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=='''2 SEPTEMBER23 MAY'''==
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|author= Angharad WalkerOnyi Nwabineli|title= The Ash HouseAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesnAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia't know his names increasingly popular presence on social media, or why he where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is there but he in her twenties and she is used slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the systemcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, used failing to different places start her PhD, undergoing therapy and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol secretly abusing people online and sets out to teach him the rules of The Ash Housereceiving money from them for doing so. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace who is shattered by the arrival new focus of the DoctorOphelia's online empire. By the end of the story Can she save her sister, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same again.time?|isbn=19126269770861546873
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 =='''14 SEPTEMBER30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Tori BovalinoB0CYV674G2|title=The Devil Makes ThreeSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herselfIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. What makes it worse is the A man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man Tess hates. As a petty act A body at the bottom of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks postfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -it notes on each of the bookshe's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, scribbled which coincided with the ugliest insults she can birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think ofhe'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. TheyHe're never meant s sleep-deprived to reach him, the point of course. Her plan is falling asleep at work but he's determined to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadnkeep going - probably because he can't delivered them for herget any sleep at home.|isbn=1789098130
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 =='''16 SEPTEMBER4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor= B09BG8V3Q6Stuart Douglas|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery Lowe and Seema AmjadLe Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!Floggit and Leggit'' is , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the latest release in dead body of a woman on the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Averyedge of a reservoir. This series of fun picture books aims The police seem happy to take assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the pain out help of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aimfellow actor, as any frustrated parent will tell youJohn 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 Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Alex FoulkesKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Rules for VampiresDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) is a VampireMeet Kit. She drinks blood, she sleeps during Like most of the daypeople in his world, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel aroundit seems, although not all he is an avid fan of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Now, on Dungeon Running – the night sport where a team of her hundredth birthnightwarrior, she has to go out mage and hunt her first human. Howeverhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And race to make things worsethe exit, perhaps bothering with the ghosts of one of treasure or the orphans big bad and the evil master of points they grant you along the orphanage come back to haunt herway. So Unfortunately for Kit, not the only does Leo have to team up with thing he's seen of the friendly ghost Minna to stop latest race on the ghost inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of the Orphanmaster before questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has taken to do it all while hiding it the goading from her familythe token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Did I mention vampires What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and ghosts hate each otherhow could he possibly hope to succeed? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X1839945184
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=='''28 SEPTEMBER13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=18004644951635866847|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of MathsThe Lavender Companion|author=Emma SmithJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in ' feel that this is the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months oldbook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'' Did you know this? , I didnvisited the author't! How abouts [https//www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there''Maths ability on entry to school is s a strong predictor picture of later achievement, double that a slice of literacy skillschocolate cake on the homepage.''  I didndon't know this either! eat cakes and desserts - but I think most parents are aware wanted that giving your children cake viscerally. (There's a good start recipe in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about mathsbook, beyond counting? which I don't think we do, m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in part because so many of us the margins are afraid sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of mathspages. But why are we? Most You suspect that smears of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children butter would not be a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''30 SEPTEMBER4 JULY'''==
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|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettMax Boucherat|title=Locked Out LilyThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lily is, or was, or has been, very ill, and to give her parents relief We meet Lori on the first evening she's been told to stay with her grandma for a few days. The parents need got the relief as Lily's baby sibling is just about house to be born herself a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing no neighbour to do with. But on tracking back home for word of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parentspop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, and the babe-injust an avidly rule-armsbreaking eleven year old, already installedon her lonesome. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the family back intact What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, even if it's not the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Moleone main intention, Mouse and Snake.|isbn=1471194833}} =='''7 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Gwynne|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods that is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasylog on to Voxminer, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genreworld-building, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This critter-collecting game that is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty hit in Lori's world in which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=0356514218}}{{Frontpage|author=Peter Papathanasiou|title=The Stoning|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=In But first Lori has a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at tiny inkling that this stormy night in a shopping trolleydoesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumpsbestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyonemalevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, including the local cops, are quite confident and her safe place in the culprit game has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling been doctored and it's only fairwell, where 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 girl to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...turn?|isbn=15294169730008666482
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=='''19 OCTOBER'''==
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|author=Claire McGowanJenny Lecoat|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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=='''13 JANUARY'''==
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|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova
|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!
|isbn= B09CHD6DT9
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