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|isbnauthor=B086LLRZFHLouie Stowell|title=Archibald Lox and the Empress of SuanpanLoki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good|author=Darren Shan|rating=4.5

|summary=Archie's second foray Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into 'trouble again, so the Mergeother gods have decided there' opens with s only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a fantastic vista. All of the Born's most famous buildings month both in exile and monuments - Big Ben, in the Taj Mahal,  the Eiffel Tower physical form of a middle- are collected together, joined by those clever Merge vinesschool kid here on Earth. But thereHe's no time to waste in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help from Inez to guarded by a venerable locksmith called Winston.Winston is giant and a darling but is afraid to help - what is to be done? Despite yearning to go home and worry for god in disguise as his foster parents, Archie feels an obligation and Thor has come along as well, to take Winston's place. And so Archie embarks on a newbe the more suave, more popular and even more dangerous, adventuresuccessful brother of the two....}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1776572858|title=How Do You Make Loki has a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske month to redeem his reputation, and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|genre=Home get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed 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 told me that she'd get me a book about itjudge his progress. A couple But Loki is the kind of days later I was handed god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a pamphlet (which delivered nothing bit more than virtuously for a month is going to be a walk in the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''park. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.right?|isbn=1406399752

|author=Darren ShanLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=Archibald Lox and The Mermaid in the Bridge Between WorldsMillpond

|summary=Time to catch you all up with some of my lockdown reading - I've been doing so much of it that I'm a bit late to There is no mermaid in the party with actual reviewingmillpond. Oops! And where better to start than with the new series from Bookbag favourite, Darren Shan? Archie That at least is what Bess is very downtelling herself. He's lost Neither will there be a dear friend recentlyfor 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 tragic accidenthand-to-mouth, and Archie blames every man for himselfkind of existence. He can't face school so he takes himself for But despite herself Bess does find a truanting wander around London. As he strolls across bit of a footbridgekindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, he sees there might be a girl who is being pursued by some murderousglimmer of companionship in the tired-looking men in white suitsout mill workers. He watches, aghast. What But surely that doesn't mean there is going onany truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=B086LKBHD6180090049X

|author=Antony WoottenChristopher Edge|title=Season of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Escape Room|rating=43

|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 have enough money to let her do after school activities, and so she never pushed feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to get credit for what she didtheirs. Mum When a new girl joins her class, Anna is a seamstress asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school in person. Instead, she makes joins in with the class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the sort challenge of clothes that you see 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 red carpets or at important weddings. Shethe Edge|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Faith's not family home is teetering on the edge of a cliff, literally. Is that crack in the designer - they're garden getting bigger? Is the people who make house starting to slope a lot little? And as the 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 charge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of money her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah to school, and avoiding awkward questions from the clothesinterfering teachers. Mum Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims is a ghost in the person who actually ''makescellar? 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 garments weight of all these worries on her constantly, and shedoesn's really talentedt know how much longer the cliff will hold together, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentionedhow long she can keep on keeping on.|isbn=1788008626

|author= Hana TookeKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title= The UnadoptablesJulia and the Shark|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In the winter of 1880Julia, our pre-teen heroine, five babies are abandoned at has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the Little Tulip orphanage family home in AmsterdamSW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, much to in the annoyance far NE of matron Gasbeekthe Scottish islands. Twelve years later Here be Vikings, Milou, the last that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the five babies to lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be abandoned back leaving her career in that winter, struggles algae behind to work out hunt the identity of her parents from 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 on 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 outside, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and a velvet blanketbriefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer's day. SheAnd so, along with every year their families get together to celebrate the other four, patiently wait for Miloutwo's parents to come back and take her homebirthday/deathday. However, But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa is taken by the five children are sold to the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotmanfairy queen, they know they have must journey to escape. And so begins the adventure Otherland, a magical realm full of a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces fairies, vampires, dragons, and Gods. It's going to reunite Milou with her parents, all be the time being pursued by the Kinderbureau and Rotman…worst night of their lives.|isbn=02414174651788000463

|author=Rob HarrellDarren Shan|title=WinkArchibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3

|summary=When Ross is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, aged 12, his desperate attempts at school to just be 'normal' become impossibleSo. Suddenly he is Having done the cancer kid, impossible and everything he does, how he looksunpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, and how he behaves falls under from which the scrutiny of Departed communicate with the other kids in schoolMerge, Archie now has ''grop'' to think about. Ross isBut before that, understandably, angrysoirees. He is facing potential blindnessSoirees! Archie, whilst dealing with an eye sealed in a permanent wink. He has gloopy eye medicine much to try to help with the painInez's amusement, plus the need to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due to the ongoing treatment. With the sudden ghosting by doesn't even know what one of his best friends, and a series of horrible memes that someone at school creates about Ross, nothing about his life those is normal any more, and . But he has manages to find new ways to deal come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with his feelingsKurtis, and survivewhose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this series. |isbn=1471409147B093J9TF73

|author=Alastair ChisholmMaisie Chan|title=Orion LostDanny Chung Does Not Do Maths

|summary= Thirteen-year-Danny is eleven years old Beth , and what he really, really loves to do is draw. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. Danny's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and her parents board forget about the transport ship Orion ready for drawing, because he says nobody can make a new life on Eos Fiveliving from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw in secret and in peace. Their new home is still being terra-formed But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, and life there isn't going this surprise turns out to be easyhis grandmother who has come over from China to live with them, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but it ''she will also be sleeping on the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is'' going to be horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around the town. Poor Danny, stuck on a fresh start. As Beth's mum puts itmaths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, ''There's and then he even has a future waiting for usfalling out with Ravi.. A chance to make our own decisions, create our own lives.''how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn= 1788005929180078001X

|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)Darren Shan|title=Orphans Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of the Tide3|rating=4.5

|summary= In the last city on EarthThe second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, anyone can be back in London in the vessel world of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has come to wreak havoc on the last of humanityBorn. When a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse of a whaleIt's not been easy, the citizens immediately believe him explaining to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancasterhis foster parents where he's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, a girl inventorbut Archie has done his best. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the boy... well, Ellie must prove except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets..can sneak away.|isbn=0241384435B093H8DPQZ

|author= Holly RiversGianna Pollero and Sarah Horne|title= Demelza and the Spectre DetectorsMonster Doughnuts|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Demelza Clock is a scientistAfter their parents mysteriously disappeared, often staying up late Grace and Danni have been left to work on her various gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeverun the family bakery. But Grace needs the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reason...even though she's irritation. Howeveronly ten years old, she has also inherited is a monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet tooth, and Grace uses a certain set number of skills methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, or tricking them into eating a sweet treat that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detectingwill, the ability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceasedultimately, be their demise. Under the guidance of her Grandma Maeve One day, Demelza begins to master her newfound skills. Howeverthough, there is Grace finds herself facing a mysterious individual on the prowlcyclops monster called Mr Harris, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. Itwho has a weakness for doughnuts but doesn's up t seem to Demelza explode as the other monsters do, and her best friend Percy so things start to get to the bottom of this...very strange…|isbn=19126260391848129432

|author=Tanya LandmanM G Leonard|title=Jane Eyre: a RetellingTwitch

|summary=A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives Twitch is a boy who could care less about herloves birds. He keeps pigeons at home, and years in a dreary schoolchickens, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding His time spent watching and troubled – but that's nothing helping birds is easy compared to the darker, more broody and even more troubling secret that of his time in the houseschool. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book But things are about to turn to.|isbn=1781129126}}{{Frontpage|author=Innosanto Nagara|title=M is change for Movement|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Set Twitch in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this all aspects of his life as there is a story about social change. Dealing with some difficult issuesdangerous bank robber on the run, such as political corruption and nepotism, it's possible that the book missing bank haul is neither boring nor preachy. It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrationshidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide and it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they will fail. he knows like the back of his hand! The message is a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain worldCan Twitch solve the mystery, we do still have and find the power to instigate change.missing millions?|isbn=16098093511406389374

|isbnauthor=1401286208Hannah Peck|title=Black Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGeeKate on the Case

|summary=Meet Dinah LanceKate, although I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and follow in his footstepsthe author of our heroine's favourite possession, and seemingly lumbered ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with being a cheerleader at schoolplucky father, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is desperate all equipped to find her voice. But it's actually more manage a case of her voice finding hertrain ride to the Arctic, as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school to see her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singerscientist mother for the first time in yonks. You could almost call it However, this is a train ride with a weapondifference, or for on board is a power. But in order for greedy-seeming harridan and her to call herself cat, a superherothief – and two glowing eyes, there has to be shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a whole path of steps case for her to take – one of which will be into her past…a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=184812970X

|isbnauthor=1609809378Hayley Webster|title=The Rabbits' Rebellion|author=Ariel Dorfman and Chris RiddellLuna Rae is Not Alone|rating=4.5

|summary=WeLuna Rae has just moved house. Moving house is always tricky, but especially when you're in the realm of the rabbitsten years old, and you miss your old home, only the foxes and wolves you and your little sister have taken overto start a new school but your mum seems to be out working all the time. King WolfThen there's your dad, His Wolfiness, has declared the rabbits donwho doesn't existseem like he's coping so well, and so there's no one to take care of things but the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that the bunnies are in fact still aroundyou. Demanding a propaganda spreeEverything feels different, and strange, and mysterious, King Wolf orders and so Luna finds a humble monkey to be his official portrait photographer, but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there way of coping is a distinct leporine hintby watching. Can King Wolf succeed in proving himself victoriousShe turns detective, and starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhood, can the rabbits show their continued existence to all who need to know of but it – and what can turns out she's not the poor monkey caught in between do? only one keeping watch!|isbn=1788006046

|isbnauthor=1406389331Francesca Simon and Steve May|title=In the Key of Code|author=Aimee LucidoTwo Terrible Vikings

|summary=Emmy is moving with Meet Stella and her parents halfway across Americafamily. They're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to follow her fatherwatch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's dreams not just their home, but the entire south-western village of a big break in his music career. She leaves behind her friends Mousehole, and her school in Wisconsinnot just that, either, but the whole country, and moves if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to Californiaget a screen back, knowing only and not what she has heard in songsthey were constantly doing on them before. Her struggle to settle into her new life Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, make friends and feel happy and confident again, no computer can show its computations. You might think this is agonisingly told going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a way we Luddite experience against their will, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if they can all relate get across country toher. There are many new opportunities and setbacks Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just that, taking the reader on a rollercoaster of emotionsslapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, but too – for it isn't until Emmy joins s a coding class using computer language slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that she begins to feel she might have a chance to feel like she truly belongskids of all ages will love.|isbn=1471196887