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===[[The Summer Book Bunny by Tove JanssonPeter Lynas and Clare Lindley]]===
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Tove Jansson's short novel about Summer is several worlds away from You might have seen Bunny on the Moomintrolls she is most famous for outside her native Scandinaviabeach where he lived. Book yourself an afternoon this Summer, Like many beaches it was full of sand and take yourself and The Summer Book somewhere quietBunny didn't like sand, preferably within sight not least because it got between his toes and sound ''scratched''. What he really liked was juicy green grass. All the other rabbits lived on the top of the seacliff, settle back and prepare to be transportedwhere Bunny could see a lot of tasty-looking grass. But the cliff was very high. [[The Summer Book Bunny by Tove JanssonPeter Lynas and Clare Lindley|Full Review]]
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===[[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) Why We Quilt by Lynda La PlanteThomas Knauer]]===
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Jane Tennison had worked hard to get I've often wondered about the story that patchwork quilting began as a place on the Flying Squad way for women (and she felt myth would have it that she it was there on meritalways women) to make an extra blanket out of material which would otherwise go to waste. The Squad wondered who sheThis undoubtedly ''did''d slept with happen but when you think about it, you need an awful lot of material to get the place make a quilt and bets were being taken as to who she'd sleep with in the first week. What none of them - Jane included - knew was time could have been better spent if all that she was there as an experiment, in the hope that a female presence would have a calming effect. The job had been advertised and Jane required was the only female who applied who ticked all the boxesbedding. She doesnLike Thomas Knauer I't tick all ve come to the boxes for the head of conclusion that it began as an art and has largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in popularity over the Squad, DCI Murphy. He wanted someone with at least ten years' experience, and the appropriate set of genitals - and he's determined that Jane will fail. [[The Dirty Dozen (Jane Tennison 5) Why We Quilt by Lynda La PlanteThomas Knauer|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl at the Window Lying Room by Rowan ColemanNicci French]]===
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Trudy Heaton is going home, When we meet Neve Connolly it's pretty obvious that she has something to a hide. She crept into the house where after midnight, carefully putting her roots burrow back through clothes into the centuries washing machine and to a mother she hasncan't spoken wait to for sixteen years. Homeget husband Fletcher and children Mabel, Connor and Rory off on their various ways the next morning when she gets a text telling her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the traumatic loss of her husbandflat. She needs He has a few hours to build bridges with her mother spare and convince can't wait to see her grieving son that his father is dead. Where better than Only, when she gets to the house full of light flat she finds Saul Stevenson, her boss and shadowlover, dead on the floor. The hammer that nurtured her throughout her childhood? 's been used on his brain is at his side. [[The Girl at the Window Lying Room by Rowan ColemanNicci French|Full Review]]
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===[[We Are The Dead Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Mike ShacklePeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts]]===
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Mike Shackle Madeleine is a very lucky girl: in her room she has written all a really interesting and unusual story girl could ask for in ''We Are The Dead''; the tag line for the novel is 'No More Heroes' and that is what makes this story so different. There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part to surviveway of toys, to fight backbooks, games and to find vengeance, dollies. She's a very lucky girl in a world that another way too: she has been utterly torn apartimagination and everything in her room can be used to take her on adventures. The plot does She spends all day there: Dad thinks that she likes to be alone, but Madeleine's not hang alone on any one character, no one is important, anyone can die and many doall the trips she takes. We'll find out that yesterday she was told to tidy her room, but, like ants working together, each small character achieves their own part instead of a much larger plot doing that is rich and complex and keeps the reader glued she went to the storymoon. [[We Are The Dead Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Mike ShacklePeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|Full Review]]
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===[[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know The Dutch House by Vibrant PublishersAnn Patchett]]===
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IWhen we first meet Danny and his elder sister, Maeve Conroy, they'm capable re both living at The Dutch House with their parents and under the gaze of the portraits of drawing up the former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the walls. It's a profit strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant and loss account (income statement in the USA) and closest Danny seems to come to him is when he goes out with him on a balance sheet and I do so for my own business and for another organisationSaturday collecting rents from properties the family owns. The accounts give me ''broadly'' what I need: I know whether we're making a profit or a loss and I can look at Elna Conroy is loving, but absent increasingly often until the point comes when the expenses and see what looks as though it could children are told that she will not be trimmed back in future yearsreturning. My problem was that the accounts didn't really give me any help in making decisions, which was why I turned to ''Cost Accounting In other circumstances this might have affected Maeve and Management''Danny deeply, part of Vibrant Publishers' Self-Learning and Management seriesbut their primary relationship is with each other. Cost accounting provides the information required by authorities external to the company It''and'' to those within it who need to make decisions, so don't worry that you're going to have to draw up two sets of accounts! s a bond which only death will break. [[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know The Dutch House by Vibrant PublishersAnn Patchett|Full Review]]
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===[[A Dance of Cranes The Very Rude Toytoise by Steve BurrowsPeter Lynas and Andy S Gray]]===
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DCI Domenic Jejeune is no longer with Lindy Hey, It was one of those blissful days in the estrangement being of his making, not hersforest. Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she wanted to make a cake. He hasn't explained Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to her that he is doing this - and leaving for his native Canada - because he thinks that this will keep her safe from his nemesis, Ray Hayesbuild a nest. Lauren Salter has been promoted Mrs Spider was busily spinning a web to sergeant and now has her first murder casecatch juicy flies. It looks as though there's an obvious suspect, but Salter isn't so certainMrs Squirrel was piling up acorns. Sgt Danny Maik is (unofficially) keeping an eye on Lindy Hey, whilst Jejeune embarks on And Mr Bear sat comfortably in a treacherous journey to rescue his brotherchair, Damian, who has gone missing in one of Canada's largest national parksfishing for lunch. What could be better? And then... [[A Dance of Cranes The Very Rude Toytoise by Steve BurrowsPeter Lynas and Andy S Gray|Full Review]]
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===[[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey Recipe for Making a Snowman by Joyce Carol OatesPeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster]]===
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Bobby is an angry, damaged man - damage that came from being abandoned as Who knew it? You can even get a baby in recipe book which tells you how to make a bus station lockersnowman - and there's no cooking involved! Mum, Dad and then being thrown from one foster home or detention centre the two children are absolutely meticulous though: they're going to anotherget everything right, never far from violence or abuse. Eager even down to succeed as a musician, he arrives in Hollywood doing some mining to find his dream - but it soon becomes clear that his paranoid delusions and seething rage will enable a capacity get the coal for acts of extreme violence. Unpublished for 40 yearsthe eyes, this edition of searching through the bits 'n bobs jar for buttons for the snowman'The Triumph s coat and picking out the perfect piece of the Spider Monkeyheadgear. There'' comes combined with s quite a connected novella – ''Lovechoice available, but the family decide on the bobble hat, Careless Love'presumably to keep the snowman warm. The moth-eaten pair of mittens simply won't do and a pair with purple and pink stripes are chosen. [[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey Recipe for Making a Snowman by Joyce Carol OatesPeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Spell Breather War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Julie PikeMelanie Martin]]===
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Rayne lives Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in the smalloccupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, hidden village particularly in ''The Diary of Penderin where she is a somewhat unwilling apprentice to her mother, the spell breather. Not everyone can spell breathe, you have to born with a magic spark and Rayne wishes she hadnAnn Frank't been born with one. She's a terrible spell breather, but then realised that her attempts are always followed by disaster and she positively hates Mamown family's spell book with it's sharp teeth that suck your bloodstories were equally fascinating. When a stranger finds their village one dayA hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, Mam must set off on but only five thousand survived and Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to happen in a journey country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the great librarycity were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, leaving Rayne that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the village way that it did, but initial protests melted away as their chief spell breatherthe organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a vast scale, but an unfortunate mistake sees Rayne breaking her mothermade up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies. [[War and Love: A family's book testament of anguish, endurance and turning everyone devotion in to monsters. She must face her fear travel across the monster-ridden country to find Mam and restore the book to save their village. [[The Last Spell Breather occupied Amsterdam by Julie PikeMelanie Martin|Full Review]]
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===[[ISnowflake, Cosmo AZ by Carlie SorosiakMarcus Sedgwick]]===
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CosmoThis is a deep, interesting read unlike any book I've read in quite some time. The novel's family is story follows a young man named Ash in the process of joining a community of sick people in crisis. Mom and Dad argue all the timecuriously named town of Snowflake, Arizona. Emmaline doesn't quite understand These people are sick, but it because she's too little but she feels itnot a sickness you've heard of. And MaxInstead, they're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, who is biggerstatic electricity, does understand it and radiation – and their only ''cure'' is terrified by to stay in the town away from the real world. Though it's about a real place, the people in itare fictional. Long ago, when Max was just It really is a babyplace apart, Cosmo made a promise quite literally cut off from the outside world – people are even required to protect Max forever and so he sets about his mission of repairing the family with everything he's got..decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated. [[ISnowflake, Cosmo AZ by Carlie SorosiakMarcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]
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===[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer]]===
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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeline Robin Hood is very fond of Grandfather Gilderberry. He's always busy in gone – denouncing both his former life and his workshop, creating crazy potionslove Marian, and retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he always has a smile on his facehad built. MadelineMarion's dad thinks he's a bit bonkers and Madeline's mum thinks the same life since has been relatively quiet - but gives him a pass because he's old. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry when her friends start dying, Marion is just greattasked by Father Tuck to break the curse surrounding them and to save their lives. Particularly on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives Setting off with a selection soldier, a Fey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in a maze of potions betrayals, complicated relationships, and allows her to choose one as a gift. And he always says vicious struggle for the same thing... throne…[[Don't Drink the Pink Brightfall by B C R FeganJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt]]===
===[[The Years of Fading Magic by Kenelm Averill]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]  ''What if you could subtly change the lives of ordinary people around you?'', [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]
Jessica Turner was ''The Nightjar'' is an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a box on her doorstep one of the more radical teens morning and her life begins to come out of Eastfieldunravel, fast. A youth spent hanging out From that very moment, her life is flooded with a close crowd of friends was characterised by Jessica's role as trendsettermagic, as influencerloss, as leader. Strangely charismaticexpectation and particularly, Jessica invited fascination and obsessionbetrayal. Nobody who met As everything around hershifts, forgot her. Or the days they spent in the Enclosureall that she knows, a clearing in Eastfield woods all that Jessica felt gave her powershe thinks she knows, must change. But the group went its separate waysWho can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, as adolescent groups do, and her influence faded...can she even trust herself? [[The Years of Fading Magic Nightjar by Kenelm AverillDeborah Hewitt|Full Review]]
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===[[Clear My Name American Royals by Paula DalyKatharine McGee]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
Tess Gilroy works for Innocence UK, a charity investigating the cases of prisoners who can convince them that they've been wrongly convicted and they're just moving on to their next case[[image:4star. She's somewhat surprised when Clive, the head of the charity, announces that she'll have someone shadowing her. Avril's in her mid twenties and rather gauche as well as prone to putting her foot in it. One of the reasons they're now going to look at the case of Carrie Kamara is that she's female and Innocence have never yet taken up the case of a womanjpg|link=Category: such impressions matter. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Clear My Name by Paula Daly:Category:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral Fiction]]
Two and a half centuries ago, America won the Revolutionary War and General George Washington was offered the crown. Today, the House of Washington still sit on the thrown with Princess Beatrice next in line. Beatrice's whole life has been building up to her ruling the United States and the time for her reign is imminent. [[American Royals by Katharine McGee|Full Review]]
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===[[The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Step Guide by Georgianne Landy-Kordis Nicola Monaghan]]===
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I frequently meet authors who are struggling It was more than a little bit of a surprise to be published by Dr Sian Love (and the rest of the traditional houses, but relatives) when I suggest selfher uncle Bobby left her his home -publishing they explain that they don't have a former pub called The Loggerheads in the big bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their likeNarrow Marsh area of Nottingham. I then ask if theyThen it was a shock when she found two bodies in the cellar before she've considered Kindle d even got settled in - and managed to break a bone in her foot in the answer is inevitably that they wouldn't know where to startcourse of making the discovery. I can empathise with that. Despite having used a computer They'd been there for about thirty yearssome time, running most of my life ''but who - exactly - were the man andthe woman, wrapped in each other'' a website s arms? Having spent ten years on linethe Murder Squad, I'm still nervous when it comes to starting something new. I like someone to hold my hand ending up as I go through it for the first time. That was why I was very interested when a DCI she knows what''The Simple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon'' came across my desk. Author Georgianne Landy-Kordis doesn't profess s going to be a computer expert: happen next, but she's simply someone who has done this many times and shenot prepared for quite how personal it's giving us the benefit of her experience and without any added chitchatall going to get. [[The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Step Guide by Georgianne Landy-Kordis Nicola Monaghan|Full Review]]
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===[[Just Another Girl on the Road Some Places More Than Others by S KensingtonRenee Watson]]===
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When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from a farmhouse and a group of German deserters who had raped her. Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she got when Farr and Valentine intervened and finished the group off. It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part of the Jedburgh unit, EDMOND, lead by Major Willoughby Nye. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on her father's merchant ship and Katrinka had once had a crush on Nye. When he offered her a job with his unit, she accepted. [[Just Another Girl on the Road by S Kensington|Full Review]]
Amara's twelfth birthday is coming up and she wants nothing more for it than a trip to New York to meet her father's side of the family. But her father hasn't spoken to Amara's grandfather for many years - Amara doesn't know why - and both her parents are resistant to the idea. But Amara is nothing if not persistent and a school family history project provides her with the perfect wedge. Eventually, her parents give in and off she goes... with a secret mission from her mother: to bring her father and Grandpa Earl back together again. [[Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson|Full Review]] <!-- Patrice LawrenceGraves -->
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===[[Rose, Interrupted Lakes of Mars by Patrice LawrenceMerritt Graves]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Aaron Sheridan doesn't want to live anymore. His entire family is dead by his own hand, killed in a shuttle crash. Unable to deal with the guilt, he signs up for the Fleet expecting a fatal deployment to the Rim War, but instead ends up at their most prestigious command school, Corinth Station... [[Lakes of Mars by Merritt Graves|Full Review]]
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  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]] <!-- David Edwards Ryan -->
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===[[Something to Tell You by David Edwards]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian FictionComing of Age by Danny Ryan]]===
Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. Bert was Sam's boss at CERN, but this never seemed to affect the way that the families got on. Bert's wife, Natalia, was Russian and seriously rich. Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie and Josh, went to a private boarding school, but at weekends they were great friends with Sam's two children, Liam and Hannah. Sam's wife, Briony, was head of product research at Nestlé. Life was good for all eight of them, until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted that the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the earth had risen exponentially. It's enough of a problem for Sam and Bert to drag the head of CERN, Prof Ralph Moyeur, out of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Something to Tell You by David Edwards:Category:Autobiography|Full ReviewAutobiography]]
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''You’re the froth on my soy cappuccino''<br>''You’re the spread on my paleo toast''<br>''You’re the nose of my GM-free Pinot''<br>''You’re organic[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], my love. You’re the most!''<br>[[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
Ha! How can you not laugh at The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put on a par with comments about Marmite. You're supposed to love it or hate it and I'm halfway between, and likewise the old adage is halfway true. From the cover of this gently mocking take I had a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. That was only built on love by the initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in the hipster this book's worldpredated our standardised literacy. But why was I two chapters in and just finding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and more flashbacks, and no proof that this was what I'd bought in for? [[You're the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino: Poems for Lighthouse of the Present Netherworlds by Don BehrendMaxwell N Andrews|Full Review]]
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I love mittens - they're so convenient and much easier to get onto (and off) cold hands than a pair of fiddly glovesBerlin, 1989. They're not something you regularly see Miriam is in shopsthe middle of a city freshly united, so I knew that if I wanted new pairs I would have with the Wall newly broken down and people able to knit them myselfcross at liberty for the first time in decades. WellShe is in the middle of such euphoria, actuallybut cannot feel it, thatfor she has not left her father's my rationalisation of the situation: apartment in truth I love knitting mittensweeks, nursing him as he lies dying. They have just enough technique to make them satisfyingOne standard bed-bath, however, is very different, plenty of quick work when he gasps the name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and she sees for the first time ever a pair of warm mittens in a few daystattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. PatternsOne bombshell outside, then, though - where do you get them from? and two inside... [[The Mitten Handbook: Knitting Recipes to Make Your Own Rabbit Girls by Mary Scott HuffAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[The Rage of Dragons A Winter Book by Evan WinterTove Jansson]]===
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Every so oftenTove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, as a reader, a book comes along that is utter written in the 1940s and complete perfection. This book is one later becoming television characters of those. Utter the simplicity, naivety and complete perfectionsheer 'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Winter has created an absolute masterpiece of a novelSimple drawings, simple stories, set in the fantasy land simple goodness. What is often forgotten outside of Uhmlaba the reader her native Finland is instantly thrown into war, that she was a battle serious writer…that she wrote for survival adults as well as children…and that she had a feeling for the Omehi people. Fleeing their homeland, they have to fight to remain on natural world and the simple life that not only scrap informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of land they can reach. The culture of the Omehi people is rich and deep but not perfect, not sanctimonious. They have villains, they have faults, they are how the invaders after all, but Winter creates a realistic and honest portrayal of a people desperate to survive, to save themselves and their culture for future generationsworld might be. [[The Rage of Dragons A Winter Book by Evan WinterTove Jansson|Full Review]]
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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock]]===
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[[image:4''Illinois Territory, Collective Homesteads of America.'' Some people live in sunken houses, buried into hillsides to disguise how large their property is at times of austerity. Others are called Foresters, for they live and work in trees. When the small area the Foresters live in is placed under compulsory purchase, the residents are given a pitiful amount to clear out before they get manfully cleared out. Our hero, Elwyn, has just left the trees for the Hills, to live with an uncle and learn their ways – he's just of age to decide things for himself, and he has decided to see how the other half lives..5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersThe Collective by Lindsey Whitlock|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Cosmo's family is in crisis. Mom and Dad argue all the time. Emmaline doesn't quite understand it because she's too little but she feels it. And Max, who is bigger, does understand it and is terrified by it. Long ago, when Max was just a baby, Cosmo made a promise to protect Max forever and so he sets about his mission of repairing the family with everything he's got... [[I, Cosmo by Carlie Sorosiak|Full Review]]<!-- Linda Jones Andre Pronovost -->
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In late December Dylan Beaumont Germany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and his sister Emily were the Nazis, but much isn't. Some of her is stuck to the east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have to be on their way the other front, against the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. Finding out that the war to spend the week before Christmas at their grandfathereast isn't working, due to Hitler's housetactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. It was snowing heavily The only way to shore things up, and you could sense that their parents were becoming annoyed at repair the bickering in splits, is to kill Hitler, and luckily the back of Baron Nicholas is the carman to do it. Emily was rather brusque with her nine-year-old brotherHe's behaviouraristocratic enough, but then thathe knows enough people in industry, society and other circles of power, so once he's your prerogative when you're succeeded he might be able to keep a grown-up eleven year oldGerman presence in Europe. The snow was getting heavier and But will he still be able to keep the journey longer when Emily opened the car window just a couple of inches. There was a dreadful smell capitalists and Dylan saw a horrible, snake-like figure clawing at communists from meeting in the car window. middle? [[Deadwood Hall The Man Who Killed Hitler by Linda JonesAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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