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===[[The Chocolate Factory Ghost Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (The Dundoodle Mysteriestranslator) by David O'Connell]]===
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Archie McBudge Jane Ashland is sitting in the dying. That's a description of Honeystone Hall with his mother. And a lawyer called Mr Tatters has some important information for Archie. A great uncle he has never heard very early scene here – but also, of has died and Archie is his sole heir. This means course, a platitude that Honeystone Hall now belongs can apply to Archie. But that isn't all - this young boy is now sole owner of Scotlandus. Jane's premier sweets giant: McBudge's Fudge life, if anything, is going up and Confectionery Company.down in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down place.Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York, glimpses of therapy, a drive to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – and a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the musk oxen, of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Chocolate Factory Ghost Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (The Dundoodle Mysteriestranslator) by David O'Connell|Full Review]]
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===[[Two Steps Forward The Company of Eight by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistHarriet Whitehorn]]===
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When I read Fourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the blurb for this bookMagical District, I found myself instantly interested but as she hasn't the slightest ability in its premise that direction she doesn't exactly fit in. She takes after her dad, and she hopes desperately that she'll pass the upcoming auditions for acrobats and join the Circus Boat as it tours to give performances on all the islands of two people trying the Longest World. Her guardian Mrs Potts, however, does ''not'' approve: her hope that Cass will demonstrate magical abilities like her mother's (and make 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. So poor Cass is reduced to start their lives again following serious life changes. The practising her routines in secret, using an old book did not disappointher father left her. [[Two Steps Forward The Company of Eight by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistHarriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
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===[[A Shimmer Us vs Them: The Failure of Hummingbirds Globalism by Steve BurrowsIan Bremmer]]===
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Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is on a birding trip to Colombia: well it's ostensibly a birding trip, but the reality is that he's trying to establish what really happened in the manslaughter case which has left his brother a fugitive. It's a difficult situation as the police force donwasn't want him supposed to do be like this , was it? Every day seems to bring yet more news of doom and gloom. The spectre of terrorism hangs over most of the Colombian authorities world, fuelling refugee crises and worries about national security. People keep saying that robots are understandably reluctant, but Jejeune has always been a law unto himselfcoming to take all our jobs. Meanwhile Anti-establishment political parties are making huge gains in Saltmarsh on countries all around the North Norfolk coast there's been a brutal murder world. And inequality is as much of a woman, and DI Marvin Laraby, Jejeune's nemesis, has been drafted in to replace Jejeune during his absenceproblem as it ever was – if not more so. How's that going to work out? [[A Shimmer Us vs Them: The Failure of Hummingbirds Globalism by Steve BurrowsIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[I Stop Somewhere by T E Carter]]===
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Ellie has to change schools. It's a chance for renewal and Ellie sets to work to make the most of it. She doesn't want to be homecoming queen or anything - she just wants to fit in without anyone noticing that she's a bit too curvy and doesn't have the money to buy fashionable clothes. With the help of a neighbour, Kate, she manages it pretty well. And so, when Caleb notices her, tells her she's beautiful, Ellie can almost believe it. But there's something not quite right about Caleb. He blows hot and cold and his smile doesn't quite meet his eyes. But it's nice to be wanted and so Ellie ignores the warning signs..[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[I Stop Somewhere by T E Carter:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!'' 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]] <!-- Worsley Keeley -->
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===[[Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of a male heir. This time, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by a father under the influence of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous events[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley: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]]<!-- Carew Togawa -->
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Travel to a world that is familiar and yet utterly different. We are 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 the Anakim, a race that isn't quite human; they are something more. The Anakim are virtual giants and their ribs are not cages but bone breastplates instead. Below the Abus are the Sutheners, humans. Theirs is an ancient grudge and one where blood is spilled frequently in pitched battle. Unfortunately it is rare when humans are involved for things to be straightforward and the same is true here. On both sides politics and machinations complicate the quests for glory. With the Anakim we have a boy coming to power and vying with the greatest warrior in the land for the throne. Amongst the Sutheners we see a commoner having the temerity to lead an army alongside his betters. Both battles are as interesting as the war itself[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Wolf by Leo Carew:Category:Crime|Full ReviewCrime]]
Japan, the early 1960s. The prologue of this book sets us up in a lovely way with a world of both innocence and seedy nightclubs. When a young girl enters one alone for a drink she ends up singing along with the musical duet doing the rounds of the venues for tips – as does a man with a distinctive bass voice. They leave together. Six months later, she clings to a balcony at work, thinks about it – and drops to her death in suicide. She was pregnant. But the man involved, a rampant womaniser with an intricate diary of all his comings and goings, is not having a perfect time, either. He returns to an old flame, to find her murdered – and then the lady who would be his alibi for that death also gets killed, and so on. From our point of view, he cannot be a killer of ladies, as the title might imply – but what else could it mean? [[The Lady Killer by Masako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)|Full Review]]<!-- Anderson Hall -->
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===[[The House with Chicken Legs Industry of Human Happiness by Sophie AndersonJames Hall]]===
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''My house has chicken legsThe Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about music. Two or three times a year, without warning, it stands up It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the middle simplest of places. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of the night opening a gramophone company. However, their ambition and walks away from where wehubris soon puts them on a course towards London've been livings underworld.''They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall|Full Review]]
Ok. I dare you to tell me that you ''don't'' want to read a story about a house with chicken legs. There is no way anyone could resist. I certainly couldn't! Marinka lives in this chicken-legged house with her grandmother, Baba Yaga, whose job it is to guide dead people through The Gate. But Marinka is ''lonely''. The house, her grandmother and Marinka never stay anywhere long enough for Marinka to make any friends. And Marinka is determined to change this. But the chicken-legged house has its own agenda... [[The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson|Full Review]] <!-- Davis Kerr -->
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===[[Pandora's Boy Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Lindsey DavisPhilip Kerr]]===
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RelaxSet in Germany in 1957, die-hard fans of Falco and his spirited British daughter Albia''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraud. Rome continues to be as splendid and as sordid as it ever Bernie Gunther is a Berliner, who was, a sarjeant during the crimes committed are as complex second world war and intriguingnow, and our heroine just as determined and cynicalin this novel, with that light dusting is working in the morgue of humour which made tales of her father's exploits so engaginga hospital. Newcomers to the series need not fear He finds himself embroiled in a mystery, by the way: each book contains just enough background detail taking on a new role as an insurance claims investigator. The investigation takes him to make you feel immediately at home. This timeGreece, despite some serious misgivings, Albia is investigating and back into the sudden death dark times of a fifteen-yearthe war. With layered plots and double-old girl, described as brightcrossing left, affectionate right and popular. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potioncentre, or did she die of a broken heart? [[Pandorathere's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] lots to keep you guessing throughout this story. [[Pandora's Boy Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Lindsey DavisPhilip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[When the Mountains Roared All Rivers Run Free by Jess ButterworthNatasha Carthew]]===
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''My fingers come away deep red. My breath catches. Blood. I wipe my shaky hands Ia Pendilly lives in a caravan on my trousersthe coast of Cornwall – a woman as raw as the landscape that surrounds her. ThereLiving with Bran, her abusive cousin and common law husband, she's never yet had her own baby. Discovering a leopard out therewaif washed up on shore, injured. And I have Ia rescues the girl but is also rescued by the girl – given a new found strength to escape and to find it before they doembark on a new journey.The journey takes her deep into a troubled society and through a damaged, hurting world – finding family and memories long hidden will break Ia, remake her and perhaps give her the elusive sense of freedom she''s been seeking. [[All Rivers Run Free by Natasha Carthew|Full Review]]
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... [[When the Mountains Roared by Jess Butterworth|Full Review]]  <!-- Duffy Rogers -->
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===[[Tale of a Tooth by Allie Rogers]]===
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Danny lives in a small Sussex town with his mother, Natalie. Life is poor, but they manage - until they''It was re threatened by a benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - but her impact on the day family goes far beyond what they first expect, and the clocks went back. That's when I decided resulting changes are described to kill himthe reader through the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of four-year-old Danny.''[[Tale of a Tooth by Allie Rogers|Full Review]]
''I'' is fourteen-year-old Danny. ''Him'' is Danny's stepfather Callum. Up until a year ago, it was just Danny and Mam. They lived in a damp, cold council flat and didn't have much money to spare, but things were pretty good. Danny and his Mam got on well, they saw a lot of their lovely extended family, and Danny not only had mates but even a girlfriend, Amy. 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 by Malcolm Duffy|Full Review]]<!-- Forman Trevelyan -->
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===[[I Have Lost My Way Claudia by Gayle FormanAnthony Trevelyan]]===
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''I Have Lost My Way'' tells When Claudia is called to the story reception of three individuals who have each lost something important her Manchester Office block to them leading meet a visitor, she doesn't expect it to them losing their waybe her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen years. Freya has lost her voiceSamson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, Harun has lost his love The Aztec and Nathaniel has lost everything. HoweverThe Sun King, these three elements do not give justice to the extent walked out of Claudia's life and into a world of what each character has lostsuccess as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's help. In this expertly written novelReggie, Samson's son, Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came to lose what was most important to themhas joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', causing them a group who prepare for the end of the world and encourage humanity to all meet one fateful day embrace their impending doom. Claudia's journey takes her far from her home in New York City. Manchester to the end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[I Have Lost My Way Claudia by Gayle FormanAnthony Trevelyan|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls The Man I Think I Know by Gary SantorellaMike Gayle]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:4James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to go.5starAt an all time low time for both of them, the two men reconnect and slowly find they're exactly what the other needs.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]Together, they help each other put their lives back together. This is a beautiful story about friendship and what it really means to help another person. [[:Category:General FictionThe Man I Think I Know by Mike Gayle|General FictionFull Review]]
The USA, 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 mother. The home is called a Cottage, and while the book doesn't guide us to understand it perfectly, it seems to mean he has a private room in a large self-contained bungalow, on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervision. There's a paddock with horses for the kids to ride, their own school – and all the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm the kids down. Charlie, despite his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling to get to grips with why and how he'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 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-old. [[Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella|Full Review]]<!-- Sigurdardottir Rhodes -->
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===[[The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)]]===
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[[The Legacyimage: Children's House Book 1 by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Last timeTeens]], this series opened with a plot that derailed the careers of both its leads – Huldar the policeman[[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] ''How small I look. Laid out flat, and child psychologist Freyjamy stomach touching ground. Demoted My right knee bent and stuck my brand-new Nikes stained with a kind of love/hate connection, they are left staring into space for want of something to happenblood. Huldar can even find some gruesome human remains the police have been tipped off about, but still isn't allowed ' Danny was playing with a toy gun his friend Carlos had lent to investigate themhim when he was shot by Officer Moore, so who claims he settles was in fear for the drudge work involved in a threat found left in a school's time capsule. Even Freyja can be persuaded to stop twiddling her thumbs and help him out. It's the nature of these books his life, that we know both plots will be connected somehow – but howDanny, we will be askinga five foot tall, will either relate to the prologuetwelve-year-old boy, where was a young girl threatening thug whose menace was snatched ten years ago, such that Officer Moore had no choice but to reach for his gun and what is a modern family under eliminate the threat to do with anything? . [[The Reckoning Ghost Boys by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Jewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]] <!-- Child Butland -->
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===[[Everything About You The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Heather ChildStephanie Butland]]===
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In the futureAilsa Rae has been sick her whole life, your social feed is your entire existence. A.I. is here and it is all around you. It fills your fridge, it keeps up just as she was edging closer to date with your friends and fulfils your wishes. It is also stealing your jobs anddeath she finally, possiblyfinally got the call that she needed, loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given that a beta testing version of the latest smart specs, glasses which give heart was available for her all the information to have a transplant. Previously she had felt so helpless that she'll ever needhad used her blog to make decisions for her, right in front of running polls amongst her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality readers to guide decide on heractions. The problem is that the personality on the glasses is that of But with her missing and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and unsettled by thisnew heart, she has been given a new life. Her mum tells her Can Ailsa manage to stop using them or at the very least start to reset them to a different personality. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing live on her sister's voice again is like she's right thereown, and although she knows this is just Ruby's data, part of Freya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Ruby. Is it just possible will her mother let her do that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data? [[Everything About You The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Heather ChildStephanie Butland|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Spirit by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Sally Christie]]===
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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 in fact the book it describes Matt Barker has only the former two attributes in any quantityseen something strange. What happens in January is Something extraordinary that a wild wolf walks across no one would normally see. That wouldn't usually matter but Matt accidently tells the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germany. Which means that, rest of his class when they're playing the book starts properly, mid-February, it has had time to get a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precise, for that is 'truth game' on the road marker where one school bus. Now most of our main characters sees it. He is trying to get back to work in Berlin for the first time in class think he's either mad or a monthliar. To make matters worse, and to be with his girlfriend, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was away. Also fancying the bright lights classmate and big city are a teenaged pair of lovenew next-birdsdoor neighbour, Jazzy O'Hanlon, the boy believes him and girl next door she's determined to each other in an eastern village, who flee an unhappy lot on the off-chance of find a better one. You just know there is a chance that these characters – human and lupine alike – are sucked into one combined narrativeway to share his experience, but you won't know quite what even if that will entail…means losing her best friend. [[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century Spirit by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Sally Christie|Full Review]]
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===[[Stranger The Smoke Thieves by Keren DavidSally Green]]===
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AstorTension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, Ontarioand peace is definitely not on everyone's agenda. Instead power is sought by force, 1904. Emmy and her friend Sadie are walking along when a bloody political manoeuvring of the worst kind sees families torn apart and bruised boy staggers out of innocent victims swept up in the forest clutching a pistolfallout. Sadie runs off terrified. But something about This story of warring nations is fast moving from page one, and the boy draws Emmymain characters, who move between kingdoms, face challenge after challenge. She knowsThere are five separate story lines, deep insideeach led by a colourful and interesting character, that he is not and Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a danger. She kicks the pistol into the grass tapestry as their paths cross and cradles the boy until help arrivestheir lives intertwine. Who is he? How has he been living? And will the townsfolk accept him?[[Stranger The Smoke Thieves by Keren DavidSally Green|Full Review]] <!-- Banks de Lacey Davidson -->
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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[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[W by John Banks: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]]<!-- Curran Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[My Lady's Choosing The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisDaniel Peltz]]===
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You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in Regency era London the race company of Molly Cavendish who is on to find a suitable suitor part- or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the ruins of the Chiesa - a fiesty noble eager chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to save you from see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a life alone, history which grabs the attention of young and fired by a rogueish sense for adventureold. When it comes Molly uses the history to suitors thoughentertain the tourists, youbut there'll have to make s more too it than she knows, particularly as the history of the building is also the history of the ultimate decision between wittyVannini family, pretty who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or one of whose descendants is the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along director of the way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision..museum. [[My Lady's Choosing The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisDaniel Peltz|Full Review]] <!-- Clover Mohamed -->
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===[[Rory Branagan Detective Falling Leaves by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarStefan Mohamed]]===
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Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isnWhen your best friend vanishes, how can you begin to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they't just a normal kidre okay? And what would you do if they reappeared in your life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. HeWhen he reappears, she's a detective and shocked not only by his presence back in her life, but also by the fact that he has hasn't aged a mystery to solve day – why did for him, no time has passed since his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start butdisappearance. Shocked, thenconfused and emotionally reeling, Cassidy moves Vanessa must return to her home town in next door and he discovers order to help Mark find the answers he has an accomplice who is full of ideasso desperately craves. This is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner BoyBut what's dad has been poisoned and waiting for them is at risk far more surprising than either of dying but no-one else will believe he's in danger. It's up to Rory and Cassidy to uncover the truth and save a life. them could ever have dreamt… [[Rory Branagan Detective Falling Leaves by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarStefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
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===[[To the Edge of the World Nickerbacher by Julia GreenTerry John Barto]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
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..[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[To the Edge of the World by Julia Green: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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