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|isbnauthor=1849767009Louie Stowell|title=It IsnLoki: A Bad God't Rude s Guide to be Nude|author=Rosie HaineBeing Good|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=This could Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have been decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile and in the physical form of those books which a middle-school kid here on Earth. He'preaches s guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, to be the choir': more suave, more popular and more successful brother of the only people who'll buy it are two. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the people who know that nudity is OK right way again, or else, and the ones who ''know'' that to prove it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid he has to write the hot-and-bothered person text we read in the supermarket who a sentient notebook, that is coughing fit able to bustcry foul of his lies, and judge his progress. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something Loki is the kind of god who insists he can do anything, so much surviving a bit more than virtuously for a book about not wearing clothes. It's month is going to be a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markingswalk in the park. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.right?|isbn=1406399752

|author=Onjali Q RaufLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=The Night Bus HeroMermaid in the Millpond

|summary=Hector There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a bully. Egged on by his two 'friends', he takes friend for her in amongst all the other children's sweetskids, harasses and threatenswho have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, plays pranks at school, and gets into trouble at every turn. Yet he finds man for himself frustrated when something actually isn't his fault, but then he isn't believed as everyone expects him to be telling lieskind of existence. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely homeBut despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and seem to only care despite everything that life has taught her about his perfect sister betrayal and his annoying little brother when they arehow befriending people only leads to harm, and his teachers have abandoned him as there might be a lost causeglimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. So what happens when, But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in trying to tell the truth & fight to be believed, Hector finds himself embroiled with existence of the police; first trying to accuse, and then trying to save a homeless man from his local parkmermaid?|isbn=1510106774180090049X

|author=Carlie SorosiakChristopher Edge|title=My Life as Escape Room|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific location, and have to solve problems in order to get their way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to each other and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at the game's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage with such a Catpastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Hope|title=Fledgling

|summary=This Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the story of an alien who has come decades, and now looking imperiously down to spend some time on earth living as a humanthe village and woods below. It's something that each member in an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the alien collective library shelving system is allowed to donot as we'd know it, for 1 monththe roof is retractable, once they reach there is a certain age. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en routesteam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so something goes wrong on. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with his arrival PTSD and he finds that instead a passion for the long-standing family hobby of landing in Yellowstone Parktaxidermy, ready to work as a park rangerwoman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, he is instead in and the body of dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a cat on young lass who has to do all the other side maintenance of the country! This is not what he had planned! Not only is he in the wrong place and the wrong bodythis bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something else, he when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is also in the middle of a storm, stuck in a tree! cherub. And so he meets Olive, the little girl who rows out in if you think such a boat heavenly arrival is going to rescue himbe a completely great and wonderful thing, and who names him Leonardthink again...|isbn=1788006089183994188X

|author=Yara Evans Kate DiCamillo and Luciana BettiSophie Blackall|title=The Adventures Beatryce Prophecy|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Stories have joy and surprises in them'', we are told here. And none more so than in this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic with the freshness and the agelessness it has in equal proportion. We start with a group of an Urban Fox: Maggie Arrivesmonks, the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on and biting the poor Brothers. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King in his castle, desperate to find the girl, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne and cause great change. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simple, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=1529500893}}{{Frontpage|author=Greg James and Chris Smith|title=The Great Dream Robbery|rating=45

|summary=Black Cat and Tabby Cat are minding their own business in their own house when Maya's father is a very alarming thing happensprofessor who invented an amazing dream machine. A creature - a largeBut something went wrong, dog-like creature - appears in their houseand now he can't wake up. Black CatOr at least, always that's what Maya has been told. In a rather strange dream one to take chargenight Maya makes a new friend, challenges this fearsome creature with all and discovers that the courage he can musteronly way to save her dad may be by being asleep. Tabby Cat backs himCue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and reality collide...really. from a rather safe distance. The creature is indignant - ''I'm not a dog. Iand there'm s everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, to a foxtalking cat called Bin Bag!''|isbn=1511658649 024147051X

|author=Darren ShanKeith Gray|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment The Climbers

|summary=This third and final book Sully is the best tree climber in the first volume of Darren Shanvillage. He has what's new known amongst the kids as 'reach'Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie . But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, and Inez make it almost all the way not only that, that his chance to name the Cuckoo's Nestfinal, where unnamed big tree in the Vote of Alignment will park by being the first to conquer it, might be heldsnatched from his hands. But how How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will they get init cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?|isbn=B086LLWP4V1781129991

|isbnauthor=B086LLRZFHNick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=Archibald Lox and the Empress of SuanpanLocked Out Lily|author=Darren Shan|rating=4.5

|summary=ArchieLily is, or was, or has been, very ill, and to give her parents relief she's second foray into 'the Merge' opens been told to stay with her grandma for a fantastic vistafew days. All of The parents need the Bornrelief as Lily's most famous buildings baby sibling is just about to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do with. But on tracking back home for word of her parents (and monuments her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony- Big Beneyed simulacra of her parents, and the Taj Mahal,  the Eiffel Tower babe-in- are collected togetherarms, joined by those clever Merge vines. But there's no time to waste in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help from Inez to a venerable locksmith called Winstonalready installed.Winston is a darling but is afraid to help - what is These devilish interlopers need to be done? Despite yearning ousted to go home and worry for his foster parentsget the family back intact, Archie feels an obligation to take Winstoneven if it's place. And so Archie embarks on a newnot the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and even more dangerous, adventure...Snake.|isbn=1471194833

|isbnauthor=1776572858Philip Reeve|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske Utterly Dark and Don Bartlett (translator)the Face of the Deep

|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were madeIn 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. My mother was deeply embarrassed There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and told me legends of the Dark family that she'd get me a book about ithas to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. A couple The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than activity from the basicsHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in clinical language which had never been used London with too much science in our house before) his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about'Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. I ''knew'' moreBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfullyboth his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, times have changedlike it or not.|isbn=1788452372

|author=Darren ShanAlex Foulkes|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsRules for Vampires

|summary=Time Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) is a Vampire. She drinks blood, she sleeps during the day, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to catch you travel around, although not all up with some of my lockdown reading - I've been doing so much them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the night of it that I'm a bit late her hundredth birthnight, she has to the party with actual reviewinggo out and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And where better to start than make things worse, the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her. So, not only does Leo have to team up with the new series friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all while hiding it from Bookbag favouriteher family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, Darren Shan? Archie is very down. Hethere's lost a dear friend recently, in a tragic accident, and Archie blames himself. He can't face school so he takes himself reason why there are rules for a truanting wander around London. As he strolls across a footbridge, he sees a girl who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suits. He watches, aghast. What is going on?vampires…|isbn=B086LKBHD6147119955X

|author=Antony WoottenAngharad Walker|title=Season The Ash House|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the system, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same again.|isbn=1912626977}}{{Frontpage|author=Emma Carroll|title=The Week at World's End

|summary= Tannash First, the title. We're in World's End Close, a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and her brother Geb are waiting in great excitement for with the boy over the hunting party led by their uncle to returnroad. TheyBut we could also be at World're hoping for s End, because something taking a feast great chunk of mammoth meatthe fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. Geb longs for The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the day he can join his uncle Gagba risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and not much else is able to make the other warriors on news. That said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, a hunting party and take part secretive young woman hiding in their deeds of derring-docoal shed. But their fatherAnna has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in the leader 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 this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the village, thinks that they also need an education; that knowledge Cold War is power.doing miles away?|isbn=19392696790571364438}}

|author=Tania UnsworthIan Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerMonster Hunting For Beginners

|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girlMeet Jack. The sort of small girl who often gets overlookedNow Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's a slight boy, and forgotten. She is quiet, although he wants for danger and compliant, peril and makes the best interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of whatever happens to herhis sight. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free to take care of herThat's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, they have and look what happened to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a week– she died. Poor ElsieLuckily or unluckily then, forgotten againdepending on your point of view, just decides to make the best of things. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boygiant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, and he has an enormous tiger rug on Jack will fluke the floor of one of the rooms. When Elsie asks ogre's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him about the rug he seems unhappyan apprentice monster hunter, and he says 'll be given a book that tells him all he has needs to keep it because he was the one who shot know about the tiger when perils he was 12 years old, and he says it was the worst thing he ever didalways wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''.. 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 ago.|isbn=17885417070755501942

|author=Natasha FarrantLisa Thompson|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkThe Small Things

|summary=Set Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in England in the aftermath of World War One, this is the story of two children, Lotti and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but . Her family don't want have enough money to let go of their lasther do after school activities, tiny glimpses of hopeand so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. Ben is living on When a narrowboat on the canalnew girl joins her class, lying Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the police about his brother's imminent return from the battlefields to take care of him. Lottinew girl, meanwhileEllie, has been expelled from school is unwell and is back at home; itso can's a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship fort attend school in person. The day Lotti meets Ben (Instead, she joins in with the day she steals class by using a dog!) is robot. Can Anna overcome the beginning challenge of making friends with someone through a deeprobot, and powerful friendship. It sees them become each other's family, and undertake is she even interesting enough to be a perilous trip good friend to France, in the boat, to try to find out the truth of the people they both love.Ellie?|isbn=05713487691781129649

|author=Joanne M HarrisAlex Cotter|title=A Pocketful of CrowsThe House on the Edge|rating=54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= I have always been Faith's family home is teetering on the edge of a cliff, literally. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little? And as the mind that once youhouse seems to be falling apart, so is Faith're above picture-book level s family. Her dad has disappeared, and before you get her mum is struggling to graphic sex & violencecope, there is no difference between books for children and books for adultsbarely leaving her bed. There are good books So that leaves Faith in charge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah to school, and poor onesavoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful of Crows'' Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims is clearly aimed at a ghost in the younger readers as witness cellar? What should she do about the use of the middle initial in the authorhouse? Can she find a way to raise enough money to fix it? What's name happened to differentiate from her adult offers. Ignore that dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if you have loved anything from she manages to get funding for the house? She carries the weight of all these worries on her constantly, and she doesn''Chocolat'' onwards you will t know that Harris is mistress of how much longer the modern fairy tale. This is no different. It is an utter delightcliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping on.|isbn=14732221841788008626

|author=Ele FountainKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=LostJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5

|summary=Lola lives in an Indian city Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her father, parents and her brother, Amit. She lives with them their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a nice apartmentsummer, and although they are not rich like some in the far NE of the girls at schoolScottish islands. Here be Vikings, they have enough money to be comfortablethat kind of Scottish island. Lola spends her time thinking about her school friends, and trying Dad is going to fit in with thembe automating the lantern, until one daywhich is his specialist thing, suddenly, everything while mum will be leaving her career in her life changesalgae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. After taking a work trip awayAnd Julia, Lola's father doesn't come home. They have nobody else to helpwell, she will be homesick and as they wait day after day, Lola wonders what will become of them alone – until, finally, they are evicted from their flat, and she and her brother find themselves forced to live on the streetssuddenly finds company one night.|isbn=178269255X1510107789

|author= Angela WoolfeLouie Stowell|title= Roxy and Jones: The Great Fairytale Cover-UpOtherland|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= After her father gets married for the umpteenth timeMyra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loud, bright and hates rules, Roxy Humperdinck while Rohan is sent to live with her half-sister Gretel in Rexopolisvery polite, capital city of serious and worries about the Kingdom of Illustriatiniest things. Gretel works as a toilet cleaner for Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the Ministry of Soupsame hospital on Midsummer's day. Why does a country like Illustria need an entire ministry dedicated And so, every year their families get together to soup, you ask? Well, after Roxy finds a secret passage in her bathroom and meets a snarky young woman known only as Jones, she soon finds out whycelebrate the two's birthday/deathday. Turns out, But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy tales are realqueen, and the Ministry’s official job is they must journey to safeguard all knowledge of them and monitor the living fairy tales. AndOtherland, when an evil queen breaks out of a maximum-security prison and threatens to reinstate her reign magical realm full of terrorfairies, vampires, dragons, Roxy and Jones hold Gods. It's going to be the fate worst night of the world in their young hands…so, no pressure then!lives.|isbn=14063913791788000463

|author=Judith EagleDarren Shan|title=The Pear AffairArchibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3

|summary=Set in So. Having done the 1960's, this is a mystery adventure story, all about a little girl called Nell impossible and her quest unpicked the lock to find her nannythe Forgotten Crypt, Perrine (Pear) who left her very suddenly and thenfrom which the Departed communicate with the Merge, after keeping in touch regularly by postArchie now has ''grop'' to think about. But before that, disappeared completely from her lifesoirees. Soirees! Archie, leaving Nell bereft. Theremuch to Inez's everything in this storyamusement, with underground tunnels as the playground doesn't even know what one of gangs of children, those is. But he manages to travel and detective workcome through the fancy party unscathed, a mystery mould infecting Parisian bakerieseven after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, mysterious figures following Nell around, and a set whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of truly dreadful parents!this series. |isbn=0571346855B093J9TF73

|author= Kirsty ApplebaumMaisie Chan|title= TroofriendDanny Chung Does Not Do Maths|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Are you tired of your childDanny is eleven years old, and what he really, really loves to do is draw. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. Danny's classmates constantly being horrible dad, however, wants Danny to them? Do you want your child to have some positive experiences with people? Introducing concentrate on his maths, and forget about the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV androiddrawing, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! These state-of-the-art machines are capable of emulating the full range of human emotions without lying At least Danny has his own room, stealing or bullyingwhere he can draw in secret and in peace. They But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with them, and who will not only be sharing Danny're s bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the perfect companion for any childtop bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! Any mention that these androids are beginning to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around the town. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and have absolutely no basis in reality…rightthen he even has a falling out with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=1788003470180078001X

|author= M G Leonard and Sam SedgmanDarren Shan|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefArchibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Harrison Beck, or Hal as he prefers to be called, isnThe second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge''t exactly pleased when his parents send him off saga opens with his uncle Natour hero, a travel writerArchie, on a long train journeyback in London in the world of the Born. AlthoughIt's not been easy, this isnexplaining to his foster parents where he't any old train; this is the Highland Falcon, the royal trains been, or slipping back into ordinary life and this is its last ever journey before it gets sent to a museum. A number of high-society figures, including film stars, millionaires forgetting about Inez and aristocratshis other friends in the Merge, will be on this train, so it is quite the event on the social calendarbut Archie has done his best.... Howeverwell, when an expensive brooch is stolen, Hal realises except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling with that maybe this trip won't be as boring as sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he previously thought. As the passengers begin to turn on each other, Hal vows to get to the bottom of the mystery…before the train gets to the end of the linecan sneak away.|isbn=1529013062B093H8DPQZ

|isbnauthor=1781129312Gianna Pollero and Sarah Horne|title=Sequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)Monster Doughnuts|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Sequin loved her mum After their parents mysteriously disappeared, Grace and Danni have been left to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with herrun the family bakery. It wasn't But Grace needs the doughnuts and sweet treats that mum wouldnDanni bakes for a rather unusual reason...even though she't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because s only ten years old, she never pushed to get credit for what she did. is a monster hunter! Mum is Monsters have a seamstress very sweet tooth, and she makes the sort Grace uses a number of clothes that you see methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on red carpets them, or at important weddingstricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, ultimately, be their demise. She's not the designer - they're the people One day, though, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who make has a lot of money from the clothes. Mum is the person who actually ''makes'weakness for doughnuts but doesn' t seem to explode as the garments other monsters do, and she's really talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. so The seamstress is never mentioned.things start to get very strange…|isbn=1848129432

|author= Hana TookeM G Leonard|title= The UnadoptablesTwitch|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 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 have to escape. And so begins 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…|isbn=0241417465}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Harrell|title=Wink|rating=4.5

|summary=When Ross Twitch is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, aged 12, his desperate attempts at school to just be 'normal' become impossibleboy who loves birds. Suddenly he is the cancer kidHe keeps pigeons at home, and everything he does, how he lookschickens, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of the other kids even has swallows nesting in school. his bedroom! Ross His time spent watching and helping birds is, understandably, angry. He is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed easy compared to that of his time in a permanent winkschool. He has gloopy eye medicine But things are about to try to help with the pain, plus the need to wear a hat at change for Twitch in all times to protect aspects of his face due to the ongoing treatment. With life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the sudden ghosting by one of his best friendsrun, and a series of horrible memes it's possible that someone at school creates about Rossthe missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, nothing about the place where Twitch has his life is normal any more, secret hide and that he has to find new ways to deal with knows like the back of his feelingshand! Can Twitch solve the mystery, and survive.find the missing millions?|isbn=14714091471406389374

|author=Alastair ChisholmHannah Peck|title=Orion LostKate on the Case|rating=43.5

|summary= Thirteen-year-old Beth and her parents board Meet Kate, although I got the transport ship Orion ready for impression she'd rather be a new life on Eos FiveCatherine – and one specific Catherine at that. Their new home For Catherine Rodriguez is still being terra-formed Kate's idol, and life there isnthe author of our heroine't going to be easys favourite possession, but it ''isThe Special Correspondent Manual'' going . Armed with a plucky father, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to be manage a fresh starttrain ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. As Beth's mum puts it However, this is a train ride with a difference, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you''Therell-miss-them style. It's definitely a future waiting case for usa new young investigative journalist.. A chance to make our own decisions, create our own lives.''|isbn= 1788005929184812970X

|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)Hayley Webster|title=Orphans of the TideLuna Rae is Not Alone

|summary= In the last city on EarthLuna Rae has just moved house. Moving house is always tricky, but especially when you're ten years old, and you miss your old home, anyone can and you and your little sister have to start a new school but your mum seems to be out working all the vessel of The Enemy - the god time. Then there's your dad, who drowned the world - who has come doesn't seem like he's coping so well, and so there's no one to wreak havoc on the last take care of humanitythings but you. When a Everything feels different, and strange, and mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse of a whale, the citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, and so Luna finds a girl inventorway of coping is by watching. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the boy She turns detective, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing and starts keeping an eye on her deepestnew neighbourhood, darkest secrets...but it turns out she's not the only one keeping watch!|isbn=02413844351788006046

|author= Holly RiversFrancesca Simon and Steve May|title= Demelza and the Spectre DetectorsTwo Terrible Vikings|rating= 54|genre= Confident Emerging Readers|summary= Demelza Clock is In a scientistsmall Viking village there live two twins, often staying up late to work on her various gadgetsHack and Whack, much to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. However, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that who are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the ability eager to summon be the ghosts of the recently deceased. Under the guidance of her Grandma Maevevery worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, Demelza begins to master her newfound skills. Howeveras they cause havoc at a birthday party, there is chaos whilst tracking a mysterious individual on the prowltroll, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's up to Demelza and her best friend Percy undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to the bottom all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and their crazy cast of this..friends.|isbn=19126260390571349498

|author=Tanya LandmanDanny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=Jane Eyre: a RetellingThe Day the Screens Went Blank

|summary=A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about Meet Stella and herfamily. They're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in together, and years in watching a dreary schoolfilm – using three different screens to watch three different things, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent mind – to have something like when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their home, but the life she wants – entire south-western village of Mousehole, and with only one jobnot just that, either, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to tutor get a young half-French girlscreen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, whose father is almost always absentand no computer can show its computations. When he does turn up he seems You might think this is going to be darka social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, brooding and troubled – but thatno. For the family finally remember Stella's nothing compared grandma, and see if they can get across country to the darkerher. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just that, more broody and even more troubling secret in the housea slapstick road-trip comedy. YesAnd more than that, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest too – but if you donfor it'ts a slapstick, for whatever reasonhigh-drama, this is a wonderful book to turn tohigh-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.|isbn=17811291261471196887