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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
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Our story opens in December 2019Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, before most of us had even heard of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come thanks to be a major issue. Weher step-mother Ophelia're in Farley County Courts increasingly popular presence on social media, where Elizabeth she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony influencer deals and Ash Kohli, basically, monetary gain. As they were best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is major slowly trying to regain her confidence and thatto get her life back, regardless of suing her step-mother to take down the outcomecontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, this is not going failing to work out well start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for anyonedoing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online 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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=='''12 FEBRUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|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
|rating=4.5
|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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=='''7 APRIL4 JULY'''==
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|author=Justyn EdwardsMax Boucherat|title=The Great Fox IllusionLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is a contest with a difference. No singingWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, no dancingbabysitter poorly, this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks 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 who can attempt that is to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - the secrets log on to all of his tricks! Flick is determined to winVoxminer, but not because she wants to own the tricks. She world-building, critter-collecting game that is interested a hit in just Lori''one'' trick, the trick s world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that The Great Fox stole from her father. And shethis stormy night doesn's hoping if she can t find that trick herself entirely on her own, and then she will finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to bring enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her missing father home.phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=15295019460008666482
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