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|author=Peter Bently and Russel Ayto

|title=Dustbin Dad

|rating=3.5

|genre=Emerging Readers

|summary=''Dustbin Dad'' is a cautionary tale aimed at all of those children who leave food on their plate at the end of a meal. Dad likes nothing better than to polish off the leftovers, much to the disgust of his family. One day, however, he gobbles down a pint of something that tastes like fish chowder. Unfortunately, it is cat medicine and it has some very strange side effects indeed, as dad discovers when he hears a loud rip and a long tail pops out of the back of his trousers...

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388744</amazonuk>

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Ooh! Alien changelings! Cuckoos in the nest? Are they really? Really, really, really? Can you be sure? So begins the first story in ''Krispy Whispers'', a series of flash fictions by Bookbag favourite Melvin Burgess. You also get a girl dreaming of riches, a lonely woman who finds a pet and gets a boyfriend too closely together for mere coincidence. And a priest who actually meets God. And a very worrisome monster. Concentrate hard. Because you'll need to keep up...

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00DAC68EM</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Anne Fine~~

~~|title=Blood Family~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Teens~~

|summary=''Blood Family'' is the companion novel to Anne Fine's ''The Devil Walks''. Both books feature a boy locked away from the world and what happens when he is rescued. ''The Devil Walks'' is a Gothic shiver tale, set in the past but ''Blood Family'' is a contemporary story, exploring what happens to children who have been abused and how their lives are affected.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857532405</amazonuk>~~

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|summary=Following several main characters - scientist Paul, businessman Max, remote viewer Tahra and mystery woman Ava - across two time frames spanning the 1940s to the present day, ''Seven Point Eight'' blends science fiction and fantasy in a sprawling, absorbing, diffuse novel that will attract fans of both genres.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B005IBYKC0</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Manuel Rivas~~

~~|title=All Is Silence~~

~~|rating=3.5~~

~~|genre=Literary Fiction~~

|summary=The small community of Noitía is a place where everyone knows each other and each other’s business, which considering most of the adults are involved in the one business, smuggling, is potentially dangerous knowledge. We follow a small group of three young friends growing up in the area as they play and learn and even experience a little of the black market dealings. They stumble across a stash of smuggled whisky and are caught by the charismatic king pin responsible for the trafficking, who teaches them that silence is the most important lesson to learn when growing up in Noitía.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655568X</amazonuk>~~

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