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=='''6 JULY25 APRIL'''==

|author=Jamie LittlerSylvie Cathrall|title=ArkspireA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, There are growing few greater joys than a book which lives up to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlandsa compelling premise. Elodie And this is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of the Watcher, the closest to a ruler the district has, and one of the five major victors in said earlier warthem. Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=02415861430356522776

|author=Thiago de MoraesTom Percival|title=Old Gods New TricksThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapesWill's life is difficult, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought in a young goddess multitude of nuisanceways. But just when sheHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, he has the world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of electric carsthings like food, hits not just the town the schooland his dad can's in but t work because he lost his job at the entire planet (apart from mobile phonescollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and all had an accident. Throw into that powers mix the Internetfact that his mum and dad are separated, just for our convenienceand Will's sake)life seems bleak in every direction. Trixie, luckilyAnd yet, realises what he still has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power a tiny amount of power from ushope. And so she begins her epic questHe is good at art, and clings to gather all the people moments of joy when he is drawing, that can steal it back – namely feel like a light at the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giantsend of a long, half-gods and so on known as the trickstersdark tunnel.|isbn=178845295X1398527122

=='''18 JULY23 MAY'''==

|author=Dean KoontzOnyi Nwabineli|title=After DeathAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5

|summary= Michael MaceAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Head where she posted every step of SecurityAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, at a top secret biological research facilitybasically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is among 55 people who die when a virus in her twenties and she is released in a bioslowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-hazard accidentmother to take down the content about her. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuaryAnuri is battling alcoholism, covered in plasticfailing to start her PhD, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – undergoing therapy and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends secretly abusing people online and former colleaguesreceiving money from them for doing so. As he recovers his sensesMost importantly, he realises that there she is something different desperately worried about him; he can 'her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia'feel'' everythings online empire. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=16625004670861546873}} =='''3 AUGUST6 JUNE'''==

|author=Judith EagleKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Stolen SongbirdDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missingMeet Kit. Her other motherLike most of the people in his world, Ronnieit seems, he is having to go up North to take care an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gamwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, someone Caro has heard her mother despisesmagical mazes, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment race to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's housethe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there toothe way. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mysteryUnfortunately for Kit, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mumthe only thing he's old suitcaseseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising peoplenew trio of questors is needed. Is Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the painting somehow linked to goading from the gang? And what has happened to Carotoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's mother? ll enter as a team. Is she somehow involved What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in the mystery tooactually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=05713631481839945184

|authorisbn=Tania Unsworth1635866847|title=Nowhere IslandThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelveIt's strange, he is so determined to escape the care system – the system things that constantly puts him in futureless places make you ''immediately'' feel that are not homes – and find a home this is the book for himselfyou. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous carBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and lets it ride him to his futurethere's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that someone lives with his brother cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorwaybook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to provide for their safety and seclusionfold down the corners of pages. Them, and You suspect that smears of butter would not be a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfullyproblem. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if I ''loved'' this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080book already.

 =='''28 SEPTEMBER4 JULY'''==

|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldMax Boucherat|title=Finding BearThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|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