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|author=T KingfisherMax Boucherat|title=Thornhedge|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''You had a right to retake your place.'' T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spells.|isbn=1803364238}}=='''24 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=Christopher Fowler|title=Word Monkey|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary= It's the first of August in the middle of a cool wet summer in East Anglia. I decided not to swim at the pool in favour of going to my beach hut. The weather closed in, rain arrived, and I decided not to do that either. When I finished reading this book, I realised it was because (a) I wanted to finish reading this book and (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shack. No spoiler alerts, the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler 'was' – and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. There is something very strange about being made to laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dying, and you know he actually is at that point, because he does. He did.|isbn=0857529625}}=='''7 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Lauren St John|title=Finding Wonder|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But she has no one else, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle Last Life of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169}}=='''28 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Finding BearLori 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

|author=Adam Baron and Benji DaviesJenny Lecoat|title=Oscar's LionBeyond Summerland|rating=34|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, Jean lives on Jersey with Oscar hoping to have his her mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple where they are celebrating the end of times before he has to be ready for schoolthe occupation. But when he enters his parentsDuring the war, Jean' bedroom, all he sees is s father was arrested for listening to a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepishbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and admitting that he won't be hungry her mother waiting for years for another two daysnews of him. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to As the British finally free the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar Channel islands from the other month. And it can shapeshiftNazis, so he can take it to school and it can get the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him out of a problem. And But will the truth come as a relief, or will it's wonderful to have raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax informer who told the Nazis about the rules, and so on. radio? OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=00085967511846976537