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===[[Falling Short Take Me In by Lex CoultonSabine Durrant]]===
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Lex CoultonIt's debut novel is a story about mistakesnot pleasant, the first time Marcus and Tessa meet Dave. They've taken their toddler, failuresJosh, to Greece on holiday and relationshipsin the blink of an eye something awful happens. The main protagonistTessa isn't there, Frances PilgrimMarcus isn't looking, but Dave steps in and disaster is averted. Just. They're grateful to him, of course they are, but after the usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and the offer to buy lunch for everyone, they're a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen little relieved to return to their villa and live out with her best friend Jackson, the rest of their week in peace. Just a tight little 3-person family unit. Because although Dave is a work colleaguenice chap, and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour although of her mother. This relationship course they owe him a great deal, he is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years olda little, well, intense. [[Falling Short Take Me In by Lex CoultonSabine Durrant|Full Review]]
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===[[The Aladdin Trial Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Abi SilverElisabeth Hyde]]===
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When elderly hospital patient Barbara Hennessy is found dead on Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the pavement outside the hospitalbest when he waited for his three children to arrive one Friday night. He might be a retired lawyer, a police investigation is launched into whether she jumped or was pushedstate legislator, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. Having just have surgery on her foot Ruth, there is sufficient grounds to think this was no accidenta corporate lawyer, but the only suspect the police can link would find fault and want to the death is the hospital cleanertalk about him going into a retirement home. George, a Syrian refugeenurse, Ahmad Qabbani. Solicitor Constance Lamb would argue and barrister Judith Burton reunite to defend AhmadLizzie, but with an uncooperative hospital staffa professor of English Literature, Barbara's self interested children who lived locally and kept and Ahmad keeping secretsvisited him regularly, would be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, itbut that simply wasn's t going an increasingly difficult task to prove to the jury and the media, that he is innocenthappen. [[The Aladdin Trial Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Abi SilverElisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[A Demon In Silver Riddle of the Runes by R S FordJanina Ramirez]]===
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Take 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 fantasy world where gods once walked the land light hand (and a frequent giggle) and magic influenced everything for millennia, where magic was power her enthusiasm encourages students and viewers alike to explore further the entire world was shaped around its influencesubjects she discusses. Then, overnight, But how will that power was ripped away, sorcererstranslate into children' died instantly and magic is never heard of again. Until now. A farm girl from s fiction? Will her academic desire for accuracy make the middle of nowhere has unleashed raw magic story dull and fact-packed? Will she hold up the tribal leaders will stop at nothing action to control display herconsiderable knowledge? Nope, using whatever means necessary. Can anyone save her, or will they need saving from her? not a bit of it! [[A Demon In Silver Riddle of the Runes by R S FordJanina Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[Lala The Grey Bastards by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Jonathan French]]===
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''This The Grey Bastards'' is the mysterious nature of storytelling: the same start can also mean different endingsan absolute triumph! Fantasy, action and adventure cleverly wrapped around a super plot and different starts can lead to the same finale. It's all subordinate to the greater narrativewell written characters, which starts somewhere in Kiev''. This beautiful this book is exactly thatso much fun. A word of caution though, this is not suitable for all readers. As the mysterious art tittle suggests there is a lot of storytelling. The wayward meanderings of memorybad language, a LOT of tangents and digressionsbad language, of side notes thrown around all the time in general speech. In addition to this there is also some sex and elaborationssexual language too, there is some violence but above all that of affection; for both this is not actually very explicit and not as constant as the story language and bawdy jokes. If this bothers you then this is not the storytellerbook for you. What makes us For anyone who we are if not our culture and heritage and in doesn't mind then this book our narrator re-lives and re-tells the story of his heritage told to him by his grandmotheris an absolute must read. [[Lala The Grey Bastards by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Jonathan French|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy at the Door by Alex Dahl]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[A Thousand Perfect Notes by C G Drews:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  ''What he wants most in the world Cecilia is to cut off his own hands. At picking her daughters up from swimming when the wrist would be best.pool'' What child would think such s receptionist asks a thing? Beck would think such a thing. The son quick favour of her – to drop off a talented pianist who became ill and could no longer play, Beck is little boy from the servant of class as his thwarted mother's ambitions. He must be the pianist now. And Beck's mother - the Maestro - makes parents seem to have forgotten to collect him practise for hours every day. If he rebels in any wayThe pool is about to close, his motherand it's response not a big ask although Cecilia is violentsomewhat put out that it will interrupt her routine. But Beck doesn, minor inconvenience isn't want really a good enough reason to play Chopinsay no so she agrees and bundles the boy whose name is Tobias into the car with her girls. He wants to compose. Forbidden music fills his head but it's an impossible dreamThis is a decision that will change her life, and that minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that will haunt her every waking moment.[[A Thousand Perfect Notes The Boy at the Door by C G DrewsAlex Dahl|Full Review]]
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===[[In The Blood Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Ruth ManciniJean Ure]]===
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Bringing up a child on your own is difficult: when Second years. The girls couldn't believe that child is severely disabled they'd made it through the obstacles are almost insurmountable and criminal defence lawyer Sarah Kellerman struggles on a daily basisfirst year - in fact they'd all made it, all eight of them, which was most unusual. Ben is nearly five but still canUsually some were thrown out - they might have grown too tall, didn't walk look right or talk and isndidn't toilet trainedhave the commitment required. His main way of communicating is to have Maddie felt a screaming tantrum, but he will watch bit nervous when she thought about that last bit as there''Teletubbies'' - d been a point when she might have been thrown out for hours on endthat reason. She has sympathy with Ellie when 's now determined that she's charged with trying to murder her son, firstly by poisoning him and them by removing the dialysis line with was circulating his blood to clean it. On the face of it there doesn't seem really'' does want to be a lot of chance of fighting the charge - that's certainly what Sarah's boss thinks - but Sarah isn't quite so certainballet dancer, except... [[In The Blood Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Ruth ManciniJean Ure|Full Review]]
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===[[Hello, Shadowlands The Gravediggers' Bread by Patrick WinnFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)]]===
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Blaise is at a loose end, for having left Paris on a wild goose chase for a job, which was his friend''Hellos idea, Shadowlandshe'' chronicles s stuck outside a booming crime wave in South East Asia. It illuminates everything from the meth industry in Myanmar call box waiting to report back before he gets the abortion pill black market train. The woman in the Philippines post office using both Winnthe payphone finally finishes her business, and leaves him with a strong impression – as well as a wallet dropped to the floor containing several days's personal accounts good money, and historical context, when he tracks her to the village funeral directors', signs of her infidelity. It Lo and behold he is devastating given a job as the woman's husband's assistant, although she also starts to imagine the very real human lives that are swept up employ him in this cloud sending messages to her amour, her childhood love before circumstances changed. Blaise is of refusecourse deeply in love with the woman by now, and how hates the two obstacles preventing him from being with her. One is the West helped create it lover, a brutish bloke with little prospects and is doing nothing to prevent ita bad case of epilepsy. Surely he will not fall by the wayside, and surely the brick wall of fate keeping Blaise from his intended destiny will remain two men tall? [[Hello, Shadowlands The Gravediggers' Bread by Patrick WinnFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Hunted Boy Underwater by G X ToddAdam Baron]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersConfident Readers|ThrillersConfident Readers]] ''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.
LaceyCymbeline Igloo (yes, that’s his real name!) is nine years old, and he has never been swimming, barely escaped with her life after the events of [[Defender by G X Todd|Defender]] and now she's being hunted. By this wouldn’t be a boy driven by a voice stealing away his sanity piece by piece really big problem except for the fact that the school bully has somehow got the impression that Cym is actually an amazing champion swimmer, and by another incapable of speech. Both are determined has challenged Cym to find her a race at all costs and both are building up their very first school swimming lesson! He tries to research swimming on the internet, but there’s an army accident at the pool that, initially, sees Cym embarrassed in front of followers to track her precise location before the otherkids, 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? [[Hunted Boy Underwater by G X ToddAdam Baron|Full Review]]
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===[[Across the Divide Smoking Kills by Anne BoothAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction]]
Meet Fabrice Valantine. He''I want all children to know that they CAN already make the world s a better placeheadhunter, and that there are other peoplea successful one too, now and in history and an office in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yes, there is a new ban on smoking in fictionall workplaces. Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, of sorts, he sees a hypnotist who stand alongside them had success with a mutual friend in thisstopping their nicotine habit.''This is what author Anne Booth said about The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the inspiration behind her latest children's book prospect of having such a change to his own personality, his imbued habits and lifestyle, with fear, when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. He needs this thoughtful story pleasure when further changes at work come about family, friendship and being brave enough to speak up for – but it's what you believe should help to achieve this. In Across he replaces the Divide she cleverly combines current issues regarding peace and conflict and the history of conscientious objectors during World War 1 in a moving portrayal of young people trying to make sense of habit with that will surprise the world and the decisions made by adultsmost. [[Across the Divide Smoking Kills by Anne BoothAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Stephan CollishawHelen Cullen]]===
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Mazowe Valley, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be William Woolf is a birdletter detective, but turns out to be a baby, abandoned to working in the birds on the kopjeDead Letters Depot in East London. She is there with her uncle He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and they take the childreading endless letters of love, guilt, death, hope, back to his farm initially and then to a local village where it is taken in. They do not report it to the policeeveryday life. [[A Child Called Happiness The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Stephan CollishawHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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===[[Running Amok (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2) by Paul Hughes]]===
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'''Caution[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category: Mild spoilers for {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Beginning to End by Paul Hughes:Category:Teens|Beginning to EndTeens]]'''
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 'Funny how no one ever uses the rogue element at MI5 and others who were causing Spearing and Devlin difficulties were conveniently dead and as Spearing has gone missing, Devlin canword '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, therelove's upheaval at the Yard: the new commissioner is offering deals to corrupt officerswhen discussing my case. They can leave with a yearI do what I do because she's pay in lieu of notice or they can be prosecutedmy mum. Unsurprisingly there are suddenly a lot of empty desks - That pure and a promotion opportunity for Devlinthat simple. [[Running Amok (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2) by Paul Hughes|Full Review]]''
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 Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan|Full Review]]  <!-- Slater Waites -->
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===[[The Old Religion by Martyn Waites]]===
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The Cornish village of St Petroc isn't on the tourist trail: there'None s nothing particularly pretty, or historic, or interesting about it, which might be one of them believed methe reasons why Tom Killgannon is there. Nobody believed I really couldn He had been an undercover policeman, but something had gone badly wrong and now he't remember what happened to my brothers in witness protection and working in the local pub. I wanted to scream at them to listen St Petroc feels safe and it's put a good deal of distance between him and some very violent people. Because He's got an on-again, for off-again relationship with the first time in a longlocal policewoman, long time, I was actually telling with the on-again bits coinciding with the truthtimes 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. [[The Old Religion by Martyn Waites|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 Owen -->
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===[[84K by Claire North]]===
===[[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:Dystopian FictionFor Sharing|Dystopian FictionFor Sharing]]
Can you put a price on human life?''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.''
Theo can, he calculates How does a family cope with the worth loss of each person to the penny. a beloved child and sibling?[[The Company own everything and everyone, including handing out punishments for crime. Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for Dragonfly Story: Explaining the Criminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, the cost death of the crimes filling his inbox. They are variables on a spreadsheet, a simple mathematical equation, the expense of solving the crime added loved one 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 children and families by Claire NorthKelly Owen|Full Review]]
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===[[Walls Marsha's Deal by Emma FischelLaura Solomon]]===
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When NedMarsha didn's parents decide they can no longer stay together they come up t have an easy ride in life the first time around. She'd been afflicted with what they think is an ingenious plan[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], a rare disease which is turned parts of her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer and went to divide their house in twoDignitas, so the Swiss euthanasia clinic. She'd thought that there will would be a mum side and a dad sidethe end, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-to-face with the children can spend a week on either side at a timedevil. Whilst his parents hope this will be less disruptive, Ned is incensed by the walls And that spoil his beautiful home and stop him from moving through was when she made the house as he used topact. The walls make him angry, In exchange for details about some of those who had been close to her - their strengths and that anger grows and grows until one weaknesses - she would be reborn on the same dayto the same parents, Ned suddenly discovers that the walls are no longer important because he can walk through them! but would live her life free of disease. [[Walls Marsha's Deal by Emma FischelLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions The Mercy Seat by Lydia SysonElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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On In an isolated Louisiana town, a remote volcanic island off young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the coast shadow of New Zealandthe window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun rays. At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a family chair and electrocuted for the rape of settlers struggle a white girl, who later committed suicide. He is resigned to make such an unforgiving place his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, love between a home. When black man and a ship appears, they feel that their wishes white woman was never going to 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 happy ending 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 ita small town filled with small-minded people. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions The Mercy Seat by Lydia SysonElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[Nightfall Berlin The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Jack GrimwoodTania Unsworth]]===
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I have heard it said that the best way to begin to tell Stella's mother died when she was a story little girl. Stella is to create growing up in a multi-dimensional characterhouse with her dad, imbued with compelling layers of detail - be it backstorywho is often away, character quirks or behaviours. The point seems to be that in creating a character in such a way you begin to reflect the truth of life wherein people are by definition multi-dimensional and thus, you bring your story to life. In Major Tom Foxher grandmother, Grimwood has successfully created just such a character. In one man he gifts us an exciting and honourable figure who somehow simultaneously manages is starting to present as damaged and flawedexperience the onset of dementia. Grimwood provides some character history This is all hard enough for Fox which clearly informs the actions of a young girl, but at the character but I would suggest same time Stella finds that she feels like rather than any written history provided for Major Foxan oddball, it is struggling to fit in the way he interacts at school, and as her grandmother begins to lose her grip on reality, Stella struggles with the other characters feeling very alone. When Stella's only school friend suddenly moves away, Stella struggles even more. She is desperate to find out what happened to her mum and drives the action of the story that we come to know himuncover her family's secrets. [[Nightfall Berlin The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Jack GrimwoodTania Unsworth|Full Review]]
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===[[Beginning to End Ascension by Paul HughesVictor Dixen]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeTeens|Teens]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|CrimeScience Fiction]]
Sir Mark WrightSix girls, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, based at New Scotland Yard was aware that the Met was riddled with corruption, but six boys. Each in 1967 times were changing and Wright was determined that he was going to upgrade the service by ridding it two separate bays of corrupt officers a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and bringing in new technology. Unsurprisinglyto make their choices, there were a lot of people against him: some were making very good money on under the side and quite a few unblinking eye of the oldon-timers weren't too keen on all this technology nonsenseboard cameras. They didnare the contenders in the Genesis programme, the world't think walkies craziest speed-talkies would really work and computers would never really catch dating show ever, aimed at creating the first human colony onMars. One Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, is one of Wright's first actions was to bring in some new blood: what came to be known as 'the trained brains' chosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a one- people with qualifications in specific areas who could introduce new ideas, whilst being mentored by way ticket. Even if the olderdream turns to a nightmare, more experienced officersit is too late for regrets. [[Beginning to End Ascension by Paul HughesVictor Dixen|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. 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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A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down the mud cliffs and away into the sea Tungtang is where we meet Jacob and Ellanot like other toads. They share a bathroom in the turretShe can't sit still, tongue protruding, old and cold and not really supposed wait to catch a fly. Tungtang needs to be used…but this is where they hide away from on the shouts of their parents' argumentsmove. Here they play Sometimes, she even hops right the Underwater Breathing game, submerging themselves way over to the rotten tree stump in the water holding their breath for as long as they canher community of Muddy River. And she loves to regale her fellow toads with stories of her exploits. For sixteen year That is, until a mean old Jacob it's just crow comes along and tells Tungtang that a real adventure would take her a way of drowning out the arguments…but for Ella it is more lot further than thata tree stump by a bridge everyone knows. She is terrified 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 sea, town of the fact that it will come and swallow their houseLittle Cobblestone. She needs to know that she can survive under water. She has to practice. [[Underwater Breathing The Toad Who Loved Tea by Cassandra ParkinFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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