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===[[The Aladdin Trial Take Me In by Abi SilverSabine Durrant]]===
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When elderly hospital patient Barbara Hennessy is found dead on It's not pleasant, the pavement outside the hospital, a police investigation is launched into whether she jumped or was pushedfirst time Marcus and Tessa meet Dave. Having just have surgery on her footThey've taken their toddler, there is sufficient grounds to think this was no accidentJosh, but the only suspect the police can link to Greece on holiday and in the death is the hospital cleanerblink of an eye something awful happens. Tessa isn't there, a Syrian refugeeMarcus isn't looking, Ahmad Qabbanibut Dave steps in and disaster is averted. Just. Solicitor Constance Lamb and barrister Judith Burton reunite They're grateful to defend Ahmadhim, of course they are, but with an uncooperative hospital staff, Barbara's self interested children after the usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and Ahmad keeping secretsthe offer to buy lunch for everyone, itthey's going an increasingly difficult task re a little relieved to prove return to their villa and live out the jury rest of their week in peace. Just a tight little 3-person family unit. Because although Dave is a nice chap, and the mediaalthough of course they owe him a great deal, that he is innocenta little, well, intense. [[The Aladdin Trial Take Me In by Abi SilverSabine Durrant|Full Review]]
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===[[A Demon In Silver Go Ask Fannie Farmer by R S FordElisabeth Hyde]]===
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Take a fantasy world where gods once walked Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the land and magic influenced everything best when he waited for millenniahis three children to arrive one Friday night. He might be a retired lawyer, where magic was power a state legislator, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and the entire world was shaped around its influenceGeorge arrived. Then Ruth, a corporate lawyer, overnightwould find fault and want to talk about him going into a retirement home. George, that power was ripped awaya nurse, sorcerers' died instantly would argue and magic is never heard Lizzie, a professor of again. Until now. A farm girl from the middle of nowhere has unleashed raw magic English Literature, who lived locally and kept and the tribal leaders will stop at nothing to control hervisited him regularly, using whatever means necessarywould be unpredictable. Can anyone save herMurray hoped that all would go smoothly, or will they need saving from her? but that simply wasn't going to happen. [[A Demon In Silver Go Ask Fannie Farmer by R S FordElisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[Lala Riddle of the Runes by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Janina Ramirez]]===
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''This The name Janina Ramirez is the mysterious nature well known: her television programmes on cultural history, especially of storytelling: the same start can also mean different endingsearly medieval times, are both lively and informative. She shares her extensive learning with a light hand (and a frequent giggle) and different starts can lead her enthusiasm encourages students and viewers alike to explore further the same finalesubjects she discusses. ItBut how will that translate into children's all subordinate to the greater narrative, which starts somewhere in Kiev''. This beautiful book is exactly that, the mysterious art of storytelling. The wayward meanderings of memory, of tangents and digressions, of side notes and elaborations, but above all that of affection; fiction? Will her academic desire for both accuracy make the story dull and fact-packed? Will she hold up the storyteller. What makes us who we are if action to display her considerable knowledge? Nope, not our culture and heritage and in this book our narrator re-lives and re-tells the story a bit of his heritage told to him by his grandmother. it! [[Lala Riddle of the Runes by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Janina Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French]]===
===[[A Thousand Perfect Notes by C G Drews]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensFantasy|TeensFantasy]]
''What he wants most in 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 world 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 cut off his own handsthis 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. At If this bothers you then this is not the wrist would be bestbook for you.For anyone who doesn''t mind then this is an absolute must read. [[The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French|Full Review]]
What child would think such a thing? Beck would think such a thing. The son of a talented pianist who became ill and could no longer play, Beck is the servant of his thwarted mother's ambitions. He must be the pianist now. And Beck's mother - the Maestro - makes him practise for hours every day. If he rebels in any way, his mother's response is violent. But Beck doesn't want to play Chopin. He wants to compose. Forbidden music fills his head but it's an impossible dream.[[A Thousand Perfect Notes by C G Drews|Full Review]]  <!-- Ruth Mancini Dahl -->
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===[[In The Blood Boy at the Door by Ruth ManciniAlex Dahl]]===
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Bringing Cecilia is picking her daughters up a child on your own is difficult: from swimming when that child is severely disabled the obstacles are almost insurmountable and criminal defence lawyer Sarah Kellerman struggles on pool's receptionist asks a quick favour of her – to drop off a daily basislittle boy from the class as his parents seem to have forgotten to collect him. Ben The pool is nearly five but still can't walk or talk about to close, and isnit't toilet trained. His main way of communicating s not a big ask although Cecilia is to have a screaming tantrum, but he somewhat put out that it will watch ''Teletubbies'' - for hours on endinterrupt her routine. She has sympathy with Ellie when sheBut, minor inconvenience isn's charged with trying t really a good enough reason to murder her son, firstly by poisoning him say no so she agrees and them by removing bundles the boy whose name is Tobias into the dialysis line car with was circulating his blood to clean ither girls. On the face of it there doesn't seem to be This is a lot of chance of fighting the charge - decision that will change her life, and that minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that's certainly what Sarah's boss thinks - but Sarah isn't quite so certainwill haunt her every waking moment. [[In The Blood Boy at the Door by Ruth ManciniAlex Dahl|Full Review]]
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===[[Hello, Shadowlands Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Patrick WinnJean Ure]]===
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Second years. The girls couldn't believe that they'd made it through the first year - in fact they'Hellod all made it, Shadowlandsall eight of them, which was most unusual. Usually some were thrown out - they might have grown too tall, didn't look right or didn' chronicles t have the commitment required. Maddie felt a bit nervous when she thought about that last bit as there'd been a booming crime wave in South East Asiapoint when she might have been thrown out for that reason. It illuminates everything from the meth industry in Myanmar to the abortion pill black market in the Philippines using both Winn She's personal accounts and historical context. It is devastating now determined that she ''really'' does want to imagine the very real human lives that are swept up in this cloud of refusebe a ballet dancer, and how the West helped create it and is doing nothing to prevent itexcept... [[Hello, Shadowlands Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Patrick WinnJean Ure|Full Review]]
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===[[Hunted The Gravediggers' Bread by G X ToddFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
''Do you not sometimes think a storm is coming?'' ''Hunted'' continues where the ''Voices'' series left off[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], with our heroine on the run without anyone to defend her whilst the world around her is descending into chaos.[[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
LaceyBlaise is at a loose end, for having left Paris on a wild goose chase for a job, which was his friend's idea, he's stuck outside a call box waiting to report back before he gets the train. The woman in the post office using the payphone finally finishes her business, barely escaped and leaves him with a strong impression – as well as a wallet dropped to the floor containing several days' good money, and, when he tracks her life after to the events village funeral directors', signs of [[Defender by G X Todd|Defender]] her infidelity. Lo and now shebehold he is given a job 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. Blaise is of course deeply in love with the woman by now, and hates the two obstacles preventing him from being huntedwith her. By One is the lover, a boy driven by brutish bloke with little prospects and a voice stealing away his sanity piece by piece and by another incapable bad case of speechepilepsy. Both are determined to find her at all costs Surely he will not fall by the wayside, and both are building up an army surely the brick wall of followers to track her precise location before the other. fate keeping Blaise from his intended destiny will remain two men tall? [[Hunted The Gravediggers' Bread by G X ToddFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Across the Divide Boy Underwater by Anne BoothAdam Baron]]===
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''I want all children to know that they CAN already make the world a better placeCymbeline Igloo (yes, that’s his real name!) is nine years old, and that there are other peoplehe has never been swimming, now and in history and in fiction, who stand alongside them in this.''This wouldn’t be a really big problem except for the fact that the school bully has somehow got the impression that Cym is what author Anne Booth said about the inspiration behind her latest children's book and this thoughtful story about familyactually an amazing champion swimmer, friendship and being brave enough has challenged Cym to speak up for what you believe should help a race at their very first school swimming lesson! He tries to achieve this. In Across research swimming on the Divide she cleverly combines current issues regarding peace and conflict and internet, but there’s an accident at the history pool that, initially, sees Cym embarrassed in front of conscientious objectors during World War 1 the other kids, but that results in his mum having a moving portrayal of young people trying to make sense of breakdown. Why has she never taken Cym swimming? And why does his accident at the world and the decisions made by adults. pool create such devastation in Cym’s life? [[Across the Divide Boy Underwater by Anne BoothAdam Baron|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness Smoking Kills by Stephan CollishawAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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Mazowe Valley, 2011 – Natalie hears Meet Fabrice Valantine. He's a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be a birdheadhunter, but turns out to be and a babysuccessful one too, abandoned to the birds on the kopjein an office in Paris. She All around him however his world is changing – yes, there is a new ban on smoking in all workplaces. Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, of sorts, he sees a hypnotist who had success with her uncle and they take a mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the childprospect of having such a change to his own personality, back to his farm initially imbued habits and then to a local village where lifestyle, with fear, when he realises it is taken inwill never again grant him any pleasure. They do not report He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it to 's what he replaces the habit with that will surprise the policemost. [[A Child Called Happiness Smoking Kills by Stephan CollishawAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Running Amok (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2) The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Paul HughesHelen Cullen]]===
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'''Caution: Mild spoilers for William Woolf is a letter detective, working in the Dead Letters Depot in East London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of love, guilt, death, hope, and everyday life. [[Beginning to End The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Paul HughesHelen Cullen|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 Conaghan -->
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===[[The Boy Who Lied Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Kim SlaterBrian Conaghan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: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.''
[[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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]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.[[:Category:TeensThe Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan|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 Waites -->
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===[[84K The Old Religion by Claire NorthMartyn Waites]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]]
Can you put a price on human life?[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
Theo canThe Cornish village of St Petroc isn't on the tourist trail: there's nothing particularly pretty, he calculates the worth or historic, or interesting about it, which might be one of each person to the pennyreasons why Tom Killgannon is there. The Company own everything He had been an undercover policeman, but something had gone badly wrong and now he's in witness protection and everyone, including handing out punishments for crime. Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for in the Criminal Audit Officelocal pub. Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing St Petroc feels safe and it's put a good deal of distance between himand some very violent people. He's got an on-again, he calculates, without emotionoff-again relationship with the local policewoman, with the cost of on-again bits coinciding with the crimes filling his inboxtimes when her husband's away. They are variables on a spreadsheet It's not an exciting life, a simple mathematical equationbut right now it suits Tom just fine. Until he meets Lila, 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 cashthat is. [[84K The Old Religion by Claire NorthMartyn Waites|Full Review]]
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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 plan, which is to divide their house in two, so that there will be a mum side and a dad side, and the children can spend a week on either side at a time[[image:4. Whilst his parents hope this will be less disruptive, Ned is incensed by the walls that spoil his beautiful home and stop him from moving through the house as he used to5star. The walls make him angry, and that anger grows and grows until one day, Ned suddenly discovers that the walls are no longer important because he can walk through them! jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Walls by Emma Fischel:Category:For Sharing|Full ReviewFor Sharing]]
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How does a family cope with the loss of a beloved child and sibling?
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===[[Nightfall Berlin Marsha's Deal by Jack GrimwoodLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersShort Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|ThrillersFantasy]]
I Marsha didn't have heard it said that an easy ride in life the best way first time around. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], a rare disease which turned parts of her body to begin bone when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to tell a story is stand her life any longer and went to create a multi-dimensional characterDignitas, imbued with compelling layers of detail - the Swiss euthanasia clinic. She'd thought that would be it backstorythe end, character quirks or behaviours. The point seems but after cremation her body went straight to be that in creating a character in such a way you begin hell and she found herself face-to reflect -face with the truth of life wherein people are by definition multi-dimensional and thus, you bring your story to lifedevil. In Major Tom Fox, Grimwood has successfully created just such a character And that was when she made the pact. In one man he gifts us an exciting and honourable figure exchange for details about some of those who somehow simultaneously manages had been close to present as damaged her - their strengths and flawed. Grimwood provides some character history for Fox which clearly informs weaknesses - she would be reborn on the actions of same day to the character same parents, but I would suggest that rather than any written history provided for Major Fox, it is in the way he interacts with the other characters and drives the action live her life free of the story that we come to know himdisease. [[Nightfall Berlin Marsha's Deal by Jack GrimwoodLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Beginning to End The Mercy Seat by Paul HughesElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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Sir Mark WrightIn an isolated Louisiana town, Commissioner a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the shadow of the Metropolitan Police, based at New Scotland Yard was aware that window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the Met was riddled with corruptionevening's dying sun rays. At midnight, but in 1967 times were changing and Wright was determined that he was going will be dead; strapped to upgrade a chair and electrocuted for the service by ridding it rape of corrupt officers and bringing in new technologya white girl, who later committed suicide. UnsurprisinglyHe is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, there were love between a lot of people against him: some were making very good money on the side black man 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 white woman was never really catch on. One of Wright's first actions was going to bring have a happy ending in some new blood: what came to be known as 'the trained brains' a small town filled with small- minded people with qualifications in specific areas who could introduce new ideas, whilst being mentored by the older, more experienced officers. [[Beginning to End The Mercy Seat by Paul HughesElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[Kat Wolfe Investigates (Kat Wolfe 1) The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Lauren St JohnTania Unsworth]]===
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Kat Wolfe lives Stella's mother died when she was a little girl. Stella is growing up in a house with her mumdad, a vetwho is often away, in London and following a break-in they decide that her grandmother, who is starting to experience the time has come to move out onset of the citydementia. Kat, This is all hard enough for a confirmed animal loveryoung girl, is delighted when her mum accepts but at 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 same time Stella finds that Kat had not foreseen for the cat is a wild Savannah who resists all Kat's attempts she feels like rather an oddball, struggling to sooth fit in at school, and tame him. Furthermore when she starts a pet-sitting agency as her grandmother begins to make pocket money Kat's problems mount up. The owner of lose her first charge disappears leaving a series of mysterious clues behind himgrip on reality, Stella struggles with feeling very alone. What started out as a promising escape from city life quickly escalates into a mystery that deepens and becomes steadily When Stella's only school friend suddenly moves away, Stella struggles even more dangerous. Luckily Kat has her new friend Harper to support and help her. Although Harper She is laid up with two broken legs thanks desperate to a horse riding accident she is not about find out what happened to let that stop her getting involved. Harper is a language and coding whizz mum and she and Kat are determined solve the clues and make people listen to them. Even if they canuncover her family't do that by themselves they know that they have their animal friends to helps secrets. Can the team work together to save the day? [[Kat Wolfe Investigates (Kat Wolfe 1) The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Lauren St JohnTania Unsworth|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing Ascension by Cassandra ParkinVictor Dixen]]===
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A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down Six girls, six boys. Each in the mud cliffs two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and away into to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the sea is where we meet Jacob and Ellaon-board cameras. They share a bathroom are the contenders in the turretGenesis programme, old and cold and not really supposed to be used…but this is where they hide away from the shouts of their parentsworld' arguments. Here they play the Underwater Breathing games craziest speed-dating show ever, submerging themselves in aimed at creating the water holding their breath for as long as they canfirst human colony on Mars. For sixteen Leonor, an 18 year old Jacob it's just a way orphan, is one of drowning out the arguments…but for Ella it is more than thatchosen ones. She is terrified of the sea, of the fact that it will come and swallow their househas signed up for glory. She needs to know that she can survive under waterhas signed up for love. She has signed up for a one-way ticket. Even if the dream turns to practicea nightmare, it is too late for regrets. [[Underwater Breathing Ascension by Cassandra ParkinVictor Dixen|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[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning:Category:For Sharing|Full ReviewFor Sharing]]
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 move. Sometimes, she even hops right the way over to the rotten tree stump in her community of Muddy River. And she loves to regale her fellow toads with stories of her exploits. That is, until a mean old crow comes along and tells Tungtang that a real adventure would take her a lot further than a tree stump by a bridge everyone knows. Infuriated by the crow and inspired by her grandfather's stories of humans and ancient toad prophecies, Tungtang decides on a Real Adventure and heads off to the town of Little Cobblestone... [[The Toad Who Loved Tea by Faiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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