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=='''8 JULY28 SEPTEMBER'''==

|authorisbn=Hannah Peck1800464495|title=Kate on the Case|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression she'd rather be 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and the author Love of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky father, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. However, this is a train ride with a difference, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=184812970X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About MoneyMaths|author=Otegha UwagbaEmma Smith|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is Babies seem to be seen as less desirableborn with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, less hireablebeing aware of quantities at seven hours old, less intelligent assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts..subtraction at nine months old.'' ''We Need to Talk About Money' Did you know this? I didn' by Otegha Uwagbat! How about:

''0.7% Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer later achievement, double that of colour while only 7% study a book by a womanliteracy skills.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021

Otegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when she was five years oldthey start school. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came firstBut do we think the same way about maths, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-workingbeyond counting? I don't think we do, principled and determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness in part because so many of money although this did not translate into a shortage us are afraid of anything: it was simply carefully harvestedmaths. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school But why are we? Most of us use maths in London daily life without realising and then it follows that giving our children a place at New College, Oxfordsimilar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.

 =='''13 JULY30 SEPTEMBER'''==

|author=Sarah LanganNick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=Good NeighboursLocked Out Lily

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= If you're of a certain vintageLily is, or was, or has been, very ill, itand to give her parents relief she's hard been told to read stay with her grandma for a few days. The parents need the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''thatrelief as Lily's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street baby sibling is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo just about to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbswants nothing to do with. They're one But on tracking back home for word of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of 18 households on her parents, and the crescentbabe-in-arms, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlieralready installed. They're not quite like all These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the other families (he's an ex rockerfamily back intact, sheeven if it's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends not the family Lily wants – and their kids have settled all she has to help her inthe task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and itSnake.|isbn=1471194833}} =='''7 OCTOBER''s all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer=={{Frontpage|author=John Gwynne|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, a sinkhole opens up set in the park across era of the way. It's a revolting mess Vikings in the shadow of dirt Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and chaos, but their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the residents of Maple Streetultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the worst genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is yet a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to comecreate a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=17890982110356514218

|author=Eshman SmithPeter Papathanasiou|title=Word of Another NatureThe Stoning

|genre=Politics and SocietyThrillers|summary=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 shopping trolley, and she's been taped to a tree and she'Why does mass protest continually fail to fundamentally change thedirection of s had rocks bowled at her as if she were the modern world?'s tallest cricket stumps. When she' This s discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the question Eshman Smith asks in Word of an Other Nature. Hefeeling – and it's right to wonder since we as humans only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often seem setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to be making a pretty bad job of our efforts sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to create welcome a world of peace, stability and prosperity for allGreek-heritaged city boy laying down the law... |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