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=='''2 SEPTEMBER25 APRIL'''==
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|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}=='''9 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Tom de FrestonPercival|title=Julia and the SharkThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=JuliaWill's life is difficult, our pre-teen heroinein a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has been packed off with her parents the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and their cat from his dad can't work because he lost his job at the family home college, was working a cash-in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for -hand job on a summerbuilding site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in the far NE of the Scottish islandsevery direction. Here be VikingsAnd yet, that kind he still has a tiny amount of Scottish islandhope. Dad He is going good at art, and clings to be automating the lantern, which moments of joy when he is his specialist thingdrawing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt that feel like a light at the elusive Greenland shark. And Juliaend of a long, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one nightdark tunnel.|isbn=15101077891398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Ian Mark and Louis GhibaultOnyi Nwabineli|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quickAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, for hethanks to her step-mother Ophelia's a slight boyincreasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and although he wants for danger , basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and peril she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. That's because Jack's get her life back, suing her step-mother knew all to take down the content about monstersher. Anuri is battling alcoholism, and look what happened failing to start her – she diedPhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Luckily or unluckily then Most importantly, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOLshe is desperately worried about her little sister, Jack will fluke who is the ogrenew focus of Ophelia's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunteronline empire. Can she save her sister, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's namesame time? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=07555019420861546873
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Emma CarrollKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Week at World's EndDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=First, Meet Kit. Like most of the title. We're people in World's End Closehis world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a mediocre set team of houseswarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, where Stevie (Vie magical mazes, and race to her friends) finds fun only the exit, perhaps bothering with the family dog treasure or the big bad and with the boy over points they grant you along the roadway. But we could also be at World Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's End, because something taking a great chunk seen of the fun away latest race on the inn TV equivalent is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshoreone team has been retired, eaten, and not much else a new trio of questors is able to make the newsneeded. That said Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, Vie he has news taken to the goading from the token bully of her own – Anna, his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shedteam. Anna has What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Closeactually managing that, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed how could he possibly hope to leave, and implied her life was at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles awaysucceed?|isbn=05713644381839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn= Angharad Walker1635866847|title= The Ash HouseLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesnIt't know his names strange, or why he the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is there but he is used to the systembook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him I visited the rules of The Ash Houseauthor's [https://www. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmasterpinelavenderfarm. All children must remember their Niceness com/ website] and complete their chores, working as there's a hive in the smouldering shadows picture of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival a slice of chocolate cake on the Doctorhomepage. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever I don't eat cakes and The Ash House will never be the same againdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally.|isbn=1912626977}}{{Frontpage|author=Freya Sampson|title=The Last Library|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=I am always (There's a little nervous to start a story about a libraryrecipe in the book, since which I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes'm avoiding with some difficulty!! In this story, the main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst Then I started reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book out of the window, because I found and I was interested told to make a mess of it. Notes in June, and why she lived as she didthe margins are sanctioned. Her mum used You get to be a librarian at fold down the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home to take care corners of pages. You suspect that smears of her mum, as well as taking on butter would not be a job as library assistant at the local libraryproblem. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum I ''loved's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mum's old booksthis book already. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the change.|isbn=183877369X
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=='''16 SEPTEMBER4 JULY'''==
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|isbnauthor= B09BG8V3Q6Max Boucherat|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series The Last Life of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Foulkes|title=Rules for VampiresLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or We meet Lori on the first evening she'Leo' for short) is s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a Vampire. She drinks bloodblanket fort, she sleeps during the dayhas one main intention, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats that is to travel around, although not all of them remember log on to come back). Pretty cool stuff. NowVoxminer, on the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night of doesn't find herself entirely on her hundredth birthnightown, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she has to go out and hunt her first humanbestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. However, instead she ends When malevolent eyes spark up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worseon her phone screen, 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 safe place in the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulgame has been doctored – well, she has where is a girl to do it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each otherturn? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X0008666482
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=='''28 SEPTEMBER'''==
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|isbn=1800464495
|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 Smith
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.''
 
Did you know this? I didn't! How about:
 
''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double 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 stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think 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 of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.
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=='''7 OCTOBER'''==
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|author=John Gwynne
|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
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|author=Peter Papathanasiou
|title=The Stoning
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. 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 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 in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...
|isbn=1529416973
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=='''19 OCTOBER'''==
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|author=Claire McGowan
|title=I Know You
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the baby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down.
 
''Now:'' Rachel is out for a walk with her dog, Brandy, when she comes across a body in the woods.
 
|isbn=1542019974
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=='''28 OCTOBER'''==
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|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)
|title=The Rabbit Factor
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|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'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 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 when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and 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 the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan...
|isbn=191319387X
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