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=='''16 SEPTEMBER28 OCTOBER'''==

|author=Alex Foulkes|title=Rules for Vampires|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) is a Vampire. She drinks blood, she sleeps during the day, Antti Tuomainen and she can Grimwalk David Hackston (turning into a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to come backtranslator). Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the night of her hundredth birthnight, she has to go out and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worse, the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her. So, not only does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost 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 other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241425425|title=The Man Who Died Twice|author=Richard OsmanRabbit Factor|rating=43.5

|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letterMeet Henri. It came from With a man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames mind so much more focused on maths and who had never existed but then this calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the sort of conundrum which retired spies have insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone to deal with be all open-plan, holistic and keen on a regular basisstupid-as workshopping. When she visits the sender of the letter (This is when hefinds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Villageradio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she has a long professional history - everything' is just an adventure park, and who used to be her husbandnothing else. He's made a bad mistake - something 'YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to do with occupy his mind, but he perks up a mask being removed within little when he sees huge holes in the range of finances – it runs at a CCTV camera on a raidsteady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds but loans have been made out and a few death threatsthe amount vanished. HeFortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now in hiding with been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitresscheap life insurance plan...|isbn=191319387X

 =='''28 SEPTEMBER1 NOVEMBER'''==

|isbnauthor=1800464495Teresa Driscoll|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 SmithHer Perfect Family|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers|summary=''Babies seem The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be born your average student, faced with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the wombfamiliar horrifying realisation, being aware of quantities at seven hours oldthe eleventh hour, assessing probability at six months oldthat her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.Gemma receives an eerie message stating '' Did you know this? I didnHe is not who he says he is…'t! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double paving the way for the sinister tone that of literacy skillsremains throughout the novel.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children In a good start in literacy - reading storiestwist of events, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children and after a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we dochange of outfit, Gemma is shot in part because so many of us are afraid the midst of mathsher graduation ceremony. But why are we? Most of us use maths With Gemma then in daily life without realising and it a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialcontinues to grow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752

=='''30 SEPTEMBER4 NOVEMBER'''==

|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettLucy Hope|title=Locked Out LilyFledgling

|summary=Lily Bavaria, 1900. Our scene isa most peculiar hilltop house, or was, or has been, very illbuilt bit by bit over the decades, and to give her parents relief shenow looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. It's been told an eccentric house, to stay with her grandma for a few days. The parents need host eccentrics, so the relief library shelving system is not as Lilywe's baby sibling d know it, the roof is retractable, there is just about to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and wants nothing to do so on. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with. But on tracking back home PTSD and a passion for word the long-standing family hobby of her parents (taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parentssing opera loudly, and the babe-in-armsdying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, already installed. These devilish interlopers need a young lass who has to be ousted to get do all the family back intact, even if maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's not the family Lily wants – and all she has also going to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crowhouse someone or something else, Molewhen 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 completely great and wonderful thing, Mouse and Snakethink again...|isbn=1471194833183994188X

=='''7 OCTOBER25 NOVEMBER'''==

|author=John GwynneWill Carver|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice 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 StoningPsychopaths Anonymous

|summary=In Maeve is a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparisonhigh functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolleycuriously, and she's been taped addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a tree self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps sheis mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's had rocks bowled at misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. When does, and when she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home unable to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires find like-minded people in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival any of George Manolis, a higher rank from the citygroups she decides to set up her own, hoping to sort everything out. Because such an aggrievedencounter others who share similar obsessions, insular community and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law..born.|isbn=15294169731913193756

=='''14 OCTOBER9 DECEMBER'''==

|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaFreya Marske|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)A Marvellous Light

|genre=For SharingHistorical Fiction|summary= TootsRobin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, trumps, fartsmuch to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded with magic. Whatever your word for them, find us Desperate to remove a child curse that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny threatens to talk about and joke aboutswallow him, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at Robin follows Edwin to the wrong time. In classcountryside, say, when everyone will hear it where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and everyone will laughthe people shimmer with power. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normalBritish Isles. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W1529080886}}

=='''19 OCTOBER6 JANUARY 2022'''==

|author=Claire McGowanLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=I Know YouThe Mermaid in the Millpond|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a walk with friend for her in amongst all the babyother kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, Carsonevery man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and comes across three bodiesdespite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, almost there might be a whole family taken downglimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers.But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X}}

==''Now:'18 JANUARY''' Rachel =={{Frontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Red is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[: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 out for a walk with her dog, Brandyblack and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, when she comes across a body in and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the woodsinfluence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183}}

=='''3 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Escape Room|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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've not done (alongside experience one for 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 first. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to each other and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at the game's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964}}{{Frontpage|author=Louie Stowell|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good|rating=4.5|genre=Confident 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's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother of the two. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and to prove it he has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progress. But Loki is 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 in the park...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