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=='''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

|author=Ian Mark and Louis GhibaultTeresa Driscoll|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersHer Perfect Family|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Meet JackThe 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. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quickSuddenly, for Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says heis…''s , paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a slight boytwist of events, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out after a change of his sight. That's because Jack's mother knew all about monstersoutfit, and look what happened to Gemma is shot in the midst of her – she diedgraduation ceremony. Luckily or unluckily With Gemma then, depending on your point of view, in a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the ogre's deathcoma, what follows is a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given complex whodunit with a book list of suspects that tells him all he needs continues to know about grow the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''..further you read.|isbn=07555019421542028752

|author=Emma CarrollLucy Hope|title=The Week at World's EndFledgling|rating=4.5

|summary=FirstBavaria, the title1900. We're in World's End Close, Our scene is a mediocre set of housesmost peculiar hilltop house, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with built bit by bit over the family dog decades, and with now looking imperiously down on the boy over the roadvillage and woods below. But we could also be at WorldIt's Endan eccentric house, to host eccentrics, because something taking a great chunk of so the fun away library shelving system is not as we'd know it, the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis roof is retractable, there is kicking offa steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so on. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the risk long-standing family hobby of nuclear missiles offshoretaxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and not much else is able sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to make the news. That saidour heroine, Vie has news of her own – AnnaCassie, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna lass who has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in to do all the American airforce base behind the Close, said shemaintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it'd locate s also going to house someone or something she wanted and leaveelse, failed when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to leavebe a completely great and wonderful thing, and implied her life was at riskthink again... But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438183994188X

|author= Angharad WalkerWill Carver|title= The Ash HousePsychopaths Anonymous|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident ReadersThrillers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name, or why he Maeve is there but he is used to the systema high functioning alcoholic, used to different places drinking continuously and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out also, curiously, addicted to teach him the rules of The Ash Houseattending numerous AA groups. These rules centre on She is also a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmasterself-acknowledged psychopath. All children must remember their Niceness Whilst analysing and complete their chores, working as a hive in critiquing the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace AA steps she is shattered by mainly using the arrival groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of the Doctorpeople's misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. By the end Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of the storygroups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same againthus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=19126269771913193756

|author=Freya SampsonMarske|title=The Last LibraryA Marvellous Light

|genre=General Historical Fiction|summary=I am always Robin Blyth is nudged into 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 job 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)Civil Service, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating learns that the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book out streets of the window, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she didLondon are threaded with magic. Her mum used Desperate to be remove a librarian at the village library, but when she got sickcurse that threatens to swallow him, June gave up on going Robin follows Edwin to University and stayed at home to take care of her mumthe countryside, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at where 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, hedgegrows bristle with incantations and still reading her mum's old booksthe people shimmer with power. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in her life is about the changeBritish Isles.|isbn=183877369X1529080886

=='''16 SEPTEMBER6 JANUARY 2022'''=={{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .}}

|author=Alex FoulkesLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=Rules for VampiresThe Mermaid in the Millpond

|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is a Vampiretelling herself. She drinks blood, she sleeps during the day, and she can Grimwalk (turning into Neither will there be a flock of bats to travel around, although not friend for her in amongst all of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the night of her hundredth birthnightother kids, she has who have had their entire childhoods sold to go out and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans the mill-owners by accident and burning down an orphanagethe London workhouse they used to call home. Oops! And Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-to make things worse-mouth, the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master every man for himself kind of the orphanage come back to haunt herexistence. So, not only But despite herself Bess does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost find a bit of a kindred spirit in the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulslight little Dot, she and despite everything that life has to do it all while hiding it from taught her family. Did I mention vampires about betrayal and ghosts hate each other? Yeahhow befriending people only leads to harm, theremight be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn's a reason why t mean there are rules for vampires…is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=147119955X180090049X

 =='''28 SEPTEMBER18 JANUARY'''==

|isbnauthor=1800464495Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma SmithRed is My Heart|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Non-Literary Fiction|summary=''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense[[:Category: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and comprehending addition white and subtraction at nine months oldread in my house.'' Did you know And so was this? one, although I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double could have spelled that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know more accurately – this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading storiesone was, teaching pen gripsand is, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start schoolblack and white and red. But do we think the same way about mathsYes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, beyond counting? and I donthink it't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid s possible to say not one page lacks the influence of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialsome striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183

=='''7 OCTOBER3 FEBRUARY'''==

|author=John GwynneChristopher Edge|title=The Shadow Of The GodsEscape Room|rating=53|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment I've seen junior variants of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the era of the Vikings process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in the shadow of Ragnaroka specific location, when the Gods and have battled and to solve problems in order to get their bones lie scattered way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one for all to see. This story myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the ultimate in High Fantasyfirst. Here, Ami and John Gwynne certainly does justice four other tweenagers, all new to each other and booked into the genregame without any of their friends, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is are a thick bookteam – starting out at the game's main offices, with an intricate plot where they're told they and fascinating characters that their quest for The Answer are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world -changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in which our heroes must do battle.the world of literature?|isbn=03565142181788007964

|author=Peter PapathanasiouLouie Stowell|title=The StoningLoki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher Meet Loki. The trickster god has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolleygot into trouble again, and sheso the other gods have decided there's been taped to only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a tree month both in exile and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were in the world's tallest cricket stumpsphysical form of a middle-school kid here on Earth. When sheHe's discovered guarded by the town gossip everyonea giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, including to be the local copsmore suave, are quite confident more popular and more successful brother of the culprit two. Loki has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home a month to. An arson attack on that shows redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the feeling – right way again, or else, and to prove it's only fairhe has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is the general opinionable to cry foul of his lies, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditionsand judge his progress. Cue But Loki is the arrival kind of George Manolisgod who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community month is really going to welcome be a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down walk in the lawpark...right?|isbn=15294169731406399752

=='''19 OCTOBER3 MARCH'''==

|author=Claire McGowanMarcus Sedgwick|title=I Know YouWrath|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the babyMeet Fitz, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken downyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. ''Now:'' Rachel Lockdown is out for a walk with her dog, Brandyonly just over, when she comes across a body in the woods. |isbn=1542019974}} =='''28 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title=The Rabbit Factor|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|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 should be free to do what he's not a team-memberwants, that they'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic go where he wants and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when with whom 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 cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideasschool band, but loans have been made out and Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the amount vanishedearth. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the scene to explain that missing money – world is already a done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henridreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance planwhen Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=191319387X1800900899