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|author=Alex WheatleLouie Stowell|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeLoki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good|rating=24.5

|summary=We meet Welton Blake at Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the worst of times other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – only they should he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile and in the best physical form of timesa middle-school kid here on Earth. He should be getting 's guarded by a giant and a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school god in regards to a cinema date, but disguise as his phone has packed upparents, he's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in classThor has come along as well, who's duffed him up in responseto be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother of the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anywaytwo. On Loki has a bigger scale he's living with month to redeem his mother reputation, and not much income now that get his moral compass pointing the dad right way again, or else, and to prove it he has left to write the picture – yestext we read in a sentient notebook, things are so bad they're resorting that is able to having cabbage for dinnercry foul of his lies, and judge his progress. I know, right? But surely this Loki is just the kind of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a blip, bit more virtuously for a day at school month is going to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out be a walk in the wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Weltonpark...right?|isbn=17811294951406399752

|author= Katharine OrtonLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title= GlassheartThe Mermaid in the Millpond|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since There is no mermaid in the Blitz claimed the lives of millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her family. Now, in amongst all the aftermath of the warother kids, they travel all over who have had their entire childhoods sold to the country, replacing stainedmill-glass windows in buildings destroyed owners by bombsthe London workhouse they used to call home. Their latest job takes them out 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 wilds of Dartmoorslight little Dot, where Nona discovers and despite everything that life has taught her world is full of ancient about betrayal and powerful magic. She also discovers that a mysterious entity, known how befriending people only as The Soldierleads to harm, is hellthere might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-bent on using Nonaout mill workers. But surely that doesn's innate magic for his own ends, and will not stop until he has her…t mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=1406385239180090049X

|author=Rob KeeleyChristopher Edge|title=The Treasure in the TowerEscape Room|rating=43

|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace and lots of action, an easy to read style, an unerring eye for childrenI's friendships and rivalries, and always a good dollop ve seen junior variants of naughty humour. They're all present here, in the 'Choose Your Own Adventure'The Treasure in format cover escape rooms – the Tower''. The chance purchase of process by which a book during character or characters start by being trapped in a school trip sparks the whole adventure. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jessspecific location, her brother Mason and have to solve problems in order to get their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?|isbn=1800461321}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=It Isnway out. What I't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This could have been ve not done (alongside experience one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know for myself – for that nudity would require actual friends) is OK and seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid regular second person narrative replaced by the hot-first. Here, Ami and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit 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 in the aftermath of World War One, this is the story of two children, Lotti and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but . Her family don't want have enough money to let go of their lasther do after school activities, tiny glimpses of hopeand so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. Ben is living on When a narrowboat on the canalnew girl joins her class, lying Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the police about his brother's imminent return from the battlefields to take care of him. Lottinew girl, meanwhileEllie, has been expelled from school is unwell and is back at home; itso can's a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship fort attend school in person. The day Lotti meets Ben (Instead, she joins in with the day she steals class by using a dog!) is robot. Can Anna overcome the beginning challenge of making friends with someone through a deeprobot, and powerful friendship. It sees them become each other's family, and undertake is she even interesting enough to be a perilous trip good friend to France, in the boat, to try to find out the truth of the people they both love.Ellie?|isbn=05713487691781129649

|author=Joanne M HarrisAlex Cotter|title=A Pocketful The House on the Edge|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Faith's family home is teetering on the edge of a cliff, literally. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little? And as the house seems to be falling apart, so is Faith's family. Her dad has disappeared, and her mum is struggling to cope, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in charge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, 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 a ghost in the cellar? What should she do about the house? Can she find a way to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages to get funding for the house? She carries the weight of Crowsall these worries on her constantly, and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping on.|isbn=1788008626}}{{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, 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 the 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 childAfter their parents mysteriously disappeared, Grace and Danni have been left to run the family bakery. But Grace needs the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reason...even though she's classmates constantly being horrible only ten years old, she is a monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet tooth, and Grace uses a number of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on 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 the full range of human emotions without lying, stealing or bullyingtricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, ultimately, be their demise. They One day, though, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who has a weakness for doughnuts but doesn're t seem to explode as the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning other monsters do, and so things start to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and have absolutely no basis in reality…right?get very strange…|isbn=17880034701848129432

|author= M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefTwitch|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 Twitch is a long train journeyboy who loves birds. Although He keeps pigeons at home, this isn't any old train; this is the Highland Falcon, the royal trainand chickens, and this even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is its last ever journey before it gets sent easy compared to a museumthat of his time in school. A number But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of high-society figureshis life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the run, including film stars, millionaires and aristocrats, will be on this train, so it is quite 's possible that the event on the social calendar. However, when an expensive brooch missing bank haul is stolenhidden somewhere in Aves Wood, Hal realises the place where Twitch has his secret hide and that maybe this trip won't be as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin to turn on each other, Hal vows to get to knows like the bottom back of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mystery…before the train gets to the end of mystery, and find the line.missing millions?|isbn=15290130621406389374

|isbnauthor=1781129312Hannah Peck|title=Sequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)Kate on the Case|rating=3.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Sequin loved her mum to bitsMeet Kate, but sometimes although I got the impression she got very cross with her'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. It wasnFor Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped . Armed with a plucky father, that - it was because book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she never pushed is all equipped to manage a train ride to get credit the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for what she didthe first time in yonks. Mum However, this is a seamstress train ride with a difference, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and she makes her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the sort of clothes that darkness in a blink-and-you see on red carpets or at important weddings'll-miss-them style. SheIt's not the designer - they're the people who make definitely a case for a lot of money from the clothesnew young investigative journalist. Mum is the person who actually ''makes'' the garments and she's really talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.|isbn=184812970X

|author= Hana TookeHayley Webster|title= The UnadoptablesLuna Rae is Not Alone|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In the winter of 1880Luna Rae has just moved house. Moving house is always tricky, five babies are abandoned at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdam, much to the annoyance of matron Gasbeek. Twelve but especially when you're ten years laterold, Milouand you miss your old home, the last of the five babies and you and your little sister have to start a new school but your mum seems to be abandoned back in that winter, struggles to work out working all the identity of her parents from the clues she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks on the outside, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker and a velvet blankettime. She Then there's your dad, along with the other fourwho doesn't seem like he's coping so well, patiently wait for Milouand so there's parents no one to come back and take her homecare of things but you. However Everything feels different, when the five children are sold to the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotmanand strange, and mysterious, they know they have to escape. And and so begins the adventure Luna finds a way of a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou with coping is by watching. She turns detective, and starts keeping an eye on her parentsnew neighbourhood, all but it turns out she's not the time being pursued by the Kinderbureau and Rotman…only one keeping watch!|isbn=02414174651788006046

|author=Rob HarrellFrancesca Simon and Steve May|title=WinkTwo Terrible Vikings|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=When Ross is diagnosed with In a rare form of cancersmall Viking village there live two twins, aged 12Hack and Whack, his desperate attempts at school who are eager to just be 'normal' become impossible. the very worst Vikings ever! Suddenly he is the cancer kidNothing can stop their mad marauding, and everything he doesas they cause havoc at a birthday party, how he lookschaos whilst tracking a troll, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of the other kids in school. Ross is, understandably, angry. He is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed in undertake a permanent wink. He has gloopy eye medicine to try grand journey to help raid Bad Island with the pain, plus the need their friends! They get up to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due to the ongoing treatment. With the sudden ghosting by one kinds of his best friends, mischief and a series of horrible memes that someone at school creates about Rossnaughty behaviour, nothing about his life is normal any more, and he has to find new ways to deal along with his feelingstheir wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and survivetheir crazy cast of friends.|isbn=14714091470571349498

|author=Alastair ChisholmDanny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=Orion LostThe Day the Screens Went Blank|rating=4.5

|summary= Thirteen-year-old Beth Meet Stella and her parents board the transport ship Orion ready for family. They're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a new life on Eos Fivefilm – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. Their new And it's not just their home is still being terra, but the entire south-formed western village of Mousehole, and life there isnnot just that, either, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they't going re first to be easyget a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but it ''TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this is'' going to be a fresh startsocial comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but no. As Beth For the family finally remember Stella's mum puts grandma, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – for it, ''There's a future waiting for us. A chance to make our own decisionsslapstick, high-drama, create our own liveshigh-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.''|isbn= 17880059291471196887