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 =='''26 MARCH23 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|author= N K Jemisin|title= The City We Became|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= New York is being born, the city has reached critical mass and has matured into 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 places. The city is not alone through the birthing process, people who embody the values are selected to become the living embodiment of the city, some cities have one, some have twelve and New York has six. Together these human-embodiments must defeat the woman in white and save New York from very real destruction. But these are five different boroughs which don't always see eye to eye, it's a personality clash on an epic scale and unity is both critical and not remotely guaranteed.|isbn=0356512665}} =='''31 MARCH'''== 
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|author=Rob HarrellOnyi Nwabineli|title=WinkAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|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
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 =='''2 APRIL30 MAY'''== 
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|authorisbn= Ben OliverB0CYV674G2|title= The LoopSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating= 3.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a horrific level by machinesknife, The Loop follows comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the precarious existence bottom of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has 's been sewn inside his heart connecting him stabbed to a trigger held by the guards who can end his life with one squeezedeath. Luka DCI John Tanner is taunted by limited access to just back from his memories and relentlessly drained honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritualhis daughter Samantha. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where You would think he is a guinea pig 'd be grateful for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With easy answer but the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the visits point of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be free? Why has falling asleep at work but he been imprisoned? What waits for him if 's determined to keep going - probably because he can break the loop?|isbn=1912626551't get any sleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author= Kirsty ApplebaumStuart Douglas|title= TroofriendLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 43.5|genre= Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Are you tired of your childDuring location filming for his 1970's classmates constantly being horrible to them? Do you want your child to have some positive experiences with people? Introducing sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-dead body of-a woman on the-art machines are capable edge of emulating a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the full range whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of human emotions without lyinga fellow actor, stealing or bullyingJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They're travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning deaths? And will they manage to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and have absolutely no basis in reality…rightuncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=17880034701803368209
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 =='''7 APRIL6 JUNE'''== 
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|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
|rating=4
|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary= We are living in a time of rapid change, and we're worried about itMeet Kit. Dorling tells us that Like most of the latter is normal, natural and probably good for us. We are designed to worry and with the current state of what we're doing people in the his world we have much to be worried about. However, over the next three-hundred-and-some pagesit seems, if you can follow he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the argumentssport where a team of warrior, it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be as worried as we aremage and healer enter specially prepared, or in some cases that we're worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostlycentury-old, things are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. In factmagical mazes, the rate of change in many things is slowing down and race to the direction of change will in some cases go into reverse.|isbn=0300243405}} =='''15 APRIL'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=1781129312|title=Sequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Sequin loved her mum to bitsexit, but sometimes she got very cross perhaps bothering 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 the treasure or the big bad and she makes the sort of clothes that points they grant you see on red carpets or at important weddingsalong the way. SheUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's not seen of the designer - they're latest race on the people who make inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a lot new trio of money from the clothesquestors is needed. Mum is Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the person who actually ''makes'' goading from the garments token bully of his world and shestumbled into declaring he's really talentedll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, but when people talk about the dress or the suitmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Akala1635866847|title=The Dark LadyLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|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
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=='''30 APRIL4 JULY'''==
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|author=Jacqueline WilsonMax Boucherat|title=Love FrankieThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|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 schoollonesome. Oh What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and when Samthat is to log on to Voxminer, your best friend since foreverthe world-building, suddenly starts sending out signs critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that he might fancy you - and you donthis stormy night doesn't fancy him backfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tamperingPoor Frankie! When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn= 0857535897 0008666482
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=='''7 MAY'''==
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|author=Patrick NessJenny Lecoat|title=BurnBeyond Summerland|rating=54|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=''On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957 - the very day, in fact, that Dwight David Eisenhower took the oath of office for the second time as President of the United States of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited Jean lives on Jersey with her father in mother where they are celebrating the parking lot end of the Chevron gas station for occupation. During the dragon hewar, Jean'd hired s father was arrested for listening to help on the farm.''It's 1950s America but not as we know it. In this alternate US, there is still a Cold War with the Russiansbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, still a concomitant arms race. And the stain of racism is just as crushing - something mixed race Sarah leaving Jean and her Japanese American friend Jason are only too well aware mother waiting for years for news ofhim. As is the deeply unpleasant town deputyBritish finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, Kelby. But one thing and the war is ''very'' different. In this alternate worldfinally over, there are dragons. The dragons live in an uneasy peace with humans and communication is minimaltheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a few of these winged creatures do hire out their labour to human in return for gold - they are dragonsrelief, after all.Poor Frankie! or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn= 14063755001846976537
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=='''14 MAY'''==
 
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|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 in young Katheryn's life, trying to find a home, both figuratively and literally, where she can grow and grieve. Unfortunately, Katheryn is followed by bad luck and she learns an important lesson, she is too young, too poor and too unimportant to be of any value to anyone, but she is beautiful and surely, that will count for something in the end, won't it?
|isbn=1472227778
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|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 that winter, struggles to work out the identity of her parents from the clues she was abandoned with: 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 Milou's parents to come back and take her home. 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 a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou with her parents, all the time being pursued by the Kinderbureau and Rotman…
|isbn=0241417465
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{{Frontpage
|author= Abi Elphinstone
|title= Jungle Drop (The Unmapped Chronicles)
|rating= 4
|genre= Confident Readers
|summary= Abi Elphinstone has said that she connects with her world building through her characters. In an interview with [Books For Keeps] she described visualising her characters "wearing head torches which gradually reveal the world they are seeing to her and to the reader." 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 on the Here and There Express. Running from the opprobrium of their demanding and selfish parents, they must address what is in their hearts to find what they seek.
|isbn= 1471173682
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=='''18 JUNE'''==
 
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|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 in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads the story, 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 to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape.
|isbn=1911648160
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