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===[[Smoking Kills Take Me In by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Sabine Durrant]]===
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Meet Fabrice Valantine. HeIt's a headhunternot pleasant, the first time Marcus and a successful one tooTessa meet Dave. They've taken their toddler, Josh, to Greece on holiday and in the blink of an office in Pariseye something awful happens. All around him however his world is changing – yesTessa isn't there, Marcus isn't looking, there but Dave steps in and disaster is a new ban on smoking in all workplacesaverted. Just. Goaded by his non-smoking wifeThey're grateful to him, even though of course they met over an ashtrayare, of sortsbut after the usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and the offer to buy lunch for everyone, he sees they're a hypnotist who had success with little relieved to return to their villa and live out the rest of their week in peace. Just a mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habittight little 3-person family unit. The session seems to have been successfulBecause although Dave is a nice chap, however he faces the prospect and although of having such course they owe him a change to his own personalitygreat deal, his imbued habits and lifestylehe is a little, with fearwell, 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 mostintense. [[Smoking Kills Take Me In by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)Sabine Durrant|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Helen CullenElisabeth Hyde]]===
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William Woolf is 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 letter detectivestate legislator, working in the Dead Letters Depot in East Londonelected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses Ruth, a corporate lawyer, tracking down mysterious people would find fault and reading endless letters of lovewant to talk about him going into a retirement home. George, guilta nurse, deathwould argue and Lizzie, hopea professor of English Literature, who lived locally and kept and everyday lifevisited him regularly, would be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that simply wasn't going to happen. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Helen CullenElisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[Riddle of the Runes by Janina Ramirez]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]===
[[imageThe name Janina Ramirez is well known:4her television programmes on cultural history, especially of early medieval times, are both lively and informative.5starShe shares her extensive learning with a light hand (and a frequent giggle) and her enthusiasm encourages students and viewers alike to explore further the subjects she discusses.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] But how will that translate into children's fiction? Will her academic desire for accuracy make the story dull and fact-packed? Will she hold up the action to display her considerable knowledge? Nope, not a bit of it! [[:Category:TeensRiddle of the Runes by Janina Ramirez|TeensFull Review]]
''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]]  <!-- Waites French -->
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===[[The Old Religion Grey Bastards by Martyn WaitesJonathan French]]===
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''The Cornish village of St Petroc isnGrey Bastards't on the tourist trail: there's nothing particularly prettyis an absolute triumph! Fantasy, or historicaction and adventure cleverly wrapped around a super plot and well written characters, this book is so much fun. A word of caution though, or interesting about itthis is not suitable for all readers. As the tittle suggests there is a lot of bad language, which might be one a LOT of bad language, thrown around all the reasons why Tom Killgannon time in general speech. In addition to this there is also some sex and sexual language too, there. He had been an undercover policeman, is some violence but something had gone badly wrong this is not actually very explicit and now he's in witness protection and working in not as constant as the local pub. St Petroc feels safe and it's put a good deal of distance between him language and some very violent peoplebawdy jokes. He's got an on-again, off-again relationship with If this bothers you then this is not the local policewoman, with the on-again bits coinciding with the times when her husband's awaybook for you. ItFor anyone who doesn's not t mind then this is an exciting life, but right now it suits Tom just fine. Until he meets Lila, that isabsolute must read. [[The Old Religion Grey Bastards by Martyn WaitesJonathan French|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy at the Door by Alex Dahl]]===
===[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kelly Owen]]=== [[image:43.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingThrillers|For SharingThrillers]]
Cecilia is picking her daughters up from swimming when the pool''s receptionist asks a quick favour of her – to drop off a little boy from the class as his parents seem to have forgotten to collect him. The Owen family were feeling sad. There used pool is about to be five of them. There was Mumclose, Dad and three children: Abiit's not a big ask although Cecilia is somewhat put out that it will interrupt her routine. But, Jenny minor inconvenience isn't really a good enough reason to say no so she agrees and Joe. But then Abi died. Now there were only four of thembundles the boy whose name is Tobias into the car with her girls. Life felt very strange without their sisterThis is a decision that will change her life, and they were all very unhappythat minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that will haunt her every waking moment.''[[The Boy at the Door by Alex Dahl|Full Review]]
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===[[Marsha's Deal Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Laura SolomonJean Ure]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short StoriesConfident Readers|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|FantasyConfident Readers]]
Marsha didnSecond years. The girls couldn't have an easy ride in life believe that they'd made it through the first time around. Sheyear - in fact they'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva]all made it, all eight of them, a rare disease which turned parts of her body to bone when they were damagedwas most unusual. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer and went to DignitasUsually some were thrown out - they might have grown too tall, didn't look right or didn't have the Swiss euthanasia cliniccommitment required. SheMaddie felt a bit nervous when she thought about that last bit as there'd thought been a point when she might have been thrown out for that would be the end, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-to-face with the devilreason. And She's now determined that was when she made the pact. In exchange for details about some of those who had been close ''really'' does want to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the same day to the same parentsa ballet dancer, but would live her life free of diseaseexcept... [[Marsha's Deal Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Laura SolomonJean Ure|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mercy Seat Gravediggers' Bread by Elizabeth H WinthropFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionCrime|Historical FictionCrime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
In an isolated Louisiana townBlaise is at a loose end, for having left Paris on a young black prisoner sits in wild goose chase for a job, which was his dingy cellfriend's idea, staring at he's stuck outside a call box waiting to report back before he gets the shadow of train. The woman in the window bars cast onto post office using the concrete wall by payphone finally finishes her business, and leaves him with a strong impression – as well as a wallet dropped to the eveningfloor containing several days's dying sun rays. At midnightgood money, and, when he will be dead; strapped tracks her to a chair and electrocuted for the rape village funeral directors', signs of her infidelity. Lo and behold he is given a white girljob as the woman's husband's assistant, who later committed suicidealthough she also starts to employ him in sending messages to her amour, her childhood love before circumstances changed. He Blaise is resigned to his fate; it of course deeply in love with the woman by now, and hates the two obstacles preventing him from being with her. One is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after allthe lover, love between a black man brutish bloke with little prospects and a white woman was never going to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded peoplebad 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 Mercy Seat Gravediggers' Bread by Elizabeth H WinthropFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid Boy Underwater by Tania UnsworthAdam Baron]]===
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Stella's mother died when she was a little girl. Stella is growing up in a house with her dadCymbeline Igloo (yes, who that’s his real name!) is often awaynine years old, and her grandmotherhe has never been swimming, who and this wouldn’t be a really big problem except for the fact that the school bully has somehow got the impression that Cym is starting actually an amazing champion swimmer, and has challenged Cym to a race at their very first school swimming lesson! He tries to experience research swimming on the onset of dementia. This is all hard enough for a young girlinternet, but there’s an accident at the same time Stella finds pool that she feels like rather an oddball, struggling to fit initially, sees Cym embarrassed in at schoolfront of the other kids, and as her grandmother begins to lose her grip on reality, Stella struggles with feeling very alonebut that results in his mum having a breakdown. When Stella's only school friend suddenly moves away, Stella struggles even more. Why has she never taken Cym swimming? She is desperate to find out what happened to her mum and to uncover her family's secrets. And why does his accident at the pool create such devastation in Cym’s life? [[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid Boy Underwater by Tania UnsworthAdam Baron|Full Review]]
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===[[Ascension Smoking Kills by Victor DixenAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Science General Fiction|Science General Fiction]]
Six girls, six boysMeet Fabrice Valantine. Each in the two separate bays of He's a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce headhunter, and to make their choicesa successful one too, under the unblinking eye of the on-board camerasin an office in Paris. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the All around him however his world's craziest speed-dating show everis changing – yes, aimed at creating the first human colony there is a new ban on Marssmoking in all workplaces. LeonorGoaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an 18 year old orphanashtray, is one of the chosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for sorts, he sees a hypnotist who had success with a one-way ticketmutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. Even if The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the dream turns prospect of having such a change to a nightmarehis 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 is too late for regrets's what he replaces the habit with that will surprise the most. [[Ascension Smoking Kills by Victor DixenAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen]]===
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[[image:4starWilliam 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingThe Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen|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 Conaghan -->
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===[[The Poison Bed by E C Fremantle]]===
===[[The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:ThrillersTeens|ThrillersTeens]]
The year is 1615 and celebrated couple Robert and Frances Carr have been arrested for murder. She is young, beautiful, and a member of ''Funny how no one ever uses the notorious Howard familyword 'love' when discussing my case. He is one of the most powerful men in the kingdom, risen from nothing yet has the KingI do what I do because she's earmy mum. Both of them are suspected but the crime is not as black That pure 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 of the murder? In between all these questions is King James I, for it is his secret that is at stakesimple. One of them is a killer, but who has committed the murder in question? [[The Poison Bed by E C Fremantle|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]]  <!-- Sebastian Waites -->
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===[[Ash Princess The Old Religion by Laura SebastianMartyn Waites]]===
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The Cornish village of St Petroc isn't on the tourist trail: there'My name is Theodosia Eirene Houzzaras nothing particularly pretty, or historic, or interesting about it, Queen which might be one of Astreathe reasons why Tom Killgannon is there. He had been an undercover policeman, but something had gone badly wrong and I will endure thisnow 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. For He's got an on-again, off-again relationship with the last decadelocal policewoman, Theodosia has lived at with the fragile mercy of on-again bits coinciding with the times when her vicious enemieshusband's away. From the day her beloved country It's not an exciting life, Astreabut right now it suits Tom just fine. Until he meets Lila, 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 survivalthat is. [[Ash Princess The Old Religion by Laura SebastianMartyn Waites|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]===
===[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kelly Owen]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionFor Sharing|General FictionFor Sharing]] ''The Owen family were feeling sad. There used to be five of them. There was Mum, [[Dad and three children:Category:Humour|Humour]]Abi, Jenny and Joe. But then Abi died. Now there were only four of them. Life felt very strange without their sister, [[:Category:Womenand they were all very unhappy.'s Fiction|Women's Fiction]]
Lex Coulton's debut novel is How does a story about mistakes, failures, and relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out family cope with her best friend Jackson, the loss of a work colleague, beloved child and is grappling with sibling?[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the increasingly eccentric behaviour death of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short a loved one to children and families by Lex CoultonKelly Owen|Full Review]]
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===[[The Aladdin Trial Marsha's Deal by Abi SilverLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersShort Stories|ThrillersShort Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]
When elderly hospital patient Barbara Hennessy is found dead on Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life the pavement outside the hospitalfirst time around. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], a police investigation is launched into whether rare disease which turned parts of her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally she jumped or was pushed. Having just have surgery on unable to stand her foot, there is sufficient grounds life any longer and went to think this was no accidentDignitas, but the only suspect Swiss euthanasia clinic. She'd thought that would be the police can link end, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-to -face with the death is devil. And that was when she made the hospital cleaner, a Syrian refugee, Ahmad Qabbanipact. Solicitor Constance Lamb and barrister Judith Burton reunite In exchange for details about some of those who had been close to defend Ahmad, but with an uncooperative hospital staff, Barbara's self interested children her - their strengths and Ahmad keeping secrets, it's going an increasingly difficult task to prove weaknesses - she would be reborn on the same day to the jury and the mediasame parents, that he is innocentbut would live her life free of disease. [[The Aladdin Trial Marsha's Deal by Abi SilverLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[A Demon In Silver The Mercy Seat by R S FordElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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Take In an isolated Louisiana town, a fantasy world where gods once walked young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the shadow of the window bars cast onto the land and magic influenced everything for millennia, where magic was power and concrete wall by the entire world was shaped around its influenceevening's dying sun rays. ThenAt midnight, overnight, that power was ripped away, sorcerers' died instantly he will be dead; strapped to a chair and magic is never heard electrocuted for the rape of again. Until now. A farm a white girl from the middle of nowhere has unleashed raw magic and the tribal leaders will stop at nothing to control her, using whatever means necessarywho later committed suicide. Can He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone save herto believe what really happened; after all, or will they need saving from her? love between a black man and a white woman was never going to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. [[A Demon In Silver The Mercy Seat by R S FordElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[Lala The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Tania Unsworth]]===
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Stella''This s mother died when she was a little girl. Stella is growing up in a house with her dad, who is the mysterious nature of storytelling: the same start can also mean different endingsoften away, and different starts can lead her grandmother, who is starting to experience the same finaleonset of dementia. It's This is all subordinate to hard enough for a young girl, but at the greater narrativesame time Stella finds that she feels like rather an oddball, which starts somewhere struggling to fit in Kiev''. This beautiful book is exactly that, the mysterious art of storytelling. The wayward meanderings of memoryat school, of tangents and digressionsas her grandmother begins to lose her grip on reality, of side notes and elaborationsStella struggles with feeling very alone. When Stella's only school friend suddenly moves away, but above all that of affection; for both the story and the storytellerStella struggles even more. What makes us who we are if not our culture and heritage and in this book our narrator re-lives She is desperate to find out what happened to her mum and re-tells the story of his heritage told to him by his grandmotheruncover her family's secrets. [[Lala The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Tania Unsworth|Full Review]]
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===[[Ascension by Victor Dixen]]===
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[[image:4Six girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on-board cameras. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the world's craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the first human colony on Mars. Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, is one of the chosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a one-way ticket.5starEven if the dream turns to a nightmare, it is too late for regrets.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensAscension by Victor Dixen|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 Kermani -->
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===[[The Toad Who Loved Tea by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeFor Sharing|CrimeFor Sharing]]
Bringing up a child on your own is difficult: when that child Tungtang is severely disabled the obstacles are almost insurmountable and criminal defence lawyer Sarah Kellerman struggles on a daily basisnot like other toads. Ben is nearly five but still She can't walk or talk sit still, tongue protruding, and isn't toilet trainedwait to catch a fly. Tungtang needs to be on the move. His main Sometimes, she even hops right the way over to the rotten tree stump in her community of communicating is to have a screaming tantrum, but he will watch ''Teletubbies'' - for hours on endMuddy River. She has sympathy with Ellie when And she's charged loves to regale her fellow toads with trying to murder stories of her sonexploits. That is, firstly by poisoning him until a mean old crow comes along and them tells Tungtang that a real adventure would take her a lot further than a tree stump by removing the dialysis line with was circulating his blood to clean ita bridge everyone knows. On Infuriated by the face crow and inspired by her grandfather's stories of it there doesn't seem humans and ancient toad prophecies, Tungtang decides on a Real Adventure and heads off to be a lot the town of chance of fighting the charge - that's certainly what Sarah's boss thinks - but Sarah isn't quite so certainLittle Cobblestone... [[In The Blood Toad Who Loved Tea by Ruth ManciniFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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