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|author=Darren ShanLouie Stowell|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten CryptLoki: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3A Bad God's Guide to Being Good
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Loki. The second trilogy in Shantrickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in London exile and in the world physical form of the Borna middle-school kid here on Earth. ItHe's not been easyguarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, to be the more suave, explaining more popular and more successful brother of the two. Loki has a month to redeem his foster parents where he's beenreputation, and get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez else, and to prove it he has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul of his other friends in the Mergelies, but Archie has done and judge his bestprogress.... wellBut Loki is the kind of god who insists he can do anything, except so surviving a bit more virtuously for visiting veteran locksmith Winston a month is going to be a walk in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awaythe park...right?|isbn=B093H8DPQZ1406399752
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|author=Gianna Pollero Lucy Strange and Sarah HornePam Smy|title=Monster DoughnutsThe Mermaid in the Millpond
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappearedThere is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, Grace and Danni who have been left had their entire childhoods sold to run the family bakerymill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. But Grace needs the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a rather unusual reasonhand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existence...even though she's only ten years old, she is But despite herself Bess does find a monster hunter! Monsters have bit of a very sweet toothkindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and Grace uses a number of methods despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on themharm, or tricking them into eating there might be a sweet treat glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that will, ultimately, be their demise. One day, though, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who has a weakness for doughnuts but doesn't seem to explode as mean there is any truth in the existence of the other monsters do, and so things start to get very strange…mermaid?|isbn=1848129432180090049X
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|author=M G LeonardChristopher Edge|title=TwitchEscape Room|rating=53
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Twitch is 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 boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at homespecific location, and chickens, and even has swallows nesting have to solve problems in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared order to get their way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that of his time would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in schoolsuch an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. But things are about Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to change for Twitch in all aspects each other and booked into the game without any of his life as there is their friends, are a dangerous bank robber on team – starting out at the run, and itgame's possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Woodmain offices, the place where Twitch has his secret hide they're told they and that he knows like the back of his hand! Can Twitch solve their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the mysteryramped-up threat levels, and find change much in the missing millionsworld of literature?|isbn=14063893741788007964
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|author=Hannah PeckLucy Hope|title=Kate on the CaseFledgling|rating=34.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet KateBavaria, although I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that1900. For Catherine Rodriguez Our scene is Kate's idola most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decades, and now looking imperiously down on the author of our heroinevillage and woods below. It's favourite possessionan eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as we''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky fatherd know it, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupertthe roof is retractable, she there is all equipped to manage a train ride to the Arcticsteam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, to see her scientist mother for and so on. At the first time in yonks. However, this is a train ride moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a difference, passion for on board is a greedythe long-seeming harridan and her catstanding family hobby of taxidermy, a thief – woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and two glowing eyessing opera loudly, shining from and the darkness in dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a blinkyoung lass who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-and-youlike abode. Oh but it'll-miss-them style. Its also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's definitely bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a case for heavenly arrival is going to be a new young investigative journalistcompletely great and wonderful thing, think again...|isbn=184812970X183994188X
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|author=Hayley WebsterKate DiCamillo and Sophie Blackall|title=Luna Rae is Not AloneThe Beatryce Prophecy
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Luna Rae has just moved house. Moving house is always tricky, but especially when you're ten years old, 'Stories have joy and you miss your old homesurprises in them'', and you and your little sister have to start a new school but your mum seems to be out working all the timewe are told here. Then there's your dad, who doesn't seem like he's coping And none more so wellthan in this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic with the freshness and so there's no one to take care the agelessness it has in equal proportion. We start with a group of things but you. Everything feels differentmonks, and strangethe Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, and mysteriousthe demonic goat that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on and so Luna finds biting the poor Brothers. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a way of coping is by watchinghomeless girl, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. She turns detectiveElsewhere sits a King in his castle, and starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhooddesperate to find the girl, but for it turns out she's not is prophesied that a young child can unseat the only one keeping watch!|isbn=1788006046}}{{Frontpage|author=Francesca Simon throne and Steve May|title=Two Terrible Vikings|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be cause great change. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the very worst Vikings ever! Chronicles of Sorrowing? Nothing But how can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a birthday partysimple, chaos whilst tracking amnesiac lass ever prove a troll, and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up threat to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and their crazy cast of friends.anyone?|isbn=05713494981529500893
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|author=Danny Wallace Greg James and Gemma CorrellChris Smith|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankGreat Dream Robbery
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Stella and her family. TheyMaya're just innocently trying to have s father is a Sunday evening in togetherprofessor who invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wrong, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when 'and now he can'poof'' everything goes blankt wake up. And itOr at least, that's not just their home, but the entire south-western village of Mousehole, and not just that, either, but the whole country, if not worldwhat Maya has been told. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get In a rather strange dream one night Maya makes a screen backnew friend, and not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do discovers that the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this is going only way to save her dad may be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but noby being asleep. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and see if they can get across country to herreality collide...really. 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 itand there's a slapstickeverything from llamas and bananas, highdream machines made from hairdresser cast-dramaoffs, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=1471196887024147051X
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|author=Hannah GoldKeith Gray|title=The Last BearClimbers|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=AprilSully is the best tree climber in the village. He has what's father, known amongst the kids as 'reach'. But what happens when a scientistnew kid shows up in town? A new kid, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear IslandNottingham, and he accepts who clambers up some of the job deciding to take hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his daughter April with him. They live alone anywaystatus is being threatened, since April's mother died some time beforeand not only that, and he feels it will be educational for her that his chance to experience name the island and all its natural beauty. April already has an affinity with naturefinal, and she's excited unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to travel with her fatherconquer it, thinking of all the fun things they will might be able to experience together on the islandsnatched from his hands. But when they get thereHow can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much or maybe even all of his timefriends, and so April is left 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 a glimpse of one, and do so she sets out to find the Bear, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend and help him.?|isbn=000841128X1781129991
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|author=Emma Carroll Nick Lake and Kaja KajfezEmily Gravett|title=The Ghost GardenLocked Out Lily
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=FranLily is, or was, or has been, very ill, the gardenerand to give her parents relief she's daughter at been told to stay with her grandma for a posh country house, is worriedfew days. SheThe parents need the relief as Lily's baby sibling is just cracked her garden fork through quite about to be born – a grim discovery - a large bone, buried under the potatoeschild 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's even more worried when can sleep) she learns that that event coincided with Leofinds stony-eyed simulacra of her parents, and the older child of the housebabe-in-arms, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawnalready installed. She is due These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the family back intact, even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around if it's not the grounds in his bathchair, family Lily wants – and all she might have reason has to be out of help her mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. But surely that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the sultrytask are some talking animals – Crow, summery days of 1914?Mole, Mouse and Snake.|isbn=17811290021471194833
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|author=Rob WintersPhilip Reeve|title=His Name Was WrenUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In September 1944 something came down a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in Oban Woodsthis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, near British but way west, beyond the village of HurstwickScillies. It came down hard, taking the spire of the village church with There are troll people on it, destroying a stone shackand sea-witches, and leaving a wide trail through legends of the woodDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, but where no trace ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of what it actually was. German secret weapon was activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local gossipyokel superstitions, but there should have been an explosion and a craterAndrewe'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 there were neither his curious ward are thrust into the world of those thingsprotecting their island, like it or not.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB1788452372
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|author=Alex WheatleFoulkes|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeRules for Vampires|rating=24.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We meet Welton Blake at Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) is a Vampire. She drinks blood, she sleeps during the worst day, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of times – only they should be the best bats to travel around, although not all of timesthem remember to come back). He should be getting a text from Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema datenight of her hundredth birthnight, but his phone she has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal to go out and his breakfast over another girl in classhunt her first human. However, who's duffed him instead she ends up in responsekilling two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worse, the ghosts of one of the orphans and the wanna-bae seems evil master of the orphanage come back to actually be with someone else anywayhaunt her. On a bigger scale he's living So, not only does Leo have to team up with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the picture – yesOrphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, things are so bad they're resorting she has to having cabbage for dinnerdo it all while hiding it from her family. Did I know, rightmention vampires and ghosts hate each other? But surely this is just a blipYeah, a day at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This canthere't be the start of s a most nightmarish time reason why there are rules for young Welton?vampires…|isbn=1781129495147119955X
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|author= Katharine OrtonAngharad Walker|title= GlassheartThe Ash House|rating= 45
|genre= Confident Readers
|summary= Nona and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since the Blitz claimed the lives of her familyA new boy arrives at The Ash House. NowHe doesn't know his name, in or why he is there but he is used to the aftermath of the warsystem, they travel all over the country, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombsused to different places and different faces. Their latest job takes them He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him the wilds rules of Dartmoor, where Nona discovers that her world is full The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of ancient Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and powerful magic. She also discovers that a mysterious entitycomplete their chores, known only working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Soldier, Ash House. But soon their easy peace is hell-bent on using Nona's innate magic for his own endsshattered by the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will not stop until he has her…never be the same again.|isbn=14063852391912626977
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|author=Rob KeeleyEmma Carroll|title=The Treasure in the TowerWeek at World's End
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|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 actionFirst, an easy to read style, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalries, and always a good dollop of naughty humourthe title. TheyWe're all present here, in World''The Treasure in the Tower''. The chance purchase s End Close, a mediocre set of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventure. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jesshouses, where Stevie (Vie to her brother Mason friends) finds fun only with the family dog and 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 Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': boy over the only people whoroad. But we could also be at World'll buy it are s End, because something taking a great chunk of the people who know that nudity fun away is OK and the ones who ''know'' fact that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and-bothered person in the supermarket who not much else is coughing fit able to bustmake the news. ButThat said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than Anna has, in no short time, taken a book about not wearing clothes. Itstrong interest in the American airforce base behind the Close, said she's a celebration of bodies: bodies large d locate something she wanted and small leave, failed to leave, and implied her life was at risk. But surely this bit of every possible hue. Bodies intrigue has got nothing to do with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438
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|author=Onjali Q RaufIan Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=The Night Bus HeroMonster Hunting For Beginners
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Hector is a bullyMeet Jack. Egged on by his two 'friends'Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he takes other children's sweetsa slight boy, harasses and threatens, plays pranks at school, although he wants for danger and peril and gets into trouble at every turninteresting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isnThat's because Jack't his faults mother knew all about monsters, but then he isn't believed as everyone expects him and look what happened to be telling liesher – she died. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely homeLuckily or unluckily then, and seem to only care about his perfect sister and his annoying little brother when they aredepending on your point of view, and a giant ogre will threaten his teachers have abandoned him as a lost cause. So what happens aunt whenJack's father also goes AWOL, in trying to tell Jack will fluke the truth & fight to be believedogre's death, Hector finds himself embroiled with the police; first trying to accusea dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and then trying he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to save a homeless man from his local parkknow about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name?''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=15101067740755501942
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|author=Carlie SorosiakLisa Thompson|title=My Life as a CatThe Small Things|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This is the story of an alien who Although Anna has come down to spend some time on earth living as a humanfriends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. ItHer family don's something that each member in the alien collective is allowed t have enough money to let her do, for 1 month, once they reach a certain age. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en routeafter school activities, and so something goes wrong with his arrival and he finds that instead of landing she feels like her life at home is boring in Yellowstone Park, ready comparison to work as theirs. When a park rangernew girl joins her class, he Anna is instead in asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the body of a cat on the other side of the country! This new girl, Ellie, is not what he had planned! Not only is he unwell and so can't attend school in the wrong place and the wrong bodyperson. Instead, he is also she joins in with the middle class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through a stormrobot, stuck in and is she even interesting enough to be a tree! And so he meets Olive, the little girl who rows out in a boat good friend to rescue him, and who names him Leonard.Ellie?|isbn=17880060891781129649
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|author=Yara Evans and Luciana BettiAlex Cotter|title=The Adventures of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesHouse on the Edge
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Black Cat and Tabby Cat are minding their own business Faith's family home is teetering on the edge of a cliff, literally. Is that crack in their own the garden getting bigger? Is the house when starting to slope a very alarming thing happenslittle? And as the house seems to be falling apart, so is Faith's family. A creature - a largeHer dad has disappeared, and her mum is struggling to cope, dog-like creature - appears barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in their house. Black Catcharge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, always one getting Noah to take chargeschool, challenges this fearsome creature and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with all what he claims is a ghost in the cellar? What should she do about the courage he can muster. Tabby Cat backs him.... from house? Can she find a rather safe distance. The creature is indignant - way to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'Ill come back if she manages to get funding for the house? She carries the weight of all these worries on her constantly, and she doesn'm not a dogt know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping on. I'm a fox!''|isbn=1511658649 1788008626
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|author=Darren ShanKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Archibald Lox Julia and the Vote of Alignment Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This third Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and final book their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the first volume far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Darren ShanScottish 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|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Myra 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 new day. And so, every year their families get together to celebrate the two's birthday/deathday. But when Rohan'Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie and Inez make it almost all s little sister Shilpa is taken by the way fairy queen, they must journey to the CuckooOtherland, a magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragons, and Gods. It's Nest, where going to be the Vote worst night of Alignment will be heldtheir lives. But how will they get in?|isbn=B086LLWP4V1788000463
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|isbnauthor=B086LLRZFHDarren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and the Empress Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of Suanpan3|author=Darren Shan|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Archie's second foray into 'the Merge' opens with a fantastic vistaSo. All of Having done the Born's most famous buildings impossible and monuments - Big Benunpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Taj Mahal, Departed communicate with the Eiffel Tower - are collected togetherMerge, joined by those clever Merge vines. But thereArchie now has ''grop''s no time to waste in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help from Inez to a venerable locksmith called Winstonthink about.Winston is a darling but is afraid to help - what is to be done? Despite yearning to go home and worry for his foster parentsBut before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie feels an obligation , much to take WinstonInez's placeamusement, doesn't even know what one of those is. And so Archie embarks on a newBut he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed, and even more dangerousafter an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, adventure...whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this series. |isbn=B093J9TF73
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|isbnauthor=1776572858Maisie Chan|title=How Danny Chung Does Not Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)Maths|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=It's more than sixty Danny is eleven years since I asked how babies were madeold, and what he really, really loves to do is draw. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. My mother was deeply embarrassed Danny's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and told me that she'd get me forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make a book about it. living from drawing! A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basicsAt least Danny has his own room, where he can draw in clinical language which had never been used secret and in our house before) peace. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, and I was told that it wouldnthis 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't s bedroom but she will also be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. sleeping on the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! I ''knew'' moreHis Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, but was little ''wiser''and showing her around the town. ThankfullyPoor Danny, stuck on a maths project, times have changedfrustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X
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|author=Darren Shan
|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsForgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in the world of the Born. It's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where he's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his best.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ}}{{Frontpage|author=Gianna Pollero and Sarah Horne|title=Monster Doughnuts
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Time to catch you all up with some of my lockdown reading - I've After their parents mysteriously disappeared, Grace and Danni have been doing so much of it that I'm a bit late left to run the party with actual reviewingfamily bakery. Oops! And where better to start than with But Grace needs the new series from Bookbag favourite, Darren Shan? Archie is very downdoughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reason... Heeven though she's lost only ten years old, she is a monster hunter! Monsters have a dear friend recentlyvery sweet tooth, in and Grace uses a tragic accidentnumber of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, and Archie blames himself. He can't face school so he takes himself for or tricking them into eating a truanting wander around Londonsweet treat that will, ultimately, be their demise. As he strolls across One day, though, Grace finds herself facing a footbridgecyclops monster called Mr Harris, he sees who has a girl who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suits. He watchesweakness for doughnuts but doesn't seem to explode as the other monsters do, aghast. What is going on?and so things start to get very strange…|isbn=B086LKBHD61848129432
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|author=Antony WoottenM G Leonard|title=Season of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Twitch|rating=45
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Tannash Twitch is a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at home, and her brother Geb are waiting chickens, and even has swallows nesting in great excitement for the hunting party led by their uncle his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to returnthat of his time in school. They're hoping But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there is a feast of mammoth meat. Geb longs for dangerous bank robber on the day he can join his uncle Gagba run, and it's possible that the other warriors on a hunting party and take part missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in their deeds of derring-do. But their fatherAves Wood, the leader place where Twitch has his secret hide and that he knows like the back of his hand! Can Twitch solve the villagemystery, thinks that they also need an education; that knowledge is power.and find the missing millions?|isbn=19392696791406389374}}
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|author=Tania UnsworthHannah Peck|title=The Time Traveller and Kate on the TigerCase|rating=43.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlookedMeet Kate, although I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and forgottenone specific Catherine at that. She For Catherine Rodriguez is quietKate's idol, and compliant, and makes the best author of whatever happens to herour heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. So when her parents forget Armed with a plucky father, that book, and her school holidays have started before they are free talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride to take care of herthe Arctic, they have to arrange for see her to go and stay with her Great Uncle scientist mother for a weekthe first time in yonks. Poor ElsieHowever, forgotten again, just decides to make the best of things. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India as this is a train ride with a boydifference, and he has an enormous tiger rug for on the floor of one of the rooms. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappy, board is a greedy-seeming harridan and he says he has to keep it because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years oldher cat, a thief – and he says it was the worst thing he ever did. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years oldtwo glowing eyes, she believes that she must try to stop him shining from killing the tiger, darkness in order to put something right that happened a long time agoblink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=1788541707184812970X
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|author=Natasha FarrantHayley Webster|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkLuna Rae is Not Alone
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Set in England in the aftermath of World War OneLuna Rae has just moved house. Moving house is always tricky, this is the story of two childrenbut especially when you're ten years old, Lotti and Benyou miss your old home, who and you and your little sister have lost everyone they love, to start a new school but don't want your mum seems to let go of their last, tiny glimpses of hopebe out working all the time. Ben is living on a narrowboat on the canalThen there's your dad, who doesn't seem like he's coping so well, lying to the police about his brotherand so there's imminent return from the battlefields no one to take care of himthings but you. LottiEverything feels different, and strange, meanwhileand mysterious, has been expelled from school and so Luna finds a way of coping is back at home; by watching. She turns detective, and starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhood, but itturns out she's not the only one keeping watch!|isbn=1788006046}}{{Frontpage|author=Francesca Simon and Steve May|title=Two Terrible Vikings|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=In a beautiful house that belongs small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship for. The day Lotti meets Ben (be the day she steals a dogvery worst Vikings ever!) is the beginning of Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a deepbirthday party, and powerful friendship. It sees them become each other's familychaos whilst tracking a troll, and undertake a perilous trip grand journey to Franceraid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, in the boatalong with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, to try to find out the truth and their crazy cast of the people they both lovefriends.|isbn=05713487690571349498
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|author=Joanne M HarrisDanny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=A Pocketful of CrowsThe Day the Screens Went Blank
|rating=5
|genre= Confident Readers|summary= I Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying to have always been a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their home, but the entire south-western village of Mousehole, and not just that, either, but the mind that once youwhole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're above picture-book level and before you first to get to graphic sex & violencea screen back, there is no difference between books for children and books for adultsnot what they were constantly doing on them before. There are good books Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and poor onesno computer can show its computations. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful of Crows'' You might think this is clearly aimed at the younger readers as witness the use of the middle initial going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but no. For the authorfamily finally remember Stella's name grandma, and see if they can get across country to differentiate from her adult offers. Ignore Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that if you have loved anything from , too – for it''Chocolat'' onwards you will know s a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that Harris is mistress kids of the modern fairy tale. This is no different. It is an utter delightall ages will love.|isbn=14732221841471196887
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