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 =='''2 APRIL9 MAY'''== 

|author= Ben OliverTom Percival|title= The LoopWrong Shoes|rating= 3.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Set during the aftermath of Will's life is difficult, in a Third World War where methods multitude of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a horrific level by machinesways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', The Loop follows he has the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of Have wrong shoes because his dad can't work and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] doesn't have power over Regularsenough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he is trapped inside lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a living hell with no chance of escapebuilding site and had an accident. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by Throw into that mix the guards who can end fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life with one squeezeseems bleak in every direction. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where And yet, he is still has a guinea pig for Alts in place tiny amount of execution] after Delay he is in despairhope. His prison He is based on the model of an infinity loop designed good at art, and clings to make its inmates suffer. With the only glimmers moments of hope being joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the rumours end of rebellion outside and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wrena long, can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?dark tunnel.|isbn=19126265511398527122

|author= Kirsty ApplebaumOnyi Nwabineli|title= TroofriendAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= Are you tired 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 your childAnuri's classmates constantly being horrible childhood 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 them? Do you want your child take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to have some positive experiences with start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people? Introducing online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-focus of-the-art machines are capable of emulating the full range of human emotions without lyingOphelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, stealing or bullying. They're and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and have absolutely no basis in reality…rightsame time?|isbn=17880034700861546873

 =='''7 APRIL4 JUNE'''== 

|author= Grady HendrixStuart Douglas|title= The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying VampiresLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 3.5|genre= HorrorCrime|summary= During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. WomenThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, by and large, have always been he enlists the subjugated sex. Throughout historyhelp of a fellow actor, they have been confined John Le Breton to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up him investigate matters further. They travel across the powerful man country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and let nothing stand in his way. Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide , seemingly, a link to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their duedeath during the Second World War. It But is an ode to there really a link between the strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe deaths? And will they manage to toe with a predatory male vampire uncover who moves into is responsible before more people lose their quiet cul de sac.lives?|isbn=16836914311803368209

 =='''14 APRIL6 JUNE'''== 

|author= M R Carey|title= The Book of Koli|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= ''The Book of Koli'' is the first in a postKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-apocalyptic trilogy, titled ''The Rampart Trilogy'', by M.R. Carey. The novel is set in a world where nature has turned against humans. Trees move as fast as animals to crush their prey and then soak up their blood. Humans have eked out a small existence in isolated villages. They are primitive except for their reverence of 'old tech'. This is technology from the old world that seems to only work for certain chosen people. However, Koli, a young woodsmith, uncovers a secret about this technology that will upend his life and take him on a perilous journey.|isbn=0316477532}}{{Frontpage|author=Danny DorlingStanton|title=SlowdownDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary= We are living in a time of rapid change, and we're worried about itMeet Kit. Dorling tells us that Like most of the latter is normal, natural and probably good for us. We are designed to worry and with the current state of what we're doing people in the his world, we have much to be worried about. Howeverit seems, over he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the next three-hundred-sport where a team of warrior, mage andhealer enter specially prepared, century-some pagesold, magical mazes, if you can follow and race to the arguments, it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be as worried as we areexit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or in some cases that we're worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, things are not changing as rapidly as we think big bad and the points they aregrant you along the way. In factUnfortunately for Kit, the rate only thing he's seen of change in many things the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is slowing down that one team has been retired, eaten, and the direction a new trio of change will in some cases go into reversequestors is needed.|isbn=0300243405}} =='''15 APRIL'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=1781129312|title=Sequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Sequin loved her mum to bits Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, but sometimes she got very cross with her. It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed he has taken to get credit for what she did. Mum is a seamstress and she makes the sort goading from the token bully of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. Shehis world and stumbled into declaring he's not the designer - they're the people who make ll enter as a lot of money from the clothesteam. Mum is the person who What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually ''makes'' the garments managing that, and she's really talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|authorisbn=Akala1635866847|title=The Dark LadyLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=TeensLifestyle|summary=''For a street kid from the Devil's Gap, London's most notorious slum, life is short and tough. For Henry, a boy thief with brown skin inherited from a mother who abandoned him, life is tougher still. The Dark Lady enters his dreams at night. She seems to represent a past, and possibly a future...''Henry and his friends, brother and sister Matthew and Mary, have various ways of getting by. Sometimes they pickpockets. Sometimes they rob the houses of the rich. It's crime or starve - but crime is dangerous and they risk the terrible punishments of Elizabethan England if they are caught. Impossible choices. But there are pleasures too, and for Henrystrange, the chief pleasure is the Globe Theatre and the plays of William Shakespeare. Henry loves language and often makes up sonnets about what he sees around him and how he feels. |isbn= 1444943693}} =='''7 MAY'things that make you ''=={{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness|title=Burn|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=immediately''On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957 - the very day, in fact, feel that Dwight David Eisenhower took the oath of office for the second time as President of the United States of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired to help on the farm.''It's 1950s America but not as we know it. In this alternate US, there is still a Cold War with the Russians, still a concomitant arms race. And the stain of racism is just as crushing - something mixed-race Sarah and her Japanese American friend Jason are only too well aware of. As is the deeply unpleasant town deputy, Kelby. But one thing is ''very'' different. In this alternate world, there are dragons. The dragons live in an uneasy peace with humans and communication is minimal. But a few of these winged creatures do hire out their labour to human in return book for gold - they are dragons, after allyou.Poor Frankie! |isbn= 1406375500}}{{Frontpage|author= Angela Woolfe|title= Roxy and Jones: The Great Fairytale Cover-Up|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= After her father gets married for the umpteenth time, Roxy Humperdinck is sent to live with her half-sister Gretel in Rexopolis, the capital city of the Kingdom of Illustria. Gretel works as a toilet cleaner for the Ministry of Soup. Why does a country like Illustria need an entire ministry dedicated to soup, you ask? Well, after Roxy finds a secret passage in her bathroom and meets a snarky young woman known only as Jones, she soon finds out why. Turns out, fairy tales are real, and the Ministry’s official job is to safeguard all knowledge of them and monitor the living fairy tales. And, when an evil queen breaks out of a maximum-security prison and threatens to reinstate her reign of terror, Roxy and Jones hold the fate of the world in their young hands…so, no pressure then!|isbn=1406391379}}=='''14 MAY'Before I started reading ''== {{Frontpage|author= Alison Weir|title= Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard The Tainted Queen|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= ''Katheryn was seven when her mother diedLavender Companion'', thus we are thrust into this tumultuous time in young KatherynI visited the author's life, trying to find a home, both figuratively and literally, where she can grow and grieve[https://www. Unfortunately, Katheryn is followed by bad luck and she learns an important lesson, she is too young, too poor and too unimportant to be of any value to anyone, but she is beautiful and surely, that will count for something in the end, won't it?|isbn=1472227778}}{{Frontpage|author= Hana Tooke|title= The Unadoptables|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In the winter of 1880, five babies are abandoned at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdam, much to the annoyance of matron Gasbeekpinelavenderfarm. Twelve years later, Milou, the last of the five babies to be abandoned back in that winter, struggles to work out the identity of her parents from the clues she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks on the outside, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker com/ website] and a velvet blanket. She, along with the other four, patiently wait for Milouthere's parents to come back and take her home. However, when the five children are sold to the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotman, they know they have to escape. And so begins the adventure of a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou with her parents, all the time being pursued by the Kinderbureau and Rotman…|isbn=0241417465}}{{Frontpage|author= Abi Elphinstone|title= Jungle Drop (The Unmapped Chronicles)|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Abi Elphinstone has said that she connects with her world-building through her characters. In an interview with [Books For Keeps], she described visualising her characters "wearing head torches which gradually reveal the world they are seeing to her and to the reader." Just as the darkness picture of a mine is cut through by a spear of light so too do quarrelsome Fox and Fibber get their first glimpse of the phantasmagorical glow-in-the-dark realm slice of Jungle Drop when they emerge through the mouth of a Dragon chocolate cake on the Here and There Expresshomepage. Running from the opprobrium of their demanding and selfish parents, they must address what is in their hearts to find what they seek.|isbn= 1471173682}} == I don'''21 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Maryse Condé|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan t eat cakes and Ivana|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live in a postdesserts -world: post-colonialism, post-modernism, post-truth. The list goes onbut I wanted that cake viscerally. (There are numerous works that utilise 's a recipe in the prefix post- in their categorisationbook, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novel, ''The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivanawhich I'', Condé writes m avoiding with fervour about some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the scars left by colonialism on the countries book and I was told to which make a mess of it latched itself. Ivan and Ivana are twins born Notes in Guadeloupe, a French overseas department. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings for each other. As they grow up and move overseas, the ravages of a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequences.|isbn=1642860697}} =='''16 JUNE'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ashley Poston|title= Bookish and the Beast|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set after the ExcelsiCon, we margins are introduced to Rosie Thorne, a Small Town, USA girl who has recently lost her mother and is entering her final year of high schoolsanctioned. Things keep piling up for Rosie, and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks is an abandoned castle in her town, things just You get worse. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book and with her mother's hospital and funeral costs she has no money to cover fold down the damagecorners of pages. She finds herself working for Vance Reigns, Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escape, to repay the debt.  For most Starfield superfans this You suspect that smears of butter would not be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance is a jerk - and he isnproblem. I ''loved''t too fond of her either. However, as the two are forced to get to know each other, their guards begin to lower and they discover that maybe this situation might not be so terrible after allbook already. |isbn=1683691938

=='''18 JUNE4 JULY'''== 

|author= Ukamaka OlisakweMax Boucherat|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at the trauma and heartache of being a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right''. Ogadinma is the eponymous heroine of the story. We are with her in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads the story, although Olisakwe writes in the third person. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights the isolation Last Life of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her father's home and sent to Lagos where she is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape.|isbn=1911648160}} =='''20 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=Jacqueline Wilson|title=Love FrankieLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to leave her for another womanpop in, babysitter poorly, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever livedmother at work, andjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, above all when Sally and on her mates are bullying you at schoollonesome. Oh What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and when Samthat is to log on to Voxminer, your best friend since foreverthe world-building, suddenly starts sending out signs critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that he might fancy you - and you donthis stormy night doesn't fancy him backfind 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. Poor Frankie! 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= 0857535897 0008666482