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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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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:4starOver 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensExhalation by Ted Chiang|TeensFull Review]]

Jason likes chess. He's pretty good at it too - 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 has streamlined his school's administration. Jason's school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is very big on technology and its head, Mr Johnston, is keen to involve his pupils wherever they show promise. So Jason's friends have also helped out. Liz is great with hardware and helped with 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... [[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby|Full Review]]  <!-- Caz Frear Lawrence -->

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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]]===

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Despite Dorothy Koomson regularly being suggested as an author I might likeguess that most of us have made the odd impulse purchase but Tracy Waterhouse, security chief at the Merrion Centre in Leeds, ie blew most people who '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 author also like Dorothy Koomson, I have never read her before. Having done so I can totally see why sheis knowing what to do next and Tracy's the bestselling author humdrum life is replaced with one of fifteen booksstress, fear and an overwhelming love for four-year-old Courtney. [[Tell Me Your Secret Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Dorothy KoomsonKate Atkinson|Full Review]]

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[[image:17874743720571349439.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/17874743720571349439/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fire Girl, 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 to trust. Raul is escaping too - travelling back to his home where a terrible tragedy happened, ready to stir up trouble. When their paths collide in the middle of the 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? [[Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Chloe Daykin|Full Review]] <!-- Angela Marsons -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:B07QPKB7N7.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07QPKB7N7/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]

===[[The Boy Who Fell Child's Play (Inspector Tom ReynoldsD I Kim Stone) by Jo SpainAngela Marsons]]===

[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] There's a prologue and we know that we're dealing with someone who is very disturbed. The descriptions are horrifying, but worst of all is the coldness of the killer. [[Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons|Full 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]]

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===[[Bold Lies (DI Kelly Porter 5) Needlemouse by Rachel LynchJane O'Connor]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women'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]]<!-- 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:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeConfident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Short Stories|CrimeShort Stories]]

It was In following a young girl called Alice down the smell which announced rabbit hole a few years ago, when the presence first book she was in [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of age]], I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the body in the wheelhouse -sake-of a boat -it did not gel, and identification wasnI don't going to be easy remember loving it more as a child. But I would suggest I am the man was stark nakedperfect audience for this book. There were all I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that come at the signs of core from a brutal, cold-blooded execution but gradually the man was traced back to Allendale Housetangent, that show the estate benefits of the former Lord Allendale, and then oblique glance. I've always preferred coming to Londonan author's output through their least obvious, where two more bodies, naked, in a staged setting in a garageallegedly throw-away pieces, were discovered. Senior Investigating Officer DI Kelly Porter had to go to London and was shocked to discover that it's the SIO same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner''s short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although that'' case was DCI Matt Carterremains just a hunch, her manipulative and untrustworthy ex-loverfor obvious reasons). It For another thing, there was going every reason to be anything but easy to work alongside Matt the Tw... Ahexpect some kind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, well let's not go there. surely pieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success? [[Bold Lies (DI Kelly Porter 5) Return to Wonderland by Rachel LynchVarious Authors|Full Review]]

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How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when Rumblestar follows the problem is haphazard adventures of the brain which isn't functioning quite as it used to it isn't as easy to grasp. Frank was a normal nine anxious 11-year -old and like many nine year olds what he wanted was a new bike. He'd had Casper Tock who timetables his for about seventy-eight years every movement, makes countless to do lists and he didn't want to raise is hounded by wealthy bullies with the seat any moreabsurdly humorous and appropriate names of Candida Cashmere Jumps and Leopold Splattercash. Mum pointed out that it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost He stumbles across a lot magic portal by accident just like Lucy of moneyNarnia fame, which didn't grow on trees. His sister Lottie had meets a solution: Frank could help feisty girl troubled by her with her paper roundpast and is plunged into a perilous quest. Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him In a thousand years to save up kingdom where the dark mythological forces of Midnights threaten the money for a bike AND he had weather Marvels (equated here to get up at six o'clock in the morningmiracle of nature) conjured by magical creatures, only unlikely heroes can battle against evil. [[Special Delivery Rumblestar (The Unmapped Chronicles]) by Jonathan MeresAbi 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:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Confident ReadersTeens|Confident ReadersTeens]]

Suzi Simms loved running and Jason likes chess. He's pretty good at it was her ambition to win the 100 metres race too - a level eight on sports day his computer programme, with level ten being Grand Master level. He's also good at systems, having contributed to the end of term - and relational database that was next weekhas streamlined his school's administration. WeJason're going to read about what happened in her diarys school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is very big on technology and its head, although there's a warning that we really shouldn't be reading itMr Johnston, particularly as itis keen to involve his pupils wherever they show promise. So Jason's about Barbie Meekfriends have also helped out. To say that Liz is great with hardware and helped with the two girls donschool't get on at all well is s card reader system. Becky has a bit flair for software and has recommended lots of an understatementcurriculum-enhancing apps. Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, but Barbie And Bill is a troublemaker and she wants to win the 100 metres race too - by fair means or foultalented programmer... [[The Spectacular Revenge Evil Occupants of Suzi Sims Easingdale Castle by Vivian FrenchRay Filby|Full Review]]

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===[[The Adventures of Harry Stevenson Stone Cold Heart by Ali PyeCaz Frear]]===

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Meet Harry StevensonDC 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. HeShe's a typical guinea piggrateful to be back with the old team - her partner DS Luigi Parnell, except heboss DCI Kate Steele and DC Rénee Akwa. She's perhaps a bit more ginger than normal. And more lazy than usual. And his appetite is possibly bigger than still not prepared to say anything about the identity of her boyfriend: the norm. Apart from knowledge that heshe's in a regular guinea pig. But the stories in which he features are nothing like. In the first one hererelationship with Aiden Doyle, the lad who owns brother of a murder victim and looks after him is being forced to move house. It should be moreover a simple journey for Harry, safe in his cage from all the predators that watching nature documentaries murder with which her father might have put into his imagination, but he gets distracted and – shock horror – left behindhad some involvement could finish her career. It takes some bravura slapstick Kinsella and a charming contrivance for him Parnell are called to be found again. In the seconddiscovery of the body of a young woman: Naomi Lockhart was Australian, for we get just twenty-two full-length stories in this volumeyears old and her body was discovered by her flat mate, there's a party being held to get the lad used to his new schoolmatesKieran Drake, and Harry used to life in a garden hutch. And one more wonderful conceit that drives high dramaan ex-offender. [[The Adventures of Harry Stevenson Stone Cold Heart by Ali PyeCaz Frear|Full Review]]