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Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a decade of his wonderfully entertaining [[image:Banner_for_BookbagRob Keeley's ''Spirits'' series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that is both a reboot and a continuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. Ruby and Jayden respond to this intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the rules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is adopted by them and takes up residence in....pnga wardrobe!}}{{Frontpage|centerauthor=Rob Keeley|linktitle=httpsChildish Spirits://bit10th anniversary special edition|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.ly/ToppstaReadingPack]] <br>

|author=Tania UnsworthJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerPlanet Storyland

|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girlThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. The sort of small girl who often gets overlooked, AI and forgotten. She is quietautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and compliant, and makes the best of whatever happens other tasks that took time to heraccomplish. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free to take care of her, Just as they have were beginning to arrange for her get used to go all this technological change and stay with her Great Uncle for a week. Poor Elsie, forgotten againstarting to think of other, just decides new ways to make the best of things. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boyspend time, and he has along came an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one of the roomsawful pandemic. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappyLife was pretty much shut down and, and he says he has to keep along with it because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years old, and he says it was all the worst thing he ever did. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tiger, in order to put something right that happened a long time agodaily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=17885417071736128426

|author=Natasha FarrantTom Percival|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkThe Wrong Shoes

|summary=Set in England in the aftermath of World War One, this Will's life is the story of two childrendifficult, Lotti and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but don't want to let go of their last, tiny glimpses in a multitude of hopeways. Ben He is living on a narrowboat on bullied because he has 'the canalwrong shoes', lying to he has the police about wrong shoes because his brotherdad can't work and doesn's imminent return from t have enough money for even the battlefields to take care most basic of him. Lotti, meanwhilethings like food, has been expelled from school and is back his dad can't work because he lost his job at home; it's the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a beautiful house building site and had an accident. Throw into that belongs to her but mix the fact that her terrible Aunt his mum and dad are separated, and Uncle currently have guardianship forWill's life seems bleak in every direction. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals And yet, he still has a dog!) is the beginning tiny amount of a deep, and powerful friendshiphope. It sees them become each other's familyHe is good at art, and undertake a perilous trip clings to France, in the boatmoments of joy when he is drawing, to try to find out that feel like a light at the truth end of the people they both lovea long, dark tunnel.|isbn=05713487691398527122

|authorisbn=Joanne M Harris1805141872|title=A Pocketful of CrowsThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= I ''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have always been of raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the mind that once you're above picture-book level truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and before you get to graphic sex & violenceher gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, there is no difference between books for children Miss Judson and books Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for adultsone last job. There are good books and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful of Crows Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We' ll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is clearly aimed at Ben, the younger readers son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as witness his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the use nickname of the middle initial in the author's name to differentiate from her adult offersThe Black Hole'. Ignore that if you have loved anything from All big movie fans, they''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the modern fairy tale. This movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is no very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. It But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is an utter delight.going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=14732221841839942738

|author=Ele FountainAdam Stower|title=LostMurray and Bun

|summary=Lola lives Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in an Indian city the wondrous library we start by visiting with her fatherhim, and her brother, Amitin the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. She Eli lives with them his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in a nice apartment, and although they are not rich like some of the girls at school, they have enough money to be comfortablefamily. Lola spends her time thinking about her school friendsA few short years ago, and trying Eli's parents were both lost to fit in with themthe titular race, until one day, suddenly, everything a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in her life changesthe company of a magical beast. After taking This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a work trip awayconfession from gran, Lola's father doesn't come home. They have nobody else Eli knows his only hope is to dare to helpenter what he most hates, and as they wait day after day, Lola wonders what will become with the sole aim the prize of them until, finally, they are evicted from their flat, and she and her brother find themselves forced magic at the end – the only thing to live on the streetspossibly save his gran.|isbn=178269255X0571382231

|author= Angela WoolfeHelen Cooper|title= Roxy and Jones: The Great Fairytale Cover-UpTaming of the Cat|rating= 43.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= After her father gets married for Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the umpteenth timenames of cheeses. Anyway, Roxy Humperdinck Brie is sent to live with her halfshunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-sister Gretel in Rexopolistracised, capital city of for the way his habits don't match the Kingdom of Illustriaother mice he lives with. Gretel works They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as a toilet cleaner for art and makes stories based on the Ministry of Soupvisuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. Why does a country like Illustria need an entire ministry dedicated It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to soupkeep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, you askas all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out? Well|isbn=0571376010}}{{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, after Roxy and now she finds a secret passage herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her bathroom and meets dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a snarky young woman known lottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, she can only as Jonesname her aunt, Joni, who she soon finds out whyknows her dad didn't think very highly of. Turns out But she has no one else, fairy tales are realand 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 Ministry’s official job middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Oscar's Lion|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to safeguard be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all knowledge of them he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and monitor admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the living fairy talesbully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. Andit can shapeshift, when an evil queen breaks so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a maximum-security prison and threatens problem. And it's wonderful to reinstate her reign of terrorhave around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, Roxy and Jones hold the fate of the world in their young hands…soso on. OK, no pressure then!it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=14063913790008596751

|title=The Pear AffairStolen Songbird|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=0571363148}}{{Frontpage|author=Tania Unsworth|title=Nowhere Island

|summary=Set in the 1960'sMeet Gil. Just twelve, this he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a mystery adventure storyhome for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, all about a little girl called Nell and her quest lets it ride him to find her nanny, Perrine (Pear) who left her very suddenly and then, after keeping in touch regularly by post, disappeared completely from her life, leaving Nell berefthis future. There's everything That future seems to be in this story, jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with underground tunnels as his brother in a camp on an island between the playground two directions of gangs of childrena motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to travel provide for their safety and detective workseclusion. Them, and a mute girl also finding a mystery mould infecting Parisian bakerieshome there, mysterious figures following Nell aroundalbeit so much more successfully. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, and a set of truly dreadful parents!or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=05713468551804540080

|author= Kirsty ApplebaumHelen Peters|title= TroofriendFriends and Traitors|rating= 4.53|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Are you tired of your child's classmates constantly being horrible England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to them? Do you want your child to have some positive experiences with people? Introducing be in service all her life it seems, like the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These statefemale generations before her. The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-oftoity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. 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 is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the-art machines Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are capable received under cover of emulating the full range secrecy, talk is made of human emotions without lyingmeetings with Germans, and not only that, stealing or bullyinga local Spitfire factory has been attacked. They're But surely the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids girls are beginning to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours wrong, and have absolutely no basis in reality…rightthe upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=17880034701788004647

|author= M G Leonard and Sam SedgmanJamie Littler|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefArkspire|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Harrison BeckTwo sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, or Hal as he prefers are growing to be called, isn't exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a travel writer, on a long train journeychalk and cheese. Although, this isn't any old train; this Juniper is the Highland Falconan eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the royal train, and this Badlands. Elodie is its last ever journey before it gets sent intent on getting closer to a museum. A number power in one of the religious districts of high-society figuresArkspire, including film stars, millionaires and aristocrats, will be on this train, so it is quite perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the event on power of the social calendar. However, when an expensive brooch is stolenWatcher, Hal realises that maybe this trip won't be as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin closest to turn on each othera ruler the district has, Hal vows to get to the bottom and one of the mystery…before five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the train gets to magic that only five people can use would definitely change the end status of the linewhole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=15290130620241586143

|isbn=1781129312024162343X|title=Sequin and StitchStolen History|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)Sathnam Sanghera

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Sequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she I was the bad company other people got very cross with herinto at school. It wasnI was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 't that mum wouldngod't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - . Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was because she never pushed to get credit for what she didprobably worse still. Mum is a seamstress and she makes Not too long after the sort end of clothes that you see WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on red carpets or at important weddings. Shethose) in what came to be called 's not the designer - theycolonies're as want to dispute what right the people who make a lot of money from army had to be there in the clothesfirst place. Mum is Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the person who actually maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'makesd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History' the garments 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.

|author= Hana TookeThiago de Moraes|title= The UnadoptablesOld Gods New Tricks|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the winter school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of 1880nuisance. But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, five babies are abandoned at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdamworld changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, much to the annoyance even of matron Gasbeek. Twelve years later, Milouelectric cars, hits not just the last of town the five babies to be abandoned back school's in that winter, struggles to work out but the identity of her parents entire planet (apart from the clues she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks on the outsidemobile phones, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker and a velvet blanket. She, along with all that powers the other fourInternet, patiently wait just for Milouour convenience's parents to come back and take her homesake). However Trixie, luckily, when realises what has happened – the five children are sold to ancient Gods have taken the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotman, they know they have to escapepower of power from us. And so she begins the adventure of a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou with her parentsepic quest, to gather all the time being pursued by people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the Kinderbureau semi-deities, giants, half-gods and Rotman…so on known as the tricksters.|isbn=0241417465178845295X

|author=Rob HarrellHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=WinkFinding Bear

|summary=When Ross is diagnosed [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a rare form of cancer, aged 12, his desperate attempts at school to just be 'normal' become impossiblepolar bear – that she called Bear. Suddenly he is Back home, things on the cancer kid, domestic and everything he doesfamily front are a bit advanced, how he looksbut not perfect for her, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the other kids in schoolislands Bear was last left on. Ross is, understandably, angry. He is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed in For a permanent winkbear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. He has gloopy eye medicine Desperate to try to help with the painmake sure he's OK, plus the need to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due she and her father return to the ongoing treatment. With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friends, Arctic and hope that in a series world of horrible memes that someone at school creates about Ross, nothing about his life is normal any morevery white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and he has to find new ways to deal with his feelings, dangerous thing – and survivethat the friendship can continue.|isbn=14714091470008582017

|author=Alastair ChisholmSimon Fox|title=Orion LostDeadlock

|summary= Thirteen-year-old Beth Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and her parents board the transport ship Orion ready for then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a new life secret place, and join him on Eos Fivethe run. Their new home is still being terra-formed and life there isn't going to be easy They get together, but it ''barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is'' going arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to be a fresh start. As Beth's mum puts itBrighton, ''There's toting a future waiting for us. A chance tin his father was determined to make our own decisionskeep away from his colleagues, create our own livesand the bearer of a whole heap of questions.''|isbn= 17880059291839944420

|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)Cath Howe|title=Orphans of the TideMy Life on Fire

|summary= In the last city on EarthRen's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, anyone can be the vessel or any of The Enemy her special little knick- knacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the god who drowned the world - who has come foods they normally eat. When she goes back to wreak havoc on school she discovers that the last of humanity. When class are doing a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse special art project, creating boxes of a whaletheir lives, the citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, display things that are important to them and show who they are as a girl inventorperson. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares But Ren has nothing to put in a box, and so she finds herself starting to execute the boysteal things. Small things, Ellie must prove things that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepestpeople might not really miss, darkest secrets..not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=02413844351839942835

|author= Holly RiversRob Keeley|title= Demelza The Boy Who Disappeared and the Spectre DetectorsOther Stories|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Demelza Clock Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a scientist, often staying up late to work on her various gadgets, much return to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. However, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the ability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Under the guidance of her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to master her newfound skills. Howevereleven new tales, there is a mysterious individual on the prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's up each as fun to Demelza and her best friend Percy to get to the bottom of this..read as his previous offerings.|isbn=1912626039B0BVW69N1G

|author=Tanya LandmanLaura Noakes|title=Jane Eyre: Cosima Unfortunate Steals a RetellingStar|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in the outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059}}{{Frontpage|author=Alice M Ross|title=The Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the ability to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, is the answer, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769}}{{Frontpage|author=Natasha Farrant|title=The Rescue of Ravenwood

|summary=A young womanThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about herin the North of England, where Bea and years in Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a dreary schoolcomplex, moves into Thornfield Hall extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with only one jobhis mum, to tutor and they are living together as a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absentfamily. When he does turn They have grown up he seems to be darkswimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, brooding completely at one with all of the nature around the house and troubled – but thatloving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's nothing compared to the darker, becoming more broody and even more troubling secret in the houseexpensive to maintain. YesThe children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you donthey'tll even be together, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn toand if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|isbn=17811291260571348785

|author=Innosanto NagaraRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=M is for MovementSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Set Jayden's nose is forever in Indonesiaa book, in which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the not too distant pastworld, this for example. Aisha is a story about social changeaddicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. Dealing with some difficult issuesThe problem, such as political corruption and nepotismtheir mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the book is neither boring nor preachyoutside world of Hackney, London. It educates gentlyBut when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, with vibrant, challenging illustrationseducational purpose, and it portrays how social movements need people who will trywith a past involving Jayden's cousin, even when it seems that they will failfind a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The message is crew of the boat, including a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain worldliving gargoyle, we do still are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the power magical sight needed to instigate changejoin in. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=16098093510241573483

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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Black Canary: Ignite by Meg Cabot and Cara McGee]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, and seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, she is desperate to find her voice. But it's actually more a case of her voice finding her, as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it a weapon, or a power. But in order for her to call herself a superhero, there has to be a whole path of steps for her to take – one of which will be into her past… [[Black Canary: Ignite by Meg Cabot and Cara McGee|Full Review]] <!-- Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1609809378.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1609809378/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Rabbits' Rebellion by Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] We're in the realm of the rabbits, only the foxes and wolves have taken over. King Wolf, His Wolfiness, has declared the rabbits don't exist, but the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that the bunnies are in fact still around. Demanding a propaganda spree, King Wolf orders a humble monkey to be his official portrait photographer, but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there is a distinct leporine hint. Can King Wolf succeed in proving himself victorious, can the rabbits show their continued existence to all who need to know of it – and what can the poor monkey caught in between do? [[The Rabbits' Rebellion by Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell|Full Review]] <!-- Aimee Lucido -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1406389331.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1406389331/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Emmy is moving with her parents halfway across America, to follow her father's dreams of a big break in his music career. She leaves behind her friends and her school in Wisconsin, and moves to California, knowing only what she has heard in songs. Her struggle to settle into her new life, make friends and feel happy and confident again, is agonisingly told in a way we can all relate to. There are many new opportunities and setbacks, taking the reader on a rollercoaster of emotions, but it isn't until Emmy joins a coding class using computer language that she begins to feel she might have a chance to feel like she truly belongs. [[In the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido|Full Review]] <!-- Maxwell N Andrews -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1983376353.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1983376353/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''| ===[[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put Move on a par with comments about Marmite. You're supposed to love it or hate it and I'm halfway between, and likewise, the old adage is halfway true. From the cover of this I had a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. That was only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacy. But why was I two chapters in and just finding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and more flashbacks, and no proof that this was what I'd bought in for? [[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews|Full Review]] <!-- Day -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0241351391.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0241351391/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It by Susie Day]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Newest Cookery Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] When Max’s dad finds himself in a spot of hot water, he disappears for a few days, leaving Max in charge of his three younger sisters, Thelma, Louise and Ripley. Max has no problem with stepping up to fill his dad’s shoes and be the man in charge, but when his dad still doesn’t come home, he starts to panic that interfering grown-ups will realise that the children are home alone and that they will step in and separate the family. So Max takes his sisters to Wales, to hide out in a friend’s cottage. It won’t be for long, surely? Because his dad wouldn’t miss Christmas, would he? [[Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It by Susie Day|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}