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|authorisbn=Penny Chrimes1838593187|title=Tiger HeartGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson
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|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her face. Dad'Fly never meant s come to collect her and her brother and he ''has'' to try to end up guess what she found in the cage with playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to know how school was, but ''obviously'' that's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a man-eating tigerscrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. She just saw There are sequins, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her chance pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to skedaddle, guess.}}{{Frontpage|author= Becky Albertalli and she took Aisha Saeed|title= Yes No Maybe So |rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= ''We might give itour all and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And even when that maybe makes it still worth going for, don't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a special election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing, he can't think of anything worse. However, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician and decides there is no time like the cloud present to conquer his fear of soot cleared and she saw speaking to the public. Maya is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having the golden eyes worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through a killer staring into hersseparation, she still didn't turn round has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things and climb back up her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassing. The pair could possibly be the chimney straightaway. 'Cos worst canvassing duo in history, as neither of them really want to be there was worse waiting for her back , but as the campaign goes on they discover that they care, a lot, about the roof.''What an opener! And there's plenty more to come!election - and maybe even about each other?|isbn=15101070451471184668
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|author=Tanya LandmanGregg Hurwitz|title=Jane Eyre: a RetellingInto The Fire
|rating=5
|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in Grant Merriweather is a dreary schoolforensic accountant. Or rather, moves was. He was brought into Thornfield Hall an ER room after an alleged car crash, his friend pleading with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – and with only one job, medics to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absentkeep him alive. When he does turn He was needed alive just long enough to give up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but that's nothing compared to the darker, more broody and even more troubled secret in the housea name. YesHis cousin, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn toMax.|isbn=17811291260718185501
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|authorisbn= T R Hendrick1529124395|title= What if They KnewWhen You See Me|author=Lisa Gardner|rating= 4|genre= General FictionCrime|summary= It's 2025. Underneath For Janet and Chuck, it was a lodge hiking break in the Blue Mountain resort Appalachians in Pennsylvania, is Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off the beaten track to find a secret facilitystick. Here What he found was a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called in, Dr Benton and his team are making some critical scientific advances along with Sergeant D D Warren. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on behalf the services of the BenefactorKeith Edgar, their anonymous funder. Alreadya computer analyst, and Flora Dane who brought something unique to the team have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place to anothertable. But Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by the notorious killer, unbeknownst Jacob Ness. If Ness had anything to do with the Benefactor, Dr Benton has also coded for another type of teleportation altogether - travel through time. And he's ready current discoveries then what Flora had to testsay could be invaluable. If successful, Benton has a very specific use for his technology in mind|isbn=1734277211
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|authorisbn= Catherine Steadman1529009677|title= Mr NobodyA Window Breaks|author=C M Ewan|rating= 43.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= DonTom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It't you s not just hate it when people are multi-talented? Author Catherine Steadman is both the usual growing apart after more than a successful actress and writerdecade of marriage. Their son, Michael, with this her second novel. I think was killed in a way her acting background shows in her writing as to my mind the 'fight scene' at the end car crash some months before: he was somewhat unrealistic – you know the kind where the hero has been hurt so many times that itdriving his father's virtually impossible theyAudi and at sixteen wasn'd still be alive let alone able t legally entitled to fight off an attackerdrive. The story Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a tree, but he also unfolded at killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom can't think about Michael without a steady pace throughout until the ending which felt overstuffed in a frenetic bid sense of shame and guilt. Rachel is broken, but she wants to wrap everything up in the last few chaptersforgive Michael. It was almost as if To give some space, Tom's moved out of the author wanted to keep the suspense until the last possible moment (which I liked) family home, but then was somewhat left with too much stresses to do in the closing stageshis thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separation.|isbn=1984890646
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|isbn=14736818470241985153|title=In Her EyesThe House on the Lake|author=Sarah AldersonNuala Ellwood|rating=3.5
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|summary=Ava lives a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up We know that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when the wrong way. One evening she returns from a night out with a friend, and before she can finish her bedtime routine, her home, and her life, are under attack: masked men have broken woman who was alone in and are demanding money from her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside him. In the scuffle than ensues, Ava house is hurt, badly. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happenedtaken away by the police, but she knows it was life-changing. With her daughter still fighting for her life in 's going to be a room down the corridor, Ava while before we learn exactly what has a lot to contend with as she tries to recover, wills her daughter to recover, and attempts to piece together what happened and why.
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|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson Struan Murray and Kit SeatonManuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic NovelOrphans of the Tide|rating=35|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=DianaIn the last city on Earth, being unique anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has come to wreak havoc on her island, the last of humanity. When a mysterious boy is pulled from the victim corpse of a lot of tauntswhale, and claims of nepotism. It's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at the citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - allexcept for young Ellie Lancaster, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young womangirl inventor. Perhaps too strong for As the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the World of Menboy, and this Diana Ellie must prove that he is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs innocent - even if it means revealing her leading performance in a running racedeepest, but the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot moredarkest secrets....|isbn=14012825550241384435
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|isbn=17860756950008297169|title=When the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)The Guest List|author=Helen SedgwickLucy Foley|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began with The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off the discovery Irish coast, might have been enough to put some guests off, but it was the wedding of a body under the swings in the children's playgroundyear. It Will Slater (television personality, if not yet a celebrity) was Dr Alexis Crosse and he was found by PC Simon Hunterto marry Jules Keegan, who loved him deeplyonline magazine publisher, but who had reason to mistrust himin the ruined chapel on the island. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up in GreeceThe bride's sister, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners)Olivia, a community which regards anyone not born would be her only bridesmaid and the wedding planner and brought up there as an outsider. DI Georgie Strachan is an outsider - you've only got to look at her skin to realise that, chef are Aoife and her husband, Fergus, well, he's Freddy. They gave a little strange toohuge discount to get the couple to the island, not entirely ''here''.but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?
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|authorisbn=Alastair ChisholmB07ZGL6B1B|title=Orion LostIn Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)|author=Marion Todd
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Thirteen-year-old Beth It was a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West and her parents board DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the transport ship Orion ready baby was stolen. They were there for a new life on Eos Fivethe fun run and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt the race. Their new home is still being terra-formed and life there isn They't going re against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be easy, but it ''constructed on Priory Marsh and the firm issponsoring the fun run. It was Lisa Mitchell's scream which stopped everything. Her daughter, six-month-old Abi, had been taken from her pram whilst no one was looking. It' going to be s a fresh start. As Bethmajor incident when 's mum puts it, 'any'There's child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of a future waiting for us. A chance heart problem: without it, she might have only forty-eight hours to make our own decisions, create our own liveslive.''|isbn=1788005929
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|isbn=07535532361471180921|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change EverythingFirewatching|author=B J FoggRuss Thomas
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|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Go on, admit it - you're not quite perfect. You still have Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those odd, quirky, even loveable (to you) habits who think that seem he's lucky to annoy other people. Other peoplebe there, of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just given that he decked a little bit of effortsuperior officer. Or put another way, I get cross with myself He's there because I forget Tyler came off worse in the exchange - there's a scar on his face to do things or do some actions more than I should prove it - and no matter how I try the superior officer was forced to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the conceptstake early retirement. I constantly fail There's a suggestion too that Tyler's godmother (she's on the force too) has looked after him and then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of willpower that his current boss is another burden keen to add have a tame gay to put on the listtown hall steps come Pride. Either way, he's there, but without anything really interesting to get his teeth into.
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|author= B T KeatonA K Larkwood|title= TransferenceThe Unspoken Name
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|genre= Science FictionFantasy|summary= Barrabus Madzimure What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is about a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to die, stranded her god on a mining planet millions of light-years from homeher fourteenth birthday, executed for high crimes against yet when the Churchopportunity arises, the ruling body of Earthshe chooses to abandon everything she knows and flee with her life. Except heWho can blame her? Her god's not Barrabus Madzimure, he's Thaniel Kilraven in Barrabus Madzimure's body. Such reach is the magic of Transference, the ability to transplant a person's soul or consciousness into a different body - limited and a power that the Church has exclusive control over. As if Thaniel doesn't have enough things Csorwe intends to worry aboutstay far beyond it, yet fate is a Church employee named Corvus has arrived from Earth to interrogate him. All Thaniel wants is to see his family again, funny thing and he'll stop at nothing to accomplish this, but when circumstances bring her back within the Church isn't going to give in without a hell reach of a fight..her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, and blames her very much indeed.|isbn=B082WPHTHH1250238900
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|author=Christine BrownM G Leonard and Sam Sedgman|title=Bucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West AfricaThe Highland Falcon Thief|rating=4.5|genre=TravelConfident Readers|summary=In the summer of 2008Harrison Beck, or Hal as he prefers to be called, this bookisn's author was spending her days working in an office job in the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere elset exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a travel writer, doing something elseon a long train journey. Long story shortAlthough, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africa. Now coincidentallythis isn't any old train; this is the Highland Falcon, in the summer of 2010royal train, and this review's author was spending ''her'' days working in an office job (albeit in the UK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere elseis its last ever journey before it gets sent to a museum. A number of high-society figures, doing something elseincluding film stars, millionaires and ''she'' ended up just 3 countries awayaristocrats, volunteering in Sierra Leonewill be on this train, West Africaso it is quite the event on the social calendar. So you can see whyHowever, when an expensive brooch is stolen, Hal realises that maybe this book came uptrip won't be as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin to turn on each other, said reviewer was delighted Hal vows to have get to the bottom of the mystery…before the opportunity train gets to read and critique itthe end of the line.|isbn=171024299X1529013062
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|authorisbn=Mark Lingane0008275246|title=Degrade Perfect Kill (Tesla ExpansionD I Callanach)|author=Helen Fields
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|genre=TeensCrime|summary= ''Degrade'' opens as it means to go on - with inyerfaceWhen Maggie Campbell realised that her son, banging action. Poor AridBart, alone in the desert since his parents were killed, has was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a narrow escape as two megachemically-rigs fight it out and his is pretty much destroyedinduced sleep. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrong. He finds himself rescued by the mysterious- Bart might be twenty but-fascinating Ella he was considerate of his mother and onboard the wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her know. Besides, he didn'Moonlightt have his phone with him and he wouldn'' under the suspicious eyes of its leader, Queen Beat have gone far without that. Bea It's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but not long before Bart realises that he can find out why that is, there's an assassination attempt alone, trapped in a shipping container and Arid is under suspicion and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Bea's daughter - sees Arid and her other daughteron his way to France, Frey, stranded in the desertwhere his fate has already been decided...|isbn= 099461649X
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|isbnauthor=B07XLM3SM6Alyssa Sheinmel|title=Murder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena DixonWhat Kind of Girl|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)Women's Fiction|summary=Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916you're not'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, leaving claiming he gave it to her daughter, Kitty, in the care of her grandmotherwhole world is tipped upside down. A great deal Her relationship has just ended and now she's the talk of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion school. Mike was that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and the most popular boy in 1933 she school who was running the Dolphin Hotel always so in Dartmouth love with her grandmother when , everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her grandmother had and some don't, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to leave blow over any time soon.|isbn=0349003297}}{{Frontpage|author= Holly Rivers|title= Demelza and the Spectre Detectors|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Demelza Clock is a scientist, often staying up late to look after work on her sister who was ill. She was reluctant various gadgets, much to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. Sheher Grandma Maeve's always coped with the mix irritation. However, she has also inherited a certain set of holidaymakersskills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, boating people and the naval college on ability to summon the edge ghosts of town before - and she's done every job in the hotelrecently deceased. And she particularly cannot understand why Under the guidance of her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to master her grandmothernewfound skills. However, there is a mysterious individual on the prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's friends have been roped in up to keep an eye on things ''Demelza and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired her best friend Percy to get to take charge the bottom of security at the hotelthis...|isbn=1912626039
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|authorisbn=1787477533|title=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai The Lantern Men (translatorDr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor=The Honjin MurdersElly Griffiths|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=To many readers, the phrase Everything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. She'locked room murder mystery' is enough s no longer providing assistance to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by police and isn't even working at the words 'clever' or 'good'University of North Norfolk. For those who need more, here is the extra background – weShe're in rural Japan s lecturing at Cambridge and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker in the 1930sCambridge. The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting marriedHer daughter, Katie, although the whole affair has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped and life is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great hastelooking good. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thingSettled. Either wayShe can't help thinking about Harry Nelson, the celebrations have gone ahead as plannedKatie's father, only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriagebecause Katie sees him regularly and there's a close relationship with his family. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case has a lot of the peculiar about itYou might ''almost'' think that Ruth's life is settling down.|isbn=1782275002
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|authorisbn=Cixin Liu183895015X|title=Death's EndA Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner|author=Chris Atkins
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|genre=Science FictionPolitics and Society|summary= If I'd been paying more attention when I picked this book up, I would have put it back on the shelf. Not because I didnDocumentary filmmakers don't want to read it, but because I'd have figured out that it was usually get the final part run of a trilogy. Coming in partway through a saga is never establishments within the easiest thing to do and it's particularly true Mountbatten-Windsor Hotel Group, but after getting involved in science fiction because without knowing the back-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing an illegal tax scheme to you (when it's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts that you won't understand. This latter is particularly true of Cixin Liu's work – fund his range is phenomenal. George R R Martinlatest film, who knows Chris Atkins was invited for a thing or two about worldfive-creationyear stay. The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, described it as ''a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculationwhich is probably the oldest, conspiracy theory largest and cosmology''. All of that and moremost dysfunctional prison in Europe.|isbn=1784971650
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|isbn=17808945111250168546|titleauthor=Die AloneSarah Kozloff|authortitle=Simon KernickA Queen In Hiding|rating=43|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=Ray Mason World-building is in prison awaiting trial for murder the backbone by which fantasy novels live and he's in the vulnerable prisoner unit: as die. And what a coppleasure, then, heto get a novel with world-building you actually want to delve into. Sarah Kozloff's something of debut novel presents a targetstartlingly rich and layered world, but the unit is not as secure as the inmates would with a complex history of connecting nations that seems certain to have hoped more to tap, and Mason is injured in the characters are interesting – if a riotlittle underdeveloped. On his way to hospital heBut it's broken free by armed men a world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, and an offer is made to him. He's to assassinate the man who is likely struggle of each Queen to become the country's next prime minister discover and he'll then be given a new identity so that he can start afresh abroad. His captors say that they're MI6, but Mason has his doubts. His choices are limited though hone her magical talent felt very real and he has personal reasons to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was deadvery apt.
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|authorisbn=Akwaeke Emezi1543987877|title=PetLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas Jordan
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|genre=TeensLifestyle|summary=The people of the town Lucille believe that all the monsters are gone''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book about love. Their children The two greatest emotions are raised to understand that they were saved by love and grief and love is the angelsopposite of grief: ''if you love'', those who rid the town of evilDr Thomas Jordan tells us, and there are no monsters anymore''you will inevitably grieve''. But one day, Jam accidentally cuts herself Your love relationships begin the moment you're born and bleeds a little onto one of her mother's paintingsend only when you die. The blood awakens a bizarre, terrifying-looking creature named Pet, who somehow comes Whilst we all come into the world hoping to life give and declares that it receive love there are many people for whom love is here to hunt not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the monstersame mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. Though Jam tries to convince it that all For people who are making the monsters are gonesame mistakes repeatedly, Pet is certain that there is one, stillself-preservation, and that the monster is hiding in the home form of her best friend, Redemptionresignation is a necessity.|isbn=0571355110
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|isbnauthor=1686751680Chris Hauty|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarres|author=Amelie Julien and GustyawanDeep State|rating=43|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=Which child doesn't think that their mother Hayley Chill is a fighter. She isevery kind of fighter, and well, ''weird''? It might be that in the morning their mother doesn't like speaking much when every self-respecting child knows that that is when you're at your brightest with lots to say? ''Why'' then does Mummy stick her fingers trained in her ears? Then there's doing yoga in front most of the television, which could be worrying if it wasn't so funnythem. We wonShe't go into too much detail about what goes on in the bathroom s army infantry and she boxes for fun – and the colour changes which have occurred when Mummy emerges she wins. Always. She wins because she is focussed. She works hard, mentally and franklyphysically, and she knows how to deal with the less said the better about her reactions pain. She is not so much cold as controlled. This fight is against someone she is not expected to your artistic efforts on the wallbeat. I mean, what else would you use paint for?And she is being watched.|isbn=1471185605
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|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukH G Parry |title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
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|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=''The day has ended''<br>''Hasn't it been splendid?'' <br>''But now, it's time, Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to be sure'' <br>''For an entirely different adventure'' <br> I hope you haven't forgotten how it feels see eye to be much too excited eye for bed. If you're years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in the "normal" world - and Charley a parent at least, you'll know how it man who is to persuade blessed with an excited small person that yes, it is in fact time for bed. ability he can''What Wonders DoYou Seet fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real world...'' sets out After years of protecting Charley, Rob wants to cater discharge his duties and leave Charley to these childrenhis own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. Instead of trying As literary characters begin to persuade them that night time is a calm timeappear everywhere, it takes a slightly different tack. It tells them soon becomes clear that sleep is actually an exciting time: a time of dreams in which imagination takes over someone out there shares Charley's powers and has no limitintends to use them for nefarious gains. But Rob and Charley must team up to stop the trick madness - in accessing this wonderful and exciting world is a battle to get calm win before they, the characters and relaxed first so that you can easily fall asleep and open the door to it. world reach The End…|isbn=194812422X 0356513777
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|authorisbn=Michael Harris1444776185|title=Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded WorldHaven't they Grown|author=Sophie Hannah|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary= This is not the book I It was when Beth Leeson was expecting it ferrying her son, Ben, to bea football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbots. For some reason I expected it Actually, It's a little disingenuous to be another self-help manual say 'found herself' as Beth had made a deliberate detour on how to find calm, how to step outside the mainstream, but it is not grounds that at all. Instead she didn't find herself in this neck of telling us how it is more about the woods very often and she was curious to see where a family who'd come into money had lived before they'why''d all lost contact twelve years ago. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to be And it might have gone no further than that had Beth not seen a natural part of our human life, car draw up and her friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas and why that mattersEmily. Of course, he talks Beth remembered the names well - but these children were about how some people have found solitude three and what has come of that, five and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys Flora's children - Thomas and byEmily -ways that his thinking about this lost art led himwould now be fifteen and seventeen.|isbn=1847947662
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|authorisbn=Andy Briggs1529123763|title=Ctrl+SMiss Austen|author=Gill Hornby
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|genre=Science Historical Fiction|summary= In the near future, lifeIt's pretty good. Climate change has long been brought under control, the bee population has been brought back from near-extinction, and 3D printing has made things cheaper and quicker than ever before. But the biggest triumph has got to be SPACE, a simulated world known that has Cassandra Austen burned most of the ability to mimic emotions as well as images. But, as with every technology, there is the potential for it to be abused. Every day, people are being kidnapped, plugged into SPACE and have their emotions and feelings harvested for the richest letters which she and sickest other members of society. And now Theo's mum has gone missing. As he follows the trail left by extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her, he uncovers a vast conspiracy that would use any means necessary to stop him from finding out where his mum has gonesister Jane...|isbn=1409184641}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1609809378|title=The Rabbits What is not known is ''why' Rebellion|author=Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We're in the realm of the rabbits, only the foxes she did this and wolves have taken over. King Wolf, His Wolfiness, has declared the rabbits donat this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane't exist, but the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that the bunnies are in fact still around. Demanding a propaganda spree, King Wolf orders s death - a humble monkey to be his official portrait photographer, but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there definitive answer is a distinct leporine hint. Can King Wolf succeed in proving himself victorious, can the rabbits show their continued existence to all who need unlikely to know of it – and what can the poor monkey caught in between do?}}{{Frontpage|author=Innosanto Nagara|title=M is for Movement|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Set in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is a story about social changeforthcoming. Dealing Gill Hornby has provided us with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, the possible answers in a book is neither boring nor preachy. It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they will fail. The message is a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power proved to instigate changebe far more emotionally complex than I was expecting.|isbn=1609809351
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