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|summary= What would life be like if you just packed up your things and left? This is a thought that the main protagonist Caitlyn has been mulling over for a while now but has never had the guts to do, until she reaches the final straw when her father fails at sobriety once again. After throwing her phone in a river, Caitlyn takes herself to the airport where she ends up getting a plane to New York. From there her life completely changes as she meets Jake who seems to be just what she needs. As they grow closer she is invited to meet his family, but, in a house surrounded by forest that is miles away from civilisation, family takes on a whole new meaning. There you live by the motto ''we are here for each other, and we are nothing without each other''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694026</amazonuk>
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|author= Cas Lester
|title= Do You Speak Chocolate?
|rating= 4
|genre= Confident Readers
|summary= When a new girl arrives at Jaz's school she is delighted and warms to her immediately. The only problem is that Nadima does not speak any English at all. However Jaz is the type of girl who is not going to let this get in her way and in her typical straightforward manner determines to make sure that this friendship blossoms. Initially this appears to have worked and the girls bond through a shared love of music, movies and food, especially chocolate! But then difficulties, misunderstandings and past traumas get in the way and Jaz struggles to cope with the consequences.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405036</amazonuk>
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|author= Henrietta Rose-Innes
|title= Green Lion
|rating= 4
|genre= General Fiction
|summary= The opening of ''Green Lion'' is an apparently simple premise; a young South African man, Con, is tasked with picking up the belongings of an old friend, Mark, who is lying in a coma in hospital. Mark worked at a small zoo with a rare black-maned lioness, who mauled him and caused the coma. However, as the story unfolds, Rose-Innes reveals an unflinching embrace of the messiness of human and animal life, and their troubled interactions.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709255</amazonuk>
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|author= Tim Akers
|title= The Iron Hound
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Fantasy
|summary=Ruling with an iron hand, the Church has eliminated the ancient pagan ways. Yet demonic gheists terrorise the land, hunted by the Inquisition, while age-old hatreds rage between the north and the south. Three heroes Malcolm and Ian Blakeley and Gwendolyn Adair must end the bloodshed before chaos is unleashed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299509</amazonuk>
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|author= Gerard Cheshire
|title= A History of Victorian Postage
|rating= 4.5
|genre= History
|summary=Although we think of postage and the sending of letters as a specifically Victorian innovation, its roots go far deeper than that. This book, which surveys a much broader time frame than the title might suggest, presents us with an admirably concise picture of its development up to its full fruition in the mid-nineteenth century.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664372</amazonuk>
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|author= Georgiana Deutsch and Ekaterina Trukhan
|title= 10, 9, 8... Owls Up Late!
|rating= 4.5
|genre= For Sharing
|summary= It's tough being a mother owl. Rather than just one or two rambunctious little ones to calm down ready for bed, she has ten of them! And there's so much going on in her tree that she must sometimes despair of ever getting them to sleep. But gradually, one by one, the owlets' eyes begin to droop and they make their way to their comfy little nest until at last . . . zzzzzz!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869704X</amazonuk>
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|author=Isabel Otter and Maxime Lebrun
|title=My First Wild Activity Book
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=You sit down together as a family and ask your child what they would like to read from your bulging bookcase. Will they choose the timeless classic that you yourself read as a child? Perhaps they will pluck for a modern tale with its dayglo colouring and storyline based around pants? Nope. Neither of these. All you will hear is ''Stickers!'' Your child would rather play with a sticker activity book than read with you, so best make it a worthwhile sticker activity book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575726</amazonuk>
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|author=Jenny Oldfield
|title=Storm Cloud
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Kami Miller was invited to stay at Wolf Ridge Farm, the home of her best friend Macy Lucas, for the summer. They were both going to be working as real cowgirls and there was a herd of 300 cows to be brought back from the mountains to the ranch. It wasn't going to be easy work, particularly as Macy's father was recovering from an accident and couldn't ride. All the pressure of running the ranch has fallen on Macy's brother, Wes - and he's not coping well. Kami's upset that he's taking it out on one of the young colts, Storm Cloud, but what can she do about it?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126895</amazonuk>
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