He returns to get an old flame, to grips with why find her murdered – and how he's ended up where he is, but it must have something to do with then the lady who would be his single parent mother being violentalibi for that death also gets killed, and the fact he is no longer allowed to stay with his grandfatherso on. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughtsFrom our point of view, as he tries to build cannot be a relationship with a girl in a different Cottagekiller of ladies, and work out his lot. He certainly has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-old. as the title might imply – but what else could it mean? [[Dyed Souls The Lady Killer by Gary SantorellaMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)|Full Review]]<!-- Sigurdardottir Hall -->
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===[[The Reckoning Industry of Human Happiness by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)James Hall]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
[[''The Legacy: ChildrenIndustry of Human Happiness's House Book 1 by Yrsa Sigurdardottir ' first and Victoria Cribb (translator)|Last time]], this series opened with foremost is a plot that derailed novel about music. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the careers simplest of both its leads – Huldar the policeman, and child psychologist Freyjaplaces. Demoted Max and stuck with his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a kind of love/hate connection, they are left staring into space for want of something to happengramophone company. Huldar can even find some gruesome human remains the police have been tipped off aboutHowever, but still isn't allowed to investigate their ambition and hubris soon puts them, so he settles for the drudge work involved in on a threat found left in a schoolcourse towards London's time capsuleunderworld. Even Freyja can be persuaded to stop twiddling her thumbs They will ascend broken and help him outtheir lives changed forever. It's the nature of these books that we know both plots will be connected somehow – but how, we will be asking, will either relate to the prologue, where a young girl was snatched ten years ago, and what is a modern family under threat to do with anything? [[The Reckoning Industry of Human Happiness by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)James Hall|Full Review]] <!-- Child Kerr -->
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===[[Everything About You Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Heather ChildPhilip Kerr]]===
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In the futureSet in Germany in 1957, your social feed ''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is your entire existence. A.I. is here and it is all around you. It fills your fridge, it keeps up a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to date with your friends and fulfils your wishesinsurance fraud. It Bernie Gunther is also stealing your jobs anda Berliner, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given who was a beta testing version of sarjeant during the latest smart specssecond world war and now, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever needin this novel, right is working in front the morgue of her eyes by barely thinking about ita hospital. He finds himself embroiled in a mystery, complete with taking on a personality to guide hernew role as an insurance claims investigator. The problem is that investigation takes him to Greece, and back into the personality on dark times of the glasses is that of her missing and presumed dead sisterwar. Freya is thrown With layered plots and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the very least to reset them to a different personality. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sister's voice again is like she's double-crossing left, right and centre, there, and although she knows this is just Ruby's data, part of Freya can't believe that it can be lots to keep you guessing throughout this accurate, it can't be this Rubystory. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data? [[Everything About You Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Heather ChildPhilip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century All Rivers Run Free by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Natasha Carthew]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Literary Fiction|General Literary Fiction]]
First, forgive me if I don't refer to this book with its full title often. It's pointedly precise, accurate, and rather ungainly – when Ia Pendilly lives in fact a caravan on the book it describes has only coast of Cornwall – a woman as raw as the former two attributes in any quantity. What happens in January is landscape that a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germanysurrounds her. Which means thatLiving with Bran, when the book starts properlyher abusive cousin and common law husband, mid-February, it has she's never yet had time to get her own baby. Discovering a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precisewaif washed up on shore, for that is Ia rescues the road marker where one of our main characters sees it. He girl but is trying to get back to work in Berlin for also rescued by the first time in girl – given a month, new found strength to escape and to be with his girlfriend, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was awayembark on a new journey. Also fancying the bright lights The journey takes her deep into a troubled society and big city are through a teenaged pair of love-birdsdamaged, the boy hurting world – finding family and girl next door to each other in an eastern villagememories long hidden will break Ia, who flee an unhappy lot on remake her and perhaps give her the off-chance elusive sense of a better onefreedom she's been seeking. You just know there is a chance that these characters – human and lupine alike – are sucked into one combined narrative, but you won't know quite what that will entail…[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century All Rivers Run Free by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Natasha Carthew|Full Review]]
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===[[Stranger Tale of a Tooth by Keren DavidAllie Rogers]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:5starDanny lives in a small Sussex town with his mother, Natalie. Life is poor, but they manage - until they're threatened by a benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - but her impact on the family goes far beyond what they first expect, and the resulting changes are described to the reader through the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of four-year-old Danny.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensTale of a Tooth by Allie Rogers|TeensFull Review]]
Astor, Ontario, 1904. Emmy and her friend Sadie are walking along when a bloody and bruised boy staggers out of the forest clutching a pistol. Sadie runs off terrified. But something about the boy draws Emmy. She knows, deep inside, that he is not a danger. She kicks the pistol into the grass and cradles the boy until help arrives. Who is he? How has he been living? And will the townsfolk accept him?[[Stranger by Keren David|Full Review]]<!-- Banks Trevelyan -->
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===[[W Claudia by John BanksAnthony Trevelyan]]===
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On When Claudia is called to the slopes reception of Mt Hood in Oregonher Manchester Office block to meet a visitor, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously she doesn't expect it to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angryas Wild Samson, The Aztec and The Sun King, unmoored walked out of Claudia's life and with his into a world in turmoilof success as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's help. Beginning Reggie, Samson's son, has joined a journey westwardmysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', hea group who prepare for the end of the world and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doom. Claudia's filled with a desire journey takes her far from her home in Manchester to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupt. end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[W Claudia by John BanksAnthony Trevelyan|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing The Man I Think I Know by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisMike Gayle]]===
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You James DeWitt and Danny Allen are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and both men in Regency era London the race is on their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as go. At an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense all time low time for adventure. When it comes to suitors thoughboth of them, you'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty two men reconnect and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or slowly find they're exactly what the madother needs. Together, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craventhey help each other put their lives back together. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers This is a beautiful story about friendship and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, what it's clear this isn't going really means to be an easy decision..help another person. [[My Lady's Choosing The Man I Think I Know by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisMike Gayle|Full Review]] <!-- Clover Rhodes -->
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===[[Rory Branagan Detective by Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar]]===
===[[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging ReadersTeens|Emerging ReadersTeens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] ''How small I look. Laid out flat, my stomach touching ground. My right knee bent and my brand-new Nikes stained with blood.''
Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just Danny was playing with a normal kid. He's a detective and he has a mystery toy gun his friend Carlos had lent to solve – why did his dad disappear him when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start butshot by Officer Moore, who claims he was in fear for his life, that Danny, a five foot tall, thentwelve-year-old boy, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. This is just as well as they soon discover was a very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is at risk of dying threatening thug whose menace was such that Officer Moore had no choice but no-one else will believe he's in danger. It's up to Rory reach for his gun and Cassidy to uncover eliminate the truth and save a lifethreat. [[Rory Branagan Detective Ghost Boys by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarJewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland]]===
 
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the call that she needed, that a heart was available for her to have a transplant. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for her, running polls amongst her readers to decide on her actions. But with her new heart, she has been given a new life. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland|Full Review]]
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Jamie loves his new island home. He likes the school and he has even made some friends. But, with his history of being bullied, Jamie knows that he has some fears to conquer if he wants to follow his grandfather in the traditional island occupation of boat builder. His fear of the sea in particular. And this is what draws him to Mara, a strange, wild, independent girl who can handle a boat with aplomb. But Mara has her own demons and an approaching show down with the island authorities because of them...| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[To the Edge of the World Spirit by Julia Green|Full ReviewSally Christie]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Matt Barker has seen something strange. Something extraordinary that no one would normally see. That wouldn't usually matter but Matt accidently tells the rest of his class when they're playing the 'truth game' on the school bus. Now most of the class think he's either mad or a liar. To make matters worse, his classmate and new next-door neighbour, Jazzy O'Hanlon, believes him and she's determined to find a way to share his experience, even if that means losing her best friend. [[Spirit by Sally Christie|Full Review]] <!-- Marc Stigter and Sir Cary Cooper Green -->
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===[[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards The Smoke Thieves by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary CooperSally Green]]===
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I wasn't optimistic when I started reading ''Boards That Dare'Tension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, and peace is definitely not on everyone's agenda. I feared that I would encounter new ways of minimising tax liabilitiesInstead power is sought by force, and political manoeuvring of getting as much as possible out of employees whilst paying them the legal minimum worst kind sees families torn apart and constant reminders that innocent victims swept up in the ''shareholders'' own the company fallout. This story of warring nations is fast moving from page one, and of the necessity of maximising their returnmain characters, who move between kingdoms, face challenge after challenge. In the event I was only There are five separate story lines, each led by a few pages in before I discovered that I couldn't have been more wrongcolourful and interesting character, that we were looking at ways of future proofing the company. I began to feel hopeful..and Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a tapestry as their paths cross and their lives intertwine. [[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards The Smoke Thieves by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary CooperSally Green|Full Review]]
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===[[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) by Peadar o Guilin]]===
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We already know that the Aes Sidhe are back. And in their quest to win back Ireland from humankind, they have placed a magical seal around the entire island. At some point during adolescence, every teenager is transported to the Sidhe realm, that grey, colourless land to which they were banished thousands of years before. If they can evade the vengeful faerie kind for a full day (just three minutes in the human world) then their lives are spared, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilations. Fewer than one in ten children survive[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) by Peadar o Guilin:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker father, who is publishing the British edition of ''Narrative'', Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connell. [[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]<!-- Kent Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[The Catchers in Pirates, Thieves, Zombies and Magic Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Stuart J KentDaniel Peltz]]===
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Meet When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the Catchers – company of Molly Cavendish who is a mix part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the ruins of young and old, magical and human, smart and, er, less smartthe Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. It's their job Crowds flock to round up Fabulous Beastssee its centrepiece, and right from the get-go they have a job on their hands in this, renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the second book to contain their adventuresattention of young and old. Colin, Molly uses the older and magical (if not completely smart) one, is tasked with a recovery mission by a friend who boasted about having a wonderful lion griffin, only for it history to vanish. Wellentertain the tourists, wouldnbut there't you, if you were a lion griffin called Muffin? Either way, we know the adventure is going to include s more too it than that simple task impliesshe knows, particularly as the extended title history of the book suggests, but building is it any good? Is it rock bottom on also the pile history of juvenile fantasy readsthe Vannini family, or does who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the combination director of Pirates, Thieves, Zombies (both tame and wild) and Magic make this particular Muffin top? the museum. [[The Catchers in Pirates, Thieves, Zombies and Magic Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Stuart J KentDaniel Peltz|Full Review]] <!-- Hepworth Mohamed -->
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===[[The Family Next Door Falling Leaves by Sally HepworthStefan Mohamed]]===
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Pleasant Court is a cul-de-sac a few minutes from the beach in Melbourne. Kids play in the street and it's the sort of place people aspire When your best friend vanishes, how can you begin to. Certainly that's how the families who move on? How can you live there feel and thereyour life not knowing whether they's a good sense of community. Ben and Essie are glad re okay? And what would you do if they reappeared in your life? – all questions that Essie's mother is living next door as Essie had a mental breakdown three Vanessa faces every day, even seven years ago when after her first daughter was having difficulty sleepingbest friend Mark vanished. MiaWhen he reappears, she's come through that stageshocked not only by his presence back in her life, but now therealso by the fact that he hasn's Poppy, who's been the perfect baby t aged a day – for the first six months of her lifehim, but is just starting to be difficultno time has passed since his disappearance. BenShocked, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to her home town in particular, is pleased that he can rely on Barbara order to keep an eye on help Mark find the situation whilst answers heso desperately craves. But what's out at work. waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[The Family Next Door Falling Leaves by Sally HepworthStefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
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===[[Panic Room by Robert Goddard]]===
===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersEmerging Readers|ThrillersEmerging Readers]]
Don Challenor Nickerbacher is a down on doing his luck estate agent who gets tasked to sell a house dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-guarding. That's what dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in Cornwall and upon meeting the livewatching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too -in cleanerfact, Blake, finds it's his life utterly turned upside down. A simple sales job gets increasingly complex with the addition of favourite TV show because he wants to be a witch, professional heavies and a mysterious panic roomstand-up comedian himself. Intrigue builds He tries out his jokes on intrigue and what started fairly simply becomes something far more complexPrincess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. [[Panic Room Nickerbacher by Robert GoddardTerry John Barto|Full Review]]
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