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===[[Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) Unrest by Peter LoveseyJesper Stein]]===
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Children love wrecking balls, so DCI Steen is assigned a puzzling case – the young lad wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to watch one hit tortured body of a man found in a building through one of those very tempting holes cemetery in fencing which you find around building sites. The problem was Copenhagen but left there during a riot – a riot that when had the dust settled a skeleton, sitting area swarming in an armchair police. How could anyone have been murdered and clad in clothes which looked to be a few hundred years old, was visible left in the loft open with so many police on site? Unless the killer is one of them… As the half-demolished building. The ladcase becomes more and more complicated, it soon begins to take a toll on Steen's father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and hurried the boy awayalready troubled personal life. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. Viewing He won't stop until the corpse from a cherry pickerkiller is caught, an unfortunate adjustment to whatever the controls left him eye to, er, eye socket with the corpse and consequences. But the picture was caught by a press photographer. It was too good not consequences may turn out to go viral. be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) Unrest by Peter LoveseyJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[Only Love Can Break Your Heart Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Katherine WebberDominic Watson]]===
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Though itEven with a birthday fast approaching, I's been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko m still sees a bit young to be reading about retirement. My next life change in the ghost of her sister every day, forever 14. It's something that brings her comfort, but also pipeline will be a constant reminder that she has to make up for being big one when there should have been two. She has , and it does involve leaving the 9 to shine bright enough 5 behind for both a yacht and the silky blue waters of them. When she befriends outsider Seththe Caribbean, he presents her with an escape. From her familybut only for a year, her friendsand then I will be back, the grief tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and loss that continue with many working years still to scar them allcome. Also, I like work. Seth My job is instantly smitten with her. After allinteresting, who wouldn't fall for gorgeous, popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in love with the escape that he represents from her griefI get to travel, what we do matters and it's not so clear that shebadly rewarded. So no, I's falling in love with himm not planning to retire just yet. But as the premise of this book is about planning (and if not now, then when?) I was still intrigued. [[Only Love Can Break Your Heart Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Katherine WebberDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Lynda La Plante]]===
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Samkad is living high up It was February 1979 in the mountainous Philippine jungle just as strike-ridden 'Winter of Discontent' when a body was discovered in Peckham. It was to be the nineteenth century turns to first of two bodies in two days, but the twentiethfirst - that of a young woman - would remain unidentified for some time. But Samkad has no idea about any The second - an older lady - was found in the boot of thather car by her son. He Jane Tennison has never met anyone from outside his own small tribe been promoted to Sergeant and finds herself in the midst of an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and his thoughts are focused on becoming pressure to get a manquick result. He's desperate for the Elders Four days later and another body to permit him add to join the ranks of count, the warriors who protect his tribe from police have named their headhunting enemiessuspect, even though he knows it will mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behindbut Tennison has her doubts. [[Bone Talk Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Candy GourlayLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[Summerland Broken Ground by Hannu RajaniemiVal McDermid]]===
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Imagine a world As the Officer in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After discovery Charge of the afterlifeHistoric Cases Unit, DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the scene of the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerlandcrime, the Big Smoke but for once, she's in the recently deceased. In 1938 right place at the British Empire right time when a body is caught 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 race against Soviet spies and dealing with 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 mole buried deep conversation in the heart of Summerlanda cafe. When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent Intervening, she must decide how far thought that she is willing to go and how much 'd prevented a crime, but what she is willing said would come back to risk to uncover the truthhaunt her. [[Summerland Broken Ground by Hannu RajaniemiVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing Half Moon Bay by K D KnightAlice LaPlante]]===
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In Half Moon Bay is a small town on the opening story west coast of America, a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, but comes away with cash in his pocket - and his wifedown from San Francisco. In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of whether or not Jane has just moved there, to run his horse in the Gold Cup start a new life after losing everything when the ground is against him. My favourite her teenage daughter was ''The Story of H'', the story of Foinavonkilled and her husband left her. H is depicted as Although she has begun to find a kind horse who only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered little peace in the Grand National and considered quiet, seaside town, one day a no-hoper. In one child goes missing, bringing back painful memories for Jane of the most dramatic runnings of the race, a pile up occured at the 23rd fence. Foinavonher grief and loss and, who had been many lengths adriftalso, cleared rousing the fence and galloped to suspicions of the line, winning local townsfolk that she is somehow involved in the race at odds of 100/1disappearance. [[Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing Half Moon Bay by K D KnightAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[The Frog Who Was Blue Phantom by Faiz KermaniLeo Hunt]]===
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''Biriwita 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 blue frog longs to be accepted at Croak Collegehacking program Phantom, invented by legendary anti-corps hacker the most famous school for frogs in MalawiMoth, but Nova can sneak up to the other students all turn their backs on himcity, leech some byts and at least make rent. He is just too different!''v[[Phantom by Leo Hunt|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 Claire Askew -->
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===[[All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Claire Askew]]===
===[[The Survival Game by Nicky Singer]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Dystopian FictionCrime|Dystopian FictionCrime]]
Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home As a news item, school shootings always terrify me: the deaths are bad enough, but even the young people who survive are always going to be scarred by the Isle fact that this was done to them by one of Arrantheir number. But Mhairi It doesn's world has been ravaged by climate change and t end on the mass movement of people and it is one defined by bordersday, checkpoints and soldiers with gunseither. School shootings cast a very long shadow. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto May the 14th had the makings of being a plane normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to Heathrow shoot thirteen fellow students - which is more than can be said for Muma and Papaone last bullet to kill himself. She's even made it out We follow the story through the lives of three women: Moira Summers, the detention centre at mother of the airport. And during this journeymurderer, Helen Birch, Mhairi has learned that you can't rely on anyone else the newly-promoted detective inspector who will investigate the killings and you can't allow anyone else to rely on youIshbel Hodgekiss, the mother of one of the victims... [[The Survival Game All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Nicky SingerClaire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[The Story Keeper Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Anna MazzolaRachel Aaron]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]]
[[image:5star''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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]So long as there are titans out there… no one is safe''
AudreyIn the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, a complex mix humanity hides behind the safety of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, high impenetrable walls to be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from keep out the straightjacket of her homeenemies outside. Where every actionKnown as titans, every thoughtthese enemies are impossibly tall human like creatures, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in his life threw caution with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers. Difficult to kill and innumerable they roam the wind and married way beneath him Earth looking for love. Now a widower prey, and remarriedwhilst the walls have always kept them out, he that has rigorously returned begun to upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expected. change… [[The Story Keeper Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Anna MazzolaRachel Aaron|Full Review]]
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===[[Four The Island by Andy JonesM A Bennett]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Friends are niceA contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'': a group of mismatched, and couple friends are doubly nice, giving you like minded people modern-day teenagers must fight to spend time withsurvive on a deserted island. A pair of pairs, or Link is a couple fish out of coupleswater. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike for ages – Sally Newly arrived from universityAmerica, Al through workhe is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though she doesn't have their shared historyWho knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in years, she's a lot he immediately becomes the butt of fun – a bit younger every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than the rest of them, an actress and so onothers... [[Four The Island by Andy JonesM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[An Italian Summer Colour Me In by Fanny BlakeLydia Ruffles]]===
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Set against the backdrop of Rome and Naples, ten very different people meet on a small 'Taste of Italy' sightseeing trip. This is Reeling from a story of family, friendships tragedy and relationships – my favourite. Howeverunable to cope, it was a departure from the usual formulaic chicklit I normally read focused unemployed actor Arlo decides to get on sassy independent female characters in their twenties or thirties. Here the characters are middle-aged with children in their twenties and rather than looking for love they are facing different life challenges of maintaining love, empty nest syndrome, and the loss of loved ones. Essentially it is a story of breaking out plane and go somewhere new beginnings. [[An Italian Summer Colour Me In by Fanny BlakeLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[Believe Me A Treachery of Spies by J P DelaneyManda Scott]]===
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Claire Wright wanted When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to be an actressinvestigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, but she was penniless and living in New York. She might have had a scholarship to cover her school fees's puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman has been erased, but it's clear that she still had has been killed in the same way that traitors to find the money to live resistance were executed in one World War Two. Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – and back to a time when the most expensive cities men and women of 1940s France were engaged in the world. There was a solutiondesperate, although it didn't provide a regular income: she became a decoy brutal fight for a firm of divorce lawyerssurvival against their Nazi oppressors. The job was As more and more secrets come to trap straying husbands light, Inès discovers that there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and tape them as they propositioned her. There were rules though: she couldn't hit on them directly - they had to proposition her. There was no intention many who would kill to trap the innocent. keep secrets safe… [[Believe Me A Treachery of Spies by J P DelaneyManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[Hell's Unveiling The Anomaly by Laura SolomonMichael Rutger]]===
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A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the opportunity to read the sequel, ''Hell's Unveiling''Youtube era. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', but Join the devil is not one to take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha intrepid (who's thought if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as a they head out on yet another search for 'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although a strong person, shean anomaly's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent only to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live with Marsha(spoilers) actually find one. ThenImagine if, instead of course there are all the other children who are not only targetedbeing scared by their own acting, but - worst of all - subverted to the devil's evil ends. He's out to prey on their fears Derek Acorah and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self esteem Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is very fragilethe starting point of this book. This is no small-scale operation, either - Deep in a cave within the devil has set up Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a training complex on earth, complete Stephen King plot with an elevator to Helladded levels of paranoia and conspiracy thrown into the blend. [[Hell's Unveiling The Anomaly by Laura SolomonMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[A Necessary Murder The Water Thief by M J TjiaClaire Hajaj]]===
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It's 1863 and a little girl has been found murdered at Nick is in the family home middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in Stoke Newington. A few days later London and take up a few miles across London, a man is found dead post in a similar way outside some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the opulent townhouse building of Heloise Chancey, courtesan and part-time detectivea children's hospital. Could they be connected? And He has no idea 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?he is getting himself into. [[A Necessary Murder The Water Thief by M J TjiaClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[Apollo Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsPeter Lovesey]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Popular ScienceCrime|Popular ScienceCrime]]
This incredible graphic novel is a Children love letter wrecking balls, so the young lad wasn't going to pass up the Moon landings and opportunity to watch one hit a building through one of those very tempting holes in fencing which you find around building sites. The problem was that when the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitchdust settled a skeleton, Chris Baker sitting in an armchair and Mike Collins. This is clad in clothes which looked to be a story we know well and because few hundred years old, was visible in the loft of this the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in half-demolished building. The lad's father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and hurried the blanksboy away. These shortcuts are Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. Viewing the only downside corpse from a cherry picker, an unfortunate adjustment to the book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar controls left him eye to, er, eye socket with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing corpse and that dialogue has been trimmedthe picture was caught by a press photographer. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt It was too shortgood not to go viral. [[Apollo Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsPeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[The War in the Dark Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Nick SetchfieldKatherine Webber]]===
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Europe – 1963. The world is used to the constant tensions between the West and RussiaThough it's been 5 years since Mika died, with the Cold War a seemingly never ending threat in Reiko still sees the lives ghost of everyday peopleher sister every day, forever 14. What they donIt't know howevers something that brings her comfort, is but also a constant reminder that the real cold war is fought on the borders she has to make up for being one when there should have been two. She has to shine bright enough for both of this worldthem. When she befriends outsider Seth, far from prying eyes at the edges of the lighthe presents her with an escape. British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter is forced to flee London when an assassination attempt goes horribly wrongFrom her family, her friends, the grief and loss that continue to scar them all. Seth is forced into a tense, unwelcome alliance instantly smitten with the lethal Karina Lazarovaher. As the threats riseAfter all, Christopher finds himself caught in a quest who wouldn't fall for centuries old hidden knowledge – an occult secret that will give instant supremacy to whichever nation possesses it. Racing against the enemygorgeous, Christopher is taken from ruins popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in Bavaria through to love with the haunted Hungarian borderescape that he represents from her grief, all in search of something unholy – born of the power of white fire and black glass. Itit's not so clear that she's a world of treachery, blood and magic. A world at war falling in the darklove with him. [[The War in the Dark Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Nick SetchfieldKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[Run Wild by Gill Lewis]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident ReadersBone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]===
Meet Izzy and Asha[[image:4. Bullied away from the local attempt at a skatepark, they find a huge waste ground in the shadow of a derelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, even though they have to drag Izzy's younger brother with them5star. 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 site. Can the children survive living in the urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Run Wild by Gill Lewis: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]] <!-- C M Taylor Rajaniemi -->
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===[[Staying On Summerland by C M TaylorHannu Rajaniemi]]===
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Tony Metcalfe is Imagine a Yorkshireman through and through and being honest, Yorkshire's where he'd really like world in which death was no longer something to be. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfect, fear but he's living in a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde and running a pub. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like something to sell it and return aspire to . After discovery of the afterlife, the UKBritish Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, what with the uncertainty of Brexit Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and everything, but there are dealing with a couple mole buried deep in the heart of problemsSummerland. First offWhen Rachel White, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the UK. She'd have you believe that she's not wellan ambitious SIS agent, but there's a backstory there that's not being talked becomes suspicious about. Then there's the pubpotential rogue agent, which isn't doing well enough she must decide how far she is willing to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning the swimming pools of expats who have left Spain go and returned home, in order how much she is willing to make a bit of money risk to try and make ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meetuncover the truth. [[Staying On Summerland by C M TaylorHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by K D Knight]]===
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[[image:4starIn 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 ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the ground is against him. My favourite was ''The Story of H'', the story of 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 John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and considered a no-hoper. In one of the most dramatic runnings of the race, a pile up occured at the 23rd fence. Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and galloped to the line, winning the race at odds of 100/1.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Going To The Last:Category:TeensShort Stories About Horse Racing by K D Knight|TeensFull Review]]
Jess is in a meeting with Dr Harrison, the school counsellor. Dr Harrison is hoping to help Jess come to terms with the death of her room-mate, Hanna. But he's not having much success, largely because Jess has no intention of telling him how she feels. Instead, she feigns a grief she does not feel so that he is satisfied and she gets out of there as quickly as possible. [[The Truth About Lies by Tracy Darnton|Full Review]] <!-- Nadin Kermani -->
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===[[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones The Frog Who Was Blue by Joanna NadinFaiz Kermani]]===
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Bridie - Birdy - Jones is eleven and finding life rather hard. After her mother died, it used ''Biriwita the blue frog longs to be just Birdy and Dad and that was okayaccepted at Croak College, the most famous school for frogs in Malawi, but now the other students all turn their backs on him. He is just too different!'' Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a home there's Birdy, Dadincluding frogs. For some reason that nobody can remember, an overbearing step mumall the Lake Ticklewater frogs are blue. They think nothing of it. So, when Biriwita wins a little sister and another baby on place at Croak College, the way. There's precious little room for Birdy any more first Ticklewater frog to manage such a feat, he is filled with excitement and the his only place she really feels happy and secure worry is at her grandfather's pigeon loft. Birdy loves pigeons. She loves caring for them, training them, how much he will miss his friends and releasing them to wait for them to find their way homefamily. [[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones The Frog Who Was Blue by Joanna NadinFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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