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|author=Cath HoweMax Boucherat|title=My The Last Life on Fireof Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=RenWe meet Lori on the first evening she's family home is destroyed got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in a fire. She, her parentsbabysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and on her little brother lose everythinglonesome. She doesn't have any of her clothesWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboardshe has one main intention, and now she that is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anythingto log on to Voxminer, or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a special art projectworld-building, creating boxes of their lives, to display things critter-collecting game that are important to them and show who they are as is a personhit in Lori's world. But Ren first Lori has nothing to put in a boxtiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and so then she finds herself starting something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to steal thingsenter shows signs of tampering. Small thingsWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, things that people might not really missand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, not when they have so much already. But what will happen where is a girl to her if someone finds out what she is doingturn?|isbn=18399428350008666482

|author= Rob KeeleyKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other StoriesDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is back with an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a return team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new talestrio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, each as fun he has taken to read the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as his previous offeringsa team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn= B0BVW69N1G1839945184

|author=Laura NoakesJames Sherwood Metts|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|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 ThiefPlanet Storyland

|summary=At last there is new stock in Things have been a bit sticky for the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and her mother run in a seaside townother tasks that took time to accomplish. 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 Just as they were beginning to get used to leave all this world, technological change and use an unworldly portal starting to think of kaleidoscope colours other, new ways to enter other worldsspend time, where the sea levels are rising dramatically along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down 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 yesalong with it, is all the answer, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly many daily social interactions on which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…they depend so heavily.|isbn=18399437691736128426

|author=Natasha FarrantTom Percival|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodWrong Shoes

|summary=This story Will's life is another excellent adventure from the author difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawkwrong shoes''. Ravenwood is an old house, in he has the North of England, where Bea wrong shoes because his dad can't work and Raffy doesn't have been living enough money for even the most basic of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leothings like food, and Raffy is there with his mumdad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and they are living together as a familyhad an accident. They have grown up swimming in Throw into that mix the covefact that his mum and dad are separated, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving Will's life seems bleak in every inch direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of the placehope. But now He is good at art, and clings to the house moments of joy when he is under threatdrawing, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell that feel like a light at the property to end of a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to livelong, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn downdark tunnel.|isbn=05713487851398527122

|authorisbn=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson1805141872|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver StreetTeacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5

|summary=Jayden's nose is forever in 'Seventeen banks and a bookjeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, which means he but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and unicorns of Ben go on the world, run. But Al needs them for exampleone last job.. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves Goodness me, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. But when that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a narrowboat turns nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jaydenbad 'un like Al? We's cousin, they ll find a magical world they never knew existedout. For many of those mythological creatures are realLuckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew son of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed famous magician who has ambitions to join in. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on boardbe as good as his father some day, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=0241573483thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

|isbnauthor=B09XWSXSKYChristopher Edge|title=Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne GrodzinskiBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Frederick (or FredLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, but never Freddy, please) couldna place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole't sleep. A tuneAll big movie fans, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadnthey't really wanted re looking forward to come; after alllots of exciting films, he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? many, many snacks! All However, as the movie starts, they do very quickly realise that something about this new film format is tell the time. And time isnvery different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bedeven imagine. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight But as they lurch from one film genre to the clock chimed only six times. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? There was nothing for it but Will they ever get back to go the cinema, and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clockto their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Nigel BainesAdam Stower|title=A Tricky Kind of MagicMurray and Bun

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Cooper loves Murray is supposed to perform magic tricks. His father was be a magicianhumble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and named Cooper after eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the great Tommy Coopertwo. But sadly Cooperhe's father died suddenlya bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to bethe catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, or how to bebut into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to himbe honest, but he 's turned up and he'really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!ll have to do…|isbn=14449602610008561249

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Spoonful The Glorious Race of SpyingMagical Beasts

|summary=[[Alice EclairEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, Spy Extraordinaire! too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A Recipe for Trouble by Sarah Todd Taylor|Last time around]]few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, Alice Eclair had a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to prove herself as navigate the world in the company of a spy and as magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a master bad incident at all things French and fancy and fondantthe eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, as with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only way thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Cooper|title=The Taming of the day involved being an expert baker and icer on the French railwaysCat|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against cat. HereIn this case, principally, we start on have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing a bateau-mouche connection, they live in Parisa cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and even though , if you must, mous-tracised, for the espionage isnway his habits don't a complete success match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it proves to Alice as art and her handlers that things are afootmakes stories based on the visuals on it. And there that story-telling will never be more feet than at the Worldcome in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. It's Fairalmost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, reviving though, as all the huge expo that gave the city others had the Eiffel Tower and this time showing all her interwar glories off chance to half-inch some cheese while the worldcat was distracted. Once again Alice But will the story have to present the front to the world of being a humble yet world-class cake decorator, while seeking successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out clues. At stake? Pioneering flight technology that the enemy just cannot be allowed to smuggle out…|isbn=18399409720571376010

|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy GreeneLauren St John|title=Fritz and KurtFinding Wonder

|summary=We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and KurtRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad now she finds herself awoken in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping middle of the night by the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the synagogue choir and at corner shop to buy a vocational schoollottery ticket. Kurt When asked what other family she has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their , she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switchhighly of. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's willshe has no one else, and instead of having a national vote so off she goes to keep the Nazis out, invite them in live with open armsher unreliable aunt. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in GermanyJoni's old campervan, as did all the round-ups of Jews. These it breaks down in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word middle of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz nowhere and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. then bursts into flames! And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…Poor Roo!|isbn=024156574X0571376169

|author=Robin StevensAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=The Ministry of Unladylike ActivityOscar's Lion|rating=4.53

|summary=May Wong is a long way from her family in Hong Kong. She’s stuck in her schoolWe start incredibly bluntly, Deepdean, and desperate with Oscar hoping to get awayhave his mother – or father, and do something useful but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to help end the war and to get homebe ready for school. She just knows that she would make the perfect spy! And But when she finds herself turned away by the Ministryhe enters his parents' bedroom, she takes matters into her own handsall he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, along with a boy she meets outside the Ministrylooking sheepish, Ericand admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. They both go undercover in But there are benefits to having a large country house, pretending to lion around – it can be evacuees, in shown as an attempt unspoken threat to prove the bully that someone there is passing secrets to ruined a birthday party for Oscar the Nazisother month. But there is a lot more going on in Elysium Hall than either them have imaginedAnd it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and suddenly they find themselves in the middle it can get him out of a murder sceneproblem. And it's wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, with even being much more to try to unravel lax about the rules, and solveso on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=02414298620008596751

|author=Greg James and Chris SmithJudith Eagle|title=Super GhostThe Stolen Songbird|rating=54

|summary=Paragon City Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has been lucky failed to have the great Doctor Extraordinaryreturn home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, their very own superhero taking is having to go up North to take care of themher sister who is unwell. Whenever the evil Captain Chaos So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has come up with another cunning plan (usually involving a giant robot heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some description) Doctor Extraordinary has been there equipment to thwart practise her mischief and save the daygymnastics 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 one day the Doctor 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 Captain Snakes are trapped together inside a giant robot that then explodes, thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the hero and painting somehow linked to the villain are no more. gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Or are they…Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=02414705360571363148

|author=Natasha Hastings and Alex T SmithTania Unsworth|title=The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost FairNowhere Island|rating=34.5

|summary=''The River Thames had frozen to death in its sleepMeet Gil.'' And thus Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the Frost Fair could happen care system – people trading on the completely iced-over riversystem that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, like our heroine Thomasina's father with when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him to his gingerbread and confectionery shopfuture. Thomasina will That future seems to be working the Fair too in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but her twin that someone lives with his brother won'tin a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorway, as he dies in Chapter Onea place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. It was a tragedy she feels no small guilt forThem, and which has made her father a sullen, closed shop – and her bed-bound mother has spoken not mute girl also finding a word – not even opened her eyeshome there, albeit so much more or less – in the four years since, eithersuccessfully. But into the dark, frosted London comes Inigo, with supreme magical powers, and Over a willingness to help Thomasina. Not only few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can he introduce her to the fantastical Other Frost Faircombine, using the river surface at night for no end of mystical beasts and characters and their happenings, but he has a unique proposal for Thomasina, which will shake her world to its core.or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=00084960561804540080

|author=Holly WebbHelen Peters|title=The Story of GreenriverFriends and Traitors|rating=4.53

|summary=Silken and Sedge, for all their differencesEngland, have a lot in commonWW2. Silken is a girl whose father is Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. Master Builder of what might One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like the finest beaver lodge on the Greenriverfemale generations before her. Unfortunately she The other is also Sidney, a girl from a kind of runt figurehoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and as a result if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is patronisedamiss, and given the most tokenistic tasks when it comes to fetching wood first separately and shoring then in combination they realise the dam upLord Evesham must be a rum 'un. She also stands out for the unique artistic ability to sing. Otters like Sedge singMidnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, but he tootalk is made of meetings with Germans, as the son of the lady of the holtand not only that, a local Spitfire factory has pressure on him to be a bit less feckless and more attentive to classbeen attacked. He, after all, will eventually inherit the job of keeping the otters safe from But surely the wolf that both animal species fear the mostgirls are wrong, and from dreaded events like a Dark Spring.the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=15101096251788004647

|author=Anna Kemp and David WyattJamie Littler|title=Into Goblyn WoodArkspire

|summary=Meet HazelTwo sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. For Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the last nine Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of her eleven years she has been stuck as a foundling the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of the Watcher, the closest to a horridruler the district has, Victorian institution, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servantand one of the five major victors in said earlier war. She'd arrived at Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the place at status of the same time as Petewhole family. But in finding something oddly magical, and they're inseparably Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good friends now, until a chance or for them both to escapevery, and enter very bad…|isbn=0241586143}}{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I was the outside world, does not go to planbad company other people got into at school. There had always been I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the idea existence of a life idyllic in 'god'. Where was the nearby forestsproof? In history lessons, Goblyn Woodit was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and a tribe of Wild Childrenoccasional failures, but none of that comes to pass, as Hazel finds herself we didn't dwell on those) in the care of a professor at the Natural History Museum. But life with him is not anything like what she might have expected it came to be – and Hazel is determined to return called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the Woods, restore her friendship with Pete – and army had to work out just what is going on be there in the forestfirst place. Looking back, both I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the light and maturity to approach 'the shade, and the deathly darkproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''..|isbn=1398503835

|author=Judith EagleThiago de Moraes|title=The Accidental StowawayOld Gods New Tricks

|summary=Patch is Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a little girl who has been passed from one relation to another, until it seems that there is nobody left for her to go toyoung goddess of nuisance. Her father died But just when she was very young's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, and her mother ran awaythe world changes. The family lawyerSuddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, after consultation with ‘someone’even of electric cars, arranges for her to go to a hits not just the town the school 's in Liverpoolbut the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the Internet, but on her arrival therejust for our convenience's sake). Trixie, luckily, she gets caught up in an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works on a steamshiprealises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. During a chase with him (when And so she is both trying begins her epic quest, to get her rollerskate gather all the people that can steal it back and running away – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the police!) she winds up on Gods, ie the steamship hiding in a lifeboatsemi-deities, giants, half-gods and before she knows it, so on known as the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!tricksters.|isbn=0571363121178845295X

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleFinding Bear|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Alice Eclair. A perfect eye and very careful hands have made her one of Paris's best young cake makers [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and decorators, making sure her mother's establishment is finding a classy affair. Not bad for ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a thirteen year oldpolar bear – that she called Bear. OhBack home, things on the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect eye for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very careful handler Bear-y things has been shot and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spywounded. Her first real mission will be Desperate to chase a traitor across the country – working behind the scenes on a posh sleeper train make sure he's OK, she and her father return to the south of France, Arctic and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents to creep into the country from getting into nefarious hands. But while nobody would have her down as in a spyworld of very white and very dangerous things, she can she possibly leave behind her rookie status find one specific white and dangerous thing – and find that the baddy?friendship can continue.|isbn=18399409560008582017

|author=David SolomonsSimon Fox|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=Gavin Late one night Graham Blake is being followedlate back from his shift on the force, seemingly constantlyand then suddenly rings Archie, by demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the new (very annoying) girl at school. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl storyrun. Because in this instanceThey get together, but barely begin to smell the girl in question whiff of Southern trains when the father is Nikiarrested, and she is a galactic princess (noleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, really, she is!) So what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled in toting a situation wheretin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, potentially, Earth and everyone on it will be blown to smithereens, all because the bearer of a whole heap of Niki?questions.|isbn=08576399351839944420

|author=Alex CotterCath Howe|title=The Mermaid CallMy Life on Fire|rating=3.5

|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids donRen't exists family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. But She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and now she also knows is living at her grandmother's house where they have to exist – at least in can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the public eyefoods they normally eat. For there would be nothing When she goes back to Lake Splendour – school she discovers that the class are doing a far northern English resort – without them. A hundred years and change agospecial art project, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaidscreating boxes of their lives, but were forced to return display things that are important to help out with the Great War effort. They also showed female emancipation, which helped create the town's tourism industry, now faded them and falling apart but once show who they are as a feminist success storyperson. Alice, But Ren has nothing to put in a girl who stumbles into Vivien's gran's tourist shop one daybox, knows and so she certainly wants mermaids finds herself starting to exist – she thinks her family's black sheep died searching for them, or else was just too successful in her huntsteal things. When the shySmall things, doubting Thomasina things that is Vivien collides with the exuberant, gung-ho Alicepeople might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they findhappen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=18399419011839942835

|author=Alison HughesRob Keeley|title=FlyThe Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=4.5

|summary=This Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a very impressive return to the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, each as fun to read, as it does a lot of what mainstream teen and tween fiction still struggles with. Its focus is courtesy the first person narration from Fly, a secondary school lad with cerebral palsy, a down-on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleaner, a carer while at school, and a bundle of assumptions people lay on him. First they assume that with a broken body comes a broken mind, then they decide he's a maths savant – they even believe they can get away with calling him Fly, which isn't his real name, but everybody just uses itprevious offerings.|isbn=1525305832B0BVW69N1G

|author=Darren ShanLaura Noakes|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating=4.5

|summary= SoMeet Number One. We're back Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the Merge with girls to just be named by the first chapter number they correspond to in the third volume of Darren Shanledger, and they's saga of Archibald Loxre all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a young man who can pick 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 locks of portals from our outside world . During a daring escapade to another, called steal some posh cakes from the ''Merge''. Since his last adventurekitchen one afternoon, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a slightly uneasy truce on devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the topic of girls for his regular disappearancesInstitute. They don't ask too many questions and Archie has settled into a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winston But why, his lock-picking mentor in the ''Merge'' and showing Kojo, what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the young guardian, around our world of the Born. past she has so little link with?|isbn= B09Z2MTCZD0008579059

|isbnauthor=0008541477Alice M Ross|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!|author=Lauren ChildThe Nowhere Thief

|summary=It was a hot summer day right at At last there is new stock in the beginning of the summer holidays impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except for sometimesher mother run in a seaside town... And only on rare-sh occasions, which is hardly ever.'' There are seven members of the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor Elsbeth knows this because he's wobbly), Mum and Dad, Clarice's older brother, Kurt and younger brother, Minal Cricketshe has stolen it. There's She also Marcie, who's main claim to fame seems to knows she should be that she steals the batteries free from Clarice's torchworries about being found out, which means that because she can't read in has the airing cupboard. Clarice would love ability to have someone who listened to herleave this world, rather than wanting and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to talkenter other worlds, but where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the only one who does that is Granny buildings are generally empty of humans and she lives in New Yorkripe for plunder. The Bean family 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

|author=Fiona LongmuirNatasha Farrant|title=Looking for EmilyThe Rescue of Ravenwood

|summary=Meet Lily. She and her mother have just moved This story is another excellent adventure from a city to a tiny seaside town called Edge, and everyone from said mother to her teacher are making demands the author of ''Voyage of Lily that she make new friendsthe Sparrowhawk''. It turns out that she doesn't have any say Ravenwood is an old house, in the matterNorth of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emilymost of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, she as Bea is unaware there with her neighbour, SamUncle Leo, and Raffy is just about to make herself knownthere with his mum, and in they are living together as a big wayfamily. But where does Emily come from? Well They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, Lily used that name because completely at one with all of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection the nature around the house and loving every inch of the most mundane objects, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emily'. Sam But now the house is completely unaware of this 'museum'under threat, too, leaving as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the two girls property to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding whata developer as it's behind the intrigue.becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|isbn=18399427540571348785

|isbnauthor=1800901232Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve ColeSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=54|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be Jayden's nose is forever in a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happybook, if not prosperous, so when which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the smartly-dressed man phoenixes and woman came to unicorns of the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not world, for example. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be missedout there. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the mini-bus to Hanoioutside world of Hackney, London. OnlyBut when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in with a shoppast involving Jayden's cousin, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factoryfind a magical world they never knew existed. You know For many of those jeans you really wanted: mythological creatures are real, including the ones with intricate embroidery and beading one Aisha thinks she's seen on the legs? a bit of local footage. The ones crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the artfully-placed rips rare critters – and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. It's quite possible that Hanh Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her co-workers made them.relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=0241573483

|isbn=0711266204B09XWSXSKY|title=The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield Maestro Orpheus and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. So – what is it?}}{{FrontpageWorld Clock|author=Jason Rohan|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access DeniedRobert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating=3.54

|summary=Arun and Sam have had little to do with DonnaFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, a girl at their schoolplease) couldn't sleep. But things immediately change at A tune, rather like the start of this extended sprint ticking of a novel, when she insists Arun's house has become the attention of plain-clothes coppers clock was playing over and that they should bunk off school over in his mind. It happened every time he came to find out whyvisit his grandfather. And thus an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is He hadn't really not Donna's idea of company, but he is the computer buff, Donna seems wanted to know come; after all the criminal ins and outs and survival skills, he's ten now and Arun? Well, itall those old clocks don's his lot t appeal to find out that all he based his family life on him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the time. And time isn't true, and good for anything...'' And that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved in something quite unexpectedwas why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. But how can this disparate trio hope to best MI6, kidnappers, people able to keep It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the truth about themselves secret clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for decades, it but to go and so much morefind grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?|isbn=1839943386

|author=Lissa EvansNigel Baines|title=WishedA Tricky Kind of Magic

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=When things contrive Cooper loves to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old woman, Miss Filey, for a week of half-term, they're not looking forward to itperform magic tricks. For one thing, she thinks Wi-Fi is His father was a special brand of biscuit. They don't particularly take to Willard eithermagician, and named Cooper after the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywheregreat Tommy Cooper. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candlessadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and manage now Cooper doesn't quite know who to work out that these candlesbe, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come trueor how to be. How will things change for a second time And when they realise thathis dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, having used up three of them, these should he ''really be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than them?'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|isbn=178845202X1444960261