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===[[A Child Called Happiness Take Me In by Stephan CollishawSabine Durrant]]===
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Mazowe ValleyIt's not pleasant, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that she thinks at the first might be a birdtime Marcus and Tessa meet Dave. They've taken their toddler, but turns out to be a babyJosh, abandoned to the birds Greece on holiday and in the kopjeblink of an eye something awful happens. She is Tessa isn't there with her uncle , Marcus isn't looking, but Dave steps in and disaster is averted. Just. They're grateful to him, of course they take are, but after the usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and the childoffer to buy lunch for everyone, back they're a little relieved to return to his farm initially their villa and then to live out the rest of their week in peace. Just a tight little 3-person family unit. Because although Dave is a nice chap, and although of course they owe him a local village where it great deal, he is taken in. They do not report it to the policea little, well, intense. [[A Child Called Happiness Take Me In by Stephan CollishawSabine Durrant|Full Review]]
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===[[Running Amok (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2) Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Paul HughesElisabeth Hyde]]===
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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 state legislator, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. Ruth, a corporate lawyer, would find fault and want to talk about him going into a retirement home. George, a nurse, would argue and Lizzie, a professor of English Literature, who lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that simply wasn'''Caution: Mild spoilers for t going to happen. [[Beginning to End Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Paul HughesElisabeth Hyde|Beginning to EndFull Review]]'''
DS Kevin Devlin has settled into his new job at Scotland Yard very quickly, although he didn't have much choice but to hit the ground running. When we last saw him quite a few of the rogue element at MI5 and others who were causing Spearing and Devlin difficulties were conveniently dead and as Spearing has gone missing, Devlin can't help but wonder if Spearting was involved in some way in bringing this convenient solution about. Whilst he might have wanted to search for Spearing, there's upheaval at the Yard: the new commissioner is offering deals to corrupt officers. They can leave with a year's pay in lieu of notice or they can be prosecuted. Unsurprisingly there are suddenly a lot of empty desks - and a promotion opportunity for Devlin. [[Running Amok (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2) by Paul Hughes|Full Review]] <!-- Slater Ramirez -->
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===[[Riddle of the Runes by Janina Ramirez]]===
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[[imageThe name Janina Ramirez is well known:5starher television programmes on cultural history, especially of early medieval times, are both lively and informative.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]She shares her extensive learning with a light hand (and a frequent giggle) and her enthusiasm encourages students and viewers alike to explore further the subjects she discusses. But how will that translate into children's fiction? Will her academic desire for accuracy make the story dull and fact-packed? Will she hold up the action to display her considerable knowledge? Nope, not a bit of it! [[:Category:TeensRiddle of the Runes by Janina Ramirez|TeensFull Review]]
''None of them believed me. Nobody believed I really couldn't remember what happened to my brother. I wanted to scream at them to listen. Because, for the first time in a long, long time, I was actually telling the truth.'' Ed Clayton is a teller of tall stories. He just can't help it - even though he knows and everybody else knows that most of what comes out of his mouth is complete fantasy. It all started when Ed's father was accused of fraud and sent to prison. Then mum's mental health went to pieces. Then, with nobody bringing money into the house, poverty - real, grinding, poverty - set in and life became all about scratching about for pennies and visiting the food bank. All of this is horribly shaming, so is it any wonder that Ed has become a bit of a Billy Liar, hiding the truth of his home life in the hopes the power of imagination can make it all disappear?[[The Boy Who Lied by Kim Slater|Full Review]]<!-- North French -->
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===[[84K The Grey Bastards by Claire NorthJonathan French]]===
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Can ''The Grey Bastards'' is an absolute triumph! Fantasy, action and adventure cleverly wrapped around a super plot and well written characters, this book is so much fun. A word of caution though, this is not suitable for all readers. As the tittle suggests there is a lot of bad language, a LOT of bad language, thrown around all the time in general speech. In addition to this there is also some sex and sexual language too, there is some violence but this is not actually very explicit and not as constant as the language and bawdy jokes. If this bothers you put a price on human life?then this is not the book for you. For anyone who doesn't mind then this is an absolute must read. [[The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French|Full Review]]
Theo can, he calculates the worth of each person to the penny. The Company own everything and everyone, including handing out punishments for crime. Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the Criminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, the cost of the crimes filling his inbox. They are variables on a spreadsheet, a simple mathematical equation, the expense of solving the crime added to how much the victim would have contributed to their community. Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to society in cold hard cash. [[84K by Claire North|Full Review]] <!-- Fischel Dahl -->
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===[[Walls The Boy at the Door by Emma FischelAlex Dahl]]===
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When NedCecilia 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 decide they can no longer stay together they come up with what they think seem to have forgotten to collect him. The pool is an ingenious planabout to close, which and it's not a big ask although Cecilia is to divide their house in two, so somewhat put out that there it will be interrupt her routine. But, minor inconvenience isn't really a mum side and a dad side, good enough reason to say no so she agrees and bundles the boy whose name is Tobias into the children can spend a week on either side at a timecar with her girls. Whilst his parents hope this will be less disruptive, Ned This is incensed by the walls a decision that spoil his beautiful home and stop him from moving through the house as he used to. The walls make him angrywill change her life, and that anger grows and grows until one day, Ned suddenly discovers minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that the walls are no longer important because he can walk through them! will haunt her every waking moment. [[Walls The Boy at the Door by Emma FischelAlex Dahl|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Lydia SysonJean Ure]]===
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On a remote volcanic island off Second years. The girls couldn't believe that they'd made it through the coast first year - in fact they'd all made it, all eight of New Zealandthem, a family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a homewhich 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. When Maddie felt a ship appears, they feel bit nervous when she thought about that their wishes last bit as there'd been a point when she might have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when thrown out for that reason. She's now determined that she ''really'' does want to be a vulnerable boy disappearsballet dancer, except.. As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit it. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Lydia SysonJean Ure|Full Review]]
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===[[Nightfall Berlin The Gravediggers' Bread by Jack GrimwoodFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)]]===
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I have heard it said that the best way to begin to tell Blaise is at a loose end, for having left Paris on a story is to create wild goose chase for a multi-dimensional characterjob, imbued with compelling layers of detail - be it backstorywhich was his friend's idea, character quirks or behaviourshe's stuck outside a call box waiting to report back before he gets the train. The point seems to be that woman in creating the post office using the payphone finally finishes her business, and leaves him with a character in such strong impression – as well as a way you begin wallet dropped to reflect the truth of life wherein people are by definition multi-dimensional floor containing several days' good money, and thus, you bring your story when he tracks her to life. In Major Tom Foxthe village funeral directors', Grimwood has successfully created just such a charactersigns of her infidelity. In one man Lo and behold he gifts us an exciting and honourable figure who somehow simultaneously manages is given a job as the woman's husband's assistant, although she also starts to employ him in sending messages to present as damaged and flawedher amour, her childhood love before circumstances changed. Grimwood provides some character history for Fox which clearly informs the actions Blaise is of course deeply in love with the character but I would suggest that rather than any written history provided for Major Foxwoman by now, it and hates the two obstacles preventing him from being with her. One is in the way lover, a brutish bloke with little prospects and a bad case of epilepsy. Surely he interacts with will not fall by the other characters wayside, and drives surely the action brick wall of the story that we come to know him. fate keeping Blaise from his intended destiny will remain two men tall? [[Nightfall Berlin The Gravediggers' Bread by Jack GrimwoodFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Beginning to End Boy Underwater by Paul HughesAdam Baron]]===
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Sir Mark WrightCymbeline Igloo (yes, Commissioner of 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 Metropolitan Police, based at New Scotland Yard was aware fact that the Met was riddled with corruptionschool bully has somehow got the impression that Cym is actually an amazing champion swimmer, but in 1967 times were changing and Wright was determined that he was going has challenged Cym to upgrade the service by ridding it of corrupt officers and bringing in new technology. Unsurprisingly, there were a lot of people against him: some were making race at their very good money first school swimming lesson! He tries to research swimming on the side and quite a few internet, but there’s an accident at the pool that, initially, sees Cym embarrassed in front of the old-timers weren't too keen on all this technology nonsenseother kids, but that results in his mum having a breakdown. They didn't think walkie-talkies would really work and computers would Why has she never really catch on. taken Cym swimming? One of Wright's first actions was to bring in some new blood: what came to be known as 'And why does his accident at the trained brains' - people with qualifications pool create such devastation in specific areas who could introduce new ideas, whilst being mentored by the older, more experienced officers. Cym’s life? [[Beginning to End Boy Underwater by Paul HughesAdam Baron|Full Review]]
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===[[Kat Wolfe Investigates Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (Kat Wolfe 1translator) by Lauren St John]]===
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Kat Wolfe lives with her mumMeet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, and a vetsuccessful one too, in London and following an office in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yes, there is a break-new ban on smoking in they decide that the time has come to move out of the cityall workplaces. KatGoaded by his non-smoking wife, a confirmed animal lovereven though they met over an ashtray, is delighted when her mum accepts the offer of sorts, he sees a job on the idyllic Dorset coast as the job comes hypnotist who had success with one special conditiona mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. They must agree The session seems to adopt have been successful, however he faces the previous owner's cat. However this presents prospect of having such a problem that Kat had not foreseen for the cat is a wild Savannah who resists all Kat's attempts change to sooth his own personality, his imbued habits and tame lifestyle, with fear, when he realises it will never again grant himany pleasure. Furthermore He needs this pleasure when she starts a pet-sitting agency to make pocket money Katfurther changes at work come about – but it's problems mount up. The owner of her first charge disappears leaving a series of mysterious clues behind him. What started out as a promising escape from city life quickly escalates into a mystery that deepens and becomes steadily more dangerous. Luckily Kat has her new friend Harper to support and help her. Although Harper is laid up what he replaces the habit with two broken legs thanks to a horse riding accident she is not about to let that stop her getting involved. Harper is a language and coding whizz and she and Kat are determined solve will surprise the clues and make people listen to them. Even if they can't do that by themselves they know that they have their animal friends to helpmost. Can the team work together to save the day? [[Kat Wolfe Investigates Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (Kat Wolfe 1translator) by Lauren St John|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Cassandra ParkinHelen Cullen]]===
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A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down the mud cliffs and away into the sea William Woolf is where we meet Jacob and Ella. They share a bathroom letter detective, working in the turretDead Letters Depot in East London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, old tracking down mysterious people and cold and not really supposed to be used…but this is where they hide away from the shouts reading endless letters of their parents' arguments. Here they play the Underwater Breathing gamelove, guilt, death, submerging themselves in the water holding their breath for as long as they can. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just a way of drowning out the arguments…but for Ella it is more than that. She is terrified of the seahope, of the fact that it will come and swallow their houseeveryday life. She needs to know that she can survive under water. She has to practice. [[Underwater Breathing The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Cassandra ParkinHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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===[[The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning]]===
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The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth of intrigue, plots and machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many to choose from that the well never seems to run dry and the characters are often those high up in the circles of power, or those prepared to do anything to get there. This book, however, is totally different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes Peppin, a young, poor woman. As a woman she can either marry, or join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, and she is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. [[The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning|Full Review]] <!-- Koomson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:178089600X4.5star.jpg|link=httpCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178089600X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21Category:Teens|Teens]]
''Funny how no one ever uses the word 'love' when discussing my case. I do what I do because she's my mum. That pure and that simple.''
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Bobby 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.===[[The Brighton Mermaid Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Dorothy Koomson]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionBrian Conaghan|General FictionFull Review]]
In 1993, 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 woman, partially stripped, totally deceased. The find hits the girls in different ways. Nell becomes obsessed 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 and Nell is still haunted by what happened that night. With few leads to go on, the Police closed the case without cracking it, and so it remains one of those unsolved mysteries that become part of local folklore, but Nell struggles to let sleeping dogs, or even sleeping mermaids, lie. As for Jude, well no one knows if the discovery still haunts her because no one knows where 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. [[The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson|Full Review]]
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===[[A Taste for Vengeance (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) The Old Religion by Martin WalkerMartyn Waites]]===
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Bruno Courreges is now the police chief for the whole The Cornish village of St Petroc isn't on the Vezere valleytourist trail: there's nothing particularly pretty, but the promotion is not without its drawbacksor historic, or interesting about it, as which might be one of the chain of command reasons why Tom Killgannon is not quite as clear as it was when he knew that he worked for the mayorthere. StillHe had been an undercover policeman, on a cool, damp Sunday afternoon in spring he but something had other things on his mind: gone badly wrong and now he was watching the St Denis women's rugby team playing in witness protection and working in the regional finallocal pub. One player stood out: Paulette was the daughter St Petroc feels safe and it's put a good deal of the local florists distance between him and she was the best player that Bruno had ever trained, male or femalesome very violent people. He had hopes of her making 's got an on-again, off-again relationship with the national squadlocal policewoman, but there might be a cloud with the on the horizon - Paulette had been sick and had fainted in again bits coinciding with the showerstimes when her husband's away. It's not an exciting life, but right now it suits Tom just fine. Until he meets Lila, that is. [[A Taste for Vengeance (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) The Old Religion by Martin WalkerMartyn Waites|Full Review]]
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===[[The Silver Hand by Terry Deary]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=CategoryDragonfly Story:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]  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 Explaining 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 death of a secret spy ring, helping the British. Aimee is desperate loved one to help. And help she does, soon uncovering a traitor in the British camp. [[The Silver Hand children and families by Terry Deary|Full ReviewKelly Owen]]===
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''The Owen family were feeling sad. There used to be five of 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.''
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===[[The Sand Dog by Sarah Lean]]=== [[image:5star.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;"| ===[[All of This Is True by Lygia Day Penaflor]]=== [[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 Laura Solomon -->
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===[[Silence in the Desert Marsha's Deal by David LongridgeLaura Solomon]]===
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As Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life the shadow of the Second World War descends upon the planetfirst time around. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], four people are explored in a tale rare disease which turned parts of love and friendshipher body to bone when they were damaged. Henri, fulfilling a family tradition in joining the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling Finally she was unable to align his beliefs with those of his upbringing, stand her life any longer and Elisabethwent to Dignitas, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoilthe Swiss euthanasia clinic. As She'd thought that would be the war ragesend, these men are tested like never before, with trust, loyalty but after cremation her body went straight to hell and love leading she found herself face-to decisions -face with the devil. And that affect both was when she made the pact. In exchange for details about some of those who had been close to her - their lives strengths and those all around themweaknesses - she would be reborn on the same day to the same parents, but would live her life free of disease. [[Silence in the Desert Marsha's Deal by David LongridgeLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H Winthrop]]===
===[[Skylarks by Karen Gregory]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensHistorical Fiction|TeensHistorical Fiction]]
Joni is halfway through her A levels. But she has In an isolated Louisiana town, a lot more than A levels to think about. Life is pretty tough young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the moment. There isn't much money about, shadow of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the family is behind on bills, Dadevening's back is getting worse and worsedying sun rays. At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a chair and little brother Jack has electrocuted for the rape of a school trip coming up that needs white girl, who later committed suicide. He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to be paid for. Older brother Jamie got the sack from protest his dream job and, although he found somewhere else innocence or to expect anyone to workbelieve what really happened; after all, is love between a big ball of resentment. To make matters worse, the charity that runs the housing on their estate is running out of money black man and thinking of selling up. But Joni has a great group of friends and white woman was never going to have a lovely mum and dad and happy ending in a teacher who thinks she could get into universitysmall town filled with small-minded people. [[Skylarks The Mercy Seat by Karen GregoryElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Tania Unsworth]]===
===[[The Colour of the Sun by David Almond]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]  ''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 Stella's mother died when she was a little girl. Stella is what David Almond says about his latest novel for young peoplegrowing up in a house with her dad, ''The Colour of the Sun''. Andwho is often away, having now read itand her grandmother, I see what he who is saying so clearlystarting to experience the onset of dementia. This is all hard enough for a story of being young - both older than you used girl, but at the same time Stella finds that she feels like rather an oddball, struggling to enjoy being fit in at school, and younger than you aspire as her grandmother begins to belose her grip on reality, Stella struggles with feeling very alone. When Stella's only school friend suddenly moves away, Stella struggles even more. And it She is desperate to find out what happened to her mum and to uncover her family's a story of finding strangeness in ordinary thingssecrets.[[The Colour of the Sun Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by David AlmondTania Unsworth|Full Review]]
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===[[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Ascension by Ruth HoganVictor Dixen]]===
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Masha's son Gabriel died some years agoSix girls, six boys. She'd been Each in the two separate bays of a single parent with help from her friendspaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, Edward, who had grieved as much as Masha and whilst Edward has moved under the unblinking eye of the on (his boyfriend moved out -board cameras. They are the contenders in the immediate aftermath of Genesis programme, the drowning, but thereworld's now craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the first human colony on Mars. Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, is one of the chosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a new love interest) Masha is still strickenone-way ticket. Even if the dream turns to a nightmare, feeling that it would somehow be disloyal to Gabriel if she was to be happyis too late for regrets. An independent, rebellious woman has somehow been diminished. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Ascension by Ruth HoganVictor Dixen|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. 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 predecessor. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir|Full Review]]
 
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===[[The Toad Who Loved Tea by Faiz Kermani]]===
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Malcolm Tungtang is not like other toads. She can't sit still, tongue protruding, and Harriet are wait to catch a little oddfly. That much is clear from Tungtang needs to be on the startmove. Sometimes, from she even hops right the way he is around her, over to the way he prepares things rotten tree stump in such a way as her community of Muddy River. And she loves to make regale her fellow toads with stories of her happyexploits. It's 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 nice sentiment, but something is offbridge everyone knows. We meet their daughter Daisy Infuriated by the crow and again, it all seems nice enough but thereinspired by her grandfather's a vibestories of humans and ancient toad prophecies, Tungtang decides on a hint Real Adventure and heads off to the town of a feeling that all is not what it seemsLittle Cobblestone.. Just how bad things are, though, is yet to be revealed. [[Don't Make a Sound The Toad Who Loved Tea by David JacksonFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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