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=='''2 NOVEMBER9 MAY'''==
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|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 clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=10350252991398527122}}=='''23 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Went Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to Londonher 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, Took 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 Dogcontent 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=Nina StibbeKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=Nina Stibbe Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is returning an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to London for a sabbatical after being away for twenty yearsthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. SheUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been at Victoria's smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't all that conducive to writingretired, eaten, as there's always something smallholding happening - as you might expectand a new trio of questors is needed. The other side of Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the decision was sealed when a room became available (courtesy token bully of Deborah Moggach) at his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a very reasonable rentteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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=='''7 NOVEMBER13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Edel Rodriguez1635866847|title=Worm: A Cuban American OdysseyThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsLifestyle|summary=WeIt're in childhoods strange, and wethe things that make you ''immediately''re in Cubafeel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The revolution has happenedLavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and Castro, first thought there's a picture of as a saviour slice of chocolate cake on the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for allhomepage. Well, those hoursI don't eat cakes and desserts -long speeches of his were kind of taking his time awaybut I wanted that cake viscerally. Our narrator(There's family weren't a recipe in the happiest of places herebook, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to which I'm avoiding with some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angoladifficulty!!) and Then I started reading the father being watched book and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned uponI was told to make a mess of it. The mother gets Notes in the couple jobs with the party margins are sanctioned. You get to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains fold down the kind corners of heat forcing you out pages. You suspect that smears of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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 =='''1 FEBRUARY4 JULY'''==
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|author=Sarah MarshMax Boucherat|title=A Sign The Last Life of Her OwnLori Mills|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a childWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, Ellen Lark loses on her hearinglonesome. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. What could possibly go wrong? Living Snuggled in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages doblanket fort, she has one main intention, Ellen and that is sent to a school where she is taught log on to lip readVoxminer, the world-building, but physically restrained from signingcritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. From hereBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching finds something even more spooky. For the deaf server she and her bestie and using a system called Visible Speechnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. At the same time, Bell is working When malevolent eyes spark up on other inventions and ideasher phone screen, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a complicated tangle of espionage.girl to turn?|isbn=10354016140008666482
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