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 =='''26 MARCH9 MAY'''== 

|author= N K JemisinTom Percival|title= The City We BecameWrong Shoes|rating= 45|genre= Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= New York Will's life is being borndifficult, the city has reached critical mass and has matured into in a living almost-breathing entity and is ready to make its way out into the world. Before it can be established, an ancient evil appears to attempt to destroy it just as it destroyed Atlantis and other forgotten placesmultitude of ways. The city He is not alone through bullied because he has 'the birthing processwrong shoes', people who embody he has the values are selected to become wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the living embodiment most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the citycollege, some cities have one, some have twelve was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and New York has sixhad an accident. Together these human-embodiments must defeat Throw into that mix the woman in white fact that his mum and save New York from very real destruction. But these dad are five different boroughs which don't always see eye to eyeseparated, itand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a personality clash on an epic scale tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and unity clings to the moments of joy when he is both critical and not remotely guaranteeddrawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=03565126651398527122

 =='''31 MARCH23 MAY'''== 

|author=Rob HarrellOnyi Nwabineli|title=WinkAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=When Ross is diagnosed with a rare form of cancerAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, aged 12, his desperate attempts at school thanks to just be her step-mother Ophelia'normals increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri' become impossible. Suddenly he is the cancer kid, s childhood for sponsorships and everything he does, how he looks, influencer deals and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of the other kids in school. Ross is, understandablybasically, angrymonetary gain. He Now Anuri is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed in a permanent wink. He has gloopy eye medicine her twenties and she is slowly trying to try regain her confidence and to help with the painget her life back, plus the need to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due suing her step-mother to take down the ongoing treatmentcontent about her. With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friendsAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and a series of horrible memes that someone at school creates secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about Rossher little sister, nothing about his life who is normal any morethe new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and he has to find new ways to deal perhaps herself and her relationship with his feelings, and survive.her father at the same time?|isbn=14714091470861546873

 =='''2 APRIL4 JUNE'''== 

|author= Ben OliverStuart Douglas|title= The LoopLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 3.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment During location filming for criminal activities have been amped up to a horrific level by machineshis 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', The Loop follows leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the precarious existence dead body of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world woman on the edge of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escapereservoir. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him The police seem happy to a trigger held by assign it as an accidental death, but something about the guards who can end his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories whole thing bothers Lowe, and relentlessly drained he enlists the help of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed fellow actor, John Le Breton to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despairhelp him investigate matters further. His prison is based on They travel across the model of an infinity loop designed country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to make its inmates sufferdeath during the Second World War. With the only glimmers of hope being But is there really a link between the rumours of rebellion outside and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be freedeaths? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=19126265511803368209

|author= Kirsty Applebaum|title= Troofriend|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Are you tired of your child's classmates constantly being horrible to them? Do you want your child to have some positive experiences with people? Introducing the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-of-the-art machines are capable of emulating the full range of human emotions without lying, stealing or bullying. They're the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and have absolutely no basis in reality…right?|isbn=1788003470}} =='''7 APRIL'''== {{Frontpage|author= Grady Hendrix|title= The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Women, by and large, have always been the subjugated sex. Throughout history, they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the powerful man Kieran Larwood and let nothing stand in his way. Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. It is an ode to the strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to toe with a predatory male vampire who moves into their quiet cul de sac.|isbn=1683691431}} =='''14 APRIL'''== {{Frontpage|author= M R Carey|title= The Book of Koli|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= ''The Book of Koli'' is the first in a postJoe Todd-apocalyptic trilogy, titled ''The Rampart Trilogy'', by M.R. Carey. The novel is set in a world where nature has turned against humans. Trees move as fast as animals to crush their prey and then soak up their blood. Humans have eked out a small existence in isolated villages. They are primitive except for their reverence of 'old tech'. This is technology from the old world that seems to only work for certain chosen people. However, Koli, a young woodsmith, uncovers a secret about this technology that will upend his life and take him on a perilous journey.|isbn=0316477532}}{{Frontpage|author=Danny DorlingStanton|title=SlowdownDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary= We are living Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a time team of rapid changewarrior, mage and we're worried about it. Dorling tells us that the latter is normalhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, natural and probably good for us. We are designed race to worry the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and with the current state of what we're doing in points they grant you along the world we have much to be worried aboutway. HoweverUnfortunately for Kit, over the next three-hundred-and-some pages, if you can follow only thing he's seen of the latest race on the argumentsinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be as worried as we areeaten, or in some cases that we're worrying about the wrong thingsand a new trio of questors is needed. Mostly. Because mostlyPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, things are not changing he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as rapidly as we think they area team. In factWhat chance does this friendless, the rate of change muscle-free-zone have in many things is slowing down actually managing that, and the direction of change will in some cases go into reverse.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=03002434051839945184

 =='''15 APRIL13 JUNE'''== 

|isbn=17811293121635866847|title=Sequin and StitchThe Lavender Companion|author=Laura Dockrill Jessica Dunham and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Sequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with her. It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed to get credit for what she did. Mum is a seamstress and she makes the sort of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. She's not the designer - they're the people who make a lot of money from the clothes. Mum is the person who actually ''makes'' the garments and she's really talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.}}{{Frontpage|author=Akala|title=The Dark LadyTerry Barlin Vesci

|genre=TeensLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately''For a street kid from feel that this is the Devilbook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''s Gap, LondonI visited the author's most notorious slum, life is short [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and tough. For Henry, there's a boy thief with brown skin inherited from picture of a mother who abandoned him, life is tougher stillslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. The Dark Lady enters his dreams at night I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. She seems to represent (There's a pastrecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and possibly I was told to make a future...''Henry and his friends, brother and sister Matthew and Mary, have various ways mess of getting byit. Sometimes they pickpockets. Sometimes they rob Notes in the houses of the richmargins are sanctioned. It's crime or starve - but crime is dangerous and they risk You get to fold down the terrible punishments corners of Elizabethan England if they are caughtpages. Impossible choices. But there are pleasures too, and for Henry, the chief pleasure is the Globe Theatre and the plays You suspect that smears of William Shakespearebutter would not be a problem. Henry loves language and often makes up sonnets about what he sees around him and how he feels I ''loved'' this book already. |isbn= 1444943693

=='''30 APRIL4 JULY'''==

|author=Jacqueline WilsonMax Boucherat|title=Love FrankieThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS, when your dad has decided We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to leave her for another womanpop in, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever livedbabysitter poorly, andmother at work, above alljust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, when Sally and on her mates are bullying you at school. Oh, and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you don't fancy him backlonesome. Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 What could possibly go wrong? }} =='''14 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Alison Weir|title= Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard The Tainted Queen|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= ''Katheryn was seven when her mother died'', thus we are thrust into this tumultuous time Snuggled in young Katheryn's life, trying to find a homeblanket fort, both figuratively and literally, where she can grow and grieve. Unfortunatelyhas one main intention, Katheryn is followed by bad luck and she learns an important lesson, she that is too young, too poor and too unimportant to be of any value log on to anyone, but she is beautiful and surelyVoxminer, that will count for something in the endworld-building, won't it?|isbn=1472227778}}{{Frontpage|author= Hana Tooke|title= The Unadoptables|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In the winter of 1880, five babies are abandoned at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdam, much to the annoyance of matron Gasbeek. Twelve years later, Milou, the last of the five babies to be abandoned back in critter-collecting game that winter, struggles to work out the identity of her parents from the clues she was abandoned with: is a small coffin with claw-marks on the outside, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker and a velvet blanket. She, along with the other four, patiently wait for Milouhit in Lori's parents to come back and take her homeworld. However, when the five children are sold to the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotman, they know they have to escape. And so begins the adventure of But first Lori has a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou with tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her parentsown, all the time being pursued by the Kinderbureau and Rotman…|isbn=0241417465}}{{Frontpage|author= Abi Elphinstone|title= Jungle Drop (The Unmapped Chronicles)|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Abi Elphinstone has said that then she connects with her world building through her charactersfinds something even more spooky. In an interview with [Books For Keeps] the server she described visualising her characters "wearing head torches which gradually reveal the world they are seeing to and her bestie and nobody else should be able to the readerenter shows signs of tampering." Just as the darkness of a mine is cut through by a spear of light so too do quarrelsome Fox and Fibber get their first glimpse of the phantasmagorical glow-in-the-dark realm of Jungle Drop when they emerge through the mouth of a Dragon When malevolent eyes spark up on the Here and There Express. Running from the opprobrium of their demanding and selfish parentsher phone screen, they must address what is in their hearts to find what they seek.|isbn= 1471173682}} =='''18 JUNE'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ukamaka Olisakwe|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at the trauma and heartache of being a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right''. Ogadinma is the eponymous heroine of the story.. We are with her safe place in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads the storygame has been doctored – well, although Olisakwe writes in third person. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights the isolation of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her father's home and sent to Lagos where she is married a girl to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape.turn?|isbn=19116481600008666482