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|author=Carlie SorosiakMax Boucherat|title=My The Last Life as a Catof Lori Mills

|summary=This is We meet Lori on the story of an alien who has come down to spend some time on earth living as a human. Itfirst evening she's something that each member in got the alien collective is allowed house to herself – no neighbour to dopop in, babysitter poorly, for 1 monthmother at work, once they reach a certain agejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en routeWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and so something goes wrong with his arrival and he finds that instead of landing in Yellowstone Parkis to log on to Voxminer, ready to work as a park rangerthe world-building, he critter-collecting game that is instead a hit in the body of Lori's world. But first Lori has a cat tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the other side server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of the country! tampering. This is not what he had planned! Not only is he When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the wrong place and the wrong bodygame has been doctored – well, he where is also in the middle 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 Leonard.turn?|isbn=17880060890008666482

|author=Yara Evans Kieran Larwood and Luciana BettiJoe Todd-Stanton|title=The Adventures of an Urban FoxDungeon Runners: Maggie ArrivesHero Trial

|summary=Black Cat and Tabby Cat are minding their own business Meet Kit. Like most of the people in their own house when his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a very alarming thing happens. A creature team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century- a largeold, dog-like creature - appears in their house. Black Catmagical mazes, always one and race to take chargethe exit, challenges this fearsome creature perhaps bothering with all the courage treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he can muster. Tabby Cat backs him...'s seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a rather safe distanceteam. The creature is indignant What chance does this friendless, muscle-free- ''I'm not a dog. I'm a fox!''zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1511658649 1839945184

|author=Darren ShanJames Sherwood Metts|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment Planet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=This third Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and final book in the first volume other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of Darren Shan's other, new ''Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and Inez make , along with it almost , all the way to the Cuckoo's Nest, where the Vote of Alignment will be heldmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. But how will they get in?|isbn=B086LLWP4V1736128426

|isbnauthor=B086LLRZFHTom Percival|title=Archibald Lox and the Empress of SuanpanThe Wrong Shoes|author=Darren Shan|rating=4.5

|summary=ArchieWill's second foray into life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the Mergewrong shoes' opens with a fantastic vista. All of , he has the Bornwrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn's t have enough money for even the most famous buildings basic of things like food, and monuments - Big Ben, his dad can't work because he lost his job at the Taj Mahalcollege,  was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the Eiffel Tower - fact that his mum and dad are collected togetherseparated, joined by those clever Merge vines. But thereand Will's no time to waste life seems bleak in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help from Inez to every direction. And yet, he still has a venerable locksmith called Winstontiny amount of hope.Winston He is a darling but is afraid good at art, and clings to help - what the moments of joy when he is to be done? Despite yearning to go home and worry for his foster parentsdrawing, Archie feels an obligation to take Winston's place. And so Archie embarks on that feel like a light at the end of a newlong, and even more dangerous, adventure...dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbn=17765728581805141872|title=How Do You Make a Baby?The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, 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'' more, but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changed.}}{{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsRob Keeley

|summary=Time to catch you all up with some of my lockdown reading - I've been doing so much of it that I'm Seventeen banks and a bit late to jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the party with actual reviewing. Oopstruth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! And where better to start than with With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the new series from Bookbag favourite, Darren Shan?run. But Al needs them for one last job...''

Archie Goodness me, that Miss Judson is very down. He's lost a dear friend recently, in terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a tragic accident, and Archie blames himselfbad 'un like Al? We'll find out. He can't face school so he takes himself Luckily for a truanting wander around London. As he strolls across a footbridgeMiss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, he sees the son of a girl famous magician who is being pursued by has ambitions to be as good as his father some murderous-looking men in white suits. He watchesday, aghast. What and who thinks Miss Judson is going on?|isbn=B086LKBHD6worth saving

|author=Antony WoottenChristopher Edge|title=Season of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Black Hole Cinema Club

|summary= Tannash Lucas and her brother Geb his friends are waiting all booked in great excitement for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the hunting party led by their uncle to returnnickname of 'The Black Hole'. They All big movie fans, they're hoping for a feast looking forward to lots of mammoth meat. Geb longs for the day he can join his uncle Gagba exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the other warriors on a hunting party movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and take part in their deeds of derring-dothey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But their father, as they lurch from one film genre to the leader of the villagenext, thinks that can they also need an education; that knowledge figure out what on earth is power.going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=19392696791839942738}}

|author=Tania UnsworthAdam Stower|title=The Time Traveller Murray and the TigerBun

|summary=Elsie Eli is a busy lad – by day an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlookedapprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and forgottenin the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. She Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is quiet, and compliant, and makes a generation missing in the best of whatever happens to herfamily. So when her A few short years ago, Eli's parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free were both lost to take care of herthe titular race, they a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a week. Poor Elsie, forgotten again, just decides to make navigate the world in the best company of thingsa magical beast. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boy, and he This has an enormous tiger rug on made the floor of one of race anathema to the rooms. When Elsie asks him about pair – but when a bad incident at the rug he seems unhappyeatery leads to a confession from gran, and he says he has Eli knows his only hope is to dare to keep it because enter what he was most hates, with the sole aim the one who shot prize of magic at the tiger when he was 12 years old, and he says it was end – the worst only 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 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 agopossibly save his gran.|isbn=17885417070571382231

|author=Natasha FarrantHelen Cooper|title=Voyage The Taming of the SparrowhawkCat|rating=3.5

|summary=Set in England in the aftermath of World War OneOnce again, mice are pitched against cat. In this is case, principally, we have Brie the story of two childrenmouse, Lotti up against Gorgonzola the cat – and Benin case you're seeing a connection, who have lost everyone they love, but don't want live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to let go of their last, tiny glimpses be the names of hopecheeses. Ben Anyway, Brie is living on a narrowboat on the canalshunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, lying to for the police about way his brotherhabits don's imminent return from t match the battlefields to take care of himother mice he lives with. Lotti, meanwhile, has been expelled They nibble up paper wrapping from school the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and is back at home; makes stories based on the visuals on it's a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship for. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals a dog!) is the beginning of a deepAnd that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and powerful friendshipcast out. It sees them become each other's family, and undertake a perilous trip almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to France, keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the boatmouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to try to find out half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the truth of story have the people they both love.successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=05713487690571376010

|author=Joanne M HarrisLauren St John|title=A Pocketful of CrowsFinding Wonder|rating=54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= I have always been of the mind that once youRoo're above picture-book level and before you get to graphic sex & violence, there is no difference between books for children and books for adultss life has become almost impossibly difficult. There are good books Her mum died when she was young, and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful of Crows'' is clearly aimed at now she finds herself awoken in the younger readers as witness the use middle of the middle initial in night by the author's name police banging on her door to differentiate from tell her that her adult offersdad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. Ignore that if you have loved anything from 'When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn'Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress t think very highly of the modern fairy tale. This is But she has no differentone else, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. It is an utter delight.Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=14732221840571376169

|author=Ele FountainAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=LostOscar's Lion|rating=4.53

|summary=Lola lives in an Indian city We start incredibly bluntly, with her Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, and her brother, Amitbut mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be ready for school. She lives with them in But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is a nice apartmentmahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and although they admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are not rich like some of the girls at school, they have enough money benefits to having a lion around – it can be comfortableshown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. Lola spends her time thinking about her And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school friends, and trying to fit in with them, until one day, suddenly, everything in her life changesit can get him out of a problem. After taking a work trip away, LolaAnd it's father doesn't come home. They wonderful to have nobody else to helparound the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, and as they wait day after day, Lola wonders what will become of them until, finally, they are evicted from their flatbeing much more lax about the rules, and she and her brother find themselves forced to live so on the streets. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=178269255X0008596751

|author= Angela WoolfeJudith Eagle|title= Roxy and Jones: The Great Fairytale Cover-UpStolen Songbird|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= After Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her father gets married for the umpteenth timerecent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, Roxy Humperdinck is sent having to live with go up North to take care of her half-sister Gretel in Rexopolis, capital city of the Kingdom of Illustriawho is unwell. Gretel works as a toilet cleaner for the Ministry of Soup. Why does a country like Illustria need an entire ministry dedicated So who is going to soup, you asklook after Caro? Well Sent to stay with Gam, after Roxy finds a secret passage in someone Caro has heard her bathroom mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and meets worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a snarky young woman known only as Joneshalt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, she soon finds out why. Turns outalong with an orphan boy, fairy tales are realAlbie, and the Ministry’s official job who is to safeguard all knowledge of them and monitor the living fairy talesthere too. And But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, when an evil queen breaks out as she discovers a painting of a maximum-security prison and threatens to reinstate bird hidden away inside her reign of terrormum's old suitcase, Roxy and Jones hold all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the fate of painting somehow linked to the world gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in their young hands…so, no pressure then!the mystery too?|isbn=14063913790571363148

|author=Judith EagleTania Unsworth|title=The Pear AffairNowhere Island

|summary=Set in the 1960'sMeet Gil. Just twelve, this he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a mystery adventure storyhome for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, all about a little girl called Nell and her quest lets it ride him to find her nanny, Perrine (Pear) who left her very suddenly and then, after keeping in touch regularly by post, disappeared completely from her life, leaving Nell berefthis future. There's everything That future seems to be in this story, jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with underground tunnels as his brother in a camp on an island between the playground two directions of gangs of childrena motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to travel provide for their safety and detective workseclusion. Them, and a mute girl also finding a mystery mould infecting Parisian bakerieshome there, mysterious figures following Nell aroundalbeit so much more successfully. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, and a set of truly dreadful parents!or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=05713468551804540080

|author= Kirsty ApplebaumHelen Peters|title= TroofriendFriends and Traitors|rating= 4.53|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Are you tired of your child's classmates constantly being horrible England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to them? Do you want your child to have some positive experiences with people? Introducing be in service all her life it seems, like the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These statefemale generations before her. The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-oftoity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the-art machines Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are capable received under cover of emulating the full range secrecy, talk is made of human emotions without lyingmeetings with Germans, and not only that, stealing or bullyinga local Spitfire factory has been attacked. They're But surely the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids girls are beginning to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours wrong, and have absolutely no basis in reality…rightthe upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=17880034701788004647

|author= M G Leonard and Sam SedgmanJamie Littler|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefArkspire|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Harrison BeckTwo sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, or Hal as he prefers are growing to be called, isn't exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a travel writer, on a long train journeychalk and cheese. Although, this isn't any old train; this Juniper is the Highland Falconan eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the royal train, and this Badlands. Elodie is its last ever journey before it gets sent intent on getting closer to a museum. A number power in one of the religious districts of high-society figuresArkspire, including film stars, millionaires and aristocrats, will be on this train, so it is quite perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the event on power of the social calendar. However, when an expensive brooch is stolenWatcher, Hal realises that maybe this trip won't be as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin closest to turn on each othera ruler the district has, Hal vows to get to the bottom and one of the mystery…before five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the train gets to magic that only five people can use would definitely change the end status of the linewhole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=15290130620241586143

|isbn=1781129312024162343X|title=Sequin and StitchStolen History|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)Sathnam Sanghera

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Sequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she I was the bad company other people got very cross with herinto at school. It wasnI was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 't that mum wouldngod't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - . Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was because she never pushed to get credit for what she didprobably worse still. Mum is a seamstress and she makes Not too long after the sort end of clothes that you see WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on red carpets or at important weddings. Shethose) in what came to be called 's not the designer - theycolonies're as want to dispute what right the people who make a lot of money from army had to be there in the clothesfirst place. Mum is Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the person who actually maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'makesd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History' the garments and she's really talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.

|author= Hana TookeThiago de Moraes|title= The UnadoptablesOld Gods New Tricks|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the winter school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of 1880nuisance. But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, five babies are abandoned at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdamworld changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, much to the annoyance even of matron Gasbeek. Twelve years later, Milouelectric cars, hits not just the last of town the five babies to be abandoned back school's in that winter, struggles to work out but the identity of her parents entire planet (apart from the clues she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks on the outsidemobile phones, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker and a velvet blanket. She, along with all that powers the other fourInternet, patiently wait just for Milouour convenience's parents to come back and take her homesake). However Trixie, luckily, when realises what has happened – the five children are sold to ancient Gods have taken the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotman, they know they have to escapepower of power from us. And so she begins the adventure of a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou with her parentsepic quest, to gather all the time being pursued by people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the Kinderbureau semi-deities, giants, half-gods and Rotman…so on known as the tricksters.|isbn=0241417465178845295X

|author=Rob HarrellHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=WinkFinding Bear

|summary=When Ross is diagnosed [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a rare form of cancer, aged 12, his desperate attempts at school to just be 'normal' become impossiblepolar bear – that she called Bear. Suddenly he is Back home, things on the cancer kid, domestic and everything he doesfamily front are a bit advanced, how he looksbut not perfect for her, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the other kids in schoolislands Bear was last left on. Ross is, understandably, angry. He is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed in For a permanent winkbear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. He has gloopy eye medicine Desperate to try to help with the painmake sure he's OK, plus the need to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due she and her father return to the ongoing treatment. With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friends, Arctic and hope that in a series world of horrible memes that someone at school creates about Ross, nothing about his life is normal any morevery white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and he has to find new ways to deal with his feelings, dangerous thing – and survivethat the friendship can continue.|isbn=14714091470008582017

|author=Alastair ChisholmSimon Fox|title=Orion LostDeadlock

|summary= Thirteen-year-old Beth Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and her parents board the transport ship Orion ready for then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a new life secret place, and join him on Eos Fivethe run. Their new home is still being terra-formed and life there isn't going to be easy They get together, but it ''barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is'' going arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to be a fresh start. As Beth's mum puts itBrighton, ''There's toting a future waiting for us. A chance tin his father was determined to make our own decisionskeep away from his colleagues, create our own livesand the bearer of a whole heap of questions.''|isbn= 17880059291839944420

|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)Cath Howe|title=Orphans of the TideMy Life on Fire

|summary= In the last city on EarthRen's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, anyone can be the vessel or any of The Enemy her special little knick- knacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the god who drowned the world - who has come foods they normally eat. When she goes back to wreak havoc on school she discovers that the last of humanity. When class are doing a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse special art project, creating boxes of a whaletheir lives, the citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, display things that are important to them and show who they are as a girl inventorperson. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares But Ren has nothing to put in a box, and so she finds herself starting to execute the boysteal things. Small things, Ellie must prove things that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepestpeople might not really miss, darkest secrets..not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=02413844351839942835

|author= Holly RiversRob Keeley|title= Demelza The Boy Who Disappeared and the Spectre DetectorsOther Stories|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Demelza Clock Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a scientist, often staying up late to work on her various gadgets, much return to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. However, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the ability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Under the guidance of her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to master her newfound skills. Howevereleven new tales, there is a mysterious individual on the prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's up each as fun to Demelza and her best friend Percy to get to the bottom of this..read as his previous offerings.|isbn=1912626039B0BVW69N1G

|author=Tanya LandmanLaura Noakes|title=Jane Eyre: Cosima Unfortunate Steals a RetellingStar|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in the outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059}}{{Frontpage|author=Alice M Ross|title=The Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the ability to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, is the answer, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769}}{{Frontpage|author=Natasha Farrant|title=The Rescue of Ravenwood

|summary=A young womanThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about herin the North of England, where Bea and years in Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a dreary schoolcomplex, moves into Thornfield Hall extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with only one jobhis mum, to tutor and they are living together as a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absentfamily. When he does turn They have grown up he seems to be darkswimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, brooding completely at one with all of the nature around the house and troubled – but thatloving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's nothing compared to the darker, becoming more broody and even more troubling secret in the houseexpensive to maintain. YesThe children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you donthey'tll even be together, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn toand if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|isbn=17811291260571348785

|author=Innosanto NagaraRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=M is for MovementSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Set Jayden's nose is forever in Indonesiaa book, in which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the not too distant pastworld, this for example. Aisha is a story about social changeaddicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. Dealing with some difficult issuesThe problem, such as political corruption and nepotismtheir mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the book is neither boring nor preachyoutside world of Hackney, London. It educates gentlyBut when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, with vibrant, challenging illustrationseducational purpose, and it portrays how social movements need people who will trywith a past involving Jayden's cousin, even when it seems that they will failfind a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The message is crew of the boat, including a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain worldliving gargoyle, we do still are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the power magical sight needed to instigate changejoin in. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=16098093510241573483

|isbnauthor=1401286208Nigel Baines|title=Black Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGeeA Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=34.5|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Meet Dinah LanceCooper loves to perform magic tricks. Frustrated that her policeman His father will not allow her to try and follow in his footstepswas a magician, and seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, she is desperate to find her voicenamed Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But itsadly Cooper's actually more a case of her voice finding herfather died suddenly, as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it a weaponand now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or a powerhow to be. But in order for her And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to call herself a superherohim, there has to be a whole path of steps for her to take – one of which will be into her past…he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|isbn=1444960261