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=='''5 SEPTEMBER9 MAY'''==
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|author= Kay ChronisterTom Percival|title= Desert CreaturesThe Wrong Shoes|rating= 45|genre= Dystopian FictionConfident Readers|summary= With Will's life is difficult, in a world that multitude of ways. He is becoming increasingly inhospitable 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 humanityeven the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, postwas working a cash-in-apocalyptic fiction can become hand job on a building site and had an almost masochistic thrillaccident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. Whether it 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 a robotic takeoverdrawing, that feel like a world devoid light at the end of water or a nuclear holocaustlong, this dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}=='''23 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre =General Fiction|summary=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 Anuri's 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 take down the content about her. Anuri is a way battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fearsdoing 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}}=='''4 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970'Desert Creaturess sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit' by Kay Chronister is , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a new work woman on the edge of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the fears that exist for humanity todaySecond World War. It But is there really a shocking novel that still manages link between the deaths? And will they manage to find hope.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=18033649981803368209
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=='''7 SEPTEMBER6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Lauren St JohnKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Finding WonderDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficultMeet Kit. Her mum died when she was youngLike most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and now she finds herself awoken in race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the middle of big bad and the night by points they grant you along the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. When asked what other family she hasUnfortunately for Kit, she can the only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didnthing he't think very highly s seen of. But she the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has no one elsebeen retired, eaten, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunta new trio of questors is needed. Things continue to get worse Possibly very unfortunately indeed for RooKit, as when she he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and Joni leave London in Jonistumbled into declaring he's old campervanll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, it breaks down muscle-free-zone have in the middle of nowhere actually managing that, and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=05713761691839945184
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=='''28 SEPTEMBER13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold1635866847|title=Finding BearThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]It's strange, April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that she called Bearthis is the book for you. Back homeBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', things on I visited the domestic author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and family front are there's a picture of a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from slice of chocolate cake on the islands Bear was last left onhomepage. For a bear doing very BearI don't eat cakes and desserts -y things has been shot and woundedbut I wanted that cake viscerally. Desperate to make sure he(There's OKa recipe in the book, she which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and her father return I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the Arctic and hope margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that in smears of butter would not be a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continueproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=0008582017
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 =='''26 OCTOBER4 JULY'''==
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|author=Adam Baron and Benji DaviesMax Boucherat|title=Oscar's LionThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=34.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to have his mother herself or fatherno neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a couple of times before he blanket fort, she has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroomone main intention, all he sees and that is a mahoosive male lion to log on their bedto Voxminer, looking sheepishthe world-building, and admitting critter-collecting game that he wonis a hit in Lori't be hungry for another two dayss world. But there are benefits to having first Lori has a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully tiny inkling that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other monththis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to school and it can get him out enter shows signs of a problemtampering. And it's wonderful to have around When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the house game has been doctored not limiting his biscuit intakewell, being much more lax about the rules, and so on. OK, it can't work where is a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.girl to turn?|isbn=00085967510008666482
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