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|author=Maisie ChanLouie Stowell|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsLoki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Danny is eleven years old, and what he really, really loves to do is drawMeet Loki. He creates fantastical comicsThe trickster god has got into trouble again, whilst his best friend Ravi adds so the words. Dannyother gods have decided there's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about the drawing, because only one thing for it – he says nobody can make must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw month both in secret exile and in peacethe physical form of a middle-school kid here on Earth. But then one day He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who Thor has come over from China along as well, to live with thembe the more suave, more popular and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on more successful brother of the top bunk of two. Loki has a month to redeem his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no Englishreputation, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitterget his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and showing her around to prove it he has to write the town. Poor Danny, stuck on text we read in a maths projectsentient notebook, frustrated with that is able to cry foul of his bedroom situationlies, and then judge his progress. But Loki is the kind of god who insists he even has can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be a falling out with Raviwalk in the park...how on earth will things ever get betterright?!|isbn=180078001X1406399752
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|author=Darren ShanLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=Archibald Lox and The Mermaid in the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Millpond
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The second trilogy There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our heroamongst all the other kids, Archiewho have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, back every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in London the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the world existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Escape Room|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I've seen junior variants of the Born'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. ItWhat I's ve not been easydone (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, explaining to his foster parents where he's beenwith the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, or slipping back into ordinary life Ami and forgetting about Inez four other tweenagers, all new to each other and his other booked into the game without any of their friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his best.... wellare a team – starting out at the game's main offices, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Benwhere they's clock tower re told they and except their quest for fiddling The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage with that sneaky master lock such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.the world of literature?|isbn=B093H8DPQZ1788007964
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|author=Gianna Pollero and Sarah HorneLucy Hope|title=Monster DoughnutsFledgling
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappearedBavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decades, Grace and Danni have been left to run now looking imperiously down on the family bakery. But Grace needs the doughnuts village and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reasonwoods below...even though sheIt's only ten years oldan eccentric house, to host eccentrics, she so the library shelving system is not as we'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is a monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet toothsteam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and Grace uses so on. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a number passion for the long-standing family hobby of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on themtaxidermy, or tricking them into eating a sweet treat that willwoman who does nothing but quibble, ultimatelykvetch and sing opera loudly, be their demise. One dayand the dying grandma to our heroine, thoughCassie, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, young lass who has a weakness for doughnuts to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but doesnit't seem s also going to explode as the other monsters dohouse 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 so things start to get very strange…wonderful thing, think again...|isbn=1848129432183994188X
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|author=M G LeonardKate DiCamillo and Sophie Blackall|title=TwitchThe Beatryce Prophecy
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Twitch is a boy who loves birds''Stories have joy and surprises in them'', we are told here. He keeps pigeons at homeAnd none more so than in this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic with the freshness and chickensthe agelessness it has in equal proportion. We start with a group of monks, the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on and helping birds is easy compared biting the poor Brothers. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl, one who has survived some trauma that of his time in schoolhas blocked her past from her memory. But things are about to change for Twitch Elsewhere sits a King in all aspects of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on castle, desperate to find the rungirl, and for it's possible is prophesied that a young child can unseat the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide throne and cause great change. Who foretold that he knows like revolution but the Order of the back Chronicles of his hand! Sorrowing? Can Twitch solve the mysteryBut how can a simple, and find the missing millionsamnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=14063893741529500893
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|author=Hannah PeckGreg James and Chris Smith|title=Kate on the CaseThe Great Dream Robbery|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression sheMaya'd rather be s father is a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at thatprofessor who invented an amazing dream machine. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolBut something went wrong, and the author of our heroinenow he can's favourite possessiont wake up. Or at least, that''The Special Correspondent Manual''s what Maya has been told. Armed with In a rather strange dream one night Maya makes a plucky fathernew friend, and discovers that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride to the Arctic, only way to see save her scientist mother for the first time in yonksdad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and reality collide...really... However, this is a train ride with a difference, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – there's everything from llamas and two glowing eyesbananas, shining dream machines made from the darkness in a blinkhairdresser cast-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely offs, to a case for a new young investigative journalist...talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=184812970X024147051X
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|author=Hayley WebsterKeith Gray|title=Luna Rae is Not AloneThe Climbers|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Luna Rae has just moved house. Moving house Sully 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 be out working all the timebest tree climber in the village. Then thereHe has what's your dad, who doesnknown amongst the kids as 't seem like hereach's coping so well. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, and so there's no one to take care who clambers up some of things but you. Everything feels differentthe hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, and strangenot only that, and mysteriousthat his chance to name the final, and so Luna finds a way of coping is unnamed big tree in the park by watchingbeing the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. She turns detectiveHow can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, and starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhoodor maybe even all of his friends, but it turns out she's not the only one keeping watch!to do so?|isbn=17880060461781129991
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|author=Francesca Simon Nick Lake and Steve MayEmily Gravett|title=Two Terrible VikingsLocked Out Lily|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=In a small Viking village there live two twinsLily is, or was, or has been, very ill, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be give her parents relief she's been told to stay with her grandma for a few days. The parents need the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, relief as they cause havoc at a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking Lily's baby sibling is just about to be born – a troll, child Lily swears she hates already and undertake a grand journey wants nothing to raid Bad Island do with their friends! They get up to all kinds . But on tracking back home for word of mischief her parents (and naughty behaviourher plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parents, along with their wolfand the babe-cub Biteyin-Biteyarms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted 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 their crazy cast of friendsSnake.|isbn=05713494981471194833
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|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellPhilip Reeve|title=The Day Utterly Dark and the Face of the Screens Went BlankDeep
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Stella and her familyIn a word, rich. They're just innocently trying to have There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a Sunday evening in togetherpeculiar island called Wildsea, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different thingsBritish but way west, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blankbeyond the Scillies. And There are troll people on it's not just their home, but the entire southand sea-western village of Mouseholewitches, and not just legends of the Dark family thathas to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, either, but the whole country, if not worldwhere no ship dare sail. Suddenly people The current Darks are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen backthe Watcher, and not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toastAndrewe, but TVs cannot do who has to keep notes of activity from the V part of their jobHidden Lands, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this is going his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to be a social comedy worry about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their willlocal yokel superstitions, but no. For the family finally remember Stellaand Andrewe's grandmafoundling daughter, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip bookwho washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But not just thatwhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than thatboth his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, too – for like it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will loveor not.|isbn=14711968871788452372
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|author=Hannah GoldAlex Foulkes|title=The Last BearRules for Vampires
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=AprilEleonore Von Motteberg (or 's father, a scientist, has been given Leo' for short) is a job on a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with himVampire. They live alone anywayShe drinks blood, since April's mother died some time before, and he feels it will be educational for her to experience she sleeps during the island and all its natural beauty. April already has an affinity with natureday, and she's excited can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel with her fatheraround, thinking although not all of all the fun things they will be able them remember to experience together on the islandcome back). Pretty cool stuff. But when they get thereNow, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording on the temperatures just takes up too much night of his timeher hundredth birthnight, she has to go out and so April is left to explore hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by herselfaccident and burning down an orphanage. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear IslandOops! And to make things worse, but the ghosts of one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of onethe orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her. So, and so she sets out not only does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to find stop the ghost of the BearOrphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, and then when she sees he is injured, has to befriend do it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and help him.ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=000841128X147119955X
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|author=Emma Carroll and Kaja KajfezAngharad Walker|title=The Ghost GardenAsh House|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Fran, the gardener's daughter A new boy arrives at a posh country house, is worriedThe Ash House. SheHe doesn's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a large bonet know his name, buried under or why he is there but he is used to the potatoessystem, used to different places and different faces. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him the older child rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the houseabsent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, breaking his leg while playing cricket on working as a hive in the lawnsmouldering shadows of The Ash House. She But soon their easy peace is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surpriseshattered by the arrival of the Doctor. Tasked with shoving Leo around By the grounds in his bathchairend of the story, she might have reason to lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamberthe same again. But surely that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?|isbn=17811290021912626977
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|author=Rob WintersEmma Carroll|title=His Name Was WrenThe Week at World's End
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In September 1944 something came down in Oban WoodsFirst, near the village of Hurstwicktitle. It came down hardWe're in World's End Close, taking the spire a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the village church family dog and with itthe boy over the road. But we could also be at World's End, destroying because something taking a stone shackgreat 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, and leaving a wide trail through not much else is able to make the woodnews. That said, but no trace Vie has news of what it actually washer own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. German secret weapon was Anna has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the local gossipClose, but there should have been an explosion said she'd locate something she wanted and a craterleave, failed to leave, and there were neither implied her life was at risk. But surely this bit of those things.intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=B08KGVNVNB0571364438
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|author=Alex WheatleIan Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeMonster Hunting For Beginners|rating=24.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of timesMeet Jack. He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed upNow Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's chundered last nighta slight boy, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. That's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, whobecause Jack's duffed him up in responsemother knew all about monsters, and the wanna-bae seems look what happened to actually be with someone else anywayher – she died. On Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point of view, a bigger scale hegiant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's living with his mother and not much income now that father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad theyogre're resorting to having cabbage for dinner. I knows death, right? But surely this is just a blipdwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a day at school book that tells him all he needs to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in know about the washperils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time 'Monster Hunting for young Welton?Beginners''...|isbn=17811294950755501942
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|author= Katharine OrtonLisa Thompson|title= GlassheartThe Small Things|rating= 45|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. Her family don't have enough money to let her do after school activities, and so she feels like her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since the Blitz claimed the lives of life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her family. Now, in but things are complicated because the aftermath of the warnew girl, Ellie, they travel all over the countryis unwell and so can't attend school in person. Instead, replacing stained-glass windows she joins in buildings destroyed with the class by bombsusing a robot. Their latest job takes them out to Can Anna overcome the wilds challenge of Dartmoormaking friends with someone through a robot, where Nona discovers that her world and is full of ancient and powerful magic. She also discovers that she even interesting enough to be a mysterious entity, known only as The Soldier, is hell-bent on using Nona's innate magic for his own ends, and will not stop until he has her…good friend to Ellie?|isbn=14063852391781129649
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|author=Rob KeeleyAlex Cotter|title=The Treasure in House on the TowerEdge
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Rob Keeley Faith's family home is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy teetering on the edge of a cliff, literally. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to read slope a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace and lots of action, an easy little? And as the house seems to read stylebe falling apart, an unerring eye for childrenso is Faith's friendships family. Her dad has disappeared, and rivalriesher mum is struggling to cope, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in charge, and always a good dollop taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of naughty humour. They're all present hereher mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah to school, in ''The Treasure in the Tower''and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. The chance purchase of Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims is a book during a school trip sparks ghost in the whole adventure. Who can follow cellar? What should she do about the clues best and house? Can she find the treasurea way to raise enough money to fix it? Jess, What's happened to her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistencedad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages to get funding for the house? Or spoiled brat Perdita with She carries the weight of all these worries on her money constantly, and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping on.|isbn=18004613211788008626}}
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|isbnauthor=1849767009Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie HaineJulia and the Shark|rating=54|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=This could have Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK packed off with her parents and their cat from the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person family home in the supermarket who is coughing fit SW England to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than be lighthousekeepers for a book about not wearing clothessummer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. It's a celebration Here be Vikings, that kind of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hueScottish island. Bodies with disabilities and markingsDad 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. They're fine. In factAnd Julia, well, they're wonderfulshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789
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|author=Onjali Q RaufLouie Stowell|title=The Night Bus HeroOtherland|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Hector Myra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is a bully. Egged on by his two 'friends'loud, he takes other children's sweets, harasses bright and threatenshates rules, plays pranks at schoolwhile Rohan is very polite, serious and worries about the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and gets into trouble briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer's day. And so, every turnyear their families get together to celebrate the two's birthday/deathday. Yet he finds himself frustrated But when something actually isnRohan't his faults little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queen, but then he isn't believed as everyone expects him they must journey to be telling lies. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely homethe Otherland, a magical realm full of fairies, vampires, and seem to only care about his perfect sister and his annoying little brother when they aredragons, and his teachers have abandoned him as a lost causeGods. So what happens when, in trying to tell the truth & fight It's going to be believed, Hector finds himself embroiled with the police; first trying to accuse, and then trying to save a homeless man from his local park?worst night of their lives.|isbn=15101067741788000463
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|author=Carlie SorosiakDarren Shan|title=My Life as a CatArchibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This is So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the story of an alien who Merge, Archie now has come down ''grop'' to spend some time on earth living as a humanthink about. It's something But before that each member in the alien collective is allowed to do, for 1 month, once they reach a certain agesoirees. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en route, and so something goes wrong with his arrival and he finds that instead of landing in Yellowstone ParkSoirees! Archie, ready much to work as a park rangerInez's amusement, he is instead in the body of a cat on the other side doesn't even know what one of the country! This those is not what . But he had planned! Not only is he in manages to come through the wrong place and the wrong bodyfancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, he is also whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the middle first volume of a storm, stuck in a tree! And so he meets Olive, the little girl who rows out in a boat to rescue him, and who names him Leonardthis series. |isbn=1788006089B093J9TF73
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|author=Yara Evans and Luciana BettiMaisie Chan|title=The Adventures of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesDanny Chung Does Not Do Maths|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Black Cat Danny is eleven years old, and Tabby Cat are minding their own business in their own house when a very alarming thing happenswhat he really, really loves to do is draw. A creature - a large He creates fantastical comics, dog-like creature - appears in their housewhilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. Black Cat Danny's dad, always one however, wants Danny to take chargeconcentrate on his maths, challenges this fearsome creature with all and forget about the courage drawing, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can musterdraw in secret and in peace. Tabby Cat backs But then one day his parents tell himthey 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 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 town. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi... from a rather safe distance. The creature is indignant - ''I'm not a dog. I'm a foxhow on earth will things ever get better?!''|isbn=1511658649 180078001X
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|author=Darren Shan
|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of Alignment 3|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This third and final book The second trilogy in the first volume of Darren Shan's new ''Archibald LoxMerge'' series sees saga opens with our hero, Archie and Inez make it almost all , back in London in the way to world of the CuckooBorn. It's Nestnot been easy, explaining to his foster parents where the Vote of Alignment will be heldhe'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.... But how will they get 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=B086LLWP4VB093H8DPQZ
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|isbnauthor=B086LLRZFHGianna Pollero and Sarah Horne|title=Archibald Lox and the Empress of SuanpanMonster Doughnuts|author=Darren Shan|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Archie's second foray into 'After their parents mysteriously disappeared, Grace and Danni have been left to run the family bakery. But Grace needs the Merge' opens with doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a fantastic vistarather unusual reason. All of the Born..even though she's most famous buildings only ten years old, she is a monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet tooth, and monuments - Big BenGrace uses a number of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, the Taj Mahalor tricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, the Eiffel Tower - are collected togetherultimately, joined by those clever Merge vinesbe their demise. But there's no time to waste in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help from Inez to One day, though, Grace finds herself facing a venerable locksmith cyclops monster called Winston.Winston is Mr Harris, who has a darling weakness for doughnuts but is afraid doesn't seem to help - what is to be done? Despite yearning to go home explode as the other monsters do, and worry for his foster parents, Archie feels an obligation so things start to take Winston's place. And so Archie embarks on a new, and even more dangerous, adventure....get very strange…|isbn=1848129432
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|isbnauthor=1776572858M G Leonard|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)Twitch
|rating=5
|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were madeTwitch is a boy who loves birds. My mother was deeply embarrassed He keeps pigeons at home, and chickens, and told me even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to that she'd get me a book about itof his time in school. A couple But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of days later I was handed his life as there is a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than dangerous bank robber on the basicsrun, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ''knew'' mores possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, but was little ''wiser''. the place where Twitch has his secret hide and that he knows like the back of his hand! ThankfullyCan Twitch solve the mystery, times have changed.and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374
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|author=Darren ShanHannah Peck|title=Archibald Lox and Kate on the Bridge Between WorldsCase|rating=43.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Time to catch you all up with some of my lockdown reading - Meet Kate, although Igot the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate've been doing so much s idol, and the author of it our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky father, that I'm book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a bit late train ride to the party with actual reviewingArctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. Oops! And where better to start than However, this is a train ride with the new series from Bookbag favouritea difference, Darren Shan? Archie for on board is very down. He's lost a dear friend recentlygreedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a tragic accident, blink-and Archie blames himself-you'll-miss-them style. He can It't face school so he takes himself s definitely a case for a truanting wander around Londonnew young investigative journalist. As he strolls across a footbridge, he sees a girl who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suits. He watches, aghast. What is going on?|isbn=B086LKBHD6184812970X
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|author=Antony WoottenHayley Webster|title=Season of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Luna Rae is Not Alone|rating=45
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Tannash and her brother Geb are waiting in great excitement for the hunting party led by their uncle to returnLuna Rae has just moved house. They Moving house is always tricky, but especially when you're hoping for ten years old, and you miss your old home, and you and your little sister have to start a feast of mammoth meatnew school but your mum seems to be out working all the time. Geb longs for the day Then there's your dad, who doesn't seem like he can join his uncle Gagba and the other warriors on a hunting party 's coping so well, and so there's no one to take part in their deeds care of derring-dothings but you. But their father Everything feels different, and strange, and mysterious, the leader and so Luna finds a way of the villagecoping is by watching. She turns detective, thinks that they also need and starts keeping an education; that knowledge is power.eye on her new neighbourhood, but it turns out she's not the only one keeping watch!|isbn=19392696791788006046}}
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|author=Tania UnsworthFrancesca Simon and Steve May|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerTwo Terrible Vikings|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of In a small girl who often gets overlookedViking village there live two twins, Hack and forgotten. She is quietWhack, and compliant, and makes who are eager to be the best of whatever happens to her. very worst Vikings ever! So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free to take care of herNothing can stop their mad marauding, as they have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for cause havoc at a week. Poor Elsie, forgotten againbirthday party, just decides to make the best of things. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India as chaos whilst tracking a boytroll, and he has an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one of the rooms. undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappy, and he says he has They get up to keep it because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years old, all kinds of mischief and he says it was the worst thing he ever did. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back manynaughty behaviour, many yearsalong with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, 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 agoand their crazy cast of friends.|isbn=17885417070571349498
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|author=Natasha FarrantDanny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=Voyage of The Day the SparrowhawkScreens Went Blank
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Set Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in England in the aftermath of World War Onetogether, 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, this is but the story entire south-western village of two childrenMousehole, Lotti and Bennot just that, who have lost everyone they loveeither, but donthe whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they't want re first to let go get a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their lastjob, tiny glimpses of hopeand no computer can show its computations. Ben You might think this is living on going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a narrowboat on the canalLuddite experience against their will, lying to but no. For the police about his brotherfamily finally remember Stella's imminent return from the battlefields grandma, and see if they can get across country to take care of himher. Lotti, meanwhile, Hence this has been expelled from school and is back at home; it's to go down as a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship forroad-trip book. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals But not just that, a dog!) is the beginning of a deep, and powerful friendshipslapstick road-trip comedy. It sees them become each otherAnd more than that, too – for it's family, and undertake a perilous trip to Franceslapstick, in the boathigh-drama, to try to find out the truth high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of the people they both all ages will love.|isbn=05713487691471196887
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