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I really enjoyed ''Shine''. It's a debut novel for Maryon, and it fits perfecty perfectly in the accessible, issue-based kitchen drama area so nicely inhabited by people like [[:Category:Jacqueline Wilson|Jacqueline Wilson]], [[:Category:Cathy Cassidy|Cathy Cassidy]] and [[:Category:Jean Ure|Jean Ure]]. She has a background in counselling, and the wisdom gained in that experience shines through - if you'll pardon the pun - in her writing. She understands a child's deepest feelings, including the negative ones, and she allows Tiff to run through the gamut of them as she slowly works her way through feelings of abandonment, loneliness, fear and anger, until eventually happiness and love can resurface. Readers will recognise all her thoughts.

It's an uplifting story which begins with a huge disaster and ends with a new start for everyone. It will reassure and comfort its readers and it exactly inhabits their emotional landscape. The end is perhaps a little bit ''too'' perfect. I'd have liked to see a loose end or two, if only to illustrate life as a perennially untidy thing and perhaps none the worse for it. Otherwise, I think tween girls are going to love it.

I think they would also like [[The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson]], which features a girl whose mother also likes shiny things and sometimes makes a big mess of things. [[Gone Missing by Jean Ure]] is another light but touching issue-based drama. [[Angel Cake by Cathy Cassidy]] also features a girl far from home - this time a Polish girl uprooted to Liverpool. They also shouldn't miss the wonderful [[The Ant Colony by Jenny Valentine]]. We also enjoyed [[A Sea of Stars by Kate Maryon]].

|comment= I loved Shine first thing it was sad then it got happier when it got nearer towards the end. I can’t believe that Tiffany made friends with Holly and she is staying on Sark with her mum and Auntie and Uncle and cousing cousin Indigo.