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 =='''19 MARCH4 JULY'''==
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|isbn=0241396840|title=Keeper|author=Jessica Moor|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Katie Straw worked in the women's refuge and the women who lived there liked and respected her. She treated them well and seemed to have an understanding of what they were going through. Why then did she jump from the local suicide spot into the river below? There had been no signs that she was unhappy and she and her boyfriend seemed to have been content together - and Noah has a decent alibi for the time when she died, but what other explanation could there be for her death? The police are convinced that it's suicide, but the women who knew her believed otherwise.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178730101X|title=Keep Him Close|author=Emily Koch|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Alice had two children: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) and Louis. Lou's seventeen and he's just got his A level results and he and his brother are going out to celebrate. Someone has to find something to celebrate in the letters, D, D and E. Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny but it's a touch problematic with Lou and being honest, he's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming to my mind were ADHD.}} =='''26 MARCH'''== {{Frontpage|author= N K JemisinMax Boucherat|title= The City We Became|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= New York is being born, the city has reached critical mass and has matured into a living almost-breathing entity and is ready to make its way out into the world. Before it can be established, an ancient evil appears to attempt to destroy it just as it destroyed Atlantis and other forgotten places. The city is not alone through the birthing process, people who embody the values are selected to become the living embodiment Last Life of the city, some cities have one, some have twelve and New York has six. Together these human-embodiments must defeat the woman in white and save New York from very real destruction. But these are five different boroughs which don't always see eye to eye, it's a personality clash on an epic scale and unity is both critical and not remotely guaranteed.|isbn=0356512665}} =='''31 MARCH'''== {{Frontpage|author=Rob Harrell|title=WinkLori Mills
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|summary=When Ross is diagnosed with a rare form of cancerWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, aged 12babysitter poorly, his desperate attempts mother at school to work, just be 'normal' become impossible. Suddenly he is the cancer kidan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and everything he does, how he looks, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of the other kids in schoolon her lonesome. Ross is, understandably, angry. What could possibly go wrong? He is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed Snuggled in a permanent wink. He blanket fort, she has gloopy eye medicine to try to help with the pain, plus the need to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due to the ongoing treatment. With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friendsmain intention, and a series of horrible memes that someone at school creates about Ross, nothing about his life is normal any more, and he has to find new ways log on to deal with his feelingsVoxminer, and survive.|isbn=1471409147}} =='''2 APRIL'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ben Oliver|title= The Loop|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars-building, he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by the guards who can end his life with one squeeze. Luka critter-collecting game that is taunted by limited access to his memories and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts hit in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?|isbn=1912626551}}{{Frontpage|author= Kirsty Applebaum|title= Troofriend|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Are you tired of your childLori's classmates constantly being horrible to them? Do you want your child to have some positive experiences with people? Introducing the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-of-the-art machines are capable of emulating the full range of human emotions without lying, stealing or bullyingworld. They're the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and have absolutely no basis in reality…right?|isbn=1788003470}} =='''7 APRIL'''== {{Frontpage|author= Grady Hendrix|title= The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Women, by and large, have always been the subjugated sex. Throughout history, they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the powerful man and let nothing stand in his way. Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. It is an ode to the strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to toe with a predatory male vampire who moves into their quiet cul de sac.|isbn=1683691431}} =='''14 APRIL'''== {{Frontpage|author= M R Carey|title= The Book of Koli|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= ''The Book of Koli'' is the But first in a post-apocalyptic trilogy, titled ''The Rampart Trilogy'', by M.R. Carey. The novel is set in a world where nature Lori has turned against humans. Trees move as fast as animals to crush their prey and then soak up their blood. Humans have eked out a small existence in isolated villages. They are primitive except for their reverence of 'old tech'. This is technology from the old world tiny inkling that seems to only work for certain chosen people. However, Koli, a young woodsmith, uncovers a secret about this technology that will upend his life and take him stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on a perilous journey.|isbn=0316477532}} =='''15 APRIL'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=1781129312|title=Sequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Sequin loved her mum to bitsown, but sometimes she got very cross with her. It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed to get credit for what she did. Mum is a seamstress and then she makes the sort of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddingsfinds something even more spooky. She's not For the designer - they're the people who make a lot of money from the clothes. Mum is the person who actually ''makes'' the garments server she and she's really talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.}}{{Frontpage|author=Akala|title=The Dark Lady|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''For a street kid from the Devil's Gap, London's most notorious slum, life is short her bestie and tough. For Henry, a boy thief with brown skin inherited from a mother who abandoned him, life is tougher still. The Dark Lady enters his dreams at night. She seems nobody else should be able to represent a past, and possibly a future...''Henry and his friends, brother and sister Matthew and Mary, have various ways enter shows signs of getting bytampering. Sometimes they pickpockets. Sometimes they rob the houses of the rich. It's crime or starve - but crime is dangerous and they risk the terrible punishments of Elizabethan England if they are caught. Impossible choices. But there are pleasures too, and for Henry, the chief pleasure is the Globe Theatre and the plays of William Shakespeare. Henry loves language and often makes When malevolent eyes spark up sonnets about what he sees around him and how he feels. |isbn= 1444943693}} =='''30 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Jacqueline Wilson|title=Love Frankie|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS, when your dad has decided to leave on her for another woman, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever livedphone screen, and, above all, when Sally and her mates are bullying you at school. Oh, and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you don't fancy him back. Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 }} =='''14 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Alison Weir|title= Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard The Tainted Queen|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= ''Katheryn was seven when her mother died'', thus we are thrust into this tumultuous time safe place in young Katheryn's life, trying to find a home, both figuratively and literallythe game has been doctored – well, where she can grow and grieve. Unfortunately, Katheryn is followed by bad luck and she learns an important lesson, she is too young, too poor and too unimportant to be of any value a girl to anyone, but she is beautiful and surely, that will count for something in the end, won't itturn?|isbn=14722277780008666482
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|author= Hana TookeJenny Lecoat|title= The UnadoptablesBeyond Summerland|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= In Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the winter end of 1880, five babies are abandoned at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdam, much to the annoyance of matron Gasbeekoccupation. Twelve years later, Milou, the last of During the five babies to be abandoned back in that winterwar, struggles Jean's father was arrested for listening to work out the identity of her parents from the clues she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks on the outsidebanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker leaving Jean and a velvet blankether mother waiting for years for news of him. She, along with As the British finally free the Channel islands from the other fourNazis, patiently wait for Milou's parents to come back and take her home. However, when the five children are sold to the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotmanwar is finally over, their hopes rise that they know they have to escapewill finally learn what became of him. And so begins But will the adventure of truth come as a lifetime as relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou with her parents, all Nazis about the time being pursued by radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the Kinderbureau and Rotman…occupation?|isbn=02414174651846976537
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