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=='''26 OCTOBER25 APRIL'''==

|author=Adam Baron 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 Benji Davieshad 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 clings 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=OscarAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's Lionchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the 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 doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}=='''6 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=34

|summary=We start incredibly bluntlyMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or fatherit seems, but mother he is more likely an avid fan of Dungeon Running – read him his very favourite book the sport where a couple team of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroomwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bedcentury-old, looking sheepishmagical mazes, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat race to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the other monthway. And it can shapeshiftUnfortunately for Kit, so the only thing he can take it to school and it can get him out of a problem. And it's wonderful to have around seen of the latest race on the house – not limiting his biscuit intakeinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, being much more lax about the ruleseaten, and so ona new trio of questors is needed. OKPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, it canhe has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he't work ll enter as a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful timeteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=00085967511839945184

=='''31 OCTOBER13 JUNE'''==

|isbn=16358662431635866847|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing HandbookLavender Companion|author=Kristina McGrath Jessica Dunham and Sarah Walworth Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=CraftsLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I quickly discovered that putting words visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and numbers there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on a page wasnthe homepage. I don't enougheat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Creating (There's a pattern that was correct, clear, conciserecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and consistent required I was told to make a great deal mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of trial and error, patience, and perseverancebutter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy)this book already.}}

A friend recently showed me a knitting pattern for which =='''4 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she'd paid good moneys got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. The first line of What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the instructions began: world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori''Cast off 100 stitchess world...'' It was clear But first Lori has a tiny inkling that no good could come of this - the instructions didnstormy night doesn't get any better - find herself entirely on her own, and (finally) PayPal obliged with a refund when the seller refused as then she couldn't afford the repaymentfinds something even more spooky. The pattern looked pretty, but For the creator didn't have the basic knowledge server she and skills to enable her bestie and nobody else should be able to connect with her knittersenter shows signs of tampering. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''.When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482