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=='''4 JANUARY25 APRIL'''==

|isbnauthor=0760381267Sylvie Cathrall|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-SantiagoA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary=''The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it''. I've 'gardened' in a vague, indefinite sort of way for more There are few greater joys than half a century. I know (most of) the basics but life has changed and I needed 'projects' rather than book which lives up to a general commitment to gardeningcompelling premise. ''Verdura'' with its promise And this is one of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like the answerthem. So, how did it stack up?|isbn= 0356522776

=='''1 FEBRUARY9 MAY'''==

|author=Sarah MarshTom Percival|title=A Sign of Her OwnThe Wrong Shoes|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=After Will's life is difficult, in a bout multitude of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearingways. Suddenly plunged into a world He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of silencethings like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, everything about her life changeswas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Living in a time when Throw into that mix the use of sign language was seen as something only savages dofact that his mum and dad are separated, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signingand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. From hereAnd yet, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who he still has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speechtiny amount of hope. At He is good at art, and clings to the same time, Bell moments of joy when he is working on other inventions and ideasdrawing, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in that feel like a complicated tangle light at the end of espionagea long, dark tunnel.|isbn=10354016141398527122

|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonaghOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Glorious Race of Magical BeastsAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in Anuri spent her childhood on display to the wondrous library we start by visiting with himworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns influencer deals and runs, basically, monetary gain. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there Now Anuri is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to the titular raceget her life back, a globesuing her step-trotting adventure where all entrants have mother to navigate the world in take down the company of a magical beastcontent about her. This has made the race anathema Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from granthem for doing so. Most importantly, Eli knows his only hope she is to dare to enter what he most hatesdesperately worried about her little sister, with the sole aim who is the prize new focus of magic Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.same time?|isbn=05713822310861546873