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

|author= Angharad WalkerAntti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title= The Ash HouseRabbit Factor|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident ReadersCrime|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash HouseMeet Henri. He doesnWith a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he't know s perfect for his namejob 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 why he otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is there so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he is used to perks up a little when he 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

=='''14 SEPTEMBER1 NOVEMBER'''==

|author=Tori BovalinoTeresa Driscoll|title=The Devil Makes ThreeHer Perfect Family|rating=4.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary= Working 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 summer in her boarding schoolwrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''s library He is not who he says he is…'', paving the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request way for over a hundred books the sinister tone that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is remains throughout the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hatesnovel. As In a petty act twist of revenge for making her find events, and deliver such after a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each change of the booksoutfit, scribbled with Gemma is shot in the ugliest insults she can think midst ofher graduation ceremony. They're never meant to reach himWith Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of course. Her plan is suspects that continues to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for hergrow the further you read.|isbn=17890981301542028752

=='''16 SEPTEMBER4 NOVEMBER'''==

|isbnauthor= B09BG8V3Q6Lucy Hope|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadFledgling

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the latest release in decades, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. It's an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as we'Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Averyd know it, the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so on. This series At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby of fun picture books aims taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to take our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the pain out maintenance of potty training children and replace this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it with some fun. It's also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a worthy aimcompletely great and wonderful thing, as any frustrated parent will tell youthink again.. .|isbn=183994188X

|author=Alex FoulkesWill Carver|title=Rules for VampiresPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) Maeve is a Vampirehigh functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She drinks blood, is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she sleeps during is mainly using the day, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats groups to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back)find targets.. Pretty cool stuff. Nowtargets for sexual encounters, on the night targets to feed her desire to hear of her hundredth birthnightpeople's misery, she has to go out and hunt targets for her first humanviolent behaviour. However, instead Yet she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And also seems to make things worsebe searching for others who think as she does, the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of the orphanage come back groups she decides to haunt set up her. Soown, not only does Leo have hoping to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulencounter others who share similar obsessions, she has to do it all while hiding it from her familyand thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X1913193756

 =='''28 SEPTEMBER9 DECEMBER'''==

|isbnauthor=1800464495Freya Marske|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 SmithA Marvellous Light|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Historical Fiction|summary=''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the wombCivil Service, being aware much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months oldLondon are threaded with magic.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry Desperate to school is remove a strong predictor of later achievement, double curse 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 storiesthreatens to swallow him, teaching pen gripsRobin follows Edwin to the countryside, singing rhymes - gives children where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think sinister plot that threatens 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 lives of us use maths all magicians in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialthe British Isles.|isbn=1529080886

=='''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