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=='''28 SEPTEMBEROCTOBER'''==
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|isbnauthor=1800464495Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|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 SmithThe Rabbit Factor|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|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 the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, that they'Babies seem d prefer everyone to be born with 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 otherwise) that 'everything' is just an amazing number sense: understanding shapes adventure park, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the womb, being aware of quantities finances – it runs at seven hours olda steady money-moving pace, assessing probability at six months olddespite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and comprehending addition the amount vanished. Fortunately (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 been inherited by Henri, and subtraction at nine months oldthe activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan...''|isbn=191319387X}}
Did you know this? I didn=='''1 NOVEMBER'''t! How about:=={{Frontpage|author=Teresa Driscoll|title=Her Perfect Family''Maths ability on entry |rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to school is a strong predictor of later achievementbe your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, double that of literacy skillsher graduation outfit is all wrong.Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware , paving the way for the sinister tone that giving your children remains throughout the novel. 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
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=='''30 SEPTEMBER4 NOVEMBER'''==
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|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettLucy Hope|title=Locked Out LilyFledgling
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|genre=Confident Readers
|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
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=='''7 OCTOBER25 NOVEMBER'''==
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|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
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|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
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=='''14 OCTOBER9 DECEMBER'''==
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|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaFreya Marske|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)A Marvellous Light
|rating=4
|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'''==
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|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=15420199741788007964
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=='''28 OCTOBER'''==
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|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)Louie Stowell|title=The Rabbit FactorLoki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Meet HenriLoki. With a mind The trickster god has got into trouble again, so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is the other human beings, hegods have decided there's perfect only one thing for his job it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile and in the insurance company – until they decide hephysical form of a middle-school kid here on Earth. He's not guarded by a team-membergiant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, that they'd prefer everyone to be all open-planthe more suave, holistic more popular and keen on stupid-as workshoppingmore successful brother of the two. This is when he finds his brother Loki has died, having a heart attack while busy changing month to redeem his Volvo's radio channelreputation, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure parkelse, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but prove it he perks up a little when he sees huge holes has to write the text we read in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pacesentient notebook, despite some desultory staff ideasthat is able to cry foul of his lies, but loans have been made out and the amount vanishedjudge his progress. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on But Loki is the scene kind of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to explain that missing money – it's been turned into be a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and walk in the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance planpark...right?|isbn=191319387X1406399752
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=='''1 NOVEMBER3 MARCH'''==
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|author=Teresa DriscollMarcus Sedgwick|title=Her Perfect FamilyWrath|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to GemmaMeet Fitz, who a young Scottish lad full of frustration at first instance appears himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to be your average studentdo what he wants, faced to go where he wants and with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenlywhom he wants, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who but he says cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he is…''talks to his best friend, paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novelCassie. In They were half of a twist of eventsdesultory school band, and after but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a change subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of outfit, Gemma is shot in her eco-warrior parents saying the midst end of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows the world is already a complex whodunit with a list done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of suspects that continues to grow ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the further you readtruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=15420287521800900899
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