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|author=Lauren Liebenberg
|title=The West Rand Jive Cats Boxing Club
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Best friends Tommy and Chris are 12 years old. It is 1958 and they are growing up in a small mining town near Johannesburg, South Africa. They are learning to box and to dance to rock and roll music.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844084892</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Lawton
|summary=Although the revelation that Inside, a society crammed into a self-contained cube-shaped metal hull, is actually floating through space came as a shock to the population of Inside, both the Uppers and the Lowers of society expected life to get better after the success of the revolution and the deposition of the tyrannical Travas. However, Trella learns that setting up a new society that smooths over the divides and prejudices that consumed the old one is a cumbersome process. When bombs start exploding and violence begins to flare, a new potent threat has to be confronted by the divided population of Inside, in the form of Outsiders.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778304132</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Adrienne McDonnell
|title=The Doctor and the Diva
|rating=4
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=We first meet one of the central characters, the successful, young obstetrician Dr Ravell as he mingles with the great and the good Bostonians at a high-level social gathering. His reputation seems to precede him as one guest enthuses 'After nineteen years in a barren marriage ... thanks to you, they had twins.' High praise indeed. And at this gathering he not only meets a future patient, Erika von Kessler, but he is also enraptured by her singing voice. He tries to explain all this but finds it difficult so ends up by saying 'It was not an earthly voice; it was a shimmering.' I loved that line.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751543608</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ann Bonwill and Teresa Murfin
|title=Naughty Toes
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=This dancing story is told to us by a little girl called Trixie. She tells us that her sister, Belinda, is a ballerina but that she, Trixie, is not. We see Trixie shopping for dancing clothes and being drawn to bright colours rather than the pretty pink of the other ballerinas, then in class her toes won't point like the other girls (hence the 'naughty toes'). She's dancing off the beat to her own jazzy rhythm...just what kind of a dancer is she?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192728512</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julian Ruck
|title=Ragged Cliffs
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Lise Jacobson was half Danish and half Welsh. She lived with her parents in Denmark but during the Second World War indulged in an innocent friendship with one of the occupying German soldiers. In retribution she had her hair shorn off and was raped by two masked men. After her father's death Lise's mother brought Lise and Lise's son, born as a result of the rape, back to Swansea and there they did their best to make a living for themselves. It was whilst Lise was working as a chambermaid that she met William Treharne, who would change her life permanently.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904323189</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lissa Evans
|title=Small Change for Stuart
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Poor Stuart Horten is rather small for his age. Unfortunately for him, if you put his initial with his surname it becomes 'shorten', which is just asking for trouble. Still, he's happy and has lots of friends. Or, at least, he does until his parents move house and he finds himself living in a strange town (his father's hometown) in the school holidays, looking at the prospect of a long, boring and lonely summer ahead of him. He soon discovers, however, that there is a mystery surrounding his family's history in the town, and it looks as though Stuart might just be the one to uncover what really happened...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561800X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elia Barcelo and David Frye (Translator)
|title=The Goldsmith's Secret
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='The Goldsmith's Secret' has a wonderfully romantic beginning; alone on a snowy night in New York, the craftsman is puzzling over how to tell his story, and how to separate reality from the overwhelming memories in his mind.
The romance continues as the story unfolds, with the goldsmith taking us back to the town and time of his youth, and the chance meeting that led him to find the love of his life. Telling the tale of romance from many perspectives, we learn the town of Villasanta has labelled his love, the mysterious Celia, as 'a marked woman' and the 'black widow'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050052</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Melling
|title=Don't Worry Douglas
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Some of you may have already met Douglas, the rather dopey, yet endearing bear, in his first adventure [[Hugless Douglas by David Melling|Hugless Douglas]]. Here he's back again, this time the proud recipient of a brand new woolly hat, a gift from his Dad. But what should he do when he has a bit of trouble and the hat starts to unravel?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340999802</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Peter Salmon
|title=The Coffee Story
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Teddy Everett, head of Everett and Sons Coffee is dying, slowly and painfully, of cancer. The Coffee Story is his story, told in his own (very descriptive) words. It goes from (although not necessarily in this order) his childhood in England, his adolescence in Ethiopia and then his life in the USA and Cuba. It's his time in Cuba which has put him where he is now – in prison. For his crimes he would normally have suffered the death penalty, but his sentence was commuted because of his illness and now the doctors try to save him. Or perhaps it's that they're trying to persuade Teddy that they're trying to save him – whether he wants to be saved or not.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444724703</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tom MacRae and Ross Collins
|title=When I Woke Up I Was A Hippopotamus
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=A small boy goes through the day imagining that he is a variety of different creatures, everything from a grumpy hippo who doesn't want to get up, to a Robot who can't eat cornflakes or a statue who can't move, can't blink, can't do anything at all! But when he imagines his parents are fierce dragons he finds things have gone a little bit too far...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390738</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emma Chichester-Clark
|title=Mimi and Momo: No More Kissing!
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Momo is one puzzled little monkey. 'Why does there have to be so much kissing?' he asks. We travel with him through the jungle, seeing all the kissing that's going on. It seems to especially be, as Momo notes, Mummies kissing babies. Momo does not want to be kissed, by his family or by people he doesn't know, but no one seems willing to listen to him...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392315</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ruth Eastham
|title=The Memory Cage
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Alex is worried about Grandad. So is the rest of the family. It started with a lot of small things, things that Alex can help him with, like lost keys and glasses. Last night though, Grandad set fire to his pillow. Alex has hidden it, but knows that this is dangerous, and it can't stay a secret for long. Grandad has Alzheimers, and Mum and Dad are thinking of putting him in an old people's home. He is also worried that 'big brother' Leonard knows what has happened and will give them both away.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407120522</amazonuk>
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