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=='''2 FEBRUARY25 APRIL'''==
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|author=Lucy AsheSylvie Cathrall|title=Clara and OliviaA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia There are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come from the classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|isbn=0861544080}}=='''16 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jayden's nose is forever in few greater joys than a book, which means he knows lives up to a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for examplecompelling premise. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, And this is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join inthem. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=02415734830356522776
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=='''23 FEBRUARY9 MAY'''==
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|author=Natasha FarrantTom Percival|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodWrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This story Will's life is another excellent adventure from the author difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawkwrong shoes''. Ravenwood is an old house, in he has the North of England, where Bea wrong shoes because his dad can't work and Raffy doesn't have been living enough money for even the most basic of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leothings like food, and Raffy is there with his mumdad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and they are living together as a familyhad an accident. They have grown up swimming in Throw into that mix the covefact that his mum and dad are separated, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving Will's life seems bleak in every inch direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of the placehope. But now He is good at art, and clings to the house moments of joy when he is under threatdrawing, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell that feel like a light at the property to end of a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to livelong, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn downdark tunnel.|isbn=05713487851398527122
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=='''2 MARCH23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1529504775Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Elsie and Anuri spent her little brother David loved childhood on display to go the world, thanks to the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of the park but David couldnAnuri't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy s childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and even just standing up was very difficult, basically, monetary gain. One day Elsie spotted a bus Now Anuri is in the toy shop window which would help David her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- and was happy mother to use take down the coins from content about her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. GraduallyAnuri is battling alcoholism, David learned failing to stand upstart her PhD, use the bus undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for support, and walk behind itdoing so. Many decades laterMost importantly, Elsie brought she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the busnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that perhaps herself and her grandchildren could play relationship with it.her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}} =='''30 MARCH6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Julia BartzKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Writing RetreatDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Roza ValloMeet Kit. Anyone Like most of the people in the his world , it seems, he is an avid fan of publishing knows Dungeon Running – the name. Writers want sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to be herthe exit, agents want to represent herperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. She Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's something seen of a legend with an impressivethe latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, if compacteaten, back catalogue and a new trio of works that started with her breakthrough novelquestors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, published when she was barely out he has taken to the goading from the token bully of childhoodhis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Alex What chance does this friendless, a writermuscle-slashfree-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Rozazone have in actually managing that, and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited how could he possibly hope to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.succeed?|isbn=08615444391839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix1635866847|title=Different for BoysThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Teens Lifestyle|summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard schoolIt's strange, and the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days togetherbook for you. As theyBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''re all fired up, straining at I visited the leash only author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a single-sex school can form, slice of chocolate cake on the talk in class and out often turns to sexhomepage. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesnI don't know what his score is, where his achievements in eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that regard liecake viscerally. He(There's had a casual relationshiprecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether corners of pages. You suspect that's set in stone, he can't smears of butter would not be surea problem. And thatI ''loved's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex withthis book already.|isbn=1529509491
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0857051741Max Boucherat|title=The Sins Last Life of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but heWe meet Lori on the first evening she's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going got the house to herself – no neighbour to investigate the case of a body found pop in a freezer , babysitter poorly, mother at the home of a deceased alcoholicwork, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. The problem is that the case has long passed the statute of limitations. What could possibly go wrong? Raimo Koskela disappeared without Snuggled in a trace in 1962. He was blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fiftyworld-yearbuilding, critter-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is collecting game that this is a dying manhit in Lori's wishworld. The situation changes when But first Lori has a post-mortem establishes tiny inkling that Henry Pekkarithis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, the dead alcoholic, was also murderedand then she finds something even more spooky. Is there a connection between For the two deaths?}}=='''13 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''I was as worthy as any one server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of themtampering. I would get When malevolent eyes spark up on board that shipher phone screen, I vowed. I would take my and her safe place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a songame has been doctored – well, Atalanta where is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – girl to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.turn?|isbn=14722921540008666482
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