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|author=Natasha FarrantLouie Stowell|title=Voyage Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have 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 a middle-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother of the two. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and to prove it he has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progress. But Loki is the kind of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be a walk in the park...right?|isbn=1406399752}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=The Mermaid in the Millpond|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who 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, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=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 pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Hope|title=Fledgling|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decades, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. It's an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so on. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the Sparrowhawkmaintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...|isbn=183994188X}}{{Frontpage|author=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie Blackall|title=The Beatryce Prophecy

|summary=Set ''Stories have joy and surprises in England them'', we are told here. And none more so than in the aftermath of World War One, this is the wondrous story of two children, Lotti which feels an instant classic with the freshness and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but don't want to let go of their last, tiny glimpses of hopethe agelessness it has in equal proportion. Ben is living on We start with a narrowboat on the canalgroup of monks, lying to the police about his brother's imminent return from Order of the battlefields to take care Chronicles of him. LottiSorrowing, meanwhile, has been expelled from school and is back at home; it's a beautiful house the demonic goat that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt loves nothing more than upending, trampling on and Uncle currently have guardianship forbiting the poor Brothers. The day Lotti meets Ben (Things change drastically when the day she steals beast takes a dog!) is the beginning of totally maternal approach to a deephomeless girl, and powerful friendshipone who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. It sees them become each other's family, and undertake Elsewhere sits a perilous trip to France, King in the boathis castle, to try desperate to find out the truth 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 people they both love.Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simple, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=05713487691529500893

|author=Joanne M HarrisGreg James and Chris Smith|title=A Pocketful of CrowsThe Great Dream Robbery

|genre= Confident Readers|summary= I have always been of the mind Maya's father is a professor who invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wrong, and now he can't wake up. Or at least, that once you're above picture-book level s what Maya has been told. In a rather strange dream one night Maya makes a new friend, and before you get discovers that the only way to graphic sex & violence, there is no difference between books for children save her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and books for adultsreality collide...really... There are good books and poor onesthere's everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051X}}{{Frontpage|author=Keith Gray|title=The Climbers|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Sully is the best tree climber in the village. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. He has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach'. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A Pocketful new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of Crowsthe hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, and not only that, that his chance to name the final, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?|isbn=1781129991}}{{Frontpage|author=Nick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=Locked Out Lily|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lily is, or was, or has been, very ill, and to give her parents relief she's been told to stay with her grandma for a few days. The parents need the relief as Lily' s baby sibling is clearly aimed at the younger readers as witness the use 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 her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parents, and the middle initial babe-in -arms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the authorfamily back intact, even if it's name not the family Lily wants – and all she has to differentiate from help her adult offersin the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snake.|isbn=1471194833}}{{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In 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. Ignore There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that if you have loved anything has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress s foundling daughter, who washed up out of the modern fairy talesea one day eleven years ago. This is no different. It is an utter delightBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|isbn=14732221841788452372

|author=Ele FountainAlex Foulkes|title=LostRules for Vampires

|summary=Lola lives in an Indian city with her fatherEleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) is a Vampire. She drinks blood, she sleeps during the day, and her brother, Amit. She lives with them in she can Grimwalk (turning into a nice apartmentflock of bats to travel around, and although they are not rich like some all of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the girls at schoolnight of her hundredth birthnight, they have enough money she has to be comfortablego out and hunt her first human. Lola spends her time thinking about her school friendsHowever, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and trying burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to fit in with themmake things worse, until the ghosts of one day, suddenly, everything in of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her life changes. After taking a work trip awaySo, Lola's father doesn't come home. They not only does Leo have nobody else to help, and as they wait day after day, Lola wonders what will become team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of them untilthe Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, finally, they are evicted she has to do it all while hiding it from their flat, and she and her brother find themselves forced to live on the streetsfamily.Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=178269255X147119955X

|author= Angela WoolfeAngharad Walker|title= Roxy and Jones: The Great Fairytale Cover-UpAsh House|rating= 4.5

|summary= After her father gets married for the umpteenth timeA new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name, Roxy Humperdinck or why he is sent there but he is used to live with her half-sister Gretel in Rexopolisthe system, capital city 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 Kingdom of Illustriaabsent Headmaster. Gretel works All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a toilet cleaner for hive in the Ministry smouldering shadows of SoupThe Ash House. Why does a country like Illustria need an entire ministry dedicated to soupBut soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, you ask? Welllives 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|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=First, after Roxy finds a secret passage the title. We're in her bathroom and meets World's End Close, a snarky young woman known only as Jonesmediocre set of houses, she soon where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds out whyfun only with the family dog and with the boy over the road. Turns outBut we could also be at World's End, fairy tales because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are realgetting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and the Ministry’s official job not much else is able to safeguard all knowledge of them and monitor make the living fairy talesnews. AndThat said, when an evil queen breaks out Vie has news of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, in no short time, taken a maximum-security prison strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Close, said she'd locate something she wanted and threatens leave, failed to reinstate her reign of terrorleave, Roxy and Jones hold the fate implied her life was at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the world in their young hands…so, no pressure then!Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=14063913790571364438

|author=Judith EagleIan Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=The Pear AffairMonster Hunting For Beginners

|summary=Set in the 1960Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's, this is a mystery adventure storyslight boy, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. That's because Jack's mother knew all about a little girl called Nell monsters, and her quest look what happened to find her nanny, Perrine (Pear) who left her very suddenly and – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, after keeping in touch regularly by postdepending on your point of view, disappeared completely from her life, leaving Nell bereft. Therea giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's everything in this storyfather also goes AWOL, with underground tunnels as Jack will fluke the playground of gangs of children, to travel and detective workogre's death, a mystery mould infecting Parisian bakeries, mysterious figures following Nell arounddwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a set of truly dreadful parents!book that tells him all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=05713468550755501942

|author= Kirsty ApplebaumLisa Thompson|title= TroofriendThe Small Things|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Are you tired of your childAlthough Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. Her family don's classmates constantly being horrible t have enough money to let her do after school activities, and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to them? Do you want your child theirs. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to have some positive experiences partner her, but things are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with people? Introducing the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the challenge of-making friends with someone through a robot, and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Cotter|title=The House on the-art machines are capable of emulating Edge|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Faith's family home is teetering on the full range edge of human emotions without lyinga cliff, stealing or bullyingliterally. TheyIs that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little? And as the house seems to be falling apart, so is Faith're the perfect companion for any child! Any mention s family. Her dad has disappeared, and her mum is struggling to cope, barely leaving her bed. So that these androids are beginning leaves Faith in charge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours school, and have absolutely no basis avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims is a ghost in reality…rightthe cellar? What should she do about the house?Can she find a way to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages to get funding for the house? She carries the weight of all these worries on her constantly, and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping on.|isbn=17880034701788008626

|author= M G Leonard Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Sam SedgmanTom de Freston|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefJulia and the Shark|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Harrison BeckJulia, or Hal as he prefers to be calledour pre-teen heroine, isn't exactly pleased when his parents send him has been packed off with his uncle Nat, her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a travel writersummer, on a long train journeyin the far NE of the Scottish islands. Although Here be Vikings, this isn't any old train; this that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the Highland Falcon, the royal trainlantern, and this which is its last ever journey before it gets sent to a museum. A number of high-society figures, including film stars, millionaires and aristocratshis specialist thing, while mum will be on this train, so it is quite the event on leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the social calendarelusive Greenland shark. However And Julia, when an expensive brooch is stolenwell, Hal realises that maybe this trip won't she will be as boring as 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 linehomesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=15290130621510107789

|isbnauthor=1781129312Louie Stowell|title=Sequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)Otherland

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Sequin loved her mum to bitsMyra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loud, bright and hates rules, but sometimes she got while Rohan is very cross with herpolite, serious and worries about the tiniest things. It wasnTheir only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer't that mum wouldn't go outside s day. And so, every year their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed families get together to get credit for what she didcelebrate the two's birthday/deathday. Mum But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queen, they must journey to the Otherland, a seamstress magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragons, and she makes the sort of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddingsGods. SheIt's not going to be the designer - they're worst night of their lives.|isbn=1788000463}}{{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and the people who make a lot Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of money 3|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the clothes. Mum is Departed communicate with the person who actually Merge, Archie now has ''makesgrop'' the garments and sheto think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez's really talentedamusement, but when people talk about doesn't even know what one of those is. But he manages to come through the dress or the suitfancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, they talk about whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the designer. The seamstress is never mentionedfirst volume of this series. |isbn=B093J9TF73

|author= Hana TookeMaisie Chan|title= The UnadoptablesDanny Chung Does Not Do Maths|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In the winter of 1880Danny is eleven years old, five babies are abandoned at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdamand what he really, much really loves to do is draw. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the annoyance of matron Gasbeekwords. Twelve years later Danny's dad, Milouhowever, the last of the five babies wants Danny to be abandoned back in that winterconcentrate on his maths, struggles to work out and forget about the identity of her parents drawing, because he says nobody can make a living from the clues she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks on the outsidedrawing! At least Danny has his own room, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker where he can draw in secret and in peace. But then one day his parents tell him they have a velvet blanket. Shesurprise for him, along and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with the other fourthem, patiently wait for Milouand who will not only be sharing Danny's parents to come back bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and take Danny finds himself forced into being her home. Howeverbabysitter, when and showing her around the five children are sold to the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotmantown. Poor Danny, they know they have to escape. And so begins the adventure of stuck on a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou maths project, frustrated with her parentshis bedroom situation, all the time being pursued by the Kinderbureau and Rotman…then he even has a falling out with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=0241417465180078001X

|author=Rob HarrellDarren Shan|title=WinkArchibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3

|summary=When Ross is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, aged 12, his desperate attempts at school to just be The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'normal' become impossible. Suddenly he is the cancer kidsaga opens with our hero, and everything he doesArchie, how he looks, and how he behaves falls under back in London in the scrutiny world of the other kids in schoolBorn. Ross is, understandably, angry. He is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed in a permanent wink. He has gloopy eye medicine to try to help with the painIt's not been easy, plus the need explaining to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due to the ongoing treatment. With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friendsfoster parents where he's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and a series of horrible memes that someone at school creates about Ross, nothing forgetting about Inez and his life is normal any moreother friends in the Merge, and he but Archie has to find new ways to deal with done his feelingsbest.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and surviveexcept for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.|isbn=1471409147B093H8DPQZ

|author=Alastair ChisholmGianna Pollero and Sarah Horne|title=Orion LostMonster Doughnuts

|summary= Thirteen-year-old Beth After their parents mysteriously disappeared, Grace and her parents board Danni have been left to run the family bakery. But Grace needs the transport ship Orion ready doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a new life on Eos Fiverather unusual reason... Their new home even though she's only ten years old, she is still being terra-formed a monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet tooth, and life there isn't going Grace uses a number of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, or tricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, ultimately, be easytheir demise. One day, but it ''is'' going to be though, Grace finds herself facing a fresh start. As Beth's mum puts itcyclops monster called Mr Harris, ''There's who has a future waiting weakness for us. A chance doughnuts but doesn't seem to make our own decisionsexplode as the other monsters do, create our own lives.''and so things start to get very strange…|isbn= 17880059291848129432

|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)M G Leonard|title=Orphans of the TideTwitch

|summary= In the last city on EarthTwitch is a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at home, and chickens, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who and even has come swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to wreak havoc on the last that of humanityhis time in school. When But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there is a mysterious boy is pulled from dangerous bank robber on the corpse of a whalerun, and it's possible that the citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancastermissing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, a girl inventor. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the boy, Ellie must prove place where Twitch has his secret hide and that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepestknows like the back of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mystery, darkest secrets...and find the missing millions?|isbn=02413844351406389374

|author= Holly RiversHannah Peck|title= Demelza and Kate on the Spectre DetectorsCase|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Demelza Clock Meet Kate, although I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a scientistplucky father, often staying up late to work on her various gadgetsthat book, much to and her Grandma Maeve's irritation. Howevertalking mouse called Rupert, she has also inherited is all equipped to manage a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the ability train ride to summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Under the guidance of her Grandma MaeveArctic, Demelza begins to master see her newfound skillsscientist mother for the first time in yonks. However, there this is a mysterious individual 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 prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectorsdarkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's up to Demelza and her best friend Percy to get to the bottom of thisdefinitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=1912626039184812970X

|author=Tanya LandmanHayley Webster|title=Jane Eyre: a RetellingLuna Rae is Not Alone

|summary=A young womanLuna Rae has just moved house. Moving house is always tricky, but especially when you're ten years old, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about herand you miss your old home, and years in you and your little sister have to start a dreary new school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – but your mum seems to have something like be out working all the life she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absenttime. When Then there's your dad, who doesn't seem like he does turn up he seems to be dark's coping so well, brooding and troubled – but thatso there's nothing compared no one to the darkertake care of things but you. Everything feels different, and strange, and mysterious, more broody and even more troubling secret in the houseso Luna finds a way of coping is by watching. YesShe turns detective, and starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhood, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you donit turns out she't, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn to.s not the only one keeping watch!|isbn=17811291261788006046

|author=Innosanto NagaraFrancesca Simon and Steve May|title=M is for MovementTwo Terrible Vikings

|summary=Set in IndonesiaIn a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a troll, and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and their crazy cast of friends.|isbn=0571349498}}{{Frontpage|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=The Day the Screens Went Blank|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in the not too distant pasttogether, this is watching a story about social changefilm – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. Dealing with some difficult issuesAnd it's not just their home, but the entire south-western village of Mousehole, such as political corruption and nepotismnot just that, either, but the book is neither boring nor preachywhole country, if not world. It educates gentlySuddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen back, with vibrantand not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, challenging illustrationsbut TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and it portrays how no computer can show its computations. You might think this is going to be a social movements need comedy about people who stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will try, even when it seems that but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if they will failcan get across country to her. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. The message is But not just that, a positive one; slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power to instigate changetoo – for it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.|isbn=16098093511471196887

{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Meg Cabot and Cara McGee -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1401286208.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1401286208/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | 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 Move 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 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]] <!-- Eoin Colfer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0008324859.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008324859/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Relax, everyone – our old friend Artemis may be off-planet, but the baddies aren't getting away with skulduggery any time soon because they now have not one but two members of the Fowl family to contend with. Those cute little twins are now eleven (and, frankly, cute no longer) and in this, their first independent adventure, they meet a troll and without even trying to manage to make two deadly enemies: a nobleman obsessed with immortality whatever the cost (to other people), and an unusual interrogator-nun. The boys are chased, kidnapped, arrested and even killed (though not for long), all with the help of one trainee fairy. [[Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}