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=='''6 JULY9 MAY'''==

|author=Helen PetersTom Percival|title=Friends and TraitorsThe Wrong Shoes|rating=35

|summary=EnglandWill's life is difficult, WW2in a multitude of ways. Two young girls are new at He is bullied because he has 'the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancywrong shoes', destined to be in service all her life it seemshe 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, like and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the female generations before her. The other is Sidneycollege, was working a girl from a hoitycash-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flightin-pathshand job on a building site and had an accident. The girls Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are chalk and cheeseseparated, and if we hadnWill't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it sos life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. But something He is amissgood at art, and first separately and then in combination they realise clings to the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover moments of secrecy, talk joy when he is made of meetings with Germansdrawing, and not only that, feel like a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely light at the girls are wrongend of a long, and the upper class could never be so underhand?dark tunnel.|isbn=17880046471398527122

|author=Jamie LittlerOnyi Nwabineli|title=ArkspireAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Two sistersAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Juniper where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apartbasically, are growing monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to be chalk regain her confidence and cheeseto get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Juniper Anuri is an eager hunter battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and trader in illicit magic, including relics receiving money from prior major wars left out in the Badlandsthem for doing so. Elodie Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts new focus of ArkspireOphelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps even to become herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}=='''4 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the child in line to inherit Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the power dead body of a woman on the Watcheredge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the closest to a ruler the district haswhole thing bothers Lowe, and one he enlists the help of the five major victors in said earlier wara fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Being trained in They travel across the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the whole familySecond World War. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=02415861431803368209

|author=Thiago de MoraesKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Old Gods New TricksDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet TrixieKit. Forever getting into scrapesLike most of the people in his world, it seems, larks and adventures involving flooding he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought sport where a young goddess team of nuisance. But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacherwarrior, the world changes. Suddenlymage and healer enter specially prepared, practically everything electronic stops working – a powercentury-outold, even of electric carsmagical mazes, hits not just and race to the town exit, perhaps bothering with the school's in but treasure or the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, big bad and all that powers the Internetpoints they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, just for our conveniencethe only thing he's sake)seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Trixie, luckilyPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, realises what he has happened – taken to the ancient Gods have taken goading from the power token bully of power from ushis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. And so she begins her epic questWhat chance does this friendless, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that muscle-free-zone have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deitiesactually managing that, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=178845295X1839945184

=='''18 JULY13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1635866847|title=After DeathThe Lavender Companion|rating=3|genreauthor=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends Jessica Dunham and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} =='''3 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=Tania Unsworth|title=Nowhere IslandTerry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelveIt's strange, he is so determined to escape the care system – the system things that constantly puts him in futureless places make you ''immediately'' feel that are not homes – and find a home this is the book for himselfyou. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous carBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and lets it ride him to his futurethere's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that someone lives with his brother cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorwaybook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to provide for their safety and seclusionfold down the corners of pages. Them, and You suspect that smears of butter would not be a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfullyproblem. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if I ''loved'' this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080book already.

 =='''28 SEPTEMBER4 JULY'''==

|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldMax Boucherat|title=Finding BearThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, April had been on Bear Islandmother at work, a lot further north than many people would venturejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bearon her lonesome. Back home, things on the domestic and family front are What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a bit advancedblanket fort, but not perfect for hershe has one main intention, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from that is to log on to Voxminer, the islands Bear was last left onworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. For But first Lori has a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and woundedthen she finds something even more spooky. Desperate to make sure he's OK, For the server she and her father return bestie and nobody else should be able to the Arctic and hope that in a world enter shows signs of very white and very dangerous thingstampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing her safe place in the game has been doctored – and that the friendship can continue.well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=00085820170008666482