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=='''3 AUGUST28 SEPTEMBER'''==

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

|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock ''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the Forgotten Cryptwomb, from which the Departed communicate with the Mergebeing aware of quantities at seven hours old, Archie now has ''grop'' to think about. But before thatassessing probability at six months old, soireesand comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez's amusement, doesn't even know what one of those is. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this series. |isbn=B093J9TF73}}

==Did you know this? I didn'''5 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0241989094|title=The Perfect Life|author=Nuala Ellwood|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent t! How about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. The boys are a bit of a handful which is why she's making this trip on her own. The house would be perfect for them.:

It's the same month but now we're in Wimbledon and we encounter the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and living in her sister, Georgie's, spare room, where she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.}}{{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 Maths ability on entry to school 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-strong predictor of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyerslater achievement, random transgender types – double that all have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern worldof literacy skills. 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=1471183483}}

=='''19 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=Doug Johnstone|title=The Great Silence|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=For those who, like me, havenI didn't come across the Skelfs before, know this either! I'll risk think most parents are aware that giving your children a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a good job of bringing solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the backstory in without being heavy handed same way about it. Skelf isnmaths, beyond counting? I don't some fantastic creaturethink we do, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is merely the surname in part because so many of a family us are afraid of undertakersmaths. Undertakers But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and private investigators. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm it follows that had been in the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with giving our children a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her stillsimilar pre-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next termschool grounding will be just as beneficial.|isbn=1913193837

=='''2 30 SEPTEMBER'''==

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave Nick Lake and Tom de FrestonEmily Gravett|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersLocked Out Lily

|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quickLily is, or was, for he's a slight boyor has been, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. That's because Jack's mother knew all about monstersvery ill, and look what happened to give her – parents relief she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the ogre's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs been told to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact stay with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting her grandma for Beginners''a few days...|isbn=0755501942}}{{Frontpage|author=Emma Carroll|title=The Week at World's End|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=First, parents need the title. We're in Worldrelief as Lily's End Close, a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie baby sibling is just about to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and with the boy over the road. But we could also be at World's End, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and not much else is able to make the news. That said, Vie has news of her own born – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Close, said she'd locate something child Lily swears she wanted hates already and leave, failed to leave, and implied her life was at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got wants nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438}}{{Frontpage|author= Angharad Walker|title= The Ash House|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the system, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre But on a variety tracking back home for word of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness her parents (and complete their chores, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the storyher parents, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same again.|isbn=1912626977}}{{Frontpage|author=Freya Sampson|title=The Last Library|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=I am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought of the incoming cardiganbabe-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this storyarms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the main characterfamily back intact, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didneven if it't immediately throw s not the book out of the window, because I found I was interested in June, family Lily wants – and why all she lived as she did. Her mum used to be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going has to University and stayed at home to take care of help her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at in the local library. And even though her mum sadly died task are some years agotalking animals – Crow, she is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway mealMole, Mouse and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the changeSnake.|isbn=183877369X1471194833