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 {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''29 OCTOBER9 MAY'''=={{Frontpage<!-- Meg Cabot and Cara McGee -->|author=Tom Percival|-title=The Wrong Shoes| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"5|genre=Confident Readers[[image:1401286208.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident.amazon Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction.co And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.uk/dp/1401286208/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|1398527122}}===[[Black Canary: Ignite by Meg Cabot and Cara McGee]]='''23 MAY'''=={{Frontpage[[image:3.5star.jpg|linkauthor=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersOnyi Nwabineli|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Graphic Novelstitle=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|Graphic Novels]]rating=4.5|genre=General FictionMeet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that |summary=Anuri spent her policeman father will not allow childhood on display to the world, thanks to her to try step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and follow , basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in his footsteps, her twenties and seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, she is desperate slowly trying to find regain her voice. But it's actually more a case of confidence and to get her voice finding life back, suing her, as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school step-mother to take down the content about her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it a weapon Anuri is battling alcoholism, or a power. But in order for failing to start her to call herself a superheroPhD, there has to be a whole path of steps undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her to take – one little sister, who is the new focus of which will be into Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her past… [[Black Canary: Ignite by Meg Cabot sister, and Cara McGee|Full Review]] |}perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?{|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15"0861546873}}=='''31 OCTOBER4 JUNE'''== 

|isbnauthor=B07X6GLQ3QStuart Douglas|title=See Them Run|author=Marion ToddLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=D I Clare Mackay is still relatively new to St AndrewDuring location filming for his 1970's: she was previously at Maryhill Rd station in Glasgow. Shesitcom 'Floggit and Leggit's left quite , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a lot behind including woman on the edge of a relationship that wasn't going anywhere after Tom failed reservoir. The police seem happy to support her when the chips were down. She also left a nasty situationassign it as an accidental death, of her own making but not her faultsomething about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and St Andrew's is he enlists the help of a fresh startfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Not long into They travel across the job she's faced with country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a hit and run link to death and there's little doubt that it wasn't accidental - during the card with the number five suggests murderSecond World War. Andy Robb was married to Sandra. But is there really a link between the deaths? You could say that And will they had an open marriage but there seemed manage to be a lot of the 'open' and very little of the 'marriage' left - on both sides, but would she want him deaduncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

 {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"<!-- Ben Brooks -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786540991.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786540991/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Impossible Boy by Ben Brooks]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] ''Oleg and Emma entered their den to find a cardboard spaceship standing where they usually sat. Slowly, the front door opened. Smoke billowed out. And out stepped a boy, dressed in a long coat with an even longer scarf, wound around his neck.''  ''"My name's Sebastian Cole," the boy said, "But you already know that."'' And indeed they do. Ever since the summer, when their friend Sarah's mother had moved her away, Oleg and Emma have been unable to find a new friend to take her place. [[The Impossible Boy by Ben Brooks|Full Review]]<!-- Peter F Hamilton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1447281357.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1447281357/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] In the twenty-third century, humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about to change, forever. Feriton Kane's investigative team has discovered the worst threat ever to face mankind – and we've almost no time to fight back. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanity, in order to carry us to their god at the end of the universe. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earth, vast warships converge above to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity to flee, to live in hiding amongst the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out in time. But others refuse to break before the storm. As disaster looms, animosities must be set aside to focus on just one goal: wiping this enemy from the face of creation. Even if it means preparing for a future this generation will never see. [[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton|Full Review]] <!-- Caroline Scott -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471186393.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471186393/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Photographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the back of the photograph. It is a picture of her husband, Francis. Francis has been missing for four years. Technically, he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something that a young widow can believe. She hangs on the word 'missing', disbelieving the word killed. [[Photographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott|Full Review]] |}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''3 NOVEMBER'''== <!-- Eoin Colfer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0008324859.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008324859/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Relax, everyone – our old friend Artemis may be off planet, but the baddies aren't getting away with skulduggery any time soon because they now have not one but two members of the Fowl family to contend with. Those cute little twins are now eleven (and, frankly, cute no longer) and in this, their first independent adventure, they meet a troll and without even trying manage to make two deadly enemies: a nobleman obsessed with immortality whatever the cost (to other people), and an unusual interrogator-nun. The boys are chased, kidnapped, arrested and even killed (though not for long), all with the help of one trainee fairy. [[Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer|Full Review]] |}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''7 NOVEMBER'''==<!-- Keret -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1609809319.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1609809319/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub by Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] One day a boy is in the zoo with his father, when the man gets called away on urgent business. The boy isn't hustled into a cab and taken home first, though, no – he's given hot dog money, and taxi money, and told to just stick around on his own and enjoy himself. Well, it's no surprise that the orphan-for-an-afternoon sensation the lad feels doesn't make him happy, and so he thinks of a species name for himself, and curls himself up into an empty cage, as if he were a new exhibit. And it's then the drama begins… [[Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub by Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)|Full Review]] |} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''12 NOVEMBER'''==<!-- Claire North -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:williamabbey.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0316316849/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]  When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a young boy in 1880's South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the weight of the curse upon him, as the shadow of the dead boy begins to follow him across the world. Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, he also learns that the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks to kill the one he loves the most… [[The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North|Full Review]]|} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''14 NOVEMBER 6 JUNE'''== <!-- Gardner -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786695227.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786695227/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Invisible in a Bright Light by Sally Gardner]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] The beginning of this excellent story will leave the reader more than a little confused: who is the man in the green suit, what is the Reckoning, and why are rows of people in a cave? But stick with it – Ms Gardner is very cleverly letting us experience the same disorientation as our heroine. We watch in dismay as the strange man, who seems to have no eyes, does his best to persuade her to answer his questions. But for some reason Celeste, despite her bewilderment, remains wary and gives nothing away. [[Invisible in a Bright Light by Sally Gardner|Full Review]] <!-- Holliday -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912374854.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912374854/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Violet by S J I Holliday]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] I've never been but understand that travelling is all about meeting new people and forming instantaneous bonds with people in often chance situations. Well that's exactly what happens when the two main/only characters meet in a travel agency in Beijing - Carrie is unsuccessfully trying to get a refund on an extra ticket for the Trans-Siberian train and Violet is trying to unsuccessfully buy a ticket for the same sold-out journey. As the two team up, travelling through Mongolia, Serbia and into Russia, it could've been the start of a beautiful friendship but this a thriller after all so it quickly becomes a tale of obsession, manipulation and toxic friendships. [[Violet by S J I Holliday|Full Review]] <!-- Will Carver -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912374838.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912374838/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Nothing Important Happened Today is a dark, twisted, difficult read. Stories about cults often are, but this is different; it's written with a sense of style that is quite unlike anything I've read before. I can't remember ever having read a novel with such an odd, distinctive narrative voice. While a slim and relatively small book, the slow-moving nature of the plot makes it feel far larger than its 276 pages. [[Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver|Full Review]] |} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''21 NOVEMBER'''=={|class-wikitable" cellpadding="15"<!-- Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1609809378.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1609809378/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Rabbits' Rebellion by Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] We're in the realm of the rabbits, only the foxes and wolves have taken over. King Wolf, His Wolfiness, has declared the rabbits don't exist, but the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that the bunnies are in fact still around. Demanding a propaganda spree, King Wolf orders a humble monkey to be his official portrait photographer, but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there is a distinct leporine hint. Can King Wolf succeed in proving himself victorious, can the rabbits show their continued existence to all who need to know of it – and what can the poor monkey caught in between do? [[The Rabbits' Rebellion by Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell|Full Review]]|} 

|author=Innosanto NagaraKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=M is for MovementDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Set Meet Kit. Like most of the people in Indonesiahis world, in the not too distant pastit seems, this he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a story about social change. Dealing with some difficult issuesteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, such as political corruption and nepotismrace to the exit, perhaps bothering with the book is neither boring nor preachytreasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. It educates gentlyUnfortunately for Kit, with vibrantthe only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, challenging illustrationseaten, and it portrays how social movements need people who will trya new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, even when it seems that they will failhe has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. The message is a positive one; What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power and how could he possibly hope to instigate change.succeed?|isbn=16098093511839945184

== '''11 DECEMBER13 JUNE''' ==

|isbn=B07XLM3SM61635866847|title=Murder at the Dolphin HotelThe Lavender Companion|author=Helena DixonJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Lifestyle|summary=Elowed Underhay was just twenty seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916It's strange, leaving her daughterthe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', Kitty, in I visited the care author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of her grandmotherchocolate cake on the homepage. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her I don't eat cakes and the conclusion was desserts - but I wanted that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwisecake viscerally. Kitty has come to terms (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with this some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and in 1933 she I was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother, when her grandmother had told to leave to look after her sister who was illmake a mess of it. She was reluctant to leave Kitty Notes in charge - and Kitty could not understand whythe margins are sanctioned. She's always coped with You get to fold down the mix corners of holidaymakers, boating people and the naval college on the edge pages. You suspect that smears of town before - and she's done every job in the hotelbutter would not be a problem. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmotherI 's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things 'loved'and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotelthis book already.

|}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''9 JANUARY 2020'''== <!-- Sarah Alderson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473681847.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473681847/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Ava lives a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up the wrong way. One evening she returns from a night out with a friend, and before she can finish her bedtime routine, her home, and her life, are under attack: masked men have broken in and are demanding money from her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside him. In the scuffle than ensues, Ava is hurt, badly. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happened, but she knows it was life-changing. With her daughter still fighting for her life in a room down the corridor, Ava has a lot to contend with as she tries to recover, wills her daughter to recover, and attempts to piece together what happened and why. [[In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson|Full Review]] |} =='''23 JANUARY4 JULY'''== 

|isbnauthor=0241985110Max Boucherat|title=All the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=A very beautiful, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by a minicab driver We meet Lori on the outskirts of Oxford. She didnfirst evening she't want s got the house to go herself – no neighbour to the police station or the hospital: she pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just wanted to be taken homean avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. The driver wasn't so certain though - What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and after dropping the girl at home he went that is to log on to Voxminer, the policeworld-building, which critter-collecting game that is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford and her mothera hit in Lori's world. Both were adamant But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this was nothing stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more than an April Fool's joke which had gone wrongspooky. No crime had been committed For the server she and her bestie and Faith didn't want nobody else should be able to take the matter any furtherenter shows signs of tampering. Fawley When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and his team weren't prepared her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to leave it at that and they began investigating. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didn't seem to have much of a history.turn?|isbn=0008666482