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=='''8 DECEMBER9 MAY'''==
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|author=Lauren MartinTom Percival|title=The Book of MoodsWrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of timesways. He should be getting a text from is bullied because he has 'the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema datewrong shoes', but he has the wrong shoes because his phone has packed up, hedad can's chundered last nightt work and doesn's meal t have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his breakfast over another girl in classdad can't work because he lost his job at the college, who's duffed him up was working a cash-in response, -hand job on a building site and the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anywayhad an accident. On a bigger scale he's living with Throw into that mix the fact that his mother mum and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yesare separated, things are so bad theyand Will're resorting to having cabbage for dinners life seems bleak in every direction. I knowAnd yet, right? he still has a tiny amount of hope. But surely this He is just a blipgood at art, a day at school and clings to forgetthe moments of joy when he is drawing, and everything (that feel like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can't be a light at the start end of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?long, dark tunnel.|isbn=17811294951398527122
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=='''21 JANUARY23 MAY'''==
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|author=David F RossOnyi Nwabineli|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Years agoAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Danny Garvey was a footballing prodigy playing where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for his local clubsponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Everyone predicted a bright future – but his career Now Anuri is in professional football never quite worked outher twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Thirteen years on Anuri is battling alcoholism, convinced failing to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying motherstart her PhD, Danny takes over the shambolic undergoing therapy and once-great team he used to play for secretly abusing people online and tries to reform receiving money from themfor doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn= 19131935000861546873
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Stuart Douglas|title=Kokoschka's DollLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=23.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=WellDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', this looked very much like leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a book I could love from woman on the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any edge of ita reservoir. I found things The police seem happy to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paperassign it as an accidental death, a chapter whose number was in but something about the 20,000s, letters used as narrative formwhole thing bothers Lowe, and so on. It intrigued with he enlists the subterranean voice help of a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentionedfellow actor, tooJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. But you've seen They travel across the star rating that comes with this reviewcountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by themseemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. So what happenedBut is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=15294026971803368209
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=='''2 FEBRUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Anna CareyKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=This is Not the Jess ShowDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Jess Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a normal 90's teenage girl, just trying to navigate the usual stresses team of schoolwarrior, mage and boyshealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and parent troubles. But strange things seem race to be happening in her small townthe exit, perhaps bothering with a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoors, the treasure or the big bad and a strange metal devicethe points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, with an apple the only thing he's seen of the latest race on it, the inn TV equivalent is that slips out of her friend's bagone team has been retired, but that her friends just won't talk to her about. Jess feels like she might be hearing voiceseaten, and her sister (who a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very ill) seems unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to be responding to her in strange ways sometimes. Is there something going on beneath the surface goading from the token bully of Jesshis world and stumbled into declaring he' lifell enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=16836919701839945184
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=='''4 FEBRUARY13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Helen Fisher1635866847|title=Space HopperThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormouslythis is the book for you. So when, unexpectedlyBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to I visited the 70author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and her mum, she revels in there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to herhomepage. The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband wonI don't believe what's happening eat cakes and so lies to him insteaddesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. The lies grow more tangled(There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and Faye begins I was told to wonder if make a mess of it's safe for her to return one last time . Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the pastcorners of pages. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mumYou suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved''s death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663this book already.
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=='''28 FEBRUARY4 JULY'''==
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|author=Rob KeeleyMax Boucherat|title=The Treasure in the TowerLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to read a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace and lots of actionpop in, babysitter poorly, an easy to read stylemother at work, just an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalriesavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and always a good dollop of naughty humouron her lonesome. They're all present here, in ''The Treasure What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled 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? Jessblanket fort, 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}} =='''4 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jia Khan she has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men one main intention, and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she that is at the top of her game. Returning to the city of her birth, log on to old scars and fresh woundsVoxminer, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and duty.|isbn=1786079097}}{{Frontpage|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title=If You Kept a Record of Sins|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This was an incredibly readable novellaworld-building, but one critter-collecting game that left me is a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person hehit in Lori's addressing in his second person monologue of world. But first Lori has a narration, we see him picked up by his mothertiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's chauffeurt find herself entirely on her own, and carted off to do all then she finds something even more spooky. For the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following day. The mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy server she and settled in Romania with her (night-time bestie and business) partner, and feelings nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of abandonment are still strongtampering. And so we flit from current (well When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, this came out and her safe place in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharestgame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to the lad's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell address.turn?|isbn=19398109650008666482
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