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===[[Hunted Take Me In by G X ToddSabine Durrant]]===
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It''Do you s not sometimes think a storm is coming?pleasant, the first time Marcus and Tessa meet Dave. They'' ''Hunted'' continues where ve taken their toddler, Josh, to Greece on holiday and in the blink of an eye something awful happens. Tessa isn't there, Marcus isn'Voicest looking, but Dave steps in and disaster is averted. Just. They'' series left offre grateful to him, of course they are, with our heroine on but after the usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and the run without anyone offer to defend her whilst buy lunch for everyone, they're a little relieved to return to their villa and live out the world around her 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 great deal, he is descending into chaosa little, well, intense.[[Take Me In by Sabine Durrant|Full Review]]
Lacey, barely escaped with her life after the events of [[Defender by G X Todd|Defender]] and now she's being hunted. By a boy driven by a voice stealing away his sanity piece by piece and by another incapable of speech. Both are determined to find her at all costs and both are building up an army of followers to track her precise location before the other. [[Hunted by G X Todd|Full Review]] <!-- Booth Elisabeth Hyde -->
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===[[Across the Divide Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Anne BoothElisabeth Hyde]]===
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''I want all Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when he waited for his three children to know that they CAN already make the world arrive one Friday night. He might be a retired lawyer, a better placestate legislator, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there are other people, now could be trouble when Ruth and in history and in fictionGeorge arrived. Ruth, who stand alongside them in this.''This is what author Anne Booth said about the inspiration behind her latest children's book and this thoughtful story about familya corporate lawyer, friendship would find fault and being brave enough want to speak up for what you believe should help to achieve thistalk about him going into a retirement home. In Across the Divide she cleverly combines current issues regarding peace George, a nurse, would argue and conflict and the history of conscientious objectors during World War 1 in Lizzie, a moving portrayal professor of young people trying 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't going to make sense of the world and the decisions made by adultshappen. [[Across the Divide Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Anne BoothElisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness Riddle of the Runes by Stephan CollishawJanina Ramirez]]===
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Mazowe ValleyThe name Janina Ramirez is well known: her television programmes on cultural history, especially of early medieval times, 2011 – Natalie hears are both lively and informative. She shares her extensive learning with a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be light hand (and a bird, but turns out to be a baby, abandoned frequent giggle) and her enthusiasm encourages students and viewers alike to explore further the birds on the kopjesubjects she discusses. She is there with But how will that translate into children's fiction? Will her uncle academic desire for accuracy make the story dull and they take fact-packed? Will she hold up the childaction to display her considerable knowledge? Nope, back to his farm initially and then to not a local village where it is taken in. They do not report bit of it to the police. ! [[A Child Called Happiness Riddle of the Runes by Stephan CollishawJanina Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[Running Amok (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2) The Grey Bastards by Paul HughesJonathan French]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
'''Caution[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category: Mild spoilers for {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Beginning to End by Paul Hughes:Category:Fantasy|Beginning to EndFantasy]]'''
DS Kevin Devlin has settled into his new job at Scotland Yard very quickly''The Grey Bastards'' is an absolute triumph! Fantasy, action and adventure cleverly wrapped around a super plot and well written characters, although he didn't have this book is so much choice but to hit fun. A word of caution though, this is not suitable for all readers. As the ground running. When we last saw him quite tittle suggests there is a lot of bad language, a few LOT of bad language, thrown around all 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 time in some way in bringing this convenient solution aboutgeneral speech. Whilst he might have wanted In addition to search for Spearingthis there is also some sex and sexual language too, there's upheaval at is some violence but this is not actually very explicit and not as constant as the Yard: language and bawdy jokes. If this bothers you then this is not the new commissioner is offering deals to corrupt officersbook for you. They can leave with a yearFor anyone who doesn'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 Devlint mind then this is an absolute must read. [[Running Amok (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2) The Grey Bastards by Paul HughesJonathan French|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy at the Door by Alex Dahl]]===
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Cecilia is picking her daughters up from swimming when the pool''None s receptionist asks a quick favour of them believed me. Nobody believed I really couldn't remember what happened her – to drop off a little boy from the class as his parents seem to have forgotten to my brothercollect him. I wanted The pool is about to scream at them to listenclose, and it's not a big ask although Cecilia is somewhat put out that it will interrupt her routine. BecauseBut, for 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 first time in car with her girls. This is a longdecision that will change her life, long time, I was actually telling and that minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that will haunt her every waking moment. [[The Boy at the truth.''Door by Alex Dahl|Full Review]]
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 Jean Ure -->
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===[[84K Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Claire NorthJean Ure]]===
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Can you put 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 price on human life?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... [[Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Jean Ure|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 Dard -->
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===[[Walls The Gravediggers' Bread by Emma FischelFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)]]===
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When NedBlaise is at a loose end, for having left Paris on a wild goose chase for a job, which was his friend's parents decide they can no longer stay together they come up with what they think is an ingenious planidea, which is he's stuck outside a call box waiting to divide their house report back before he gets the train. The woman in twothe post office using the payphone finally finishes her business, so that there will be and leaves him with a mum side and strong impression – as well as a dad sidewallet dropped to the floor containing several days' good money, and , when he tracks her to the children can spend village funeral directors', signs of her infidelity. Lo and behold he is given a week on either side at a timejob as the woman's husband's assistant, although she also starts to employ him in sending messages to her amour, her childhood love before circumstances changed. Whilst his parents hope this will be less disruptive, Ned Blaise is incensed of course deeply in love with the woman by now, and hates the walls that spoil his beautiful home and stop two obstacles preventing him from moving through being with her. One is the house as lover, a brutish bloke with little prospects and a bad case of epilepsy. Surely he used to. The walls make him angrywill not fall by the wayside, and that anger grows and grows until one day, Ned suddenly discovers that surely the walls are no longer important because he can walk through them! brick wall of fate keeping Blaise from his intended destiny will remain two men tall? [[Walls The Gravediggers' Bread by Emma FischelFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions Boy Underwater by Lydia SysonAdam Baron]]===
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On Cymbeline Igloo (yes, that’s his real name!) is nine years old, and he has never been swimming, and this wouldn’t be a remote volcanic island off really big problem except for the fact that the school bully has somehow got the coast of New Zealandimpression that Cym is actually an amazing champion swimmer, and has challenged Cym to a family of settlers struggle race at their very first school swimming lesson! He tries to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appearsresearch swimming on the internet, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers and newcomers come together in there’s an accident at the search for the childpool that, they uncover farinitially, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both sees Cym embarrassed in front of the island and those who inhabit itother kids, but that results in his mum having a breakdown. Why has she never taken Cym swimming? And why does his accident at the pool create such devastation in Cym’s life? [[Mr Peacock's Possessions Boy Underwater by Lydia SysonAdam Baron|Full Review]]
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===[[Nightfall Berlin Smoking Kills by Jack GrimwoodAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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I have heard it said that the best way to begin to tell Meet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, and a story successful one too, in an office in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yes, there is to create a multinew ban on smoking in all workplaces. Goaded by his non-dimensional charactersmoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, imbued with compelling layers of detail - be it backstorysorts, character quirks or behaviourshe sees a hypnotist who had success with a mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. The point session seems to be that in creating a character in have been successful, however he faces the prospect of having such a way you begin change to reflect the truth of life wherein people are by definition multi-dimensional his own personality, his imbued habits and thuslifestyle, you bring your story to life. In Major Tom Foxwith fear, Grimwood has successfully created just such a character. In one man when he gifts us an exciting and honourable figure who somehow simultaneously manages to present as damaged and flawedrealises it will never again grant him any pleasure. Grimwood provides some character history for Fox which clearly informs the actions of the character He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but I would suggest that rather than any written history provided for Major Fox, it is in 's what he replaces the way he interacts habit with that will surprise the other characters and drives the action of the story that we come to know himmost. [[Nightfall Berlin Smoking Kills by Jack GrimwoodAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Beginning to End The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Paul HughesHelen Cullen]]===
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Sir Mark WrightWilliam Woolf is a letter detective, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, based at New Scotland Yard was aware that the Met was riddled with corruption, but working in 1967 times were changing and Wright was determined that he was going to upgrade the service by ridding it of corrupt officers and bringing Dead Letters Depot in new technologyEast London. UnsurprisinglyHe spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, there were a lot of tracking down mysterious people against him: some were making very good money on the side and quite a few reading endless letters of the old-timers weren't too keen on all this technology nonsense. They didn't think walkie-talkies would really work love, guilt, death, hope, and computers would never really catch oneveryday life. 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 officers. [[Beginning to End The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Paul HughesHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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===[[Kat Wolfe Investigates (Kat Wolfe 1) by Lauren St John]]===
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Kat Wolfe lives with her mum, a vet, in London and following a break-in they decide that the time has come to move out of the city[[image:4. Kat, a confirmed animal lover, is delighted when her mum accepts the offer of a job on the idyllic Dorset coast as the job comes with one special condition5star. They must agree to adopt the previous owner's cat. However this presents a problem that Kat had not foreseen for the cat is a wild Savannah who resists all Kat's attempts to sooth and tame him. Furthermore when she starts a pet-sitting agency to make pocket money Kat'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 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 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 help. Can the team work together to save the day? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Kat Wolfe Investigates (Kat Wolfe 1) by Lauren St John:Category: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:General FictionThe Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan|General FictionFull Review]]
A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down the mud cliffs and away into the sea is where we meet Jacob and Ella. They share a bathroom in the turret, old and cold and not really supposed to be used…but this is where they hide away from the shouts of their parents' arguments. Here they play the Underwater Breathing game, 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 sea, of the fact that it will come and swallow their house. She needs to know that she can survive under water. She has to practice. [[Underwater Breathing by Cassandra Parkin|Full Review]]
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The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because Cornish village of St Petroc isn't on the tourist trail: there's nothing particularly pretty, or historic, or interesting about it has such a wealth , which might be one of intriguethe reasons why Tom Killgannon is there. He had been an undercover policeman, plots but something had gone badly wrong and machinationsnow he's in witness protection and working in the local pub. The regular cast St Petroc feels safe and it's put a good deal of courtly characters are usually rich distance between him and powerfulsome very violent people. He's got an on-again, off-again relationship 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 powerlocal policewoman, or those prepared to do anything to get there. This book, however, is totally different. Set in with the mid–to–late 1500s we see on-again bits coinciding with the world through the eyes of Agnes Peppin, a young, poor womantimes when her husband's away. As a woman she can either marry It's not an exciting life, or join a conventbut right now it suits Tom just fine. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all Until he meets Lila, and she that is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. [[The Butcher's Daughter Old Religion by Victoria GlendinningMartyn Waites|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson]]===
===[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kelly Owen]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionFor Sharing|General FictionFor Sharing]] ''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.''
In 1993, two teenagers stumble across How does a horrific scene on family cope with the beach as they're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: a body loss of a young woman, partially stripped, totally deceased. beloved child and sibling?[[The find hits Dragonfly Story: Explaining the girls in different ways. Nell becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the girl – who she calls ''the Brighton Mermaid'' because death 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 loved 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 children and Gay Pride, it seems. [[The Brighton Mermaid families by Dorothy KoomsonKelly Owen|Full Review]]
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===[[A Taste for Vengeance (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) Marsha's Deal by Martin WalkerLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeShort Stories|CrimeShort Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]
Bruno Courreges is now Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life the police chief for the whole of the Vezere valleyfirst time around. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], but the promotion is not without its drawbacks, as the chain a rare disease which turned parts of command is not quite as clear as it was her body to bone when he knew that he worked for the mayorthey were damaged. StillFinally she was unable to stand her life any longer and went to Dignitas, on a cool, damp Sunday afternoon in spring he had other things on his mind: he was watching the St Denis womenSwiss euthanasia clinic. She's rugby team playing in d thought that would be the end, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-to-face with the regional finaldevil. One player stood out: Paulette And that was the daughter of the local florists and when she was made the best player that Bruno had ever trained, male or femalepact. He In exchange for details about some of those who had hopes of been close to her making the national squad, but there might - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be a cloud reborn on the horizon - Paulette had been sick and had fainted in same day to the showerssame parents, but would live her life free of disease. [[A Taste for Vengeance (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) Marsha's Deal by Martin WalkerLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H Winthrop]]===
===[[The Silver Hand by Terry Deary]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction]]
Aimee like languages. She's particularly keen on Latin and enjoys In an isolated Louisiana town, 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 young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the town shadow of Bray - captured and recaptured the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the Germans and the British during WWI. The Germans are advancing and Aimeeevening's mother decides it's finally time dying sun rays. At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to tell her daughter that she is part a chair and electrocuted for the rape of a secret spy ringwhite girl, helping the Britishwho later committed suicide. Aimee He is resigned to his fate; it is desperate futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to help. And help she doesbelieve what really happened; after all, soon uncovering love between a black man and a traitor white woman was never going to have a happy ending in the British campa small town filled with small-minded people. [[The Silver Hand Mercy Seat by Terry DearyElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Tania Unsworth]]===
===[[The Sand Dog by Sarah Lean]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
Stella''Grandfather had been gone s mother died when she was a little girl. Stella is growing up in a house with her dad, who is often away, and her grandmother, who is starting to experience the onset of dementia. This is all hard enough for two years a young girl, but I never thought it would be at the same time Stella finds that she feels like rather an ordinary day he'd come backoddball, like a Monday or a Tuesday... I always knew he'd return across the waterstruggling to fit in at school, triumphing over a few monsters and as her grandmother begins to lose her grip on the wayreality, I just didnStella struggles with feeling very alone. When Stella't known whens only school friend suddenly moves away, Stella struggles even more. She is desperate to find out what happened to her mum and to uncover her family''s secrets. [[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Tania Unsworth|Full Review]]
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 Dixen -->
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===[[Ascension by Victor Dixen]]===
 
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===Six girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on-board cameras. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the world's 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 one-way ticket. Even if the dream turns to a nightmare, it is too late for regrets. [[All of This Is True Ascension by Lygia Day PenaflorVictor Dixen|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 Kermani -->
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===[[Silence in the Desert by David Longridge]]===
===[[The Toad Who Loved Tea by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:ThrillersFor Sharing|ThrillersFor Sharing]]
As Tungtang is not like other toads. She can't sit still, tongue protruding, and wait to catch a fly. Tungtang needs to be on the shadow of move. Sometimes, she even hops right the Second World War descends upon way over to the planet, four people are explored rotten tree stump in a tale her community of love and friendshipMuddy River. Henri, fulfilling a family tradition in joining the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling And she loves to align his beliefs regale her fellow toads with those stories of his upbringingher exploits. That is, until a mean old crow comes along and Elisabeth, crossing continents tells Tungtang that a real adventure would take her a lot further than a tree stump by a bridge everyone knows. Infuriated by the crow and changing names are all brought together inspired by strife her grandfather's stories of humans and turmoil. As the war ragesancient toad prophecies, these men are tested like never before, with trust, loyalty Tungtang decides on a Real Adventure and love leading heads off to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around themthe town of Little Cobblestone... [[Silence in the Desert The Toad Who Loved Tea by David LongridgeFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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