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|author=Rob WintersLouie Stowell|title=His Name Was WrenLoki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good|rating=4.5

|summary=In September 1944 something came down 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 Oban Woods, near the village physical form of Hurstwicka middle-school kid here on Earth. It came down hardHe's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, taking and Thor has come along as well, to be the spire more suave, more popular and more successful brother of the village church with it, destroying two. Loki has a stone shackmonth to redeem his reputation, and leaving a wide trail through get his moral compass pointing the woodright way again, but no trace of what or else, and to prove it actually was. German secret weapon was he has to write the local gossiptext we read in a sentient notebook, but there should have been an explosion and a craterthat is able to cry foul of his lies, and there were neither judge his progress. But Loki is the kind of those thingsgod 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=B08KGVNVNB1406399752

|author=Alex WheatleLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeMermaid in the Millpond|rating=24.5

|summary=We meet Welton Blake There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at the worst of times – only they should be the best of timesleast is what Bess is telling herself. He should Neither will there be getting a text from friend for her in amongst all the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in classother kids, who's duffed him up in response, and have had their entire childhoods sold to the wannamill-bae seems owners by the London workhouse they used to actually be with someone else anywaycall home. On Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yeshand-to-mouth, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage every man for dinnerhimself kind of existence. I know, right? But surely this is just despite herself Bess does find a blip, bit of a day at school to forgetkindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything (like his vomit) will all come out that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the wash? This cantired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't be mean there is any truth in the start existence of a most nightmarish time for young Weltonthe mermaid?|isbn=1781129495180090049X

|author= Katharine OrtonChristopher Edge|title= GlassheartEscape Room|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since the Blitz claimed the lives of her family. Now, in the aftermath of the war, they travel all over the country, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombs. Their latest job takes them out to the wilds of Dartmoor, where Nona discovers that her world is full of ancient and powerful magic. She also discovers that a mysterious entity, known only as The Soldier, is hell-bent on using Nona's innate magic for his own ends, and will not stop until he has her…|isbn=1406385239}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title=The Treasure in the Tower|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 . 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 onesbriefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer's day. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor onesso, every year their families get together to celebrate the two's birthday/deathday. But when Rohan''A Pocketful s little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queen, they must journey to the Otherland, a magical realm full of Crowsfairies, vampires, dragons, and Gods. It'' is clearly aimed at s going to be the younger readers as witness worst night of their lives.|isbn=1788000463}}{{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and the use Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the middle initial in lock to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the authorMerge, Archie now has ''grop''s name to differentiate from her adult offersthink about. Ignore But before that if you have loved anything from , soirees. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez's amusement, doesn'Chocolat'' onwards you will t even know that Harris is mistress what one of the modern fairy tale. This those is no different. It is But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an utter delightuncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this series. |isbn=1473222184B093J9TF73

|author=Ele FountainMaisie Chan|title=LostDanny Chung Does Not Do Maths

|summary=Lola lives in an Indian city with her fatherDanny is eleven years old, and her brotherwhat he really, Amitreally loves to do is draw. She lives with them in a nice apartmentHe creates fantastical comics, and although they are not rich like some of whilst his best friend Ravi adds the girls at school, they have enough money to be comfortablewords. Lola spends her time thinking about her school friendsDanny's dad, however, and trying wants Danny to fit in with themconcentrate on his maths, until one dayand forget about the drawing, suddenlybecause he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, everything where he can draw in secret and in her life changespeace. After taking But then one day his parents tell him they have a work trip awaysurprise for him, Lola's father doesn't and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come home. They have nobody else over from China to helplive with them, and as they wait day after day, Lola wonders what who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will become also be sleeping on the top bunk of them untilhis bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, finally, they are evicted from their flatand Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and she and showing her brother find themselves forced to live around the town. Poor Danny, stuck on the streetsa maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=178269255X180078001X

|author= Angela WoolfeDarren Shan|title= Roxy Archibald Lox and Jonesthe Forgotten Crypt: The Great Fairytale Cover-UpArchibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= After her father gets married for the umpteenth timeThe second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, Roxy Humperdinck is sent to live with her half-sister Gretel back in London in Rexopolis, capital city of the Kingdom world of Illustria. Gretel works as a toilet cleaner for the Ministry of SoupBorn. Why does a country like Illustria need an entire ministry dedicated It's not been easy, explaining to souphis foster parents where he's been, you ask? Well, after Roxy finds a secret passage in her bathroom or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and meets a snarky young woman known only as Joneshis other friends in the Merge, she soon finds out whybut Archie has done his best... Turns out, fairy tales are real, and the Ministry’s official job is to safeguard all knowledge of them and monitor the living fairy tales. Andwell, when an evil queen breaks out of a maximum-security prison except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and threatens to reinstate her reign of terror, Roxy and Jones hold the fate of the world except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in their young hands…so, no pressure then!Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.|isbn=1406391379B093H8DPQZ

|author=Judith EagleGianna Pollero and Sarah Horne|title=The Pear AffairMonster Doughnuts

|summary=Set in After their parents mysteriously disappeared, Grace and Danni have been left to run the family bakery. But Grace needs the 1960doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reason...even though she'sonly ten years old, this she is a mystery adventure storymonster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet tooth, all about and Grace uses a little girl called Nell and her quest number of methods to find her nannydefeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, Perrine (Pear) who left her very suddenly and then, after keeping in touch regularly by postor tricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, disappeared completely from her lifeultimately, leaving Nell bereftbe their demise. There's everything in this storyOne day, with underground tunnels as the playground of gangs of childrenthough, to travel and detective workGrace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who has a mystery mould infecting Parisian bakeries, mysterious figures following Nell aroundweakness for doughnuts but doesn't seem to explode as the other monsters do, and a set of truly dreadful parents!so things start to get very strange…|isbn=05713468551848129432

|author= Kirsty ApplebaumM G Leonard|title= TroofriendTwitch|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Are you tired of your child's classmates constantly being horrible 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 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-that of-the-art machines his time in school. But things are capable about to change for Twitch in all aspects of emulating his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the full range of human emotions without lyingrun, stealing or bullying. Theyand it're s possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide and that he knows like the perfect companion for any childback of his hand! Any mention that these androids are beginning to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours Can Twitch solve the mystery, and have absolutely no basis in reality…rightfind the missing millions?|isbn=17880034701406389374

|author= M G Leonard and Sam SedgmanHannah Peck|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefKate on the Case|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Harrison BeckMeet Kate, or Hal as he prefers to although I got the impression she'd rather be calleda Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and the author of our heroine's favourite possession, isn't exactly pleased when his parents send him off 'The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with his uncle Nata plucky father, that book, a travel writerand her talking mouse called Rupert, on she is all equipped to manage a long train journeyride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. Although However, this isn't any old train; this is the Highland Falcon, the royal a trainride with a difference, and this for on board is its last ever journey before it gets sent to a museum. A number of highgreedy-society figuresseeming harridan and her cat, including film stars, millionaires a thief – and aristocratstwo glowing eyes, will be on this train, so it is quite shining from the event on the social calendardarkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. However, when an expensive brooch is stolen, Hal realises that maybe this trip won It't be as boring as he previously thoughts definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist.. 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 of the line.|isbn=1529013062184812970X

|isbnauthor=1781129312Hayley Webster|title=Sequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)Luna Rae is Not Alone

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Sequin loved her Luna Rae has just moved house. Moving house is always tricky, but especially when you're ten years old, and you miss your old home, and you and your little sister have to start a new school but your mum seems to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with herbe out working all the time. It wasnThen there's your dad, who doesn't that mum wouldnseem like he's coping so well, and so there't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed s no one to get credit for what she did. Mum is a seamstress and she makes the sort take care of clothes that things but you see on red carpets or at important weddings. She's not the designer - they're the people who make Everything feels different, and strange, and mysterious, and so Luna finds a lot way of money from the clothescoping is by watching. Mum is the person who actually ''makes'' the garments She turns detective, and starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhood, but it turns out she's really talented, but when people talk about not the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.only one keeping watch!|isbn=1788006046

|author= Hana TookeFrancesca Simon and Steve May|title= The UnadoptablesTwo Terrible Vikings|rating= 54|genre= Confident Emerging Readers|summary= In the winter of 1880a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, five babies who are abandoned at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdam, much eager to be the annoyance of matron Gasbeek. Twelve years latervery worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, Milouas they cause havoc at a birthday party, the last of the five babies to be abandoned back in that winter, struggles to work out the identity of her parents from the clues she was abandoned with: chaos whilst tracking a small coffin with claw-marks on the outsidetroll, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker and undertake a velvet blanket. She, along grand journey to raid Bad Island with the other four, patiently wait for Milou's parents their friends! They get up to come back all kinds of mischief and take her home. Howevernaughty behaviour, when the five children are sold to the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotman, they know they have to escape. And so begins the adventure of a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou along with her parentstheir wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, all the time being pursued by the Kinderbureau and Rotman…their crazy cast of friends.|isbn=02414174650571349498

|author=Rob HarrellDanny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=WinkThe Day the Screens Went Blank|rating=4.5

|summary=When Ross is diagnosed with Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying to have a rare form of cancerSunday evening in together, aged 12watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, his desperate attempts at school to just be mind – when ''poof'normal' become impossibleeverything goes blank. Suddenly he is And it's not just their home, but the cancer kidentire south-western village of Mousehole, and everything he doesnot just that, either, but the whole country, how he looksif not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen back, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of the other kids in schoolnot what they were constantly doing on them before. Ross isToasters can toast, understandablybut TVs cannot do the V part of their job, angryand no computer can show its computations. He You might think this is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a permanent winkLuddite experience against their will, but no. He has gloopy eye medicine to try to help with For the painfamily finally remember Stella's grandma, plus the need and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has to wear go down as a hat at all times to protect his face due to the ongoing treatmentroad-trip book. With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friendsBut not just that, and a series of horrible memes slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that someone at school creates about Ross, nothing about his life is normal any moretoo – for it's a slapstick, high-drama, and he has to find new ways to deal high-octane road-trip comedy with his feelings, and surviveoodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.|isbn=14714091471471196887