Changes

|author=Emma Carroll and Kaja KajfezLouie Stowell|title=The Ghost GardenLoki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good

|summary=FranMeet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the gardenerother gods have decided there's daughter at 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 posh country house, is worriedmiddle-school kid here on Earth. SheHe's just cracked her garden fork through quite guarded by a grim discovery - giant and a large bonegod in disguise as his parents, buried under and Thor has come along as well, to be the potatoes. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leosuave, the older child more popular and more successful brother of the housetwo. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation, breaking and get his leg while playing cricket on moral compass pointing the lawn. She is due right way again, or else, and to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems prove it he has to foretell a surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around write the grounds text we read in his bathchaira sentient notebook, she might have reason that is able to be out cry foul of her mind with fearhis lies, when she learns what and judge his progress. But Loki is the kind of god who insists he is seeking - can do anything, so surviving a long-forgotten burial chamber. But surely that won't act as bit more virtuously for a premonition month is going to anything - not here be a walk in the sultry, summery days of 1914park...right?|isbn=17811290021406399752

|author=Rob WintersLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=His Name Was WrenThe Mermaid in the Millpond|rating=4.5

|summary=In September 1944 something came down There is no mermaid in Oban Woods, near the village of Hurstwickmillpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. It came down hardNeither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, taking who have had their entire childhoods sold to the spire of mill-owners by the village church with it, destroying London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a stone shackhand-to-mouth, and leaving every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a wide trail through the wood, but no trace bit of what it actually was. German secret weapon was a kindred spirit in the local gossipslight little Dot, but there should have been an explosion and a craterdespite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, and there were neither might be a glimmer of those thingscompanionship in the tired-out mill workers.But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=B08KGVNVNB180090049X

|author=Alex WheatleChristopher Edge|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeEscape Room|rating=2.53

|summary=We meet Welton Blake at I've seen junior variants of the worst of times 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – only they should be the best of times. He should be getting process by which a text from the most bae-worthy girl character or characters start by being trapped in school a specific location, and have to solve problems in regards order to get their way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a cinema dateprose book describing people in such an adventure, but his phone has packed upwith the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, he's chundered last night's meal Ami and his breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in responsefour other tweenagers, all new to each other and booked into the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. On game without any of their friends, are a bigger scale heteam – starting out at the game's living with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yesmain offices, things are so bad where they're resorting to having cabbage told they and their quest for dinnerThe Answer are a world-changer. I know, right? But surely this is just could watching people engage with such a blippastime, a day at school to forgetdespite the ramped-up threat levels, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out change much in the wash? This can't be the start world of a most nightmarish time for young Weltonliterature?|isbn=17811294951788007964

|author= Katharine OrtonLucy Hope|title= GlassheartFledgling|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decades, and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since now looking imperiously down on the Blitz claimed the lives of her familyvillage and woods below. NowIt's an eccentric house, in to host eccentrics, so the aftermath of library shelving system is not as we'd know it, the warroof is retractable, they travel all over the countrythere is a steam-powered, replacing stainedhand-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombsoperated lift system cut through it, and so on. Their latest job takes them out to At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the wilds long-standing family hobby of Dartmoortaxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, where Nona discovers that her world is full of ancient and powerful magic. She also discovers that a mysterious entitythe dying grandma to our heroine, known only as The SoldierCassie, is hella young lass who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-bent on using Nonalike abode. Oh but it's innate magic for his own endsalso going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and will not stop until he has her…wonderful thing, think again...|isbn=1406385239183994188X

|author=Rob KeeleyKate DiCamillo and Sophie Blackall|title=The Treasure in the TowerBeatryce Prophecy|rating=45

|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! ''Stories have joy and surprises in them'', we are told here. And none more so than in this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic with the freshness and the agelessness it has in equal proportion. We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read start with a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace and lots group of actionmonks, an easy to read stylethe Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalriesthe demonic goat that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on and always biting the poor Brothers. Things change drastically when the beast takes a good dollop of naughty humourtotally maternal approach to a homeless girl, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. They're all present hereElsewhere sits a King in his castle, in ''The Treasure in desperate to find the Tower''. The chance purchase of girl, for it is prophesied that a book during a school trip sparks young child can unseat the whole adventurethrone and cause great change. Who can follow foretold that revolution but the clues best and find Order of the treasureChronicles of Sorrowing? Jess But how can a simple, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to cheatanyone?|isbn=18004613211529500893}}

|isbnauthor=1849767009Greg James and Chris Smith|title=It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie HaineThe Great Dream Robbery

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=This could have been one of those books which Maya'preaches to the choir': the only people s father is a professor who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wrong, and the ones who ''know'now he can' t wake up. Or at least, that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-what Maya has been told. In a rather strange dream one night Maya makes a new friend, and-bothered person in discovers that the supermarket who is coughing fit only way to bustsave her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and reality collide.. But.really.. Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. Itand there's a celebration of bodies: bodies large everything from llamas and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In factbananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, they're wonderful.to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051X

|author=Onjali Q RaufKeith Gray|title=The Night Bus HeroClimbers|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Sully is the best tree climber in the village. He has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach'. 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 not only that, that his chance to name the final, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?|isbn=1781129991}}{{Frontpage|author=Nick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=Locked Out Lily

|summary=Hector Lily is a bully. Egged on by his two 'friends', he takes other children's sweetsor was, harasses and threatensor has been, plays pranks at schoolvery ill, and gets into trouble at every turnto give her parents relief she's been told to stay with her grandma for a few days. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isnThe parents need the relief as Lily't his fault, but then he isn't believed as everyone expects him s baby sibling is just about to be telling liesborn – a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do with. Nothing seems fair. His But on tracking back home for word of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parents are barely home, and seem to only care about his perfect sister and his annoying little brother when they arethe babe-in-arms, and his teachers have abandoned him as a lost causealready installed. So what happens when, in trying These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to tell get the truth & fight to be believedfamily back intact, Hector finds himself embroiled with even if it's not the police; first trying family Lily wants – and all she has to accusehelp her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and then trying to save a homeless man from his local park?Snake.|isbn=15101067741471194833

|author=Carlie SorosiakPhilip Reeve|title=My Life as Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a Catword, 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. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Foulkes|title=Rules for Vampires

|summary=This Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) is the story of an alien who has come down to spend some time on earth living as a humanVampire. It's something that each member in She drinks blood, she sleeps during the alien collective is allowed day, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to dotravel around, for 1 month, once they reach a certain agealthough not all of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en routeNow, and so something goes wrong with his arrival and he finds that instead on the night of landing in Yellowstone Parkher hundredth birthnight, ready she has to work as a park rangergo out and hunt her first human. However, he is instead in she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worse, the body ghosts of a cat on one of the orphans and the other side evil master of the country! This is orphanage come back to haunt her. So, not what he had planned! Not only is he in does Leo have to team up with the wrong place and friendly ghost Minna to stop the wrong body, he is also in ghost of the middle of a storm, stuck in a tree! And so Orphanmaster before he meets Olivebecomes unstoppably powerful, the little girl who rows out in a boat she has to rescue himdo it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, and who names him Leonard.there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=1788006089147119955X

|author=Yara Evans and Luciana BettiAngharad Walker|title=The Adventures of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesAsh House|rating=45|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Black Cat and Tabby Cat are minding their own business in their own house when a very alarming thing happens. A creature - a large, dog-like creature - appears in their housenew boy arrives at The Ash House. Black CatHe doesn't know his name, always one or why he is there but he is used to take chargethe system, challenges this fearsome creature with all the courage he can musterused to different places and different faces. Tabby Cat backs He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach himthe 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 Doctor. from a rather safe distance. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever and The creature is indignant - ''I'm not a dogAsh House will never be the same again. I'm a fox!''|isbn=1511658649 1912626977

|author=Darren ShanEmma Carroll|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment The Week at World's End

|summary=This third and final book First, the title. We're in the first volume of Darren ShanWorld's new ''Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie End Close, a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and Inez make it almost all with the way to boy over the Cuckooroad. But we could also be at World's NestEnd, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, where and not much else is able to make the Vote news. That said, Vie has news of Alignment will be heldher own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Close, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leave, and implied her life was at risk. But how will they get insurely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=B086LLWP4V0571364438

|isbnauthor=B086LLRZFHIan Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=Archibald Lox and the Empress of SuanpanMonster Hunting For Beginners|author=Darren Shan|rating=4.5

|summary=ArchieMeet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's second foray into a slight boy, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. That'the Merges because Jack' opens with a fantastic vistas mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened to her – she died. All Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point of the Bornview, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's most famous buildings and monuments - Big Benfather also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the Taj Mahalogre's death,  the Eiffel Tower a dwarfish wizard- are collected togethertype will make him an apprentice monster hunter, joined by those clever Merge vinesand he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. But thereThe book's no time to waste in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help from Inez to a venerable locksmith called Winston.Winston is a darling but is afraid to help - what is to be donename? Despite yearning to go home and worry ''Monster Hunting for his foster parents, Archie feels an obligation to take WinstonBeginners''s place. And so Archie embarks on a new, and even more dangerous, adventure....|isbn=0755501942

|isbnauthor=1776572858Lisa Thompson|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)The Small Things

|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=ItAlthough Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. Her family don's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed t have enough money to let her do after school activities, and told me that so she'd get me a book about itfeels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. A couple of days later I was handed When a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the basicsnew girl, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) Ellie, is unwell and I was told that it wouldnso can't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''attend school in person. I ''knew'' moreInstead, but was little ''wiser''she joins in with the class by using a robot. ThankfullyCan Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through a robot, times have changed.and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649

|author=Darren ShanAlex Cotter|title=Archibald Lox and The House on the Bridge Between WorldsEdge|rating=4.5

|summary=Time to catch you all up with some of my lockdown reading - IFaith've been doing so much s family home is teetering on the edge of it a cliff, literally. Is that I'm crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a bit late to little? And as the party with actual reviewing. Oops! And where better house seems to start than with the new series from Bookbag favouritebe falling apart, Darren Shan? Archie so is very down. HeFaith's lost a dear friend recentlyfamily. Her dad has disappeared, and her mum is struggling to cope, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in a tragic accidentcharge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah to school, and Archie blames himselfavoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. He canIs 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't face school so s happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he takes himself 'll come back if she manages to get funding for a truanting wander around London. As he strolls across a footbridgethe house? She carries the weight of all these worries on her constantly, he sees a girl who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suits. He watchesand she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, aghastor how long she can keep on keeping on. What is going on?|isbn=B086LKBHD61788008626

|author=Antony WoottenKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Season of Julia and the Mammoth (BigShorts)Shark

|summary= Tannash Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and her brother Geb are waiting their cat from the family home in great excitement for the hunting party led by their uncle SW England to return. They're hoping be lighthousekeepers for a feast of mammoth meat. Geb longs for the day he can join his uncle Gagba and the other warriors on a hunting party and take part summer, in their deeds of derring-do. But their father, the leader far NE of the villageScottish islands. Here be Vikings, thinks that they also need an education; that knowledge is power.|isbn=1939269679}} {{Frontpage|author=Tania Unsworth|title=The Time Traveller and the Tiger|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort kind of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlooked, and forgottenScottish island. She Dad is quiet, and compliant, and makes going to be automating the best of whatever happens to her. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free to take care of herlantern, they have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a week. Poor Elsiewhich is his specialist thing, forgotten again, just decides to make the best of things. On investigating the house she finds that while mum will be leaving her Great Uncle had lived career in India as a boy, and he has an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one of algae behind to hunt the roomselusive Greenland shark. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappyAnd Julia, and he says he has to keep it because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years oldwell, she will be homesick and he says it was the worst thing he ever did. So when Elsie alone – until she 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 agocompany one night.|isbn=17885417071510107789

|author=Natasha FarrantLouie Stowell|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkOtherland

|summary=Set in England in the aftermath of World War One, this Myra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is the story of two childrenloud, Lotti bright and Benhates rules, who have lost everyone they lovewhile Rohan is very polite, but donserious and worries about the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer't want to let go of their last, tiny glimpses of hopes day. Ben is living on a narrowboat on the canalAnd so, lying every year their families get together to celebrate the police about his brothertwo's imminent return from the battlefields to take care of himbirthday/deathday. Lotti, meanwhile, has been expelled from school and is back at home; itBut when Rohan's a beautiful house that belongs little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queen, they must journey to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship for. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals Otherland, a dog!) is the beginning magical realm full of a deepfairies, vampires, dragons, and powerful friendshipGods. It sees them become each other's family, and undertake a perilous trip going to France, in the boat, to try to find out be the truth worst night of the people they both lovetheir lives.|isbn=05713487691788000463

|author=Joanne M HarrisDarren Shan|title=A Pocketful Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of Crows3|rating=4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= I have always been of So. Having done the mind that once you're above picture-book level impossible and before you get unpicked the lock to graphic sex & violencethe Forgotten Crypt, there is no difference between books for children and books for adults. There are good books and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has ''A Pocketful of Crowsgrop'' is clearly aimed at the younger readers as witness the use of the middle initial in the author's name to differentiate from her adult 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 a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be the winter of 1880very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, five babies are abandoned as they cause havoc at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdama birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a troll, much and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to the annoyance all kinds of matron Gasbeek. Twelve years latermischief and naughty behaviour, Miloualong with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, the last and their crazy cast of friends.|isbn=0571349498}}{{Frontpage|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=The Day the five babies Screens Went Blank|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying to be abandoned back have a Sunday evening in that wintertogether, struggles watching a film – using three different screens to work out watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their home, but the identity entire south-western village of her parents from the clues she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks on the outsideMousehole, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker and a velvet blanket. Shenot just that, either, along with but the other fourwhole country, patiently wait for Milouif not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they's parents re first to come get a screen back , and take her homenot what they were constantly doing on them before. However Toasters can toast, when but TVs cannot do the five children are sold V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but no. For the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotmanfamily finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if they know they have can get across country to escapeher. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And so begins the adventure of more than that, too – for it's a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with her parents, oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all the time being pursued by the Kinderbureau and Rotman…ages will love.|isbn=02414174651471196887