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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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===[[The House of Light Deadwood Hall by Julia GreenLinda Jones]]===

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Bonnie is growing up on a slightly strange island, living with her grandfather, scavenging for food, In late December Dylan Beaumont and rubbish that has washed up his sister Emily were on their way to spend the beach that she and her week before Christmas at their grandfather can use to make things's house. There is some sort It was snowing heavily and you could sense that their parents were becoming annoyed at the bickering in the back of ban against anyone else landing on the islandcar. Emily was rather brusque with her nine-year-old brother's behaviour, but then that's your prerogative when you're a grown-up eleven year old. The snow was getting heavier and lots of suspicion around those who live there, including the journey longer when Emily opened the car window just a great fear couple of anyone who gets sickinches. But when Bonnie is on the beach one day There was a dreadful smell and discovers not only an intact boat, but Dylan saw a young boy cowering beneathhorrible, rather than turn him in to snake-like figure clawing at the authorities she takes him home and hides him, smuggling him boiled eggs and blankets in the shed whilst she tries to figure out what to docar window. [[The House of Light Deadwood Hall by Julia GreenLinda Jones|Full Review]]

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===[[Check Mates A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Stewart FosterDenzil Meyrick]]===

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In many ways Felix Few government trade missions arrive by luxury liner, but the cruise ship ''Great Britain'' is a typical boy berthed in Year 7, enjoying playing games Kinloch harbour and on his PS4 and hanging out with his friend Jake at the weekend. However Felix is struggling at school. He is not a problem child but he does have a problemboard are high-powered international delegates. His ADHD makes it It's hard for him to concentrateavoid the suspicion that it's not ''entirely'' about work as the billionaires, entrepreneurs and their civil service minders tour the country, he keeps getting into trouble golfing and his grades are slippingsightseeing with their entourage of security personnel. When It's an event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quickly, particularly as his Mum suggests that he spends more time with his grandfather Felix formal uniform is horrified. Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has been grumpy and more eccentric than far too tight for comfort, but it's not long before. All he wants to do is sit in one of the dark crew members and play chess. Felix knows that this will be extremely boring. But sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to and perhaps Granddad and Felix can help each othera local bird watcher go missing. [[Check Mates A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Stewart FosterDenzil Meyrick|Full Review]]

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===[[Needlemouse The Starlight Watchmaker by Jane O'ConnorLauren James]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]

[[image:5starThis is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved, and is only too ready to help.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the planet never before known to exist. [[:Category:Women's FictionThe Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren James|Women's FictionFull Review]]

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]]<!-- VariousStuart MacBride -->

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| style=''"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''"|===[[Return to Wonderland Cold Granite (Logan McRae) by Various AuthorsStuart MacBride]]===

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In following DS Logan McRae is just back from a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole year's sick leave after he was attacked by a few years ago, when the first book she was in [[Alicekiller. He's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll just about OK and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years he's supposed to be easing himself back into the swing of age]], I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-thejob in a gentle way -sakeuntil three-ofyear-it did not gel, and I donold David Reid't remember loving it more as s body is discovered in a childditch. But I would suggest I am He'd been missing for some time and it came as no surprise that he was dead but he's the perfect audience for this bookfirst of several child murders. I had every chance To add to enjoy these short stories that come at the core from complications the police even have a tangent, that show the benefits of the oblique glancebody but no child reported missing. I've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obviousA serial killer, allegedly throw-away piecesa child killer and abuser, is on the loose in Aberdeen and it's the same with franchises – I'd more likely go press are missing no opportunity to bay for Bree Tanner's short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a hunch, for obvious reasons)blood. For another thing, As if that wasn't bad enough there was every reason seems to expect some kind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millionsbe a leak from within Force Headquarters: a local journalist, Colin Miller, surely pieces written with quickly finds out everything that love in mind could only provide for success after success? 's happening. [[Return to Wonderland Cold Granite (Logan McRae) by Various AuthorsStuart MacBride|Full Review]]

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| style=''"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''"|===[[Rumblestar Child's Play (The Unmapped ChroniclesD I Kim Stone) by Abi ElphinstoneAngela Marsons]]===

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Rumblestar follows the haphazard adventures of the anxious 11-year-old Casper Tock There's a prologue and we know that we're dealing with someone who timetables his every movement, makes countless to do lists and is hounded by wealthy bullies with the absurdly humorous and appropriate names of Candida Cashmere Jumps and Leopold Splattercashvery disturbed. He stumbles across a magic portal by accident just like Lucy The descriptions are horrifying, but worst of Narnia fame, meets a feisty girl troubled by her past and all is plunged into a perilous quest. In a kingdom where the dark mythological forces coldness of Midnights threaten the weather Marvels (equated here to the miracle of nature) conjured by magical creatures, only unlikely heroes can battle against evilkiller. [[Rumblestar Child's Play (The Unmapped Chronicles]D I Kim Stone) by Abi ElphinstoneAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jason likes chess. He's pretty good at it too Over the past twenty- a level eight on his computer programme, with level ten being Grand Master level. He's also good at systems, having contributed to the relational database that years Ted Chiang has streamlined his school's administrationpublished fifteen science fiction short stories. Jason's school, Easingdale Comprehensive, These magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is very big on technology and its head, Mr Johnston, is keen to involve his pupils wherever they show promise. So Jason's friends likely that you have also helped out. Liz is great with hardware and helped with already come across some of the school's card reader systemwork by Ted Chiang. Becky has a flair for software 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 recommended lots written an absolute masterpiece of curriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmercollection.If you come across Chiang's work before, take this opportunity to do so now.Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle Exhalation by Ray FilbyTed Chiang|Full Review]]

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DC Cat Kinsella is back at the Met after a secondment to the London Mayor's Office[[image: the hours were good but the job was boring4star. She's grateful to be back with the old team - her partner DS Luigi Parnell, boss DCI Kate Steele and DC Rénee Akwa. She's still not prepared to say anything about the identity of her boyfriendjpg|link=Category: the knowledge that she's in a relationship with Aiden Doyle, the brother of a murder victim and moreover a murder with which her father might have had some involvement could finish her career. Kinsella and Parnell are called to the discovery of the body of a young woman: Naomi Lockhart was Australian, just twenty-two years old and her body was discovered by her flat mate, Kieran Drake, an ex-offender. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Stone Cold Heart by Caz Frear: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]]<!-- Koomson Kate Atkinson -->

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===[[Tell Me Your Secret Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Dorothy KoomsonKate 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:ThrillersStarted Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Kate Atkinson|ThrillersFull Review]]

Despite Dorothy Koomson regularly being suggested as an author I might like<!-- 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-align: left;"|===[[Fire Girl, ie people Forest Boy by Chloe Daykin]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers]] Maya has to escape. She's on the run in a country she doesn't know and has no idea who like this author also like Dorothy Koomsonto trust. Raul is escaping too - travelling back to his home where a terrible tragedy happened, I have never read her beforeready to stir up trouble. Having done so I can totally see why she's When their paths collide in the bestselling author middle of fifteen booksthe jungle, the sparks begin to fly. As modern world corruption meets the magic and legends of ancient times, can Maya draw on her hidden light to find the way through to the truth? [[Tell Me Your Secret Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Dorothy KoomsonChloe Daykin|Full Review]]

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===[[The Boy Who Fell Child's Play (Inspector Tom ReynoldsD I Kim Stone) by Jo SpainAngela Marsons]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]

[[image:4There's a prologue and we know that we're dealing with someone who is very disturbed.5star The descriptions are horrifying, but worst of all is the coldness of the killer.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeChild's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons|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 Gregory -->

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===[[Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs I Hold Your Heart by Beth WebbKaren Gregory]]===

Anelise - Annie - Gemma has been living with just started her cousin Joe A levels at school. She's a keen student and her auntshe has a good, an eminent forensic scientist, since close set of friends. Gemma loves country music and in her mum died spare time she enjoys writing and her naturalist father went abroad on a research tripsinging country songs. She's pretty good at it too. So she does wonder sometimes whether the minor premonitions she has Home life is busy - whoGemma's on brother Michael has a chance at a football career and the other end of the ringing phonewhole family, or at the door when therepropelled by Gemma's a knock rather over- are in her imaginationinvested dad, is supporting him with everything they've got. But to foresee Gemma hasn't had a serious accident boyfriend yet, so when the handsome Aaron appears and then for it to actually happen? And the dreadful headaches. Something's going on. Luckily for Anniean instant attraction fizzles between them, Joe Gemma is convinced and also willing to help. So they start keen to investigate the accidentsee where romance could lead... [[Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs I Hold Your Heart by Beth WebbKaren Gregory|Full Review]] <!-- Mick Herron Davis -->

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===[[Joe Country (Jackson Lamb 6) What's That in Dog Years? by Mick HerronBen Davis and Julia Christians]]===

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I'd like to say that all the old crew are in Slough House but the rate of natural (or unnatural) wastage is such as to George and Gizmo have Health and Safety worriedbeen together ever since George was born. Roderick Ho's there thoughGizmo has always been a fun, adventurous dog and a loyal friend, narcissistic as everbut just recently, and soGeorge has noticed that he's Louisa Guystarting to slow down a little. She's getting over the death of Min Harper A visit to the extent vets leaves George worried that she's Gizmo might not ''too'' concerned when she gets be around for very much longer, and so he begins to write Gizmo a phone call from Clare Harperbucket list, Minof all the adventures that they can still have together in Gizmo's wifelast days. River Cartwright has got death on But are they his mind too, but in his case it's the impending demise of his beloved grandfather and former spook, the OB. last days? Diana Taverner has taken over from Claude Whelan as First Desk at Regent Park and she's going And who will help George to make changes: one of the first stay calm when Gizmo is a shock. An argument with Emma Flyte sees the head dog departing the service. 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. gone? [[Joe Country (Jackson Lamb 6) What's That in Dog Years? by Mick HerronBen Davis and Julia Christians|Full Review]]

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===[[Vintage 1954 The Long Flight Home by Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)A L Hlad]]===

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Vintage 1954 starts by thrusting several completely different characters upon usSeptember 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, before deciding to run with them destroying the homes and formulate lives of a plotpeople on the edge. So we have an American bikerIn Epping Forest, just landing in Paris but unfortunately not Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the wife who shared his dream birds proving a comfort for Susan following the loss of visiting the city togetherher parents. We have These pigeons are more than just birds to Susan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, she sees a goth girl who everyone recognises from an American crime show, but actually is distinct personality and forms a humble restorer of antiquesclose bond. We have a cocktail barmanMeanwhile, infatuated with young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to Britain and join the goth girlRoyal Air Force. We also have a man ruling Working with the roost over a whole suite National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and is tasked with air-dropping hundreds of individual apartments fabricated from the Haussmannhoming pigeons into German-era mansion his family once ownedoccupied France, where many will not survive. Finally something conspires to get them together, and drinking from As the same bottle of a rare 1954 red wine. Onlymission is planned, one of them has a bizarre incidence in his family history that also features the same plonk – where a grandfather imbibedbond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, and walked out the door one rainy morningbut when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, never to it may be seen again. But Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of course nobody will be doing any disappearing now, though – will they? a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[Vintage 1954 The Long Flight Home by Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)A L Hlad|Full Review]]

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===[[The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind A Nearly Normal Family by Jackson FordM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)]]===

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As We're going to hear this story through the title suggestsviewpoints of three different people: Adam Sandell, his wife, this book Ulrika and his daughter Stella. Adam's a pastor in the Church of Sweden and Ulrika is all about a girllawyer. Stella is, Teagan Frostwell, who has psychokinesisjust difficult. Forced to secretly work for the government along with a few unique (You sense that she's always been difficult and shady) individuals, Teagan there have even been occasions when Ulrika has to use let slip that she wishes that Stella was more like her power for unimaginable tasks. All of this whilst under the pretence of working for a movingbest friend, Amina Bešic -company. After her latest job goes wrong and her and no one has ever said that if they don't think that the team escape by the skin of their teeth, Teagan finds herself as a murder suspect when the victim other person is found in such a way that only she could have committed the crimebetter. The rest of We first meet the story unfolds in a fast-paced race against time to clear Teaganfamily on Stella's name 18th birthday and find out exactly what has happened. Is it possible that someone with we get a gift like Teagansense of Adam's controlling nature. Permission has managed to fly under be given for a glass of wine for Stella at the radar? celebration meal. [[The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind A Nearly Normal Family by Jackson FordM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[The Suffering House of Strangers Light by Caro RamsayJulia Green]]===

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Roberta (please call her 'Bobby') Chisholm Bonnie is sleep deprived. Six-week-old Sholto doesn't ''ever'' seem to sleep, so Bobby's like a robot. There's growing up on a little light on the horizonslightly strange island, though: living with her husband James is up grandfather, scavenging for a new jobfood, which could mean quite a bit more money. When he rings to tell her and rubbish that he's got it he's obviously over has washed up on the moon beach that she and tells Bobby to go her grandfather can use to make things. There is some sort of ban against anyone else landing on the local shop island, and get lots of suspicion around those who live there, including a bottle great fear of champagne so that they can celebrateanyone who gets sick. For once Sholto has dropped off to sleep But when Bonnie is on the beach one day and when Bobby gets discovers not only an intact boat, but a young boy cowering beneath, rather than turn him in to the shop authorities she's reluctant to disturb takes him home and hides him, smuggling him: surely there won't be a problem if boiled eggs and blankets in the shed whilst she dashes into the shop tries to get the bubbly? She can keep an eye on the car through the shop window, but when she comes figure out, the car has gone..what to do. [[The Suffering House of Strangers Light by Caro RamsayJulia Green|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 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 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 Edge|Full Review]] <!-- Rachel Lynch Foster -->

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===[[Bold Lies (DI Kelly Porter 5) Check Mates by Rachel LynchStewart Foster]]===

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It was the smell which announced the presence of the body In many ways Felix is a typical boy in the wheelhouse of a boat Year 7, enjoying playing games on his PS4 and identification wasn't going to be easy as hanging out with his friend Jake at the man was stark nakedweekend. However Felix is struggling at school. There were all the signs of He is not a brutal, cold-blooded execution problem child but gradually the man was traced back he does have a problem. His ADHD makes it hard for him to Allendale House, the estate of the former Lord Allendaleconcentrate, he keeps getting into trouble and then to London, where two his grades are slipping. When his Mum suggests that he spends more bodies, naked, in a staged setting in a garage, were discoveredtime with his grandfather Felix is horrified. Senior Investigating Officer DI Kelly Porter had to go to London Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has been grumpy and was shocked more eccentric than before. All he wants to discover that do is sit in the SIO for ''that'' case was DCI Matt Carter, her manipulative dark and untrustworthy ex-loverplay chess. It was going to Felix knows that this will be anything but easy extremely boring. But sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to work alongside Matt the Tw... Ah, well let's not go thereand perhaps Granddad and Felix can help each other. [[Bold Lies (DI Kelly Porter 5) Check Mates by Rachel LynchStewart Foster|Full Review]]

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===[[Special Delivery Needlemouse by Jonathan MeresJane O'Connor]]===

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How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obviousWe first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and her boss, but when the problem Prof, is taking her out to lunch. This is her favourite day of the brain which isn't functioning quite as it used to year, not because it isn't as easy s her birthday but because of the special time she gets to graspspend with the man she loves. Frank was a normal nine year old 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 like many nine year olds what he wanted was a new bikethey can be together. HeShe hasn't fully constructed 'together'd had his for about seventyin her own mind -eight years and he didnshe envisages it as romantic, but her imagination hasn't want yet progressed to raise the seat any moresexual part of the relationship. Mum pointed out that it wasnThere't his birthday or Christmas any s time soon though - she's only been the prof's PA for fifteen years. [[Needlemouse by Jane O'Connor|Full Review]]<!-- Various-->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1529006031.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529006031/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Return to Wonderland by Various Authors]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] In following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, when the first book she was in [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and bikes cost a lot Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of moneyage]], which I found that I didn't grow on treesreally find too much favour with it. His sister Lottie had The wacky-for-the-sake-of-it did not gel, and I don't remember loving it more as a solution: Frank could help her with her paper roundchild. Frank agreed despite thinking that it But I would take him a thousand years to save up suggest I am the money perfect audience for a bike AND he this book. I had every chance to get up enjoy these short stories that come at six othe core from a tangent, that show the benefits of the oblique glance. I've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, and it's the same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner'clock in s short novella than the morningwhole Twilight saga (although that remains just a hunch, for obvious reasons). For another thing, there was every reason to expect some kind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, surely pieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success? [[Special Delivery Return to Wonderland by Jonathan MeresVarious Authors|Full Review]]

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Suzi Simms loved running Rumblestar follows the haphazard adventures of the anxious 11-year-old Casper Tock who timetables his every movement, makes countless to do lists and it was her ambition to win is hounded by wealthy bullies with the 100 metres race on sports day at the end absurdly humorous and appropriate names of term - Candida Cashmere Jumps and that was next weekLeopold Splattercash. We're going to read about what happened in her diaryHe stumbles across a magic portal by accident just like Lucy of Narnia fame, although there's meets a warning that we really shouldn't be reading it, particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. To say that the two girls don't get on at all well feisty girl troubled by her past and is plunged into a bit of an understatementperilous quest. Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, but Barbie is In a troublemaker and she wants kingdom where the dark mythological forces of Midnights threaten the weather Marvels (equated here to win the 100 metres race too - miracle of nature) conjured by fair means or foulmagical creatures, only unlikely heroes can battle against evil. [[Rumblestar (The Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims Unmapped Chronicles]) by Vivian FrenchAbi 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:Confident ReadersTeens|Confident ReadersTeens]]

Meet Harry StevensonJason likes chess. He's pretty good at it too - a typical guinea piglevel eight on his computer programme, except hewith level ten being Grand Master level. He's perhaps a bit more ginger than normal. And more lazy than usual. And his appetite is possibly bigger than also good at systems, having contributed to the norm. Apart from relational database that hehas streamlined his school's a regular guinea pigadministration. But the stories in which he features are nothing like. In the first one hereJason's school, Easingdale Comprehensive, the lad who owns is very big on technology and looks after him its head, Mr Johnston, is being forced keen to move houseinvolve his pupils wherever they show promise. It should be a simple journey for Harry, safe in his cage from all the predators that watching nature documentaries So Jason's friends have put into his imagination, but he gets distracted and – shock horror – left behindalso helped out. It takes some bravura slapstick Liz is great with hardware and a charming contrivance for him to be found again. In helped with the second, for we get two full-length stories in this volume, thereschool's card reader system. Becky has a party being held to get the lad used to his new schoolmates, flair for software and Harry used to life in has recommended lots of curriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a garden hutchtalented programmer.. And one more wonderful conceit that drives high drama. [[The Adventures Evil Occupants of Harry Stevenson Easingdale Castle by Ali PyeRay Filby|Full Review]]

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===[[Miracle Creek Stone Cold Heart by Angie KimCaz Frear]]===

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The Yoo family originated in SeoulDC Cat Kinsella is back at the Met after a secondment to the London Mayor's Office: the hours were good but the job was boring. Yoo Young and She's grateful to be back with the old team - her daughter Meh-hee came on ahead of the father of the familypartner DS Luigi Parnell, Yoo Pak, as a couple in Baltimore offered to provide accommodation for Young boss DCI Kate Steele and Meh-hee in exchange for assistance in their grocery storeDC Rénee Akwa. What Young had She's still not appreciated was prepared to say anything about the identity of her boyfriend: the knowledge that she was to work from 6 's in a.m. until midnightrelationship with Aiden Doyle, seven days the brother of a murder victim and moreover a week. For years she hardly saw murder with which her daughter except when the Kangs brought Meh-hee to see father might have had some involvement could finish her at the storecareer. Meh-hee became Mary Kinsella and struggled at school: her fellow pupils were no exceptions Parnell are called to the rule that children can be cruel discovery of the body of a young woman: Naomi Lockhart was Australian, just twenty-two years old and Mary her body was discovered by her flat mate, Kieran Drake, an easy targetex-offender. [[Miracle Creek Stone Cold Heart by Angie KimCaz Frear|Full Review]]