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It's not pleasant, the first time Marcus and Tessa meet Dave. They'Hellove taken their toddler, Josh, Shadowlandsto Greece on holiday and in the blink of an eye something awful happens. Tessa isn't there, Marcus isn' chronicles a booming crime wave t looking, but Dave steps in South East Asiaand disaster is averted. It illuminates everything from the meth industry in Myanmar Just. They're grateful to him, of course they are, but after the abortion pill black market in usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and the Philippines using both Winnoffer to buy lunch for everyone, they's personal accounts re a little relieved to return to their villa and historical contextlive out the rest of their week in peace. Just a tight little 3-person family unit. It Because although Dave is devastating to imagine the very real human lives that are swept up in this cloud a nice chap, and although of refusecourse they owe him a great deal, and how the West helped create it and he is doing nothing to prevent ita little, well, intense. [[Hello, Shadowlands Take Me In by Patrick WinnSabine Durrant|Full Review]]
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===[[Hunted Go Ask Fannie Farmer by G X ToddElisabeth Hyde]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersGeneral Fiction|ThrillersGeneral Fiction]] ''Do you not sometimes think a storm is coming?'' ''Hunted'' continues where the ''Voices'' series left off, with our heroine on the run without anyone to defend her whilst the world around her is descending into chaos.
LaceyEighty-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, barely escaped with her life after the events of [[Defender by G X Todd|Defender]] a state legislator, elected congressman and now she's being huntedan amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. By Ruth, a corporate lawyer, would find fault and want to talk about him going into a boy driven by retirement home. George, a voice stealing away his sanity piece by piece nurse, would argue and by another incapable Lizzie, a professor of speechEnglish Literature, who lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would be unpredictable. Both are determined to find her at Murray hoped that all costs and both are building up an army of followers would go smoothly, but that simply wasn't going to track her precise location before the otherhappen. [[Hunted Go Ask Fannie Farmer by G X ToddElisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[Across Riddle of the Divide Runes by Anne BoothJanina Ramirez]]===
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''I want all children to know that they CAN already make the world The name Janina Ramirez is well known: her television programmes on cultural history, especially of early medieval times, are both lively and informative. She shares her extensive learning with a better place, light hand (and that there are other people, now a frequent giggle) and in history her enthusiasm encourages students and in fiction, who stand alongside them in thisviewers alike to explore further the subjects she discusses.''This is what author Anne Booth said about the inspiration behind her latest But how will that translate into children's book and this thoughtful fiction? Will her academic desire for accuracy make the story about family, friendship dull and being brave enough to speak fact-packed? Will she hold up for what you believe should help the action to achieve this. In Across the Divide she cleverly combines current issues regarding peace and conflict and the history of conscientious objectors during World War 1 in display her considerable knowledge? Nope, not a moving portrayal of young people trying to make sense bit of the world and the decisions made by adults. it! [[Across Riddle of the Divide Runes by Anne BoothJanina Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness The Grey Bastards by Stephan CollishawJonathan French]]===
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Mazowe Valley''The Grey Bastards'' is an absolute triumph! Fantasy, 2011 – Natalie hears action and adventure cleverly wrapped around a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be 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 birdlot of bad language, but turns out to be a babyLOT of bad language, abandoned to thrown around all the birds on the kopjetime in general speech. She In addition to this there is also some sex and sexual language too, there with her uncle is some violence but this is not actually very explicit and they take not as constant as the child, back to his farm initially language and bawdy jokes. If this bothers you then to a local village where it this is taken in. They do not report it to the policebook for you. For anyone who doesn't mind then this is an absolute must read. [[A Child Called Happiness The Grey Bastards by Stephan CollishawJonathan French|Full Review]]
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===[[Running Amok (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2) The Boy at the Door by Paul HughesAlex Dahl]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
'''Caution[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category: Mild spoilers for {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Beginning to End by Paul Hughes:Category:Thrillers|Beginning to EndThrillers]]'''
DS Kevin Devlin has settled into his new job at Scotland Yard very quickly, although he didnCecilia is picking her daughters up from swimming when the pool't have much choice but s receptionist asks a quick favour of her – to hit the ground running. When we last saw him quite drop off a few of little boy from the rogue element at MI5 and others who were causing Spearing and Devlin difficulties were conveniently dead and class as Spearing has gone missinghis parents seem to have forgotten to collect him. The pool is about to close, Devlin canand it't help but wonder if Spearting was involved in some way in bringing this convenient solution abouts not a big ask although Cecilia is somewhat put out that it will interrupt her routine. Whilst he might have wanted to search for SpearingBut, thereminor inconvenience isn's upheaval at t really a good enough reason to say no so she agrees and bundles the Yard: boy whose name is Tobias into the new commissioner is offering deals to corrupt officers. They can leave car with a year's pay in lieu of notice or they can be prosecutedher girls. Unsurprisingly there are suddenly This is a lot of empty desks - decision that will change her life, and a promotion opportunity for Devlinthat minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that will haunt her every waking moment. [[Running Amok (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2) The Boy at the Door by Paul HughesAlex Dahl|Full Review]]
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''None of them believed meSecond years. Nobody believed I really The girls couldn't remember what happened to my brother. I wanted to scream at them to listen. Because, for believe that they'd made it through the first time year - in a longfact they'd all made it, long timeall eight of them, I which was actually telling most unusual. Usually some were thrown out - they might have grown too tall, didn't look right or didn't have the truthcommitment required. Maddie felt a bit nervous when she thought about that last bit as there'd been a point when she might have been thrown out for that reason. She's now determined that she ''really'' does want to be a ballet dancer, except... [[Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Jean Ure|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 Dard -->
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===[[84K The Gravediggers' Bread by Claire NorthFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]]
Can you put a price on human life?[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
Theo canBlaise is at a loose end, for having left Paris on a wild goose chase for a job, which was his friend's idea, he calculates the worth of each person 's stuck outside a call box waiting to report back before he gets the pennytrain. The Company own everything woman in the post office using the payphone finally finishes her business, and leaves him with a strong impression – as well as a wallet dropped to the floor containing several days' good money, and everyone, including handing out punishments for crimewhen he tracks her to the village funeral directors', signs of her infidelity. Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for Lo and behold he is given a job as the Criminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work woman's husband's assistant, although she also starts to avoid anyone noticing employ himin sending messages to her amour, he calculates, without emotionher childhood love before circumstances changed. Blaise is of course deeply in love with the woman by now, and hates the cost of two obstacles preventing him from being with her. One is the crimes filling his inbox. They are variables on lover, a spreadsheet, brutish bloke with little prospects and a simple mathematical equationbad case of epilepsy. Surely he will not fall by the wayside, and surely the expense brick wall 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. fate keeping Blaise from his intended destiny will remain two men tall? [[84K The Gravediggers' Bread by Claire NorthFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Walls Boy Underwater by Emma FischelAdam Baron]]===
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When Ned's parents decide they can no longer stay together they come up with what they think is an ingenious planCymbeline Igloo (yes, which that’s his real name!) is to divide their house in twonine years old, so that there will be a mum side and a dad sidehe has never been swimming, and the children can spend a week on either side at a time. Whilst his parents hope this will wouldn’t be less disruptive, Ned is incensed by a really big problem except for the fact that the school bully has somehow got the walls impression that spoil his beautiful home Cym is actually an amazing champion swimmer, and stop him from moving through the house as he used has challenged Cym to. a race at their very first school swimming lesson! The walls make him angryHe tries to research swimming on the internet, and but there’s an accident at the pool that anger grows and grows until one day, Ned suddenly discovers initially, sees Cym embarrassed in front of the other kids, but that results in his mum having a breakdown. Why has she never taken Cym swimming? And why does his accident at the walls are no longer important because he can walk through them! pool create such devastation in Cym’s life? [[Walls Boy Underwater by Emma FischelAdam Baron|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions Smoking Kills by Lydia SysonAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
On Meet Fabrice Valantine. He's a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealandheadhunter, and a family of settlers struggle to make such successful one too, in an unforgiving place office in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yes, there is a homenew ban on smoking in all workplaces. When a ship appearsGoaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they feel that met over an ashtray, of sorts, he sees a hypnotist who had success with a mutual friend in stopping their wishes nicotine habit. The session seems to have been granted successful, however he faces the prospect of having such a change to his own personality, his imbued habits and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed lifestyle, with fear, when a vulnerable boy disappearshe realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. As both settlers and newcomers He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come together in about – but it's what he replaces the search for the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both habit with that will surprise the island and those who inhabit itmost. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions Smoking Kills by Lydia SysonAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Nightfall Berlin The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Jack GrimwoodHelen Cullen]]===
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I have heard it said that the best way to begin to tell a story William Woolf is to create a multi-dimensional characterletter detective, imbued with compelling layers of detail - be it backstory, character quirks or behaviours. The point seems to be that working in creating a character the Dead Letters Depot in such a way you begin to reflect the truth of life wherein East London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people are by definition multi-dimensional and thusreading endless letters of love, guilt, you bring your story to life. In Major Tom Foxdeath, Grimwood has successfully created just such a character. In one man he gifts us an exciting and honourable figure who somehow simultaneously manages to present as damaged and flawed. Grimwood provides some character history for Fox which clearly informs the actions of the character but I would suggest that rather than any written history provided for Major Foxhope, it is in the way he interacts with the other characters and drives the action of the story that we come to know himeveryday life. [[Nightfall Berlin The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Jack GrimwoodHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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===[[Beginning to End by Paul Hughes]]===
 
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
 
Sir Mark Wright, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, based at New Scotland Yard was aware that the Met was riddled with corruption, but 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 in new technology. Unsurprisingly, there were a lot of people against him: some were making very good money on the side and quite a few of the old-timers weren't too keen on all 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 officers. [[Beginning to End by Paul Hughes|Full Review]]
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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Kat Wolfe Investigates (Kat Wolfe 1) by Lauren St John]]===''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.''
[[image:4starBobby 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:Confident ReadersThe Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
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. 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 condition. 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? [[Kat Wolfe Investigates (Kat Wolfe 1) by Lauren St John|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing The Old Religion by Cassandra ParkinMartyn Waites]]===
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A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down The Cornish village of St Petroc isn't on the mud cliffs and away into tourist trail: there's nothing particularly pretty, or historic, or interesting about it, which might be one of the sea reasons why Tom Killgannon is where we meet Jacob and Ellathere. They share a bathroom in the turretHe had been an undercover policeman, old but something had gone badly wrong and cold now he's in witness protection 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 working in the water holding their breath for as long as they canlocal pub. For sixteen year old Jacob St Petroc feels safe and it's just put a way good deal of drowning out the arguments…but for Ella it is more than thatdistance between him and some very violent people. She is terrified of He's got an on-again, off-again relationship with the sealocal policewoman, of with the on-again bits coinciding with the fact that times when her husband's away. It's not an exciting life, but right now it will come and swallow their housesuits Tom just fine. She needs to know Until he meets Lila, that she can survive under water. She has to practiceis. [[Underwater Breathing The Old Religion by Cassandra ParkinMartyn Waites|Full Review]]
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===[[The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning]]===
===[[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:Historical FictionFor Sharing|Historical 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.''
The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such How does a wealth of intrigue, plots and machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, family cope 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 loss 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, beloved child and she is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. sibling?[[The Butcher's Daughter Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Victoria GlendinningKelly Owen|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid Marsha's Deal by Dorothy KoomsonLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]
In 1993, two teenagers stumble across a horrific scene on Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life the beach as theyfirst time around. She're sneaking home after an un-authorised night outd been afflicted with [https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], a rare disease which turned parts of her body of a young woman, partially stripped, totally deceased. The find hits the girls in different waysto bone when they were damaged. Nell becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the girl – who Finally she calls ''the Brighton Mermaid'' because of a distinguishing tattoo – whereas Jude just wants was unable to forget it ever happened. Fast forward 25 years stand her life any longer and Nell is still haunted by what happened that night. With few leads went to go onDignitas, the Police closed Swiss euthanasia clinic. She'd thought that would be the case without cracking itend, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and so it remains one of those unsolved mysteries that become part of local folklore, but Nell struggles she found herself face-to let sleeping dogs, or even sleeping mermaids, lie. As for Jude, well no one knows if -face with the discovery still haunts her because no one knows where she isdevil. Shortly after And that fateful night, was when she too disappeared, never made the pact. In exchange for details about some of those who had been close to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be seen or heard from again. There's more reborn on the same day to Brighton than Stag Dos and Gay Pridethe same parents, it seemsbut would live her life free of disease. [[The Brighton Mermaid Marsha's Deal by Dorothy KoomsonLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[A Taste for Vengeance (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) The Mercy Seat by Martin WalkerElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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Bruno Courreges is now the police chief for the whole of the Vezere valleyIn an isolated Louisiana town, but the promotion is not without its drawbacksa young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, as staring at the chain shadow of command is not quite as clear as it was when he knew that he worked for the mayor. Still, on a cool, damp Sunday afternoon in spring he had other things on his mind: he was watching window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the St Denis womenevening's rugby team playing in the regional finaldying sun rays. One player stood out: Paulette was At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a chair and electrocuted for the daughter rape of the local florists and she was the best player that Bruno had ever traineda white girl, male or femalewho later committed suicide. He had hopes of her making the national squadis resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, but there might be love between a cloud on the horizon - Paulette had been sick black man and had fainted a white woman was never going to have a happy ending in the showersa small town filled with small-minded people. [[A Taste for Vengeance (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) The Mercy Seat by Martin WalkerElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Tania Unsworth]]===
===[[The Silver Hand by Terry Deary]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
Aimee like languages. SheStella's particularly keen on Latin and enjoys mother died when she was a sparring session or two with her teacherlittle girl. Aimee would like nothing better than to have her head stuck Stella is growing up in a book all day every day. But that's not possible when it's 1918 house with her dad, who is often away, and you live in her grandmother, who is starting to experience the town onset of Bray - captured and recaptured by dementia. This is all hard enough for a young girl, but at the Germans same time Stella finds that she feels like rather an oddball, struggling to fit in at school, and the British during WWIas her grandmother begins to lose her grip on reality, Stella struggles with feeling very alone. The Germans are advancing and Aimee's mother decides it When Stella's finally time to tell her daughter that she is part of a secret spy ringonly school friend suddenly moves away, helping the BritishStella struggles even more. Aimee She is desperate to help. And help she does, soon uncovering a traitor in the British campfind out what happened to her mum and to uncover her family's secrets. [[The Silver Hand Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Terry DearyTania Unsworth|Full Review]]
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===[[The Sand Dog by Sarah Lean]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersTeens|Teens]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Confident ReadersScience Fiction]]
''Grandfather had been gone for Six girls, six boys. Each in the two years but I never thought it would be an ordinary day he'd come back, like separate bays of a Monday or a Tuesdaysingle spaceship.They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on-board cameras.. I always knew heThey are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the world'd return across s craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the waterfirst human colony on Mars. Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, triumphing over is one of the chosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a few monsters on one-way ticket. Even if the waydream turns to a nightmare, I just didn't known whenit is too late for regrets.'' [[Ascension by Victor Dixen|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 Kermani -->
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===[[All of This Is True The Toad Who Loved Tea by Lygia Day PenaflorFaiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]
[[image:3Tungtang is not like other toads.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]She can''Undertow'' is the latest YA novel t sit still, tongue protruding, and wait to hit the best seller lists. It's catch a study in grief and Miri is its biggest fanfly. So, when author Fatima Ro comes Tungtang needs to Long Island for a book signingbe on the move. Sometimes, Miri is determined she even hops right the way over to meet the rotten tree stump in her and takes community of Muddy River. And she loves to regale her friends along. Soleil has writing ambitions fellow toads with stories of her own exploits. That is, until a mean old crow comes along and so she is overjoyed when Fatima takes tells Tungtang that a real adventure would take her a lot further than a tree stump by a bridge everyone knows. Infuriated by the group crow and inspired by her grandfather's stories of friends under her wing. Penny wants to be noticed humans and will do anything for Fatimaancient toad prophecies, who notices. And Jonah? Well, Jonah has secrets Tungtang decides on a Real Adventure and Fatima loves secretsheads off to the town of Little Cobblestone... [[All of This Is True The Toad Who Loved Tea by Lygia Day PenaflorFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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