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 =='''15 OCTOBER9 MAY'''==
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|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E HarrowTom Percival|title= The Once and Future WitchesWrong Shoes|rating= 5|genre= FantasyConfident Readers|summary=''ThereWill's no such thing as witcheslife is difficult, but there used to bein a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoesIn 1893, after he has the purges wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the burningsmost basic of things like food, witching has been reduced to little more than weak charms and simple spellshis 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. If women want to hold power Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in their handsevery direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to have their voices heardthe moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, it is now through women's suffragedark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Onjali Q RaufOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Night Bus HeroAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Hector is a bully. Egged on by his two 'friends', he takes other children's sweets, harasses and threatens, plays pranks at school, and gets into trouble at every turn. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isn't his fault, but then he isn't believed as everyone expects him to be telling lies. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely home, and seem to only care about his perfect sister and his annoying little brother when they are, and his teachers have abandoned him as a lost cause. So what happens when, in trying to tell the truth & fight to be believed, Hector finds himself embroiled with the police; first trying to accuse, and then trying to save a homeless man from his local park?
|isbn=1510106774
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=='''20 OCTOBER'''==
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|isbn=1473692407
|title=The Book of Two Ways
|author=Jodi Picoult
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Dawn Edelstein is a death doula: thatAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's someone who childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is there for the person who in her twenties and she is dying, slowly trying to make their passage regain her confidence and to whatever they believe in as easy as possible and get her life back, suing her step-mother to support their carerstake down the content about her. It's a rewardingAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, caring occupation undergoing therapy and Dawn puts her heart secretly abusing people online and soul into it but this wasn't always her lifereceiving money from them for doing so. Some fifteen years ago she was a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an EgyptologistMost importantly, she was working with is desperately worried about her supervisorlittle sister, Professor Ian Dumphries, on who is the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egyptnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Then Can she was Dawn McDowell: that was save her maiden namesister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the name she published under.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''29 OCTOBER4 JUNE'''== 
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|author=Caroline ScottStuart Douglas|title=When I Come Home AgainLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=1918 During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedralwoman on the edge of a reservoir. He refuses The police seem happy to give a nameassign it as an accidental death, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventually, they determine this isn't willful obstinancebut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he doesn't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being on enlists the road for help of a long time and being frightenedfellow actor, and some of the faces from the road, but other than that – everything that came before has goneJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They need a name for travel across the forms and so they call him Adam country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, because he was found in seemingly, a link to death during the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam GalileeSecond World War. A fanciful name for But is there really a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who he is, where he is or how he got there.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=14711921721803368209
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 =='''1 NOVEMBER6 JUNE'''== 
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|author= Susi Holliday Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= The Last Resort Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating= 3.5 4|genre= ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=A group Meet Kit. Like most of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designerpeople in his world, social media influencerit seems, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have he is an area avid fan of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is Dungeon Running – the sport where a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the islandteam of warrior, mage and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks downhealer enter specially prepared, these wellcentury-kept secrets are revealedold, magical mazes, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against timeto the exit, Amelia must struggle to uncover perhaps bothering with the treasure or the reason for her attendance big bad and protect the rest of points they grant you along the guests from way. Unfortunately for Kit, the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=1542020018}}  =='''12 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author= Claire McGowan|title=The Push|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at a prenatal class. Itonly thing he's NCT ''style'', but not seen of the latest race on the proper NCT. This bit inn TV equivalent is importantthat one team has been retired, but you have to wait a little to see why. This being Londoneaten, such and a class attracts a wide variety new trio of peoplequestors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from all sorts the token bully of backgrounds, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is ithis world and stumbled into declaring he's their first babyll enter as a team. Probably after the first one What chance does this friendless, you don't muscle-free-zone have time for classesin actually managing that, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=15420199901839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard1635866847|title=The Coral BrideLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Angel Roberts It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is an oddity - a female fisherwomanthe book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', making her living in a manI visited the author's world[https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in to come I don't eat cakes and head the investigationdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Although (There's a recipe in the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going onbook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feudsI was told to make a mess of it. At Notes in the same time as trying margins are sanctioned. You get to run his investigation, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed fold down with personal problems the corners of pages. You suspect that he is unable to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiessmears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1913193322
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=='''4 FEBRUARY 2021JULY'''== 
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|author=Helen FisherMax Boucherat|title=Space HopperThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Faye lost her mum when We meet Lori on the first evening she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that 's got worsethe house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormously. So whenbabysitter poorly, unexpectedlymother at work, she discovers a time travel conduit (via just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old space hopper box , on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's and her muma blanket fort, she revels in the chance to create some memories has one main intention, and get that is to know the woman who meant so much log on to her. The time travellingVoxminer, howeverthe world-building, critter-collecting game that is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that her husband wonthis stormy night doesn't believe what's happening find herself entirely on her own, and so lies to him insteadthen she finds something even more spooky. The lies grow more tangled, For the server she and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her bestie and nobody else should be able to return one last time to the pastenter shows signs of tampering. Should she try to see When malevolent eyes spark up on her mum one last time before phone screen, and her mum's deathsafe place in the game has been doctored – well, or will it change her own future forever where is a girl to attempt itturn?|isbn=14711886630008666482
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=='''28 FEBRUARY'''==
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|author=Rob Keeley
|title=The Treasure in the Tower
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace and lots of action, an easy to read style, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalries, and always a good dollop of naughty humour. They're all present here, in ''The Treasure in the Tower''. The chance purchase of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventure. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jess, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?
|isbn=1800461321
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