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|title=The Last Runaway

|author=Tracy Chevalier

|rating=3

|genre=Historical Fiction

|summary=Quaker girl Honor Bright is seeking escape from a failed relationship. Leaving quiet Dorset for America, a developing country about which she knows little, she hopes that accompanying her sister to the US will mean a new start within the American Quaker community. But Honor soon discovers the differences between America and England – not just in terms of weather and landscape, but also in the American culture of slave keeping.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000735035X</amazonuk>

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|summary=Caleb Becker has spent the last year in juvie for hitting Maggie Armstrong in his car whilst drink driving. He thinks getting out of jail is the first step to things going back to normal, but he's about to learn exactly how much can change in a year and the terrible price of a secret within his family.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471119033</amazonuk>

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~~|title=The Night Rainbow~~

~~|author=Claire King~~

~~|rating=4~~

~~|genre=General Fiction~~

|summary=You know, there’s no reason a book has to be happy in order to be good. The Night Rainbow is proof of this. Set geographically in France and actually in the head of a five year old girl, it follows the adventures of the summer when Pea’s (short for Peony or Pivoine, depending who you ask) pregnant mother was too miserable to care for her; the summer following the still birth of Pea’s sister and the tragic accidental death of her father.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408841843</amazonuk>~~

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