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|author=Rob KeeleyLouie Stowell|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile and in the physical form of a middle-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother of the two. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and to prove it he has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progress. But Loki is the kind of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be a walk in the park...right?|isbn=1406399752}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=The Treasure Mermaid in the TowerMillpond|rating=4.5

|summary= Rob Keeley There is back! Hooray! We here no mermaid in the millpond. That at Bookbag Towers are always happy 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 read call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a new adventure from Rob hand- his stories combine fast pace and lots of action, an easy to read style-mouth, an unerring eye every man for children's friendships 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 rivalrieshow befriending people only leads to harm, and always there might be a good dollop glimmer of naughty humourcompanionship in the tired-out mill workers. TheyBut surely that doesn're all present here, in ''The Treasure t mean there is any truth in the Tower''. The chance purchase existence of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventure. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jess, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheatmermaid?|isbn=1800461321180090049X}}

|isbnauthor=1849767009Christopher Edge|title=It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie HaineEscape Room|rating=53|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=This could have been one I've seen junior variants of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people whoChoose Your Own Adventure'll buy it are format cover escape rooms – the people who know that nudity is OK process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific location, and the ones who ''know'have to solve problems in order to get their way out. What I' ve not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the hot-and-bothered regular second person in narrative replaced by the supermarket who is coughing fit first. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it each other and booked into something so much more than the game without any of their friends, are a book about not wearing clothes. Itteam – starting out at the game's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In factmain offices, where they're wonderfultold they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer.But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964

|author=Onjali Q RaufLucy Hope|title=The Night Bus HeroFledgling

|summary=Hector Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a bullymost peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decades, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. Egged on by his two It'friendss an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know it, he takes other children's sweetsthe roof is retractable, harasses and threatensthere is a steam-powered, plays pranks at schoolhand-operated lift system cut through it, and gets into trouble at every turnso on. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isn't his faultAt the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but then he isn't believed as everyone expects him to be telling lies. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely homequibble, kvetch and seem to only care about his perfect sister and his annoying little brother when they aresing opera loudly, and his teachers have abandoned him as a lost cause. So what happens when, in trying to tell the truth & fight dying grandma to be believedour heroine, Cassie, Hector finds himself embroiled with a young lass who has to do all the police; first trying maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going to accusehouse someone or something else, and then trying when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to save be a homeless man from his local park?completely great and wonderful thing, think again...|isbn=1510106774183994188X

|author=Carlie SorosiakKate DiCamillo and Sophie Blackall|title=My Life as a CatThe Beatryce Prophecy|rating=4.5

|summary=This is the story of an alien who has come down to spend some time on earth living as a human. It's something that each member 'Stories have joy and surprises in the alien collective is allowed to dothem'', for 1 month, once they reach a certain agewe are told here. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en routeAnd none more so than in this wondrous story, and so something goes wrong which feels an instant classic with his arrival the freshness and he finds that instead of landing the agelessness it has in Yellowstone Park, ready to work as equal proportion. We start with a park rangergroup of monks, he is instead in the body Order of a cat on the other side Chronicles of Sorrowing, and the country! This is not what he had planned! Not only is he in the wrong place demonic goat that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on and biting the wrong body, he is also in poor Brothers. Things change drastically when the middle of beast takes a totally maternal approach to a stormhomeless girl, stuck one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King in a tree! And so he meets Olivehis castle, desperate to find the little girl who rows out in , for it is prophesied that a boat to rescue him, young child can unseat the throne and who names him Leonardcause great change.Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simple, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=17880060891529500893

|author=Yara Evans Greg James and Luciana BettiChris Smith|title=The Adventures of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesGreat Dream Robbery|rating=45

|summary=Black Cat and Tabby Cat are minding their own business in their own house when Maya's father is a very alarming thing happensprofessor who invented an amazing dream machine. A creature - a largeBut something went wrong, dog-like creature - appears in their houseand now he can't wake up. Black CatOr at least, always that's what Maya has been told. In a rather strange dream one to take chargenight Maya makes a new friend, challenges this fearsome creature with all and discovers that the courage he can musteronly way to save her dad may be by being asleep. Tabby Cat backs himCue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and reality collide...really. from a rather safe distance. The creature is indignant - ''I'm not a dog. Iand there'm s everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, to a foxtalking cat called Bin Bag!''|isbn=1511658649 024147051X

|author=Darren ShanKeith Gray|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment The Climbers

|summary=This third and final book Sully is the best tree climber in the first volume of Darren Shanvillage. He has what's new known amongst the kids as 'reach'Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie . But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, and Inez make it almost all the way not only that, that his chance to name the Cuckoo's Nestfinal, where unnamed big tree in the Vote of Alignment will park by being the first to conquer it, might be heldsnatched from his hands. But how How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will they get init cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?|isbn=B086LLWP4V1781129991

|isbnauthor=B086LLRZFHNick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=Archibald Lox and the Empress of SuanpanLocked Out Lily|author=Darren Shan|rating=4.5

|summary=ArchieLily is, or was, or has been, very ill, and to give her parents relief she's second foray into 'the Merge' opens been told to stay with her grandma for a fantastic vistafew days. All of The parents need the Bornrelief as Lily's most famous buildings baby sibling is just about to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do with. But on tracking back home for word of her parents (and monuments her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony- Big Beneyed simulacra of her parents, and the Taj Mahal,  the Eiffel Tower babe-in- are collected togetherarms, joined by those clever Merge vines. But there's no time to waste in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help from Inez to a venerable locksmith called Winstonalready installed.Winston is a darling but is afraid to help - what is These devilish interlopers need to be done? Despite yearning ousted to go home and worry for his foster parentsget the family back intact, Archie feels an obligation to take Winstoneven if it's place. And so Archie embarks on a newnot the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and even more dangerous, adventure...Snake.|isbn=1471194833

|isbnauthor=1776572858Philip Reeve|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske Utterly Dark and Don Bartlett (translator)the Face of the Deep

|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were madeIn a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. My mother was deeply embarrassed There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and told me legends of the Dark family that she'd get me a book about ithas to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. A couple The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than activity from the basicsHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in clinical language which had never been used London with too much science in our house before) his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about'Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. I ''knew'' moreBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfullyboth his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, times have changedlike it or not.|isbn=1788452372

|author=Darren ShanAlex Foulkes|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsRules for Vampires

|summary=Time Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) is a Vampire. She drinks blood, she sleeps during the day, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to catch you travel around, although not all up with some of my lockdown reading - I've been doing so much them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the night of it that I'm a bit late her hundredth birthnight, she has to the party with actual reviewinggo out and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And where better to start than make things worse, the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her. So, not only does Leo have to team up with the new series friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all while hiding it from Bookbag favouriteher family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, Darren Shan? Archie is very down. Hethere's lost a dear friend recently, in a tragic accident, and Archie blames himself. He can't face school so he takes himself reason why there are rules for a truanting wander around London. As he strolls across a footbridge, he sees a girl who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suits. He watches, aghast. What is going on?vampires…|isbn=B086LKBHD6147119955X

|author=Antony WoottenAngharad Walker|title=Season The Ash House|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the system, 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 absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Doctor. By the end of the 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 End

|summary= Tannash First, the title. We're in World's End Close, a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and her brother Geb are waiting in great excitement for with the boy over the hunting party led by their uncle to returnroad. TheyBut we could also be at World're hoping for s End, because something taking a feast great chunk of mammoth meatthe fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. Geb longs for The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the day he can join his uncle Gagba risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and not much else is able to make the other warriors on news. That said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, a hunting party and take part secretive young woman hiding in their deeds of derring-docoal shed. But their fatherAnna has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in the leader 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 village, thinks that they also need an education; that knowledge Cold War is power.doing miles away?|isbn=19392696790571364438}}

|author=Tania UnsworthIan Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerMonster Hunting For Beginners

|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girlMeet Jack. The sort of small girl who often gets overlookedNow Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's a slight boy, and forgotten. She is quiet, although he wants for danger and compliant, peril and makes the best interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of whatever happens to herhis sight. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free to take care of herThat's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, they have and look what happened to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a week– she died. Poor ElsieLuckily or unluckily then, forgotten againdepending on your point of view, just decides to make the best of things. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boygiant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, and he has an enormous tiger rug on Jack will fluke the floor of one of the rooms. When Elsie asks ogre's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him about the rug he seems unhappyan apprentice monster hunter, and he says 'll be given a book that tells him all he has needs to keep it because he was the one who shot know about the tiger when perils he was 12 years old, and he says it was the worst thing he ever didalways wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''.. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tiger, in order to put something right that happened a long time ago.|isbn=17885417070755501942

|author=Natasha FarrantLisa Thompson|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkThe Small Things

|summary=Set Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in England . Her family don't have enough money to let her do after school activities, and so she feels like her life at home is boring in the aftermath of World War Onecomparison to theirs. When a new girl joins her class, this Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the story of two childrennew girl, Ellie, Lotti is unwell and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but donso can't want to let go attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with the class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the challenge of their lastmaking friends with someone through a robot, tiny glimpses of hope. Ben and is living she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Cotter|title=The House on a narrowboat the Edge|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Faith's family home is teetering on the canaledge of a cliff, lying literally. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little? And as the police about his brotherhouse seems to be falling apart, so is Faith's imminent return from the battlefields family. Her dad has disappeared, and her mum is struggling to take cope, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in charge, taking care of him. Lottiher little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, meanwhilefeeding everyone, has been expelled from getting Noah to school , and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims is back at home; 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 a beautiful house that belongs happened to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages to get funding for. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals a dog!) is house? She carries the beginning weight of a deepall these worries on her constantly, and powerful friendship. It sees them become each othershe doesn's family, and undertake a perilous trip to France, in t know how much longer the boatcliff will hold together, to try to find out the truth of the people they both loveor how long she can keep on keeping on.|isbn=05713487691788008626

|author=Joanne M HarrisKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=A Pocketful Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of Crowsthe Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author=Louie Stowell|title=Otherland

|genre= Confident Readers|summary= I have always been of the mind that once you're above picture-book level Myra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loud, bright and before you get to graphic sex & violencehates rules, there while Rohan is no difference between books for children very polite, serious and books for adultsworries about the tiniest things. There are good books Their only connection? Being born and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful of Crows'' is clearly aimed briefly dying at the younger readers as witness same time at the use of same hospital on Midsummer's day. And so, every year their families get together to celebrate the middle initial in the authortwo's name to differentiate from her adult offersbirthday/deathday. Ignore that if you have loved anything from But when Rohan''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris s little sister Shilpa is mistress of taken by the modern fairy talequeen, they must journey to the Otherland, a magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragons, and Gods. This is no different. It is an utter delight's going to be the worst night of their lives.|isbn=14732221841788000463

|author=Ele FountainDarren Shan|title=LostArchibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3

|summary=Lola lives in an Indian city with her father, So. Having done the impossible and her brotherunpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, Amit. She lives from which the Departed communicate with them in a nice apartment, and although they are not rich like some of the girls at schoolMerge, they have enough money Archie now has ''grop'' to be comfortablethink about. Lola spends her time thinking about her school friends, and trying to fit in with them, until one day, suddenlyBut before that, everything in her life changessoirees. After taking a work trip awaySoirees! Archie, Lolamuch to Inez's father amusement, doesn't come homeeven know what one of those is. They have nobody else But he manages to helpcome through the fancy party unscathed, and as they wait day even after dayan uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, Lola wonders what will become whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of them until, finally, they are evicted from their flat, and she and her brother find themselves forced to live on the streetsthis series. |isbn=178269255XB093J9TF73

|author= Angela WoolfeMaisie Chan|title= Roxy and Jones: The Great Fairytale Cover-UpDanny Chung Does Not Do Maths|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= After her father gets married for the umpteenth timeDanny is eleven years old, and what he really, Roxy Humperdinck really loves to do is sent to live with her half-sister Gretel in Rexopolisdraw. He creates fantastical comics, capital city of whilst his best friend Ravi adds the Kingdom of Illustriawords. Gretel works as a toilet cleaner for the Ministry of Soup. Why does a country like Illustria need an entire ministry dedicated Danny's dad, however, wants Danny to soupconcentrate on his maths, you ask? Welland forget about the drawing, after Roxy finds because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw in secret passage and in her bathroom and meets peace. But then one day his parents tell him they have a snarky young woman known only as Jonessurprise for him, she soon finds out why. Turns and this surprise turns out, fairy tales are realto be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with them, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the Ministry’s official job top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is to safeguard all knowledge of them horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and monitor showing her around the living fairy talestown. And Poor Danny, when an evil queen breaks out of stuck on a maximum-security prison and threatens to reinstate her reign of terrormaths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, Roxy and Jones hold the fate of the world in their young hands…so, no pressure thenhe even has a falling out with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=1406391379180078001X

|author=Judith EagleDarren Shan|title=The Pear AffairArchibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3

|summary=Set The second trilogy in the 1960Shan's''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, this is a mystery adventure storyArchie, all about a little girl called Nell and her quest to find her nanny, Perrine (Pear) who left her very suddenly and then, after keeping back in London in touch regularly by post, disappeared completely from her life, leaving Nell bereftthe world of the Born. ThereIt's everything in this storynot been easy, with underground tunnels as the playground of gangs of childrenexplaining to his foster parents where he's been, to travel or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and detective workhis other friends in the Merge, a mystery mould infecting Parisian bakeries, mysterious figures following Nell aroundbut Archie has done his best.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and a set of truly dreadful parents!except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.|isbn=0571346855B093H8DPQZ

|author= Kirsty ApplebaumGianna Pollero and Sarah Horne|title= TroofriendMonster Doughnuts|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Are you tired of your child's classmates constantly being horrible After their parents mysteriously disappeared, Grace and Danni have been left to them? Do you want your child to have some positive experiences with people? Introducing the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-of-the-art machines are capable of emulating run the full range of human emotions without lying, stealing or bullyingfamily bakery. They're But Grace needs the perfect companion doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and have absolutely no basis in reality…right?|isbn=1788003470}} {{Frontpage|author= M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman|title= The Highland Falcon Thief|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Harrison Beck, or Hal as he prefers to be called, isn't exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a travel writer, on a long train journeyrather unusual reason... Although, this isneven though she't any s only ten years old train; this , she is the Highland Falcon, the royal traina monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet tooth, and this is its last ever journey before it gets sent to Grace uses a museum. A number of high-society figuresmethods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, including film starsor tricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, millionaires and aristocratsultimately, will be on this traintheir demise. One day, so it is quite the event on the social calendar. Howeverthough, when an expensive brooch is stolenGrace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, Hal realises that maybe this trip wonwho has a weakness for doughnuts but doesn't be as boring seem to explode as he previously thought. As the passengers begin to turn on each othermonsters do, Hal vows and so things start to get to the bottom of the mystery…before the train gets to the end of the line.very strange…|isbn=15290130621848129432

|isbnauthor=1781129312M G Leonard|title=Sequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)Twitch

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Sequin loved her mum Twitch is a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at home, and chickens, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with herthat of his time in school. It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed But things are about to get credit change for what she did. Mum Twitch in all aspects of his life as there is a seamstress dangerous bank robber on the run, and she makes the sort of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. Sheit's not possible that the designer - they're the people who make a lot of money from the clothes. Mum missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the person who actually ''makes'' the garments place where Twitch has his secret hide and she's really talented, but when people talk about that he knows like the dress or back of his hand! Can Twitch solve the suitmystery, they talk about and find the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.missing millions?|isbn=1406389374

|author= Hana TookeHannah Peck|title= The UnadoptablesKate on the Case|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In Meet Kate, although I got the winter of 1880, five babies are abandoned impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdamthat. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, much to and the annoyance author of matron Gasbeekour heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Twelve years later, Milou Armed with a plucky father, the last of the five babies to be abandoned back in that winterbook, struggles to work out the identity of and her parents from the clues talking mouse called Rupert, she was abandoned with: is all equipped to manage a small coffin with claw-marks on train ride to the outsideArctic, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker and a velvet blanketto see her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. She However, along this is a train ride with the other foura difference, patiently wait for Milou's parents to come back on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and take her home. Howevercat, when the five children are sold to the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotmana thief – and two glowing eyes, they know they have to escape. And so begins shining from the adventure of darkness in a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou with her parents, all the time being pursued by the Kinderbureau blink-and Rotman…-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=0241417465184812970X

|author=Rob HarrellHayley Webster|title=WinkLuna Rae is Not Alone|rating=4.5

|summary=When Ross Luna Rae has just moved house. Moving house is diagnosed with a rare form of canceralways tricky, but especially when you're ten years old, aged 12and you miss your old home, his desperate attempts at and you and your little sister have to start a new school but your mum seems to just be 'normal' become impossibleout working all the time. Suddenly he is the cancer kidThen there's your dad, and everything who doesn't seem like he does, how he looks's coping so well, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny so there's no one to take care of the other kids in schoolthings but you. Ross isEverything feels different, understandablyand strange, 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 pain, plus the need 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 friendsand mysterious, and so Luna finds a series way of horrible memes that someone at school creates about Ross, nothing about his life coping is normal any moreby watching. She turns detective, and he has to find starts keeping an eye on her new ways to deal with his feelingsneighbourhood, and survive.but it turns out she's not the only one keeping watch!|isbn=14714091471788006046

|author=Alastair ChisholmFrancesca Simon and Steve May|title=Orion LostTwo Terrible Vikings|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary= Thirteen-year-old Beth and her parents board the transport ship Orion ready for In a new life on Eos Five. Their new home is still being terra-formed small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and life there isn't going Whack, who are eager to be easythe very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a birthday party, but it ''is'' going to be chaos whilst tracking a fresh start. As Beth's mum puts ittroll, ''There's and undertake a future waiting for us. A chance grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to make our own decisionsall kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, create our own livesand their crazy cast of friends.''|isbn= 17880059290571349498

|author=Struan Murray Danny Wallace and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)Gemma Correll|title=Orphans of The Day the TideScreens Went Blank

|summary= In the last city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has come Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying to wreak havoc on the last of humanity. When have a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse of Sunday evening in together, watching a whale, the citizens immediately believe him film – using three different screens to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancasterwatch three different things, a girl inventormind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. As And it's not just their home, but the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the boyentire south-western village of Mousehole, Ellie must prove and not just that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets...|isbn=0241384435}}{{Frontpage|author= Holly Rivers|title= Demelza and either, but the Spectre Detectors|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Demelza Clock is a scientistwhole country, often staying up late to work if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on her various gadgets, much their phones – hoping they're first to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. Howeverget a screen back, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are and not especially scientific: Spectre Detectingwhat they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the ability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Under the guidance V part of her Grandma Maevetheir job, Demelza begins to master her newfound skillsand no computer can show its computations. However, there You might think this is going to be a mysterious individual on the prowlsocial comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, kidnapping young Spectre Detectorsbut no. It For the family finally remember Stella's up to Demelza grandma, and her best friend Percy to see if they can get across country to the bottom of her. Hence thishas to go down as a road-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – 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=19126260391471196887