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=='''1 JULY28 SEPTEMBER'''==

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1800464495|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 Support All Areas of 3Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith

|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=The second trilogy ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in Shanthe womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'s ' Did you know this? I didn'Merget! How about: '' saga opens with our heroMaths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, Archie, back in London in the world double that of the Bornliteracy skills. It's not been easy' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, explaining to his foster parents where he's beenteaching pen grips, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about Inez and his other friends in the Mergemaths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, but Archie has done his bestin part because so many of us are afraid of maths.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston But why are we? Most of us use maths in Big Ben's clock tower daily life without realising and except for fiddling with it follows that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awaygiving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ

=='''8 JULY30 SEPTEMBER'''==

|author=Hannah PeckNick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=Kate on the CaseLocked Out Lily|rating=34.5

|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez Lily is Kate's idol, and the author of our heroine's favourite possessionor was, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky fatheror has been, that bookvery ill, and to give her talking mouse called Rupert, parents relief she is all equipped 's been told to manage a train ride to the Arctic, to see stay with her scientist mother grandma for a few days. The parents need the first time in yonks. However, this relief as Lily's baby sibling is just about to be born – a train ride child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do with a difference, . But on tracking back home for on board is a greedyword of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-seeming harridan and eyed simulacra of her catparents, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness babe-in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them stylearms, already installed. ItThese devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the family back intact, even if it's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist..not the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snake.|isbn=184812970X1471194833

|isbnauthor=0008350388John Gwynne|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha UwagbaThe Shadow Of The Gods

|genre=Politics and SocietyFantasy|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman The Shadow Of The Gods is to be seen as less desirablethe first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, less hireableset in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, less intelligent when the Gods have battled and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need their bones lie scattered for all to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0see.7% of English Literature GCSE students This story is the ultimate in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came firstgenre, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-workingmythical creatures, principled archaic language and determined that their children would have the best education possiblebattles galore. There was always This is a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. For Oteghathick book, education meant a scholarship with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a private school wonderfully realistic and gritty world in London and then a place at New College, Oxfordwhich our heroes must do battle.|isbn=0356514218

|author=Sarah LanganPeter Papathanasiou|title=Good NeighboursThe Stoning|rating=43.5

|summary= If you're of In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a certain vintageshopping trolley, itand she's hard been taped to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the world'thats tallest cricket stumps. When she's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Streetdiscovered by the town gossip everyone, thoughincluding the local cops, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart are quite confident the culprit has come from the Melbourne suburbsimmigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. They're one of 18 households An arson attack on that shows the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, feeling – and it's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hotonly fair, clammyis the general opinion, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the park across the way. It's a revolting mess arrival of dirt and chaosGeorge Manolis, but for a higher rank from the residents of Maple Streetcity, the worst is yet to comesort everything out.|isbn=1789098211}}=='''14 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eshman Smith|title=Word of Another Nature|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''Why does mass protest continually fail Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to fundamentally change thedirection of welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the modern world?'' This is the question Eshman Smith asks in Word of an Other Naturelaw.. He's right to wonder since we as humans often seem to be making a pretty bad job of our efforts to create a world of peace, stability and prosperity for all. |isbn=B093B2L1Z41529416973

=='''15 JULY14 OCTOBER'''==

|author=Emily CritchleyJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=34|genre=General FictionFor Sharing|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the hallmarks of something goodwrong time. I was intrigued by the plotIn class, liked the design of the booksay, when everyone will hear it and thought the authoreveryone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's work sounded interestinglatest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. From the outset Everybody does it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= 1911427091B09C2RVJ2W

=='''22 JULY19 OCTOBER'''==

|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Claire McGowan|title=Girls Who LieI Know You|rating=34

|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, itThen:'s not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and a couple of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue Casey returns from a mother who found herself walk with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=Notes from the Burning Age|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thrillerbaby, with as many double crossesCarson, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. Howevercomes across three bodies, as with the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of almost a new and timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earthwhole family taken down.|isbn=0356514757}}

=='''3 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon RepellNow: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has ''grop'' to think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez's amusement, doesn't even know what one of those Rachel is. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathedout for a walk with her dog, even after an uncomfortable encounter with KurtisBrandy, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed when she comes across a body in the first volume of this serieswoods. |isbn=B093J9TF73}}

=='''5 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Boyne|title=The Echo Chamber|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219}}{{Frontpage|author=Louise Candlish|title=The Heights|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. She's on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the way. There are lots of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murder.|isbn=14711834831542019974

=='''2 SEPTEMBER28 OCTOBER'''==

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave Antti Tuomainen and Tom de FrestonDavid Hackston (translator)|title=Julia and the SharkThe Rabbit Factor|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=JuliaMeet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, our prehe's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-teen heroinemember, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England that they'd prefer everyone to be lighthousekeepers for all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a summerheart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, in the far NE of the Scottish islandsand has left Henri everything. Here be VikingsUnfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, that kind of Scottish islandand nothing else. Dad ''YouMeFun'' is going so not what Henri wants to be automating the lantern, which is occupy his specialist thingmind, while mum will be leaving her career but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Juliafinances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, welldespite some desultory staff ideas, she will be homesick but loans have been made out and alone the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – until she suddenly finds company one nightit's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan...|isbn=1510107789191319387X

=='''7 OCTOBER1 NOVEMBER'''==

|author=John GwynneTeresa Driscoll|title=The Shadow Of The GodsHer Perfect Family

|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the first installment of familiar horrifying realisation, at the Bloodsworn Sagaeleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, set in Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', paving the era of way for the Vikings in sinister tone that remains throughout the shadow novel. In a twist of Ragnarokevents, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the ultimate midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in High Fantasya coma, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This what follows is a thick book, complex whodunit with an intricate plot and fascinating characters a list of suspects that are woven together continues to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battlegrow the further you read.|isbn=03565142181542028752