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===[[Lady Mary The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Lucy WorsleyNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
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Jane Ashland is dying. That''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story s a description of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyna very early scene here – but also, his divorce from Katherine of Aragoncourse, Annea platitude that can apply to all of us. Jane's execution for adulterylife, if anything, is going up and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymourdown in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, which finally produces the much longed for birth of but we soon learn that it recently found a male heirvery deeply dark down place. This timeHere then, the story is told scattered through the eyes of an important but often neglected player a timeline- Henry's young daughterbending narrative, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York, Mary. Mary's hopes glimpses of therapy, a drive to find her family staying together are crushed by the divorce ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – and she is treated terribly by a father under trip there with a new-found friend to watch the influence musk oxen, of the Boleyn factionall things. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck And nowhere in the middle of these tumultuous events. sight is anything like a platitude… [[Lady Mary The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Lucy WorsleyNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wolf by Leo Carew]]===
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Travel to a world that is familiar and yet utterly different. We are Fourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in a version of ancient Britain with enough landmarks to make us feel at home yet it is a smoked glass. North of the river Abus we have Magical District, but as she hasn't the Anakim, a race slightest ability in that isndirection she doesn't quite human; they are something moreexactly fit in. The Anakim are virtual giants She takes after her dad, and their ribs are not cages but bone breastplates instead. Below she hopes desperately that she'll pass the Abus are upcoming auditions for acrobats and join the Sutheners, humans. Theirs is an ancient grudge and one where blood is spilled frequently in pitched battle. Unfortunately Circus Boat as it is rare when humans are involved for things tours to be straightforward and give performances on all the islands of the same is true hereLongest World. On both sides politics Her guardian Mrs Potts, however, does ''not'' approve: her hope that Cass will demonstrate magical abilities like her mother's (and machinations complicate the quests for glorymake Mrs Potts very rich) has been disappointed so she is determined her ward will take on a sedate, genteel job instead: governess, maybe, or draper's model. With the Anakim we have a boy coming So poor Cass is reduced to power and vying with the greatest warrior practising her routines in the land for the throne. Amongst the Sutheners we see a commoner having the temerity to lead secret, using an army alongside his betters. Both battles are as interesting as the war itselfold book her father left her. [[The Wolf Company of Eight by Leo CarewHarriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
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===[[Us vs Them: The House with Chicken Legs Failure of Globalism by Sophie AndersonIan Bremmer]]=== [[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 year, without warning, it stands up in the middle of the night 5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and walks away from where we've been living.''Society|Politics and Society]]
Ok. I dare you to tell me that you ''donIt wasn't'' want supposed to read a story about a house with chicken legs. There is no way anyone could resist. I certainly couldn't! Marinka lives in be like this chicken-legged house with her grandmother, Baba Yaga, whose job was it is ? Every day seems to guide dead people through The Gate. But Marinka is ''lonely''bring yet more news of doom and gloom. The housespectre of terrorism hangs over most of the world, her grandmother fuelling refugee crises and Marinka never stay anywhere long enough for Marinka to make any friendsworries about national security. And Marinka is determined People keep saying that robots are coming to change thistake all our jobs. But Anti-establishment political parties are making huge gains in countries all around the chicken-legged house has its own agenda.world.And inequality is as much of a problem as it ever was – if not more so. [[Us vs Them: The House with Chicken Legs Failure of Globalism by Sophie AndersonIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis]]===
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Relax, die-hard fans of Falco and his spirited British daughter Albia. Rome continues to be as splendid and as sordid as it ever was, the crimes committed are as complex and intriguing, and our heroine just as determined and cynical, with that light dusting of humour which made tales of her father's exploits so engaging. Newcomers to the series need not fear'Get under your own skin, by the way: each book contains just enough background detail to make you feel immediately at home. This timepick your brains, despite some serious misgivings, Albia is investigating the sudden death of a fifteen-year-old girl, described as bright, affectionate and popular. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potion, or did she die of a broken heart? [[Pandorago inside your insides!'s Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]]
That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, right up to the DNA that makes who we are.[[Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|Full Review]] <!-- Butterworth Keeley -->
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===[[When the Mountains Roared by Jess Butterworth]]===
 
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''===[[My fingers come away deep red. My breath catches. 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.''Favourite People by Rob Keeley]]===
Two months earlier, Ruby's dad had dropped a bombshell. They were moving from Australia to India, where her father had got a job at a hotel in the mountains. It was to be a new start and it would help both Ruby and her father get over the death of her mother. Ruby wasn't so sure about that and didn't get more optimistic on arrival - to find a rundown building full of scary corners in a place where the dark 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 much feels as though her father has brought her a place that makes everything worse..[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[When the Mountains Roared by Jess Butterworth: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]]<!-- Duffy Togawa -->
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===[[The Lady Killer by Masako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Me Mam. Me Dad. Me by Malcolm Duffy:Category:Crime|Crime]]===
[[image:5starJapan, the early 1960s. The prologue of this book sets us up in a lovely way with a world of both innocence and seedy nightclubs.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  ''It was When a young girl enters one alone for a drink she ends up singing along with the musical duet doing the day rounds of the clocks went backvenues for tips – as does a man with a distinctive bass voice. That's when I decided They leave together. Six months later, she clings to kill him.'' ''I'' is fourteen-year-old Danny. ''Him'' is Danny's stepfather Callum. Up until a year agobalcony at work, thinks about it was just Danny – and Mamdrops to her death in suicide. They lived in a damp, cold council flat and didn't have much money to spare, but things were pretty goodShe was pregnant. Danny and his Mam got on wellBut the man involved, they saw a lot rampant womaniser with an intricate diary of their lovely extended familyall his comings and goings, and Danny is not only had mates but even having a girlfriendperfect time, Amyeither. But a lot has changed. They're now living in Callum's posh house He returns to an old flame, to find her murdered – and Danny then the lady who would be his alibi for that death also gets holidays killed, and plenty so on. From our point of view, he cannot be a killer of Christmas presents. Greatladies, rightas the title might imply – but what else could it mean? [[Me Mam. Me Dad. Me The Lady Killer by Malcolm DuffyMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)|Full Review]]<!-- Forman Hall -->
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===[[I Have Lost My Way The Industry of Human Happiness by Gayle FormanJames Hall]]===
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''I Have Lost My WayThe Industry of Human Happiness'' tells first and foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the story simplest of three individuals who places. Max and his younger cousin have each lost something important to them leading to them losing realised their waydream of opening a gramophone company. Freya has lost her voiceHowever, Harun has lost his love their ambition and Nathaniel has lost everythinghubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworld. 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 CityThey will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[I Have Lost My Way The Industry of Human Happiness by Gayle FormanJames Hall|Full Review]]
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The USASet in Germany in 1957, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, and he often 'Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is) is being taken back a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to his home by his drop-out, slutty motherinsurance fraud. The home Bernie Gunther is called a CottageBerliner, who was a sarjeant during the second world war and while now, in this novel, is working in the book doesn't guide us to understand it perfectly, it seems to mean he has morgue of a private room hospital. He finds himself embroiled in a large self-contained bungalowmystery, taking on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervisionnew role as an insurance claims investigator. There's a paddock with horses for the kids The investigation takes him to rideGreece, their own school – and all back into the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm dark times of the kids downwar. Charlie With layered plots and double-crossing left, despite his obvious bookish intelligenceright and centre, is struggling to get to grips with why and how hethere's ended up where he is, but it must have something to do with his single parent mother being violent, and the fact he is no longer allowed to stay with his grandfather. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughts, as he tries lots to build a relationship with a girl in a different Cottage, and work out his lot. He certainly has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-oldkeep you guessing throughout this story. [[Dyed Souls Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Gary SantorellaPhilip Kerr|Full Review]] <!-- Sigurdardottir Carthew -->
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===[[The Reckoning All Rivers Run Free by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Natasha Carthew]]===
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[[The Legacy: Children's House Book 1 by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|Last time]], this series opened with Ia Pendilly lives in a plot that derailed caravan on the careers coast of both its leads Cornwall – Huldar a woman as raw as the policemanlandscape that surrounds her. Living with Bran, her abusive cousin and child psychologist Freyjacommon law husband, she's never yet had her own baby. Demoted and stuck with Discovering a kind of love/hate connectionwaif washed up on shore, they are left staring into space for want of something to happen. Huldar can even find some gruesome human remains Ia rescues the police have been tipped off about, girl but still isn't allowed to investigate them, so he settles for is also rescued by the drudge work involved in girl – given a threat new found left in strength to escape and to embark on a school's time capsulenew journey. Even Freyja can be persuaded to stop twiddling The journey takes her thumbs deep into a troubled society and help him out. It's the nature of these books that we know both plots will be connected somehow through a damaged, hurting world – but how, we finding family and memories long hidden will be askingbreak Ia, will either relate to remake her and perhaps give her the prologue, where a young girl was snatched ten years ago, and what is a modern family under threat to do with anything? elusive sense of freedom she's been seeking. [[The Reckoning All Rivers Run Free by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Natasha Carthew|Full Review]] <!-- Child Rogers -->
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===[[Everything About You Tale of a Tooth by Heather ChildAllie Rogers]]===
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In the future, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. is here and it is all around you. It fills your fridge, it keeps up to date Danny lives in a small Sussex town with your friends and fulfils your wishes. It is also stealing your jobs and, possiblyhis mother, loosening your grip on realityNatalie. Freya Life is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the latest smart specspoor, glasses which give her all the information shebut they manage - until they'll ever need, right in front of her eyes re threatened by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee looks to guide be their salvation - but her. The problem is that the personality impact on the glasses is that of her missing family goes far beyond what they first expect, and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her the resulting changes are described 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 right there, reader through the naive yet perceptive and although she knows this is just Ruby's data, part wholly original eyes of Freya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Rubyfour-year-old Danny. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data? [[Everything About You Tale of a Tooth by Heather ChildAllie Rogers|Full Review]]
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FirstWhen Claudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitor, forgive me if I donshe doesn't refer expect it to this book with its full title oftenbe her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen years. ItSamson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, The Aztec and The Sun King, walked out of Claudia's pointedly precise, accurate, life and rather ungainly into a world of success as a solar panel salesman – when in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes in any quantity. What happens in January is that a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland but now he's returned and eastern Germanyhe needs Claudia's help. Which means thatReggie, when the book starts properlySamson's son, mid-February, it has had time to get joined a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precisemysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group who prepare for that is the road marker where one end of our main characters sees it. He is trying to get back to work in Berlin for the first time in a month, world and encourage humanity to be with his girlfriend, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was awayembrace their impending doom. Also fancying Claudia's journey takes her far from her home in Manchester to the bright lights and big city are a teenaged pair end of love-birds, the boy and girl next door to each other in an eastern village, who flee an unhappy lot on the offworld – where encounters with hammer-chance of a better one. 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…wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Claudia by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Anthony Trevelyan|Full Review]]
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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 Rhodes -->
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===[[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionTeens|General FictionTeens]], [[: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.''
On the slopes of Mt Hood Danny was playing with a toy gun his friend Carlos had lent to him when he was shot by Officer Moore, who claims he was in Oregonfear for his life, that Danny, a five foot tall, an 1000twelve-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 westwardboy, he's filled with was a desire threatening thug whose menace was such that Officer Moore had no choice but to wreak vengeance on reach for his gun and eliminate the individuals he finds morally corruptthreat. [[W Ghost Boys by John BanksJewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisStephanie Butland]]===
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You are a lass of twenty eight. PluckyAilsa Rae has been sick her whole life, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life just as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager she was edging closer to save you from a life alonedeath she finally, finally got the call that she needed, and fired by that a rogueish sense heart was available for adventure. When it comes her to suitors though, you'll have a transplant. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to make the ultimate decision between wittydecisions for her, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granvillerunning polls amongst her readers to decide on her actions. But with her new heart, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Cravenshe has been given a new life. With orphansCan Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision... will her mother let her do that? [[My Lady's Choosing The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisStephanie Butland|Full Review]] <!-- Clover Christie -->
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===[[Rory Branagan Detective Spirit by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarSally Christie]]===
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Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kidMatt Barker has seen something strange. Something extraordinary that no one would normally see. He's a detective and he has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesnThat wouldn't know where to start usually matter but, then, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full Matt accidently tells the rest of ideas. This is just as well as his class when they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is at risk re playing the 'truth game' on the school bus. Now most of dying but no-one else will believe the class think he's in dangereither mad or a liar. ItTo make matters worse, his classmate and new next-door neighbour, Jazzy O'Hanlon, believes him and she's up determined to Rory and Cassidy find a way to uncover the truth and save a lifeshare his experience, even if that means losing her best friend. [[Rory Branagan Detective Spirit by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarSally Christie|Full Review]]
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===[[The Smoke Thieves by Sally Green]]===
===[[To the Edge of the World by Julia Green]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersTeens|Confident ReadersTeens]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
Jamie loves his new island home. He likes Tension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the school Pitorian Sea, and he has even made some friendspeace is definitely not on everyone's agenda. ButInstead power is sought by force, with his history and political manoeuvring of being bullied, Jamie knows that he has some fears to conquer if he wants to follow his grandfather the worst kind sees families torn apart and innocent victims swept up in the traditional island occupation of boat builderfallout. His fear This story of warring nations is fast moving from page one, and the sea in particularmain characters, who move between kingdoms, face challenge after challenge. And this is what draws him to MaraThere are five separate story lines, each led by a strangecolourful and interesting character, wild, independent girl who can handle and Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a boat with aplomb. But Mara has her own demons tapestry as their paths cross and an approaching show down with the island authorities because of them..their lives intertwine.[[To the Edge of the World The Smoke Thieves by Julia Sally Green|Full Review]]
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===[[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary Cooper]]===
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I wasn't optimistic when I started reading ''Boards That Dare''. I feared that I would encounter new ways of minimising tax liabilities, of getting as much as possible out of employees whilst paying them the legal minimum and constant reminders that the ''shareholders'' own the company and of the necessity of maximising their return. In the event I was only a few pages in before I discovered that I couldn't have been more wrong, that we were looking at ways of future proofing the company. I began to feel hopeful..[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary CooperCategory: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]]<!-- Guilin Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Peadar o GuilinDaniel Peltz]]===
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We already know that When we first visit the Aes Sidhe are backChiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the ruins of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. And in their quest Crowds flock to win back Ireland from humankindsee its centrepiece, they have placed a magical seal around renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the entire islandattention of young and old. At some point during adolescence, every teenager is transported Molly uses the history to entertain the Sidhe realmtourists, that greybut there's more too it than she knows, colourless land to which they were banished thousands particularly as the history of the building is also the history of years before. If they can evade the vengeful faerie kind for a full day (just three minutes Vannini family, who helped in building the human world) then their lives are spared, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilations. Fewer than chapel some six hundred years ago and one in ten children surviveof whose descendants is the director of the museum. [[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Peadar o GuilinDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[The Catchers in Pirates, Thieves, Zombies and Magic Falling Leaves by Stuart J KentStefan Mohamed]]===
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Meet the Catchers When your best friend vanishes, how can you begin to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they're okay? And what would you do if they reappeared in your life? – a mix of young and oldall questions that Vanessa faces every day, magical and humaneven seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When he reappears, smart and, er, less smart. Itshe's their job to round up Fabulous Beastsshocked not only by his presence back in her life, and right from but also by the get-go they have fact that he hasn't aged a job on their hands in thisday – for him, the second book to contain their adventuresno time has passed since his disappearance. ColinShocked, the older confused and magical (if not completely smart) oneemotionally reeling, is tasked with a recovery mission by a friend who boasted about having a wonderful lion griffin, only for it Vanessa must return to her home town in order to vanishhelp Mark find the answers he so desperately craves. Well, wouldnBut what't you, if you were a lion griffin called Muffin? Either way, we know the adventure s waiting for them is going to include far more surprising than that simple task implies, as the extended title either of the book suggests, but is it any good? Is it rock bottom on the pile of juvenile fantasy reads, or does the combination of Pirates, Thieves, Zombies (both tame and wild) and Magic make this particular Muffin top? them could ever have dreamt… [[The Catchers in Pirates, Thieves, Zombies and Magic Falling Leaves by Stuart J KentStefan Mohamed|Full Review]] <!-- Hepworth Barto -->
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===[[The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionNickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]===
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 to. Certainly that's how the families who live there feel and there's a good sense of community. Ben and Essie are glad that Essie's mother is living next door as Essie had a mental breakdown three years ago when her first daughter was having difficulty sleeping. Mia's come through that stage, but now there's Poppy, who's been the perfect baby for the first six months of her life, but is just starting to be difficult. Ben, in particular, is pleased that he can rely on Barbara to keep an eye on the situation whilst he's out at work[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth:Category:Emerging Readers|Full ReviewEmerging Readers]]
Nickerbacher is doing his 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 watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it's his favourite TV show because he wants to be a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. [[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto|Full Review]]
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