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=='''27 OCTOBER9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1529153050Tom Percival|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim BensonThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=HumourConfident Readers|summary=Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which Will's life is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sportdifficult, I was nudged towards in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can'Britaint work and doesn's Best Political Cartoons t have enough money for even the most basic of 2022'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. Sharp eyes will have noted Throw into that mix the fact that wehis mum and dad are separated, and Will're not s life seems bleak in every direction. And yet through the year: the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022, he still has a tiny amount of hope. Who can imagine what there will be He is good at art, and clings to come in the 2023 edition?moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1398515388Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)Allow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=First of all, it was Anuri spent her childhood on display to the earthquakeworld, deep in the ocean floorthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, which created the tsunami where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and this, in turnbasically, caused the nuclear meltdownmonetary gain. The result was complete Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and utter devastationto get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. The deaths were uncountableAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and the loss of livelihoods was widespreadreceiving money from them for doing so. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the list new focus of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience storeOphelia's online empire. He wasn't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and Tamon her relationship with her father at the dog jumped in.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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 =='''1 NOVEMBER6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1916459943Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Squeakily Baby|author=Beth WebbDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily babyMeet Kit. He's so tired but Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he can't is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century- or won't - go to sleep: insteadold, magical mazes, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers race to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hushexit, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you have along the sound perfectlyway. The mermaids join in - Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he''la lous seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, la lay.and a new trio of questors is needed..'' And Possibly very unfortunately indeed for a moment it seems Kit, he has taken to have worked the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as Baby closes his eyesa team. Then a seagull '''shouts''' What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and we know exactly what's going how could he possibly hope to happen next.succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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 =='''1 JANUARY13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=15420372391635866847|title=Death in HeelsThe Lavender Companion|author=Kitty MurphyJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinIt's drag scenestrange, the things that make you ''Death in Heelsimmediately'' tells feel that this is the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friendbook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', Robyn, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae BI visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. What is meant to be com/ website] and there's a night picture of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to slice of chocolate cake on the stage to mock Mae Bhomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. As if (There's a recipe in the night could not get any worsebook, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a guttermess of it. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet Notes in the drag community, and the Guards, accept it as an accidentmargins are sanctioned. Fi takes it upon herself You get to solve fold down the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deepercorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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 =='''2 MARCH4 JULY'''==
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|author=Patrick Ness and Tea BendixMax Boucherat|title=Different for BoysThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens Confident Readers|summary=Ant is We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in Year Eleven , babysitter poorly, mother at quite work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a standard schoolblanket fort, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) she has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football teammain intention, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back that is to log on to primary school days together. As they're all fired upVoxminer, straining at the leash only a singleworld-sex school can formbuilding, the talk critter-collecting game that is a hit in class and out often turns to sexLori's world. Which is confusing for Ant, as he But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't know what his score isfind herself entirely on her own, where his achievements in that regard lieand then she finds something even more spooky. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, For the server she and her bestie and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't nobody else should be sureable to enter shows signs of tampering. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the sex with.game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=15295094910008666482
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