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===[[Unrest by Jesper Stein]]===
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[[image:5starDCI Steen is assigned a puzzling case – the tortured body of a man found in a cemetery in Copenhagen but left there during a riot – a riot that had the area swarming in police. How could anyone have been murdered and left in the open with so many police on site? Unless the killer is one of them… As the case becomes more and more complicated, it soon begins to take a toll on Steen's already troubled personal life. He won't stop until the killer is caught, whatever the consequences.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] But the consequences may turn out to be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[:Category:Confident ReadersUnrest by Jesper Stein|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Fionn is off to spend some time with his grandfather on the island of Arranmore. His older sister Tara is going with him. Tara is well into adolescence and she can be quite dismissive of her rather green younger brother. The siblings need some time away because their mother isn't coping well with the death of their father and needs time alone to get better. Grandfather is a strange, eccentric old man who lives in a tiny cottage full of candles. He has a crabby but wicked sense of humour and sometimes has trouble keeping hold of his memories. But he makes the candles dance and his eyes contain depths that hold the secret of the seas. [[The Storm Keeper’s Island by Catherine Doyle|Full Review]]<!-- Makkai Watson -->
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===[[The Great Believers Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Rebecca MakkaiDominic Watson]]===
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Even with a birthday fast approaching, I''The Great Believers'' follows m still a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis bit young to be reading about retirement. My next life change in Chicago during the late 1980’s. Beginning in 1985pipeline will be a big one, and it does involve leaving the reader follows Yale 9 to 5 behind for a yacht and his friends as they come to terms with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their communitysilky blue waters of the Caribbean, alongside their demonisation at the hands of but only for a conservative Americayear, and then I will be back, tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and with many working years still to come. Also, I like work. Thirty years later FionaMy job is interesting, a devoted friend I get to Yaletravel, is searching for her estranged daughter on what we do matters and it's not badly rewarded. So no, I'm not planning to retire just yet. But as the streets premise of Paristhis book is about planning (and if not now, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurtthen when?) I was still intrigued. [[The Great Believers Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Rebecca MakkaiDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy Who Hit Play Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Chloe DaykinLynda La Plante]]===
[[image:43.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersCrime|Crime]] It was February 1979 in the strike-ridden 'Winter of Discontent' when a body was discovered in Peckham. It was to be the first of two bodies in two days, but the first - that of a young woman - would remain unidentified for some time. The second - an older lady - was found in the boot of her car by her son. Jane Tennison has been promoted to Sergeant and finds herself in the midst of an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and pressure to get a quick result. Four days later and another body to add to the count, the police have named their suspect, but Tennison has her doubts. [[Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Lynda La Plante|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Elvis Crampton Lucas was found, as a baby, on a bench at the zoo. He knows little else about himself, other than that's where his father found him one day and he took him home and named him after the first three vinyl records he took down from the shelf! Elvis' life has been a happy one, but as his twelfth birthday comes around he finds himself suddenly wanting to know, and needing to know, the truth about who left him on the bench and why. Elvis' quest takes him far away, to a new country, facing challenges he'd never imagined in his desire to know the truth. [[The Boy Who Hit Play by Chloe Daykin|Full Review]]<!-- Sheridan Val McDermid -->
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===[[Russian Roulette Broken Ground by Sara SheridanVal McDermid]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]]
It makes a pleasant change to have a female detective who isn't a slightly eccentric grandma, a world-weary cop with as many hang-ups, bad habits and family traumas as her male colleagues, or a slick, skinny, sharp-shooting type who lives in a loft and works out As the Officer in Charge of the gym after workHistoric Cases Unit, boxing with (and trouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at her. Mirabelle may have somehow got herself involved in the scene of the crime-fighting, with all the requisite tropes of climbing through unguarded windowsbut for once, contacts who are not one hundred per cent on she's in the right side of place at the law, and right time when a refusal body is dug up in the Highlands. Initially it looks as though the death dates back to faint at the sight of bloodWWII, but she the fact that the dead man is, as everyone around her will attest, first and foremost wearing a ladypair of Nikes means that the case is Karen's. Indeed, A little while later she'd come to think that she'd been in the first encounter we have with her in this, wrong place at the sixth book wrong time when she overheard a conversation in this excellent series, sees her giving a police superintendent an icy stare for his lack of mannerscafe. No matter what the life-and-death crisis Intervening, thereshe thought that she's no reason not d prevented a crime, but what she said would come back to be polite, is there? haunt her. [[Russian Roulette Broken Ground by Sara SheridanVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead Half Moon Bay by Steven RamirezAlice LaPlante]]===
[[image:43.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HorrorCrime|HorrorCrime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
In Half Moon Bay is a small town on the third and final part west coast of the ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' seriesAmerica, a little down from San Francisco. Jane has just moved there, Dave Pulaski is headed to Los Angeles – seeking revenge start a new life after losing everything when her teenage daughter was killed and retributionher husband left her. With Although she has begun to find a little peace in the events of book two still weighing heavily on Davequiet, seaside town, he struggles against the rage burning inside him and saves Sasha – one day a young escapee from the secret testing facility. As events come to a climaxchild goes missing, bringing back painful memories for Jane of her grief and Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath loss and a group of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, also, rousing the stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out suspicions of this alive? And what kind of world will he have left? the local townsfolk that she is somehow involved in the disappearance. [[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead Half Moon Bay by Steven RamirezAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead by Steven Ramirez]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersPhantom by Leo Hunt]]===
Still battling the zombie hordes who first appeared in ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'', Dave Pulaski thinks his prayers have been answered when the Black Dragon Security team show up to rescue him and his wife Holly[[image:4star. But things only get worse – with the virus mutating, and the infected getting smarter. When Dave discovers the truth behind the contagion it will drive him past all limits of faith or reason – but will he able to manage dealing with this knowledge whilst protecting Holly and those closest to him? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead by Steven RamirezCategory:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
Sixteen-year-old Nova is an undercity dweller and a leecher - a futuristic kind of pickpocket who uses tech hacks to steal byts from hapless corps workers. The higher up in the city you live, the more sunlight you see and the easier your life. For leechers like Nova, four hundred storeys below the surface, life is tough. But with the help of the hacking program Phantom, invented by legendary anti-corps hacker the Moth, Nova can sneak up to the city, leech some byts and at least make rent. v[[Phantom by Leo Hunt|Full Review]] <!-- Ramirez Claire Askew -->
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===[[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Steven RamirezClaire Askew]]===
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A recovering alcoholicAs a news item, Dave Pulaski has had a long road to recoveryschool shootings always terrify me: the deaths are bad enough, but finally feels like heeven the young people who survive are always going to be scarred by the fact that this was done to them by one of their number. It doesn's getting his life backt end on the day, either. Then - School shootings cast a plague hits very long shadow. May the town, turning 14th had the majority makings of the population into flesh-hungry monsters who crave the taste of humans. Fighting being a normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to survive shoot thirteen fellow students - Dave's urge to hide away and drink is strong - will he fight one last bullet to live when kill himself. We follow the story through the chances lives of survival are so slim? With three women: Moira Summers, the hordes mother of the undead growing murderer, Helen Birch, the newly-promoted detective inspector who will investigate the killings and Ishbel Hodgekiss, the mother of one of the security forces outnumbered, it seems that hell has arrived for Dave..victims. [[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Steven RamirezClaire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gilded Ones Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Brooke FieldhouseRachel Aaron]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] ''You want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the walls where it's safe, but that's an illusion. So long as there are titans out there… no one is safe''
[[image:4starIn the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside. Known as titans, these enemies are impossibly tall human like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]Difficult to kill and innumerable they roam the Earth looking for prey, and whilst the walls have always kept them out, that has begun to change… [[:Category:Literary FictionGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron|Literary FictionFull Review]]
It was a hot day in 1984 and Pulse had two job interviews for the day, but the heat wasn't the only reason why he wasn't feeling on top form. He'd had a disturbing dream the night before. He'd been following a Porsche on a difficult route, probably somewhere in the Alps when the Porsche went off the road. The passenger, a man, was dead, but the woman was still alive. ''I'm Freia...'', she said. ''It's spelled the German way.'' Of the two job interviews, the first was with an up-and-coming design studio in Brighton and it would almost certainly be good for Pulse's career. The second was with a run-down practice based in an old London house and headed by Patrick Lloyd-Lewis, whose wife, Freia, had recently died in unexplained circumstances. The link with the dream of the night before was too much for Pulse to refuse the offer of a job. He couldn't resist the lure of the mystery. [[The Gilded Ones by Brooke Fieldhouse|Full Review]]
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===[[Speaking Up The Island by Allyson JuleM A Bennett]]===
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A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Speaking UpLord of the Flies' has ': a fascinating subject matter group of mismatched, modern- how language reflects and shapes our notions day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Link is a fish out of genderwater. It looks at our use of language in media, education, religionNewly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to settle into the workplace venerable and personal relationshipsprestigious Osney School. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind of research from school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the mid twentieth century to school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the present day. Reading itslowest time in years, we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and he immediately becomes the Kardashians with equal rigourbutt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others... [[Speaking Up The Island by Allyson JuleM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[You Were Made for This Colour Me In by Michelle SacksLydia Ruffles]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
I'm not really sure what to say about this book. It was a really good psychological thriller with plenty of twists and turns but unfortunately it just wasn't really my cup of tea[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[You Were Made for This by Michelle Sacks:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
Reeling from a tragedy and unable to cope, unemployed actor Arlo decides to get on a plane and go somewhere new. [[Colour Me In by Lydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life Treachery of George Engleheart Spies by John WebleyManda Scott]]===
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George Engleheart was one When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's puzzled – whilst the leading portrait miniaturists identity of Georgian Londonthe woman has been erased, with a career lasting from it's clear that she has been killed in the 1770s same way that traitors to the Regency eraresistance were executed in World War Two. He was also one Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – and back to a time when the most prolificmen and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, painting nearly 5brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to light,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). Throughout most of Inès discovers that time he carefully recorded there are many in the names of each of his clients, present who would rather their past stay buried – and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred many who would kill to as his fee book. keep secrets safe… [[G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life Treachery of George Engleheart Spies by John WebleyManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mapmakers' Race Anomaly by Eirlys HunterMichael Rutger]]===
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ItTomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the Youtube era. Join the intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''s easily done. You nip off to fill everyonean anomaly's water bottles, and your mum starts to fret in case you don't make it back before the train leaves. Mum gets off only to (spoilers) actually find youone. Imagine if, you make it back in good time but she doesn'tinstead of being scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah and hey presto, four children and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the starting point of this book. Deep in a parrot disappearing into cave within the unknown Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a Stephen King plot with no money, no home added levels of paranoia and not a parent in sightconspiracy thrown into the blend. [[The Mapmakers' Race Anomaly by Eirlys HunterMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[The Death of Mrs Westaway Water Thief by Ruth WareClaire Hajaj]]===
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I've only just got into psychological thrillers so, despite being an international bestNick is in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and take up a post in some un-seller, author Ruth Ware has passed me by until now. But, I can see why shenamed west African country providing engineering support for the building of a children's much acclaimed as I absolutely loved this book and can't wait to get started on her previous three books nowhospital. He has no idea what he is getting himself into. [[The Death of Mrs Westaway Water Thief by Ruth WareClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Helen RappaportPeter Lovesey]]===
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The basic facts about the deaths of Nicholas and AlexandraChildren love wrecking balls, some of which were deliberately obscured at so the time for various reasons, have long since been established. For young lad wasn't going to pass up the last few months opportunity to watch one hit a building through one of their lives those very tempting holes in Russia fencing which you find around building sites. The problem was that when the former Tsar and Tsarinadust settled a skeleton, their children sitting in an armchair and clad in clothes which looked to be a few remaining servantshundred years old, were held was visible in increasingly squalid, humiliating captivitythe loft of the half-demolished building. The lad's father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and hurried the boy away. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. To prevent them Viewing the corpse from being rescueda cherry picker, in July 1918 an unfortunate adjustment to the revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted controls left him eye to death in circumstances which, once er, eye socket with the news corpse and the picture was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europecaught by a press photographer. It was too good not to go viral. [[The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Helen RappaportPeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[Take Me In Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Sabine DurrantKatherine Webber]]===
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ItThough it's not pleasantbeen 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the first time Marcus and Tessa meet Daveghost of her sister every day, forever 14. TheyIt've taken their toddler, Joshs something that brings her comfort, but also a constant reminder that she has to make up for being one when there should have been two. She has to Greece on holiday and in the blink shine bright enough for both of them. When she befriends outsider Seth, he presents her with an eye something awful happensescape. Tessa isn't thereFrom her family, Marcus isn't lookingher friends, but Dave steps in the grief and disaster loss that continue to scar them all. Seth is avertedinstantly smitten with her. Just. TheyAfter all, who wouldn're grateful to himt fall for gorgeous, of course they are, but after popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in love with the usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and the offer to buy lunch for everyoneescape that he represents from her grief, theyit's not so clear that she're a little relieved to return to their villa and live out the rest of their week s falling in peace. Just a tight little 3-person family unit. Because although Dave is a nice chap, and although of course they owe love with him a great deal, he is a little, well, intense. [[Take Me In Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Sabine DurrantKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Elisabeth Hyde]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionBone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]===
Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when he waited for his three children to arrive one Friday night[[image:4. 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 happen5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Elisabeth Hyde:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
Samkad is living high up in the mountainous Philippine jungle just as the nineteenth century turns to the twentieth. But Samkad has no idea about any of that. He has never met anyone from outside his own small tribe and his thoughts are focused on becoming a man. He's desperate for the Elders to permit him to join the ranks of the warriors who protect his tribe from their headhunting enemies, even though he knows it will mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behind. [[Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay|Full Review]] <!-- Ramirez Rajaniemi -->
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===[[Riddle of the Runes Summerland by Janina RamirezHannu Rajaniemi]]===
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The name Janina Ramirez is well known: her television programmes on cultural historyImagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After discovery of the afterlife, especially of early medieval timesthe British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, are both lively and informativethe Big Smoke for the recently deceased. She shares her extensive learning with In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a light hand (race against Soviet spies and dealing with a frequent giggle) and her enthusiasm encourages students and viewers alike to explore further mole buried deep in the heart of Summerland. When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the subjects potential rogue agent, she discusses. But must decide how will that translate into children's fiction? Will her academic desire for accuracy make the story dull far she is willing to go and fact-packed? Will how much she hold up is willing to risk to uncover the action to display her considerable knowledge? Nope, not a bit of it! truth. [[Riddle of the Runes Summerland by Janina RamirezHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[Going To The Grey Bastards Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Jonathan FrenchK D Knight]]===
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In the opening story a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, but comes away with cash in his pocket - and his wife. In ''The A Grey BastardsDay'' is an absolute triumph! Fantasy, action and adventure cleverly wrapped around a super plot and well written characters, this book owner struggles with the problem of whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the ground is so much funagainst him. A word My favourite was ''The Story of caution thoughH'', this the story of Foinavon. H is not suitable for all readersdepicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the yard of John Kempton. As H (or Foinavon) was entered in the tittle suggests there is Grand National and considered a lot no-hoper. In one of bad languagethe most dramatic runnings of the race, a LOT of bad language, thrown around all pile up occured at the time in general speech23rd fence. In addition to this there is also some sex and sexual language too Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, there is some violence but this is not actually very explicit cleared the fence and not as constant as galloped to the language and bawdy jokes. If this bothers you then this is not line, winning the book for you. For anyone who doesn't mind then this is an absolute must readrace at odds of 100/1. [[Going To The Grey Bastards Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Jonathan FrenchK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy at the Door by Alex Dahl]]===
===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersFor Sharing|ThrillersFor Sharing]] ''Biriwita the blue frog longs to be accepted at Croak College, the most famous school for frogs in Malawi, but the other students all turn their backs on him. He is just too different!''
Cecilia is picking her daughters up Biriwita hails from swimming when the pool's receptionist asks Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a quick favour of her – to drop off a little boy from home there, including frogs. For some reason that nobody can remember, all the class as his parents seem to have forgotten to collect himLake Ticklewater frogs are blue. The pool is about to close, and it's not a big ask although Cecilia is somewhat put out that They think nothing of it will interrupt her routine. ButSo, minor inconvenience isn't really when Biriwita wins a good enough reason place at Croak College, the first Ticklewater frog to say no so she agrees and bundles the boy whose name manage such a feat, he is Tobias into the car filled with her girls. This excitement and his only worry is a decision that how much he will change her life, miss his friends and that minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that will haunt her every waking momentfamily. [[The Boy at the Door Frog Who Was Blue by Alex DahlFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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