|summary=Elen Caldecott has done it again! Hard to believe she's managed another book as amusing and insightful as [[How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant by Elen Caldecott|How Kirsty Jenkins Stole the Elephant]], but here it is! Ali Ferguson has just moved into a new flat with his mum. He loves her very much, but he also misses his dad, who left them two years before. He desperately hopes his dad will come back to them one day from his travels in Asia: his mum is sure that will never happen. But Ali is a cheerful boy with a positive outlook on life, and he sees moving to their new home as an adventure. And it isn't long before he finds himself in a real-life mystery, every bit as engrossing and dangerous as the ones he loves to imagine.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880574X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
|title=Old Dog
|rating=3.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=The Young Pups don't want to go and see Grandpa - all he does is talk about the past, his breath stinks, his false teeth fall out all the time, and he doesn't know how to play all their new games. Their mother reminds them that he's really kind and they visit him after all. When there, they discover that Grandpa wasn't always an old fuddy duddy, and actually there's plenty of excitement lurking under the surface if they just take the trouble to get to know him.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842708805</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David McKee
|title=Elmer and Grandpa Eldo
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Elmer the patchwork elephant is back, and this time he's visiting Grandpa Eldo. Elmer reminds Eldo of all the things they did together when Elmer was really little, but Eldo can't remember them (or so he says) so Elmer keeps reminding him and reminding him, as they revisit old haunts. Grandpa and grandson, sorry, grandelephant, spend a lovely day together, enjoying one another's company.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842708392</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Foreman
|title=Dinosaur Time
|rating=3
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Tom's mum has just bought a new timer for the kitchen. It's not a toy, so she tells Tom not to touch it. However, there's a little blue light winking at him, so he can't really help himself. He reaches out and... finds himself whisked back in time.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390479</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jessica Meserve
|title=Bedtime Without Arthur
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Arthur is a very special bear. Using bravery, strength and karate, he keeps Bella safe from monsters when she sleeps. One day, Arthur goes missing, and Bella has to face the monsters on her own. Will Arthur turn up? Will Bella ever get a good night's sleep again?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709437</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Greg Baxter
|title=A Preparation for Death
|rating=3.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=I've always been slightly wary of autobiographies which are written whilst the subject is still relatively young. They can often feel incomplete, particularly when you know the author is still successful in their chosen career. Frequently they are also written from an immediate perspective which time can alter thanks to hindsight.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141048433</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Scott Westerfeld
|title=Secret Hour (Midnighters)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=If you do have to move into a small American town, make sure it isn't Bixby, Oklahoma. Jessica does, and finds it perhaps more trouble than it's worth. She quickly bonds with some of the more goth-seeming kids at her high school, but it's the night-time activities that intrigue her. She thinks she's in a dream when she walks through a dazzling forest of raindrops, suspended in a moment of frozen time - that moment being exactly midnight. But wouldn't you know? - her goth-seeming friends are active at midnight too - and so are some very dangerous creatures of the terrible kind...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410031</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tove Jansson
|title=Travelling Light
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In her home country of Finland – and no doubt throughout much of the rest of Europe which is not quite so sniffy about foreign literature as Britain tends to be – Jansson is generally recognised as an author of talent, skill, verve and wit that extended far beyond the Moomin Troll stories for which she is best known in this country. Those children's books were first published in England sixty years ago and have remained in print ever since (as well as being adapted for just about every other medium going), and a joy they are too, but it is only recently that we have been granted the pleasures of reading her fiction for adults.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095489958X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jenny Diski
|title=The Sixties
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=In the last few years, there have been many books of varying length about the 60s. Most of them are relatively self-contained histories of the decade, often fairly liberal in adopting their signposts as to when the era began and ended. (Blame Philip Larkin's famous poem for the confusion, I hear you say).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846680042</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Fardell
|title=Jeremiah Jellyfish Flies High!
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Jeremiah Jellyfish is drifting aimlessly through life. He's bored of doing nothing in the great big jellyfish shoal. With a bit of geeing up from his granddad, he strikes out on his own, meets a high-powered businessman, swaps jobs, and becomes an executive in a rocket plane company. As jellyfish do, obviously.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390142</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Peter Matthiessen
|title=Shadow Country
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=This is a big book by anyone's standards. Think of your average blockbuster in terms of pages - then double it. Due to its sheer breadth of narrative I think it best if I break it down into manageable book-sized chunks (the novel itself is sub-divided into a trilogy generally known as The Watson Trilogy). First off, there's an explanatory author's note at the beginning to ease the reader in gently, perhaps. I took a deep breath and dived in ...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705015X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Francine Prose
|title=Goldengrove
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=On a hot day Nico and her older sister Margaret take a boat out onto Mirror Lake, but only Nico returns after Margaret dives off the boat and doesn't resurface. Margaret's sudden death tears through Nico and her parents' lives, and each mourn for her in their own way. Unable to find the help she needs from her parents, who are both consumed by their own grief to help Nico to come to terms with her loss, Nico turns to the vast array of books in Goldengrove, her father's bookshop, for answers, and soon embarks on a dangerous relationship with Margaret's boyfriend Aaron, the only person who seems to understand her grief.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848870361</amazonuk>
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