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===[[Walls Take Me In by Emma FischelSabine Durrant]]===
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When NedIt's parents decide they can no longer stay together they come up with what they think is not pleasant, the first time Marcus and Tessa meet Dave. They've taken their toddler, Josh, to Greece on holiday and in the blink of an ingenious planeye something awful happens. Tessa isn't there, which Marcus isn't looking, but Dave steps in and disaster is averted. Just. They're grateful to divide their house in twohim, of course they are, so that there will be a mum side but after the usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and the offer to buy lunch for everyone, they're a dad side, little relieved to return to their villa and live out the children can spend a rest of their week on either side at in peace. Just a timetight little 3-person family unit. Whilst his parents hope this will be less disruptiveBecause although Dave is a nice chap, Ned is incensed by the walls that spoil his beautiful home and stop although of course they owe him from moving through the house as a great deal, he used to. The walls make him angryis a little, and that anger grows and grows until one daywell, Ned suddenly discovers that the walls are no longer important because he can walk through them! intense. [[Walls Take Me In by Emma FischelSabine Durrant|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Lydia SysonElisabeth Hyde]]===
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On Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when he waited for his three children to arrive one Friday night. He might be a retired lawyer, a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealandstate legislator, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. Ruth, a family of settlers struggle corporate lawyer, would find fault and want to make such an unforgiving place talk about him going into a retirement home. When George, a ship appearsnurse, they feel that their wishes have been granted would argue and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when Lizzie, a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers professor of English Literature, who lived locally and kept and newcomers come together in the search for the childvisited him regularly, they uncover farwould be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit itbut that simply wasn't going to happen. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Lydia SysonElisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[Nightfall Berlin Riddle of the Runes by Jack GrimwoodJanina Ramirez]]===
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I have heard it said that the best way to begin to tell a story The name Janina Ramirez is to create a multi-dimensional characterwell known: her television programmes on cultural history, imbued with compelling layers especially of detail - be it backstoryearly medieval times, character quirks or behavioursare both lively and informative. The point seems to be that in creating She shares her extensive learning with a character in such light hand (and a way you begin to reflect the truth of life wherein people are by definition multi-dimensional frequent giggle) and thus, you bring your story to life. In Major Tom Fox, Grimwood has successfully created just such a character. In one man he gifts us an exciting her enthusiasm encourages students and honourable figure who somehow simultaneously manages viewers alike to present as damaged and flawedexplore further the subjects she discusses. Grimwood provides some character history for Fox which clearly informs the actions of the character but I would suggest But how will that rather than any written history provided translate into children's fiction? Will her academic desire for Major Fox, it is in accuracy make the way he interacts with the other characters story dull and drives fact-packed? Will she hold up the action to display her considerable knowledge? Nope, not a bit of the story that we come to know him. it! [[Nightfall Berlin Riddle of the Runes by Jack GrimwoodJanina Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[Beginning to End The Grey Bastards by Paul HughesJonathan French]]===
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Sir Mark Wright''The Grey Bastards'' is an absolute triumph! Fantasy, action and adventure cleverly wrapped around a super plot and well written characters, Commissioner this book is so much fun. A word of caution though, this is not suitable for all readers. As the Metropolitan Policetittle suggests there is a lot of bad language, based at New Scotland Yard was aware that a LOT of bad language, thrown around all the Met was riddled with corruption, but time in 1967 times were changing and Wright was determined that he was going general speech. In addition to upgrade the service by ridding it of corrupt officers this there is also some sex and bringing in new technology. Unsurprisinglysexual language too, there were a lot of people against him: is some were making violence but this is not actually very good money on explicit and not as constant as the side language and quite a few of bawdy jokes. If this bothers you then this is not the old-timers werenbook for you. For anyone who doesn't too keen on all mind then this technology nonsense. They didn't think walkie-talkies would really work and computers would never really catch on. One of Wright's first actions was to bring in some new blood: what came to be known as 'the trained brains' - people with qualifications in specific areas who could introduce new ideas, whilst being mentored by the older, more experienced officersis an absolute must read. [[Beginning to End The Grey Bastards by Paul HughesJonathan French|Full Review]]
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===[[Kat Wolfe Investigates (Kat Wolfe 1) The Boy at the Door by Lauren St JohnAlex Dahl]]===
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Kat Wolfe lives with Cecilia is picking her mum, a vet, in London and following daughters up from swimming when the pool's receptionist asks a break-in they decide that the time has come to move out quick favour of the city. Kat, a confirmed animal lover, is delighted when her mum accepts the offer of – to drop off a job on little boy from the idyllic Dorset coast class as the job comes with one special condition. They must agree his parents seem to have forgotten to adopt the previous owner's catcollect him. However this presents a problem that Kat had not foreseen for the cat The pool is a wild Savannah who resists all Kat's attempts about to sooth close, and tame him. Furthermore when she starts a pet-sitting agency to make pocket money Katit's problems mount up. The owner of her first charge disappears leaving not a series of mysterious clues behind him. What started big ask although Cecilia is somewhat put out as a promising escape from city life quickly escalates into a mystery that deepens and becomes steadily more dangerousit will interrupt her routine. Luckily Kat has her new friend Harper But, minor inconvenience isn't really a good enough reason to support say no so she agrees and help bundles the boy whose name is Tobias into the car with hergirls. Although Harper This is laid up with two broken legs thanks to a horse riding accident she is not about to let decision that stop will change her getting involved. Harper is a language and coding whizz and she life, and Kat are determined solve the clues and make people listen to them. Even if they can't do that by themselves they know minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that they have their animal friends to helpwill haunt her every waking moment. Can the team work together to save the day? [[Kat Wolfe Investigates (Kat Wolfe 1) The Boy at the Door by Lauren St JohnAlex Dahl|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Cassandra ParkinJean Ure]]===
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A tumble-down Edwardian house Second years. The girls couldn't believe that will sooner rather than later tumble down they'd made it through the mud cliffs and away into the sea is where we meet Jacob and Ella. They share a bathroom first year - in the turretfact they'd all made it, old and cold and not really supposed to be used…but this is where they hide away from the shouts all eight of their parents' argumentsthem, which was most unusual. Here Usually some were thrown out - they play the Underwater Breathing gamemight have grown too tall, submerging themselves in didn't look right or didn't have the water holding their breath for as long as they cancommitment required. For sixteen year old Jacob itMaddie felt a bit nervous when she thought about that last bit as there's just d been a way of drowning point when she might have been thrown out the arguments…but for Ella it is more than thatreason. She is terrified of the sea's now determined that she ''really'' does want to be a ballet dancer, of the fact that it will come and swallow their houseexcept. She needs to know that she can survive under water. She has to practice. [[Underwater Breathing Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Cassandra ParkinJean Ure|Full Review]]
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===[[The ButcherGravediggers's Daughter Bread by Victoria GlendinningFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)]]===
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The Tudor era Blaise is often chosen at a loose end, for historical fiction because it has such having left Paris on a wealth of intriguewild goose chase for a job, which was his friend's idea, plots and machinationshe's stuck outside a call box waiting to report back before he gets the train. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich woman in the post office using the payphone finally finishes her business, and powerful, leaves him with so many a strong impression – as well as a wallet dropped to choose from that the well never seems floor containing several days' good money, and, when he tracks her to run dry the village funeral directors', signs of her infidelity. Lo and behold he is given a job as the characters are often those high up in the circles of powerwoman's husband's assistant, or those prepared although she also starts to do anything employ him in sending messages to get thereher amour, her childhood love before circumstances changed. This book, however, Blaise is totally different. Set of course deeply in love with the mid–to–late 1500s we see woman by now, and hates the world through two obstacles preventing him from being with her. One is the eyes of Agnes Peppinlover, a young, poor woman. As brutish bloke with little prospects and a woman she can either marry, or join a conventbad case of epilepsy. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at allSurely he will not fall by the wayside, and she is sent to join surely the nuns brick wall of Shaftesbury Abbey. fate keeping Blaise from his intended destiny will remain two men tall? [[The ButcherGravediggers's Daughter Bread by Victoria GlendinningFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid Boy Underwater by Dorothy KoomsonAdam Baron]]===
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In 1993Cymbeline Igloo (yes, two teenagers stumble across a horrific scene on the beach as they're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: a body of a young womanthat’s his real name!) is nine years old, partially strippedand he has never been swimming, totally deceased. The find hits and this wouldn’t be a really big problem except for the girls in different ways. Nell becomes obsessed with finding fact that the identity of school bully has somehow got the girl – who she calls ''the Brighton Mermaid'' because of impression that Cym is actually an amazing champion swimmer, and has challenged Cym to a distinguishing tattoo – whereas Jude just wants to forget it ever happened. Fast forward 25 years and Nell is still haunted by what happened that night. With few leads race at their very first school swimming lesson! He tries to go research swimming onthe internet, but there’s an accident at the Police closed the case without cracking itpool that, initially, and so it remains one sees Cym embarrassed in front of those unsolved mysteries that become part of local folklorethe other kids, but Nell struggles to let sleeping dogs, or even sleeping mermaids, liethat results in his mum having a breakdown. As for Jude, well no one knows if the discovery still haunts her because no one knows where Why has she is. Shortly after that fateful night, she too disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. There's more to Brighton than Stag Dos and Gay Pride, it seems. taken Cym swimming? And why does his accident at the pool create such devastation in Cym’s life? [[The Brighton Mermaid Boy Underwater by Dorothy KoomsonAdam Baron|Full Review]]
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===[[A Taste for Vengeance Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (A Bruno, Chief of Police Noveltranslator) by Martin Walker]]===
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Bruno Courreges is now the police chief for the whole of the Vezere valleyMeet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, and a successful one too, but the promotion in an office in Paris. All around him however his world is not without its drawbackschanging – yes, as the chain of command there is not quite as clear as it was when he knew that he worked for the mayora new ban on smoking in all workplaces. StillGoaded by his non-smoking wife, on a cooleven though they met over an ashtray, of sorts, damp Sunday afternoon in spring he sees a hypnotist who had other things on his mind: he was watching the St Denis women's rugby team playing success with a mutual friend in the regional finalstopping their nicotine habit. One player stood out: Paulette was The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the daughter prospect of the local florists having such a change to his own personality, his imbued habits and she was the best player that Bruno had ever trainedlifestyle, with fear, male or femalewhen he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. He had hopes of her making the national squad, needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but there might be a cloud on it's what he replaces the horizon - Paulette had been sick and had fainted in habit with that will surprise the showersmost. [[A Taste for Vengeance Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (A Bruno, Chief of Police Noveltranslator) by Martin Walker|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen]]===
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[[image:4William Woolf is a letter detective, working in the Dead Letters Depot in East London.5starHe spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of love, guilt, death, hope, and everyday life.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersThe Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen|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 Conaghan -->
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===[[The Sand Dog Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Sarah LeanBrian Conaghan]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersTeens|Confident ReadersTeens]]
''Grandfather had been gone for two years but I never thought it would be an ordinary day heFunny how no one ever uses the word 'love'd come back, like a Monday or a Tuesday..when discussing my case. I always knew he'd return across the water, triumphing over a few monsters on the way, do what I just didndo because she't known whens my mum. That pure and that simple.''
Azi lives on a Mediterranean islandBobby Seed's mum has MS and it's getting worse. Since his grandfather leftBobby, who is seventeen, shoulders most of her care. And he has been living with also keeps house and also looks after his little brother Danny. He gets some help from his irascible uncle best friend Bel, who owns a busy tourist restaurant. Azi helps out has her own reasons for spending as much time as he can and he goes to school and works hard possible not at his lessonshome, but it's still a slog. But he isnBobby doesn't really interested in Unclemind 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 restaurant or playing a bit daft with his classmates. Azi is interested all the role play exercises and the like, but it's nice to meet other kids in two things: the seasame boat as you. Especially Lou, the American boy with the weird way of speaking and the return Vespa and the air of Grandfathercool. Bobby can barely keep his eyes off Lou.[[The Sand Dog Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Sarah LeanBrian Conaghan|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]]
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===[[Silence in the Desert The Old Religion by David LongridgeMartyn Waites]]===
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As The Cornish village of St Petroc isn't on the shadow tourist trail: there's nothing particularly pretty, or historic, or interesting about it, which might be one of the Second World War descends upon the planetreasons why Tom Killgannon is there. He had been an undercover policeman, four people are explored but something had gone badly wrong and now he's in witness protection and working in the local pub. St Petroc feels safe and it's put a tale good deal of love distance between him and friendshipsome very violent people. Henri He's got an on-again, fulfilling a family tradition in joining off-again relationship with the Foreign Legionlocal policewoman, Bill, arriving at Cambridge with the on -again bits coinciding with the times when her husband's away. It's not an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those of his upbringing, and Elisabethexciting life, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoilbut right now it suits Tom just fine. As the war rages Until he meets Lila, these men are tested like never before, with trust, loyalty and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around themis. [[Silence in the Desert The Old Religion by David LongridgeMartyn Waites|Full Review]]
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===[[Skylarks by Karen Gregory]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:CategoryThe Dragonfly Story:Teens|Teens]]  Joni is halfway through her A levels. But she has a lot more than A levels to think about. Life is pretty tough at Explaining 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 death of 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 loved one 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 children and dad and a teacher who thinks she could get into university. [[Skylarks families by Karen Gregory|Full ReviewKelly Owen]] <!-- Almond -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1444919555.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444919555/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 
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===[[''The Colour Owen family were feeling sad. There used to be five of the Sun by David Almond]]===them. There was Mum, Dad and three children: Abi, 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.''
How does a family cope with the loss of a beloved child and sibling?[[imageThe Dragonfly Story:5star.jpgExplaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kelly Owen|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
''This book... explores what excites and mystifies me about the nature of being young, and dramatises the joys and excitements of growing up. And I guess it embodies my constant astonishment at being alive in this beautiful, weird, extraordinary world.'' 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 Laura Solomon -->
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===[[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Marsha's Deal by Ruth HoganLaura Solomon]]===
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MashaMarsha didn's son Gabriel died some years agot 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 single parent with help from rare disease which turned parts of her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to stand her friendlife any longer and went to Dignitas, Edward, who had grieved as much as Masha and whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out in the immediate aftermath of the drowning, but thereSwiss euthanasia clinic. She's now a new love interest) Masha is still stricken, feeling d thought that it would somehow be disloyal the end, but after cremation her body went straight to Gabriel if hell and she found herself face-to-face with the devil. And that was when she made the pact. In exchange for details about some of those who had been close to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be happy. An independentreborn on the same day to the same parents, rebellious woman has somehow been diminishedbut would live her life free of disease. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Marsha's Deal by Ruth HoganLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Mercy Seat by Alison WeirElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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When it comes to Jane SeymourIn an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the third wife shadow of Henry VIII, popular opinion is divided. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the kingwindow bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's eyesdying sun rays. Others view her as At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a pious chair and God-fearing woman electrocuted for the rape of a white girl, who brought calm and stability into Henry's life following later committed suicide. He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his turbulent marriage innocence or to Anne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, expect anyone to an extent. In ''The Haunted Queenbelieve what really happened; after all,'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author love between a black man and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a Queen haunted by the shadow of white woman was never going to have a happy ending in a formidable predecessorsmall town filled with small-minded people. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Mercy Seat by Alison WeirElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[Don't Make The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Sound Mermaid by David JacksonTania Unsworth]]===
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Malcolm and Harriet are Stella's mother died when she was a little oddgirl. That much Stella is growing up in a house with her dad, who is clear from the startoften away, and her grandmother, from who is starting to experience the way he onset of dementia. This is around herall hard enough for a young girl, but at the way he prepares things same time Stella finds that she feels like rather an oddball, struggling to fit in such a way at school, and as her grandmother begins to make lose her happygrip on reality, Stella struggles with feeling very alone. It When Stella's a nice sentimentonly school friend suddenly moves away, but something Stella struggles even more. She is off. We meet their daughter Daisy desperate to find out what happened to her mum and again, it all seems nice enough but thereto uncover her family'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 revealedsecrets. [[Don't Make The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Sound Mermaid by David JacksonTania Unsworth|Full Review]]
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===[[The Aviator Ascension by Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa Hayden (Translator)Victor Dixen]]===
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Innokenty Petrovich Platonov wakes up Six girls, six boys. Each in a hospital bed with no recollection the two separate bays of who he is or how he got there. He is tended by a single doctor, Doctor Geiger, who gives him a pencil and notebook spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and encourages him to write down his observations and memories. The notebook is thickmake their choices, like a novel. How can Innokenty fill it if he cannot remember anything? But slowly under the memories start to return, memories unblinking eye of childhood holidays at the beach, of life on-board cameras. They are the contenders in the dachaGenesis programme, of the airfield and world's craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the aviatorsfirst human colony on Mars...and Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, is one of the islandchosen ones.She has signed up for glory.She has signed up for love.it seems like some memories may be better left buriedShe has signed up for a one-way ticket. He remembers that he is the same age as the century, born in 1900. But Even if that is the casedream turns to a nightmare, how it is he still a young man when the pills by his bedside are dated 1999? too late for regrets. [[The Aviator Ascension by Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa Hayden (Translator)Victor Dixen|Full Review]]
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===[[Manfried the Man: A Graphic Novel by Caitlin Major and Kelly Bastow]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] 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]] <!-- Dalrymple -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:140886553X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/140886553X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In Gold's Name The Toad Who Loved Tea by Marcus DalrympleFaiz Kermani]]===
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It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the end of the Aztec Empire Tungtang is not like other toads. She can't sit still, tongue protruding, and the inhabitants were wait to some extent conditioned catch a fly. Tungtang needs to accept be on the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlersmove. Some thought Sometimes, she even hops right the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a decent man, particularly by way over to the standards rotten tree stump in her community of the timeMuddy River. He was the finest marksman And she loves to regale her fellow toads with his harquebus on the force, but at the age stories 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 sacrificesher exploits. He'd joined the army from That is, until a seminary mean old crow comes along and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed to appreciate tells Tungtang that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing a real adventure would take her a lot further than a tree stump by a bridge everyone knows. Infuriated by the Aztec gold crow and that any conversion would not be inspired by winning hearts her grandfather's stories of humans and minds but by threats ancient toad prophecies, Tungtang decides on a Real Adventure and tortureheads off to the town of Little Cobblestone... [[In Gold's Name The Toad Who Loved Tea by Marcus DalrympleFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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