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|author=Hannah GoldLouie Stowell|title=The Last BearLoki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good

|summary=AprilMeet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there's father, only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a scientist, has been given month both in exile and in the physical form of a job middle-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by a remote island called Bear Island, giant and he accepts the job deciding to take a god in disguise as his daughter April with him. They live alone anywayparents, since April's mother died some time beforeand Thor has come along as well, and he feels it will to be educational for her to experience the island more suave, more popular and all its natural beautymore successful brother of the two. April already Loki has an affinity with naturea month to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and she's excited to travel with her father, thinking of all the fun things they will be able prove it he has to experience together on write the island. But when they get theretext we read in a sentient notebook, her father finds that is able to cry foul of his work monitoring lies, and recording judge his progress. But Loki is the temperatures just takes up too much kind of his timegod who insists he can do anything, and so April surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is left going to explore by herself. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches be a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find walk in the Bear, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend and help himpark...right?|isbn=000841128X1406399752

|author=Emma Carroll Lucy Strange and Kaja KajfezPam Smy|title=The Ghost GardenMermaid in the Millpond

|summary=Fran, There is no mermaid in the gardener's daughter millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a posh country housefriend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is worried. She's just cracked her garden fork through quite no time for friendship in a grim discovery hand-to- a large bonemouth, buried under the potatoesevery man for himself kind of existence. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, the older child despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the houseslight little Dot, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. She is due to get even more worried when she finds something else and despite everything that also seems life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to foretell a surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchairharm, she there might have reason to be out a glimmer of her mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking companionship in the tired- a long-forgotten burial chamberout mill workers. But surely that wondoesn't act as a premonition to anything - not here mean there is any truth in the sultry, summery days existence of 1914the mermaid?|isbn=1781129002180090049X

|author=Rob WintersChristopher Edge|title=His Name Was WrenEscape Room|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific location, and have to solve problems in 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 prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to each other and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at the game's main offices, where they're told 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Hope|title=Fledgling|rating=4.5

|summary=In September 1944 something came Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decades, and now looking imperiously down in Oban Woods, near on the village of Hurstwickand woods below. It came down hard's an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, taking so the spire of library shelving system is not as we'd know it, the village church with itroof is retractable, destroying there is a stone shacksteam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and leaving so on. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a wide trail through passion for the woodlong-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but no trace quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of what this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it actually was's also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. German secret weapon was the local gossip, but there should have been an explosion And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and a craterwonderful thing, and there were neither of those thingsthink again...|isbn=B08KGVNVNB183994188X

|author=Alex WheatleKate DiCamillo and Sophie Blackall|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeBeatryce Prophecy|rating=2.5

|summary=''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 meet Welton Blake at start with a group of monks, the worst Order of times – only they should be the best Chronicles of timesSorrowing, and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on and biting the poor Brothers. He should be getting Things change drastically when the beast takes a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards totally maternal approach to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another homeless girl in class, one who's duffed him up has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King in responsehis castle, and desperate to find the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. On girl, for it is prophesied that a bigger scale he's living with his mother young child can unseat the throne and not much income now cause great change. Who foretold that revolution but the dad has left Order of the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinner. I know, rightChronicles of Sorrowing? But surely this is just how can a blipsimple, amnesiac lass ever prove a day at school threat to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Weltonanyone?|isbn=17811294951529500893

|author= Katharine OrtonGreg James and Chris Smith|title= GlassheartThe Great Dream Robbery|rating= 45|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona Maya's father is a professor who invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wrong, and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since the Blitz claimed the lives of her familynow he can't wake up. NowOr at least, in the aftermath of the warthat's what Maya has been told. In a rather strange dream one night Maya makes a new friend, they travel all over and discovers that the country, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed only way to save her dad may be by bombsbeing asleep. Their latest job takes them out to the wilds of Dartmoor, Cue one madcap action adventure story where Nona discovers that her world is full of ancient dreams and powerful magicreality collide. She also discovers that a mysterious entity, known only as The Soldier..really...and there's everything from llamas and bananas, is helldream machines made from hairdresser cast-bent on using Nona's innate magic for his own endsoffs, and will not stop until he has her…to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=1406385239024147051X

|author=Rob KeeleyKeith Gray|title=The Treasure in the TowerClimbers

|summary= Rob Keeley Sully is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read the best tree climber in the village. He has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach'. But what happens when a new adventure from Rob - 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 stories combine fast pace status is being threatened, and lots of actionnot only that, an easy that his chance to read style, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalries, and always a good dollop of naughty humour. They're all present herename the final, in ''The Treasure unnamed big tree in the Tower''. The chance purchase of a book during a school trip sparks park by being the whole adventurefirst to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. Who How can follow the clues Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best and find the treasure? Jessfriend, or maybe even all of his friends, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheatdo so?|isbn=18004613211781129991}}

|isbnauthor=1849767009Nick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=It IsnLocked Out Lily|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lily is, or was, or has been, very ill, and to give her parents relief she't Rude s been told to stay with her grandma for a few days. The parents need the relief as Lily's 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 her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parents, and the babe-in-arms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to be Nudeousted to get the family back intact, even if it's not the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snake.|isbn=1471194833}}{{Frontpage|author=Rosie HainePhilip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=This could have been one In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of those books which 'preaches to riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the choir': the only Scillies. There are troll people who'll buy on it are , and sea-witches, and legends of the people who know Dark family that nudity is OK 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 ones Watcher, Andrewe, who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid has to keep notes of activity from the hot-and-bothered person Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in the supermarket who is coughing fit his head to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book worry about not wearing clothes. Itsuch local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's a celebration foundling daughter, who washed up out of bodies: bodies large and small 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 every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In factprotecting their island, they're wonderfullike it or not.|isbn=1788452372

|author=Onjali Q RaufAlex Foulkes|title=The Night Bus HeroRules for Vampires

|summary=Hector Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) is a bullyVampire. Egged She drinks blood, she sleeps during the day, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the night of her hundredth birthnight, she has to go out and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by his two 'friends'accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to 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 friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he takes becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other children? Yeah, there's sweets, harasses and threatens, plays pranks at school, and gets into trouble a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X}}{{Frontpage|author= Angharad Walker|title= The Ash House|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at every turnThe Ash House. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isnHe doesn't know his faultname, or why he is there but then he isn't believed as everyone expects 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 Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be telling liesthe same again. Nothing seems fair|isbn=1912626977}}{{Frontpage|author=Emma Carroll|title=The Week at World's End|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=First, the title. His parents are barely homeWe're in World's End Close, a mediocre set of houses, and seem where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only care about his perfect sister with the family dog and his annoying little brother when they with the boy over the road. But we could also be at World's End, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats aregetting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and his teachers have abandoned him as not much else is able to make the news. That said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, a lost causesecretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. So what happens whenAnna has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in trying to tell the truth & fight to be believedAmerican airforce base behind the Close, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, Hector finds himself embroiled with the police; first trying failed to accuseleave, and then trying implied her life was at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to save a homeless man from his local parkdo with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=15101067740571364438

|author=Carlie SorosiakIan Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=My Life as a CatMonster Hunting For Beginners

|summary=This is the story of an alien who has come down to spend some time on earth living as a humanMeet Jack. ItNow Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's something that each member in the alien collective is allowed to doa slight boy, and although he wants for 1 month, once they reach a certain age. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en route, danger and peril and so something goes wrong with interesting things his arrival and he finds that instead dad refuses to let him out of landing in Yellowstone Parkhis sight. That's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, ready and look what happened to work as a park rangerher – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, he is instead in the body of a cat depending on the other side your point of the country! This is not what he had planned! Not only is he in the wrong place and the wrong bodyview, he is a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also in goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the middle of a stormogre's death, stuck in a tree! And so he meets Olive, the little girl who rows out in a boat to rescue dwarfish wizard-type will make himan apprentice monster hunter, and who names he'll be given a book that tells him Leonardall he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=17880060890755501942

|author=Yara Evans and Luciana BettiLisa Thompson|title=The Adventures of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesSmall Things|rating=45

|summary=Black Cat and Tabby Cat are minding their own business Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in their own house when a very alarming thing happens. A creature - a largeHer family don't have enough money to let her do after school activities, dog-and so she feels like creature - appears her life at home is boring in their housecomparison to theirs. Black CatWhen a new girl joins her class, always one Anna is asked to take chargepartner her, challenges this fearsome creature with all but things are complicated because the courage he new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can muster't attend school in person. Tabby Cat backs himInstead, she joins in with the class by using a robot.... from Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through a rather safe distance. The creature robot, and is indignant - ''I'm not she even interesting enough to be a dog. I'm a fox!''good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1511658649 1781129649

|author=Darren ShanAlex Cotter|title=Archibald Lox and The House on the Vote of Alignment Edge

|summary=This third and final book Faith's family home is teetering on the edge of a cliff, literally. Is that crack in the first volume of Darren Shangarden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little? And as the house seems to be falling apart, so is Faith's new ''Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie 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 Inez make it almost all 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 the Cuckooraise enough money to fix it? What's Nesthappened 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 all these worries on her constantly, where and she doesn't know how much longer the Vote of Alignment cliff will be heldhold together, or how long she can keep on keeping on. But how will they get in?|isbn=B086LLWP4V1788008626

|isbnauthor=B086LLRZFHKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Archibald Lox Julia and the Empress of SuanpanShark|author=Darren Shan|rating=4.5

|summary=Archie's second foray into 'Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the Merge' opens with family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a fantastic vista. All of the Born's most famous buildings and monuments - Big Bensummer, in the Taj Mahal,  far NE of the Eiffel Tower - are collected togetherScottish islands. Here be Vikings, 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 Winstonthat kind of Scottish island.Winston is a darling but Dad is afraid going to help - what be automating the lantern, which is to be done? Despite yearning to go home and worry for his foster parentsspecialist thing, Archie feels an obligation while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to take Winston's placehunt the elusive Greenland shark. And so Archie embarks on a newJulia, well, she will be homesick and even more dangerous, adventure...alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789

|isbnauthor=1776572858Louie Stowell|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)Otherland

|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=ItMyra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loud, bright and hates rules, while Rohan is very polite, serious and worries about the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer's day. And so, every year their families get together to celebrate the two's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were madebirthday/deathday. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that sheBut when Rohan'd get me s little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queen, they must journey to the Otherland, a book about it. A couple magical realm full of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basicsfairies, vampires, dragons, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldnGods. It't s going to be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changedthe worst night of their lives.|isbn=1788000463

|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsSlides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3

|summary=Time So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to catch you all up the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with some of my lockdown reading - Ithe Merge, Archie now has ''grop've been doing so much of it that I'm a bit late to the party with actual reviewingthink about. But before that, soirees. OopsSoirees! And where better Archie, much to start than with the new series from Bookbag favourite, Darren Shan? Archie is very down. HeInez's lost a dear friend recentlyamusement, in a tragic accident, and Archie blames himself. He candoesn't face school so he takes himself for a truanting wander around Londoneven know what one of those is. As But he strolls across a footbridgemanages to come through the fancy party unscathed, he sees a girl who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in white suitsthe first volume of this series. He watches, aghast. What is going on? |isbn=B086LKBHD6B093J9TF73

|author=Antony WoottenMaisie Chan|title=Season of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths|rating=4.5

|summary= Tannash Danny is eleven years old, and her brother Geb are waiting in great excitement for what he really, really loves to do is draw. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the hunting party led by their uncle to returnwords. They Danny're hoping for a feast of mammoth meat. Geb longs for s dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about the day drawing, because he says nobody can join make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his uncle Gagba own room, where he can draw in secret and the other warriors on a hunting party and take part in their deeds of derring-dopeace. But their fatherthen one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, and this surprise turns out to 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 leader top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around the villagetown. Poor Danny, thinks that they also need an education; that knowledge is powerstuck on a 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=1939269679180078001X}}

|author=Tania UnsworthDarren Shan|title=The Time Traveller Archibald Lox and the TigerForgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3

|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlooked, and forgotten. She is quiet, and compliant, and makes 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 her, they have to arrange for her to go and stay second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with her Great Uncle for a week. Poor Elsieour hero, forgotten againArchie, just decides to make the best of things. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived back in London in India as a boy, and he has an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one world of the roomsBorn. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappyIt's not been easy, and he says he has explaining to keep it because his foster parents where he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years old's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and he says it was the worst thing he ever didhis other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his best.... So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back manywell, many years, to the time except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling with that she must try to stop him from killing the tiger, sneaky master lock in order to put something right that happened a long Seven Dials every time agohe can sneak away.|isbn=1788541707B093H8DPQZ

|author=Natasha FarrantGianna Pollero and Sarah Horne|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkMonster Doughnuts|rating=4.5

|summary=Set in England in the aftermath of World War OneAfter their parents mysteriously disappeared, this is the story of two children, Lotti Grace and Ben, who Danni have lost everyone they love, but don't want been left to let go of their last, tiny glimpses of hoperun the family bakery. Ben is living on But Grace needs the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a narrowboat on the canal, lying to the police about his brotherrather unusual reason...even though she's imminent return from the battlefields to take care of him. only ten years old, she is a monster hunter! LottiMonsters have a very sweet tooth, meanwhile, has been expelled from school and is back at home; it's Grace uses a beautiful house that belongs number of methods to her but defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, or tricking them into eating a sweet treat that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship forwill, ultimately, be their demise. The One day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals , though, Grace finds herself facing a dog!) is the beginning of cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who has a deep, and powerful friendship. It sees them become each otherweakness for doughnuts but doesn's family, and undertake a perilous trip t seem to France, in explode as the boatother monsters do, and so things start to try to find out the truth of the people they both love.get very strange…|isbn=05713487691848129432

|author=Joanne M HarrisG Leonard|title=A Pocketful of CrowsTwitch

|genre= Confident Readers|summary= I have always been of the mind that once you're above picture-book level Twitch is a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at home, and before you get to graphic sex & violencechickens, there is no difference between books for children and books for adults. even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! There are good books His time spent watching and poor oneshelping birds is easy compared to that of his time in school. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of Crows'' his life as there is clearly aimed at a dangerous bank robber on the younger readers as witness run, and it's possible that the use of the middle initial missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the author's name to differentiate from her adult offers. Ignore place where Twitch has his secret hide and that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress he knows like the back of his hand! Can Twitch solve the modern fairy tale. This is no different. It is an utter delight.mystery, and find the missing millions?|isbn=14732221841406389374

|author=Ele FountainHannah Peck|title=LostKate on the Case|rating=43.5

|summary=Lola lives in an Indian city with her fatherMeet Kate, although I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and her brotherthe author of our heroine's favourite possession, Amit''The Special Correspondent Manual''. She lives Armed with them in a nice apartmentplucky father, that book, and although they are not rich like some of her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride to the girls at schoolArctic, they have enough money to be comfortablesee her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. Lola spends her time thinking about her school friendsHowever, and trying to fit in this is a train ride with thema difference, until one dayfor on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, suddenlya thief – and two glowing eyes, everything shining from the darkness in her life changesa blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. After taking a work trip away, LolaIt's father doesn't come homedefinitely a case for a new young investigative journalist.. They have nobody else to help, and as they wait day after day, Lola wonders what will become of them until, finally, they are evicted from their flat, and she and her brother find themselves forced to live on the streets.|isbn=178269255X184812970X

|author= Angela WoolfeHayley Webster|title= Roxy and Jones: The Great Fairytale Cover-Up|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= After her father gets married for the umpteenth time, Roxy Humperdinck Luna Rae is sent to live with her half-sister Gretel in Rexopolis, capital city of the Kingdom of Illustria. Gretel works as a toilet cleaner for the Ministry of Soup. Why does a country like Illustria need an entire ministry dedicated to soup, you ask? Well, after Roxy finds a secret passage in her bathroom and meets a snarky young woman known only as Jones, she soon finds out why. 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. And, when an evil queen breaks out of a maximum-security prison and threatens to reinstate her reign of terror, Roxy and Jones hold the fate of the world in their young hands…so, no pressure then!|isbn=1406391379}}{{Frontpage|author=Judith Eagle|title=The Pear AffairNot Alone|rating=4.5

|summary=Set in the 1960Luna Rae has just moved house. Moving house is always tricky, but especially when you'sre ten years old, this is a mystery adventure storyand you miss your old home, all about and you and your little sister have to start a little girl called Nell and her quest new school but your mum seems to find her nannybe out working all the time. Then there's your dad, Perrine (Pear) who left her very suddenly doesn't seem like he's coping so well, and then, after keeping in touch regularly by post, disappeared completely from her life, leaving Nell bereft. Thereso there's everything in this story, with underground tunnels as the playground no one to take care of gangs of childrenthings but you. Everything feels different, to travel and detective work, a mystery mould infecting Parisian bakeriesstrange, and mysterious figures following Nell around, and so Luna finds a set way of truly dreadful parentscoping is by watching. She turns detective, and starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhood, but it turns out she's not the only one keeping watch!|isbn=05713468551788006046

|author= Kirsty ApplebaumFrancesca Simon and Steve May|title= TroofriendTwo Terrible Vikings|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Emerging Readers|summary= Are you tired of your child's classmates constantly being horrible to them? Do you want your child to have some positive experiences 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 lyingIn a small Viking village there live two twins, stealing or bullying. They're the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours Hack and have absolutely no basis in reality…right?|isbn=1788003470}} {{Frontpage|author= M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman|title= The Highland Falcon Thief|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Harrison BeckWhack, or Hal as he prefers who are eager to be called, isn't exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Natthe very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a travel writerbirthday party, on chaos whilst tracking a long train journey. Although, this isn't any old train; this is the Highland Falcon, the royal traintroll, and this is its last ever undertake a grand journey before it gets sent to a museum. A number raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to all kinds of highmischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-society figurescub Bitey-Bitey, including film stars, millionaires and aristocrats, will be on this train, so it is quite the event on the social calendar. However, when an expensive brooch is stolen, Hal realises 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 the bottom their crazy cast of the mystery…before the train gets to the end of the linefriends.|isbn=15290130620571349498

|isbnauthor=1781129312Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=Sequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)The Day the Screens Went Blank

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Sequin loved Meet Stella and her mum family. They're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to bitswatch three different things, but sometimes she got very cross with hermind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. It wasnAnd it't that mum wouldn't go outside s not just their flat home, but the entire south- Sequin coped with western village of Mousehole, and not just that - it was because she never pushed , either, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get credit for a screen back, and not what she didthey were constantly doing on them before. Mum is a seamstress and she makes Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the sort V part of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddingstheir job, and no computer can show its computations. She's not the designer - they're the You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people who make stuck in such a lot of money from the clothesLuddite experience against their will, but no. Mum is For the person who actually family finally remember Stella''makes'' the garments s grandma, and shesee 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's really talenteda slapstick, but when people talk about the dress or the suithigh-drama, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentionedhigh-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.|isbn=1471196887