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=='''2 SEPTEMBER25 APRIL'''==
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|author= Angharad WalkerSylvie Cathrall|title= The Ash HouseA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the system, used There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash Housecompelling premise. But soon their easy peace And this is shattered by the arrival one of the Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same againthem.|isbn=19126269770356522776
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=='''14 SEPTEMBER9 MAY'''==
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|author=Tori BovalinoTom Percival|title=The Devil Makes ThreeWrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Working all summer in her boarding schoolWill's library life is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets difficult, in a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herselfmultitude of ways. What makes it worse He is bullied because he has 'the man who requested wrong shoes', he has the books: Mr Birch. The boarding schoolwrong shoes because his dad can's headmaster, t work and a man Tess hates. As a petty act doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of revenge for making her find things like food, and deliver such his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a large request, Tess sticks postcash-in-it notes hand job on each of a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the booksfact that his mum and dad are separated, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think ofand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. They're never meant to reach him And yet, he still has a tiny amount of coursehope. Her plan He is good at art, and clings to get her anger out the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like thisa light at the end of a long, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for herdark tunnel.|isbn=17890981301398527122
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=='''16 SEPTEMBER23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor= B09BG8V3Q6Onyi Nwabineli|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Allow Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjadto Introduce Myself
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|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary= Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' s childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is the latest release in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the ''Everybody Potties!'' series content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from Justine Averythem for doing so. This series of fun picture books aims to take Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the pain out new focus of potty training children and replace it with some fun. ItOphelia's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell youonline empire. .Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Alex FoulkesKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Rules for VampiresDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5
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|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) is a VampireMeet Kit. She drinks blood, she sleeps during Like most of the daypeople in his world, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel aroundit seems, although not all he is an avid fan of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Now, on Dungeon Running – the night sport where a team of her hundredth birthnightwarrior, she has to go out mage and hunt her first human. Howeverhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And race to make things worsethe exit, perhaps bothering with the ghosts of one of treasure or the orphans big bad and the evil master of points they grant you along the orphanage come back to haunt herway. So Unfortunately for Kit, not the only does Leo have to team up with thing he's seen of the friendly ghost Minna to stop latest race on the ghost inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of the Orphanmaster before questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has taken to do it all while hiding it the goading from her familythe token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Did I mention vampires What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and ghosts hate each otherhow could he possibly hope to succeed? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X1839945184
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=='''28 SEPTEMBER13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=18004644951635866847|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of MathsThe Lavender Companion|author=Emma SmithJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in ' feel that this is the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months oldbook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'' Did you know this? , I didnvisited the author't! How abouts [https: //www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there''Maths ability on entry to school is s a strong predictor picture of later achievement, double that a slice of literacy skillschocolate cake on the homepage.'' I didndon't know this either! eat cakes and desserts - but I think most parents are aware wanted that giving your children cake viscerally. (There's a good start recipe 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 mathsbook, beyond counting? which I don't think we do, m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in part because so many of us the margins are afraid sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of mathspages. But why are we? Most You suspect that smears of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children butter would not be a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''30 SEPTEMBER4 JULY'''==
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|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettMax Boucherat|title=Locked Out LilyThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lily isWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, or wason her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, or she has been, very illone main intention, and that is to give her parents relief she's been told log on to stay with her grandma for Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a few days. The parents need the relief as Lilyhit in Lori's baby sibling is just about to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do withworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on tracking back home for word of her parents (own, and her plush toy so then she can sleep) finds something even more spooky. For the server she finds stony-eyed simulacra of and her parents, bestie and the babe-in-arms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to nobody else should be ousted able to get the family back intactenter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, even if it's not the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her safe place in the task are some talking animals game has been doctored – Crowwell, Mole, Mouse and Snake.where is a girl to turn?|isbn=14711948330008666482
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