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=='''2 SEPTEMBER28 OCTOBER'''==

|author=Ian Mark Antti Tuomainen and Louis GhibaultDavid Hackston (translator)|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersThe Rabbit Factor|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet JackHenri. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless With a mind so much more focused on maths and nimble and quickcalculations than it is other human beings, for he's a slight boy, and although he wants perfect for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. Thatjob in the insurance company – until they decide he's because Jacknot a team-member, that they's mother knew d prefer everyone to be all about monstersopen-plan, holistic and look what happened to her – she keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point of view, having a giant ogre will threaten heart attack while busy changing his aunt when JackVolvo's father also goes AWOLradio channel, Jack will fluke the ogreand has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him is just an apprentice monster hunteradventure park, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact withnothing else. The book's name? 'YouMeFun'Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=0755501942}}{{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 is so not what Henri wants to occupy his namemind, or why but he is there but perks up a little when he is used to sees huge holes in the systemfinances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and sets out to teach him the rules of The Ash Houseamount vanished. These rules centre Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a variety of Nicenesses set out gambling debt that has also now been inherited by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness Henri, and complete their chores, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows activities of The Ash Housethese guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan. 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 will never be the same again.|isbn=1912626977191319387X

|author=Philip ReeveTeresa Driscoll|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the DeepHer Perfect Family

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=In a wordThe novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildseawho at first instance appears to be your average student, British but way westfaced with the familiar horrifying realisation, beyond at the Scillieseleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. There are troll people on itSuddenly, and sea-witchesGemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', and legends of paving the way for the Dark family sinister tone that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sailremains throughout the novel. The current Darks are the WatcherIn a twist of events, Andrewe, who has to keep notes and after a change of activity from the Hidden Landsoutfit, his brother Will who lives Gemma is shot in London with too much science the midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitionsa coma, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or notfurther you read.|isbn=17884523721542028752

=='''14 SEPTEMBER4 NOVEMBER'''==

|author=Tori BovalinoLucy Hope|title=The Devil Makes ThreeFledgling

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested decades, and now looking imperiously down on the books: Mr Birchvillage and woods below. The boarding schoolIt's headmasteran eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and a man Tess hatesso on. As At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a petty act passion for the long-standing family hobby of revenge for making her find taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and deliver such a large requestsing opera loudly, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of and the booksdying grandma to our heroine, scribbled with Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the ugliest insults she can think maintenance ofthis bizarre machine-like abode. TheyOh but it're never meant s also going to reach himhouse someone or something else, of coursewhen crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. Her plan And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to get her anger out like thisbe a completely great and wonderful thing, and then take them all off before delivering themthink again.. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|isbn=1789098130183994188X

=='''16 SEPTEMBER25 NOVEMBER'''==

|isbnauthor= B09BG8V3Q6Will Carver|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the latest release in AA steps she is mainly using the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Averygroups to find targets... This series of fun picture books aims targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to take the pain out hear of potty training children people's misery, and replace it with some funtargets for her violent behaviour. ItYet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and when she's a worthy aimunable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, as any frustrated parent will tell you. and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=1913193756

|author=Alex FoulkesFreya Marske|title=Rules for VampiresA Marvellous Light|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) Robin Blyth is nudged into a Vampire. She drinks blood, she sleeps during job in the dayCivil Service, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember much to come back)his chagrin. Pretty cool stuff. Now, on There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the night streets of her hundredth birthnight, she has London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to go out and hunt her first human. Howeverswallow him, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And Robin follows Edwin to make things worsethe countryside, where the ghosts of one of the orphans hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt herpeople shimmer with power. So, not only does Leo have to team up with There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost lives of all magicians in the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all while hiding it from her familyBritish Isles. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X1529080886

Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that 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 stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, 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 a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.}} =='''30 SEPTEMBER6 JANUARY 2022'''==

|author=Nick Lake Lucy Strange and Emily GravettPam Smy|title=Locked Out LilyThe Mermaid in the Millpond

|summary=Lily There is, or was, or has been, very ill, and to give her parents relief she's been told to stay with her grandma for a few daysno mermaid in the millpond. The parents need the relief as Lily's baby sibling That at least is what Bess is just about to telling herself. Neither will there be born – a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do with. But on tracking back home friend for word of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parentsin amongst all the other kids, and who have had their entire childhoods sold to the babemill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship ina hand-to-armsmouth, already installedevery man for himself kind of existence. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the family back intactslight little Dot, even if it's not the family Lily wants – and all she despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to help her harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snaketired-out mill workers.But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=1471194833180090049X

=='''7 OCTOBER18 JANUARY'''==

|author=John GwynneAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=The Shadow Of The GodsRed is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction |summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarokmy house. And so was this one, when the Gods although I could have battled spelled that more accurately – this one was, and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, black and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language white and battles galorered. This is a thick bookYes, with he has an intricate plot artistic collaborator on this piece, and fascinating characters that are woven together I think it's possible to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battlesay not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=03565142181913547183

|author=Peter PapathanasiouChristopher Edge|title=The StoningEscape Room|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=In I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous character or characters start by being trapped in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolleyspecific location, and shehave to solve problems in order to get their way out. What I's been taped to ve not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the world's tallest cricket stumps. When she's discovered regular second person narrative replaced by the town gossip everyonefirst. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, including all new to each other and booked into the local copsgame without any of their friends, are quite confident a team – starting out at the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and itgame's only fair, is the general opinionmain offices, where they're told they and their quest for the occupants The Answer are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything outworld-changer. Because But could watching people engage with such an aggrieveda pastime, insular community is really going to welcome a Greekdespite the ramped-heritaged city boy laying down up threat levels, change much in the law...world of literature?|isbn=15294169731788007964

|author=Claire McGowanLouie Stowell|title=I Know YouLoki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident 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'Then:'' Casey returns from s guarded by a giant and a walk with god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, to be the babymore suave, Carsonmore popular and more successful brother of the two. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation, and comes across three bodiesget his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, almost and to prove it he has to write the text we read in a whole family taken downsentient notebook, that is able to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progress. ''Now:'' Rachel But Loki is out the kind of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be a walk with her dog, Brandy, when she comes across a body in the woodspark...right?|isbn=15420199741406399752

=='''28 OCTOBER3 MARCH'''==

|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)Marcus Sedgwick|title=The Rabbit FactorWrath|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Meet HenriFitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it Lockdown is other human beingsonly just over, and 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