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=='''3 FEBRUARY25 APRIL'''==
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|author=Christopher EdgeSylvie Cathrall|title=Escape RoomA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=35|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific location, and have to solve problems in order to get their way outcompelling premise. What I've not done (alongside experience And this is 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-changerthem. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=17880079640356522776
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=='''9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008454442Tom Percival|title=A Flicker in the Dark|author=Stacy WillinghamThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=ItWill's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davislife is difficult, in a medical psychologist, is completing a session with a new patientmultitude of ways. Lacey He is suffering mentally but Chloe bullied because he has hopes '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 getting her through things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the traumacollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. You seeThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, Chloe knows what itand Will's like to have a traumatic childhoodlife seems bleak in every direction. Her father is Richard DavisAnd yet, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years agohe still has a tiny amount of hope. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard He is good at home art, and she and her mother handed it clings to the police. Dick Davis moments of joy when he is in drawing, that feel like a light at the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for the last twenty years. Her mother is in end of a care homelong, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Louie StowellOnyi Nwabineli|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide Allow Me to Being GoodIntroduce Myself
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble againAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, so the other gods have decided therethanks to her step-mother Ophelia'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 increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of a middle-school kid here on Earth. HeAnuri's guarded by a giant childhood for sponsorships and a god in disguise as his parents, influencer deals and Thor has come along as well, to be the more suavebasically, more popular monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and more successful brother of the two. Loki has a month she is slowly trying to redeem his reputation, regain her confidence and to get his moral compass pointing the right way againher life back, or else, and to prove it he has suing her step-mother to write take down the text we read in a sentient notebookcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, that is able failing to cry foul of his liesstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and judge his progressreceiving money from them for doing so. But Loki Most importantly, she is the kind of god desperately worried about her little sister, who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be a walk in the park...right?|isbn=1406399752}}{{Frontpage|author=Annabel Abbs|title=The Language new focus of Food|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an eggOphelia's online empire. When tasked with writing a cookery book, Can she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home life. Togethersave her sister, they test, craft, refine and reshape the world of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book perhaps herself and changing her relationship with her father at the face of cookery writing forever.same time?|isbn=13985022270861546873
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=='''12 FEBRUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Helen Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a popular activistteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anyway Unfortunately for Kit, Helen the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is so popular that the United States government one team has made her its Ambassador been retired, eaten, and a new trio of Wokequestors is needed. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the government, including goading from the Shaming Conference token bully of his world and the Permissible Entertainment Committee stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free- ''for indoctrinating zone have in actually managing that, and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how could he possibly hope to have it''. Ouch!succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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=='''3 MARCH13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Marcus Sedgwick1635866847|title=WrathThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=TeensLifestyle|summary=Meet FitzIt's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a young Scottish lad full slice of frustration at himselfchocolate cake on the homepage. Lockdown is only just over, I don't eat cakes and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, desserts - but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, CassieI wanted that cake viscerally. They were half of (There's a desultory school bandrecipe in the book, but Cassie which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear told to make a subhuman hum coming from mess of it. Notes in the earthmargins are sanctioned. Is this connected with one You get to fold down the corners of her eco-warrior parents saying the end pages. You suspect that smears of the world is already butter would not be a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music sheproblem. I ''loved's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can'tthis book already...|isbn=1800900899
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=='''28 APRIL4 JULY'''==
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|author=Jennifer SaintMax Boucherat|title=ElektraThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells s got the story of three women who live 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 blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Cassandra, Clytemnestra But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and Elektra are all bit players in then she finds something even more spooky. For the story server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of the Trojan Wartampering. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the most extreme furies.game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=19130978540008666482
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