en-US Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:07:53 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 1099100 32 Judith Kerr 0007214138 Miguel 5 joseph-s-books 4.17 1968
author: Judith Kerr
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1968
rating: 5
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]]> 682504 248 Patrick O'Brian 0006476511 Miguel 0 3.72 1994
author: Patrick O'Brian
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1994
rating: 0
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]]> 1100811 24 0721416926 Miguel 5 lucy-s-books 3.55 1812
author: Charles Perrault Nicola Baxter
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.55
book published: 1812
rating: 5
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]]> 21023586 24 Tony Garth 1900207877 Miguel 4 lucy-s-books 3.50 1998
author: Tony Garth
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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date added: 2014/03/23
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]]> 750519 32 Julia Donaldson 1405054255 Miguel 5 lucy-s-books, joseph-s-books 4.55 2003
author: Julia Donaldson
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.55
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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date added: 2014/03/05
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]]> 945001 32 Barbara Cooney 074451472X Miguel 3 3.00 1982
author: Barbara Cooney
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1982
rating: 3
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]]> 12513139 10 Pocket Money Press 1846668557 Miguel 2 joseph-s-books 2.90 2009
author: Pocket Money Press
name: Miguel
average rating: 2.90
book published: 2009
rating: 2
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]]> 2766497 24 StellaBlackstone 1905236387 Miguel 3 lucy-s-books
Lucy age 5 and a half]]> 4.00 1995
author: StellaBlackstone
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1995
rating: 3
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It was so interesting because there were different kinds of shapes that I've never seen before.

Lucy age 5 and a half
]]> 1979431 40 Petr Horáček 1406304581 Miguel 2 joseph-s-books, lucy-s-books 3.60 2006
author: Petr Horáček
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2006
rating: 2
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]]> 1345376
Then on day, he gets lost and ends up in a strange place called Sensibleland ...]]> 32 Roger Hargreaves 0749833122 Miguel 5 lucy-s-books 3.84 1998
author: Roger Hargreaves
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1998
rating: 5
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]]> 6720072 Mr & Miss Book Series 34 Roger Hargreaves 0749836296 Miguel 5 lucy-s-books 4.05 1998
author: Roger Hargreaves
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1998
rating: 5
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]]> 8120075 1 Giles Andreae 1408309424 Miguel 1 lucy-s-books 4.10 2012
author: Giles Andreae
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2012
rating: 1
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]]> 2426603 64 Klaus Baumgart 1845060415 Miguel 5 lucy-s-books 4.00 2004
author: Klaus Baumgart
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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]]> 1420148 READ BY PAUL MCGANN.
There once was a boy� and one day a penguin arrives on his doorstep. The boy decides the penguin must be lost and tries to return him. But no one seems to be missing a penguin. So the boy decides to take the penguin home himself, and they set out in his row boat on a journey to the South Pole.
But when they get there, the boy discovers that maybe home wasn’t what the penguin was looking for after all…]]> 32 Oliver Jeffers 0007240376 Miguel 0 4.20
author: Oliver Jeffers
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.20
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]]> 1029426
"Readers will be entertained and provoked by Mithen's insightful synthesis of so many aspects of our evolution. It is a wonderful start to a new and productive way of thinking" - Roger Lewin, New Scientist

"A truly pioneering work" - Colin Renfrew

"The Prehistory of the Mind is set to join the canon of essential texts and is also an excellent read" - Colin Tudge, Independent

"Daring and original... it's a fine idea and a fine book" - Jerry Fodor, London Review of Books]]> 357 Steven Mithen 075380204X Miguel 0 4.05 1996
author: Steven Mithen
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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]]> 15719754 The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible;and fascinating to everyone.

The subatomic realm has a reputation for weirdness, spawning any number of profound misunderstandings, journeys into Eastern mysticism, and woolly pronouncements on the interconnectedness of all things. Cox and Forshaw's contention? There is no need for quantum mechanics to be viewed this way. There is a lot of mileage in the 'weirdness' of the quantum world, and it often leads to confusion and, frankly, bad science. The Quantum Universe cuts through the Wu Li and asks what observations of the natural world made it necessary, how it was constructed, and why we are confident that, for all its apparent strangeness, it is a good theory.

The quantum mechanics of The Quantum Universe provide a concrete model of nature that is comparable in its essence to Newton’s laws of motion, Maxwell’s theory of electricity and magnetism, and Einstein’s theory of relativity.]]> 242 Brian Cox 0241952700 Miguel 0 3.64 2011
author: Brian Cox
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> 935364
It bounds along, wonderfully enlivened by Pryor's earthy enthusiasm. If you want to be introduced painlessly to the fascinating debates surrounding our British past, then Britain BC is the book for you - Barry Cunliffe, New Scientist

Francis Pryor is a modern field archaeologist with a reputation second to none. He has written a book as successful and exciting as its ambition is huge...lucid and engaging - Alan Garner, The Times

Splendid...a remarkable, imaginative and persuasive account of those other Britons before that [Roman] enslavement: its enthusiastic and confident approach deserves to be very influential - Christopher Chippendale, Times Literary Supplement]]> 544 Francis Pryor 000712693X Miguel 5 4.07 2003
author: Francis Pryor
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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]]> 9521595 16 Ladybird Books 1409304876 Miguel 4 lucy-s-books, joseph-s-books
Joseph aged nearly 4

I liked it because it was so funny when the rabbit person put the fire out.

Lucy aged 5 and a half]]> 3.70 2009
author: Ladybird Books
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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I like this book because when i grow up I'm going to be a fireman and I want to squirt the fire out like mummy pig.

Joseph aged nearly 4

I liked it because it was so funny when the rabbit person put the fire out.

Lucy aged 5 and a half
]]> 6571312 Book by Hargreaves, Roger 32 Roger Hargreaves 1405235241 Miguel 5 lucy-s-books
It was also funny that she was actually giggling.

Lucy age 4 and a half]]> 4.00 1984
author: Roger Hargreaves
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1984
rating: 5
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It was funny when he bought a box of giggles! I liked it because you couldn't see it and when they were talking she just came out with giggles!

It was also funny that she was actually giggling.

Lucy age 4 and a half
]]> 7875835 32 Mick Inkpen 0340610565 Miguel 1 joseph-s-books 3.50 1993
author: Mick Inkpen
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1993
rating: 1
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]]> 12448564 0 Board Book 1846668530 Miguel 5 joseph-s-books, lucy-s-books 3.29 2009
author: Board Book
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.29
book published: 2009
rating: 5
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]]> 294744 8 Maggie Bateson 1405020768 Miguel 5 lucy-s-books 4.25 2004
author: Maggie Bateson
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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date added: 2014/02/10
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]]> 3219726
When Paddington Bear goes to the beach, nothing goes quite according to plan � especially when, one by one, he is joined by ten hungry seagulls. Will Paddington’s lunchtime snack be safe?

Paddington rules the waves in this funny counting book!]]> 0 Michael Bond 0007267657 Miguel 1 lucy-s-books 3.81 2009
author: Michael Bond
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2009
rating: 1
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]]> 1059041
"a bit of a classic ... A goat on the bed and a cow on the table tapping out a jig? My readers collapsed in heaps, and then had to have it read again. And again."
- Vivian French in The Guardian]]> 32 Julia Donaldson 1405004770 Miguel 5 joseph-s-books 4.19 1993
author: Julia Donaldson
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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date added: 2014/02/09
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]]> 15185599 Book by Roddie, Shen 32 Shen Roddie 0711215324 Miguel 5 lucy-s-books 4.25 2000
author: Shen Roddie
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> 910552 32 Margaret Wise Brown 0066238412 Miguel 5 lucy-s-books, joseph-s-books 4.29 1949
author: Margaret Wise Brown
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1949
rating: 5
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]]> 343112 24 Luz Orihuela 0439773768 Miguel 3 3.88 2004
author: Luz Orihuela
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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]]> 2046092
Lola has a cold and Charlie is trying to cheer her up.

Charlie says, "How are you feeling, Lola?"

Lola says, "I'm really, really ever so NOT well, Charlie."]]> 32 Lauren Child 0141382503 Miguel 4 lucy-s-books 4.25 2007
author: Lauren Child
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> 12448541 10 Pocket Money Press 1846668565 Miguel 5 joseph-s-books 3.25
author: Pocket Money Press
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.25
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rating: 5
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]]> 1421919 32 Lauren Child 0141382511 Miguel 1 lucy-s-books 3.95 2007
author: Lauren Child
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2007
rating: 1
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]]> 7830909 32 David Melling 0340950633 Miguel 5 joseph-s-books 4.28 2010
author: David Melling
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2010
rating: 5
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]]> 12269851 32 Sarah KilBride 0857072242 Miguel 5 lucy-s-books 3.73 2012
author: Sarah KilBride
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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date added: 2014/02/01
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]]> 1359314 32 Julia Donaldson 0333947827 Miguel 4 joseph-s-books 3.90 2004
author: Julia Donaldson
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2004
rating: 4
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date added: 2014/01/23
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]]> 108994 128 Quentin Blake 1845076877 Miguel 5 lucy-s-books 3.77 2001
author: Quentin Blake
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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]]> 11509070 Topsy and Tim: Go Camping, the twins make new friends, follow a nature trail and even get to stay in their own tent.

A trusted and well-loved pair, Topsy and Tim books have been beautifully updated with contemporary artwork. Topsy & Tim remain instantly recognisable to parents while in a fresh style that will appeal to a new generation of fans. These wonderful books deserve a place on every child's bookshelves.]]> 32 Jean Adamson 1409303330 Miguel 5 lucy-s-books 4.45 1993
author: Jean Adamson
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.45
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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]]> 997702
They are retrieved by a dog, a bird and a frog, but each animal asks for a ride.

Is there room on the broom?...]]> 32 Julia Donaldson 0333903382 Miguel 5 lucy-s-books, joseph-s-books 4.65 2001
author: Julia Donaldson
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.65
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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]]> 13607489 24 Roderick Hunt 0199164363 Miguel 4 lucy-s-books Lucy age 5]]> 3.40 1992
author: Roderick Hunt
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.40
book published: 1992
rating: 4
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date added: 2014/01/17
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I like this book because I like the white rosy dress and it was funny because Wilf didn't want to be a page boy and I like the cake.
Lucy age 5
]]> 13198042 24 Rebecca Hunter 0237538547 Miguel 4 lucy-s-books 4.00 2010
author: Rebecca Hunter
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2010
rating: 4
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date added: 2014/01/16
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]]> 832751 24 Luz Orihuela 0439773822 Miguel 3 lucy-s-books 3.75 2004
author: Luz Orihuela
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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date added: 2014/01/15
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]]> 4915261 676 Enid Blyton 140524092X Miguel 5 children-s, lucy-s-books 4.45 1991
author: Enid Blyton
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.45
book published: 1991
rating: 5
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date added: 2014/01/14
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]]> 1876784
George's grandmother has the nastiest eating habits in the world. She's as frightening as a witch and as grumpy as a camel without a hump. When he can't stand this cantankerous old woman any longer, George decides to cure her nastiness once and for all. He concocts a very special medicine which is as nasty as she is, and then waits for the results!]]> 112 Roald Dahl 014031492X Miguel 5 lucy-s-books 4.05 1981
author: Roald Dahl
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1981
rating: 5
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date added: 2014/01/05
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]]> 17992719 Alternate cover edition can be found here

An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives - all over the course of one meal.

It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse - the banality of work, the triviality of the holidays. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened.

Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act; an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple show just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love.

Tautly written, incredibly gripping, and told by an unforgettable narrator, The Dinner promises to be the topic of countless dinner party debates. Skewering everything from parenting values to pretentious menus to political convictions, this novel reveals the dark side of genteel society and asks what each of us would do in the face of unimaginable tragedy.]]> 309 Herman Koch 1848873832 Miguel 1 3.11 2009
author: Herman Koch
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.11
book published: 2009
rating: 1
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]]> 18393782
Step into the magical, fantasy world of Narnia, land of fauns, centaurs, nymphs and talking animals, and journey to the depths of the earth and to the end of the world, escape across deserts and battles with cruel nations, usurping uncles and evil enchantresses.

The seven Chronicles of Narnia continue to captivate readers of all ages, and all seven paperback books are gathered together in a beautiful box set. They follow Lewis's recommended order of reading, and each chapter is introduced with a classic illustration by the original artist, Pauline Baynes.]]> 1260 C.S. Lewis Miguel 0 children-s 4.33 1956
author: C.S. Lewis
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1956
rating: 0
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]]> 516298 36 Roger Hargreaves 0749800275 Miguel 0 children-s 3.97 1976
author: Roger Hargreaves
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1976
rating: 0
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]]> 17873066 128 Ivor Powell 3791348604 Miguel 5 4.38 2013
author: Ivor Powell
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2013
rating: 5
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]]> 7368827 189 Anne Bouin 970221632X Miguel 0 children-s 0.0 2008
author: Anne Bouin
name: Miguel
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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]]> 883209 Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O'Brian's now famous Aubrey/Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. It establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship's surgeon and an intelligence agent. It contains all the action and excitement which could possibly be hoped for in a historical novel, but it also displays the qualities which have put O'Brian far ahead of any of his competitors: his depiction of the detail of life aboard a Nelsonic man-of-war, of weapons, food, conversation, ambience, of the landscape and of the sea. O'Brian's portrayal of each of these is faultless and the sense of period throughout is acute. His power of characterisation above all is masterly.

This brilliant historical novel marked the debut of a writer who has grown into one of the most remarkable literary novelists now writing, the author of what Alan Judd, writing in the Sunday Times, has described as 'the most significant extended story since Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time'.]]> 416 Patrick O'Brian Miguel 0 3.96 1969
author: Patrick O'Brian
name: Miguel
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1969
rating: 0
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]]> 556078
A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek islands. All his old skills of seamanship, and his proverbial luck when fighting against odds, come triumphantly into their own. The book ends with as fierce and thrilling an action as any in this magnificent series of novels.]]> 355 Patrick O'Brian Miguel 0 4.20 1981
author: Patrick O'Brian
name: Miguel
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1981
rating: 0
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