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=='''3 AUGUST9 MAY'''==

|author=Judith EagleTom Percival|title=The Stolen SongbirdWrong Shoes|rating=45

|summary=CaroWill's motherlife is difficult, in a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care multitude of her sister who is unwellways. So who He is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gambullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', someone Caro he has heard her mother despisesthe wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, she feels frustrated and confused 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 worriedhad an accident. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian ladyseparated, and Will's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there toolife seems bleak in every direction. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mysteryAnd yet, as she discovers he still has a painting tiny amount of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcasehope. He is good at art, and all across London clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a fearsome gang called light at the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising peopleend of a long, dark tunnel. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=05713631481398527122

|author=Tania UnsworthOnyi Nwabineli|title=Nowhere IslandAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet GilAnuri 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 childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Just twelve, he Now Anuri is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – her twenties and find a home for himself. He she is en route slowly trying to regain her confidence and to yet another fostererget her life back, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him suing her step-mother to his futuretake down the content about her. That future seems Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorwaystart her PhD, a place inaccessible undergoing therapy and definitely ignored enough to provide secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for their safety and seclusiondoing so. ThemMost importantly, and a mute girl also finding a home thereshe is desperately worried about her little sister, albeit so much more successfully. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this who is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080}}=='''15 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=T Kingfisher|title=Thornhedge|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''You had a right to retake your place.'' T Kingfisherthe new focus of Ophelia's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well belovedonline empire. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not Can she save her story. Insteadsister, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the land of fairie where perhaps herself and her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from relationship with her veins and cast spells.father at the same time?|isbn=18033642380861546873

=='''7 SEPTEMBER6 JUNE'''==

|author=Lauren St JohnKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Finding WonderDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficultMeet Kit. Her mum died when she was youngLike most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and now she finds herself awoken in race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the middle of big bad and the night by points they grant you along the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. When asked what other family she hasUnfortunately for Kit, she can the only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didnthing he't think very highly s seen of. But she the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has no one elsebeen retired, eaten, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunta new trio of questors is needed. Things continue to get worse Possibly very unfortunately indeed for RooKit, as when she he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and Joni leave London in Jonistumbled into declaring he's old campervanll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, it breaks down muscle-free-zone have in the middle of nowhere actually managing that, and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=05713761691839945184

=='''28 SEPTEMBER13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold1635866847|title=Finding BearThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]It's strange, April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that she called Bearthis is the book for you. Back homeBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', things on I visited the domestic author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and family front are there's a picture of a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from slice of chocolate cake on the islands Bear was last left onhomepage. For a bear doing very BearI don't eat cakes and desserts -y things has been shot and woundedbut I wanted that cake viscerally. Desperate to make sure he(There's OKa recipe in the book, she which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and her father return I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the Arctic and hope margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that in smears of butter would not be a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continueproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=0008582017

 =='''26 OCTOBER4 JULY'''==

|author=Adam Baron and Benji DaviesMax Boucherat|title=Oscar's LionThe 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