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=='''2 SEPTEMBER23 MAY'''==
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|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonOnyi Nwabineli|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going Allow Me to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersIntroduce Myself
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quickAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, for hethanks to her step-mother Ophelia's a slight boyincreasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and although he wants for danger , basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and peril she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. That's because Jack's get her life back, suing her step-mother knew all to take down the content about monstersher. Anuri is battling alcoholism, and look what happened failing to start her – she diedPhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Luckily or unluckily then Most importantly, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOLshe is desperately worried about her little sister, Jack will fluke who is the ogrenew focus of Ophelia's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunteronline empire. Can she save her sister, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's namesame time? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=07555019420861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Emma CarrollB0CYV674G2|title=The Week at World's EndSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=FirstIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, the title. We're covered in World's End Close, mud and blood - and carrying a mediocre set of housesknife, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with comes into the family dog and with police station shouting that he hasn't killed the boy over man. A body at the road. But we could also be bottom of a freshly dug grave at WorldSwanton Morley church - he's Endbeen stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, because something taking a great chunk which coincided with the birth of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking offhis daughter Samantha. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, words 'perverse' and not much else is able 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to make the news. That said, Vie has news point of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Close, said shefalling asleep at work but he'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed s determined to leave, and implied her life was keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at riskhome. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author= Angharad WalkerStuart Douglas|title= The Ash HouseLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident ReadersCrime|summary= A new boy arrives at 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. The Ash House. He doesn't know his namepolice seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, or why he is there but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he is used to enlists the systemhelp of a fellow actor, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out John Le Breton to teach help him the rules of The Ash Houseinvestigate matters further. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by They travel across the absent Headmaster. All children must remember country during their Niceness days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and complete their chores, working as seemingly, a hive in link to death during the smouldering shadows of The Ash HouseSecond World War. But soon their easy peace is shattered by there really a link between the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same again.?|isbn=19126269771803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Freya SampsonKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Last LibraryDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=I am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, since I am a librarianMeet Kit. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought Like most of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair people in a bunhis world, cat-owningit seems, glasses on he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a chain stereotypes! In this storyteam of warrior, the main charactermage and healer enter specially prepared, Junecentury-old, does put her hair in a bunmagical mazes, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett)race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didnpoints they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he't immediately throw s seen of the book out of latest race on the windowinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, because I found I was interested in Juneeaten, and why she lived as she dida new trio of questors is needed. Her mum used Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University goading from the token bully of his world and stayed at home to take care of her mum, stumbled into declaring he'll enter as well as taking on a job as library assistant at the local libraryteam. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago What chance does this friendless, she is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway mealmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the change.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=183877369X1839945184
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 =='''16 SEPTEMBER13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn= B09BG8V3Q61635866847|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)The Lavender Companion|author= Justine Avery Jessica Dunham and Seema AmjadTerry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary= It's strange, the things that make you 'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'immediately'' feel that this is the latest release in the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'Everybody Potties!', I visited the author' series from Justine Averys [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. This series com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of fun picture books aims to take chocolate cake on the pain out of potty training children homepage. I don't eat cakes and replace it with some fundesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. It (There's a worthy aimrecipe in the book, as any frustrated parent will tell youwhich I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Alex FoulkesMax Boucherat|title=Rules for VampiresThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or We meet Lori on the first evening she'Leo' for short) is a Vampire. She drinks blood, she sleeps during s got the day, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats house to travel around, although not all of them remember herself – no neighbour to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Nowpop in, on the night of her hundredth birthnightbabysitter poorly, she has to go out and hunt her first human. Howevermother at work, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down just an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worseavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt on herlonesome. So, not only does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other What could possibly go wrong? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X}}=='''28 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1800464495|title= 100 Ways Snuggled in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the wombblanket fort, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months oldshe has one main intention, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability that is to log on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievementVoxminer, double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy the world- reading stories, teaching pen gripsbuilding, singing rhymes critter- gives children collecting game that is a solid foundation when they start schoolhit in Lori's world. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I donfirst Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't think we dofind herself entirely on her own, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialthen she finds something even more spooky.}} =='''7 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Gwynne|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is For the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled server she and her bestie and their bones lie scattered for all nobody else should be able to seeenter shows signs of tampering. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to her safe place in the genregame has been doctored – well, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This where is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together girl to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.turn?|isbn=03565142180008666482
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|author=Peter PapathanasiouJenny Lecoat|title=The Stoning|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...|isbn=1529416973}} =='''19 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Claire McGowan|title=I Know YouBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the baby, Carson, and comes across three bodiesend of the occupation. During the war, almost a whole family taken down. Jean''Now:'' Rachel is out s father was arrested for listening to a walk with banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her dogmother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, Brandyand the war is finally over, when she comes across their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a body in relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the woods.war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=15420199741846976537
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=='''28 OCTOBER'''==
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|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)
|title=The Rabbit Factor
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan...
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