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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging ReadersGeneral Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Emerging ReadersLiterary Fiction]]
Nickerbacher Jane Ashland is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons dodying. That dragonly duty is's a description of a very early scene here – but also, of course, princess-guardinga platitude that can apply to all of us. ThatJane's what dragons are forlife, if anything, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really is going up and she is much less interested down in fairy tales than she is levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down place. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too Here then, scattered through a timeline- bending narrative, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in factNew York, it's his favourite TV show because he wants glimpses of therapy, a drive to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to be Norway – and a standtrip there with a new-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intendedfound friend to watch the musk oxen, of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[Nickerbacher The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Terry John BartoNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Bee The Company of Eight by Bren MacDibbleHarriet Whitehorn]]===
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Imagine a world without beesFourteen-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. Not just how nice 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 would be tours to eat jam sandwiches in give performances on all the garden without having islands of the little yellow and black torpedoes attacking you - Longest World. Her guardian Mrs Potts, however, does ''not'really'approve: her hope that Cass will demonstrate magical abilities like her mother' imagine it. No beess (and make Mrs Potts very rich) has been disappointed so she is determined her ward will take on a sedate, no pollination. No pollinationgenteel job instead: governess, no new plants. No new plantsmaybe, no food. Simpleor draper's model. So, if those pesky chemicals we use kill off practically every bee in the world, humans will have poor Cass is reduced to take over their work. Children, practising her routines in fact, because you need smallsecret, nimble fingers to work those tiny feathers full of pollen into the flowers and turn them into delicious fruitsusing an old book her father left her. [[How to Bee The Company of Eight by Bren MacDibbleHarriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
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===[[Turn a Blind Eye Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Vicky NewhamIan Bremmer]]===
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DI Maya Rahman is just back from Bangladesh and she should It wasn't supposed to be on compassionate leave as she went there like this, was it? Every day seems to bury her brother after he committed suicidebring yet more news of doom and gloom. Instead The spectre of grieving at home and getting terrorism hangs over her jet lag she's pitched straight into a murder investigation as a new member most of staff discovers the body of popular headteacher Linda Gibson in her study at Mile End High Schoolworld, fuelling refugee crises and worries about national security. People keep saying that robots are coming to take all our jobs. Her hands Anti-establishment political parties are bound and beside her strangled body is a card with a Buddhist precept: ''I shall abstain from taking making huge gains in countries all around the ungivenworld.'' It's the second And inequality is as much of five precepts and Maya is worried that there's been a murder that hasn't been spotted - and that there will be problem as it ever was – if not more deathsso. [[Turn a Blind Eye Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Vicky NewhamIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) by David O'Connell]]===
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Archie McBudge is sitting in the of Honeystone Hall with his mother[[image:5star. And a lawyer called Mr Tatters has some important information for Archie. A great uncle he has never heard of has died and Archie is his sole heir. This means that Honeystone Hall now belongs to Archie. But that isn't all - this young boy is now sole owner of Scotland's premier sweets giantjpg|link=Category: McBudge's Fudge and Confectionery Company... {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) by David O'Connell: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]] <!-- Simsion Keeley -->
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===[[Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist]]===
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When I read the blurb for this book, I found myself instantly interested in its premise of two people trying to start their lives again following serious life changes. The book did not disappoint[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist: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]]<!-- Burrows Togawa -->
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===[[A Shimmer of Hummingbirds The Lady Killer by Steve BurrowsMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)]]===
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Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is on a birding trip to Colombia: well it's ostensibly a birding tripJapan, but the reality is that he's trying to establish what really happened early 1960s. The prologue of this book sets us up in the manslaughter case which has left his brother a fugitivelovely way with a world of both innocence and seedy nightclubs. It's When a difficult situation as young girl enters one alone for a drink she ends up singing along with the musical duet doing the police force don't want him to do this and rounds of the Colombian authorities are understandably reluctantvenues for tips – as does a man with a distinctive bass voice. They leave together. Six months later, but Jejeune has always been she clings to a law unto himselfbalcony at work, thinks about it – and drops to her death in suicide. Meanwhile in Saltmarsh on She was pregnant. But the North Norfolk coast there's been man involved, a brutal murder rampant womaniser with an intricate diary of all his comings and goings, is not having a womanperfect time, and DI Marvin Larabyeither. He returns to an old flame, Jejeune's nemesis, has been drafted in to replace Jejeune during find her murdered – and then the lady who would be his absencealibi for that death also gets killed, and so on. How's that going to work outFrom our point of view, he cannot be a killer of ladies, as the title might imply – but what else could it mean? [[A Shimmer of Hummingbirds The Lady Killer by Steve BurrowsMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Carter Hall -->
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===[[I Stop Somewhere The Industry of Human Happiness by T E CarterJames Hall]]===
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Ellie has to change schools''The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about music. It's a chance for renewal is about human beings being able to find music and Ellie sets to work to make magic in the most simplest of itplaces. 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 Max and doesn't his younger cousin have the money to buy fashionable clothes. With the help realised their dream of opening a neighbour, Kate, she manages it pretty wellgramophone company. And soHowever, when Caleb notices her, tells her she's beautiful, Ellie can almost believe it. But theretheir ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's something not quite right about Calebunderworld. He blows hot and cold They will ascend broken and his smile doesn't quite meet his eyes. But it's nice to be wanted and so Ellie ignores the warning signs..their lives changed forever. [[I Stop Somewhere The Industry of Human Happiness by T E CarterJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Lucy WorsleyPhilip Kerr]]===
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Set in Germany in 1957, ''Lady MaryGreeks Bearing Gifts'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair is a historical crime thriller with Anne Boleyn, his divorce everything from Katherine of Aragondodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraud. Bernie Gunther is a Berliner, Anne's execution for adulterywho was a sarjeant during the second world war and now, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymourin this novel, which finally produces is working in the much longed for birth morgue of a male heirhospital. This time He finds himself embroiled in a mystery, the story is told through the eyes of taking on a new role as an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughterinsurance claims investigator. The investigation takes him to Greece, Mary. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by a father under back into the influence dark times of the Boleyn factionwar. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years With layered plots and double-crossing left, right and centre, there's lots to keep you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous eventsguessing throughout this story. [[Lady Mary Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Lucy WorsleyPhilip Kerr|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 Ia Pendilly lives in a version caravan on the coast of ancient Britain with enough landmarks to make us feel at home yet it is Cornwall – a smoked glass. North of woman as raw as the river Abus we have the Anakim, a race landscape that isn't quite human; they are something moresurrounds her. The Anakim are virtual giants Living with Bran, her abusive cousin and their ribs are not cages but bone breastplates insteadcommon law husband, she's never yet had her own baby. Below the Abus are the SuthenersDiscovering a waif washed up on shore, 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 Ia rescues the same girl but is true here. On both sides politics and machinations complicate the quests for glory. With also rescued by the Anakim we have girl – given a boy coming new found strength to power escape and vying with the greatest warrior in the land for the throneto embark on a new journey. Amongst the Sutheners we see The journey takes her deep into a troubled society and through a commoner having damaged, hurting world – finding family and memories long hidden will break Ia, remake her and perhaps give her the temerity to lead an army alongside his betters. Both battles are as interesting as the war itselfelusive sense of freedom she's been seeking. [[The Wolf All Rivers Run Free by Leo CarewNatasha Carthew|Full Review]]
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===[[The House with Chicken Legs Tale of a Tooth by Sophie AndersonAllie Rogers]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''My house has chicken legs. Two or three times a year, without warning, it stands up in the middle of the night and walks away from where we've been living.''
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 Danny lives in this chicken-legged house a small Sussex town with her grandmother, Baba Yagahis mother, whose job it is to guide dead people through The GateNatalie. But Marinka Life is poor, but they manage - until they''lonely''re threatened by a benefits sanction. The houseA Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - but her impact on the family goes far beyond what they first expect, her grandmother and Marinka never stay anywhere long enough for Marinka the resulting changes are described to make any friends. And Marinka is determined to change this. But the chickenreader through the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of four-legged house has its own agenda..year-old Danny. [[The House with Chicken Legs Tale of a Tooth by Sophie AndersonAllie Rogers|Full Review]]
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===[[Pandora's Boy Claudia by Lindsey DavisAnthony Trevelyan]]===
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RelaxWhen Claudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitor, die-hard fans of Falco and his spirited British daughter Albia. Rome continues she doesn't expect it to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as splendid and as sordid as it ever wasWild Samson, the crimes committed are as complex The Aztec and intriguingThe Sun King, walked out of Claudia's life and our heroine just into a world of success as determined a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and cynical, with that light dusting of humour which made tales of her fatherhe needs Claudia's exploits so engaginghelp. Newcomers to the series need not fearReggie, by the way: each book contains just enough background detail to make you feel immediately at home. This timeSamson's son, despite some serious misgivingshas joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', Albia is investigating a group who prepare for the sudden death end of a fifteen-year-old girl, described as bright, affectionate the world and popularencourage humanity to embrace their impending doom. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potion, or did she die of a broken heart? [[PandoraClaudia's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] journey takes her far from her home in Manchester to the end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[Pandora's Boy Claudia by Lindsey DavisAnthony Trevelyan|Full Review]]
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===[[When the Mountains Roared The Man I Think I Know by Jess ButterworthMike Gayle]]===
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James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to go. At an all time low time for both of them, the two men reconnect and slowly find they'My fingers come away deep redre exactly what the other needs. My breath catchesTogether, they help each other put their lives back together. BloodThis is a beautiful story about friendship and what it really means to help another person. [[The Man I wipe my shaky hands on my trousers. There's a leopard out there, injured. And Think I have to find it before they do.''Know by Mike Gayle|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 Rhodes -->
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[[image:5star''How small I look.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Laid out flat, my stomach touching ground. My right knee bent and my brand-new Nikes stained with blood.''
''It Danny was the day the clocks went back. That's playing with a toy gun his friend Carlos had lent to him when I decided he was shot by Officer Moore, who claims he was in fear for his life, that Danny, a five foot tall, twelve-year-old boy, was a threatening thug whose menace was such that Officer Moore had no choice but to kill himreach for his gun and eliminate the threat.''[[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes|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 Butland -->
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===[[I Have Lost My Way The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Gayle FormanStephanie Butland]]===
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''I Have Lost My Way'' tells Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the story of three individuals who call that she needed, that a heart was available for her to have each lost something important a transplant. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to them leading make decisions for her, running polls amongst her readers to them losing their waydecide on her actions. Freya has lost But with her voicenew heart, Harun has lost his love and Nathaniel she has lost everythingbeen given a new life. However, these three elements do not give justice Can Ailsa manage 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 start to lose what was most important to themlive on her own, causing them to all meet one fateful day in New York City. and will her mother let her do that? [[I Have Lost My Way The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Gayle FormanStephanie Butland|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls Spirit by Gary SantorellaSally Christie]]===
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The USA, early 1980sMatt Barker has seen something strange. Something extraordinary that no one would normally see. Charlie (or Charles, if heThat wouldn's feeling belligerent, and he often is) is being taken back to t usually matter but Matt accidently tells the rest of his home by his drop-out, slutty mother. The home is called a Cottage, and while class when they're playing 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, truth game' on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervisionschool bus. ThereNow most of the class think he's either mad or a paddock with horses for the kids to rideliar. To make matters worse, their own school – his classmate and all the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm the kids down. Charlienew next-door neighbour, despite his obvious bookish intelligenceJazzy O'Hanlon, is struggling to get to grips with why believes him and how heshe's ended up where he is, but it must have something determined to do with his single parent mother being violent, and the fact he is no longer allowed find a way to stay with his grandfather. This book is a slightly woozy look at share his thoughtsexperience, 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-oldeven if that means losing her best friend. [[Dyed Souls Spirit by Gary SantorellaSally Christie|Full Review]] <!-- Sigurdardottir Green -->
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===[[The Reckoning Smoke Thieves by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Sally Green]]===
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[[The Legacy: ChildrenTension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, and peace is definitely not on everyone's House Book 1 agenda. Instead power is sought by Yrsa Sigurdardottir force, and Victoria Cribb (translator)|Last time]], this series opened with a plot that derailed the careers political manoeuvring of both its leads – Huldar the policeman, worst kind sees families torn apart and child psychologist Freyjainnocent victims swept up in the fallout. Demoted and stuck with a kind This story of love/hate connectionwarring nations is fast moving from page one, they are left staring into space for want of something to happen. Huldar can even find some gruesome human remains and the police have been tipped off aboutmain characters, but still isn't allowed to investigate themwho move between kingdoms, so he settles for the drudge work involved in a threat found left in a school's time capsuleface challenge after challenge. Even Freyja can be persuaded to stop twiddling her thumbs and help him out. It's the nature of these books that we know both plots will be connected somehow – but howThere are five separate story lines, we will be asking, will either relate to the prologue, where each led by a young girl was snatched ten years agocolourful and interesting character, and what is Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a modern family under threat to do with anything? tapestry as their paths cross and their lives intertwine. [[The Reckoning Smoke Thieves by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Sally Green|Full Review]] <!-- Child de Lacey Davidson -->
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===[[Everything About You by Heather Child]]===
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In the future, your social feed is your entire existence[[image:4star. A.I. is here and it is all around you. It fills your fridge, it keeps up to date with your friends and fulfils your wishes. It is also stealing your jobs and, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information she'll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality to guide her. The problem is that the personality on the glasses is that of her missing and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown 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 right there, 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 that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Everything About You by Heather Child: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]]<!-- Schimmelpfennig Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Daniel Peltz]]===
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First, forgive me if I donWhen we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we't refer to this book with its full title often. It's pointedly precise, accurate, and rather ungainly – when re in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes in any quantity. What happens in January company of Molly Cavendish who is that a wild wolf walks across part-time guide at the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germany. Which means thatMuseo di Santa Maria, when which is what the ruins of the book starts properly, midChiesa -February, it has had time to get a lot closer chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to Berlin – within 80 kilometressee its centrepiece, to be precise, for that is a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the road marker where one attention of our main characters sees ityoung and old. He is trying to get back Molly uses the history to work in Berlin for entertain the first time in a monthtourists, and to be with his girlfriendbut there's more too it than she knows, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was away. Also fancying particularly as the history of the building is also the bright lights and big city are a teenaged pair history of love-birds, the boy and girl next door to each other in an eastern villageVannini family, who flee an unhappy lot on helped in building the off-chance chapel some six hundred years ago and one of a better one. You just know there whose descendants 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 director of the Twenty-First Century museum. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Daniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[Stranger Falling Leaves by Keren DavidStefan Mohamed]]===
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AstorWhen your best friend vanishes, Ontariohow 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? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, 1904. Emmy and even seven years after her best friend Sadie are walking along when a bloody and bruised boy staggers out of the forest clutching a pistolMark vanished. Sadie runs off terrified. But something about the boy draws Emmy. She knowsWhen he reappears, deep insideshe's shocked not only by his presence back in her life, but also by the fact that he is not hasn't aged a dangerday – for him, no time has passed since his disappearance. She kicks the pistol into the grass Shocked, confused and cradles emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to her home town in order to help Mark find the boy until help arrivesanswers he so desperately craves. Who But what's waiting for them is he? How has he been living? And will the townsfolk accept him?far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Stranger Falling Leaves by Keren DavidStefan Mohamed|Full Review]] <!-- Banks Barto -->
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===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionEmerging Readers|General FictionEmerging Readers]]
On the slopes Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of Mt Hood in Oregoncourse, an 1000princess-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than guarding. That's what dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any previously known Viking explorationprincess. Josh Kinninger is inspired by She finds the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored whole princessing thing quite boring really and with his world she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in turmoilwatching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Beginning a journey westwardNickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, heit's filled with his favourite TV show because he wants to be a desire to wreak vengeance stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on the individuals he finds morally corruptPrincess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. [[W Nickerbacher by Terry John BanksBarto|Full Review]]
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