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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Take Me In by Helen CullenSabine Durrant]]===
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William Woolf is a letter detectiveIt's not pleasant, the first time Marcus and Tessa meet Dave. They've taken their toddler, Josh, working to Greece on holiday and in the Dead Letters Depot blink of an eye something awful happens. Tessa isn't there, Marcus isn't looking, but Dave steps in East Londonand disaster is averted. He spends his days deciphering smudged addressesJust. They're grateful to him, tracking down mysterious people of course they are, but after the usual hand shakes and reading endless letters weeping hugs and the offer to buy lunch for everyone, they're a little relieved to return to their villa and live out the rest of lovetheir week in peace. Just a tight little 3-person family unit. Because although Dave is a nice chap, guiltand although of course they owe him a great deal, deathhe is a little, hopewell, and everyday lifeintense. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Take Me In by Helen CullenSabine Durrant|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Elisabeth Hyde]]===
===[[The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian 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.'' 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 ConaghanGeneral Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral Fiction]]
Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when he waited for his three children to arrive one Friday night. He might be a retired lawyer, a state legislator, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. Ruth, a corporate lawyer, would find fault and want to talk about him going into a retirement home. George, a nurse, would argue and Lizzie, a professor of English Literature, who lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that simply wasn't going to happen. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Elisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[The Old Religion Riddle of the Runes by Martyn WaitesJanina Ramirez]]===
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The Cornish village of St Petroc isn't name Janina Ramirez is well known: her television programmes on the tourist trail: there's nothing particularly pretty, or historic, or interesting about itcultural history, which might be one especially of the reasons why Tom Killgannon is there. He had been an undercover policemanearly medieval times, but something had gone badly wrong and now he's in witness protection are both lively and working in the local pubinformative. St Petroc feels safe She shares her extensive learning with a light hand (and it's put a good deal of distance between him frequent giggle) and her enthusiasm encourages students and some very violent peopleviewers alike to explore further the subjects she discusses. HeBut how will that translate into children's got an on-again, off-again relationship with fiction? Will her academic desire for accuracy make the local policewoman, with the onstory dull and fact-again bits coinciding with packed? Will she hold up the times when action to display her husband's away. It's considerable knowledge? Nope, not an exciting life, but right now a bit of it suits Tom just fine. Until he meets Lila, that is. ! [[The Old Religion Riddle of the Runes by Martyn WaitesJanina Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kelly OwenCategory:Fantasy|Fantasy]]===
[[image:4''The Grey Bastards'' is an absolute triumph! Fantasy, action and adventure cleverly wrapped around a super plot and well written characters, this book is so much fun. A word of caution though, this is not suitable for all readers. As the tittle suggests there is a lot of bad language, a LOT of bad language, thrown around all the time in general speech. In addition to this there is also some sex and sexual language too, there is some violence but this is not actually very explicit and not as constant as the language and bawdy jokes. If this bothers you then this is not the book for you.5starFor anyone who doesn't mind then this is an absolute must read.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingThe Grey Bastards by Jonathan French|For SharingFull Review]]
''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.'' How does a family cope with the loss of a beloved child and sibling?[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kelly Owen|Full Review]]  <!-- Laura Solomon Dahl -->
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===[[Marsha's Deal The Boy at the Door by Laura SolomonAlex Dahl]]===
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Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life Cecilia is picking her daughters up from swimming when the first time around. Shepool'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], s receptionist asks a rare disease which turned parts quick favour of her body – to bone when they were damageddrop off a little boy from the class as his parents seem to have forgotten to collect him. Finally she was unable The pool is about to stand her life any longer close, and went to Dignitas, the Swiss euthanasia clinic. Sheit'd thought s not a big ask although Cecilia is somewhat put out that would be the endit will interrupt her routine. But, but after cremation her body went straight minor inconvenience isn't really a good enough reason to hell say no so she agrees and she found herself face-to-face bundles the boy whose name is Tobias into the car with the devilher girls. And This is a decision that was when she made the pact. In exchange for details about some of those who had been close to will change her - their strengths life, and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the same day to the same parents, but would live that minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that will haunt her life free of diseaseevery waking moment. [[Marsha's Deal The Boy at the Door by Laura SolomonAlex Dahl|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mercy Seat Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Elizabeth H WinthropJean Ure]]===
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In an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits Second years. The girls couldn't believe that they'd made it through the first year - in his dingy cellfact they'd all made it, staring at the shadow 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 window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the eveningcommitment required. Maddie felt a bit nervous when she thought about that last bit as there's dying sun rays. At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to d been a chair and electrocuted point when she might have been thrown out for the rape of a white girl, who later committed suicidethat reason. He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what She's now determined that she ''really happened; after all, love between a black man and a white woman was never going '' does want to have be a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded peopleballet dancer, except... [[The Mercy Seat Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Elizabeth H WinthropJean Ure|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid Gravediggers' Bread by Tania UnsworthFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)]]===
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StellaBlaise is at a loose end, for having left Paris on a wild goose chase for a job, which was his friend's mother died when she was idea, he's stuck outside a little girlcall box waiting to report back before he gets the train. Stella is growing up The woman in a house with the post office using the payphone finally finishes her dadbusiness, who is often awayand 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 grandmother, who is starting to experience the onset village funeral directors', signs of dementiaher infidelity. This Lo and behold he is all hard enough for given a young girljob as the woman's husband's assistant, but at the same time Stella finds that although she feels like rather an oddball, struggling also starts to fit employ him in at school, and as her grandmother begins sending messages to lose her grip on realityamour, Stella struggles her childhood love before circumstances changed. Blaise is of course deeply in love with feeling very alone. When Stella's only school friend suddenly moves awaythe woman by now, Stella struggles even moreand hates the two obstacles preventing him from being with her. She One is desperate to find out what happened to her mum the lover, a brutish bloke with little prospects and to uncover her family's secretsa 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? [[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid Gravediggers' Bread by Tania UnsworthFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Ascension Boy Underwater by Victor DixenAdam Baron]]===
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Six girlsCymbeline Igloo (yes, that’s his real name!) is nine years old, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choiceshe has never been swimming, under and this wouldn’t be a really big problem except for the unblinking eye of fact that the on-board cameras. They are school bully has somehow got the contenders in the Genesis programmeimpression that Cym is actually an amazing champion swimmer, and has challenged Cym to a race at their very first school swimming lesson! He tries to research swimming on the world's craziest speed-dating show everinternet, aimed but there’s an accident at creating the first human colony on Mars. Leonorpool that, an 18 year old orphaninitially, is one sees Cym embarrassed in front of the chosen onesother kids, but that results in his mum having a breakdown. She Why has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a one-way ticket. Even if she never taken Cym swimming? And why does his accident at the dream turns to a nightmare, it is too late for regrets. pool create such devastation in Cym’s life? [[Ascension Boy Underwater by Victor DixenAdam Baron|Full Review]]
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===[[Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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[[image:4starMeet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, and a successful one too, in an office in Paris. 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 a mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the 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 pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's what he replaces the habit with that will surprise the most.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingSmoking Kills by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|For SharingFull Review]]
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]] <!-- Fremantle Cullen -->
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===[[The Poison Bed Lost Letters of William Woolf by E C FremantleHelen Cullen]]===
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The year William Woolf is 1615 and celebrated couple Robert and Frances Carr have been arrested for murder. She is younga letter detective, beautiful, and a member of working in the notorious Howard familyDead Letters Depot in East London. He is one of the most powerful men in the kingdomspends his days deciphering smudged addresses, risen from nothing yet has the King's ear. Both of them are suspected but the crime is not as black tracking down mysterious people and white as it seems. Is Frances an innocent or is she the witch so many believe her to be? Is Robert telling the truth when he says he knows nothing reading endless letters of the murder? In between all these questions is King James Ilove, guilt, death, hope, for it is his secret that is at stakeand everyday life. One of them is a killer, but who has committed the murder in question? [[The Poison Bed Lost Letters of William Woolf by E C FremantleHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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===[[Ash Princess by Laura Sebastian]]===
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''My name is Theodosia Eirene Houzzara, Queen of Astrea, and I will endure this''[[image:4. For the last decade, Theodosia has lived at the fragile mercy of her vicious enemies. From the day her beloved country, Astrea, was invaded by the Kalovaxians and her mother, Queen of Flame and Fury, was brutally murdered directly in front of her, she has been forced into a life of submission and desperate survival5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Ash Princess by Laura Sebastian:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
''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.'' 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]]  <!-- Coulton Waites -->
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===[[Falling Short The Old Religion by Lex CoultonMartyn Waites]]===
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Lex CoultonThe Cornish village of St Petroc isn't on the tourist trail: there's debut novel is a story nothing particularly pretty, or historic, or interesting about mistakesit, failureswhich might be one of the reasons why Tom Killgannon is there. He had been an undercover policeman, but something had gone badly wrong and relationshipsnow he's in witness protection and working in the local pub. St Petroc feels safe and it's put a good deal of distance between him and some very violent people. The main protagonist He's got an on-again, Frances Pilgrimoff-again relationship with the local policewoman, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, and is grappling the on-again bits coinciding with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of times when her motherhusband's away. This relationship is complicated by the fact that FrancesIt's father disappeared at sea when she was five years oldnot an exciting life, but right now it suits Tom just fine. Until he meets Lila, that is. [[Falling Short The Old Religion by Lex CoultonMartyn Waites|Full Review]]
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===[[The Aladdin Trial by Abi Silver]]===
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When elderly hospital patient Barbara Hennessy is found dead on the pavement outside the hospital, a police investigation is launched into whether she jumped or was pushed[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]  ''The Owen family were feeling sad. Having just have surgery on her foot, there is sufficient grounds There used to think this be five of them. There was no accident, but the only suspect the police can link to the death is the hospital cleaner, a Syrian refugeeMum, Ahmad Qabbani. Solicitor Constance Lamb Dad and barrister Judith Burton reunite to defend Ahmadthree children: Abi, but with an uncooperative hospital staff, Barbara's self interested children Jenny and Ahmad keeping secretsJoe. But then Abi died. Now there were only four of them. Life felt very strange without their sister, it's going an increasingly difficult task to prove to the jury and the media, that he is innocentthey were all very unhappy. [[The Aladdin Trial by Abi Silver|Full Review]]''
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===[[A Demon In Silver Marsha's Deal by R S FordLaura Solomon]]===
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Take a fantasy world where gods once walked Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life the land and magic influenced everything for millenniafirst time around. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], where magic a rare disease which turned parts of her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally she was power unable to stand her life any longer and went to Dignitas, the entire world was shaped around its influenceSwiss euthanasia clinic. Then, overnight, She'd thought that power was ripped awaywould be the end, sorcerers' died instantly but after cremation her body went straight to hell and magic is never heard of againshe found herself face-to-face with the devil. Until now And that was when she made the pact. A farm girl from the middle In exchange for details about some of nowhere has unleashed raw magic those who had been close to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the tribal leaders will stop at nothing same day to control the same parents, but would live her, using whatever means necessarylife free of disease. Can anyone save her, or will they need saving from her? [[A Demon In Silver Marsha's Deal by R S FordLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Lala The Mercy Seat by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Elizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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''This is In an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the mysterious nature shadow of storytelling: the same start can also mean different endings, and different starts can lead to window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the same finale. Itevening's all subordinate dying sun rays. At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a chair and electrocuted for the greater narrativerape of a white girl, which starts somewhere in Kiev''who later committed suicide. This beautiful book He is exactly thatresigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, 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; for both the story and the storyteller. What makes us who we are if not our culture and heritage love between a black man and a white woman was never going to have a happy ending in this book our narrator re-lives and rea small town filled with small-tells the story of his heritage told to him by his grandmotherminded people. [[Lala The Mercy Seat by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Elizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Tania Unsworth]]===
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[[image:4Stella'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 a young girl, but at the same time Stella finds that she feels like rather an oddball, struggling to fit in at school, and as her grandmother begins to lose her grip on reality, Stella struggles with feeling very alone. When Stella's only school friend suddenly moves away, Stella struggles even more.5star She is desperate to find out what happened to her mum and to uncover her family's secrets.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensThe Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Tania Unsworth|TeensFull Review]]
''What he wants most in the world is to cut off his own hands. At the wrist would be best.'' 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 Dixen -->
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===[[In The Blood Ascension by Ruth ManciniVictor Dixen]]===
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Bringing up a child on your own is difficult: when that child is severely disabled Six girls, six boys. Each in the obstacles are almost insurmountable and criminal defence lawyer Sarah Kellerman struggles on two separate bays of a daily basissingle spaceship. Ben is nearly five but still can't walk or talk They have six minutes each week to seduce and isn't toilet trainedto make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on-board cameras. His main way of communicating is to have a screaming tantrumThey are the contenders in the Genesis programme, but he will watch ''Teletubbies'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 hours on endlove. She has sympathy with Ellie when she's charged with trying signed up for a one-way ticket. Even if the dream turns to murder her sona nightmare, firstly by poisoning him and them by removing the dialysis line with was circulating his blood to clean itis too late for regrets. On the face of it there doesn't seem to be a lot of chance of fighting the charge - that's certainly what Sarah's boss thinks - but Sarah isn't quite so certain. [[In The Blood Ascension by Ruth ManciniVictor Dixen|Full Review]]
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===[[Hello, Shadowlands by Patrick Winn]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:True Crime|True CrimeThe Toad Who Loved Tea by Faiz Kermani]]===
''Hello, Shadowlands'' chronicles a booming crime wave in South East Asia. It illuminates everything from the meth industry in Myanmar to the abortion pill black market in the Philippines using both Winn's personal accounts and historical context. It is devastating to imagine the very real human lives that are swept up in this cloud of refuse, and how the West helped create it and is doing nothing to prevent it[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Hello, Shadowlands by Patrick Winn: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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