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=='''29 JANUARY9 MAY'''==

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=This Will's life is the story of Isobeldifficult, in a little girl who made a big differencemultitude of ways. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold houseHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because her parents couldnhis dad can't afford to put the heating on: work and doesn''Ice curled across t have enough money for even the inside most basic of the window things like food, and crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didnhis dad can't go to work because he lost his job at the cinema or college, was working a cash-in-hand job on holidays but they a building site and had each other and they were happyan accident. Then Throw into that mix the day came when they couldnfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will't afford the rent for the house s life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and they had to move clings to the far side moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the city. This part end of the city was colda long, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisibledark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|author=Helen FisherOnyi Nwabineli|title=Space HopperAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5

|summary=Faye lost Anuri spent her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worsechildhood on display to the world, and although they were kind and very good thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of course missed her mum enormouslyAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box Now Anuri is in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's twenties and her mum, she revels in the chance is slowly trying to create some memories regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to know take down the woman who meant so much to content about her. The time travellingAnuri is battling alcoholism, however, is neither easy nor safefailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangledMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, and Faye begins to wonder if itwho is the new focus of Ophelia's safe for her to return one last time to the pastonline empire. Should Can she try to see save her mum one last time before sister, and perhaps herself and her mum's death, or will it change relationship with her own future forever to attempt itfather at the same time?|isbn=14711886630861546873

|isbnauthor=1787477800Stuart Douglas|title=The Night Hawks (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and theyLeggit're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that there's treasure to be found. Unfortunately, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the youngest of the group, twenty-one-year-old Troy Evans, finds the dead body of a man floating woman on the incoming tideedge of a reservoir. After pulling The police seem happy to assign it ashoreas an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, they call and he enlists the policehelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. DCI Nelson thinks that it's probably They travel across the body of an asylum seeker but there's no evidence of any activity country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to be had from death during the coastguardSecond World War. The dead man turns out But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released from prison.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

=='''18 FEBRUARY6 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=1471187179Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel HoreDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburbMeet Kit. The book Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is set in an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the 1930s sport where a team of warrior, mage and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and find a nice young man race to marrythe exit, produce children perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their homepoints they grant you along the way. Unfortunatelyfor Kit, this isnthe only thing he't what she wants to do at all s seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and neither does she want to continue working as a secretarynew trio of questors is needed. As a result of a chance meetingPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for he has taken to the goading from the secret service token bully of his world and effectively living stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britainteam. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made What chance does this friendless, muscle-free- zone have in actually managing that, and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|authorisbn=Hannah Gold1635866847|title=The Last BearLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=AprilIt's fatherstrange, a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with himthings that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. They live alone anywayBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', since AprilI visited the author's mother died some time before, [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and he feels it will be educational for her to experience there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the island homepage. I don't eat cakes and all its natural beautydesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. April already has an affinity with nature(There's a recipe in the book, and shewhich I's excited to travel m avoiding with her father, thinking of all some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the fun things they will be able book and I was told to experience together on make a mess of it. Notes in the islandmargins are sanctioned. But when they You get there, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording to fold down the temperatures just takes up too much corners of his time, and so April is left to explore by herselfpages. Her father had reassured her You suspect that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches smears of butter would not be a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the Bear, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend and help himproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=000841128X

=='''4 MARCHJULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men 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 is at the top of her game. Returning to the city of her birth, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and duty.|isbn=1786079097}}

|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Max Boucherat|title=If You Kept a Record The Last Life of SinsLori Mills

|summary=Meet Stella and her family. TheyWe meet Lori on the first evening she're just innocently trying s got the house to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film herself – using three different screens no neighbour to watch three different thingspop in, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their homebabysitter poorly, but the entire south-western village of Mouseholemother at work, and not just that, either, but the whole countryan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them beforeher lonesome. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. What could possibly go wrong? You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck Snuggled in such a Luddite experience against their willblanket fort, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandmashe has one main intention, and see if they can get across country that is to her. Hence this has log on to go down as a road-trip book. But not just thatVoxminer, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – for it's a slapstick, highthe world-dramabuilding, high-octane roadcritter-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart collecting game that kids of all ages will love.|isbn=1471196887}} =='''23 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Other Emily|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. He's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's mind, but to no avail. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his love. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958}} =='''1 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. HeLori's let himself down ''again''world. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and But first Lori has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just a tiny inkling that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers donthis stormy night doesn't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ruth Hogan|title=Madame Burova|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use find herself entirely on her family's sea-front booth. The singerown, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stallshe finds something even more spooky. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is For the server she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, bestie and why did it have nobody else should be able to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}} =='''15 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Lucy Holland|title=Sistersong|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling enter shows signs of folk and fairy talestampering. These stories, for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh When malevolent eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|isbn=1529039037}}{{Frontpage|author=Goldy Moldavsky|title=The Last Girl|rating=5|genre=teens|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn't belong. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, and most of all, she spends the majority of spark up on her spare time watching horror movies as a source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie stylephone screen, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her safe place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too late.|isbn=0755501527}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Sultoon|title=The Source|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak...|isbn=1913193594}} =='''27 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kristen O'Neal|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Having recently game has been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''doctored – well, an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.turn?|isbn=16836923490008666482