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=='''6 JULY25 APRIL'''==

|author=Helen PetersSylvie Cathrall|title=Friends and TraitorsA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=35|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=England, WW2. Two young girls There are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined few greater joys than a book which lives up to be in service all her life it seems, like the female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-pathscompelling premise. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something And this is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover one of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attackedthem. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=17880046470356522776

|author=Jamie LittlerTom Percival|title=ArkspireThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45

|summary=Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper Will's life is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magicdifficult, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlandsa multitude of ways. Elodie He is intent on getting closer to power in one of bullied because he has 'the religious districts of Arkspirewrong shoes', perhaps he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even to become the child in line to inherit the power most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the Watchercollege, the closest to was working a cash-in-hand job on a ruler building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the district hasfact that his mum and dad are separated, and one of the five major victors Will's life seems bleak in said earlier warevery direction. Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status And yet, he still has a tiny amount of the whole familyhope. But in finding something oddly magicalHe is good at art, Juniper might just be able and clings to gain some power the moments of her own – for goodjoy when he is drawing, or for verythat feel like a light at the end of a long, very bad…dark tunnel.|isbn=02415861431398527122

|author=Thiago de MoraesOnyi Nwabineli|title=Old Gods New TricksAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapesAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powderthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she could almost be thought a young goddess posted every step of nuisanceAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. But just when Now Anuri is in her twenties and she's being told that by is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her onestep-last-chance-giving headteacher, mother to take down the world changescontent about her. SuddenlyAnuri is battling alcoholism, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-outfailing to start her PhD, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from mobile phones, and all that powers the Internet, just them for our convenience's sake)doing so. TrixieMost importantly, luckilyshe is desperately worried about her little sister, realises what has happened – who is the ancient Gods have taken the power new focus of power from usOphelia's online empire. And so Can she begins save her epic questsister, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the tricksters.same time?|isbn=178845295X0861546873

|author=Alexia CasaleKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Sing if you Can't DanceDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=It's hard enough Meet Kit. Like 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 race to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you're having to navigate a life-changing disability tooalong the way. Unfortunately for Kit, but thatthe only thing he's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing seen of the latest race on stage in the middle inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of a dance performance that was going to change her lifequestors is needed. But she comes back fightingPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, desperate he has taken to avoid the pity stares, goading from the token bully of his world and desperate to get back to a life thatstumbled into declaring he's ll enter as normal as she can possibly managea team. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort outWhat chance does this friendless, and just the daymuscle-tofree-day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymorezone have in actually managing that, might she be able and how could he possibly hope to sing her way through insteadsucceed?|isbn=05713738011839945184

=='''18 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=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 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 AUGUST13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Tania Unsworth1635866847|title=Nowhere IslandThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry 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