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===[[A Treachery of Spies Unrest by Manda ScottJesper Stein]]===
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When Inspector Inès Picaut DCI Steen is called to investigate the horrific murder of assigned a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's puzzled puzzling case – whilst the identity tortured body of the woman has been erased, it's clear that she has been killed a man found in a cemetery in the same way Copenhagen but left there during a riot – a riot that traitors to had the resistance were executed area swarming in World War Twopolice. Solving How could anyone have been murdered and left in the mystery will lead Inès deep into open with so many police on site? Unless the history killer is one of this woman – them… As the case becomes more and back more complicated, it soon begins to take a time when toll on Steen's already troubled personal life. He won't stop until the men and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperatekiller is caught, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressorswhatever the consequences. As more and more secrets come But the consequences may turn out to light, Inès discovers that there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried be greater than expected – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… especially for Axel himself… [[A Treachery of Spies Unrest by Manda ScottJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[The Anomaly Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Michael RutgerDominic Watson]]===
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Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episodeEven with a birthday fast approaching, I'm still a bit young to be reading about retirement. My next life change in the pipeline will be a big one, and it does involve leaving the 9 to 5 behind for a yacht and the Youtube era. Join silky blue waters of the intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search Caribbean, but only for ''an anomaly'' only a year, and then I will be back, tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and with many working years still to (spoilers) actually find onecome. Also, I like work. Imagine ifMy job is interesting, instead of being scared by their own actingI get to travel, Derek Acorah what we do matters and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is it's not badly rewarded. So no, I'm not planning to retire just yet. But as the starting point premise of this book. Deep in a cave within the Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia is about planning (and conspiracy thrown into the blendif not now, then when?) I was still intrigued. [[The Anomaly Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Michael RutgerDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Water Thief Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Claire HajajLynda La Plante]]===
[[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary FictionCrime|Literary FictionCrime]]
Nick is It was February 1979 in the middle strike-ridden 'Winter of wedding preparations Discontent' when he decides a body was discovered in Peckham. It was to leave his fiancée behind be the first of two bodies in London and take up two days, but the first - that of a post in young woman - would remain unidentified for some untime. The second -named west African country providing engineering support for 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 building midst of an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and pressure to get a children's hospitalquick result. He Four days later and another body to add to the count, the police have named their suspect, but Tennison has no idea what he is getting himself intoher doubts. [[The Water Thief Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Claire HajajLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) Broken Ground by Peter LoveseyVal McDermid]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
Children love wrecking ballsAs the Officer in Charge of the Historic Cases Unit, so DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the young lad wasnscene of the crime, but for once, she't going to pass up s in the right place at the opportunity to watch one hit right time when a building through one of those very tempting holes body is dug up in fencing which you find around building sitesthe Highlands. The problem was that when Initially it looks as though the dust settled a skeleton, sitting in an armchair and clad in clothes which looked death dates back to be a few hundred years oldWWII, was visible in but the fact that the loft dead man is wearing a pair of Nikes means that the half-demolished building. The ladcase is Karen's father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and hurried the boy away. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. Viewing the corpse from a cherry picker, an unfortunate adjustment A little while later she'd come to think that she'd been in the controls left him eye to, er, eye socket with wrong place at the corpse and the picture was caught by wrong time when she overheard a conversation in a press photographercafe. It was too good not Intervening, she thought that she'd prevented a crime, but what she said would come back to go viralhaunt her. [[Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) Broken Ground by Peter LoveseyVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[Only Love Can Break Your Heart Half Moon Bay by Katherine WebberAlice LaPlante]]===
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Though it's been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees Half Moon Bay is a small town on the ghost west coast of her sister every dayAmerica, forever 14a little down from San Francisco. It's something that brings her comfort Jane has just moved there, but also to start a constant reminder that new life after losing everything when her teenage daughter was killed and her husband left her. Although she has begun to make up for being find a little peace in the quiet, seaside town, one when there should have been two. She has to shine bright enough day a child goes missing, bringing back painful memories for both Jane of them. When she befriends outsider Seth, he presents her with an escape. From her family, her friends, the grief and loss that continue to scar them all. Seth is instantly smitten with her. After alland, who wouldn't fall for gorgeousalso, popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in love with rousing the suspicions of the escape that he represents from her grief, it's not so clear local townsfolk that she's falling is somehow involved in love with himthe disappearance. [[Only Love Can Break Your Heart Half Moon Bay by Katherine WebberAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[Bone Talk Phantom by Candy GourlayLeo Hunt]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersTeens|Confident ReadersTeens]]
Samkad Sixteen-year-old Nova is living high 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 mountainous Philippine jungle just as city you live, the nineteenth century turns to more sunlight you see and the easier your life. For leechers like Nova, four hundred storeys below the twentiethsurface, life is tough. But Samkad has no idea about any with the help 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 hacking program Phantom, invented by legendary anti-corps hacker the Moth, Nova can sneak up to join the ranks of the warriors who protect his tribe from their headhunting enemiescity, even though he knows it will mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behindleech some byts and at least make rent. v[[Bone Talk Phantom by Candy GourlayLeo Hunt|Full Review]]
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===[[Summerland All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Hannu RajaniemiClaire Askew]]===
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Imagine As a world in which death was no longer something to fear news item, school shootings always terrify me: the deaths are bad enough, but something even the young people who survive are always going to aspire be scarred by the fact that this was done tothem by one of their number. After discovery of It doesn't end on the afterlifeday, either. School shootings cast a very long shadow. May the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, 14th had the Big Smoke for makings of being a normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to shoot thirteen fellow students - and one last bullet to kill himself. We follow the recently deceased. In 1938 story through the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in lives of three women: Moira Summers, the heart mother of Summerland. When Rachel Whitethe murderer, an ambitious SIS agentHelen Birch, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agentnewly-promoted detective inspector who will investigate the killings and Ishbel Hodgekiss, she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover the truthmother of one of the victims. [[Summerland All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Hannu RajaniemiClaire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by K D KnightRachel 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:4In the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside.5starKnown 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:Short StoriesGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron|Short StoriesFull Review]]
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 ''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. [[Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by K D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[The Island by M A Bennett]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]===
[[imageA contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'':4stara group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Link is a fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and 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 can run round the school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others...jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingThe Island by M A Bennett|For SharingFull Review]]
''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!'' 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 Ruffles -->
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===[[Colour Me In by Lydia Ruffles]]===
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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 Scott -->
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===[[The Story Keeper A Treachery of Spies by Anna MazzolaManda Scott]]===
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Audrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to be more than what everyone expects investigate the horrific murder of hera strikingly beautiful elderly lady, escapes from she's puzzled – whilst the straightjacket identity of her home. Where every actionthe woman has been erased, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once it's clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in his life threw caution World War Two. Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – and back to a time when the wind men and married way beneath him women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for lovesurvival against their Nazi oppressors. Now a widower As more and remarried, he has rigorously returned more secrets come to upholding what is right, what is properlight, Inès discovers that there are many in the bastion of doing what is expected. present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[The Story Keeper A Treachery of Spies by Anna MazzolaManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[Four The Anomaly by Andy JonesMichael Rutger]]===
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Friends are niceTomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, and couple friends are doubly nice, giving you like minded people for the Youtube era. Join the intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly'' only to spend time with(spoilers) actually find one. A pair Imagine if, instead of pairsbeing scared by their own acting, or a couple Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the starting point of couples. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike for ages – Sally from university, Al through workthis book. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though she doesn't have their shared history, she's Deep in a lot cave within the Grand Canyon our team of fun – adventurers find themselves trapped in a bit younger than the rest Stephen King plot with added levels of them, an actress paranoia and so onconspiracy thrown into the blend. [[Four The Anomaly by Andy JonesMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[An Italian Summer The Water Thief by Fanny BlakeClaire Hajaj]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's General Fiction|Women's General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]
Set against Nick is in the backdrop middle of Rome wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and Naples, ten very different people meet on take up a small 'Taste of Italy' sightseeing trip. This is a story of family, friendships and relationships – my favourite. However, it was a departure from the usual formulaic chicklit I normally read focused on sassy independent female characters post in their twenties or thirties. Here the characters are middlesome un-aged with children in their twenties and rather than looking named west African country providing engineering support for love they are facing different life challenges of maintaining love, empty nest syndrome, and the loss building of loved onesa children's hospital. Essentially it He has no idea what he is a story of breaking out and new beginningsgetting himself into. [[An Italian Summer The Water Thief by Fanny BlakeClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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Claire Wright wanted to be an actressChildren love wrecking balls, but she was penniless and living in New York. She might have had a scholarship to cover her school fees, but she still had so the young lad wasn't going to find pass up the money opportunity to live in watch one hit a building through one of the most expensive cities those very tempting holes in the worldfencing which you find around building sites. There The problem was that when the dust settled a solutionskeleton, although it didn't provide sitting in an armchair and clad in clothes which looked to be a regular income: she became a decoy for a firm few hundred years old, was visible in the loft of divorce lawyersthe half-demolished building. The job lad's father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and hurried the boy away. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. Viewing the corpse from a cherry picker, an unfortunate adjustment to the controls left him eye to trap straying husbands , er, eye socket with the corpse and tape them as they propositioned her. There were rules though: she couldn't hit on them directly - they had to proposition herthe picture was caught by a press photographer. There It was no intention too good not to trap the innocentgo viral. [[Believe Me Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by J P DelaneyPeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[Hell's Unveiling Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Laura SolomonKatherine Webber]]===
[[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:FantasyTeens|FantasyTeens]]
A little while ago I really enjoyed [[MarshaThough it's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the opportunity to read the sequelghost of her sister every day, ''Hell's Unveiling''forever 14. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say something that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal''brings her comfort, but the devil is not also a constant reminder that she has to make up for being one to take defeat lying downwhen there should have been two. He's out She has to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought shine bright enough for both of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell)them. Although a strong personWhen she befriends outsider Seth, she's vulnerable where he presents her foster children are concernedwith an escape. Daniel is framed for a crime he didn't commit From her family, her friends, the grief and sent loss that continue to juvenile detention and refused permission to return to live scar them all. Seth is instantly smitten with Marshaher. ThenAfter all, of course there are all the other children who are not only targetedwouldn't fall for gorgeous, but popular Reiko Smith- worst of all - subverted to Mori? But while she falls in love with the devilescape that he represents from her grief, it's evil ends. Henot so clear that she's out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as falling in love with many foster children, their self esteem is very fragilehim. 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 Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Laura SolomonKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[A Necessary Murder by M J Tjia]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]===
It's 1863 and a little girl has been found murdered at the family home in Stoke Newington[[image:4. A few days later and a few miles across London, a man is found dead in a similar way outside the opulent townhouse of Heloise Chancey, courtesan and part-time detective5star. 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?jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[A Necessary Murder by M J Tjia: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]] <!-- Fitch Rajaniemi -->
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===[[Apollo Summerland by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsHannu Rajaniemi]]===
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This incredible graphic novel is Imagine a love letter world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After discovery of the Moon landings and afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the passion Big Smoke for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike Collinsrecently deceased. This In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a story we know well race against Soviet spies and because of this the authors take dealing with a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill mole buried deep in the blanksheart of Summerland. These shortcuts are When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the only downside potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to the book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing go and that dialogue has been trimmed. This how much she is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too shortwilling to risk to uncover the truth. [[Apollo Summerland by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[Going To The War in the Dark Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Nick SetchfieldK D Knight]]===
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Europe – 1963. The world is used to In the constant tensions between the West opening story a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, but comes away with cash in his pocket - and Russia, his wife. In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the Cold War a seemingly never ending threat problem of whether or not to run his horse in the lives Gold Cup when the ground is against him. My favourite was ''The Story of everyday people. What they donH''t know however, is that the real cold war story of Foinavon. H is fought depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the borders yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and considered a no-hoper. In one of this world, far from prying eyes at the edges most dramatic runnings of the light. British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter is forced to flee London when an assassination attempt goes horribly wrongrace, and is forced into a tense, unwelcome alliance with pile up occured at the lethal Karina Lazarova23rd fence. As the threats rise Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, Christopher finds himself caught in a quest for centuries old hidden knowledge – an occult secret that will give instant supremacy to whichever nation possesses it. Racing against cleared the enemy, Christopher is taken from ruins in Bavaria through fence and galloped to the haunted Hungarian borderline, all in search of something unholy – born of winning the power of white fire and black glass. It's a world race at odds of treachery, blood and magic. A world at war in the dark100/1. [[Going To The War in the Dark Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Nick SetchfieldK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[Run Wild by Gill Lewis]]===
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Meet Izzy and Asha[[image:4star. Bullied away from jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] ''Biriwita the local attempt blue frog longs to be accepted at a skateparkCroak College, they find a huge waste ground the most famous school for frogs in Malawi, but the shadow of other students all turn their backs on him. He is just too different!'' Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a derelict gasometer to practise onhome there, which they duly doincluding frogs. For some reason that nobody can remember, even though they have to drag Izzy's younger brother with themall the Lake Ticklewater frogs are blue. They think nothing of it. The following day they all want to returnSo, when Biriwita wins a place at Croak College, as does the brother's schoolfriendfirst Ticklewater frog to manage such a feat, despite – he is filled with excitement and his only worry is how much he will miss his friends and of course because of – there being a huge wolf living in the sitefamily. Can the children survive living in the urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers? [[Run Wild The Frog Who Was Blue by Gill LewisFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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