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=='''6 JANUARY 202225 APRIL'''==
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|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmySylvie Cathrall|title=The Mermaid in A Letter to the MillpondLuminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be are few greater joys than a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold book which lives up to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homea compelling premise. Bess knows there And this is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer one of companionship in the tired-out mill workersthem. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X0356522776
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=='''18 JANUARY9 MAY'''==
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Tom Percival|title=Red is My HeartThe Wrong Shoes|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction Confident Readers|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read Will's life is difficult, in my housea multitude of ways. And so was this one He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', although I could he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have spelled that more accurately – this one wasenough money for even the most basic of things like food, and ishis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, black was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and white dad are separated, and redWill's life seems bleak in every direction. Yes And yet, he still has an artistic collaborator on this piecea tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and I think it's possible clings to say not one page lacks the influence moments of some striking visual ideasjoy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=19135471831398527122
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=='''20 JANUARY23 MAY'''==
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|author=Gunnar StaalesenOnyi Nwabineli|title=Bitter FlowersAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning Anuri spent her childhood on display to work. Howeverthe world, the quiet job hethanks to her step-mother Ophelia's supposedly taken increasingly popular presence on caretaking someonesocial media, where she posted every step of Anuri's house quickly turns into a murder investigationchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and a mystery around a missing womanshe is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Varg finds himself not only investigating these Anuri is battling alcoholism, but also looking into an oldfailing to start her PhD, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and was never foundreceiving money from them for doing so. Somehow Most importantly, these disparate cases appear to be linkedshe is desperately worried about her little sister, but what who is the linknew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and how can Varg possibly unravel perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the truthsame time?|isbn=191319308X0861546873
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=='''25 JANUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Dean Koontz|title=Quicksilver|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, Kieran Larwood and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mindJoe Todd-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.|isbn=1542019885}} =='''3 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Christopher EdgeStanton|title=Escape RoomDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=34
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|summary=I've seen junior variants Meet Kit. Like most of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the process by which sport where a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific locationteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and have race to solve problems in order to get their the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way out. What I Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is s seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with of the regular second person narrative replaced by latest race on the first. Hereinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, Ami and four other tweenagersa new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, all new he has taken to each other the goading from the token bully of his world and booked stumbled into the game without any of their friends, are declaring he'll enter as a team – starting out at the game's main offices. What chance does this friendless, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a worldmuscle-changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the rampedfree-up threat levelszone have in actually managing that, change much in the world of literatureand how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=17880079641839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1635866847|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Meet LokiIt's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The trickster god has got into trouble againLavender Companion'', so I visited the other gods have decided author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and 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 picture of a middleslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -school kid here on Earthbut I wanted that cake viscerally. He (There's guarded by a giant and a god recipe in disguise as his parentsthe book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and Thor has come along as well, I was told to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother make a mess of it. Notes in the twomargins are sanctioned. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation, and You get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and to prove it he has to write fold down the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul corners of his lies, and judge his progresspages. But Loki is the kind You suspect that smears of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to butter would not be a walk in the parkproblem...right?|isbn=1406399752}}{{Frontpage|author=Annabel Abbs|title=The Language of Food|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery I ''loved'' this book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine and reshape the world of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book and changing the face of cookery writing foreveralready.|isbn=1398502227
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=='''3 MARCH4 JULY'''==
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|author=Marcus SedgwickMax Boucherat|title=WrathThe Last Life of Lori Mills
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meet FitzWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, a young Scottish lad full of frustration mother at himself. Lockdown is only work, just overan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and he should be free to do what he wants, to on her lonesome. What could possibly go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot wrong? Snuggled in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school bandblanket fort, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with has one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world -building, critter-collecting game that is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music shehit in Lori's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie world. But first Lori has gone missing he cana tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn'tfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering.. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=18009008990008666482
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