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=='''5 AUGUST28 SEPTEMBER'''==
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|authorisbn=John Boyne1800464495|title=The Echo Chamber|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing 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-Love 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}}{{FrontpageMaths|author=Louise Candlish|title=The HeightsEmma Smith
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Ellen doesn't expect 'Babies seem to see Kieran that day. She's on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in a building across the way. There are lots of thingswomb, lots being aware of peoplequantities at seven hours old, 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 yearsassessing probability at six months old, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murdercomprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.''|isbn=1471183483}}Did you know this? I didn't! How about:
=='''19 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=Doug Johnstone|title=The Great Silence|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought Maths ability on entry to be, it school is merely the surname of a family strong predictor of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinctlater achievement, she married a scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm double that had been in the family for generationsof literacy skills. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her still-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 term.|isbn=1913193837}}''
==I didn'''2 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her t know this either! I think most parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for are aware that giving your children a summer, good start in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikingsliteracy - reading stories, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lanternteaching pen grips, 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 Beginners|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's singing rhymes - gives children a slight boy, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sightsolid foundation when they start school. That's because Jack's mother knew all But do we think the same way about monsters, and look what happened to her – 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 deathmaths, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's namebeyond counting? I don''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=0755501942}}{{Frontpage|author=Emma Carroll|title=The Week at World's End|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Firstt think we do, the title. We're in World's End Close, a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie 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, part because something taking a great chunk so many of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats us are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk afraid of nuclear missiles offshore, and not much else is able to make the newsmaths. That said, Vie has news But why are we? Most of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, us use maths in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Close, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leave, and implied her daily life was at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got 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 without realising 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 on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All it follows that giving our children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House similar pre-school grounding 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 cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, 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 didn't immediately throw the book out of the window, because I found I was interested in June, and why 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 to University and stayed at home to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a job just as library assistant at the local library. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the changebeneficial.|isbn=183877369X
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=='''16 30 SEPTEMBER'''==
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|author=Alex FoulkesNick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=Rules for VampiresLocked Out Lily
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (Lily is, or was, or has been, very ill, and to give her parents relief she'Leos been told to stay with her grandma for a few days. The parents need the relief as Lily' for short) s baby sibling is just about to be born – a Vampire. She drinks blood, child Lily swears she sleeps during the day, hates already and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats wants nothing to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuffdo with. Now, But on the night tracking back home for word of her hundredth birthnight, parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she has to go out and hunt finds stony-eyed simulacra of her first human. Howeverparents, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanagethe babe-in-arms, already installed. Oops! And These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to make things worse, get the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come family back to haunt her. Sointact, even if it's not only does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, family Lily wants – and all she has to do it all while hiding it from help her familyin the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snake. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X1471194833
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|isbn=1529416973
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=='''14 OCTOBER'''==
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|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova
|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary= 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 wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest 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. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!
|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W
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=='''19 OCTOBER'''==
|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it'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=191319387X
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=='''1 NOVEMBER'''==
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|author=Teresa Driscoll
|title=Her Perfect Family
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a twist of events, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you read.
|isbn=1542028752
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