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Ali is Currently Reading

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Project Hanuman

by Stewart Hotston (Goodreads Author)

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Dracula & Daughters

by Emma Carroll (Goodreads Author)

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Mairelon the Magician (Mairelon, #1)

by Patricia C. Wrede (Goodreads Author)

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Ali’s Quotes

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: books, inspirational, library

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

tags: cruelty, evil, humanity, kindness

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“When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.”
― Rita Mae Brown

tags: libraries, reading

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“She'd read once that if you ran into a bear in the woods you should avoid eye contact and you shouldn't run away, but all she knew about wolves is that you should never tell them how to find your grandmother's house.”
― Anne Ursu, Breadcrumbs

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Ali’s Groups

UEL PGCE group 2011-2012 — 291 members — last activity Dec 04, 2012 03:35AM
A group to share reading of children/ young adult books.

UEL Primary PGCE 2012-13 — 330 members — last activity Sep 01, 2013 12:00PM
A group for UEL Primary PGCE students to share reviews of children's books. There is guidance for posting reviews on UEL Plus. ...more

UEL Primary PGCE 2013-14 — 367 members — last activity Nov 04, 2015 05:07AM
A group for UEL Primary PGCE students to share reviews of children's books. There is guidance for posting reviews on UEL Plus. ...more

York St John and UEL discussion group — 106 members — last activity May 31, 2013 08:58AM
A group for sharing reading of children's literature. ...more

UEL Primary PGCE 2014-2015 — 203 members — last activity Aug 29, 2015 06:22AM
Please post links to your reviews here. I'm on leave until mid-August, but will pop in to say hello every now and again ...more

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