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|author=Darren ShanLouie Stowell|title=Archibald Lox 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 Vote more suave, more popular and more successful brother of Alignment 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

|summary=This third 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 final 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 volume of Darren Shan's . Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new ''Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie to each other and Inez make it almost all booked into the way to game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at the Cuckoogame's Nestmain offices, where the Vote of Alignment will be heldthey're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But how will they get could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much inthe world of literature?|isbn=B086LLWP4V1788007964

|isbnauthor=B086LLRZFHLucy Hope|title=Archibald Lox and the Empress of SuanpanFledgling|author=Darren Shan|rating=4.5

|summary=ArchieBavaria, 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 second foray into an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know it, the Merge' opens with roof is retractable, there is a fantastic vistasteam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so on. All of At the Born's most famous buildings moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and monuments a passion for the long- Big Benstanding family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the Taj Mahaldying grandma to our heroine,  Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the Eiffel Tower maintenance of this bizarre machine- are collected together, joined by those clever Merge vineslike abode. But thereOh but it's no time also going to waste in admiration: Archie house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is carrying an urgent cry for help from Inez to a venerable locksmith called Winstoncherub.Winston is And if you think such a darling but is afraid to help - what heavenly arrival is going to be done? Despite yearning to go home and worry for his foster parents, Archie feels an obligation to take Winston's place. And so Archie embarks on a new, completely great and even more dangerouswonderful thing, adventure.think again...|isbn=183994188X

|isbnauthor=1776572858Kate DiCamillo and Sophie Blackall|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)The Beatryce Prophecy

|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=It's 'Stories have joy and surprises in them'', we are told here. And none more so than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed in this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic with the freshness and told me that she'd get me a book about the agelessness ithas in equal proportion. A couple We start with a group of monks, the Order of the Chronicles of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered Sorrowing, and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on and biting the poor Brothers. Things change drastically when the basicsbeast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) his castle, desperate to find the girl, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne and I was told cause great change. Who foretold that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, revolution but was little ''wiser''. the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? ThankfullyBut how can a simple, times have changed.amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=1529500893

|author=Darren ShanGreg James and Chris Smith|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsThe Great Dream Robbery|rating=4.5

|summary=Time to catch you all up with some of my lockdown reading - IMaya've been doing so much of it that I'm s father is a bit late to the party with actual reviewingprofessor who invented an amazing dream machine. Oops! And where better to start than with the new series from Bookbag favouriteBut something went wrong, Darren Shan? Archie is very downand now he can't wake up. HeOr at least, that's lost what Maya has been told. In a dear rather strange dream one night Maya makes a new friend recently, in a tragic accident, and Archie blames himselfdiscovers that the only way to save her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and reality collide...really.. He can.and there't face school so he takes himself for a truanting wander around London. As he strolls across a footbridges everything from llamas and bananas, he sees a girl who is being pursued by some murderousdream machines made from hairdresser cast-looking men in white suits. He watchesoffs, aghast. What is going on?to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=B086LKBHD6024147051X

|author=Antony WoottenKeith Gray|title=Season of the Mammoth (BigShorts)The Climbers

|summary= Tannash and her brother Geb are waiting Sully is the best tree climber in great excitement for the hunting party led by their uncle to returnvillage. TheyHe has what're hoping for s known amongst the kids as 'reach'. But what happens when a feast new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of mammoth meat. Geb longs for the day he can join hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his uncle Gagba status is being threatened, and not only that, that his chance to name the other warriors on a hunting party and take part final, unnamed big tree in their deeds of derring-dothe park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. But their fatherHow can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, the leader or maybe even all of the villagehis friends, thinks that they also need an education; that knowledge is power.to do so?|isbn=19392696791781129991}}

|author=Tania UnsworthNick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerLocked Out Lily

|summary=Elsie Lily is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlooked, and forgotten. She is quietor was, or has been, and compliantvery ill, and makes the best of whatever happens to her. So when give her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free to take care of her, they have relief she's been told to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle grandma for a weekfew days. Poor Elsie, forgotten again, The parents need the relief as Lily's baby sibling is just decides about to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to make the best do with. But on tracking back home for word of things. On investigating the house her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds that stony-eyed simulacra of her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boyparents, and he has an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one of the roomsbabe-in-arms, already installed. When Elsie asks him about These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the rug he seems unhappyfamily back intact, and he says he has to keep even if it because he was the one who shot 's not the tiger when he was 12 years old, family Lily wants – and he says it was the worst thing he ever did. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, all she has to help her in the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years oldtask are some talking animals – Crow, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tigerMole, in order to put something right that happened a long time agoMouse and Snake.|isbn=17885417071471194833

|author=Natasha FarrantPhilip Reeve|title=Voyage Utterly Dark and the Face of the SparrowhawkDeep

|summary=Set In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in England in the aftermath of World War Onethis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, this is beyond the story of two childrenScillies. There are troll people on it, Lotti and Bensea-witches, who have lost everyone they love, but don't want and legends of the Dark family that has to let go of keep watch for magical islands and their lastmonster approaching from even further west, tiny glimpses of hopewhere no ship dare sail. Ben is living on a narrowboat on The current Darks are the canalWatcher, Andrewe, lying who has to keep notes of activity from the police about Hidden Lands, his brother's imminent return from the battlefields Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to take care of him. Lotti, meanwhileworry about such local yokel superstitions, has been expelled from school and is back at home; itAndrewe's a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship for. The day Lotti meets Ben (foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day she steals a dog!) is the beginning of a deep, and powerful friendshipeleven years ago. It sees them become each other's familyBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and undertake a perilous trip to France, in his curious ward are thrust into the boatworld of protecting their island, to try to find out the truth of the people they both lovelike it or not.|isbn=05713487691788452372

|author=Joanne M HarrisAlex Foulkes|title=A Pocketful of Crows|rating=5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= I have always been of the mind that once you're above picture-book level and before you get to graphic sex & violence, there is no difference between books Rules for children and books for adults. There are good books and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful of Crows'' is clearly aimed at the younger readers as witness the use of the middle initial in the author's name to differentiate from her adult offers. Ignore that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress of the modern fairy tale. This is no different. It is an utter delight.|isbn=1473222184}}{{Frontpage|author=Ele Fountain|title=LostVampires

|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 them? Do you want your child let her do after school activities, and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to have some positive experiences with people? Introducing partner her, but things are complicated because the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-of-girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with the-art machines are capable of emulating class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the full range challenge of human emotions without lyingmaking friends with someone through a robot, stealing or bullying. They're the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and have absolutely no basis in reality…rightEllie?|isbn=17880034701781129649

|author= M G Leonard and Sam SedgmanAlex Cotter|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefHouse on the Edge|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Harrison BeckFaith's family home is teetering on the edge of a cliff, or Hal literally. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little? And as he prefers the house seems to be calledfalling apart, isnso is Faith't exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a travel writer, on a long train journeys family. Although, this isn't any old train; this is the Highland Falcon, the royal trainHer dad has disappeared, and this her mum is its last ever journey before it gets sent struggling to a museumcope, barely leaving her bed. A number So that leaves Faith in charge, taking care of high-society figuresher little brother Noah, including film starstaking care of her mum, millionaires and aristocratsfeeding everyone, will be on this traingetting Noah to school, so it and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims is quite a ghost in the event on cellar? What should she do about the social calendar. However, when an expensive brooch is stolen, Hal realises that maybe this trip wonhouse? Can she find a way to raise enough money to fix it? What't be as boring as s happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he previously thought. As the passengers begin to turn on each other, Hal vows 'll come back if she manages to get to the bottom of funding for the mystery…before house? She carries the train gets to the end weight of all these worries on her constantly, and she doesn't know how much longer the linecliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping on.|isbn=15290130621788008626

|isbnauthor=1781129312Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Sequin Julia and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)the Shark|rating=54|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Sequin loved her mum to bitsJulia, our pre-teen heroine, but sometimes she got very cross has been packed off with her. It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside parents and their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed cat from the family home in SW England to get credit be lighthousekeepers for what she did. Mum is a seamstress and she makes summer, in the sort far NE of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddingsthe Scottish islands. She's not the designer - they're the people who make a lot Here be Vikings, that kind of money from the clothesScottish island. Mum Dad is going to be automating the person who actually ''makes'' the garments and she's really talentedlantern, but when people talk about the dress or the suitwhich is his specialist thing, they talk about while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the designerelusive Greenland shark. The seamstress is never mentionedAnd Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789

|author= Hana TookeLouie Stowell|title= The UnadoptablesOtherland|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In the winter of 1880, five babies Myra and Rohan are abandoned at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdamlike Yin and Yang – Myra is loud, much to the annoyance of matron Gasbeek. Twelve years laterbright and hates rules, Milouwhile Rohan is very polite, serious and worries about the last of tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the five babies to be abandoned back in that winter, struggles to work out same time at the identity of her parents from the clues she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks same hospital on the outside, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker and a velvet blanketMidsummer'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