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=='''3 FEBRUARY9 MAY'''==
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|author=Christopher EdgeTom Percival|title=Escape RoomThe Wrong Shoes|rating=35
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=IWill've seen junior variants s life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'Choose Your Own Adventure, 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' format cover escape rooms – t work because he lost his job at the process by which college, was working a character or characters start by being trapped cash-in -hand job on a specific locationbuilding site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and have to solve problems Will's life seems bleak in order to get their way outevery direction. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen And yet, he still has a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the firsttiny amount of hope. Here He is good at art, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new clings to each other and booked into the game without any moments of their friendsjoy when he is drawing, are that feel like a team – starting out light at the game's main officesend of a long, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerdark tunnel. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=17880079641398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|isbn=0008454442|title=A Flicker in the Dark|author=Stacy Willingham|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis, a medical psychologist, is completing a session with a new patient. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes of getting her through the trauma. You see, Chloe knows what it's like to have a traumatic childhood. Her father is Richard Davis, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed it to the police. Dick Davis is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care home.}}{{Frontpage|author=Louie StowellOnyi Nwabineli|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide Allow Me to Being GoodIntroduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble againAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, so the other gods have decided therethanks to her step-mother Ophelia's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile and in the physical form increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of a middle-school kid here on Earth. HeAnuri's guarded by a giant childhood for sponsorships and a god in disguise as his parents, influencer deals and Thor has come along as well, to be the more suavebasically, more popular monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and more successful brother of the two. Loki has a month she is slowly trying to redeem his reputation, regain her confidence and to get his moral compass pointing the right way againher life back, or else, and to prove it he has suing her step-mother to write take down the text we read in a sentient notebookcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, that is able failing to cry foul of his liesstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and judge his progressreceiving money from them for doing so. But Loki Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the kind new focus of god who insists he can do anythingOphelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be a walk in and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the park...rightsame time?|isbn=14063997520861546873
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Annabel AbbsStuart Douglas|title=The Language of FoodLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, dead body of a local woman with on the edge of a troubled home lifereservoir. Together, they test The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, craft, refine and reshape but something about the world of domestic cookerywhole thing bothers Lowe, reinventing the recipe book and changing he enlists the face help of cookery writing forever.|isbn=1398502227}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787634884|title=The Herd|author=Emily Edwards|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Our story opens in December 2019a fellow actor, before most of us had even heard of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come John Le Breton to be a major issuehelp him investigate matters further. We're in Farley County CourtThey travel across the country during their days off filming, where Elizabeth uncovering more possible murders and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash Kohli, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. As they were best friends until just But is there really a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major and that, regardless of link between the outcome, this deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is not going to work out well for anyone.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''12 FEBRUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Helen Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a popular activistteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anyway Unfortunately for Kit, Helen the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is so popular that the United States government one team has made her its Ambassador been retired, eaten, and a new trio of Wokequestors is needed. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the government, including goading from the Shaming Conference token bully of his world and the Permissible Entertainment Committee stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free- ''for indoctrinating zone have in actually managing that, and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how could he possibly hope to have it''. Ouch!succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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=='''3 MARCH13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Marcus Sedgwick1635866847|title=WrathThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensLifestyle|summary=Meet FitzIt'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 young Scottish lad full slice of frustration at himselfchocolate cake on the homepage. Lockdown is only just over, I don't eat cakes and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, desserts - but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, CassieI wanted that cake viscerally. They were half of (There's a desultory school bandrecipe in the book, but Cassie which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear told to make a subhuman hum coming from mess of it. Notes in the earthmargins are sanctioned. Is this connected with one You get to fold down the corners of her eco-warrior parents saying the end pages. You suspect that smears of the world is already butter would not be a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music sheproblem. I ''loved's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can'tthis book already...|isbn=1800900899
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=='''7 APRIL4 JULY'''==
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|author=Justyn EdwardsMax Boucherat|title=The Great Fox IllusionLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is a contest with a difference. No singingWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, no dancingbabysitter poorly, this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks 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 who can attempt that is to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - the secrets log on to all of his tricks! Flick is determined to winVoxminer, but not because she wants to own the tricks. She world-building, critter-collecting game that is interested a hit in just Lori''one'' trick, the trick s world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that The Great Fox stole from her father. And shethis stormy night doesn's hoping if she can t find that trick herself entirely on her own, and then she will finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to bring enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her missing father home.phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=15295019460008666482
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=='''28 APRIL'''==
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|author=Jennifer Saint
|title=Elektra
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandra, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furies.
|isbn=1913097854
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