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===[[The Smoke Thieves Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Sally GreenNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
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Tension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, and peace Jane Ashland is definitely not on everyonedying. That's agendaa description of a very early scene here – but also, of course, a platitude that can apply to all of us. Instead power Jane's life, if anything, is sought by force, going up and political manoeuvring down in levels of the worst kind sees families torn apart and innocent victims swept up pleasure, energy – sobriety – in the falloutthese pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down place. This story of warring nations is fast moving from page oneHere then, and the main charactersscattered through a timeline-bending narrative, who move between kingdomswe have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York, face challenge after challenge. There are five separate story linesglimpses of therapy, each led by a colourful drive to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – and interesting charactera trip there with a new-found friend to watch the musk oxen, and Sally Green weaves them together beautifully of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything like a tapestry as their paths cross and their lives intertwine. platitude… [[The Smoke Thieves Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Sally GreenNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Company of Eight by Harriet Whitehorn]]===
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[[imageFourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the Magical District, but as she hasn't the slightest ability in that direction she doesn't exactly fit in. She takes after her dad, 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 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:4stargoverness, maybe, or draper's model. So poor Cass is reduced to practising her routines in secret, using an old book her father left her.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Company of Eight by Harriet Whitehorn|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 Bremner -->
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===[[Us vs Them: The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Failure of Globalism by Daniel PeltzIan Bremmer]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria weIt wasn're in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Mariat supposed to be like this, which is what the ruins of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock was it? Every day seems to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention bring yet more news of young doom and oldgloom. Molly uses the history to entertain the tourists, but there's more too it than she knows, particularly as the history The spectre of the building is also the history terrorism hangs over most of the Vannini familyworld, who helped fuelling refugee crises and worries about national security. People keep saying that robots are coming to take all our jobs. Anti-establishment political parties are making huge gains in building countries all around the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants world. And inequality is the director as much of the museuma problem as it ever was – if not more so. [[Us vs Them: The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Failure of Globalism by Daniel PeltzIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Leaves by Stefan Mohamed]]===
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When ''Get under your best friend vanishesown skin, how can you begin to move on? How can you live pick your life not knowing whether they're okay? And what would you do if they reappeared in brains, and go inside your life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When he reappears, sheinsides!'s shocked not only by his presence back in her life, but also by the fact that he hasn't aged a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearance. Shocked, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to her home town in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately craves. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves by Stefan Mohamed|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]] <!-- Barto Keeley -->
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===[[Nickerbacher My Favourite People by Terry John BartoRob Keeley]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For 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]]<!-- Togawa -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1782273646.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782273646/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 
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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[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto: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]]<!-- MacDibble Hall -->
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===[[How to Bee The Industry of Human Happiness by Bren MacDibbleJames Hall]]===
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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 - ''reallyThe Industry of Human Happiness'' imagine itfirst and foremost is a novel about music. 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 It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the world, humans will simplest of places. Max and his younger cousin have to take over realised their workdream of opening a gramophone company. ChildrenHowever, in fact, because you need small, nimble fingers to work those tiny feathers full of pollen into the flowers their ambition and turn hubris soon puts them into delicious fruitson a course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[How to Bee The Industry of Human Happiness by Bren MacDibbleJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Turn a Blind Eye Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Vicky NewhamPhilip Kerr]]===
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DI Maya Rahman Set in Germany in 1957, ''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is just back a historical crime thriller with everything from Bangladesh and she should be on compassionate leave as she went there dodgy Nazi past histories to bury her brother after he committed suicideinsurance fraud. Instead of grieving at home and getting over her jet lag she's pitched straight into Bernie Gunther is a murder investigation as Berliner, who was a new member of staff discovers sarjeant during the second world war and now, in this novel, is working in the body morgue of popular headteacher Linda Gibson in her study at Mile End High Schoola hospital. Her hands are bound and beside her strangled body is He finds himself embroiled in a card with mystery, taking on a Buddhist precept: ''I shall abstain from taking the ungivennew role as an insurance claims investigator.'' It's The investigation takes him to Greece, and back into the second dark times of five precepts the war. With layered plots and double-crossing left, right and Maya is worried that centre, there's been a murder that hasn't been spotted - and that there will be more deathslots to keep you guessing throughout this story. [[Turn a Blind Eye Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Vicky NewhamPhilip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) All Rivers Run Free by David O'ConnellNatasha Carthew]]===
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Archie McBudge is sitting Ia Pendilly lives in a caravan on the coast of Honeystone Hall Cornwall – a woman as raw as the landscape that surrounds her. Living with his motherBran, her abusive cousin and common law husband, she's never yet had her own baby. And Discovering a lawyer called Mr Tatters has some important information for Archie. A great uncle he has never heard of has died waif washed up on shore, Ia rescues the girl but is also rescued by the girl – given a new found strength to escape and Archie is his sole heir. This means that Honeystone Hall now belongs to Archieembark on a new journey. But that isn't all - this young boy is now sole owner 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 Scotlandfreedom she's premier sweets giant: McBudge's Fudge and Confectionery Company..been seeking. [[The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) All Rivers Run Free by David O'ConnellNatasha Carthew|Full Review]]
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===[[Two Steps Forward Tale of a Tooth by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistAllie Rogers]]===
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When I read the blurb for this bookDanny lives in a small Sussex town with his mother, Natalie. Life is poor, I found myself instantly interested in its premise of two people trying but they manage - until they're threatened by a benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee looks to start be their lives again following serious life salvation - but her impact on the family goes far beyond what they first expect, and the resulting changes. The book did not disappointare described to the reader through the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of four-year-old Danny. [[Two Steps Forward Tale of a Tooth by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistAllie Rogers|Full Review]]
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===[[A Shimmer of Hummingbirds Claudia by Steve BurrowsAnthony Trevelyan]]===
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Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune When Claudia is on a birding trip called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to Colombia: well it's ostensibly meet a birding tripvisitor, but the reality is that heshe doesn's trying t expect it to establish what really happened in the manslaughter case which has left his brother be her father figure – a fugitiveman she hasn't seen for fifteen years. It's a difficult situation Samson Glaze – otherwise known as the police force don't want him to do this Wild Samson, The Aztec and the Colombian authorities are understandably reluctantThe Sun King, but Jejeune has always been a law unto himself. Meanwhile in Saltmarsh on the North Norfolk coast therewalked out of Claudia's been life and into a brutal murder world of success as a woman, solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and DI Marvin Larabyhe needs Claudia's help. Reggie, JejeuneSamson's nemesisson, has been drafted in joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group who prepare for the end of the world and encourage humanity to replace Jejeune during his absenceembrace their impending doom. HowClaudia's that going journey takes her far from her home in Manchester to work out? the end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[A Shimmer of Hummingbirds Claudia by Steve BurrowsAnthony Trevelyan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Stop Somewhere Think I Know by T E CarterMike Gayle]]===
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Ellie has James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to change schoolsgo. It's a chance At an all time low time for renewal and Ellie sets to work to make both of them, 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 two men reconnect and doesnslowly find they't have re exactly what the money to buy fashionable clothesother needs. With the Together, they help of each other put their lives back together. This is 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 story about Caleb. He blows hot friendship and cold and his smile doesn't quite meet his eyes. But what it's nice really means to be wanted and so Ellie ignores the warning signs..help another person. [[The Man I Think I Stop Somewhere Know by T E CarterMike Gayle|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley]]===
===[[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Historical FictionConfident Readers|Historical FictionConfident Readers]] ''How small I look. Laid out flat, my stomach touching ground. My right knee bent and my brand-new Nikes stained with blood.''
''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair Danny was playing with Anne Boleyn, a toy gun his divorce from Katherine of Aragonfriend Carlos had lent to him when he was shot by Officer Moore, Anne's execution who claims he was in fear for adulteryhis life, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymourthat Danny, which finally produces the much longed for birth of a male heir. This timefive foot tall, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player twelve-year- Henry's young daughterold boy, Mary. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by was a father under the influence of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years and you can't help threatening thug whose menace was such that Officer Moore had no choice but root to reach for his gun and eliminate the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous eventsthreat. [[Lady Mary Ghost Boys by Lucy WorsleyJewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wolf Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Leo CarewStephanie Butland]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the call that she needed, that a heart was available for her to have a transplant. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for her, running polls amongst her readers to decide on her actions. But with her new heart, she has been given a new life. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland|Full Review]] <!-- Christie -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1910989304.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1910989304/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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Travel to a world that is familiar and yet utterly different[[image:3. 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 itself5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Wolf by Leo Carew:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident 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]] <!-- Anderson Green -->
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===[[The House with Chicken Legs Smoke Thieves by Sophie AndersonSally Green]]===
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Tension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, and peace is definitely not on everyone''My house has chicken legss agenda. Two or three times a yearInstead power is sought by force, without warning, it stands and political manoeuvring of the worst kind sees families torn apart and innocent victims swept up in the middle fallout. This story of warring nations is fast moving from page one, and the night main characters, who move between kingdoms, face challenge after challenge. There are five separate story lines, each led by a colourful and interesting character, and Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a tapestry as their paths cross and walks away from where we've been livingtheir lives intertwine.''[[The Smoke Thieves by Sally Green|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 de Lacey Davidson -->
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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, by the way[[image: each book contains just enough background detail to make you feel immediately at home. This time, despite some serious misgivings, Albia is investigating the sudden death of a fifteen-year-old girl, described as bright, affectionate and popular4star. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potion, or did she die of a broken heart? [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davisjpg|Full Reviewlink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis: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]]<!-- Butterworth Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[When the Mountains Roared The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Jess ButterworthDaniel Peltz]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we''My fingers come away deep redre 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. My breath catches Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young and old. Blood. I wipe my shaky hands on my trousers. There Molly uses the history to entertain the tourists, but there's a leopard out theremore too it than she knows, particularly as the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini family, injured. And I have to find it before they dowho helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the director of the museum.''[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz|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 Mohamed -->
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===[[Falling Leaves by Stefan Mohamed]]===
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[[image:5starWhen 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's shocked not only by his presence back in her life, but also by the fact that he hasn't aged a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearance. Shocked, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to her home town in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately craves.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[:Category:TeensFalling Leaves by Stefan Mohamed|TeensFull Review]]
''It was the day the clocks went back. That's when I decided to kill him.'' ''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]] <!-- Santorella Barto -->
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===[[Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella]]===
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The USA, early 1980s[[image:4star. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, and he often is) jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging Readers|Emerging Readers]] 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 round-theprincess-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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