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===[[Underwater Breathing Take Me In by Cassandra ParkinSabine Durrant]]===
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A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down It's not pleasant, the mud cliffs first time Marcus and away into the sea is where we Tessa meet Jacob and EllaDave. They share a bathroom 've taken their toddler, Josh, to Greece on holiday and in the turretblink of an eye something awful happens. Tessa isn't there, Marcus isn't looking, old but Dave steps in and cold and not really supposed disaster is averted. Just. They're grateful to be used…but this is where they hide away from the shouts him, of their parents' arguments. Here course they play are, but after the Underwater Breathing game, submerging themselves in usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and the water holding their breath offer to buy lunch for as long as everyone, they can. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just re a way of drowning little relieved to return to their villa and live out the arguments…but for Ella it is more than thatrest of their week in peace. Just a tight little 3-person family unit. She Because although Dave is terrified a nice chap, and although of the seacourse they owe him a great deal, he is a little, well, of the fact that it will come and swallow their house. She needs to know that she can survive under water. She has to practiceintense. [[Underwater Breathing Take Me In by Cassandra ParkinSabine Durrant|Full Review]]
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===[[The Butcher's Daughter Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Victoria GlendinningElisabeth Hyde]]===
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The Tudor era is often chosen Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for historical fiction because it has such the best when he waited for his three children to arrive one Friday night. He might be a retired lawyer, a wealth of intriguestate legislator, plots elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and machinationsGeorge arrived. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful Ruth, a corporate lawyer, with so many to choose from that the well never seems to run dry would find fault and the characters are often those high up in the circles of power, or those prepared want to do anything to get theretalk about him going into a retirement home. This book George, howevera nurse, is totally different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes Peppinwould argue and Lizzie, a youngprofessor of English Literature, poor woman. As a woman she can either marrywho lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, or join a conventwould be unpredictable. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at Murray hoped that allwould go smoothly, and she is sent but that simply wasn't going to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbeyhappen. [[The Butcher's Daughter Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Victoria GlendinningElisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid Riddle of the Runes by Dorothy KoomsonJanina Ramirez]]===
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In 1993The name Janina Ramirez is well known: her television programmes on cultural history, two teenagers stumble across a horrific scene on the beach as they're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: a body especially of a young womanearly medieval times, partially stripped, totally deceasedare both lively and informative. The find hits the girls in different ways. Nell becomes obsessed She shares her extensive learning with finding the identity of the girl – who she calls ''the Brighton Mermaid'' because of a distinguishing tattoo – whereas Jude just wants to forget it ever happened. Fast forward 25 years light hand (and a frequent giggle) and Nell is still haunted by what happened that night. With few leads to go on, the Police closed the case without cracking it, her enthusiasm encourages students and so it remains one of those unsolved mysteries that become part of local folklore, but Nell struggles viewers alike to let sleeping dogs, or even sleeping mermaids, lie. As for Jude, well no one knows if explore further the discovery still haunts her because no one knows where subjects she isdiscusses. Shortly after But how will that fateful night, she too disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. Theretranslate into children's more fiction? Will her academic desire for accuracy make the story dull and fact-packed? Will she hold up the action to Brighton than Stag Dos and Gay Pridedisplay her considerable knowledge? Nope, not a bit of it seems. ! [[The Brighton Mermaid Riddle of the Runes by Dorothy KoomsonJanina Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[A Taste for Vengeance (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) The Grey Bastards by Martin WalkerJonathan French]]===
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Bruno Courreges ''The Grey Bastards'' is now the police chief for the whole of the Vezere valleyan absolute triumph! Fantasy, action and adventure cleverly wrapped around a super plot and well written characters, but the promotion this book is not without its drawbacksso much fun. A word of caution though, as the chain of command this is not quite as clear as it was when he knew that he worked suitable for all readers. As the mayor. Stilltittle suggests there is a lot of bad language, on a coolLOT of bad language, damp Sunday afternoon in spring he had other things on his mind: he was watching thrown around all the St Denis women's rugby team playing time in the regional finalgeneral speech. One player stood out: Paulette was the daughter of the local florists In addition to this there is also some sex and she was the best player that Bruno had ever trained, male or female. He had hopes of her making the national squadsexual language too, there is some violence but there might be a cloud on this is not actually very explicit and not as constant as the horizon - Paulette had been sick language and had fainted in bawdy jokes. If this bothers you then this is not the showersbook for you. For anyone who doesn't mind then this is an absolute must read. [[A Taste for Vengeance (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) The Grey Bastards by Martin WalkerJonathan French|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy at the Door by Alex Dahl]]===
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[[image:4Cecilia is picking her daughters up from swimming when the pool's receptionist asks a quick favour of her – to drop off a little boy from the class as his parents seem to have forgotten to collect him. The pool is about to close, and it's not a big ask although Cecilia is somewhat put out that it will interrupt her routine. But, minor inconvenience isn't really a good enough reason to say no so she agrees and bundles the boy whose name is Tobias into the car with her girls.5starThis is a decision that will change her life, and that minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that will haunt her every waking moment.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersThe Boy at the Door by Alex Dahl|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Aimee like languages. She's particularly keen on Latin and enjoys a sparring session or two with her teacher. Aimee would like nothing better than to have her head stuck in a book all day every day. But that's not possible when it's 1918 and you live in the town of Bray - captured and recaptured by the Germans and the British during WWI. The Germans are advancing and Aimee's mother decides it's finally time to tell her daughter that she is part of a secret spy ring, helping the British. Aimee is desperate to help. And help she does, soon uncovering a traitor in the British camp. [[The Silver Hand by Terry Deary|Full Review]] <!-- Lean Jean Ure -->
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===[[Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Jean Ure]]===
===[[The Sand Dog by Sarah Lean]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]  ''Grandfather had been gone for two years but I never thought it would be an ordinary day he'd come back, like a Monday or a Tuesday... I always knew he'd return across the water, triumphing over a few monsters on the way, I just didn't known when.'' Azi lives on a Mediterranean island. Since his grandfather left, he has been living with his irascible uncle who owns a busy tourist restaurant. Azi helps out as much as he can and he goes to school and works hard at his lessons. But he isn't really interested in Uncle's restaurant or playing with his classmates. Azi is interested in two things: the sea, and the return of Grandfather.[[The Sand Dog by Sarah Lean|Full Review]]<!-- Penaflor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0062673653.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0062673653/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===Second years. The girls couldn't believe that they'd made it through the first year - in fact they'd all made it, all eight of them, which was most unusual. Usually some were thrown out - they might have grown too tall, didn't look right or didn't have the commitment required. Maddie felt a bit nervous when she thought about that last bit as there'd been a point when she might have been thrown out for that reason. She's now determined that she ''really'' does want to be a ballet dancer, except... [[All of This Is True Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Lygia Day PenaflorJean Ure|Full Review]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]''Undertow'' is the latest YA novel to hit the best seller lists. It's a study in grief and Miri is its biggest fan. So, when author Fatima Ro comes to Long Island for a book signing, Miri is determined to meet her and takes her friends along. Soleil has writing ambitions of her own and so she is overjoyed when Fatima takes the group of friends under her wing. Penny wants to be noticed and will do anything for Fatima, who notices. And Jonah? Well, Jonah has secrets and Fatima loves secrets... [[All of This Is True by Lygia Day Penaflor|Full Review]]<!-- Longridge Dard -->
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===[[Silence in the Desert The Gravediggers' Bread by David LongridgeFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)]]===
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As Blaise is at a loose end, for having left Paris on a wild goose chase for a job, which was his friend's idea, he's stuck outside a call box waiting to report back before he gets the shadow of train. The woman in the Second World War descends upon post office using the planetpayphone finally finishes her business, four people are explored in and leaves him with a tale of love and friendship. Henri, fulfilling strong impression – as well as a family tradition in joining wallet dropped to the Foreign Legionfloor containing several days' good money, Billand, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarshipwhen he tracks her to the village funeral directors', Leosigns of her infidelity. Lo and behold he is given a job as the woman's husband's assistant, struggling although she also starts to employ him in sending messages to align his beliefs her amour, her childhood love before circumstances changed. Blaise is of course deeply in love with those of his upbringingthe woman by now, and Elisabethhates the two obstacles preventing him from being with her. One is the lover, crossing continents a brutish bloke with little prospects and changing names are all brought together a bad case of epilepsy. Surely he will not fall by strife the wayside, and turmoil. As surely the war rages, these brick wall of fate keeping Blaise from his intended destiny will remain two men are tested like never before, with trust, loyalty and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around them. tall? [[Silence in the Desert The Gravediggers' Bread by David LongridgeFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Boy Underwater by Adam Baron]]===
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[[image:4.5starCymbeline Igloo (yes, that’s his real name!) is nine years old, and he has never been swimming, and this wouldn’t be a really big problem except for the fact that the school bully has somehow got the impression that Cym is actually an amazing champion swimmer, and has challenged Cym to a race at their very first school swimming lesson! He tries to research swimming on the internet, but there’s an accident at the pool that, initially, sees Cym embarrassed in front of the other kids, but that results in his mum having a breakdown.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Why has she never taken Cym swimming? And why does his accident at the pool create such devastation in Cym’s life? [[:Category:TeensBoy Underwater by Adam Baron|TeensFull Review]]
Joni is halfway through her A levels. But she has a lot more than A levels to think about. Life is pretty tough at the moment. There isn't much money about, the family is behind on bills, Dad's back is getting worse and worse, and little brother Jack has a school trip coming up that needs to be paid for. Older brother Jamie got the sack from his dream job and, although he found somewhere else to work, is a big ball of resentment. To make matters worse, the charity that runs the housing on their estate is running out of money and thinking of selling up. But Joni has a great group of friends and a lovely mum and dad and a teacher who thinks she could get into university. [[Skylarks by Karen Gregory|Full Review]] <!-- Almond Laurain -->
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===[[Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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Meet Fabrice Valantine. He''This books a headhunter, and a successful one too, in an office in Paris.All around him however his world is changing – yes, there is a new ban on smoking in all workplaces.Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, of sorts, he sees a hypnotist who had success with a mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. explores what excites and mystifies me about The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the nature prospect of being younghaving such a change to his own personality, his imbued habits and dramatises the joys and excitements of growing up. And I guess it embodies my constant astonishment at being alive in this beautifullifestyle, weirdwith fear, extraordinary worldwhen he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure.He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it''s what he replaces the habit with that will surprise the most. [[Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
This is what David Almond says about his latest novel for young people, ''The Colour of the Sun''. And, having now read it, I see what he is saying so clearly. This is a story of being young - both older than you used to enjoy being and younger than you aspire to be. And it's a story of finding strangeness in ordinary things.[[The Colour of the Sun by David Almond|Full Review]] <!-- Hogan Cullen -->
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===[[The Particular Wisdom Lost Letters of Sally Red Shoes William Woolf by Ruth HoganHelen Cullen]]===
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Masha's son Gabriel died some years ago. She'd been William Woolf is a single parent with help from her friendletter detective, Edwardworking in the Dead Letters Depot in East London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, who had grieved as much as Masha tracking down mysterious people and whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out in the immediate aftermath reading endless letters of the drowninglove, guilt, death, but there's now a new love interest) Masha is still strickenhope, feeling that it would somehow be disloyal to Gabriel if she was to be happyand everyday life. An independent, rebellious woman has somehow been diminished. [[The Particular Wisdom Lost Letters of Sally Red Shoes William Woolf by Ruth HoganHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir]]===
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When it comes to Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, popular opinion is divided[[image:4. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the king's eyes. Others view her as a pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, to an extent. In ''The Haunted Queen,'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a Queen haunted by the shadow of a formidable predecessor5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Alison WeirCategory:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
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[[image:5starBobby Seed's mum has MS and it's getting worse. Bobby, who is seventeen, shoulders most of her care. And he also keeps house and also looks after his little brother Danny. He gets some help from his best friend Bel, who has her own reasons for spending as much time as possible not at home, but it's still a slog. But Bobby doesn't mind because he loves his mum and they have a wonderful relationship, mostly based on taking the mickey out of each other. Bobby also attends a support group for young carers. It's a bit daft with all the role play exercises and the like, but it's nice to meet other kids in the same boat as you. Especially Lou, the American boy with the weird way of speaking and the Vespa and the air of cool. Bobby can barely keep his eyes off Lou.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersThe Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan|ThrillersFull Review]]
Malcolm and Harriet are a little odd. That much is clear from the start, from the way he is around her, the way he prepares things in such a way as to make her happy. It's a nice sentiment, but something is off. We meet their daughter Daisy and again, it all seems nice enough but there's a vibe, a hint of a feeling that all is not what it seems. Just how bad things are, though, is yet to be revealed. [[Don't Make a Sound by David Jackson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Aviator Old Religion by Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa Hayden (Translator)Martyn Waites]]===
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Innokenty Petrovich Platonov wakes up in a hospital bed with no recollection The Cornish village of who he is or how he got St Petroc isn't on the tourist trail: there. He is tended by a single doctor's nothing particularly pretty, Doctor Geigeror historic, who gives him a pencil and notebook and encourages him to write down his observations and memories. The notebook is thick, like a novel. How can Innokenty fill or interesting about it if he cannot remember anything? But slowly the memories start to return, memories which might be one of childhood holidays at the beachreasons why Tom Killgannon is there. He had been an undercover policeman, of life but something had gone badly wrong and now he's in the dacha, of the airfield witness protection and working in the aviators..local pub. St Petroc feels safe and the island...it seems like 's put a good deal of distance between him and some memories may be better left buriedvery violent people. He remembers that he is 's got an on-again, off-again relationship with the local policewoman, with the same age as on-again bits coinciding with the centurytimes when her husband's away. It's not an exciting life, born in 1900but right now it suits Tom just fine. But if Until he meets Lila, that is the case, how is he still a young man when the pills by his bedside are dated 1999? . [[The Aviator Old Religion by Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa Hayden (Translator)Martyn Waites|Full Review]]
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===[[Manfried the Man: A Graphic Novel by Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow]]===
 
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In a world where cats stand on two feet, go to work at call centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, is Manfried. He's a typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but at the same time being the perfect companion for his owner, Steve Catson. To such an extent that Steve, who is getting known for his man-oriented thinking, is actually having nightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''crazy man cat''. But when a window gets left open by mistake, and Manfried goes missing, the only thing for it is a massive and energised man-hunt… [[Manfried the Man: A Graphic Novel by Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow|Full Review]]
 
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===[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kelly Owen]]===
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[[image''The Owen family were feeling sad. There used to be five of them. There was Mum, Dad and three children:4starAbi, Jenny and Joe. But then Abi died. Now there were only four of them. Life felt very strange without their sister, and they were all very unhappy.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]''
It was about 1509 when How does a series of mystical events foreshadowed family cope with the end loss of the Aztec Empire a beloved child and sibling?[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a decent man, particularly by the standards death of the time. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the force, but at the age of twenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. He'd joined the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed loved one to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding children and removing the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. [[In Gold's Name families by Marcus DalrympleKelly Owen|Full Review]]
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===[[Persons Unknown Marsha's Deal by Susie SteinerLaura Solomon]]===
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A well-dressed man bled Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life the first time around. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], a rare disease which turned parts of her body to death just yards from a Cambridgeshire police headquartersbone when they were damaged. DI Manon Bradshaw would normally be involved but Finally shewas unable to stand her life any longer and went to Dignitas, the Swiss euthanasia clinic. She's side-lined on cold cases - and then she finds d thought that there's a solid reason why she can't would be involved: Jon-Oliver Ross was the father of end, but after cremation her sister's son body went straight to hell and he was probably in town she found herself face-to see young Solly-face with the devil. And if that wasn't was when she made the pact. In exchange for details about some of those who had been close enough, to her adopted son, Fly, was caught - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn on CCTV passing the man just as he was about same day to collapse. Detective Superintendent Stanton is certain that Fly's good for the murder and won't tolerate any other avenues same parents, but would live her life free of investigationdisease. [[Persons Unknown Marsha's Deal by Susie SteinerLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Mercy Seat by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Elizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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Jane Ashland is dying. That's In an isolated Louisiana town, a description of a very early scene here – but alsoyoung black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the shadow of course, a platitude that can apply to all of us. Janethe window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's lifedying sun rays. At midnight, if anything, is going up he will be dead; strapped to a chair and down in levels electrocuted for the rape of pleasurea white girl, energy – sobriety – in these pageswho later committed suicide. He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, but we soon learn that it recently found love between a very deeply dark down place. Here then, scattered through black man and a timeline-bending narrative, we white woman was never going to have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student happy ending in New York, glimpses of therapy, a drive to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – and a trip there small town filled with a newsmall-found friend to watch the musk oxen, of all thingsminded people. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Mercy Seat by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Elizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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Fourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the Magical District, but as she hasnStella't the slightest ability in that direction s mother died when she doesn't exactly fit was a little girl. Stella is growing up in. She takes after a house with her dad, who is often away, and she hopes desperately that she'll pass the upcoming auditions for acrobats and join the Circus Boat as it tours her grandmother, who is starting to give performances on all experience the islands onset of the Longest Worlddementia. Her guardian Mrs Potts This is all hard enough for a young girl, however, does ''not'' approve: her hope but at the same time Stella finds that Cass will demonstrate magical abilities she feels like rather an oddball, struggling to fit in at school, and as her mother's (and make Mrs Potts very rich) has been disappointed so she is determined grandmother begins to lose her ward will take grip on a sedatereality, genteel job instead: governess, maybe, or draperStella struggles with feeling very alone. When Stella's modelonly school friend suddenly moves away, Stella struggles even more. So poor Cass She is reduced desperate to find out what happened to practising her routines in secret, using an old book her father left mum and to uncover herfamily's secrets. [[The Company of Eight Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Harriet WhitehornTania Unsworth|Full Review]]
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===[[Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism Ascension by Ian BremmerVictor Dixen]]===
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It wasn't supposed to be like thisSix girls, was it? Every day seems six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to bring yet more news of doom seduce and gloom. The spectre of terrorism hangs over most to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the world, fuelling refugee crises and worries about national securityon-board cameras. People keep saying that robots They are coming to take all our jobs. Anti-establishment political parties are making huge gains the contenders in countries all around the Genesis programme, the world's craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the first human colony on Mars. And inequality Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, is as much one of the chosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a one-way ticket. Even if the dream turns to a problem as nightmare, it ever was – if not more sois too late for regrets. [[Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism Ascension by Ian BremmerVictor Dixen|Full Review]]
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===[[Humanatomy: How the Body Works The Toad Who Loved Tea by Nicola Edwards and Jem MaybankFaiz Kermani]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]
ThatTungtang is not like other toads. She can's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you t sit still, tongue protruding, and wait to catch a fly. Tungtang needs to do and honestlybe on the move. Sometimes, I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about she even hops right the human body way over to curious children- from the skeletal system rotten tree stump in her community of Muddy River. And she loves to regale her fellow toads with stories of her exploits. That is, until a mean old crow comes along and tells Tungtang that a real adventure would take her a lot further than a tree stump by a bridge everyone knows. Infuriated by the muscular system via circulationcrow and inspired by her grandfather's stories of humans and ancient toad prophecies, respiration Tungtang decides on a Real Adventure and digestion, right up heads off to the DNA that makes who we aretown of Little Cobblestone...[[Humanatomy: How the Body Works The Toad Who Loved Tea by Nicola Edwards and Jem MaybankFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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