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=='''14 SEPTEMBER28 OCTOBER'''==

|author=Tori BovalinoAntti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title=The Devil Makes ThreeRabbit Factor|rating=43.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Working all summer 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 her boarding schoolthe insurance company – until they decide he's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets not a request for over a hundred books team-member, that she has they'd prefer everyone to deliver herselfbe all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. What makes it worse This is the man who requested the books: Mr Birchwhen he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. The boarding schoolUnfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything's headmasteris just an adventure park, and a man Tess hatesnothing else. As ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a large requeststeady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, Tess sticks post-it notes but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on each of the booksscene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, scribbled with and the ugliest insults she can think activities of. They're never meant these guys are not conducive to reach him, of coursegetting a cheap life insurance plan. Her plan is 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 her.|isbn=1789098130191319387X

=='''16 SEPTEMBER1 NOVEMBER'''==

|isbnauthor= B09BG8V3Q6Teresa Driscoll|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadHer Perfect Family|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingThrillers|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 ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!He is not who he says he is…'' is , paving the way for the latest release in sinister tone that remains throughout the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Averynovel. This series In a twist of events, and after a change of fun picture books aims to take outfit, Gemma is shot in the pain out midst of potty training children and replace it with some funher graduation ceremony. It's With Gemma then in a worthy aimcoma, as any frustrated parent will tell what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further youread. .|isbn=1542028752

|author=Alex FoulkesLucy Hope|title=Rules for VampiresFledgling

|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a Vampire. She drinks bloodmost peculiar hilltop house, she sleeps during built bit by bit over the daydecades, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. It's an eccentric house, to travel aroundhost eccentrics, although so the library shelving system is not all of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Nowas we'd know it, on the night of her hundredth birthnightroof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, she has to go out and hunt her first human. Howeverhand-operated lift system cut through it, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanageso on. Oops! And to make things worse, At the ghosts of one of the orphans moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the evil master long-standing family hobby of the orphanage come back to haunt her. Sotaxidermy, not only a woman who does Leo have to team up with nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the friendly ghost Minna dying grandma to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulour heroine, Cassie, she a young lass who has to do it all while hiding the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah's also going to house someone or something else, therewhen crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a reason why there are rules for vampires…cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...|isbn=147119955X183994188X

 =='''28 SEPTEMBER25 NOVEMBER'''==

|isbnauthor=1800464495Will Carver|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 SmithPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers|summary=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 AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and when she'Babies seem s unable to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes find like-minded people in any of the wombgroups she decides to set up her own, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months oldhoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months oldthus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.''|isbn=1913193756}}

Did you know this? I didn==''t! How about: '9 DECEMBER'Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.''=={{FrontpageI didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children |author=Freya Marske|title=A Marvellous Light|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into a good start job in literacy - reading storiesthe Civil Service, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start schoolmuch to his chagrin. But do we think There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the same way about mathsstreets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, beyond counting? I don't think we doRobin follows Edwin to the countryside, in part because so many of us are afraid of mathswhere the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. But why are we? Most There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the 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