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=='''28 SEPTEMBER25 APRIL'''==

|author=Hannah Gold Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}=='''9 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has '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 things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and Levi Pinfoldclings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}=='''23 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Finding BearAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, April had been on Bear Islandit seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a lot further north than many people would ventureteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship race to the exit, perhaps bothering with a polar bear – that she called Bearthe treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Back homeUnfortunately for Kit, things the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the domestic and family front are a bit advancedinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, but not perfect for hereaten, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left ona new trio of questors is needed. For a bear doing Possibly very Bear-y things unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has been shot taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and woundedstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Desperate to make sure he's OKWhat chance does this friendless, she and her father return to the Arctic and hope muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that in a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=00085820171839945184

=='''26 OCTOBER13 JUNE'''==

|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Adam Baron Jessica Dunham and Benji DaviesTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|titlesummary=OscarIt's Lionstrange, 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 slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.}} =='''4 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=34.5

|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to have his mother herself – or fatherno neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a couple of times before he blanket fort, she has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroomone main intention, all he sees and that is a mahoosive male lion to log on their bedto Voxminer, looking sheepishthe world-building, and admitting critter-collecting game that he wonis a hit in Lori't be hungry for another two dayss world. But there are benefits to having first Lori has a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully tiny inkling that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other monththis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to school and it can get him out enter shows signs of a problemtampering. And it's wonderful to have around When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the house game has been doctored – not limiting his biscuit intakewell, being much more lax about the rules, and so on. OK, it can't work where is a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.girl to turn?|isbn=00085967510008666482