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===[[Summerland Unrest by Hannu RajaniemiJesper Stein]]===
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Imagine DCI Steen is assigned a puzzling case – the tortured body of a man found in a world cemetery in which death was no longer something to fear Copenhagen but something to aspire toleft there during a riot – a riot that had the area swarming in police. After discovery 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 afterlifecase becomes more and more complicated, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke for the recently deceasedit soon begins to take a toll on Steen's already troubled personal life. In 1938 He won't stop until the British Empire killer is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in , whatever the heart of Summerlandconsequences. When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about But the potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing consequences may turn out to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover the truth. be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[Summerland Unrest by Hannu RajaniemiJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[Going To The LastRockstar Retirement Programme: Short Stories About Horse Racing How to retire like a rockstar by K D KnightDominic Watson]]===
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In the opening story Even with a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little moneybirthday fast approaching, but comes away with cash in his pocket - and his wife. In I''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of whether or not m still a bit young to run his horse be reading about retirement. My next life change in the Gold Cup when the ground is against him. My favourite was ''The Story of H''pipeline will be a big one, and it does involve leaving the story of Foinavon. H is depicted as 9 to 5 behind for a kind horse who only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to yacht and the yard silky blue waters of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National Caribbean, but only for a year, and then I will be back, tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and considered a no-hoperwith many working years still to come. In one of the most dramatic runnings of the raceAlso, a pile up occured at the 23rd fenceI like work. FoinavonMy job is interesting, who had been many lengths adriftI get to travel, cleared the fence what we do matters and galloped it's not badly rewarded. So no, I'm not planning to retire just yet. But as the linepremise of this book is about planning (and if not now, winning the race at odds of 100/1then when?) I was still intrigued. [[Going To The LastRockstar Retirement Programme: Short Stories About Horse Racing How to retire like a rockstar by K D KnightDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Lynda La Plante]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani:Category:Crime|Crime]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] It was February 1979 in the strike-ridden 'Winter of Discontent'Biriwita the blue frog longs when a body was discovered in Peckham. It was to be accepted at Croak Collegethe first of two bodies in two days, but the most famous school first - that of a young woman - would remain unidentified for frogs some time. The second - an older lady - was found in Malawithe 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, but the other students all turn police have named their backs on himsuspect, but Tennison has her doubts. He is just too different!''[[Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Lynda La Plante|Full Review]]
Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a home there, including frogs. For some reason that nobody can remember, all the Lake Ticklewater frogs are blue. They think nothing of it. So, when Biriwita wins a place at Croak College, the first Ticklewater frog to manage such a feat, he is filled with excitement and his only worry is how much he will miss his friends and family. [[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani|Full Review]] <!-- Singer Val McDermid -->
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===[[Broken Ground by Val McDermid]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Survival Game by Nicky Singer:Category:Crime|Crime]]===
[[image:5starAs the Officer in Charge of the Historic Cases Unit, DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the scene of the crime, but for once, she's in the right place at the right time when a body is dug up in the Highlands. Initially it looks as though the death dates back to WWII, but the fact that the dead man is wearing a pair of Nikes means that the case is Karen's. A little while later she'd come to think that she'd been in the wrong place at the wrong time when she overheard a conversation in a cafe.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Intervening, she thought that she'd prevented a crime, but what she said would come back to haunt her. [[:Category:Dystopian FictionBroken Ground by Val McDermid|Dystopian FictionFull Review]]
Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Isle of Arran. But Mhairi's world has been ravaged by climate change and the mass movement of people and it is one defined by borders, checkpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow - which is more than can be said for Muma and Papa. She's even made it out of the detention centre at the airport. And during this journey, Mhairi has learned that you can't rely on anyone else and you can't allow anyone else to rely on you... [[The Survival Game by Nicky Singer|Full Review]] <!-- Mazolla LaPlante -->
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===[[The Story Keeper Half Moon Bay by Anna MazzolaAlice LaPlante]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
Audrey, Half Moon Bay is a complex mix of flights small town on the west coast of fancy and seriousnessAmerica, wanting, needinga little down from San Francisco. Jane has just moved there, to be more than what everyone expects of start a new life after losing everything when her teenage daughter was killed and her, escapes from the straightjacket of husband left her home. Where every action Although she has begun to find a little peace in the quiet, every thoughtseaside town, one day a child goes missing, every yearning is controlled by bringing back painful memories for Jane of her father, who only once in his life threw caution to the wind grief and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower loss and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is properalso, rousing the bastion suspicions of doing what the local townsfolk that she is expectedsomehow involved in the disappearance. [[The Story Keeper Half Moon Bay by Anna MazzolaAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[Four by Andy Jones]]===
===[[Phantom by Leo Hunt]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionTeens|General FictionTeens]]
Friends are nice, Sixteen-year-old Nova is an undercity dweller and couple friends are doubly nicea 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, giving the more sunlight you see and the easier your life. For leechers like minded people to spend time Nova, four hundred storeys below the surface, life is tough. But with. A pair the help of pairsthe hacking program Phantom, or a couple of couples. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike for ages – Sally from universityinvented by legendary anti-corps hacker the Moth, Al through work. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though she doesn't have their shared history, she's a lot of fun – a bit younger than Nova can sneak up to the rest of themcity, an actress leech some byts and so onat least make rent. v[[Four Phantom by Andy JonesLeo Hunt|Full Review]]
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===[[An Italian Summer All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Fanny BlakeClaire Askew]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's FictionCrime|Women's FictionCrime]]
Set against As a news item, school shootings always terrify me: the backdrop of Rome and Naplesdeaths are bad enough, ten very different but even the young people meet on a small 'Taste who survive are always going to be scarred by the fact that this was done to them by one of Italytheir number. It doesn' sightseeing tript end on the day, either. This is School shootings cast a story very long shadow. May the 14th had the makings of family, friendships being a normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to shoot thirteen fellow students - and relationships – my favouriteone last bullet to kill himself. However We follow the story through the lives of three women: Moira Summers, it was a departure from the usual formulaic chicklit I normally read focused on sassy independent female characters in their twenties or thirties. Here mother of the murderer, Helen Birch, the characters are middlenewly-aged with children in their twenties promoted detective inspector who will investigate the killings and rather than looking for love they are facing different life challenges of maintaining loveIshbel Hodgekiss, empty nest syndrome, and the loss mother of loved ones. Essentially it is a story one of breaking out and new beginningsthe victims. [[An Italian Summer All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Fanny BlakeClaire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[Believe Me Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by J P DelaneyRachel Aaron]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeDystopian Fiction|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersDystopian Fiction]]
Claire Wright wanted ''You want me to be an actress, but she was penniless like everyone else and living in New York. She might have had a scholarship to cover her school feesspend my life hiding inside the walls where it's safe, but she still had to find the money to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world. There was a solution, although it didnthat't provide a regular income: she became a decoy for a firm of divorce lawyerss an illusion. The job was to trap straying husbands and tape them So long as they propositioned her. There were rules though: she couldnthere are titans out there… no one is safe''t hit on them directly - they had to proposition her. There was no intention to trap the innocent. [[Believe Me by J P Delaney|Full Review]]
In 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. 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… [[Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron|Full Review]]  <!-- Laura Solomon Bennett -->
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===[[Hell's Unveiling The Island by Laura SolomonM A Bennett]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short StoriesTeens|Short StoriesTeens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]
A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read contemporary take on the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling'savage classic '. It's probably not much Lord of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's DealFlies'': a group of mismatched, but the devil is not one modern-day teenagers must fight to take defeat lying downsurvive on a deserted island. He's Link is a fish out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell)water. Although a strong personNewly arrived from America, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel he is framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent finding it hard to juvenile detention settle into the venerable and refused permission to return prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to live with Marsha. Then, understand? And what kind of course there are all school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the other children who are not only targetedslowest time in years, but - worst he immediately becomes the butt of all - subverted every school joke. And some students are determined to the devil's evil endsmake his life more miserable than others. He's out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hell. [[Hell's Unveiling The Island by Laura SolomonM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[A Necessary Murder Colour Me In by M J TjiaLydia Ruffles]]===
[[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)Teens|Crime (Historical)Teens]]
It's 1863 and Reeling from a little girl has been found murdered at the family home in Stoke Newington. A few days later tragedy and a few miles across Londonunable to cope, unemployed actor Arlo decides to get on a man is found dead in a similar way outside the opulent townhouse of Heloise Chancey, courtesan plane and part-time detectivego somewhere new. Could they be connected? And what, if anything, does either of them have to do with Heloise's maid, Amah Li Leen, and the troubling events in her past which are threatening to resurface?[[A Necessary Murder Colour Me In by M J TjiaLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[Apollo A Treachery of Spies by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsManda Scott]]===
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This incredible graphic novel When Inspector Inès Picaut is a love letter called to investigate the Moon landings and horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's puzzled – whilst the passion for identity of the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitchwoman has been erased, Chris Baker and Mike Collins. This is a story we know well and because of this it's clear that she has been killed in the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing same way that we can fill traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the blanks. These shortcuts are mystery will lead Inès deep into the only downside history of this woman – and back to a time when the book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation men and women of 1940s France were engaged in a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are scenes missing many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short. many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[Apollo A Treachery of Spies by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[The War in the Dark Anomaly by Nick SetchfieldMichael Rutger]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Science FictionHorror|Science FictionHorror]]
Europe – 1963. The world is used to the constant tensions between the West and RussiaTomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, with for the Cold War a seemingly never ending threat in Youtube era. Join the lives intrepid (if rather inept) team of everyday people. What internet adventurers as they donhead out on yet another search for 't know however'an anomaly'' only to (spoilers) actually find one. Imagine if, instead of being scared by their own acting, is Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that the real cold war is fought on the borders starting point of this world, far from prying eyes at the edges of the lightbook. British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter is forced to flee London when an assassination attempt goes horribly wrong, and is forced into a tense, unwelcome alliance with the lethal Karina Lazarova. As the threats rise, Christopher finds himself caught Deep in a quest for centuries old hidden knowledge – an occult secret that will give instant supremacy to whichever nation possesses it. Racing against cave within the enemy, Christopher is taken from ruins in Bavaria through to the haunted Hungarian border, all Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in search of something unholy – born of the power of white fire and black glass. It's a world Stephen King plot with added levels of treachery, blood paranoia and magic. A world at war in conspiracy thrown into the darkblend. [[The War in the Dark Anomaly by Nick SetchfieldMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[Run Wild The Water Thief by Gill LewisClaire Hajaj]]===
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Meet Izzy Nick is in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and Asha. Bullied away from the local attempt at a skatepark, they find take up a huge waste ground post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the shadow building of a derelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, even though they have to drag Izzychildren's younger brother with themhospital. The following day they all want to return, as does the brother's schoolfriend, despite – and of course because of – there being a huge wolf living in the siteHe has no idea what he is getting himself into. Can the children survive living in the urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers? [[Run Wild The Water Thief by Gill LewisClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by C M TaylorPeter Lovesey]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionCrime|General FictionCrime]]
Tony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honestChildren love wrecking balls, Yorkshireso the young lad wasn's where he'd really like t going to pass up the opportunity to bewatch one hit a building through one of those very tempting holes in fencing which you find around building sites. You suspect The problem was that Scarborough would be perfectwhen the dust settled a skeleton, but he's living sitting in a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde an armchair and running clad in clothes which looked to be a pub. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return to the UKfew hundred years old, what with was visible in the uncertainty loft of Brexit and everything, but there are a couple of problemsthe half-demolished building. First off, The lad's father ceased his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to explanations about kinetic energy and hurried the UKboy away. She'd have you believe that she's Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not well, but there's a backstory there that's not being talked aboutso lucky. Then there's Viewing the pubcorpse from a cherry picker, which isn't doing well enough an unfortunate adjustment to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning the swimming pools of expats who have controls left Spain him eye to, er, eye socket with the corpse and returned home, in order to make the picture was caught by a bit of money press photographer. It was too good not to try and make ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meetgo viral. [[Staying On Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by C M TaylorPeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Katherine Webber]]===
===[[The Truth About Lies by Tracy Darnton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
Jess is in a meeting with Dr HarrisonThough it's been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the school counsellor. Dr Harrison is hoping to help Jess come to terms with the death ghost of her room-matesister every day, Hannaforever 14. But heIt's not having much successsomething that brings her comfort, largely because Jess but also a constant reminder that she has no intention to make up for being one when there should have been two. She has to shine bright enough for both of telling him how them. When she feelsbefriends outsider Seth, he presents her with an escape. InsteadFrom her family, her friends, the 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 feigns a falls in love with the escape that he represents from her grief she does , it's not feel so clear that he is satisfied and she gets out of there as quickly as possible's falling in love with him. [[The Truth About Lies Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Tracy DarntonKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones Bone Talk by Joanna NadinCandy Gourlay]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
Bridie - Birdy - Jones Samkad is eleven and finding life rather hardliving high up in the mountainous Philippine jungle just as the nineteenth century turns to the twentieth. After her mother died, it used to be just Birdy and Dad and But Samkad has no idea about any of that was okay, but now there's Birdy, Dad, an overbearing step mum, a little sister . He has never met anyone from outside his own small tribe and another baby his thoughts are focused on the waybecoming a man. ThereHe's precious little room desperate for Birdy any more and the only place she really feels happy and secure is at her grandfather's pigeon loft. Birdy loves pigeons. She loves caring for them, training them, and releasing them Elders to wait for them permit him to find join the ranks of the warriors who protect his tribe from their way homeheadhunting enemies, even though he knows it will mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behind. [[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones Bone Talk by Joanna NadinCandy Gourlay|Full Review]]
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Elizabeth Klehfoth's debut novel is Imagine a mystery thriller written from world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After discovery of the perspective of Charlie Callowayafterlife, 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 teenage girl mole buried deep in her final years at boarding school who is plagued by her mother’s disappearancethe heart of Summerland. As When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the story progresses potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she begins is willing to learn more about what happened risk to her mother, finding out along uncover 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 tootruth. [[All These Beautiful Strangers Summerland by Elizabeth KlehfothHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[When Going To The Curtain Falls Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Carrie Hope FletcherK D Knight]]===
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A thoroughlyIn the opening story a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, magical and riveting story that hooks you but comes away with cash in from the first page his pocket - and takes you on a roller coaster ride towards the lasthis wife. Fletcher weaves together a dash of In ''WhodunitA Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the thrill problem of romance, (whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the course of which never runs smoothly,) and an unpredictable ghostground is against him. My favourite was ''The ghost appears once a yearStory of H'', the principal star story of her very own show, Foinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to meet with the love yard of her life John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and reconsidered a no-enact her deathhoper. A tragic accident with In one of the most dramatic runnings of the roots buried deep within race, a pile up occured at the whole array of human nature23rd fence. Love Foinavon, joywho had been many lengths adrift, carecleared the fence and galloped to the line, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, all laid bare on centre stagewinning the race at odds of 100/1.[[Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by K D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Teens|TeensThe Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]===
Miryem comes from a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] ''t very good Biriwita the blue frog longs to be accepted at it at all. Lending freely and rarely collectingCroak College, the most famous school for frogs in Malawi, he leaves but the family other students all turn their backs on the edge of poverty, until Miryem must step inhim. Hardening her heart and collecting what He is owed just too different!'' Biriwita hails from local villagersLake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a home there, including frogs. For some reason that nobody can remember, she becomes a person all the Lake Ticklewater frogs are blue. They think nothing of great interest it. So, when she borrows Biriwita wins a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather and returns it full of goldplace at Croak College, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creatures, from the dark beings that haunt the wood through first Ticklewater frog to manage such a King who's eager to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… feat, he is filled with excitement and his only worry is how much he will miss his friends and family. [[Spinning Silver The Frog Who Was Blue by Naomi NovikFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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