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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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Rumblestar follows In late December Dylan Beaumont and his sister Emily were on their way to spend the week before Christmas at their grandfather's house. It was snowing heavily and you could sense that their parents were becoming annoyed at the haphazard adventures bickering in the back of the anxious 11car. Emily was rather brusque with her nine-year-old Casper Tock who timetables his every movementbrother's behaviour, makes countless to do lists but then that's your prerogative when you're a grown-up eleven year old. The snow was getting heavier and is hounded by wealthy bullies with the absurdly humorous and appropriate names journey longer when Emily opened the car window just a couple of Candida Cashmere Jumps and Leopold Splattercashinches. He stumbles across a magic portal by accident just like Lucy of Narnia fame, meets There was a feisty girl troubled by her past dreadful smell and is plunged into Dylan saw a perilous quest. In a kingdom where the dark mythological forces of Midnights threaten the weather Marvels (equated here to horrible, snake-like figure clawing at the miracle of nature) conjured by magical creatures, only unlikely heroes can battle against evilcar window. [[Rumblestar (The Unmapped Chronicles]) Deadwood Hall by Abi ElphinstoneLinda Jones|Full Review]]

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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Few government trade missions arrive by luxury liner, but the cruise ship ''Great Britain'' is berthed in Kinloch harbour and on board are high-powered international delegates. It's hard to avoid the suspicion that it's not ''entirely'' about work as the billionaires, entrepreneurs and their civil service minders tour the country, golfing and sightseeing with their entourage of security personnel. It's an event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quickly, particularly as his formal uniform is far too tight for comfort, but it's not long before one of the crew members and a local bird watcher go missing. [[A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Denzil Meyrick|Full Review]] <!-- James -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1781128952.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781128952/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle Starlight Watchmaker by Ray FilbyLauren James]]===

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Jason likes chess. He's pretty good at it too This is a dyslexia- a level eight on his computer programmefriendly, with level ten being Grand Master levelscience fiction novella for young adults. He's also good at systemsIt tells the tale of Hugo, having contributed to the relational database an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. When one of his clients demands that has streamlined his school's administration. Jason's schoolbroken watch be mended, Easingdale ComprehensiveHugo realises there is a mystery to be solved, is very big on technology and its head, Mr Johnston, is keen only too ready to involve his pupils wherever they show promisehelp. So Jason's friends have also helped An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out. Liz is great with hardware of his drab attic workroom and helped into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the school's card reader system. Becky has a flair for software and has recommended lots of curriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmer..planet never before known to exist. [[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle Starlight Watchmaker by Ray FilbyLauren James|Full Review]]

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===[[Stone Cold Heart Granite (Logan McRae) by Caz FrearStuart MacBride]]===

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DC Cat Kinsella DS Logan McRae is just back at the Met after from a secondment to the London Mayoryear's Office: the hours were good but the job sick leave after he was boringattacked by a killer. SheHe's just about OK and he's grateful supposed to be easing himself back with into the swing of the job in a gentle way - until three-year-old team - her partner DS Luigi Parnell, boss DCI Kate Steele and DC Rénee AkwaDavid Reid's body is discovered in a ditch. SheHe's still not prepared to say anything about the identity of her boyfriend: the knowledge d been missing for some time and it came as no surprise that shehe was dead but he's in a relationship with Aiden Doyle, the brother first of a murder victim and moreover a murder with which her father might have had some involvement could finish her careerseveral child murders. Kinsella and Parnell are called To add to the discovery of complications the police even have a body of but no child reported missing. A serial killer, a young woman: Naomi Lockhart was Australianchild killer and abuser, just twenty-two years old is on the loose in Aberdeen and her body was discovered by her flat matethe press are missing no opportunity to bay for blood. As if that wasn't bad enough there seems to be a leak from within Force Headquarters: a local journalist, Kieran DrakeColin Miller, an ex-offenderquickly finds out everything that's happening. [[Stone Cold Heart Granite (Logan McRae) by Caz FrearStuart MacBride|Full Review]]

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===[[Tell Me Your Secret Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Dorothy KoomsonAngela Marsons]]===

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Despite Dorothy Koomson regularly being suggested as an author I might like, ie people There's a prologue and we know that we're dealing with someone who like this author also like Dorothy Koomsonis very disturbed. The descriptions are horrifying, I have never read her before. Having done so I can totally see why she's but worst of all is the bestselling author coldness of fifteen booksthe killer. [[Tell Me Your Secret Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Dorothy KoomsonAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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===[[The Boy Who Fell (Inspector Tom Reynolds) Exhalation by Jo SpainTed Chiang]]===

[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeScience Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Over the 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 work by Ted Chiang. I cannot speak highly enough of this collection of short stories, they are so wide ranging in their themes and so beautifully written, Chiang has written an absolute masterpiece of a collection. If you come across Chiang's work before, take this opportunity to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[Exhalation by Ted Chiang|CrimeFull Review]]

There were six friends: four men and two women. They're all about eighteen and they've known each other since they started school. Both girls - Hazel Brophy and Charlotte Burke - have been in relationships with one of the boys, but Charlotte was determined that it would not be sexual. Hazel's views were so dramatically opposite that you wondered how they could be friends. They were all partying in a derelict house when Luke Connelly was pushed to his death from a third floor window and Daniel Konaté Jones was charged with rape and murder. Daniel was loosely associated with the group but never felt himself one of them. He didn't come from a wealthy background, is of mixed race and openly gay. Targets don't come much easier than that, except for one thing. [[The Boy Who Fell (Inspector Tom Reynolds) by Jo Spain|Full Review]]<!-- Webb Lawrence -->

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===[[Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs Rose, Interrupted by Beth WebbPatrice Lawrence]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]

Anelise - Annie - has been living with her cousin Joe and her aunt, an eminent forensic scientist, since her mum died and her naturalist father went abroad on a research trip. So she does wonder sometimes whether the minor premonitions she has - who's on the other end of the ringing phone, or at the door when there's a knock - are in her imagination. But to foresee a serious accident and then for it to actually happen? And the dreadful headaches. Something's going on. Luckily for Annie, Joe is convinced and also willing to help. So they start to investigate the accident..[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs by Beth WebbCategory: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]]<!-- Mick Herron Kate Atkinson -->

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===[[Joe Country Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Lamb 6Brodie) by Mick HerronKate Atkinson]]===

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I'd like to say guess that all most of us have made the old crew are in Slough House odd impulse purchase but Tracy Waterhouse, security chief at the rate of natural (or unnatural) wastage is such as to have Health and Safety worried. Roderick Ho's there thoughMerrion Centre in Leeds, narcissistic as ever, and soblew most people's Louisa Guy. She's getting over the death ideas of an impulse purchase out of Min Harper to the extent that she's not ''too'' concerned when she gets a phone call from Clare Harper, Min's wifewater one morning. River Cartwright has got death on his mind tooSeeing a known prostitute dragging a toddler through the shopping mall whilst cursing at her, but in his case it's Waterhouse followed the impending demise of his beloved grandfather woman and former spook, bought the OBgirl for £3000. Diana Taverner has taken over from Claude Whelan as First Desk at Regent Park The difficulty of a purchase like this is knowing what to do next and sheTracy's going to make changes: humdrum life is replaced with one of the first is a shock. An argument with Emma Flyte sees the head dog departing the service. Meanwhile at Slough Housestress, Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Jackson Lamb is offensive as ever fear and Shirley Dander and J K Coe do their best to remain unnoticed, the latter by saying nothingan overwhelming love for four-year-old Courtney. [[Joe Country Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Lamb 6Brodie) by Mick HerronKate Atkinson|Full Review]]

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===[[Vintage 1954 by Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken Child's Play (translator) and Emily Boyce (translatorD I Kim Stone)by Angela Marsons]]===

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Vintage 1954 starts by thrusting several completely different characters upon us, before deciding to run with them There's a prologue and formulate a plot. So we have an American biker, just landing in Paris but unfortunately not know that we're dealing with the wife someone who shared his dream of visiting the city togetheris very disturbed. We have a goth girl who everyone recognises from an American crime show The descriptions are horrifying, but actually worst of all is a humble restorer of antiques. We have a cocktail barman, infatuated with the goth girl. We also have a man ruling the roost over a whole suite coldness of individual apartments fabricated from the Haussmann-era mansion his family once owned. Finally something conspires to get them together, and drinking from the same bottle of a rare 1954 red wine. Only, one of them has a bizarre incidence in his family history that also features the same plonk – where a grandfather imbibed, and walked out the door one rainy morning, never to be seen againkiller. But of course nobody will be doing any disappearing now, though – will they? [[Vintage 1954 by Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken Child's Play (translator) and Emily Boyce (translatorD I Kim Stone)by Angela Marsons|Full Review]]

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As the title suggests, this book is all about a girl, Teagan Frost, who has psychokinesis[[image:4. Forced to secretly work for the government along with a few unique (and shady) individuals, Teagan has to use her power for unimaginable tasks5star. All of this whilst under the pretence of working for a moving-company. After her latest job goes wrong and her and the team escape by the skin of their teeth, Teagan finds herself as a murder suspect when the victim is found in such a way that only she could have committed the crime. The rest of the story unfolds in a fast-paced race against time to clear Teagan's name and find out exactly what has happened. Is it possible that someone with a gift like Teagan's has managed to fly under the radar? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind by Jackson Ford: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]]<!-- Caro Ramsay Davis -->

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===[[The Suffering of Strangers What's That in Dog Years? by Caro RamsayBen Davis and Julia Christians]]===

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Roberta (please call her 'Bobby') Chisholm is sleep deprived. Six-week-old Sholto doesn't ''George and Gizmo have been together ever'' seem to sleep, so Bobby's like a robotsince George was born. There's Gizmo has always been a little light on the horizonfun, though: her husband James is up for adventurous dog and a new jobloyal friend, but just recently, which could mean quite a bit more money. When he rings to tell her George has noticed that he's got it he's obviously over the moon and tells Bobby starting to go slow down a little. A visit to the local shop vets leaves George worried that Gizmo might not be around for very much longer, and get so he begins to write Gizmo a bottle bucket list, of champagne so all the adventures that they can celebratestill have together in Gizmo's last days. For once Sholto has dropped off to sleep and when Bobby gets to the shop she's reluctant to disturb him: surely there won't be a problem if she dashes into the shop to get the bubblyBut are they his last days? She can keep an eye on the car through the shop window, but And who will help George to stay calm when she comes out, the car has Gizmo is gone... [[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]] What''If you go into the woods, Old Crony will get you.'' Secrets, spies or maybe even a monster... What lies s That in the heart of the woodDog Years? Charlie, Dizzy and Johnny are determined to discover the truth, but when night falls without warning they find themselves trapped in a nightmare. Lost in the woods, strange dangers by Ben Davis and impossible puzzles lurk in the shadows. As time plays tricks, can Charlie solve this mystery and find a way out of the woods? But what if this night never ends...? [[The Longest Night of Charlie Noon by Christopher EdgeJulia Christians|Full Review]]

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===[[Bold Lies (DI Kelly Porter 5) The Long Flight Home by Rachel LynchA L Hlad]]===

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It was September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the smell which announced the presence of the body in the wheelhouse homes and lives of a boat and identification wasn't going to be easy as people on the man was stark nakededge. There were all In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the signs of birds proving a brutal, cold-blooded execution but gradually comfort for Susan following the man was traced back loss of her parents. These pigeons are more than just birds to Allendale House, the estate of the former Lord AllendaleSusan though – in each one, and then to London, where two more bodiesespecially in Duchess, naked, in she sees a staged setting in distinct personality and forms a garageclose bond. Meanwhile, were discovered. Senior Investigating Officer DI Kelly Porter had young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to go head to London Britain and was shocked to discover that join the Royal Air Force. Working with the SIO for ''that'' case was DCI Matt CarterNational Pigeon Service, her manipulative he soon meets Susan and untrustworthy exis tasked with air-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German-loveroccupied France, where many will not survive. It was going to be anything but easy to work alongside Matt As the mission is planned, the Tw... Ahbond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, well letbut when Ollie's not go there. plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[Bold Lies (DI Kelly Porter 5) The Long Flight Home by Rachel LynchA L Hlad|Full Review]]

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How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when ''An instruction manual for the problem is the brain which isnforest't functioning quite as it used to it isn't as easy to grasp. Frank was a normal nine year old and like many nine year olds what he wanted was a new bike. Heis how Wohlleben'd had his s publisher described the idea for about seventy-eight years this book, and he didnthat't want to raise s basically what it is – although right at the end the seat any more. Mum pointed out author says that it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost is not intended to be a lot of moneyreference book, which didn't grow on trees. His sister Lottie had a solution: 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 morningbut an appetiser. [[Special Delivery Walks In The Wild by Jonathan MeresPeter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[The Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims A Nearly Normal Family by Vivian FrenchM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)]]===

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Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition We're going to win hear this story through the 100 metres race on sports day at the end viewpoints of term - three different people: Adam Sandell, his wife, Ulrika and that was next weekhis daughter Stella. WeAdam're going to read about what happened s a pastor in her diarythe Church of Sweden and Ulrika is a lawyer. Stella is, well, although therejust difficult. You sense that she's a warning 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 we really shouldnif they don't be reading it, particularly as it's about Barbie Meekthink that the other person is better. To say that We first meet the two girls donfamily on Stella't s 18th birthday and we get on at all well is a bit sense of an understatementAdam's controlling nature. Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, but Barbie is Permission has to be given for a troublemaker and she wants to win glass of wine for Stella at the 100 metres race too - by fair means or foulcelebration meal. [[The Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims A Nearly Normal Family by Vivian FrenchM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[The Adventures House of Harry Stevenson Light by Ali PyeJulia Green]]===

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Meet Harry Stevenson. He's Bonnie is growing up on a typical guinea pigslightly strange island, living with her grandfather, except he's perhaps a bit more ginger than normal. And more lazy than usualscavenging for food, and rubbish that has washed up on the beach that she and her grandfather can use to make things. And his appetite There is possibly bigger than some sort of ban against anyone else landing on the norm. Apart from that he's island, and lots of suspicion around those who live there, including a regular guinea piggreat fear of anyone who gets sick. But when Bonnie is on the stories in which he features are nothing like. In the first beach one hereday and discovers not only an intact boat, the lad who owns and looks after him is being forced to move house. It should be but a simple journey for Harryyoung boy cowering beneath, safe rather than turn him in his cage from all to the predators that watching nature documentaries have put into his imagination, but he gets distracted and – shock horror – left behind. It authorities she takes some bravura slapstick him home and a charming contrivance for hides him to be found again. In the second, for we get two full-length stories smuggling him boiled eggs and blankets in this volume, there's a party being held to get the lad used shed whilst she tries to his new schoolmates, and Harry used figure out what to life in a garden hutch. And one more wonderful conceit that drives high dramado. [[The Adventures House of Harry Stevenson Light by Ali PyeJulia Green|Full Review]]

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===[[Miracle Creek Check Mates by Angie KimStewart Foster]]===

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The Yoo family originated In many ways Felix is a typical boy in Seoul. Yoo Young Year 7, enjoying playing games on his PS4 and her daughter Meh-hee came on ahead of hanging out with his friend Jake at the father of the family, Yoo Pak, as weekend. However Felix is struggling at school. He is not a problem child but he does have a couple in Baltimore offered problem. His ADHD makes it hard for him to provide accommodation for Young concentrate, he keeps getting into trouble and Meh-hee in exchange for assistance in their grocery storehis grades are slipping. What Young had not appreciated was When his Mum suggests that she was to work from 6 ahe spends more time with his grandfather Felix is horrified.mEver since Grandma died his Granddad has been grumpy and more eccentric than before. until midnight, seven days a week. For years she hardly saw her daughter except when the Kangs brought Meh-hee All he wants to see her at do is sit in the storedark and play chess. Meh-hee became Mary and struggled at school: her fellow pupils were no exceptions to the rule Felix knows that children can this will be cruel extremely boring. But sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to and Mary was an easy targetperhaps Granddad and Felix can help each other. [[Miracle Creek Check Mates by Angie KimStewart Foster|Full Review]]

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===[[Velocity Weapon Needlemouse by Megan E Jane O'KeefeConnor]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science General Fiction|General Fiction]] The last thing Sanda remembers is her gunship exploding. She expected to be recovered by salvage-medics and to awaken in friendly hands, patched-up and ready to rejoin the fight. Instead she wakes up 230 years later, on a deserted enemy starship called The Light of Berossus - or, as he prefers to call himself, 'Bero'. Bero tells Sanda the war is lost. That the entire star system is dead. But is that the full story? After all, in the vastness of space, anything is possible . . . [[Velocity Weapon by Megan E O:Category:Women'Keefes 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]]<!-- Parker Various-->

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Belle Rumblestar follows the haphazard adventures of the anxious 11-year-old Casper Tock who timetables his every movement, makes countless to do lists and Joe travel to London in 1944, towards is hounded by wealthy bullies with the end absurdly humorous and appropriate names of World War IICandida Cashmere Jumps and Leopold Splattercash. Orphaned evacuees, they haven't had He stumbles across a good time magic portal by accident just like Lucy of it - especially JoeNarnia fame, who is meets a sensitive child feisty girl troubled by her past and was badly bullied. Meeting them is Uncle Griff, plunged into a kindly man, but one without much moneyperilous quest. He is more than happy to have In a kingdom where the children stay during dark mythological forces of Midnights threaten the school holidays. Uncle Griff owns weather Marvels (equated here to the ''Shop miracle of Mechanical Marvels'' and the children love all the old things it contains. Uncle Griff hopes to restore it to profitability and bring some wonder back into London's bombed out streetsnature) conjured by magical creatures, only unlikely heroes can battle against evil. [[Rumblestar (The Chessmaster's Secret Unmapped Chronicles]) by Mary ParkerAbi Elphinstone|Full Review]]

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===[[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LifestyleTeens|LifestyleTeens]]

The curse put Jason likes chess. He's pretty good at it too - a level eight on reviewers is his computer programme, with level ten being Grand Master level. He's also good at systems, having contributed to the relational database that we get to read through a book which has streamlined his school's administration. Jason's school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is really better dipped intovery big on technology and its head, or read gradually and thoughts allowed Mr Johnston, is keen to be provokedinvolve his pupils wherever they show promise. And so it was with ''The Art of Noticing'So Jason's friends have also helped out. ItLiz is great with hardware and helped with the school's card reader system. Becky has a simple premise: the pace of modern life flair for software and rapidity has recommended lots of technological advances means that we are constantly overwhelmed and distractedcurriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmer. Rob Walker wants us to be able to steal our attention back. He gives us his thoughts on various areas of our lives and then provides 131 exercises to help us recover our attention. [[The Art Evil Occupants of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You Easingdale Castle by Rob WalkerRay Filby|Full Review]]

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===[[The Playground Murders Stone Cold Heart by Lesley ThomsonCaz Frear]]===

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Rachel Cater DC Cat Kinsella is back at the Met after a secondment to the London Mayor's Office: the hours were good but the job was having an affair with her boss, Chris Philips, an auctioneerboring. It was, she told She's grateful to be back with the old team - her motherpartner DS Luigi Parnell, love at first sightboss DCI Kate Steele and DC Rénee Akwa. Her mother was more sceptical and wondered why, if it had been love at first sight, it had taken him so long She's still not prepared to do say anything about it. Stillthe identity of her boyfriend: the knowledge that she's in a relationship with Aiden Doyle, more than anything, she wanted the brother of a murder victim and moreover a murder with which her father might have had some involvement could finish her daughter to be happycareer. That was what Rachel wanted too Kinsella and it was why she went Parnell are called to the Philips' family home, determined to have it all out in discovery of the open. Instead she body of a young woman: Naomi Lockhart was stabbed fifteen times. Her lover Australian, just twenty-two years old and her body was convicted of discovered by her murderflat mate, Kieran Drake, an ex-offender. [[The Playground Murders Stone Cold Heart by Lesley ThomsonCaz Frear|Full Review]]