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{|class-wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''11 4 JULY'''== <!-- Angela Marsons -->|-{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Max Boucherat[[image:B07QPKB7N7.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07QPKB7N7/reftitle=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] There's a prologue and we know that we're dealing with someone who is very disturbed. The descriptions are horrifying, but worst of all is the coldness Last Life of the killer. [[Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons|Full Review]] <!-- Gregory -->Lori Mills|-| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:15266091694.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1526609169/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Confident Readers===[[I Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Gemma has just started her A levels at school. She's a keen student and We meet Lori on the first evening she has a good, close set of friends. Gemma loves country music and in her spare time she enjoys writing and singing country songs. She's pretty good at it too. Home life is busy - Gemma's brother Michael has a chance at a football career and the whole family, propelled by Gemma's rather over-invested dad, is supporting him with everything they've got. Gemma hasn't had a serious boyfriend yet, so when the handsome Aaron appears and an instant attraction fizzles between themhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, Gemma is keen to see where romance could lead... [[I Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory|Full Review]] <!-- Chiang -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1529014484.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529014484/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Exhalation by Ted Chiang]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]babysitter poorly, [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Over the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories. These magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of the mother at work by Ted Chiang. I cannot speak highly enough of this collection of short stories, they are so wide ranging in their themes and so beautifully written, Chiang has written just an absolute masterpiece of a collection. If you come across Chiang's work beforeavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, take this opportunity to do so nowon her lonesome. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[Exhalation by Ted Chiang|Full Review]] |}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"==''' 15 JULY'''== <!-- James -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1781128952.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781128952/ref=nosim What could possibly go wrong?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren James]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] This is Snuggled in a dyslexia-friendlyblanket fort, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugoshe has one main intention, an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved, and is only too ready log on to help. An exciting journey of discovery unfoldsVoxminer, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the planet never before known to exist. [[The Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren James|Full Review]] |}{|classworld-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''18 JULY'''== <!-- Evan Winter -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0356512940.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512940/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; textbuilding, critter-align: left;"|===[[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Every so often, as a reader, a book comes along collecting game that is utter and complete perfection. This book is one of those. Utter and complete perfection. Winter has created an absolute masterpiece of a novel, set hit in the fantasy land of Uhmlaba the reader is instantly thrown into war, a battle for survival for the Omehi people. Fleeing their homeland, they have to fight to remain on the only scrap of land they can reach. The culture of the Omehi people is rich and deep but not perfect, not sanctimonious. They have villains, they have faults, they are the invaders after all, but Winter creates a realistic and honest portrayal of a people desperate to survive, to save themselves and their culture for future generations. [[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter|Full Review]]|}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"==Lori'''1 AUGUST '''== <!-- Fegan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1925810097.jpg|link=http://wwws world.amazon.co.uk/dp/1925810097/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Don't Drink the Pink by B C R Fegan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeline is very fond of Grandfather Gilderberry. He's always busy in his workshop, creating crazy potions, and he always has a smile on his face. Madeline's dad thinks he's a bit bonkers and Madeline's mum thinks the same but gives him a pass because he's old. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry is just great. Particularly on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives with a selection of potions and allows her to choose one as a gift. And he always says the same thing... [[Don't Drink the Pink by B C R Fegan|Full Review]]|}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''8 AUGUST'''== <!-- Shackle -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473225213.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473225213/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Mike Shackle first Lori has written a really interesting and unusual story in ''We Are The Dead''; the tag line for the novel is 'No More Heroes' and tiny inkling that is what makes this story so different. There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part to survive, to fight back, and to stormy night doesn't find vengeance, in a world that has been utterly torn apart. The plot does not hang herself entirely on any one character, no one is important, anyone can die and many do, but, like ants working together, each small character achieves their her own part of a much larger plot that is rich and complex and keeps the reader glued to the story. [[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle|Full Review]] <!-- Coleman -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785032461.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785032461/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Trudy Heaton is going home, to a house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and to a mother then she hasn't spoken to for sixteen yearsfinds something even more spooky. Home, For the server she and her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself bestie and try to come nobody else should be able to terms with the traumatic loss enter shows signs of her husbandtampering. She needs to build bridges with When malevolent eyes spark up on her mother phone screen, and convince her grieving son that his father is dead. Where better than safe place in the house full of light and shadowgame has been doctored – well, that nurtured her throughout her childhoodwhere is a girl to turn? [[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman|Full Review]]isbn=0008666482|}}{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=author='''29 AUGUST'''== <!-- Whitlock -->|-Jenny Lecoat| styletitle=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|Beyond Summerland[[image:1782692177.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782692177/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|General Fiction===[[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''Illinois Territory, Collective Homesteads of America.'' It's certainly an unusual place. Some people live in sunken houses, buried into hillsides to disguise how large their property is at times of austerity, among other reasons. Others Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are called Foresters, for they live and work in trees – forever playing and resting in trees as children, but farming in amongst them and living between them too. These two sides hate each other – so perhaps this is less celebrating the end of an unusual place than at first sight. Our drama kicks off when the small area the Foresters live in is placed under compulsory purchase – the residents are given a pitiful amount to clear out, before they get manfully cleared outoccupation. It's probably During the Hills that are behind thiswar, whatJean's more. Our hero, Elwyn, has just left the trees father was arrested for the Hills, listening to live with an uncle a banned radio and learn their ways – he's just of age to decide things for himselfsoldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and he has decided to see how the other half lives. This has, her mother waiting for years for news of course, opened himself up to no end of prejudicial judgementhim. But what's this – as soon as he reaches As the British finally free the Hills he sees a third way of living, in a lovely colonial-style mansion, where everything sparkles and shines with crystalline light. What does it mean that he feels destiny-bound to this even posher, newer and more hopeful life? [[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock|Full Review]] |} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''1 SEPTEMBER'''== <!-- Ellory -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1542007232.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1542007232/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Berlin, 1989. Miriam is in Channel islands from the middle of a city freshly unitedNazis, with the Wall newly broken down and people able to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. She war is in the middle finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps But will the name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and she sees for the first time ever truth come as a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. One bombshell outside, then, and two inside. And inside her father, Henrykrelief, or will it raise further questions around what is going on, as he has a first person narrative alternating with her story? What will we find else happened, as he remembers back to during the real Frieda, a young woman that shook him to the core when he was her literature professorwar? That's right, more bombshells… [[The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory|Full Review]] |} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''5 SEPTEMBER'''== <!-- McGee -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0241365953.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0241365953/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[American Royals by Katharine McGee]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Two and a half centuries ago, America won the Revolutionary War and General George Washington Who was offered the crown. Today, informer who told the House of Washington still sit on Nazis about the thrown with Princess Beatrice next in line. Beatrice's whole life has been building up to her ruling the United States and the time for her reign is imminent. [[American Royals by Katharine McGee|Full Review]] <!-- Moyer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:178747920X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178747920X/ref=nosimradio?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, and retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite And what led him to abandon all that he had built. Marion's life since has other secrets have been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break the curse surrounding them and to save their lives. Setting off with a soldier, a Fey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in a maze of betrayals, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the throne…[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]] |} {|class-wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''3 OCTOBER'''== <!-- Moriarty -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1913101037.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1913101037/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Bronte doesn't miss her parents, and she's not particularly sad when she learns of their terrible fate at kept throughout the hands of pirates. And why should she beoccupation? After all, they just dumped her on Aunt Isabelle (without even asking if it would be a convenient arrangement for either party) when she was a baby. They swanned off to have adventures, and never once came back to check if their only child was healthy and happy. [[The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty|Full Review]]|} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''31 OCTOBER'''=isbn=1846976537<!-- Peter F Hamilton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1447281357.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1447281357/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction]] In the twenty-third century, humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about to change, forever. Feriton Kane's investigative team has discovered the worst threat ever to face mankind – and we've almost no time to fight back. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanity, in order to carry us to their god at the end of the universe. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earth, vast warships converge above to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity to flee, to live in hiding amongst the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out in time. But others refuse to break before the storm. As disaster looms, animosities must be set aside to focus on just one goal: wiping this enemy from the face of creation. Even if it means preparing for a future this generation will never see. [[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton|Full Review]] 

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