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|author=Summer Wood
|title=Wrecker
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I found the book title intriguing and wondered if I'd got caught up in some demolition yard story by mistake. Wood, at some stage in the book does give her readers the explanation. It's a boy's name apparently and the detailed explanation is rather charming - and apt. But it's also just a tad over-the-top (in terms of credibility I'm thinking) and by the time I'd finished the book I was heartily sick of this name which had short-term appeal for me. I was muttering to myself saying silly things like - why can't he be called Billy, for example. But I'm not writing the book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408809311</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Eli Pariser
|summary=Fortune teller Rose Lee lives on the edge of London society in 1860, making her living by entertaining (and sometimes deceiving) the rich by reading their palms. She fears the fate she has read for herself in her own palm which is perhaps what makes her cautious of delivering the whole truth to the ladies that employ her. On one particular night Rose is called to the house of Lady Quayle, a woman of high society, who delights in having her fortune read, taking everything Rose tells her as gospel. One of the guests present is Emily, a young girl and friend of Lady Quayle's daughter Tabitha.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>070118504X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julia Jones and Claudia Myatt
|title=Strong Winds Trilogy: The Salt-Stained Book
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Donny and his mother left their bungalow on the outskirts of Leeds and headed off to Suffolk to meet Donny's great aunt. It was never going to be easy as Skye, Donny's mother, was deaf and just about mute. She and Donny communicated by signing and usually they managed quite well, but when Skye had a breakdown in a car park in Colchester, their camper van was towed away and fourteen-year-old Donny was taken into care. He couldn't understand why none of the officials would believe him – in fact, were they all that they seemed? And why will no one let him see his mother?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262040</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Brooks
|title=Free Radicals
|rating=4.5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=We often have an image of scientists as quietly plodding away, with small breakthrough after small breakthrough. When the big breakthroughs come, they downplay things, and insist upon logical and level-headed caution. It's all very mild-mannered and polite. ...Or is it? The history of science is splattered with radicals, who'll do anything for success. There are those who mercilessly put down their rivals, those who use drugs to stimulate their breakthroughs, those who put themselves in harm's way in the pursuit of truth, and those who just plain go about things their own way, regardless of what anyone else says.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684056</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ross Raisin
|title=Waterline
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Raisin has an enviable portfolio for one so young, having been named ''Sunday Times Young Writer Of The Year 2009'' and his [[God's Own Country by Ross Raisin|previous novel]] receiving fulsome praise. No pressure then with this book. The story opens with all members of the Little family paying their respects to Cathy. Some have travelled further than others as they all squeeze into Mick's modest house, somewhere in Glasgow. A less-than-posh part. Mick is obviously numb with the shock of it all (even although his wife's death was not sudden - she had been ill for some time). It's clear that some of the family, distant members, feel uncomfortable and don't quite know how to act.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917354</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Fiona Roberton
|title=Wanted: The Perfect Pet
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=What Henry wants most in the world, more than chips, more than a trip to the moon, is a dog. He has 27 different sorts of frogs but they, he claims, are boring. What he really, really wants is a dog, and so he decides to advertise to try and find one.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444902628</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joss Stirling
|title=Stealing Phoenix
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Phoenix is a thief. She's a very good one, thanks to having some rather useful psychic abilities. Working for the cruel and dominating Seer, she's forced to follow his instructions to bring him whatever he wants – just as the rest of their community of savants are. Then she's told to get something from Yves Benedict, and for the first time in her life, fails to take what she wants. Yves has powers of his own… and he may be the one who's stolen her heart. Can Yves and his family rescue her from the Seer?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756583</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kes Gray and Mary McQuillan
|title=Get Well Friends
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Nurse Nibbles has a hospital full of patients - who can we see who is poorly? There's a hamster whose whiskers got caught up in his wheel, and a centipede who sprained 98 ankles playing hockey! Will Nurse Nibbles be able to make them feel better?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444903810</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Scott Murray and Simon Farnaby
|title=The Phantom of The Open: Maurice Flitcroft, the World's Worst Golfer
|rating=4
|genre=Sport
|summary=Maurice Flitcroft was forty six when he played his first round of golf. Most golfers start on the local course and hack around until they develop some skill. Not Maurice. That wasn't his way. He borrowed some books on golf from the library and decided that he was going to enter the Open. Yes – the Open. No starting at the bottom and working his way up – Maurice went straight for the big one. He ran up a score of 121 and the R&A (that's Royal and Ancient if you're not a golf fan) went ballistic. It might be said that they lacked a sense of humour but golf at this level is a serious game and Maurice was banned for life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224083171</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mark Birchall
|title=Copy Cat
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=''Copy Cat'' begins with the reader being told that:
''Cat was small and Dog was big;''<br>
''and whatever Dog did, Cat did too''.'
We soon learn that this involves very exciting activities such as dinosaur hunting, balancing on a high wire, digging for pirate treasure and deep sea diving. Although it is perfectly understandable that Cat should want to join in all the fun, Dog does start to get fed up with him always tagging along. That is why, when she decides to explore Space, she makes sure that there is only room for one on her spaceship. You can imagine her annoyance though when Cat shows up in his own spaceship and this leads to her telling him off for being such a copycat.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846433673</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jill Newton
|title=Don't Wake Mr Bear!
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Dormouse is the leader of the woodland orchestra, and it is time for the lullaby of the forest to begin. Softly, gently the animals play and off goes Dormouse to hibernate for the winter, departing with the strict instruction ''remember, WHATEVER you do, don't wake Mr Bear!'' It's not hard to guess what happens next, is it?!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405249668</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Susan Casey
|title=The Wave: In Pursuit of the Oceans' Greatest Furies
|rating=4
|genre=Sport
|summary=They're powerful enough to capsize unsinkable ships, wrench oil rigs from their moorings and can destroy vast swathes of coastal regions, flattening everything in their path and killing thousands of people in the process. So what is it that makes some men, and it is mostly men, go in search of these oceanic monsters? That is what Susan Casey tries to find out in this engaging, often awe inspiring and sometimes terrifying look at the world of big wave surfing.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531763</amazonuk>
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