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|author=Onjali Q RaufLouie Stowell|title=The Night Bus HeroLoki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good

|summary=Hector is a bullyMeet Loki. Egged on by his two 'friends'The trickster god has got into trouble again, he takes so the other childrengods have decided there's sweets, harasses only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile and threatens, plays pranks at in the physical form of a middle-school, and gets into trouble at every turnkid here on Earth. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isnHe't s guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his faultparents, but then he isn't believed and Thor has come along as everyone expects him well, to be telling lies. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely homethe more suave, more popular and seem more successful brother of the two. Loki has a month to only care about redeem his perfect sister reputation, and get his annoying little brother when they aremoral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and his teachers have abandoned him as to prove it he has to write the text we read in a lost cause. So what happens whensentient notebook, in trying that is able to tell the truth & fight to be believedcry foul of his lies, Hector finds himself embroiled with and judge his progress. But Loki is the police; first trying to accusekind of god who insists he can do anything, and then trying so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to save be a homeless man from his local walk in the park...right?|isbn=15101067741406399752

|author=Carlie SorosiakLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=My Life as a CatThe Mermaid in the Millpond

|summary=This There is no mermaid in the story of an alien 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 has come down have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to spend some call home. Bess knows there is no time on earth living as for friendship in a human. It's something that each member in the alien collective is allowed hand-to do-mouth, every man for 1 month, once they reach himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a certain age. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en routekindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and so something goes wrong with his arrival despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and he finds that instead of landing in Yellowstone Park, ready how befriending people only leads to work as a park rangerharm, he is instead in the body of there might be a cat on the other side glimmer of the country! This is not what he had planned! Not only is he companionship in the wrong place and the wrong body, he tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is also any truth in the middle existence of a storm, stuck in a tree! And so he meets Olive, the little girl who rows out in a boat to rescue him, and who names him Leonard.mermaid?|isbn=1788006089180090049X

|author=Yara Evans and Luciana BettiChristopher Edge|title=The Adventures of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesEscape Room|rating=43

|summary=Black Cat 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 Tabby Cat are minding their own business have to solve problems in order to get their own house when a very alarming thing happensway out. A creature - What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a largeprose book describing people in such an adventure, dog-like creature - appears in their housewith the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Black CatHere, always one to take chargeAmi and four other tweenagers, challenges this fearsome creature with all new to each other and booked into the courage he can muster. Tabby Cat backs him.... from game without any of their friends, are a rather safe distance. The creature is indignant - team – starting out at the game's main offices, where they'I'm not re told they and their quest for The Answer are a dogworld-changer. I'm But could watching people engage with such a fox!''pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1511658649 1788007964

|author=Darren ShanLucy Hope|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment Fledgling|rating=4.5

|summary=This third Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decades, and final book in now looking imperiously down on the first volume of Darren Shanvillage and woods below. It's new an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as we''Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie d know it, the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and Inez make so on. At the moment it almost all houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the way dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the Cuckoomaintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's Nestalso going to house someone or something else, where the Vote of Alignment will when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be helda completely great and wonderful thing, think again... But how will they get in?|isbn=B086LLWP4V183994188X

|isbnauthor=B086LLRZFHKate DiCamillo and Sophie Blackall|title=Archibald Lox and the Empress of SuanpanThe Beatryce Prophecy|author=Darren Shan|rating=4.5

|summary=Archie's second foray into 'Stories have joy and surprises in them'', we are told here. And none more so than in this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic with the Merge' opens freshness and the agelessness it has in equal proportion. We start with a fantastic vista. All group of monks, the Order of the Born's most famous buildings Chronicles of Sorrowing, and monuments - Big Ben, the Taj Mahaldemonic goat that loves nothing more than upending,  trampling on and biting the Eiffel Tower - are collected together, joined by those clever Merge vinespoor Brothers. But there's no time Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to waste in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help a homeless girl, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from Inez to a venerable locksmith called Winstonher memory.Winston is Elsewhere sits a darling but is afraid King in his castle, desperate to help - what find the girl, for it is to be done? Despite yearning to go home prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne and worry for his foster parents, Archie feels an obligation to take Winston's placecause great change. And so Archie embarks on Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a newsimple, and even more dangerous, adventure....amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=1529500893

|isbnauthor=1776572858Greg James and Chris Smith|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)The Great Dream Robbery

|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 brotherWill who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's imminent return from foundling daughter, who washed up out of the battlefields to take care of himsea one day eleven years ago. LottiBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, meanwhileboth his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, has been expelled from school and is back at home; like itor not.|isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Foulkes|title=Rules for Vampires|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 's Leo' for short) is a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship forVampire. The day Lotti meets Ben (She drinks blood, she sleeps during the day , and she steals can Grimwalk (turning into a dog!flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back) is . Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the beginning night of a deepher hundredth birthnight, she has to go out and powerful friendshiphunt her first human. It sees them become each other's familyHowever, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and undertake a perilous trip burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to Francemake things worse, in the boatghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her. So, not only does Leo have to try team up with the friendly ghost Minna to find out stop the truth ghost of the people they both loveOrphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all while hiding it from her family.Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=0571348769147119955X

|author=Joanne M HarrisAngharad Walker|title=A Pocketful of CrowsThe Ash House|rating=5

|summary= I have always been of the mind that once youA new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn're above picture-book level and before you get to graphic sex & violencet know his name, or why he is there but he is no difference between books for children used to the system, used to different places and books for adultsdifferent faces. There are good books He meets Dom who names him Sol and poor onessets out to teach him the rules of The Ash House. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor onesThese rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. ''A Pocketful All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of Crows'' The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is clearly aimed at shattered by the arrival of the younger readers as witness Doctor. By the use end of the middle initial in story, lives 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 name End|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=First, the title. We're in World's End Close, a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie to differentiate from her adult offersfriends) finds fun only with the family dog and with the boy over the road. Ignore that if you have loved anything from But we could also be at World''Chocolat'' onwards you will know s End, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that Harris the Cuban Missile Crisis is mistress kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and not much else is able to make the modern fairy talenews. This is That said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, in no differentshort time, taken a strong interest in the 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. It But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is an utter delight.doing miles away?|isbn=14732221840571364438

|author=Ele FountainIan Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=LostMonster Hunting For Beginners

|summary=Lola lives in an Indian city with her father, Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and her brotherquick, Amit. She lives with them in for he's a nice apartmentslight boy, and although they are not rich like some he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of the girls at school, they have enough money to be comfortablehis sight. Lola spends her time thinking That's because Jack's mother knew all about her school friendsmonsters, and trying look what happened to fit in with themher – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, until one day, suddenlydepending on your point of view, everything in her life changes. After taking a work trip away, Lolagiant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father doesnalso goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the ogre't come home. They have nobody else to helps death, and as they wait day after day, Lola wonders what a dwarfish wizard-type will become of them until, finally, they are evicted from their flatmake him an apprentice monster hunter, and she and her brother find themselves forced he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to live on know about the streetsperils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=178269255X0755501942

|author= Angela WoolfeLisa Thompson|title= Roxy and Jones: The Great Fairytale Cover-UpSmall Things|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= After her father gets married for the umpteenth timeAlthough Anna has friends at school, Roxy Humperdinck is sent she feels like she never really fits in. Her family don't have enough money to live with let her half-sister Gretel in Rexopolisdo after school activities, capital city of the Kingdom of Illustria. Gretel works as a toilet cleaner for the Ministry of Soup. Why does a country and so she feels like Illustria need an entire ministry dedicated her life at home is boring in comparison to soup, you ask? Well, after Roxy finds theirs. When a secret passage in new girl joins her bathroom and meets a snarky young woman known only as Jonesclass, she soon finds out why. Turns outAnna is asked to partner her, fairy tales but things are realcomplicated because the new girl, Ellie, and the Ministry’s official job is to safeguard all knowledge of them unwell and monitor so can't attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with the living fairy talesclass by using a robot. And, when an evil queen breaks out Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through a maximum-security prison robot, and threatens is she even interesting enough to reinstate her reign of terror, Roxy and Jones hold the fate of the world in their young hands…so, no pressure then!be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=14063913791781129649

|author=Judith EagleAlex Cotter|title=The Pear AffairHouse on the Edge|rating=4.5

|summary=Set in the 1960Faith's, this family home is teetering on the edge of a mystery adventure storycliff, all about literally. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little girl called Nell ? And as the house seems to be falling apart, so is Faith's family. Her dad has disappeared, and her quest mum is struggling to find cope, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in charge, taking care of her nannylittle brother Noah, Perrine (Pear) who left taking care of her very suddenly and thenmum, feeding everyone, after keeping in touch regularly by postgetting Noah to school, disappeared completely and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her life, leaving Nell bereft. Therelittle 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 everything in this story, with underground tunnels as 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 playground weight of gangs of childrenall these worries on her constantly, to travel and detective workshe doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, a mystery mould infecting Parisian bakeries, mysterious figures following Nell around, and a set of truly dreadful parents!or how long she can keep on keeping on.|isbn=05713468551788008626

|author= Kirsty ApplebaumKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title= TroofriendJulia and the Shark|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Are you tired of your child's classmates constantly being horrible to them? Do you want your child to have some positive experiences Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with people? Introducing her parents and their cat from the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-of-family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the-art machines are capable far NE of emulating the full range Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of human emotions without lying, stealing or bullyingScottish island. They're Dad is going to be automating the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and have absolutely no basis in reality…right?alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=17880034701510107789

|author= M G Leonard and Sam SedgmanLouie Stowell|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefOtherland|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Harrison BeckMyra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loud, or Hal as he prefers to be calledbright and hates rules, isn't exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a travel writerwhile 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 a long train journeyMidsummer's day. AlthoughAnd so, this isnevery year their families get together to celebrate the two's birthday/deathday. But when Rohan't any old train; this s little sister Shilpa is taken by the Highland Falconfairy queen, they must journey to the royal trainOtherland, and this is its last ever journey before it gets sent to a museum. A number magical realm full of high-society figuresfairies, vampires, including film starsdragons, millionaires and aristocrats, will be on this train, so it is quite the event on the social calendarGods. However, when an expensive brooch is stolen, Hal realises that maybe this trip wonIt't s going to be as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin to turn on each other, Hal vows to get to the bottom of the mystery…before the train gets to the end worst night of the linetheir lives.|isbn=15290130621788000463

|isbnauthor=1781129312Darren Shan|title=Sequin Archibald Lox and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Sequin loved her mum So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to bitsthe Forgotten Crypt, but sometimes she got very cross from which the Departed communicate with her. It wasnthe Merge, Archie now has ''grop't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed to get credit for what she didthink about. Mum is a seamstress and she makes the sort of clothes But before that you see on red carpets or at important weddings, soirees. SheSoirees! Archie, much to Inez's not the designer - theyamusement, doesn're the people who make a lot t even know what one of money from the clothesthose is. Mum is the person who actually ''makes'' But he manages to come through the garments and she's really talentedfancy party unscathed, but when people talk about the dress or the suiteven after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, they talk about whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the designer. The seamstress is never mentionedfirst volume of this series. |isbn=B093J9TF73

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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