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|author=Antony WoottenLouie Stowell|title=Season 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 Mammoth (BigShorts)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

|summary= Tannash 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 her brother Geb are waiting have to solve problems in great excitement for the hunting party led by order to get their uncle to returnway out. TheyWhat I're hoping ve not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a feast of mammoth meatprose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Geb longs for the day he can join his uncle Gagba Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to each other and booked into the other warriors on game without any of their friends, are a hunting party team – starting out at the game's main offices, where they're told they and take part in their deeds of derringquest for The Answer are a world-dochanger. But their fathercould watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the leader world of the village, thinks that they also need an education; that knowledge is power.literature?|isbn=19392696791788007964}}

|author=Tania UnsworthLucy Hope|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerFledgling

|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlookedBavaria, and forgotten1900. She Our scene is quieta most peculiar hilltop house, and compliantbuilt bit by bit over the decades, and makes now looking imperiously down on the best of whatever happens to hervillage and woods below. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free to take care of herIt's an eccentric house, they have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a week. Poor Elsiehost eccentrics, forgotten againso the library shelving system is not as we'd know it, just decides to make the best of things. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India as roof is retractable, there is a boysteam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and he has an enormous tiger rug so on the floor of one of the rooms. When Elsie asks him about At the rug he seems unhappy, moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and he says he has to keep it because he was a passion for the one long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who shot the tiger when he was 12 years olddoes nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and he says it was the worst thing he ever did. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back manydying grandma to our heroine, many yearsCassie, a young lass who has to do all the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes that she must try maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going to stop him from killing the tigerhouse someone or something else, in order when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to put something right that happened be a long time agocompletely great and wonderful thing, think again...|isbn=1788541707183994188X

|author=Natasha FarrantKate DiCamillo and Sophie Blackall|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkThe 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 ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful of Crows'and there' 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 clearly aimed at the younger readers as witness the use of the middle initial best tree climber in the authorvillage. He has what's name to differentiate from her adult offers. Ignore that if you have loved anything from known amongst the kids as 'reach'Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress . But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the modern fairy tale. This hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is no different. It worried that his status is an utter delightbeing 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=14732221841781129991

|author=Ele FountainNick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=LostLocked Out Lily

|summary=Lola lives in an Indian city with her fatherLily is, or was, or has been, very ill, and to give her brother, Amit. She lives parents relief she's been told to stay with them in her grandma for a nice apartment, and although they are not rich like some of few days. The parents need the girls at school, they have enough money relief as Lily's baby sibling is just about to be comfortableborn – a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do with. Lola spends But on tracking back home for word of her time thinking about parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her school friendsparents, and trying to fit the babe-in with them, until one day-arms, suddenly, everything in her life changesalready installed. After taking a work trip awayThese devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the family back intact, Lolaeven if it's father doesn't come home. They have nobody else not the family Lily wants – and all she has to helpher in the task are some talking animals – Crow, and as they wait day after day, Lola wonders what will become of them until, finally, they are evicted from their flatMole, Mouse and she and her brother find themselves forced to live on the streetsSnake.|isbn=178269255X1471194833

|author= Angela WoolfePhilip Reeve|title= Roxy Utterly Dark and Jones: The Great Fairytale Cover-Upthe Face of the Deep|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= After her father gets married for the umpteenth timeIn a word, Roxy Humperdinck rich. There is sent to live with her half-sister Gretel certainly an abundance of riches in Rexopolisthis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, capital city of British but way west, beyond the Kingdom Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of Illustria. Gretel works as a toilet cleaner for the Ministry of Soup. Why does a country like Illustria need an entire ministry dedicated Dark family that has to soup, you ask? Well, after Roxy finds a secret passage in her bathroom keep watch for magical islands and meets a snarky young woman known only as Jonestheir monster approaching from even further west, she soon finds out whywhere no ship dare sail. Turns outThe current Darks are the Watcher, fairy tales are realAndrewe, and who has to keep notes of activity from the Ministry’s official job is Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to safeguard all knowledge worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of them and monitor the living fairy talessea one day eleven years ago. And, But when an evil queen breaks out of a maximum-security prison and threatens to reinstate her reign of terrorAndrewe Dark drowns himself, Roxy both his sullen brother and Jones hold his curious ward are thrust into the fate world of the world in protecting their young hands…soisland, no pressure then!like it or not.|isbn=14063913791788452372

|author=Judith EagleAlex Foulkes|title=The Pear AffairRules for Vampires

|summary=Set in the 1960Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo's, this for short) is a mystery adventure storyVampire. She drinks blood, she sleeps during the day, all about and she can Grimwalk (turning into a little girl called Nell and her quest flock of bats to find her nannytravel around, Perrine (Pearalthough not all of them remember to come back) who left . Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the night of her very suddenly hundredth birthnight, she has to go out and thenhunt her first human. However, after keeping in touch regularly instead she ends up killing two humans by postaccident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worse, disappeared completely from the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her life, leaving Nell bereft. There's everything in this storySo, not only does Leo have to team up with underground tunnels as the playground friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of gangs of childrenthe Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to travel do it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and detective workghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a mystery mould infecting Parisian bakeries, mysterious figures following Nell around, and a set of truly dreadful parents!reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=0571346855147119955X

|author= Kirsty ApplebaumAngharad Walker|title= TroofriendThe Ash House|rating= 4.5

|summary= Are you tired of your childA new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn's classmates constantly being horrible t know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the system, used to them? Do you want your child different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to have some positive experiences with people? Introducing teach him the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! rules of The Ash House. These state-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-art machines are capable smouldering shadows of emulating The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the full range arrival of human emotions without lyingthe Doctor. By the end of the story, stealing or bullyinglives 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, the title. TheyWe're in World's End Close, a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the perfect companion for any child! Any mention family dog and with the boy over the road. But we could also be at World's End, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that these androids the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are beginning getting blockaded as America tries to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and have absolutely not much else is able to make the news. That said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, in no basis short time, taken a strong interest in reality…rightthe 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 Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=17880034700571364438

|author= M G Leonard Ian Mark and Sam SedgmanLouis Ghibault|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefMonster Hunting For Beginners|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Harrison BeckMeet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, or Hal as for he prefers to be called's a slight boy, isn't exactly pleased when and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his parents send dad refuses to let him off with out of his uncle Nat, a travel writer, on a long train journeysight. Although, this isnThat's because Jack't any old train; this is the Highland Falcon, the royal trains mother knew all about monsters, and this is its last ever journey before it gets sent look what happened to a museumher – she died. A number Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point of high-society figuresview, including film stars, millionaires and aristocratsa giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, Jack will be on this train, so it is quite fluke the event on the social calendar. Howeverogre's death, when a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an expensive brooch is stolenapprentice monster hunter, Hal realises that maybe this trip wonand he't ll be as boring as given a book that tells him all he previously thought. As the passengers begin to turn on each other, Hal vows to get needs to know about the bottom of the mystery…before the train gets to the end of the lineperils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=15290130620755501942

|isbnauthor=1781129312Lisa Thompson|title=Sequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)The Small Things

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Sequin loved her mum to bitsAlthough Anna has friends at school, but sometimes she got very cross with herfeels like she never really fits in. It wasnHer family don't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed have enough money to get credit for what she did. Mum is a seamstress let her do after school activities, and so she makes the sort of clothes that you see on red carpets or feels like her life at important weddingshome is boring in comparison to theirs. She's not the designer - they're the people who make When a lot of money from new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the clothes. Mum new girl, Ellie, is the person who actually ''makes'' the garments unwell and sheso can's really talentedt attend school in person. Instead, but when people talk about she joins in with the dress or class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the suitchallenge of making friends with someone through a robot, they talk about the designer. The seamstress and is never mentioned.she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649

|author= Hana TookeAlex Cotter|title= The UnadoptablesHouse on the Edge|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In Faith's family home is teetering on the winter edge of 1880a cliff, five babies are abandoned at literally. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little? And as the Little Tulip orphanage house seems to be falling apart, so is Faith's family. Her dad has disappeared, and her mum is struggling to cope, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in Amsterdamcharge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah to school, much and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims is a ghost in the 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 annoyance weight of matron Gasbeekall 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. Twelve years later|isbn=1788008626}}{{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, Milouhas been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the last far NE of the five babies to Scottish islands. Here be abandoned back in Vikings, that winter, struggles kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to work out be automating the identity of lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her parents from career in algae behind to hunt the clues elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author=Louie Stowell|title=Otherland|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Myra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loud, bright and hates rules, while Rohan is very polite, serious and worries about the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer's day. And so, every year their families get together to celebrate the two's birthday/deathday. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa is taken by the outsidefairy queen, they must journey to the Otherland, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragons, and Gods. It's going to be the worst night of their lives.|isbn=1788000463}}{{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and a velvet blanketthe Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=So. SheHaving done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, along from which the Departed communicate with the other fourMerge, Archie now has ''grop'' to think about. But before that, patiently wait for Milousoirees. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez's parents amusement, doesn't even know what one of those is. But he manages to come back through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this series. |isbn=B093J9TF73}}{{Frontpage|author=Maisie Chan|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Danny is eleven years old, and take her homewhat he really, really loves to do is draw. However He creates fantastical comics, when whilst his best friend Ravi adds the five children are sold words. Danny's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotmandrawing, they know because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw in secret and in peace. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, and this surprise turns out to escape. And so begins the adventure of a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces be his grandmother who has come over from China to reunite Milou live with her parentsthem, all and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the time top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being pursued by her babysitter, and showing her around the Kinderbureau town. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, 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 on a rollercoaster of emotions, but it isn't until Emmy joins a coding class using computer language that she begins to feel she might have a chance to feel like she truly belongs. [[In the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido|Full Review]] <!-- Maxwell N Andrews -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1983376353.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1983376353/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''| ===[[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put Move on a par with comments about Marmite. You're supposed to love it or hate it and I'm halfway between, and likewise, the old adage is halfway true. From the cover of this I had a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. That was only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacy. But why was I two chapters in and just finding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and more flashbacks, and no proof that this was what I'd bought in for? [[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews|Full Review]] <!-- Day -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0241351391.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0241351391/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It by Susie Day]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Newest Cookery Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] When Max’s dad finds himself in a spot of hot water, he disappears for a few days, leaving Max in charge of his three younger sisters, Thelma, Louise and Ripley. Max has no problem with stepping up to fill his dad’s shoes and be the man in charge, but when his dad still doesn’t come home, he starts to panic that interfering grown-ups will realise that the children are home alone and that they will step in and separate the family. So Max takes his sisters to Wales, to hide out in a friend’s cottage. It won’t be for long, surely? Because his dad wouldn’t miss Christmas, would he? [[Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It by Susie Day|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}