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Hello from The Bookbag, a site featuring books from all the many walks of literary life - [[:Category:Fiction|fiction]], [[:Category:Biography|biography]], [[:Category:Crime|crime]], [[:Category:Cookery|cookery]] and anything else that takes our fancy. At Bookbag Towers the bookbag sits at the side of the desk. It's the bag we take to the library , the charity shop and the bookshop. Sometimes it holds the latest releases, but at other times there'll be old favourites, books for the children, books for the home. They're sometimes our own books or books from the local library. They're often books sent to us by publishers and we promise to tell you exactly what we think about them. You might not want to read through a full review, so we'll give you a quick review which summarises what we felt about the book and tells you whether or not we think you should buy or borrow it. There are also lots of [[:Category:Interviews|author interviews]], and all sorts of [[:Category:Lists|top tens]] - all of which you can find on our [[features]] page. If you're stuck for something to read, check out the [[Book Recommendations|recommendations]] page.

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===[[Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs by Beth Webb]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensConfident Readers|TeensConfident Readers]]

Anelise - Annie - has been living with her cousin Joe and her aunt, an eminent forensic scientist, since her mum died In late December Dylan Beaumont and her naturalist father went abroad his sister Emily were on a research trip. So she does wonder sometimes whether their way to spend the minor premonitions she has - whoweek before Christmas at their grandfather's on house. It was snowing heavily and you could sense that their parents were becoming annoyed at the bickering in the other end back of the ringing phonecar. Emily was rather brusque with her nine-year-old brother's behaviour, or at the door but then that's your prerogative when thereyou's re a knock grown- are in her imaginationup eleven year old. But to foresee a serious accident The snow was getting heavier and then for it to actually happen? And the journey longer when Emily opened the car window just a couple of inches. There was a dreadful headaches. Something's going on. Luckily for Anniesmell and Dylan saw a horrible, Joe is convinced and also willing to help. So they start to investigate snake-like figure clawing at the accident..car window. [[Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs Deadwood Hall by Beth WebbLinda Jones|Full Review]]

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===[[Joe Country A Breath on Dying Embers (Jackson Lamb 6DCI Daley) by Mick HerronDenzil Meyrick]]===

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I'd like to say that all the old crew are in Slough House Few government trade missions arrive by luxury liner, but the rate of natural (or unnatural) wastage cruise ship ''Great Britain'' is such as to have Health berthed in Kinloch harbour and Safety worriedon board are high-powered international delegates. Roderick HoIt's there though, narcissistic as ever, and so's Louisa Guy. She's getting over the death of Min Harper hard to avoid the extent suspicion that sheit's not ''tooentirely'' concerned when she gets a phone call from Clare Harperabout work as the billionaires, entrepreneurs and their civil service minders tour the country, Mingolfing and sightseeing with their entourage of security personnel. It's wife. River Cartwright has got death on an event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quickly, particularly as his mind formal uniform is far tootight for comfort, but in his case it's the impending demise not long before one of his beloved grandfather and former spook, the OB. Diana Taverner has taken over from Claude Whelan as First Desk at Regent Park crew members and she's going to make changes: one of the first is a shock. An argument with Emma Flyte sees the head dog departing the servicelocal bird watcher go missing. Meanwhile at Slough House, Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Jackson Lamb is offensive as ever and Shirley Dander and J K Coe do their best to remain unnoticed, the latter by saying nothing. [[Joe Country A Breath on Dying Embers (Jackson Lamb 6DCI Daley) by Mick HerronDenzil Meyrick|Full Review]]

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===[[Vintage 1954 The Starlight Watchmaker by Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)Lauren James]]===

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Vintage 1954 starts by thrusting several completely different characters upon usThis is a dyslexia-friendly, before deciding to run with them and formulate a plotscience fiction novella for young adults. So we have an American biker, just landing in Paris but unfortunately not with It tells the wife who shared his dream tale of visiting the city together. We have a goth girl who everyone recognises from Hugo, an American crime showunwanted and rather lonely android, but actually is who makes a humble restorer living for himself mending time-travel watches. When one of antiques. We have a cocktail barmanhis clients demands that his broken watch be mended, infatuated with the goth girl. We also have Hugo realises there is a man ruling the roost over a whole suite of individual apartments fabricated from the Haussmann-era mansion his family once owned. Finally something conspires mystery to get them togetherbe solved, and drinking from the same bottle is only too ready to help. An exciting journey of a rare 1954 red wine. Onlydiscovery unfolds, one which takes Hugo out of them has a bizarre incidence in his family history that also features the same plonk – where drab attic workroom and into a grandfather imbibedscary adventure with some amazing new friends, and walked out exploring regions of the door one rainy morning, planet never before known to be seen againexist. But of course nobody will be doing any disappearing now, though – will they? [[Vintage 1954 The Starlight Watchmaker by Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)Lauren James|Full Review]]

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===[[The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind Cold Granite (Logan McRae) by Jackson FordStuart MacBride]]===

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As the title suggests, this book DS Logan McRae is all about just back from a year's sick leave after he was attacked by a girl, Teagan Frost, who has psychokinesiskiller. Forced He's just about OK and he's supposed to secretly work for be easing himself back into the government along with a few unique (and shady) individuals, Teagan has to use her power for unimaginable tasks. All swing of this whilst under the pretence of working for job in a movinggentle way - until three-companyyear-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch. After her latest job goes wrong and her He'd been missing for some time and it came as no surprise that he was dead but he's the first of several child murders. To add to the team escape by complications the skin of their teethpolice even have a body but no child reported missing. A serial killer, Teagan finds herself as a murder suspect when child killer and abuser, is on the victim is found loose in such a way that only she could have committed Aberdeen and the crimepress are missing no opportunity to bay for blood. The rest of the story unfolds in As if that wasn't bad enough there seems to be a leak from within Force Headquarters: a fast-paced race against time to clear Teagan's name and find local journalist, Colin Miller, quickly finds out exactly what has happened. Is it possible everything that someone with a gift like Teagan's has managed to fly under the radar? happening. [[The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind Cold Granite (Logan McRae) by Jackson FordStuart MacBride|Full Review]]

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===[[The Suffering of Strangers Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Caro RamsayAngela Marsons]]===

Roberta (please call her 'Bobby') Chisholm is sleep deprived. Six-week-old Sholto doesn't ''ever'' seem to sleep, so Bobby's like a robot. There's a little light on the horizon, though: her husband James is up for a new job, which could mean quite a bit more money. When he rings to tell her that he's got it he's obviously over the moon and tells Bobby to go to the local shop prologue and get a bottle of champagne so we know that they can celebrate. For once Sholto has dropped off to sleep and when Bobby gets to the shop shewe's reluctant to disturb him: surely there won't be a problem if she dashes into the shop to get the bubbly? She can keep an eye on the car through the shop window, but when she comes out, the car has gone.re dealing with someone who is very disturbed.. [[The Suffering of Strangers by Caro Ramsay|Full Review]] <!-- Christopher Edge -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1788004949.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788004949/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Longest Night of Charlie Noon by Christopher Edge]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] ''If you go into the woods, Old Crony will get you.'' Secrets, spies or maybe even a monster... What lies in the heart of the wood? Charlie, Dizzy and Johnny descriptions are determined to discover the truthhorrifying, but when night falls without warning they find themselves trapped in a nightmare. Lost in the woods, strange dangers and impossible puzzles lurk in worst of all is the shadows. As time plays tricks, can Charlie solve this mystery and find a way out coldness of the woods? But what if this night never endskiller...? [[The Longest Night of Charlie Noon Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Christopher EdgeAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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===[[Bold Lies (DI Kelly Porter 5) Exhalation by Rachel LynchTed Chiang]]===

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It was Over the smell which announced the presence past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories. These magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of the body in the wheelhouse of a boat and identification wasn't going to be easy as the man was stark nakedwork by Ted Chiang. There were all the signs I cannot speak highly enough of a brutal, cold-blooded execution but gradually the man was traced back to Allendale House, the estate this collection of the former Lord Allendaleshort stories, they are so wide ranging in their themes and then to Londonso beautifully written, where two more bodies, naked, in a staged setting in Chiang has written an absolute masterpiece of a garage, were discoveredcollection. Senior Investigating Officer DI Kelly Porter had to go to London and was shocked to discover that the SIO for If you come across Chiang''that'' case was DCI Matt Carters work before, her manipulative and untrustworthy ex-lovertake this opportunity to do so now. It was going to Trust me; your imagination will be anything but easy to work alongside Matt the Tw... Ah, well let's not go theregrateful. [[Bold Lies (DI Kelly Porter 5) Exhalation by Rachel LynchTed Chiang|Full Review]]

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How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when the problem is the brain which isn't functioning quite as it used to it isn't as easy to grasp[[image:4star. Frank was a normal nine year old and like many nine year olds what he wanted was a new bike. He'd had his for about seventy-eight years and he didn't want to raise the seat any more. Mum pointed out that it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a lot of money, which didn't grow on trees. His sister Lottie had a solutionjpg|link=Category: Frank could help her with her paper round. Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a thousand years to save up the money for a bike AND he had to get up at six o'clock in the morning. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Special Delivery by Jonathan Meres:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]

Rose and her brother Rudder have recently escaped from cult-like fundamentalist Christian sect, the Pilgrims, along with their mother. While Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying to keep the rent paid on their tiny flat, Rose and Rudder are trying to navigate the worldly world. It's not easy when everything is new and the rigid rules you've always lived by are suddenly missing. [[Rose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence|Full Review]]<!-- Vivian French Kate Atkinson -->

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===[[The Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Vivian FrenchKate Atkinson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]

[[image:5starI guess that most of us have made the odd impulse purchase but Tracy Waterhouse, security chief at the Merrion Centre in Leeds, blew most people's ideas of an impulse purchase out of the water one morning. Seeing a known prostitute dragging a toddler through the shopping mall whilst cursing at her, Waterhouse followed the woman and bought the girl for £3000. The difficulty of a purchase like this is knowing what to do next and Tracy's humdrum life is replaced with one of stress, fear and an overwhelming love for four-year-old Courtney.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]]Started Early, [[:Category:Confident ReadersTook My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Kate Atkinson|Confident ReadersFull Review]]

Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to win the 100 metres race on sports day at the end of term <!-- Chloe Daykin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0571349439.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0571349439/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text- and that was next weekalign: left;"|===[[Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Chloe Daykin]]=== [[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers]] We're going Maya has to read about what happened in her diary, although thereescape. She's on the run in a warning that we really shouldncountry she doesn't be reading itknow and has no idea who to trust. Raul is escaping too - travelling back to his home where a terrible tragedy happened, particularly as it's about Barbie Meekready to stir up trouble. To say that When their paths collide in the two girls don't get on at all well is a bit middle of an understatementthe jungle, the sparks begin to fly. Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about itAs modern world corruption meets the magic and legends of ancient times, but Barbie is a troublemaker and she wants can Maya draw on her hidden light to find the way through to win the 100 metres race too - by fair means or foul. truth? [[The Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Vivian FrenchChloe Daykin|Full Review]]

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===[[The Adventures of Harry Stevenson Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Ali PyeAngela Marsons]]===

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Meet Harry Stevenson. HeThere's a typical guinea pig, except he's perhaps a bit more ginger than normal. And more lazy than usual. And his appetite is possibly bigger than the norm. Apart from prologue and we know that hewe's a regular guinea pig. But the stories in which he features are nothing like. In the first one here, the lad re dealing with someone who owns and looks after him is being forced to move housevery disturbed. It should be a simple journey for HarryThe descriptions are horrifying, safe in his cage from but worst of all is the predators that watching nature documentaries have put into his imagination, but he gets distracted and – shock horror – left behind. It takes some bravura slapstick and a charming contrivance for him to be found again. In coldness of the second, for we get two full-length stories in this volume, there's a party being held to get the lad used to his new schoolmates, and Harry used to life in a garden hutch. And one more wonderful conceit that drives high dramakiller. [[The Adventures of Harry Stevenson Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Ali PyeAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersI Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory]]===

The Yoo family originated in Seoul[[image:4. Yoo Young and her daughter Meh-hee came on ahead of the father of the family, Yoo Pak, as a couple in Baltimore offered to provide accommodation for Young and Meh-hee in exchange for assistance in their grocery store5star. What Young had not appreciated was that she was to work from 6 a.m. until midnight, seven days a week. For years she hardly saw her daughter except when the Kangs brought Meh-hee to see her at the store. Meh-hee became Mary and struggled at schooljpg|link=Category: her fellow pupils were no exceptions to the rule that children can be cruel and Mary was an easy target. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Miracle Creek by Angie Kim:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]

Gemma has just started her A levels at school. She's a keen student and she has a good, close set of friends. Gemma loves country music and in her spare time she enjoys writing and singing country songs. She's pretty good at it too. Home life is busy - Gemma's brother Michael has a chance at a football career and the whole family, propelled by Gemma's rather over-invested dad, is supporting him with everything they've got. Gemma hasn't had a serious boyfriend yet, so when the handsome Aaron appears and an instant attraction fizzles between them, Gemma is keen to see where romance could lead... [[I Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory|Full Review]]<!-- Megan E O'Keefe Davis -->

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===[[Velocity Weapon What's That in Dog Years? by Megan E O'KeefeBen Davis and Julia Christians]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionConfident Readers|Confident Readers]] The last thing Sanda remembers is her gunship explodingGeorge and Gizmo have been together ever since George was born. She expected to be recovered by salvage-medics Gizmo has always been a fun, adventurous dog and a loyal friend, but just recently, George has noticed that he's starting to awaken in friendly hands, patched-up and ready slow down a little. A visit to rejoin the fight. Instead she wakes up 230 years latervets leaves George worried that Gizmo might not be around for very much longer, on a deserted enemy starship called The Light of Berossus - or, as and so he prefers begins to call himselfwrite Gizmo a bucket list, of all the adventures that they can still have together in Gizmo'Bero'. Bero tells Sanda the war is lost. That the entire star system is deads last days. But are they his last days? And who will help George to stay calm when Gizmo is that the full storygone? After all, in the vastness of space, anything is possible . . . [[Velocity Weapon What's That in Dog Years? by Megan E O'KeefeBen Davis and Julia Christians|Full Review]]

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Belle and Joe travel to London in 1944, towards the end of World War II. Orphaned evacuees, they haven't had a good time of it - especially Joe, who is a sensitive child and was badly bullied. Meeting them is Uncle Griff, a kindly man, but one without much money. He is more than happy to have the children stay during the school holidays. Uncle Griff owns 'An instruction manual for the forest''Shop of Mechanical Marvelsis how Wohlleben's publisher described the idea for this book, and that' and s basically what it is – although right at the children love all end the old things author says that it contains. Uncle Griff hopes is not intended to restore it to profitability and bring some wonder back into London's bombed out streetsbe a reference book, but an appetiser. [[Walks In The Chessmaster's Secret Wild by Mary ParkerPeter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[The Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You A Nearly Normal Family by Rob WalkerM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)]]===

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The curse put on reviewers is that we get We're going to read hear this story through a book which is really better dipped intothe viewpoints of three different people: Adam Sandell, his wife, or read gradually Ulrika and thoughts allowed to be provokedhis daughter Stella. And so it was with Adam''The Art s a pastor in the Church of NoticingSweden and Ulrika is a lawyer. Stella is, well, just difficult. You sense that she's always been difficult and there have even been occasions when Ulrika has let slip that she wishes that Stella was more like her best friend, Amina Bešic - and no one has ever said that if they don't think that the other person is better. ItWe first meet the family on Stella's 18th birthday and we get a simple premise: the pace sense of modern life and rapidity of technological advances means that we are constantly overwhelmed and distractedAdam's controlling nature. Rob Walker wants us Permission has to be able to steal our attention back. He gives us his thoughts on various areas given for a glass of our lives and then provides 131 exercises to help us recover our attentionwine for Stella at the celebration meal. [[The Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You A Nearly Normal Family by Rob WalkerM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[The Playground Murders House of Light by Lesley ThomsonJulia Green]]===

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Rachel Cater was having an affair Bonnie is growing up on a slightly strange island, living with her bossgrandfather, Chris Philipsscavenging for food, an auctioneerand rubbish that has washed up on the beach that she and her grandfather can use to make things. It wasThere is some sort of ban against anyone else landing on the island, she told her motherand lots of suspicion around those who live there, love at first sightincluding a great fear of anyone who gets sick. Her mother was more sceptical But when Bonnie is on the beach one day and wondered whydiscovers not only an intact boat, if it had been love at first sightbut a young boy cowering beneath, it had taken rather than turn him so long in to do anything about it. Still, more than anything, the authorities she wanted her daughter to be happy. That was what Rachel wanted too takes him home and it was why she went to the Philips' family homehides him, determined to have it all out smuggling him boiled eggs and blankets in the open. Instead shed whilst she was stabbed fifteen times. Her lover was convicted of her murdertries to figure out what to do. [[The Playground Murders House of Light by Lesley ThomsonJulia Green|Full Review]]

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===[[The Billion Pound Lie by Bill Dare]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersConfident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|ThrillersTeens]]

Can you imagine what it would be like to win In many ways Felix is a billion pounds? The UK's biggest ever lottery winners were a couple from Ayrshiretypical boy in Year 7, who won a £161 million EuroMillions jackpot a few years ago. That's so much money that it landed them enjoying playing games on his PS4 and hanging out with his friend Jake at the Sunday Times Rich List of the UK's thousand most wealthy peopleweekend. However Felix is struggling at school. So He is not a billion poundsproblem child but he does have a problem. That's a lot, right? Can you imagine His ADHD makes it? What would you do? Would you try hard for him to remain anonymous? Andconcentrate, if you did, how would this affect your relationships he keeps getting into trouble and his grades are slipping. When his Mum suggests that he spends more time with your nearest his grandfather Felix is horrified. Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has been grumpy and dearest? What it would more eccentric than before. All he wants to do is sit in the dark and play chess. Felix knows that this will be like? How could you keep your friends extremely boring. But sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to and perhaps Granddad and family from knowing that you were now one of the richest people in the country? Felix can help each other. [[The Billion Pound Lie Check Mates by Bill DareStewart Foster|Full Review]]

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===[[Across the Void Needlemouse by S K VaughnJane O'Connor]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]

Sea epics? So 20th century. Try a space epic[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[Across the Void by S K Vaughn:Category:Women's Fiction|Full ReviewWomen's Fiction]]

We first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and her boss, the Prof, is taking her out to lunch. This is her favourite day of the year, not because it's her birthday but because of the special time she gets to spend with the man she loves. He's told her that he and his wife are going to divorce - Martha is apparently having an affair - and Sylvia is convinced that the Prof will then declare his love and they can be together. She hasn't fully constructed 'together' in her own mind - she envisages it as romantic, but her imagination hasn't yet progressed to the sexual part of the relationship. There's time though - she's only been the prof's PA for fifteen years. [[Needlemouse by Jane O'Connor|Full Review]]<!-- McLean Various-->

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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone Return to Wonderland by Felicity McLeanVarious Authors]]===

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When Tikka Molloy In following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, when the first book she was eleven in [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and one-sixth Anthony Browne|hit 150 years oldof age]], the Van Apfel sisters disappearedI found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. In The wacky-for-the long hot summer -sake-of 1992-it did not gel, in an isolated suburb of Australia surrounded by Bushlandand I don't remember loving it more as a child. But I would suggest I am the perfect audience for this book. I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that come at the core from a tangent, that show the girls vanished during benefits of the schooloblique glance. I've always preferred coming to an author's Showstopper concert at the riverside amphitheatre. Did they run output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away? Were they taken? While pieces, and it's the search same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the sisters united the small communitywhole Twilight saga (although that remains just a hunch, they were never foundfor obvious reasons). Returning home years later For another thing, Tikka must make sense there was every reason to expect some kind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, surely pieces written with that strange moment love in time – of the summer that shaped her, and the girls she never forgot. mind could only provide for success after success? [[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone Return to Wonderland by Felicity McLeanVarious Authors|Full Review]]

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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[Rumblestar (The Dragon in the Library Unmapped Chronicles) by Louie Stowell and Davide Ortu (Illustrator)Abi Elphinstone]]===

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It is Rumblestar follows the start haphazard adventures of the summer holidays and Kit has plans. These plans involve climbing treesanxious 11-year-old Casper Tock who timetables his every movement, getting muddy and being outside. Her friends, Josh and Alita, on the other hand want makes countless to go to the library. Kit hates reading do lists and can't see the point of books at all but is very reluctantly persuaded to go hounded by wealthy bullies with the others to the local libraryabsurdly humorous and appropriate names of Candida Cashmere Jumps and Leopold Splattercash. Once there the children meet the librarian and Kit makes an incredible discovery; the librarian is He stumbles across a wizard! Even more incrediblymagic portal by accident just like Lucy of Narnia fame, Kit meets a feisty girl troubled by her past and is plunged into a wizard too and she and her friends have an important taskperilous quest. They must save In a kingdom where the library…and save dark mythological forces of Midnights threaten the world! weather Marvels (equated here to the miracle of nature) conjured by magical creatures, only unlikely heroes can battle against evil. [[Rumblestar (The Dragon in the Library Unmapped Chronicles]) by Louie Stowell and Davide Ortu (Illustrator)Abi Elphinstone|Full Review]]

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===[[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeTeens|CrimeTeens]]

It seemed like a good ideaJason likes chess. Logan He'Lazarus' McRae was back s pretty good at work after it too - a year off sicklevel eight on his computer programme, with level ten being Grand Master level. He'd been stabbed in s also good at systems, having contributed to the line of duty and recovery had been slow: he still had some painrelational database that has streamlined his school's administration. His first case was to be a simple one - just to ease him back into work - but it turned out to be anything but. Professor WilsonJason's school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is very big on technology and its head, a high-profile anti-independence campaigner has gone missingMr Johnston, apparently abducted from is keen to involve his home, but nothing was left behind except some bloodstainspupils wherever they show promise. So Jason's friends have also helped out. In much the same way that Brexit Liz is dividing people south of great with hardware and helped with the border, thereschool's going to be card reader system. Becky has a war between the pro- flair for software and antihas recommended lots of curriculum-independence factions in Scotland - and the police are not above being involvedenhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmer... [[All That's Dead (Logan McRae 12) The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Stuart MacBrideRay Filby|Full Review]]

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===[[The Last Stage Stone Cold Heart by Louise VossCaz Frear]]===

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If you were looking DC Cat Kinsella is back at the Met after a secondment to when it began youthe London Mayor'd have to say that it s Office: the hours were good but the job was before 1995boring. Meredith Vincent (that wasnShe't her name then) had gone s grateful to Greenham Common on be back with the old team - her seventeenth birthday, dressed as a teddy bearpartner DS Luigi Parnell, boss DCI Kate Steele and DC Rénee Akwa. She's still not prepared to protest say anything about nuclear weapons. It was whilst she was there the identity of her boyfriend: the knowledge that she met Samantha, fell head over heels 's in love a relationship with her Aiden Doyle, the brother of a murder victim and went to live in moreover a squat in London, leaving behind murder with which her A levels, father might have had some involvement could finish her recently-widowed mother - career. Kinsella and her twin brother, Pete, Parnell are called to look after her. Samantha was there occasionally but Meredith was drawn into forming a band with the boys from discovery of the squat and against all the odds Cohen went on to become body of a sensation young woman: Naomi Lockhart was Australian, just twenty-two years old and it wasn't long before Meredith her body was living in a mansion rather than the squatdiscovered by her flat mate, Kieran Drake, an ex-offender. [[The Last Stage Stone Cold Heart by Louise VossCaz Frear|Full Review]]