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=='''2 SEPTEMBER4 JULY'''==

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonMax Boucherat|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 The Last Life of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going 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 BeginnersLori Mills

|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for heWe meet Lori on the first evening she's a slight boy, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses got the house to let him out of his sight. That's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened herself – no neighbour to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily thenpop in, depending on your point of viewbabysitter poorly, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOLmother at work, Jack will fluke the ogre's death, a dwarfish wizardjust an avidly rule-type will make him an apprentice monster hunterbreaking eleven year old, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact withon her lonesome. The book's name What could possibly go wrong? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=0755501942}}{{Frontpage|author=Emma Carroll|title=The Week at World's End|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=First, the title. We're Snuggled in World's End Closea blanket fort, a mediocre set of housesshe has one main intention, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and with the boy over the road. But we could also be at World's End, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce log on to Voxminer, the risk of nuclear missiles offshoreworld-building, and not much else critter-collecting game that is able to make the news. That said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding hit in their coal shedLori's world. Anna But first Lori has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Close, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leave, and implied her life was at risk. But surely tiny inkling that this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438}}{{Frontpage|author= Angharad Walker|title= The Ash House|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He stormy night doesn't know his namefind herself entirely on her own, or why he is there but he is used to and then she finds something even more spooky. For the system, used to different places server she and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol her bestie and sets out nobody else should be able to teach him the rules enter shows signs of The Ash Housetampering. These rules centre When malevolent eyes spark up on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness her phone screen, and complete their chores, working as a hive her safe place in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace game has been doctored – well, where is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same again.a girl to turn?|isbn=19126269770008666482

|author=Freya SampsonJenny Lecoat|title=The Last LibraryBeyond Summerland

|summary=I am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses Jean lives on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), 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 didn't immediately throw the book out of the window, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used to be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at the local library. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in Jersey with her life is about the change.|isbn=183877369X}}{{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, mother where no ship dare sail. The current Darks they are celebrating the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out end of the sea one day eleven years agooccupation. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into During the world of protecting their islandwar, like it or not.|isbn=1788452372}} =='''16 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. ItJean's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Foulkes|title=Rules father was arrested for Vampires|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) is listening to a Vampire. She drinks blood, she sleeps during the day, banned radio and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the soldiers took him away one night of her hundredth birthnight, she has to go out leaving Jean and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worse, the ghosts mother waiting for years for news of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt herhim. So, not only does Leo have to team up with As the friendly ghost Minna to stop British finally free the ghost of Channel islands from the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulNazis, she has to do it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X}}=='''28 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1800464495|title= 100 Ways 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 womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school war is a strong predictor of later achievementfinally over, double their hopes rise 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 - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many will finally learn what became of us are afraid of mathshim. 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 the truth come as beneficial.}} =='''7 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Gwynne|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods 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 Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick bookrelief, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=0356514218}}{{Frontpage|author=Peter Papathanasiou|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 or will it's only fair, is raise further questions around what else happened during the general opinion, for war? Who was the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue informer who told 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 You|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the baby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down. ''Now:'' Rachel is out for a walk with her dog, Brandy, when she comes across a body in Nazis about the woods. |isbn=1542019974}} =='''28 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|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 ? And 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 other secrets have been made out and kept throughout 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...occupation?|isbn=191319387X1846976537