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=='''9 FEBRUARY25 APRIL'''==
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|isbnauthor=1787301036Sylvie Cathrall|title=What July Knew|author=Emily KochA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's There are few greater joys than a careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared book which lives up to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a Lessoncompelling premise. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. July's teacher And this is concerned and brings up the possibility one of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for himthem.|isbn= 0356522776
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 =='''16 FEBRUARY9 MAY'''==
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|author=Robin Birch and Jobe AndersonTom Percival|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver StreetWrong Shoes|rating=45
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=JaydenWill's nose life is forever difficult, in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns multitude of the world, for exampleways. Aisha He is addicted to her new tabletbullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', where she he has the wrong shoes because his dad can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out theret work and doesn' themselves, exploring t have enough money for even the outside world most basic of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purposethings like food, and with a past involving Jaydenhis dad can's cousint work because he lost his job at the college, they find was working a magical world they never knew existedcash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. For many of those mythological creatures Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are realseparated, including the one Aisha thinks sheand Will's seen on life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a bit tiny amount of local footagehope. The crew of the boatHe is good at art, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed clings to join in. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on boardmoments of joy when he is drawing, and her relative who lives as that feel like a figure in light at the end of a paintinglong, and become saviours of the unseen?dark tunnel.|isbn=02415734831398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Vanda SymonOnyi Nwabineli|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)Allow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching Anuri spent her childhood on display to the start of world, thanks to her maternity leave when there is a brutalstep-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, shocking murder where she posted every step of an expectant woman in DunedinAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Suddenly Now Anuri is in her twenties and she finds herself embroiled in is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the hunt content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfdoing so. Finding herself put on desk dutiesMost importantly, which she rails againstis desperately worried about her little sister, she just can't let who is the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover whatnew focus of Ophelia's actually happeningonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.same time?|isbn=19145855770861546873
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=='''23 FEBRUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Natasha FarrantKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage Meet Kit. Like most of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood people in his world, it seems, he is an old house, in avid fan of Dungeon Running – the North sport where a team of Englandwarrior, where Bea mage and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a complexhealer enter specially prepared, extended family arrangementcentury-old, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leomagical mazes, and Raffy is there race to the exit, perhaps bothering with his mum, the treasure or the big bad and the points they are living together as a familygrant you along the way. They have grown up swimming in the coveUnfortunately for Kit, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all only thing he's seen of the nature around latest race on the house inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and loving every inch a new trio of the placequestors is needed. But now Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure goading from the token bully of his other two brothers to sell the property to world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintainteam. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to liveWhat chance does this friendless, but if they'll even be togethermuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=05713487851839945184
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=='''2 MARCH13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Alice M Ross1635866847|title=The Nowhere ThiefLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=At last there It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and her mother run in there's a picture of a seaside townslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen itI don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out(There's a recipe in the book, because she has which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the ability book and I was told to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal make a mess of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and it. Notes in the buildings margins are generally empty of humans and ripe for plundersanctioned. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything You get to actually generate custom at fold down the shop? corners of pages. Well yes, is the answer, but the fact You suspect that smears of butter would not be a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1529504775Max Boucherat|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyLast Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to We meet Lori on the park and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - and was happy to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use the bus for support, and walk behind it. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.}}{{Frontpage|author=Merryn Glover|title=The Hidden Fires|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= It is always about the book, not the writer, but there are times when the authorfirst evening she's hinterland is also got the background house to the book and so it is necessary herself – no neighbour to understand that context, pop in order to appreciate the book. Merryn Glover is of Australian parentage, was born in Kathmandubabysitter poorly, grew up in the Annapurna and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland. I can think of no-one better a combination to give us a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds mother at work than the first Writer in Residence in the Cairngorms National Park. Merryn walks, not so much in the shadow of Shepherd, but in her spirit. I think the two would have gotten along famously.|isbn=1846975751}}=='''9 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0760378134|title=The Firstjust an avidly rule-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the book you need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containersbreaking eleven year old, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshootingher lonesome. There's also a good glossary. What could possibly go wrong? So, is it any good?}} =='''30 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Julia Bartz|title=The Writing Retreat|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone Snuggled in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novelblanket fort, published when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Rozahas one main intention, and that is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.|isbn=0861544439}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised log on to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructuredVoxminer, 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 together. As they're all fired upworld-building, straining at the leash only a singlecritter-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score collecting game that is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set hit in stone, he can't be sure. And thatLori's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0857051741|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate the case of a body found in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholicworld. The problem is that the case But first Lori has long passed the statute of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is tiny inkling that this is a dying manstormy night doesn's wish. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkarit 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 namegame has been doctored – well, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, 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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