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=='''4 JANUARY9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0760381267Tom Percival|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-SantiagoThe Wrong Shoes|rating=3.5|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=Will''The most important part s life is difficult, in a multitude of a garden ways. He is bullied because he has 'the one who enjoys itwrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can'. It work and doesn've 'gardenedt 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 vague, indefinite sort of way for more than half a centurybuilding site and had an accident. I know (most of) Throw into that mix the basics but fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has changed and I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment to gardeningtiny amount of hope. ''Verdura'' with its promise of projects for both indoors He is good at art, and outdoors clings to the moments of varying complexity seemed joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the answerend of a long, dark tunnel. So, how did it stack up?|isbn=1398527122
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=='''31 JANUARY23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0811771741Onyi Nwabineli|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa LeapmanAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}=='''1 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=After a bout 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 scarlet fever as a childAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, Ellen Lark loses her hearingbasically, monetary gain. Suddenly plunged into a world of silenceNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, everything suing her step-mother to take down the content about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages doAnuri is battling alcoholism, Ellen is sent failing to a school where she is taught to lip readstart her PhD, but physically restrained undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from signingthem for doing so. From hereMost importantly, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell is desperately worried about her little sister, who has been teaching is the deaf and using a system called Visible Speechnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. At Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.?|isbn=10354016140861546873
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Alex Bell Kieran Larwood and Tim McDonaghJoe Todd-Stanton|title=The Glorious Race of Magical BeastsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in Meet Kit. Like most of the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and people in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely granworld, it seems, too he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – for there is the sport where a generation missing in the family. A few short years agoteam of warrior, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular racemage and healer enter specially prepared, a globecentury-trotting adventure where all entrants have old, magical mazes, and race to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. This has made exit, perhaps bothering with the race anathema to treasure or the pair – but when a big bad incident at and the points they grant you along the eatery leads to a confession from granway. Unfortunately for Kit, Eli knows his the only hope is to dare to enter what thing he most hates, with the sole aim the prize 's seen of magic at the end – latest race on the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray inn TV equivalent is supposed to be a humblethat one team has been retired, tidy and friendly cateaten, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next a new trio of the twoquestors is needed. But Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and taken to the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into goading from the regular back garden, but token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a world of frightening adventure and whiffsteam. This time round it drops them into a Viking landWhat chance does this friendless, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honestmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, but he's turned up and how could he'll have possibly hope to do…succeed?|isbn=00085612491839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
|genre=Lifestyle
|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 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.
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|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's 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. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. 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
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