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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

|author=Philip ReeveLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of The Mermaid in the DeepMillpond|rating=4.5

|summary=In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches no mermaid in this story set on the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a peculiar island called Wildseafriend for her in amongst all the other kids, British but way west, beyond who have had their entire childhoods sold to the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and seamill-witches, and legends of owners by the Dark family that has London workhouse they used to keep watch call home. Bess knows there is no time for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further westfriendship in a hand-to-mouth, where no ship dare sailevery man for himself kind of existence. The current Darks are But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the Watcherslight little Dot, Andrewe, who and despite everything that life has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry taught her about such local yokel superstitions, betrayal and Andrewe's foundling daughterhow befriending people only leads to harm, who washed up out there might be a glimmer of companionship in the sea one day eleven years agotired-out mill workers. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the world existence of protecting their island, like it or not.the mermaid?|isbn=1788452372180090049X

=='''16 SEPTEMBER18 JANUARY'''==

|isbnauthor= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (Everybody Potties!translator)|authortitle= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadRed is My Heart|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction |summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is the latest release in the , black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims s possible to take say not one page lacks the pain out influence of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183

|author=Alex FoulkesChristopher Edge|title=Rules for VampiresEscape Room|rating=4.53

|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific location, and have to solve problems in order to get their way out. What I'Leo' ve not done (alongside experience one for myself – for shortthat would require actual friends) is seen a Vampire. She drinks bloodprose book describing people in such an adventure, she sleeps during with the regular second person narrative replaced by the dayfirst. Here, Ami and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel aroundfour other tweenagers, although not all of them remember new to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Now, on each other and booked into the night game without any of her hundredth birthnighttheir friends, she has to go are a team – starting out and hunt her first human. Howeverat the game's main offices, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident where they're told they and burning down an orphanagetheir quest for The Answer are a world-changer. Oops! And to make things worseBut could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her. Soramped-up threat levels, not only does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop change much in the ghost world of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each otherliterature? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X1788007964

|isbnauthor=1800464495Louie Stowell|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma SmithBeing Good

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile and in the physical form of a middle-school kid here on Earth. He'Babies seem s guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the wombmore suave, being aware more popular and more successful brother of quantities at seven hours oldthe two. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation, assessing probability at six months oldand get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is prove it he has to write the text we read in a strong predictor of later achievementsentient notebook, double that is able to cry foul of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading storieshis lies, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start schooland judge his progress. But do we think Loki is the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we kind of god who insists he can doanything, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children surviving a bit more virtuously for a similar pre-school grounding will month is going to be just as beneficiala walk in the park...right?|isbn=1406399752

=='''7 OCTOBER3 MARCH'''==

|author=John GwynneMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Shadow Of The GodsWrath|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn SagaMeet Fitz, set in the era a young Scottish lad full of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to seefrustration at himself. This story Lockdown is the ultimate in High Fantasyonly just over, and John Gwynne certainly does justice he should be free to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=0356514218}}{{Frontpage|author=Peter Papathanasiou|title=The Stoning|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparisonwhat he wants, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's been taped to a tree go where he wants and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyonewith whom he wants, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come but he cannot stop himself from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home putting his foot in it when he talks to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fairhis best friend, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditionsCassie. Cue the arrival They were half of George Manolisa desultory school band, a higher rank from but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome enigmatic – saying she could hear a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...|isbn=1529416973}} =='''19 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Claire McGowan|title=I Know You|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns subhuman hum coming from a walk with the baby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken downearth. ''Now:'' Rachel is out for a walk Is this connected with one of her dog, Brandy, when she comes across a body in eco-warrior parents saying 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 end of 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 world is when he finds his brother has died, having already a heart attack while busy changing his Volvodone deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is dreaming of? Is she just an adventure parkbonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when Cassie has gone missing 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 – itcan'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 plant...|isbn=191319387X1800900899