|summary=Go Green!? Forget that title. What planet does that come from? Let's start again. This fantastic book is about the ''blue'' stuff, everything from oceans to raindrops. The book covers just about every angle that a child passionate about water might conceivably find of interest – marine creatures, icebergs, sunken volcanoes, tsunamis, undersea exploration, bores and whirlpools, inland waterways, tides, lochs and locks. There are answers to lots of questions of the 'Why is the sea blue?' variety. Sandwiched into this comprehensive guide to the physical geography and biodiversity of the seas (probably enough for GCSE) is a large dollop of green ketchup, to be sure, but my instinctive reaction is that here is the best children's introduction to 'water' that I've ever seen.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906435014</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Diana Wynne Jones
|title=Earwig and the Witch
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Earwig lives at St Morwald's children's home. Unlike some orphans in literature she's perfectly happy there since she seems to have everyone answering her every whim, and she loves spending time with her best friend Custard. Things are soon to change though as one day a rather strange couple, Bella Yaga and the Mandrake, come to look for a child to foster and the one they pick is Earwig!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007416857</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Francesca Simon and Pete Williamson
|title=The Parent Swap Shop
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Ava's parents like to nag. They nag her about her spelling, about eating with her knife and fork, or sitting straight on her chair, or going to bed on time...nag, nag, nag! But then one day she finds a card advertising 'The Parent Swap Shop' and when her parents nag her one more time she packs them off and sets out to find herself a new set of parents!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444002678</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Brett Battles
|title=The Silenced
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In the fourth instalment of the Jonathan Quinn series, Quinn and his team are hired to clean up after an operation and find a mysterious woman has followed them there. Before they can stop her, she disappears. On the next job she turns up again, this time with friends, and things start to go drastically wrong. Quinn must find this woman and stop her, but in the meantime somebody has become very interested in finding out Jonathan Quinn's real identity and is getting closer to his family. Quinn has to make a choice; do his job or save his family?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848092881</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Philip Ardagh
|title=The Eddie Dickens Trilogy
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Eddie Dickens. Aged eleven years old, he's only been allowed to be away from home twice in his life - once for about eight years on a boat, when a crate of luggage went to school in his place, and once for about three years. Now though he is being forced to move in with Mad Uncle Jack and Even Madder Aunt Maud, as his parents are very ill. But they're so deliriously bonkers, there's very little chance of him getting to actually move in with them. Who knows - he might even end up stuck in an orphanage instead?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571274692</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kelley Armstrong
|title=Spell Bound
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Wow. Gosh. Can it be true? We're on book 12 of Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series already. It seems like only yesterday that I became acquainted with her world of werewolves, witches, necromancers, demons and sorcerers, but Wikipedia tells me it was way back in 2001.
Spell Bound opens right after Waking the Witch left off, with Savannah Levine struggling to cope with her guilt in the wake of a disturbing murder case.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498076</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Thierry Jonquet
|title=Tarantula: The Skin I Live In
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=In a large French country house, an expert in facial reconstruction surgery keeps a beautiful woman locked up in her bedroom. He placates her with opium, but barks orders through hugely powerful speakers and an intercom. She tantalises him with her sexuality, which he tries to ignore, except for when he seems to abuse it in a sort of S/M way when he does let her into society, as he forces her to prostitute herself. Elsewhere, a young, inept bank robber holes himself up in a sunny house, waiting for the heat to die. And finally, a young man is held chained up in a cellar at the hands of an unknown possessor.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687942</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jim Butcher
|title=Dresden Files: Ghost Story
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=It's been a while since I've read a Dresden Files novel, so I am fuzzy on the details before I begin 'Ghost Story', the latest instalment of the wildly successful urban fantasy series. 'Ghost Story' is an unconventional one, even by Jim Butcher's standards – it begins after the narrator, Harry Dresden, was shot by an unseen sniper in the previous novel [[Changes: The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher|Changes]]. There is no deus ex machina or cliffhanger resolution in the first chapter – Harry really is dead as a doornail. For any fan of the series, this is naturally a conundrum: how do you continue the Dresden Files if Dresden is no longer alive? Jim Butcher gets around this seemingly insurmountable problem by having his brash lead character remain equally as incorrigible and unforgettable as before – it's just that now he's having a bit of trouble with his reliable 'punch first, ask questions later' doctrine, as his fists tend not to make contact with human flesh any more. Yep, Harry's a ghost. Where do you go from here?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497614</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alexander McCall Smith
|title=Precious and the Monkeys
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Someone has been stealing food at Precious' school. There are suspicions about who it might be, but no one is sure so Precious sets out to try and discover the truth as to just where all those snacks are disappearing off to...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972043</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stuart Neville
|title=Collusion
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When I read the back cover blurb carefully, I discovered that most of the story is located in Ireland and not New York as I'd previously thought so I was just a little disappointed before I'd even opened the book. I'm usually a sucker for anything American in the fiction stakes.
Policeman Jack Lennon (his proper name is John and there's a good piece later on illustrating the fact that he's officially called John Lennon). Jack's on surveillance duty watching a couple of no-users as they sit and talk in a local cafe. Jack's in the comfort of his vehicle but still, he's not impressed with his latest task and says in his own words 'Yep, ... shit work.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099535351</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Amy Waldman
|title=The Submission
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=The front cover of the book that I received for review is subtle (as befitting the sensitive contents) and I can see the two twin towers (as was) depicted in grey in the title word submission. The back cover announces that this novel will be ''Published in time for the 10th anniversary of 9/11.'' No pressure then. I open the book with a certain amount of trepidation, I have to admit and feel slightly as if I'm about to tread on (literary) eggshells. Heavens - what if I don't like the book?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434019321</amazonuk>
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