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 =='''3 MARCH4 JULY'''== 
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|author=Sara HollandMax Boucherat|title=Havenfall|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Maddie Morrow is supposed to spending the summer with her Grandma Ellen. But after a visit to her mother in prison, Maddie wants nothing more than to go to Havenfall to see her uncle, Marcus. It's the only place she feels truly at home. Maddie's father, understandably, is not keen on Maddie spending time with her mother's family - because the crime Maddie's mum is languishing on death row for committing is the murder of Maddie's brother...|isbn=1547603798 }}{{Frontpage|author=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)|title=Cursed: An Anthology The Last Life of Dark Fairy TalesLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=Curses. They're there throughout tales of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, or not to be able to do that. Children can be cursed, as can princesses We meet Lori on the verge of marrying, and older people too. It seems in a way therefirst evening she's no escaping it. Which is why got the theme of this book of short stories is such a standout house to herself we may well think we know all there is no neighbour to know about this accursed characterpop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, that demonised placejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrongon her lonesome.|isbn=1789091500}}  =='''5 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B083NMCSZX|title=Little Doubt (D I Kelly Porter)|author=Rachel Lynch|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ella Watson was in the What could possibly go wrong place at the wrong time. ? She was out running Snuggled in the park when a blanket fort, she was randomly attacked has one main intention, and stabbed that is to log on to death. Her husbandVoxminer, Thomasthe world-building, and children, Jordan and Millie were devastated and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged that a decent, middlecritter-class woman should be the victim of knife crime. Despite being a golfing partner of Thomas Jordan he declined to distance himself from the case and told DI Kelly Porter collecting game that he would be taking is a great deal of interest hit in how the case was handledLori's world. He wasnBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't anywhere near as interested when a second woman was stabbed to death a few hours laterfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Keira Bradley lived on For the Beacon estate server she and her bestie and Ormond's view seemed nobody else should be able to be that anyone living there should expect this sort enter shows signs of thing to happentampering. He could hardly bring himself to mention Keira's name.}} =='''12 MARCH'''== {{Frontpage|author=Will Dean |title=Black River |rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns - and this third book in the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into When malevolent eyes spark up on her personal lifephone screen, returning her to the isolated town of Gavrik and into a desperate search for her missing best friend. With safe place in the Midsommar sun blocked out by the dark pines of the forestgame has been doctored – well, Tuva fights to save her friend. But who’ll be there where is a girl to save Tuvaturn?|isbn=17860771160008666482
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|author=Elliot ReedJenny Lecoat|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This is the story of a young boy, William Tyce, who is being raised by his uncle after the death of his Jean lives on Jersey with her mother and his father's abandonment. However, it isn't told in the usual narrative way. Instead, the book is made up of glossary entries, written by William, as a way of describing certain events, situations and emotions. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used to the style, and was instead caught up in William's story.|isbn=1911545418}} =='''26 MARCH'''== {{Frontpage|author= N K Jemisin|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 where they are selected to become celebrating the living embodiment end of the city, some cities have one, some have twelve and New York has sixoccupation. Together these human-embodiments must defeat During 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 eyewar, itJean'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=Wink|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When Ross is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, aged 12, his desperate attempts at school to just be 'normal' become impossible. Suddenly he is the cancer kid, and everything he does, how he looks, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of the other kids in school. Ross is, understandably, angry. He is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed in a permanent wink. He 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 friends, 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 to deal with his feelings, 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 father was arrested for criminal activities have been amped up listening to a horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of Have banned radio and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting soldiers took him to a trigger held by the guards who can end his life with away one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories night, leaving Jean and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig her mother waiting for years for Alts in place news of execution] after Delay he is in despairhim. His prison is based on As the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With British finally free 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 Channel islands from the loop?|isbn=1912626551}} =='''7 APRIL'''== {{Frontpage|author= Grady Hendrix|title= The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= WomenNazis, 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 war 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}} =='''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 bitsfinally over, but sometimes she got very cross with her. It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with hopes rise that - it was because she never pushed to get credit for they will finally learn what she did. Mum is a seamstress and she makes the sort became of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddingshim. She's not But will the designer - they're the people who make truth come as a lot of money from the clothes. Mum is the person who actually ''makes'' the garments and she's really talentedrelief, but when people talk about the dress or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the suit, they talk about the designer. war? The seamstress is never mentioned.}}{{Frontpage|author=Akala|title=The Dark Lady|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''For a street kid from Who was the Devil's Gap, London's most notorious slum, life is short and tough. For Henry, a boy thief with brown skin inherited from a mother informer who abandoned him, life is tougher still. The Dark Lady enters his dreams at night. She seems to represent a past, and possibly a future...''Henry and his friends, brother and sister Matthew and Mary, have various ways of getting by. Sometimes they pickpockets. Sometimes they rob the houses of told 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 up sonnets Nazis about what he sees around him and how he feels. |isbn= 1444943693}} =='''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 in young Katheryn's life, trying to find a home, both figuratively and literally, 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 to anyone, but she is beautiful and surely, that will count for something in the end, won't itradio?|isbn=1472227778}}{{Frontpage|author= Hana Tooke|title= The Unadoptables|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In the winter of 1880, five babies are abandoned at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdam, much to the annoyance of matron Gasbeek. Twelve years later, Milou, the last of the five babies to be abandoned back in that winter, struggles to work out the identity of her parents from the clues she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks on the outside, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker and a velvet blanket. She, along with the And what other four, 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 Rotman, they know they secrets have to escape. And so begins been kept throughout the adventure of a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou with her parents, all the time being pursued by the Kinderbureau and Rotman…occupation?|isbn=02414174651846976537
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