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=='''23 NOVEMBER9 MAY'''==
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|author=Katherine HoweTom Percival|title=A True AccountThe Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is 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 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 building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. 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 drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}=='''23 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Hannah Masury is living in BostonAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, having been sent thanks to live with a family who run an innher 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 being made to work there from a young age, basically, monetary gain. When she hears there Now Anuri is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, her twenties and she decides is slowly trying to go regain her confidence and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measureto get her life back, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at suing her step-mother to take down the hands of two vicious piratescontent about her. She hides awayAnuri is battling alcoholism, so that they don't find and kill failing to start her tooPhD, undergoing therapy and then to escape secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them completely for doing so. Most importantly, she runs away to seais desperately worried about her little sister, dressing as a boy and joining who is the notorious Ned Lownew focus of Ophelia's pirate ship as a cabin boyonline empire. She soon finds Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on relationship with her father at the ocean waves.same time?|isbn=08615474380861546873
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=='''1 FEBRUARY4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Sarah MarshStuart Douglas|title=A Sign of Her OwnLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=After During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a bout woman on the edge of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearingreservoir. Suddenly plunged into a world of silenceThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, everything but something about her life changes. Living in a time when the use whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of sign language was seen as something only savages doa fellow actor, Ellen is sent John Le Breton to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signinghelp him investigate matters further. From hereThey travel across the country during their days off filming, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf uncovering more possible murders and using , seemingly, a system called Visible Speechlink to death during the Second World War. At But is there really a link between the same time, Bell deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=10354016141803368209
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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 Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a busy lad – by day an apprentice in team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the wondrous library we start by visiting exit, perhaps bothering with himthe treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and in a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the evening a helper at goading from the dessert cafe token bully of his gran owns world and runsstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Eli lives with his lovely granWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}=='''13 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, too – 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 is 's a picture of a generation missing in slice of chocolate cake on the familyhomepage. A few short years ago, EliI don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's parents were both lost to a recipe in the titular racebook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to navigate fold down the world in the company corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a magical beastproblem. This has made I ''loved'' this book already.}} =='''4 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|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 race anathema house to the pair herself but when a bad incident no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at the eatery leads to work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a confession from granblanket fort, she has one main intention, Eli knows his only hope and that is to dare log on to enter what he most hatesVoxminer, with the sole aim 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 prize server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of magic at tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the end game has been doctored the only thing well, where is a girl to possibly save his gran.turn?|isbn=05713822310008666482
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