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Elizabeth Klehfoth's debut novel DCI Steen is assigned a mystery thriller written from puzzling case – the perspective tortured body of Charlie Calloway, a teenage girl man found in a cemetery in Copenhagen but left there during a riot – a riot that had the area swarming in her final years at boarding school who police. How could anyone have been murdered and left in the open with so many police on site? Unless the killer is plagued by her mother’s disappearance. one of them… As the story progresses she case becomes more and more complicated, it soon begins to learn more about what happened to her mothertake a toll on Steen's already troubled personal life. He won't stop until the killer is caught, finding out along whatever the way that not everyone was who she thought they were. Titled ''All These Beautiful Strangers'' it really makes you question whether you are surrounded by strangers tooconsequences. But the consequences may turn out to be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[All These Beautiful Strangers Unrest by Elizabeth KlehfothJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[When The Curtain Falls Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Carrie Hope FletcherDominic Watson]]===
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A thoroughlyEven with a birthday fast approaching, magical and riveting story that hooks you I'm still a bit young to be reading about retirement. My next life change in from the first page pipeline will be a big one, and takes you on a roller coaster ride towards it does involve leaving the last. Fletcher weaves together 9 to 5 behind for a dash of ''Whodunit'' yacht and the thrill silky blue waters of romance, (the course of which never runs smoothlyCaribbean,) and an unpredictable ghost. The ghost appears once but only for a year, the principal star of her very own showand then I will be back, to meet with the love of her life tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and re-enact her death. A tragic accident with the roots buried deep within the whole array of human naturemany working years still to come. LoveAlso, joyI like work. My job is interesting, careI get to travel, friendshipwhat we do matters and it's not badly rewarded. So no, jealousyI'm not planning to retire just yet. But as the premise of this book is about planning (and if not now, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, all laid bare on centre stagethen when?) I was still intrigued.[[Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Dominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Naomi NovikLynda La Plante]]===
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Miryem comes from a long line It was February 1979 in the strike-ridden 'Winter of moneylenders – but her Father isnDiscontent't very good at it at allwhen a body was discovered in Peckham. Lending freely and rarely collecting, he leaves the family on It was to be the edge first of poverty, until Miryem must step two bodies in. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagerstwo days, she becomes a person but the first - that of great interest when she borrows a pouch young woman - would remain unidentified for some time. The second - an older lady - was found in the boot of silver pennies from her Grandfather car by her son. Jane Tennison has been promoted to Sergeant and returns it full finds herself in the midst of gold, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creatures, from the dark beings that haunt the wood through investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and pressure to get a King who's eager quick result. Four days later and another body to add to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that the count, the police have named their suspect, but Tennison has her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… doubts. [[Spinning Silver Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Naomi NovikLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[The Party Broken Ground by Lisa HallVal McDermid]]===
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Rachel wakes up As the Officer in a strange bedroomCharge of the Historic Cases Unit, with DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the scene of the worst hangover crime, but for once, she's ever had and no memory of in the right place at the right time when a body is dug up in the night beforeHighlands. And even Initially it looks as though she has no memorythe death dates back to WWII, she knows at but the fact that the core dead man is wearing a pair of her being Nikes means that something very bad has happened to her at her neighbourthe case is Karen's New Year. A little while later she'd come to think that she's Eve partyd been in the wrong place at the wrong time when she overheard a conversation in a cafe. But with everyone there appearing to be hiding something and no one giving her Intervening, she thought that she'd prevented a straight answer crime, but what she said would come back to haunt her questions, will Rachel ever find out what happened at the party? . [[The Party Broken Ground by Lisa HallVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[The Con Artist Half Moon Bay by Fred Van LenteAlice LaPlante]]===
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Comic-Cons are Half Moon Bay is a place small town on the west coast of wonder and sanctuary for many peopleAmerica, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at a little down from San Diego Comic-ConFrancisco. Jane has just moved there, he's looking for both that to start a new life after losing everything when her teenage daughter was killed and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus her husband left her. Although she has begun to find a little peace in the chance of maybequiet, just maybe reuniting with his ex. Howeverseaside town, when his rival is found deadone day a child goes missing, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner bringing back painful memories for Jane of the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs her grief and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence loss and, also, rousing the suspicions of the local townsfolk that she is somehow involved in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creatorthe disappearance. [[The Con Artist Half Moon Bay by Fred Van LenteAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[The 100 Best Novels in Translation by Boyd Tonkin]]===
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Consider, if you will, translated fiction. Some say it's impossible – that if Sixteen-year-old Nova is an undercity dweller and a book was so good in one tongue it could never survive being put into another. Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and ''Breath'', but he could translate his own works, and other equally complex pieces can cross borders. It's leecher - a market that has actually doubled in sales volume between 2000 and 2016 (thanks, ''Millennium Trilogy'')futuristic kind of pickpocket who uses tech hacks to steal byts from hapless corps workers. Novels, The higher up in particular, in translationthe city you live, are – as the introduction here so smartly puts it – ''a privileged means of passing border posts, a sort of universal passport issued by that Utopian state, more sunlight you see and the Republic of Letters''easier your life. We here at the 'Bag regularly try and give equal credit to For leechers like Nova, four hundred storeys below the translatorsurface, without whom we wouldn't be reading what we have in our handslife is tough. But all that said, do we really need one with the help of those list books about the subject? I got given a book hacking program Phantom, invented by legendary anti-corps hacker the other year detailing 1001 places to go to before I dieMoth, and I might even then have missed out a zero. It would take as long as a fortnight's holiday Nova can sneak up to wade throughthe city, leech some byts and even though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, it's not a short thingat least make rent. Should it take our time? v[[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Phantom by Boyd TonkinLeo Hunt|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of All the Orphan Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Dr Nat TanohClaire Askew]]===
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Saga is eighteen andAs a news item, like many eighteen-year oldsschool shootings always terrify me: the deaths are bad enough, his prime concerns but even the young people who survive are listening always going to what his mum calls ''hop-hip'be scarred by the fact that this was done to them by one of their number. It doesn't end on the day, eating copious amounts either. School shootings cast a very long shadow. May the 14th had the makings of food, being a normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to shoot thirteen fellow students - and learning about girlsone last bullet to kill himself. Living in an affluent We follow the story through the lives of three women: Moira Summers, liberal and protected suburbthe mother of the murderer, he has a good life. HoweverHelen Birch, the suburb is in Africanewly-promoted detective inspector who will investigate the killings and Ishbel Hodgekiss, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When his friends and family are dragged into the conflict raging around the dictatorship that Saga lives under, he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionary. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay mother of one step ahead of the soldiers desperate to stop him? victims. [[The Day of All the Orphan Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Dr Nat TanohClaire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron]]===
 
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===[[The Storm Keeper’s Island by Catherine Doyle]]===''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:5starIn 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]] 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:Confident ReadersGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron|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 Bennett -->
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===[[The Great Believers Island by Rebecca MakkaiM A Bennett]]===
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A contemporary take on the savage classic ''The Great BelieversLord of the Flies'' follows : a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis in Chicago during the late 1980’smismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Link is a fish out of water. Beginning in 1985Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to settle into the reader follows Yale venerable and his friends as prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they come to terms with can run round the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the hands of a conservative America. Thirty slowest time in years later Fiona, a devoted friend to Yale, is searching for her estranged daughter on he immediately becomes the streets butt of Paris, trying every school joke. And some students are determined to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurtmake his life more miserable than others... [[The Great Believers Island by Rebecca MakkaiM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy Who Hit Play Colour Me In by Chloe DaykinLydia Ruffles]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image:4.5starReeling from a tragedy and unable to cope, unemployed actor Arlo decides to get on a plane and go somewhere new.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersColour Me In by Lydia Ruffles|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 Scott -->
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===[[Russian Roulette A Treachery of Spies by Sara SheridanManda Scott]]===
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It makes a pleasant change When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to have investigate the horrific murder of a female detective who isnstrikingly beautiful elderly lady, she't a slightly eccentric grandmas puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman has been erased, 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 it's clear that she has been killed in a loft and works out the same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in the gym after work, boxing with (and trouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw at herWorld War Two. Mirabelle may have somehow got herself involved in crime-fighting, with all Solving the requisite tropes of climbing through unguarded windows, contacts who are not one hundred per cent on mystery will lead Inès deep into the right side history of the law, this woman – and back to a refusal to faint at time when the sight men and women of blood, but she is, as everyone around her will attest, first and foremost 1940s France were engaged in a lady. Indeed, the first encounter we have with her in thisdesperate, the sixth book in this excellent series, sees her giving a police superintendent an icy stare brutal fight for his lack of mannerssurvival against their Nazi oppressors. No matter what the life-As more and-death crisismore secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there's no reason not are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to be polite, is there? keep secrets safe… [[Russian Roulette A Treachery of Spies by Sara SheridanManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead Anomaly by Steven RamirezMichael Rutger]]===
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In Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the Youtube era. Join the third and final part intrepid (if rather inept) team of the internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''Tell Me When Ian anomaly'm Dead'' series, Dave Pulaski is headed only to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and retribution(spoilers) actually find one. With the events Imagine if, instead of book two still weighing heavily on Davebeing scared by their own acting, he struggles against the rage burning inside him Derek Acorah and saves Sasha – a young escapee from Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the secret testing facilitystarting point of this book. As events come to Deep in a climax, and Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath and cave within the Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a group Stephen King plot with added levels of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, paranoia and conspiracy thrown into the stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out of this alive? And what kind of world will he have left? blend. [[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead Anomaly by Steven RamirezMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead The Water Thief by Steven RamirezClaire Hajaj]]===
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Still battling Nick is in the zombie hordes who first appeared in ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'', Dave Pulaski thinks his prayers have been answered middle of wedding preparations when the Black Dragon Security team show up he decides to rescue him and leave his wife Holly. But things only get worse – with the virus mutating, fiancée behind in London and take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the infected building of a children's hospital. He has no idea what he is getting smarterhimself into. 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? [[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead The Water Thief by Steven RamirezClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Steven RamirezPeter Lovesey]]===
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A recovering alcoholicChildren love wrecking balls, Dave Pulaski has had so the young lad wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to watch one hit a long road building through one of those very tempting holes in fencing which you find around building sites. The problem was that when the dust settled a skeleton, sitting in an armchair and clad in clothes which looked to recovery, but finally feels like he's getting his life back. Then - be a plague hits the townfew hundred years old, turning was visible in the majority loft of the population into fleshhalf-hungry monsters who crave the taste of humansdemolished building. Fighting to survive - Dave The lad's urge to hide away father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and drink is strong - will he fight to live when hurried the chances of survival are boy away. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so slim? With lucky. Viewing the corpse from a cherry picker, an unfortunate adjustment to the hordes of controls left him eye to, er, eye socket with the undead growing corpse and the security forces outnumbered, it seems that hell has arrived for Dave.picture was caught by a press photographer. It was too good not to go viral. [[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Steven RamirezPeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gilded Ones Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Brooke FieldhouseKatherine Webber]]===
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It was a hot day in 1984 and Pulse had two job interviews for Though it's been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the ghost of her sister every day, but the heat wasn't the only reason why he wasn't feeling on top formforever 14. HeIt'd had s something that brings her comfort, but also a disturbing dream the night beforeconstant reminder that she has to make up for being one when there should have been two. She has to shine bright enough for both of them. He'd been following a Porsche on a difficult routeWhen she befriends outsider Seth, probably somewhere in the Alps when the Porsche went off the roadhe presents her with an escape. The passenger, a manFrom her family, was deadher friends, but the woman was still alive. ''I'm Freia.grief and loss that continue to scar them all.Seth is instantly smitten with her.After all, who wouldn''t fall for gorgeous, popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she said. ''It's spelled falls in love with the German way.'' Of the two job interviewsescape that he represents from her grief, 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 not so clear that she's falling in unexplained circumstances. The link love with the dream of the night before was too much for Pulse to refuse the offer of a jobhim. He couldn't resist the lure of the mystery. [[The Gilded Ones Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Brooke FieldhouseKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[Speaking Up by Allyson Jule]]===
===[[Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular ScienceConfident Readers|Popular ScienceConfident Readers]]
'Speaking Up' has a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions of gender. It looks at our use of language Samkad is living high up in media, education, religion, the workplace and personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from mountainous Philippine jungle just as the mid twentieth nineteenth century turns to the present daytwentieth. Reading it, we feel that she But Samkad has studied everything no idea about any of that . He has ever been said never met anyone from outside his own small tribe and his thoughts are focused on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and becoming a man. He's desperate for the Elders to permit him to join the ranks of the Kardashians with equal rigourwarriors who protect his tribe from their headhunting enemies, even though he knows it will mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behind. [[Speaking Up Bone Talk by Allyson JuleCandy Gourlay|Full Review]]
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===[[You Were Made for This Summerland by Michelle SacksHannu Rajaniemi]]=== [[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]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[You Were Made for This by Michelle Sacks:Category:Paranormal|Full ReviewParanormal]]
Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in the heart of Summerland. When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover the truth. [[Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[G Engleheart Pinxit 1805Going To The Last: A year in the life of George Engleheart Short Stories About Horse Racing by John WebleyK D Knight]]===
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George Engleheart was one of In the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian Londonopening 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 ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with a career lasting from the 1770s problem of whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the Regency eraground is against him. He My favourite was also one ''The Story of H'', the most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty story of them being Foinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the yard of King George IIIJohn Kempton. H (or Foinavon)was entered in the Grand National and considered a no-hoper. Throughout In one of the most dramatic runnings of that time he carefully recorded the names of each of his clientsrace, a pile up occured at the 23rd fence. Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred galloped to as his fee bookthe line, winning the race at odds of 100/1. [[G Engleheart Pinxit 1805Going To The Last: A year in the life of George Engleheart Short Stories About Horse Racing by John WebleyK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mapmakers' Race by Eirlys Hunter]]===
===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersFor Sharing|Confident ReadersFor 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!''
It's easily doneBiriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. You nip off to fill everyone's water bottlesMany creatures find a home there, including frogs. For some reason that nobody can remember, and your mum starts to fret in case you don't make it back before all the train leavesLake Ticklewater frogs are blue. Mum gets off to find you, you make They think nothing of it back in good time but she doesn't. So, and hey prestowhen Biriwita wins a place at Croak College, four children and the first Ticklewater frog to manage such a parrot disappearing into the unknown feat, he is filled with no money, no home excitement and his only worry is how much he will miss his friends and not a parent in sightfamily. [[The Mapmakers' Race Frog Who Was Blue by Eirlys HunterFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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