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|author=Rob WintersMax Boucherat|title=His Name Was WrenThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=In September 1944 something came down Meet Kit. Like most of the people in Oban Woodshis world, it seems, near he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the village sport where a team of Hurstwickwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. It came down hardUnfortunately for Kit, taking the spire only thing he's seen of the village church with itlatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, destroying a stone shackeaten, and leaving a wide trail through new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the wood, but no trace token bully of what it actually washis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. German secret weapon was the local gossipWhat chance does this friendless, but there should muscle-free-zone have been an explosion and a craterin actually managing that, and there were neither of those things.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=B08KGVNVNB1839945184

|author=Alex WheatleJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakePlanet Storyland|rating=24.5

|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be Things have been a bit sticky for the best of timesEarthlings. 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 up, he's chundered last night's meal AI and his breakfast over another girl in classautomation have been proceeding apace, whooften replacing jobs they's duffed him up in response, re paid to do and the wanna-bae seems other tasks that took time to actually be with someone else anywayaccomplish. On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad Just as they're resorting were beginning to get used to having cabbage for dinner. I know, right? But surely all this is just a bliptechnological change and starting to think of other, a day at school new ways to forgetspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and everything (like his vomit) will , along with it, all come out in the wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=17811294951736128426

|author= Katharine OrtonTom Percival|title= GlassheartThe Wrong Shoes|rating= 45|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since the Blitz claimed the lives Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of her familyways. Now He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', in he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the aftermath most basic of the warthings like food, they travel all over and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the countrycollege, replacing stainedwas working a cash-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombs-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Their latest job takes them out to Throw into that mix the wilds of Dartmoorfact that his mum and dad are separated, where Nona discovers that her world is full of ancient and powerful magicWill's life seems bleak in every direction. She also discovers that And yet, he still has a mysterious entity, known only as The Soldier, tiny amount of hope. He is hell-bent on using Nona's innate magic for his own endsgood at art, and will not stop until clings to the moments of joy when he has her…is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=14063852391398527122

|titlerating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The Treasure in police are baffled, but only Ben knows the Towertruth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job...'' Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club

|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers Lucas and his friends are always happy to read all booked in for a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace and lots of actionmovie marathon at their local cinema, an easy to read style, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalries, and always a good dollop place that has the nickname of naughty humour. They're all present here, in ''The Treasure in the TowerBlack Hole'. All big movie fans, they'. The chance purchase re looking forward to lots of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventure. Who can follow the clues best exciting films, and find many, many snacks! However, as the treasure? Jessmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, her brother Mason 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 Isnthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=5|even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre=For Sharing|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity next, can they figure out what on earth is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like going on? Will they avoid ever get back to the hot-cinema, and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Onjali Q RaufAdam Stower|title=The Night Bus HeroMurray and Bun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Hector Murray is supposed to be a bully. Egged on by his two 'friends'humble, he takes other children's sweetstidy and friendly cat, harasses one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and threatens, plays pranks at schoolwell, and gets into trouble at every turnwhatever takes his fancy next of the two. Yet But he finds himself frustrated when something actually isn't his fault, but then he isns a bad magician't believed as everyone expects him to be telling lies. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely homes cat, and seem to only care about so his perfect sister favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and his annoying little brother when the catflap they areboth use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and his teachers have abandoned him as a lost causewhiffs. So what happens whenThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, in trying to tell the truth & fight to be believed, Hector finds himself embroiled with the police; first trying to accusehonest, but he's turned up and then trying he'll have to save a homeless man from his local park?do…|isbn=15101067740008561249

|author=Carlie SorosiakAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=My Life as a CatThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5

|summary=This Eli is the story of a busy lad – by day an alien who has come down to spend some time on earth living as a human. It's something that each member apprentice in the alien collective is allowed to dowondrous library we start by visiting with him, for 1 month, once they reach and in the evening a certain agehelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en route, and so something goes wrong Eli lives with his arrival and he finds that instead of landing lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in Yellowstone Parkthe family. A few short years ago, ready Eli's parents were both lost to work as the titular race, a park ranger, he is instead globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the body company of a cat on the other side of the country! magical beast. This is not what he had planned! Not only is he in has made the wrong place and race anathema to the wrong body, he is also in pair – but when a bad incident at the middle of eatery leads to a stormconfession from gran, stuck in a tree! And so Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he meets Olivemost hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the little girl who rows out in a boat only thing to rescue him, and who names him Leonardpossibly save his gran.|isbn=17880060890571382231

|author=Yara Evans and Luciana BettiHelen Cooper|title=The Adventures Taming of an Urban Fox: Maggie Arrivesthe Cat|rating=43.5

|summary=Black Cat Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and Tabby Cat are minding their own business in their own house when case you're seeing a very alarming thing happens. A creature - a largeconnection, dog-like creature - appears they live in their housea cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. Black Cat Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, always one to take chargeif you must, mous-tracised, challenges this fearsome creature for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with all . They nibble up paper wrapping from the courage cheese for bedding – he can muster. Tabby Cat backs him..displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from a rather safe distancefable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. The creature is indignant This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to half- ''I'm not a doginch some cheese while the cat was distracted. I'm a fox!'' But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=1511658649 0571376010

|author=Darren ShanLauren St John|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment Finding Wonder

|summary=This third Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and final book now she finds herself awoken in the first volume middle of Darren Shan's new ''Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie and Inez make it almost all the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the Cuckoocorner shop to buy a lottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn's Nest, where the Vote t think very highly of Alignment will be held. But how will they she has no one else, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. 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=B086LLWP4V0571376169

|isbnauthor=B086LLRZFHAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Archibald Lox and the Empress of SuanpanOscar's Lion|author=Darren Shan|rating=4.53

|summary=Archie's second foray into 'the Merge' opens We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a fantastic vistacouple of times before he has to be ready for school. All of the Born But when he enters his parents's most famous buildings and monuments - Big Benbedroom, the Taj Mahalall he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed,  the Eiffel Tower - are collected togetherlooking sheepish, joined by those clever Merge vinesand admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there's no time are benefits to waste in admiration: Archie is carrying having a lion around – it can be shown as an urgent cry for help from Inez unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a venerable locksmith called Winstonbirthday party for Oscar the other month.Winston is a darling but is afraid to help - what is to be done? Despite yearning And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to go home school and worry for his foster parents, Archie feels an obligation to take Winstonit can get him out of a problem. And it's place. And so Archie embarks on a newwonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, and even being much more dangerouslax about the rules, adventure..and so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=0008596751

|isbnauthor=1776572858Judith Eagle|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)The Stolen Songbird|rating=54|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=ItCaro's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were mademother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. My Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother was deeply embarrassed despises, she feels frustrated and told me that confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst sheis stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady'd get me a book about its house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. A couple But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) Snakes are thieving artworks and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice terrorising people talked about''. I Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro''knew'' more, but was little ''wiser''. s mother? Thankfully, times have changed.Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=0571363148

|author=Darren ShanTania Unsworth|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsNowhere Island

|summary=Time Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to catch you all up with some of my lockdown reading - I've been doing so much of it escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that I'm are not homes – and find a bit late home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him to the party with actual reviewinghis future. Oops! And where better That future seems to start than be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the new series from Bookbag favourite, Darren Shan? Archie is very down. He's lost two directions of a dear friend recentlymotorway, in a tragic accident, place inaccessible and Archie blames himself. He can't face school so he takes himself definitely ignored enough to provide for a truanting wander around Londontheir safety and seclusion. As he strolls across a footbridge Them, he sees and a mute girl who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suitsalso finding a home there, albeit so much more successfully. He watches Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, aghast. What or if this is going on?one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=B086LKBHD61804540080

|author=Antony WoottenHelen Peters|title=Season of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Friends and Traitors|rating=43

|summary= Tannash and her brother Geb England, WW2. Two young girls are waiting new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in great excitement for service all her life it seems, like the hunting party led by their uncle to returnfemale generations before her. They're hoping for The other is Sidney, a girl from a feast of mammoth meathoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. Geb longs for the day he can join his uncle Gagba The girls are chalk and cheese, and the if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other warriors on a hunting party and take part in over their deeds of derring-dofirst encounters would only prove it so. But their fathersomething is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the leader Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of the villagesecrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, thinks and not only that they also need an education; that knowledge is power, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=19392696791788004647}}

|author=Tania UnsworthJamie Littler|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerArkspire|rating=4.5

|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlookedTwo sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and forgottencheese. She Juniper is quiet, an eager hunter and complianttrader in illicit magic, and makes including relics from prior major wars left out in the best of whatever happens to herBadlands. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free Elodie is intent on getting closer to take care power in one of the religious districts of herArkspire, they have perhaps even to arrange for her become the child in line to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a week. Poor Elsie, forgotten again, just decides to make inherit the best power of things. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India as Watcher, the closest to a boyruler the district has, and he has an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one of the roomsfive major victors in said earlier war. When Elsie asks him about Being trained in the rug he seems unhappy, and he says he has to keep it because he was magic that only five people can use would definitely change the one who shot status of the tiger when he was 12 years old, and he says it was the worst thing he ever didwhole family. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many yearsBut in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to the time in India when gain some power of her Great Uncle was 12 years oldown – for good, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tigeror for very, in order to put something right that happened a long time ago.very bad…|isbn=17885417070241586143

|authorisbn=Natasha Farrant024162343X|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=Set in England in the aftermath of World War OneMeet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, this is larks and adventures involving flooding the story of two childrenschool aircon with fart powder, Lotti and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but don't want to let go she could almost be thought a young goddess of their last, tiny glimpses of hopenuisance. Ben is living on a narrowboat on the canal, lying to the police about his brotherBut just when she's imminent return from being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the battlefields to take care of himworld changes. LottiSuddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, meanwhileeven of electric cars, has been expelled from hits not just the town the school and is back at home; it's a beautiful house that belongs to her in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship powers the Internet, just forour convenience's sake). The day Lotti meets Ben (Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the day she steals a dog!) is ancient Gods have taken the beginning power of a deep, and powerful friendshippower from us. It sees them become each other's familyAnd so she begins her epic quest, and undertake a perilous trip to France, gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the boatGods, to try to find out ie the truth of semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the people they both lovetricksters.|isbn=0571348769178845295X

|author=Joanne M HarrisHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=A Pocketful of CrowsFinding Bear|rating=4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= I have always [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been of on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, things on the mind that once you're above picture-book level domestic and before you get to graphic sex & violencefamily front are a bit advanced, there is no difference between books but not perfect for children her, and books for adultsso can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. There are good books For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and poor oneswounded. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful of Crows'' is clearly aimed at the younger readers as witness the use of the middle initial in the authorDesperate to make sure he's name OK, she and her father return to differentiate from her adult offers. Ignore the Arctic and hope that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know in a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that Harris is mistress of the modern fairy tale. This is no different. It is an utter delightfriendship can continue.|isbn=14732221840008582017

|author=Ele FountainSimon Fox|title=LostDeadlock

|summary=Lola lives in an Indian city with her fatherLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and her brotherthen suddenly rings Archie, Amit. She lives with them in demanding he fetch something from a nice apartmentsecret place, and although they are not rich like some of join him on the girls at school, they have enough money to be comfortablerun. Lola spends her time thinking about her school friendsThey get together, and trying but barely begin to fit in with themsmell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, until one dayleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, suddenly, everything in her life changes. After taking toting a work trip away, Lola's tin his father doesn't come home. They have nobody else was determined to help, and as they wait day after day, Lola wonders what will become of them until, finally, they are evicted keep away from their flathis colleagues, and she and her brother find themselves forced to live on the streetsbearer of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=178269255X1839944420

|author= Angela WoolfeCath Howe|title= Roxy and Jones: The Great Fairytale Cover-UpMy Life on Fire|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= After Ren's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and her father gets married for the umpteenth timelittle brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, Roxy Humperdinck and now she is sent to live with living at her half-sister Gretel in Rexopolisgrandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, capital city of or even eat the Kingdom of Illustriafoods they normally eat. Gretel works as a toilet cleaner for When she goes back to school she discovers that the Ministry of Soup. Why does class are doing a country like Illustria need an entire ministry dedicated to soupspecial art project, you ask? Wellcreating boxes of their lives, after Roxy finds to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a secret passage person. But Ren has nothing to put in her bathroom and meets a snarky young woman known only as Jonesbox, and so she soon finds out whyherself starting to steal things. Turns out Small things, fairy tales are realthings that people might not really miss, and the Ministry’s official job is to safeguard all knowledge of them and monitor the living fairy talesnot when they have so much already. And, when an evil queen breaks out of a maximum-security prison and threatens But what will happen to reinstate her reign of terror, Roxy and Jones hold the fate of the world in their young hands…so, no pressure then!if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=14063913791839942835

|author=Judith EagleRob Keeley|title=The Pear AffairBoy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=4.5

|summary=Set in the 1960's, this Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a mystery adventure return to the short story, all about a little girl called Nell and her quest format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us 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 bereft. There's everything in this storyeleven new tales, with underground tunnels each as the playground of gangs of children, fun to travel and detective work, a mystery mould infecting Parisian bakeries, mysterious figures following Nell around, and a set of truly dreadful parents!read as his previous offerings.|isbn=0571346855B0BVW69N1G

|author= Kirsty ApplebaumLaura Noakes|title= TroofriendCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Are you tired of your child's classmates constantly being horrible Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to them? Do you want your child her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to have some positive experiences with people? Introducing just be named by the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-of-number they correspond to in the-art machines are capable of emulating the full range of human emotions without lyingledger, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, stealing uncommon mentalities or bullyingsuchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. They're But Cosima bears the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning tag as a surname because nothing else seems to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and have absolutely unique in having no basis known family in reality…rightthe 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=17880034700008579059

|author= Alice M G Leonard and Sam SedgmanRoss|title= The Highland Falcon Nowhere Thief|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Harrison Beck, or Hal as he prefers to be called, isn't exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a travel writer, on a long train journey. Although, this isn't any old train; this At last there is new stock in the Highland Falcon, the royal train, impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this is its last ever journey before because she has stolen it gets sent to a museum. A number of high-society figures, including film stars, millionaires and aristocrats, will She also knows she should be on this trainfree from worries about being found out, so it is quite because she has the event on the social calendar. Howeverability to leave this world, when and use an expensive brooch is stolen, Hal realises that maybe this trip won't be as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to turn on each enter otherworlds, Hal vows to get to where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the bottom buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the mystery…before shop? Well yes, is the train gets to answer, but the end of the line.fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=15290130621839943769

|isbnauthor=1781129312Natasha Farrant|title=Sequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)The Rescue of Ravenwood

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Sequin loved This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, in the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with herand they are living together as a family. It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with that - it was because she never pushed to get credit for what she didall of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the place. Mum But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a seamstress developer as it's becoming more and she makes the sort of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddingsmore expensive to maintain. She's The children find themselves worrying not the designer - only about where they're the people who make going to live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|isbn=0571348785}}{{Frontpage|author=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of money from the clothesworld, for example. Mum Aisha is the person who actually addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there'makes'themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden' s cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the garments and one Aisha thinks she's really talentedseen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, but when people talk about are tasked with saving the dress or rare critters – and the suit, they talk about kids unknowingly have the designermagical sight needed to join in. The seamstress is never mentioned.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=0241573483

|authorisbn= Hana TookeB09XWSXSKY|title= The UnadoptablesMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In the winter of 1880Frederick (or Fred, five babies are abandoned at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdambut never Freddy, much to the annoyance of matron Gasbeekplease) couldn't sleep. Twelve years later, Milou A tune, rather like the last ticking of the five babies to be abandoned back a clock was playing over and over in that winter, struggles his mind. It happened every time he came to work out the identity of her parents from the clues she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks on the outside, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker and a velvet blanketvisit his grandfather. She He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, along with the other four, patiently wait for Milouhe's parents ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to come back and take her homehim anymore. However, when  ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the five children are sold to the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotman, they know they have to escapetime. And time isn't good for anything... '' And so begins that was why he was looking at the clock beside the adventure of a lifetime as bed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the Unadoptables join forces clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to reunite Milou with her parents, go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the time being pursued by the Kinderbureau and Rotman…|isbn=0241417465clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?

|author=Rob HarrellNigel Baines|title=WinkA Tricky Kind of Magic

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=When Ross is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, aged 12, his desperate attempts at school Cooper loves to just be 'normal' become impossibleperform magic tricks. Suddenly he is the cancer kid, and everything he does, how he looksHis father was a magician, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of named Cooper after the other kids in schoolgreat Tommy Cooper. Ross isBut sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, understandably, angry. He is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed in a permanent wink. He has gloopy eye medicine and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to try to help with the painbe, plus the need or how to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due to the ongoing treatmentbe. With the sudden ghosting by one of And when his best friends, and a series of horrible memes that someone at school creates about Ross, nothing about his life is normal any moredad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, and he has to find new ways to deal with his feelings, and survive.''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|isbn=14714091471444960261