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===[[The Man I Think I Know Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Mike GayleNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
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James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in their Jane Ashland is dying. That's a description of a very early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed scene here – but also, of course, a platitude that can apply to go. At an all time low time for both of themus. Jane's life, if anything, the two men reconnect is going up and slowly 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 they're exactly what her ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – and a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the other needs. Togethermusk oxen, they help each other put their lives back togetherof all things. This And nowhere in sight is anything like a beautiful story about friendship and what it really means to help another person. platitude… [[The Man I Think I Know Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Mike GayleNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Company of Eight by Harriet Whitehorn]]===
 
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Fourteen-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: governess, maybe, or draper's model. So poor Cass is reduced to practising her routines in secret, using an old book her father left her. [[The Company of Eight by Harriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
 
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===[[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes]]===
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Danny was playing with a toy gun his friend Carlos had lent It wasn't supposed to him when he was shot by Officer Moorebe like this, who claims he was in fear for his lifeit? Every day seems to bring yet more news of doom and gloom. The spectre of terrorism hangs over most of the world, fuelling refugee crises and worries about national security. People keep saying that Danny, a five foot tall, twelverobots are coming to take all our jobs. Anti-year-old boy, was establishment political parties are making huge gains in countries all around the world. And inequality is as much of a threatening thug whose menace problem as it ever was such that Officer Moore had no choice but to reach for his gun and eliminate the threat– if not more so. [[Ghost Boys Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Jewell Parker RhodesIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland]]===
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and just as she was edging closer to death she finally''Get under your own skin, 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 ownpick your brains, and will her mother let her do that? [[The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland|Full Review]]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]] <!-- Christie Keeley -->
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===[[Spirit by Sally Christie]]===
===[[My Favourite People by Rob Keeley]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersFor 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|Confident Readerslink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782273646/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Lady Killer by Masako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)]]===
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[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Spirit by Sally Christie: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]]<!-- Green Hall -->
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===[[The Smoke Thieves Industry of Human Happiness by Sally GreenJames Hall]]===
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Tension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, ''The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and peace foremost is definitely not on everyone's agendaa novel about music. Instead power It is sought by force, about human beings being able to find music and political manoeuvring of the worst kind sees families torn apart and innocent victims swept up magic in the falloutsimplest of places. This story Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of warring nations is fast moving from page one, and the main characters, who move between kingdoms, face challenge after challengeopening a gramophone company. There are five separate story linesHowever, each led by a colourful their ambition and interesting character, and Sally Green weaves hubris soon puts them together beautifully like on a tapestry as their paths cross course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives intertwinechanged forever. [[The Smoke Thieves Industry of Human Happiness by Sally GreenJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Philip Kerr]]===
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[[image:4starSet 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 second world war and now, in this novel, is working in the morgue of a hospital. He finds himself embroiled in a mystery, taking on a new role as an insurance claims investigator. The investigation takes him to Greece, and back into the dark times of the war. With layered plots and double-crossing left, right and centre, there's lots to keep you guessing throughout this story.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Greeks Bearing Gifts:Category:Historical FictionBernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Philip Kerr|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 Carthew -->
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria All Rivers Run Free by Daniel PeltzNatasha Carthew]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're Ia Pendilly lives in a caravan on the company coast of Molly Cavendish who is Cornwall – a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the ruins of woman as raw as the Chiesa - a chapel - have now becomelandscape that surrounds her. Crowds flock to see its centrepieceLiving with Bran, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young her abusive cousin and old. Molly uses the history to entertain the touristscommon law husband, but thereshe's more too it than she knowsnever yet had her own baby. Discovering a waif washed up on shore, particularly as Ia rescues the history of the building girl but is also rescued by the history of the Vannini girl – given a new found strength to escape and to embark on a new journey. The journey takes her deep into a troubled society and through a damaged, hurting world – finding familyand memories long hidden will break Ia, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago remake her and one of whose descendants is perhaps give her the director elusive sense of the museumfreedom she's been seeking. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria All Rivers Run Free by Daniel PeltzNatasha Carthew|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Leaves Tale of a Tooth by Stefan MohamedAllie Rogers]]===
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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 Danny lives in your life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every daya small Sussex town with his mother, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanishedNatalie. When he reappearsLife is poor, shebut they manage - until they's shocked not only re threatened by his presence back in a benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - but her life, but also by impact on the fact that he hasn't aged a day – for himfamily goes far beyond what they first expect, no time has passed since his disappearance. Shocked, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return the resulting changes are described to her home town in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately cravesreader through the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of four-year-old Danny. But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves Tale of a Tooth by Stefan MohamedAllie Rogers|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia by Anthony Trevelyan]]===
===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging ReadersGeneral Fiction|Emerging ReadersGeneral Fiction]]
Nickerbacher When Claudia is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, called to the reception of courseher Manchester Office block to meet a visitor, princess-guarding. Thatshe doesn's what dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isnt expect it to be her father figure – a man she hasn't any princessseen for fifteen years. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, The Aztec and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on The Sun King, walked out of Claudia's life and into a world of success as a solar panel salesman – but now he'The Late Knight Shows returned and he needs Claudia's help. Reggie, Samson'. Nickerbacher likes s son, has joined a mysterious cult called ''The Late Knight ShowTarantula'' too - in fact, ita group who prepare for the end of the world and encourage humanity to embrace their impending doom. Claudia's his favourite TV show because he wants journey takes her far from her home in Manchester to be a standthe end of the world – where encounters with hammer-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[Nickerbacher Claudia by Terry John BartoAnthony Trevelyan|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Bee The Man I Think I Know by Bren MacDibbleMike Gayle]]===
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Imagine a world without beesJames DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to go. Not just how nice it would be to eat jam sandwiches in the garden without having At an all time low time for both of them, the little yellow two men reconnect and black torpedoes attacking you - slowly find they''really'' imagine it. No bees, no pollination. No pollination, no new plants. No new plants, no foodre exactly what the other needs. Simple. SoTogether, if those pesky chemicals we use kill off practically every bee in the world, humans will have to take over they help each other put their worklives back together. Children, in fact, because you need small, nimble fingers This is a beautiful story about friendship and what it really means to work those tiny feathers full of pollen into the flowers and turn them into delicious fruitshelp another person. [[How to Bee The Man I Think I Know by Bren MacDibbleMike Gayle|Full Review]]
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===[[Turn a Blind Eye by Vicky Newham]]===
===[[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeTeens|CrimeTeens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] ''How small I look. Laid out flat, my stomach touching ground. My right knee bent and my brand-new Nikes stained with blood.''
DI Maya Rahman is just back from Bangladesh and she should be on compassionate leave as she went there Danny was playing with a toy gun his friend Carlos had lent to bury her brother after him when he committed suicide. Instead of grieving at home and getting over 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 was shot by Officer Moore, who claims he was in her study at Mile End High School. Her hands are bound and beside her strangled body is fear for his life, that Danny, a card with a Buddhist precept: ''I shall abstain from taking the ungiven.'' It's the second of five precepts and Maya is worried that there's been foot tall, twelve-year-old boy, was a murder threatening thug whose menace was such that hasn't been spotted - Officer Moore had no choice but to reach for his gun and that there will be more deathseliminate the threat. [[Turn a Blind Eye Ghost Boys by Vicky NewhamJewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]]
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===[[The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by David O'ConnellStephanie Butland]]===
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Archie McBudge is sitting in Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the of Honeystone Hall with his mother. And call that she needed, that a lawyer called Mr Tatters has some important information heart was available for Archie. A great uncle he has never heard of has died and Archie is his sole heirher to have a transplant. This means Previously she had felt so helpless that Honeystone Hall now belongs she had used her blog to make decisions for her, running polls amongst her readers to Archiedecide 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 isn't all - this young boy is now sole owner of Scotland's premier sweets giant: McBudge's Fudge and Confectionery Company... ? [[The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by David O'ConnellStephanie Butland|Full Review]]
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===[[Two Steps Forward Spirit by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistSally Christie]]===
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When I read Matt Barker has seen something strange. Something extraordinary that no one would normally see. That wouldn't usually matter but Matt accidently tells the blurb for this bookrest 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, I found myself instantly interested in its premise of two people trying Jazzy O'Hanlon, believes him and she's determined to find a way to start their lives again following serious life changes. The book did not disappointshare his experience, even if that means losing her best friend. [[Two Steps Forward Spirit by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistSally Christie|Full Review]]
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===[[A Shimmer of Hummingbirds The Smoke Thieves by Steve BurrowsSally Green]]===
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Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune Tension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, and peace is definitely not on a birding trip to Colombia: well iteveryone's ostensibly a birding tripagenda. Instead power is sought by force, but and political manoeuvring of the reality is that he's trying to establish what really happened worst kind sees families torn apart and innocent victims swept up in the manslaughter case which has left his brother a fugitivefallout. It's a difficult situation as the police force don't want him to do this This story of warring nations is fast moving from page one, and the Colombian authorities main characters, who move between kingdoms, face challenge after challenge. There are understandably reluctantfive separate story lines, but Jejeune has always been each led by a law unto himself. Meanwhile in Saltmarsh on the North Norfolk coast there's been colourful and interesting character, and Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a brutal murder of a woman, tapestry as their paths cross and DI Marvin Laraby, Jejeune's nemesis, has been drafted in to replace Jejeune during his absencetheir lives intertwine. How's that going to work out? [[A Shimmer of Hummingbirds The Smoke Thieves by Steve BurrowsSally Green|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:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[I Stop Somewhere by T E Carter: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]]<!-- Worsley Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[Lady Mary The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Lucy WorsleyDaniel Peltz]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we''Lady Mary'' chronicles re in the famous story company of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne BoleynMolly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, his divorce from Katherine which is what the ruins of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to Jane Seymoursee its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which finally produces grabs the much longed for birth attention of a male heiryoung and old. This time, Molly uses the story is told through history to entertain the eyes of an important tourists, but often neglected player - Henrythere's young daughtermore too it than she knows, Mary. Mary's hopes particularly as the history of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she building is treated terribly by a father under also the influence history of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful Vannini family, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and you can't help but root for one of whose descendants is the little girl stuck in director of the middle of these tumultuous eventsmuseum. [[Lady Mary The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Lucy WorsleyDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wolf Falling Leaves by Leo CarewStefan Mohamed]]===
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Travel When your best friend vanishes, how can you begin to a world 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 is familiar and yet utterly differentVanessa faces every day, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. We are When he reappears, she's shocked not only by his presence back in a version of ancient Britain with enough landmarks to make us feel at home yet it is a smoked glass. North of her life, but also by the river Abus we have the Anakim, a race fact that isnhe hasn't quite human; they are something moreaged a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearance. The Anakim are virtual giants Shocked, confused and their ribs are not cages but bone breastplates instead. Below the Abus are the Suthenersemotionally reeling, humans. Theirs is an ancient grudge and one where blood is spilled frequently Vanessa must return to her home town in pitched battle. Unfortunately it is rare when humans are involved for things order to be straightforward and help Mark find the same is true hereanswers he so desperately craves. On both sides politics and machinations complicate the quests But what's waiting for glory. With the Anakim we them is far more surprising than either of them could ever 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. dreamt… [[The Wolf Falling Leaves by Leo CarewStefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
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===[[The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson]]===
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OkNickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-guarding. I dare you to tell me that you That''dons what dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't'' want to read a story about a house with chicken legsany princess. There She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is no way anyone could resist. I certainly couldn't! Marinka lives much less interested in this chicken-legged house with her grandmother, Baba Yaga, whose job it fairy tales than she is to guide dead people through in watching comedy on ''The GateLate Knight Show''. But Marinka is Nickerbacher likes ''lonelyThe Late Knight Show''. The housetoo - in fact, her grandmother and Marinka never stay anywhere long enough for Marinka it's his favourite TV show because he wants to make any friends. And Marinka is determined to change this. But the chickenbe a stand-legged house has its own agenda.up comedian himself.He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. [[The House with Chicken Legs Nickerbacher by Sophie AndersonTerry John Barto|Full Review]]
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