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|isbnauthor=0241446732Sylvie Cathrall|title=Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante ThunbergA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on most of the parenting of their two daughters. Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, Beata, then nine years old, struggled with what was happening. In such circumstances, it's natural to seek There are few greater joys than a solution close to home, but eventually, it became clear book which lives up to the family that they were ''burned-out people on a burned-out planet''compelling premise. If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radicalAnd this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=178730101X0008517061|title=Keep Him CloseDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Emily KochStig Abell|rating=34|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) and Louis. LouBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's seventeen and heluxury's just got his A level results and he and his brother are going out to celebrateapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. Someone has to find something to celebrate in the letters, D, D and EThere was no skull. Alice has always had Was this a good relationship ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with nineteen-year-old Benny DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but itNelson doesn's t, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. touch problematic with Lou and being honestHer condition will be obvious before long, he's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming least because Ruth is prone to my mind were ADHDsudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=02413968400008551324|title=KeeperThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jessica MoorNeil Lancaster

|summary=Katie Straw worked It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in the womenprison and he's refuge prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and the women who lived there liked and respected was responsible for herdeath. She treated them well This person, he promises, is someone big and seemed it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to have an understanding open prison to serve the remainder of what they were going throughhis sentence and to get an early parole date. Why then did she jump from the local suicide spot into the river belowNot much to ask, is it? There had been no signs that she was unhappy The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she and her boyfriend seemed 's even prepared to have been content together do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and Noah has a decent alibi for the time when she died, but anyone who works with him is kept well away from what other explanation could there be for her death? The police are convinced that it's suicide, but the women who knew her believed otherwisehappening.

|isbn=18388806580008405026|title=Murder at Enderley Hall A Stranger in the Family (Miss UnderhayMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena Dixon, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=ItEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's the summer of 1933 and Kitty Underhay is on her way to visit the family which she never knew she had, at Enderley Halla theatre director. Her grandmother He's also self-obsessed, Mrs Treadwelldemanding, handsome and entitled and Great Aunt Livvy are back at the Dolphin Hotel uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in Dartmouthlove with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Kitty gets easily bored working at the Dolphin - every day Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is much left to stumble upon the same - but her real reason for going away is that she needs two of them kissing in a break after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack and an attempt on her lifedark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1788638026Jo Callaghan|title=Where the Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)|author=M J LeeLeave No Trace

|summary=It was easy to assume that When a man is found crucified on the death top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the young Chinese girl at case alongside her sidekick, the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicideAI detective Lock. Her throat was cutIt's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there was is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of blood unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and the knife was Anjali met on the floor at the side first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of the beda century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, She was due which is a bonus when you aim to be deported that daya cardiothoracic surgeon. ButLaura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor... how did Anjali is the knife get into free spirit of the secure centre group and why was the girl's room the only one which was unlocked? she becomes a GP. DI Thomas Ridpath, the coronerWhen we first meet them they's officer, is sent to investigate re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and he quickly becomes suspicious, Thereit's a snag though: the inquest is due going to open end in a couple of daystragedy. We don' time, t know who suffered the tragedy or the girl's parents are coming over from China and they want to take their daughter's body home with themconsequences. Ridpath has just Twenty-five days to solve years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the casethree friends. The coroner is disinclined to delay the inquest: for herThis time, it's about giving closure to the parentstheir teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=14711660230241636604|title=Burnt Island (Ben Kitto)The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Kate RhodesGary Stevenson

|summary=The 5th It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of November was D I Ben Kittoa request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's thirty-fifth birthday close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the occasion for circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the usual bonfire celebrationsvillage: Arthur, she feels, but it would let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be marred this year by near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the discovery love of Professor Alex Roganher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's body on Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a bonfirefew decades of technology in my lifetime. HeI've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'd obviously been alive when he was put on m left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the fire latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and can only have died who could deliver information in a terrible deathway I could understand. }}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The body was first discovered Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by Jimmy Curwena terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, better known killing everyone on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he speaks little or nothing site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and his only concern is the welfare of Abhi, the birds he looks afterhotel manager. His instinct is As Abhi continues to try to cover Rogan's body and care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he uses his sheepskin coat forms a bond with Sam who refuses to do thisbe cowed by events, with the result that heand keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the prime suspectterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Elliot Reed1529153298|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=This It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is the story of a young boyPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, William Tyce, who is being raised by his uncle after the death of his mother and his fatherhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's abandonmentfamily, though. HoweverWomen have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, it isnbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't told in sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the usual narrative wayfamily 'Down South'. InsteadWhen you're from Yorkshire, the book Down South is made up of glossary entries, written by Williama frightening, as a way of describing certain eventsforeign place, situations and emotionsbest avoided. It runs alphabeticallyFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, starting with ABSENCESharon, then moving and she'll do anything to ALPHABETICAL ORDERprevent that. As I began to read I did find myself thinking She'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used to s not worried about the style, and was instead caught up in Williamdangers or that her Mum's storystopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1911545418

|authorisbn=Will Dean 1398524085|title=Black River Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns - Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and this third book in the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal lifedaughter, returning Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her to husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the isolated town body of Gavrik and into a desperate search Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for her missing best friend. With the Midsommar sun blocked out by police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the dark pines of the forest, Tuva fights to save her friendguilt. But who’ll be The Salter children are not convinced but there to save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=17824074801035906708|title=Bird Love: The Family Life of BirdsDiva|author=Wenfei Tong and Mike WebsterDaisy Goodwin

|genre=Animals and WildlifeGeneral Fiction|summary=I was a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''Bird Love'' on a couple We tend to think of on-line booksellers: ''exploring the sex life of birds'' it said. I very nearly passed over the bookMaria Callas as Greek, but a closer examination suggested that the book is about the ''family life'' of birdsshe was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, which is rather differentin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. If the book Her original surname was confined Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to the sex life of birds, you would be missing an opportunity 'Callas' to understand how birds live day-to-day, bring up their families and cope make it more manageable in the wildStates. Not only When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that, you have missed she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the treat of so many beautiful illustrations about Nazi occupation by a wide variety mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of birds which run through this book from the first page to the lasther preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Camilla BruceChristopher Edge|title=You Let Me InBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= EccentricLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp a place that has been missing for the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a year remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and has been pronounced legally dead by plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her lawyers, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Her will instructs her niece But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and nephew Mira's father. Desperate to enter her home save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and find the key with only coordinates to their inheritance guide her, she sets off in an old manuscript left search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her office: home and the last story ones she'll ever tellholds most dear.|isbn=17876331790008664730

|author=Judith EagleJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Pear AffairPlanet Storyland

|summary=Set in Things have been a bit sticky for the 1960Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's, this is a mystery adventure story, all about a little girl called Nell re paid to do and her quest other tasks that took time to find her nanny, Perrine (Pear) who left her very suddenly and then, after keeping in touch regularly by post, disappeared completely from her life, leaving Nell bereftaccomplish. There's everything in Just as they were beginning to get used to all this story, with underground tunnels as the playground technological change and starting to think of gangs of childrenother, new ways to travel spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and detective work, a mystery mould infecting Parisian bakeriesalong with it, mysterious figures following Nell around, and a set of truly dreadful parents!all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=05713468551736128426

|isbnauthor=B083NMCSZXMatthew Tree|title=Little Doubt (D I Kelly Porter)|author=Rachel LynchWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Ella Watson was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was out running in the park when she was randomly attacked and stabbed Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to death. Her husbandbe different from his father, Thomas, and children, Jordan and Millie were devastated a drunk and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged that a decent, middle-class woman should be the victim chronic underachiever whose dreams of knife crime. Despite being a golfing partner exceptional at any of Thomas Jordan he declined to distance himself from the case his artistic passions all failed miserably and told DI Kelly Porter that he would be taking a great deal who had endless crises of interest in how the case was handledself confidence. He wasn't anywhere near as interested when a second woman was stabbed So Tim applied himself to death a few hours later. Keira Bradley lived on the Beacon estate his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and Ormond's view seemed to be that anyone living there should expect this sort of thing to happen. He could hardly bring set himself to mention Keira's namehigh but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=0571342353A G Slatter|title=Rules for Perfect Murders|author=Peter SwansonThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=Malcolm Kershaw was the co-owner and manager '' There's a part of the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in Bostonme that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. The store specialises in crime novelsThis secret magic of my own, all mine, but Mal has given up reading crimeat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. His life's been pretty chaotic ' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of late: Itthe Briar's five years since his wife, Claire Mallory, died a family of witches who protect the town and he's never really got over itthe wider world from the Darklands. She was driving whilst inebriatedThough she has always wished for magic, having just been Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to see the man with whom Kershaw suspected be born into her family for generations and as such since she was having an affairyoung, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. His interest in crime fiction comes back when heWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's approached by Special Agent Gwen Mulvey. Shecousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's interested in leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a blog post he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murders'maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches'legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=17868971481529900360|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever (Harry McCoy)The Ghost Orchid|author=Alan ParksJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on his way to London with fellow band members Tom, Scott, Barry and Jamiedifficult cases. HeHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'd had to get his father to sign t need the contract help of a psychologist only worked for The Beatkickers, as Bobby wasn't old enougha while. And his father had been reluctant - heFinally, it was Robin, Delaware'd have preferred Bobby to get an apprenticeships partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the regular moneyinvolvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. By July 1973 Bobby is back Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in GlasgowBel Air. The Beatkickers didn't survive He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and March she is on his own, but hardly thriving. Theremarried to an extremely rich man and it's an obvious drug habitnot the Italian. Meanwhile, the police are consumed by But which of them was the search for a missing girl, Alice Kelly.primary target?

|authorisbn=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)1529395224|title=CursedLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: An Anthology The Secret Life of Dark Fairy Talesa Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=CursesSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. They His father was a GP and Rowlands didn're there throughout tales of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed t want to do thisfollow in his footsteps, or not to be able to do particularly when he considered the strain that. Children can be cursed, as can princesses being on-call put on the verge of marrying, and older people too. It seems in a way therehis father's no escaping itlife. Which is why When he was seventeen he took the theme opportunity of this book of short stories is such doing work experience with a family friend who was a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about vet and was convinced this accursed characterwas the job for him. Before long, that demonised placehe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, and that other bewitched person. Wehe'd wanted to be very wronga professional footballer.|isbn=1789091500

|authorisbn=Sara Holland0861541774|title=HavenfallA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Maddie Morrow is supposed DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to spending the summer meet up with her Grandma Ellenan old ally, Guy Trueman. But after Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a visit to her mother in prisonman armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, Maddie wants nothing more than he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to go light that suggested that he might have planned to Havenfall to see her uncle, Marcus. It's murder the only place she feels truly at homeman. Maddie's father, understandably, is not keen on Maddie spending time with her mother's family - because Now he could be facing the crime Maddie's mum is languishing on death row for committing is the murder of Maddiepenalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's brother..t help Danny at all.|isbn=1547603798

|author=Baye HartshorneAlexander McCall Smith|title=Ghosted: The Treason House TrilogyPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary='Julia Crawley The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has lost asked her job on ''Celebrity'' magazine younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so she decides jumps at the chance to cut her losses and return come home to the village of Monmouth Cove on the Jersey ShoreEdinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, hoping bringing us to return an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to her harder hitting journalistic roots via local news. She'll be staying 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with her grandmother - a woman always ready some new characters who quickly begin to help younger relatives charm. Katie has no experience in need of running a hand. Therebusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's only one problem with that: creepy Uncle Dexalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, who doesn't always keep his hands to himself.lend a hand…|isbn= B0829CP5BM1846976596}}

|isbn=06486848060811771741|title=Clara Colby: The International SuffragistInstaKnits for Baby|author=John HollidayMelissa Leapman

|genre=BiographyCrafts|summary=The path of Clara Dorothy BewickMelissa Leapman's life was probably determined when her family emigrated ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to the USAblankets. At the time she was just threeSome will be quick knits -years-old but because others are of some childhood ailment, she wasnthe 't allowed to sail with her parents and three brothers. Insteadlong, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received a good education, both cosy afternoons in and out front of school. She was the only child in the household and her childhood was gloriousfire' variety. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in The projects are divided by the midtime they'll take to complete -west of the United States and life was hardless than five hours, as Clara was five to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the family. Clara would only know her mother for a few months: she was married for fifteen yearsten hours, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children to twenty hours and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrivedmore than twenty hours. As All the eldest girlprojects are attractive, a heavy burden would fall on Clara modern and Wisconsin was a rude awakeninguseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|author=Kathleen Boucher and Sara ChadwickDean Koontz|title=Nine Ways to Empower TweensThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it''9 Ways s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to Empower Tweens'' deserve all this bad luck. He is a self-help book nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for tweens, setting Benny it turns out that the delivery to show them vital #lifeskills. Don't groan! I know there his house is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups and for young adults toonew friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, but there who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a needful space in an increasingly technological world accessible good person. Spike is going to younger take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and younger children for material for tweens tooHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |isbn= 02288188261662500491

|author= Katie FfordeAdam Stower|title= A Springtime AffairMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's FictionConfident Readers |summary= I've wanted Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to read author Katie Fforde for ages sleep and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a warmhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, cosy read focused on romancenot into the regular back garden, family but into a world of frightening adventure and friendshipswhiffs. This provided two romances for the price of time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, onemuch bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but it was actually the family element as opposed he's turned up and he'll have to the romance that I really enjoyed. do…|isbn=17808975610008561249

|isbn=1838593187B0C47LV1PC|title=Guess What I Found in the Playground!Fragility|author=Victoria ThompsonMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and Can you make a big grin on her face. Dad's come to collect her and her brother and he 'Yo birthing person'has'' to try to guess what she found in joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the playground todayquestion if you did, although she concedes would it land? The catch is that he will never guessthe answer for both could well be. Dad wants to know how school was, but ''obviously'' that's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn.. no. 't that so much more sensible than a scrap 'Fragility'book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequinsis set as the city of Portland, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocketOregon, but that's not what she wants Dad cautiously begins to guess.emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn= Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed1529431735|title= Yes No Maybe So The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4|genre= TeensCrime|summary= It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'We might give it our return all and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change thingsthe more surprising. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, don He't you think?''Jaime has d been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a special electiondecade. When The return has come about because he's had a letter from his mother encourages him to go canvassingex-wife, he cansaying that she's ill and hasn't think of anything worselong to live. However, Jaime has always wanted It's hard to be a politician and decides there feel any sympathy when Hopkins is no time like the present abducted, stripped to conquer his fear of speaking underwear and sent to the public. Maya is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having watery grave in the worst summer boot of her lifea stolen Ford Sierra. Her parents are going through Is it a warning from a separation, she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things and her only close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer to buy her Spanish gang or a car if she agrees to go canvassing. The pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo in history, as neither of them really want problem closer to be there, but as the campaign goes on they discover that they care, a lot, about the election - and maybe even about each otherhome?|isbn=1471184668

|author=Gregg HurwitzAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Into The FireGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Grant Merriweather Eli is a forensic accountantbusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Or ratherEli lives with his lovely gran, wastoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crashA few short years ago, his friend pleading with Eli's parents were both lost to the medics titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to keep him alivenavigate the world in the company of a magical beast. He was needed alive just long enough This has made the race anathema to give up the pair – but when a name. His cousinbad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, Maxwith the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=07181855010571382231