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=='''8 JUNE25 APRIL'''==
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|author=Amanda CraigSylvie Cathrall|title=Three GracesA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=General Science Fiction|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. There's something so utterly are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture it, crafting an image of the country as it stands in one particular momentpremise. To say that Amanda Craig And this is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre one of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X0356522776
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=='''9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=024162343XTom Percival|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam SangheraThe Wrong Shoes
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=I was the bad company other people got into at schoolWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. I was disruptive in religious education classes He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because I disputed his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the existence most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a 'god'cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Where was Throw into that mix the proof? fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. In history lessonsAnd yet, it was probably worse he stillhas a tiny amount of hope. Not too long after He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of WWIIa long, I didndark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}=='t so much want ''23 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to learn about the British armyworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's successes (childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in what came her twenties and she is slowly trying to be called 'the colonies' as want regain her confidence and to dispute what right the army had get her life back, suing her step-mother to be there in take down the first placecontent about her. Looking backAnuri is battling alcoholism, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity failing to approach 'the problem' politelystart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. I wish I'd had Sathnam SangheraMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's ''Stolen History''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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=='''6 JULYJUNE'''==
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|author=Jamie LittlerKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=ArkspireDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
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|summary=Two sistersMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, Juniper and Elodieit seems, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper he is an eager hunter avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and trader in illicit magichealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer and race to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspireexit, perhaps even to become bothering with the treasure or the child in line to inherit big bad and the power of points they grant you along the Watcherway. Unfortunately for Kit, the closest to a ruler only thing he's seen of the latest race on the district inn TV equivalent is that one team hasbeen retired, eaten, and one a new trio of the five major victors in said earlier warquestors is needed. Being trained in Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the magic that only five people can use would definitely change goading from the status token bully of the whole familyhis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. But What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in finding something oddly magicalactually managing that, Juniper might just be able and how could he possibly hope to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…succeed?|isbn=02415861431839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Thiago de Moraes1635866847|title=Old Gods New TricksThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapesIt's strange, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when shethings that make you ''immediately''s being told feel that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, this is the world changesbook for you. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-outBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', even of electric cars, hits not just I visited the town the schoolauthor's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and all that powers the Internet, just for our conveniencethere's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power a picture of a slice of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so chocolate cake on known as the trickstershomepage.|isbn=178845295X}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexia Casale|title=Sing if you Can I don't Dance|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a lifeeat cakes and desserts -changing disability too, but I wanted thatcake viscerally. (There's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage a recipe in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fightingbook, desperate to avoid which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the pity stares, book and desperate to get back I was told to make a life that's as normal as she can possibly managemess of it. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy Notes in school, her music A Level performance piece the margins are sanctioned. You get to try to sort out, and just fold down the day-to-day traumas corners of pages. You suspect that smears of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigatebutter would not be a problem. So even though she canI ''loved''t dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801this book already.
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 =='''28 SEPTEMBER4 JULY'''==
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|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldMax Boucherat|title=Finding BearThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, April had been on Bear Islandmother at work, a lot further north than many people would venturejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bearon her lonesome. Back home, things on the domestic and family front are What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a bit advancedblanket fort, but not perfect for hershe has one main intention, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from that is to log on to Voxminer, the islands Bear was last left onworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. For But first Lori has a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and woundedthen she finds something even more spooky. Desperate to make sure he's OK, For the server she and her father return bestie and nobody else should be able to the Arctic and hope that in a world enter shows signs of very white and very dangerous thingstampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing her safe place in the game has been doctored and that the friendship can continue.well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=00085820170008666482
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