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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
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[[image:4starJane Ashland is dying. That's a description of a very early scene here – but also, of course, a platitude that can apply to all of us. Jane's life, if anything, is going up and down in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down place. 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Historical FictionFull Review]]
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]]<!-- Daniel Peltz Whitehorn -->
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Company of Eight by Daniel PeltzHarriet Whitehorn]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're Fourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa MariaMagical District, which is what but as she hasn't the ruins of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now becomeslightest ability in that direction she doesn't exactly fit in. Crowds flock to see its centrepieceShe takes after her dad, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs and she hopes desperately that she'll pass the attention of young upcoming auditions for acrobats and old. Molly uses join the history Circus Boat as it tours to entertain give performances on all the touristsislands of the Longest World. Her guardian Mrs Potts, but therehowever, does ''not'' approve: her hope that Cass will demonstrate magical abilities like her mother's more too it than (and make Mrs Potts very rich) has been disappointed so she knowsis determined her ward will take on a sedate, particularly as the history of the building genteel job instead: governess, maybe, or draper's model. So poor Cass is also the history of the Vannini familyreduced to practising her routines in secret, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the director of the museumusing an old book her father left her. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Company of Eight by Daniel PeltzHarriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Leaves Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Stefan MohamedIan Bremmer]]===
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When your best friend vanishesIt wasn't supposed to be like this, 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 lifewas it? – all questions that Vanessa faces every Every day, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanishedseems to bring yet more news of doom and gloom. When he reappears, she's shocked not only by his presence back in her life, but also by The spectre of terrorism hangs over most of the fact that he hasn't aged a day – for himworld, no time has passed since his disappearancefuelling refugee crises and worries about national security. Shocked, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return People keep saying that robots are coming to her home town take all our jobs. Anti-establishment political parties are making huge gains in order to help Mark find countries all around the answers he so desperately cravesworld. But what's waiting for them And inequality is far more surprising than either as much of them could a problem as it ever have dreamt… was – if not more so. [[Falling Leaves Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Stefan MohamedIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[Nickerbacher Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Terry John BartoNicola Edwards and Jem Maybank]]===
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Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course''Get under your own skin, princess-guarding. That's what dragons are forpick your brains, 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, itgo inside your insides!'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]]
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]] <!-- MacDibble Keeley -->
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===[[How to Bee by Bren MacDibble]]===
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Imagine a world without bees. Not just how nice it would be to eat jam sandwiches in the garden without having the little yellow and black torpedoes attacking you - ''really'' imagine it. No bees, no pollination. No pollination, no new plants. No new plants, no food. Simple. So, if those pesky chemicals we use kill off practically every bee in the world, humans will have to take over their work. Children, in fact, because you need small, nimble fingers to work those tiny feathers full of pollen into the flowers and turn them into delicious fruits[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[How to Bee by Bren MacDibble: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]]<!-- Newham Togawa -->
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===[[Turn a Blind Eye The Lady Killer by Vicky NewhamMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)]]===
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DI Maya Rahman is just back from Bangladesh 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 should be on compassionate 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 as together. Six months later, she went there clings to bury her brother after he committed suicide. Instead of grieving a balcony at home work, thinks about it – and getting over drops to her jet lag she's pitched straight into a murder investigation as a new member of staff discovers the body of popular headteacher Linda Gibson death in her study at Mile End High Schoolsuicide. She was pregnant. Her hands are bound and beside her strangled body is But the man involved, a card rampant womaniser with a Buddhist precept: ''I shall abstain from taking the ungiven.'' It's the second an intricate diary of five precepts all his comings and Maya goings, is worried that there's been not having a murder perfect time, either. He returns to an old flame, to find her murdered – and then the lady who would be his alibi for that hasn't been spotted - death also gets killed, and that there will so on. From our point of view, he cannot be more deaths. a killer of ladies, as the title might imply – but what else could it mean? [[Turn a Blind Eye The Lady Killer by Vicky NewhamMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- O'Connell Hall -->
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===[[The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) Industry of Human Happiness by David O'ConnellJames Hall]]===
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Archie McBudge ''The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is sitting a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the simplest of Honeystone Hall with places. Max and his mother. And younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a lawyer called Mr Tatters has some important information for Archiegramophone company. A great uncle he has never heard of has died However, their ambition 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 Scotlandhubris soon puts them on a course towards London's premier sweets giant: McBudge's Fudge underworld. They will ascend broken and Confectionery Company..their lives changed forever. [[The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) Industry of Human Happiness by David O'ConnellJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Two Steps Forward Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistPhilip Kerr]]===
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When I read Set in Germany in 1957, ''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraud. Bernie Gunther is a Berliner, who was a sarjeant during the blurb for second world war and now, in this booknovel, I found myself instantly interested is working in its premise the morgue of two people trying a hospital. He finds himself embroiled in a mystery, taking on a new role as an insurance claims investigator. The investigation takes him to start their lives again following serious life changesGreece, and back into the dark times of the war. The book did not disappointWith layered plots and double-crossing left, right and centre, there's lots to keep you guessing throughout this story. [[Two Steps Forward Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistPhilip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[A Shimmer of Hummingbirds All Rivers Run Free by Steve BurrowsNatasha Carthew]]===
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Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is Ia Pendilly lives in a caravan on the coast of Cornwall – a birding trip to Colombia: well itwoman as raw as the landscape that surrounds her. Living with Bran, her abusive cousin and common law husband, she's ostensibly never yet had her own baby. Discovering a birding tripwaif washed up on shore, Ia rescues the girl but the reality is that he's trying to establish what really happened in also rescued by the manslaughter case which has left his brother a fugitive. It's girl – given a difficult situation as the police force don't want him new found strength to do this escape and the Colombian authorities are understandably reluctant, but Jejeune has always been to embark on a law unto himselfnew journey. Meanwhile in Saltmarsh on the North Norfolk coast there's been The journey takes her deep into a brutal murder of troubled society and through a womandamaged, hurting world – finding family and DI Marvin Larabymemories long hidden will break Ia, Jejeuneremake her and perhaps give her the elusive sense of freedom she's nemesis, has been drafted in to replace Jejeune during his absenceseeking. How's that going to work out? [[A Shimmer of Hummingbirds All Rivers Run Free by Steve BurrowsNatasha Carthew|Full Review]]
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===[[I Stop Somewhere Tale of a Tooth by T E CarterAllie Rogers]]===
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Ellie has to change schoolsDanny lives in a small Sussex town with his mother, Natalie. ItLife is poor, but they manage - until they's re threatened by a chance for renewal and Ellie sets to work to make the most of itbenefits sanction. She doesn't want A Job Centre employee looks to be homecoming queen or anything their salvation - she just wants to fit in without anyone noticing that she's a bit too curvy but her impact on the family goes far beyond what they first expect, and doesn't have the money resulting changes are described 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 reader through the naive yet perceptive and cold and his smile doesn't quite meet his wholly original eyes. But it's nice to be wanted and so Ellie ignores the warning signs..of four-year-old Danny. [[I Stop Somewhere Tale of a Tooth by T E CarterAllie Rogers|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary Claudia by Lucy WorsleyAnthony Trevelyan]]===
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When Claudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitor, she doesn't expect it to be her father figure – a man she hasn'Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story t seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, The Aztec and The Sun King, walked out of Henry VIIIClaudia's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Katherine life and into a world of Aragon, Annesuccess as a solar panel salesman – but now he's execution for adultery, returned and Henryhe needs Claudia's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of a male heirhelp. This timeReggie, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - HenrySamson's young daughterson, Mary. Maryhas joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula''s hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by , a father under group who prepare for the influence end of the Boleyn factionworld and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doom. Lady Mary follows Claudia's journey takes her through these awful years and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck far from her home in Manchester to the middle end of these tumultuous events. the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[Lady Mary Claudia by Lucy WorsleyAnthony Trevelyan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know by Mike Gayle]]===
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Travel to a world that is familiar James DeWitt and yet utterly different. We Danny Allen are both men in a version of ancient Britain with enough landmarks their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to make us feel at home yet it is a smoked glassgo. North At an all time low time for both of them, the river Abus we have two men reconnect and slowly find they're exactly what the Anakimother needs. Together, a race that isn't quite human; they are something more. The Anakim are virtual giants and help each other put their ribs are not cages but bone breastplates insteadlives back together. Below the Abus are the Sutheners, humans. Theirs This is an ancient grudge a beautiful story about friendship and one where blood is spilled frequently in pitched battle. Unfortunately what 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 really means to lead an army alongside his betters. Both battles are as interesting as the war itselfhelp another person. [[The Wolf Man I Think I Know by Leo CarewMike Gayle|Full Review]]
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===[[The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson]]===
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''My house has chicken legs[[image:4. Two or three times a year5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], without warning, it stands up in the middle of the night and walks away from where we've been living.''[[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
Ok. I dare you to tell me that you ''don't'' want to read a story about a house with chicken legsHow small I look. There is no way anyone could resistLaid out flat, my stomach touching ground. I certainly couldn't! Marinka lives in this chickenMy right knee bent and my brand-legged house new Nikes stained with her grandmother, Baba Yaga, whose job it is to guide dead people through The Gateblood. 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]]
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 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 reach for his gun and eliminate the threat. [[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]] <!-- Davis Butland -->
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===[[Pandora's Boy The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Lindsey DavisStephanie Butland]]===
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RelaxAilsa Rae has been sick her whole life, die-hard fans of Falco and his spirited British daughter Albia. Rome continues to be just as splendid and as sordid as it ever she wasedging closer to death she finally, finally got the crimes committed are as complex and intriguingcall that she needed, and our heroine just as determined and cynical, with that light dusting of humour which made tales of a heart was available for her father's exploits to have a transplant. Previously she had felt so engaging. Newcomers helpless that she had used her blog to the series need not fearmake decisions for her, by the way: each book contains just enough background detail running polls amongst her readers to make you feel immediately at homedecide on her actions. This timeBut with her new heart, despite some serious misgivings, Albia is investigating the sudden death of she has been given a fifteen-year-old girlnew life. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, described as bright, affectionate and popular. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potion, or did she die of a broken heartwill her mother let her do that? [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] [[Pandora's Boy The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Lindsey DavisStephanie Butland|Full Review]]
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===[[When the Mountains Roared Spirit by Jess ButterworthSally Christie]]===
[[image:43.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensConfident Readers|TeensConfident Readers]] Matt Barker has seen something strange. Something extraordinary that no one would normally see. That wouldn't usually matter but Matt accidently tells the rest of his class when they're playing the 'truth game' on the school bus. Now most of the class think he's either mad or a liar. To make matters worse, his classmate and new next-door neighbour, Jazzy O'Hanlon, believes him and she's determined to find a way to share his experience, even if that means losing her best friend. [[Spirit by Sally Christie|Full Review]] <!-- Green -->|-| style="width:Category10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0141375396.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0141375396/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align:Confident Readersleft;"|Confident Readers===[[The Smoke Thieves by Sally Green]]===
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Two months earlierTension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, Rubyand peace is definitely not on everyone's dad had dropped a bombshellagenda. They were moving from Australia to IndiaInstead power is sought by force, where her father had got a job at a hotel in and political manoeuvring of the mountains. It was to be a new start worst kind sees families torn apart and it would help both Ruby and her father get over innocent victims swept up in the death of her motherfallout. Ruby wasn't so sure about that and didn't get more optimistic on arrival - to find a rundown building full This story of scary corners in a place where the dark warring nations is really dark fast moving from page one, and the wildlife includes scorpionsmain characters, who move between kingdoms, face challenge after challenge. There are five separate story lines, bears each led by a colourful andinteresting character, well, you get the picture. Ruby has struggled since her mother died and it pretty much feels Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a tapestry as though her father has brought her a place that makes everything worse..their paths cross and their lives intertwine. [[When the Mountains Roared The Smoke Thieves by Jess ButterworthSally Green|Full Review]]
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===[[Me MamPrecept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. Me DadAnd 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. Me Nathan is deeply impressed by Malcolm DuffyDouglass, 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]]<!-- Daniel Peltz -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912083779.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912083779/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we''I'' re in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is fourteenwhat the ruins of the Chiesa -yeara chapel -old Dannyhave now become. ''Him'' is Danny's stepfather Callum. Up until Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a year ago, it was just Danny history which grabs the attention of young and Mamold. They lived in a damp, cold council flat and didn't have much money Molly uses the history to spareentertain the tourists, but things were pretty good. Danny and his Mam got on wellthere's more too it than she knows, they saw a lot particularly as the history of the building is also the history of their lovely extended the Vannini family, and Danny not only had mates but even a girlfriend, Amy. But a lot has changed. They're now living who helped in Callum's posh house building the chapel some six hundred years ago and Danny gets holidays and plenty one of whose descendants is the director of Christmas presentsthe museum. Great, right? [[Me Mam. Me Dad. Me The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Malcolm DuffyDaniel Peltz|Full Review]] <!-- Forman Mohamed -->
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===[[I Have Lost My Way Falling Leaves by Gayle FormanStefan Mohamed]]===
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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? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When he reappears, she'I Have Lost My Ways shocked not only by his presence back in her life, but also by the fact that he hasn'' tells the story of three individuals who have each lost something important to them leading to them losing their way. Freya has lost her voicet aged a day – for him, Harun no time has lost passed since his love disappearance. Shocked, confused and Nathaniel has lost everything. Howeveremotionally reeling, these three elements do not give justice Vanessa must return to her home town in order to help Mark find the extent of what each character has lostanswers he so desperately craves. In this expertly written novel, Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came to lose But what was most important to 's waiting for them, causing is far more surprising than either of them to all meet one fateful day in New York City. could ever have dreamt… [[I Have Lost My Way Falling Leaves by Gayle FormanStefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
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===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General FictionEmerging Readers|General FictionEmerging Readers]]
The USA, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, and he often is) Nickerbacher is being taken back to doing his home by his drop-out, slutty motherdragonly duty as all dragons do. The home That dragonly duty is called a Cottage, and while the book doesn't guide us to understand it perfectlyof course, it seems to mean he has a private room in a large self-contained bungalow, on a gated compound with roundprincess-the-clock adult supervisionguarding. ThereThat's a paddock with horses what dragons are for the kids to ride, their own school – and after all . But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm the kids downwhole 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''. CharlieNickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, despite his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling to get to grips with why and how heit's ended up where he is, but it must have something to do with his single parent mother being violent, and the fact favourite TV show because he is no longer allowed wants to stay with his grandfatherbe a stand-up comedian himself. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughts, as he He tries to build a relationship with a girl in a different Cottage, and work out his lot. He certainly has a lot jokes on his plate for a thirteen-year-oldPrincess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. [[Dyed Souls Nickerbacher by Gary SantorellaTerry John Barto|Full Review]]
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