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|author=Darren ShanMax Boucherat|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 The Last Life of 3Lori Mills
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|summary=The second trilogy in ShanWe meet Lori on the first evening she's ''Merge'' saga opens with our herogot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, Archiejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, back in London 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 of the Born. It-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where heworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's beent find herself entirely on her own, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and his other friends in the Mergenobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, but Archie and her safe place in the game has done his best.... been doctored – 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.where is a girl to turn?|isbn=B093H8DPQZ0008666482
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|author=Gianna Pollero Kieran Larwood and Sarah HorneJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Monster DoughnutsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, 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. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he'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 team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland
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|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappeared, Grace and Danni Things have been left to run a bit sticky for the family bakeryEarthlings. But Grace needs the doughnuts AI and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reason...even though she's only ten years old, she is a monster hunter! Monsters automation have a very sweet toothbeen proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and Grace uses a number of methods other tasks that took time to defeat them such accomplish. Just as throwing baking powder on themthey were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, or tricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, ultimatelynew ways to spend time, be their demisealong came an awful pandemic. One dayLife was pretty much shut down and, though, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harrisalong with it, who has a weakness for doughnuts but doesn't seem to explode as all the other monsters do, and many daily social interactions on which they depend so things start to get very strange…heavily.|isbn=18481294321736128426
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|author=M G LeonardTom Percival|title=TwitchThe Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
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|summary=Twitch Will's life is difficult, in a boy who loves birdsmultitude of ways. He keeps pigeons at homeis bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and chickensdoesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and even has swallows nesting his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in his bedroom! -hand job on a building site and had an accident. His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to Throw into that mix the fact that of his time mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in schoolevery direction. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects And yet, he still has a tiny amount of his life as there hope. He is a dangerous bank robber on the rungood at art, and it's possible that clings to the missing bank haul moments of joy when he is hidden somewhere in Aves Wooddrawing, the place where Twitch has his secret hide and that he knows feel like a light at the back end of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mysterya long, and find the missing millions?dark tunnel.|isbn=14063893741398527122
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|authorisbn=Hannah Peck1805141872|title=Kate on the CaseThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=34.5
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|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression she'd rather be 'Seventeen banks and a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at thatjeweller’s have been raided. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolThe police are baffled, and but only Ben knows the author of our heroine's favourite possessiontruth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with is really a plucky father, that book, safecracker! With police and her talking mouse called Rupertgangster boyfriend Al on their trail, she is all equipped to manage a train ride to Miss Judson and Ben go on the Arctic, to see her scientist mother run. But Al needs them for the first time in yonksone last job... However'' Goodness me, this that Miss Judson is a train ride with a difference, for terror! How on board is earth did a greedy-seeming harridan and nice teacher like her cat, manage to get mixed up with a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-youbad 'un like Al? We'll-miss-them stylefind out. It's definitely a case Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=184812970Xfamous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving
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|author=Hayley WebsterChristopher Edge|title=Luna Rae is Not AloneBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54
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|summary=Luna Rae Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has just moved housethe nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Moving house is always trickyAll big movie fans, but especially when youthey're ten years oldlooking forward to lots of exciting films, and you miss your old homemany, many snacks! However, and you and your little sister have to start a new school but your mum seems to be out working all as the time. Then there's your dadmovie starts, who doesn't seem like he's coping so wellthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and so therethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's no t even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to take care of things but you. Everything feels differentthe next, and strange, and mysterious, and so Luna finds a way of coping can they figure out what on earth is by watching. going on? She turns detectiveWill they ever get back to the cinema, and starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhood, but it turns out she's not the only one keeping watch!to their real lives?|isbn=17880060461839942738
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|author=Francesca Simon Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Steve MayTim McDonagh|title=Two Terrible VikingsThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
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|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=In Eli is a small Viking village there live two twinsbusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be in the evening a helper at the very worst Vikings ever! dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Nothing can stop their mad maraudingEli lives with his lovely gran, as they cause havoc at too – for there is a birthday partygeneration missing in the family. A few short years ago, chaos whilst tracking a trollEli's parents were both lost to the titular race, and undertake a grand journey globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to raid Bad Island with their friends! navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. They get up This has made the race anathema to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviourthe pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and their crazy cast the sole aim the prize of friendsmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=05713494980571382231
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|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellHelen Cooper|title=The Day Taming of the Screens Went BlankCat|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Stella and her familyOnce again, mice are pitched against cat. TheyIn this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're just innocently trying to have seeing a Sunday evening connection, they live in together, watching a film – using three different screens cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blankbe the names of cheeses. And it's not just their homeAnyway, but the entire south-western village of MouseholeBrie is shunned, scorned and not just that, eitherif you must, mous-tracised, but for the whole country, if not worldway his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – hoping they're first to get a screen back, he displays it as art and not what they were constantly doing makes stories based on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computationsvisuals on it. You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck And that story-telling will come in such a Luddite experience against their willhandy one night, but nowhen he feels all alone and cast out. For the family finally remember StellaIt's grandma, and see almost as if they can get across country there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to herkeep themselves alive. Hence this has This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to go down as a roadhalf-trip bookinch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – for will the story have the successful sequel it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart needs when that kids of all ages will love.cheese runs out?|isbn=14711968870571376010
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|author=Hannah GoldLauren St John|title=The Last BearFinding Wonder|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=AprilRoo's father, a scientist, life has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with himbecome almost impossibly difficult. They live alone anyway, since April's mother Her mum died some time beforewhen she was young, and he feels it will be educational for now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to experience the island and all its natural beautycorner shop to buy a lottery ticket. April already When asked what other family she has an affinity with nature, and she's excited to travel with can only name her fatheraunt, thinking of all the fun things they will be able to experience together on the island. But when they get thereJoni, who she knows her father finds that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much dad didn't think very highly of his time, and so April is left to explore by herself. Her father had reassured her that there were But she has no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of oneelse, and so off she sets out goes to find the Bearlive with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, and then as when she sees he is injuredand Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, to befriend it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and help him.then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=000841128X0571376169
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|author=Emma Carroll Adam Baron and Kaja KajfezBenji Davies|title=The Ghost GardenOscar's Lion|rating=4.53
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|summary=FranWe start incredibly bluntly, the gardener's daughter at a posh country housewith Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is worriedmore likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be ready for school. SheBut when he enters his parents's just cracked her garden fork through quite bedroom, all he sees is a grim discovery - a large bonemahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, buried under the potatoesand admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But she's even more worried when she learns there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that that event coincided with Leo, ruined a birthday party for Oscar the older child of the house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawnother month. She is due And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and it can get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell him out of a surpriseproblem. Tasked with shoving Leo And it's wonderful to have around the grounds in house – not limiting his bathchairbiscuit intake, she might have reason to be out of her mind with fearbeing much more lax about the rules, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamberand so on. But surely that wonOK, it can't act as work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a premonition to anything - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?wonderful time.|isbn=17811290020008596751
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|author=Rob WintersJudith Eagle|title=His Name Was WrenThe Stolen Songbird
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In September 1944 something came down in Oban WoodsCaro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, near the village is having to go up North to take care of Hurstwickher sister who is unwell. It came down hardSo who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, taking the spire she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of the village church building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with itan orphan boy, destroying a stone shackAlbie, who is living there too. and leaving But she soon finds herself caught up in a wide trail through the woodmystery, but no trace as she discovers a painting of what it actually was. German secret weapon was the local gossipa bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, but there should have been an explosion and all across London a crater, fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and there were neither of those thingsterrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=B08KGVNVNB0571363148
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|author=Alex WheatleTania Unsworth|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeNowhere Island|rating=24.5
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|summary=We meet Welton Blake at Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the worst of times care system – only they should be the best of timessystem that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a home for himself. He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards is en route to a cinema dateyet another fosterer, but his phone has packed upwhen he jumps into an anonymous car, he's chundered last night's meal and lets it ride him to his breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in response, and the wanna-bae future. That future seems to actually be with in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone else anyway. On a bigger scale he's living lives with his mother and not much income now that brother in a camp on an island between the dad has left the picture – yestwo directions of a motorway, things are so bad they're resorting a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to having cabbage provide for dinnertheir safety and seclusion. I knowThem, right? But surely this is just and a blip, mute girl also finding a day at school to forgethome there, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? albeit so much more successfully. This Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=17811294951804540080
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|author= Katharine OrtonHelen Peters|title= GlassheartFriends and Traitors|rating= 43|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the Blitz claimed the lives of her familycountry pile called Stanbrook. Now One is Nancy, destined to be in the aftermath of the warservice all her life it seems, they travel all over like the countryfemale generations before her. The other is Sidney, replacing staineda girl from a hoity-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombstoity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. Their latest job takes them out to the wilds of Dartmoor The girls are chalk and cheese, where Nona discovers and if we hadn't guessed that her world then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is full of ancient amiss, and first separately and powerful magicthen in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. She also discovers that a mysterious entity, known only as The Soldier Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is hell-bent on using Nona's innate magic for his own endsmade of meetings with Germans, and will not stop until he only that, a local Spitfire factory has her…been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=14063852391788004647
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|author=Rob KeeleyJamie Littler|title=The Treasure in the TowerArkspire
|rating=4
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|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are always happy growing to read a new adventure be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from Rob - his stories combine fast pace and lots prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of actionArkspire, an easy perhaps even to become the child in line to read styleinherit the power of the Watcher, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalriesthe closest to a ruler the district has, and always a good dollop one of naughty humourthe five major victors in said earlier war. They're all present here, in ''The Treasure Being trained in the Tower''. The chance purchase magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventurefamily. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jess But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=18004613210241586143}}
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|isbn=1849767009024162343X|title=It Isn't Rude to be NudeStolen History|author=Rosie HaineSathnam Sanghera
|rating=5
|genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=This could have been one I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of those books which a 'preaches to the choirgod': . Where was the only people who'll buy proof? In history lessons, it are was probably worse still. Not too long after the people who know that nudity is OK and end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the ones who British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn'knowt dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid as want to dispute what right the hot-and-bothered person army had to be there in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bustfirst place. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothesLooking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. ItI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera'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 wonderfulStolen History''.
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|author=Onjali Q RaufThiago de Moraes|title=The Night Bus HeroOld Gods New Tricks
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Hector is a bullyMeet Trixie. Egged on by his two 'friends'Forever getting into scrapes, he takes other children's sweets, harasses larks and threatens, plays pranks at adventures involving flooding the schoolaircon with fart powder, and gets into trouble at every turnshe could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. Yet he finds himself frustrated But just when something actually isnshe't his faults being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but then he isnthe entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the Internet, just for our convenience't believed as everyone expects him to be telling lies. Nothing seems fairs sake). His parents are barely homeTrixie, and seem to only care about his perfect sister and his annoying little brother when they areluckily, and his teachers realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have abandoned him as a lost causetaken the power of power from us. So what happens whenAnd so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in trying to tell stealing from the truth & fight to be believedGods, Hector finds himself embroiled with ie the police; first trying to accusesemi-deities, giants, half-gods and then trying to save a homeless man from his local park?so on known as the tricksters.|isbn=1510106774178845295X
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|author=Carlie SorosiakHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=My Life as a CatFinding Bear
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This is the story of an alien who has come down to spend some [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time ]], April had been on earth living as Bear Island, a human. It's something that each member in the alien collective is allowed to dolot further north than many people would venture, for 1 month, once they reach and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a certain agepolar bear – that she called Bear. Leonard comes to earth Back home, things on the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but gets distracted en routenot perfect for her, and so something goes wrong with his arrival and he finds that instead of landing in Yellowstone Park, ready to work as a park ranger, he is instead in can easily be ignored when word comes through from the body of a cat islands Bear was last left on the other side of the country! . This is not what he had planned! Not only is he in the wrong place For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and the wrong body, he is also in the middle of a storm, stuck in a tree! wounded. And so Desperate to make sure he meets Olive's OK, she and her father return to the little girl who rows out Arctic and hope that in a boat to rescue himworld of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and who names him Leonarddangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.|isbn=17880060890008582017
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|author=Yara Evans and Luciana BettiSimon Fox|title=The Adventures of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesDeadlock|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Black Cat Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and Tabby Cat are minding their own business in their own house when then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a very alarming thing happens. A creature - a largesecret place, dog-like creature - appears in their houseand join him on the run. Black Cat They get together, always one but barely begin to take chargesmell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, challenges this fearsome creature with all leaving Archie on the courage he can muster. Tabby Cat backs him.... late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a rather safe distancewhole heap of questions. The creature is indignant - ''I'm not a dog. I'm a fox!''|isbn=1511658649 1839944420
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|author=Darren ShanCath Howe|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment My Life on Fire|rating=45
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This third Ren's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and final book in the first volume her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of Darren Shanher special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother's new house where they can''Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie and Inez make it almost all t touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the way foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the Cuckoo's Nestclass are doing a special art project, where the Vote creating boxes of Alignment will be heldtheir lives, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to put in a box, and so she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But how what will they get inhappen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=B086LLWP4V1839942835
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|isbnauthor=B086LLRZFHRob Keeley|title=Archibald Lox The Boy Who Disappeared and the Empress of SuanpanOther Stories|author=Darren Shan|rating=4.5
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|summary=Archie's second foray into 'the Merge' opens Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a fantastic vista. All of return to the Born's most famous buildings and monuments - Big Ben, the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower - are collected togethershort story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, joined by those clever Merge vines. But there's no time to waste in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help from Inez to a venerable locksmith called Winston.Winston is a darling but is afraid to help - what is to be done? Despite yearning each as fun to go home and worry for read as his foster parents, Archie feels an obligation to take Winston's place. And so Archie embarks on a new, and even more dangerous, adventure...previous offerings.|isbn= B0BVW69N1G
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|isbnauthor=1776572858Laura Noakes|title=How Do You Make Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)Star|rating=54|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=It's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were madeMeet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. My mother was deeply embarrassed 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 told me they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that she'd get me a book about itVictorian society frowns greatly upon. A couple of days later I was handed But Cosima bears the tag as a pamphlet (which delivered surname because nothing more than else seems to be known about where she came from, as the basicsfirst ever inmate, and unique in clinical language which had never been used having no known family 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''the outside world. I ''knew'' moreDuring a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, but was little ''wiser''she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. ThankfullyBut why, times have changed.and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059
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|author=Darren ShanAlice M Ross|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsThe Nowhere Thief
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Time to catch you all up with some of my lockdown reading At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over- I've been doing so much of full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it that I'm a bit late to the party with actual reviewing. Oops! And where better to start than with the new series She also knows she should be free from Bookbag favouriteworries about being found out, Darren Shan? Archie is very down. He's lost a dear friend recentlybecause she has the ability to leave this world, in a tragic accidentand 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 Archie blames himselfripe for plunder. He With eviction imminent, can't face school so he takes himself for a truanting wander around London. As he strolls across a footbridgeElsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, he sees a girl who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suits. He watchesthe answer, aghast. What is going on?but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=B086LKBHD61839943769
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|author=Antony WoottenNatasha Farrant|title=Season The Rescue of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Ravenwood|rating=45
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Tannash 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 her brother Geb are waiting in great excitement Raffy have been living for the hunting party led by most of their uncle to returnlives. They're hoping for are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a feast family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of mammoth meat. Geb longs for the day he can join his uncle Gagba and nature around the other warriors on a hunting party house and take part in their deeds loving every inch of derring-dothe place. But their fathernow the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the leader of the villageproperty to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, thinks that but if they also need an education; that knowledge is power'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|isbn=19392696790571348785}}
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|author=Tania UnsworthRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Time Traveller and the TigerUnicorns of Silver Street|rating=4.5
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|summary=Elsie Jayden's nose is an ordinary sort forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of girlthe world, for example. The sort Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of small girl who often gets overlooked, and forgottenanything that might be out there. She The problem, as their mothers see it, is quiet, and compliantthat they are never 'out there' themselves, and makes exploring the best outside world of whatever happens to herHackney, London. So But when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free to take care of hera narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, they have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a weekpast involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. Poor Elsie, forgotten againFor many of those mythological creatures are real, just decides to make including the best one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of thingslocal footage. On investigating The crew of the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India as boat, including a boyliving gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and he has an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one of kids unknowingly have the roomsmagical sight needed to join in. When Elsie asks him about Dare they side with Leila, the rug he seems unhappywoman on board, and he says he has to keep it because he was the one her relative who shot the tiger when he was 12 years oldlives as a figure in a painting, and he says it was the worst thing he ever did. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to become saviours of 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 ago.unseen?|isbn=17885417070241573483
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|authorisbn=Natasha FarrantB09XWSXSKY|title=Voyage of Maestro Orpheus and the SparrowhawkWorld Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating=54
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|summary=Set in England in the aftermath of World War OneFrederick (or Fred, this is the story of two childrenbut never Freddy, Lotti and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but donplease) couldn't want to let go of their lastsleep. A tune, tiny glimpses rather like the ticking of hopea clock was playing over and over in his mind. Ben is living on a narrowboat on the canal, lying It happened every time he came to the police about visit his brothergrandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's imminent return from the battlefields ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to take care of himanymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? Lotti, meanwhile, has been expelled from school and All they do is back at home; ittell the time. And time isn's a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship t good foranything. The day Lotti meets Ben (..'' And that was why he was looking at the day she steals a dog!) is clock beside the beginning of a deep, and powerful friendshipbed. It sees them become each otherwas nearly twelve o's family, and undertake a perilous trip to France, in clock but at midnight the boat, to try clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to go and find out grandad - but where was he? And why had all the truth of the people they both love.|isbn=0571348769clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?
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|author=Joanne M HarrisNigel Baines|title=A Pocketful Tricky Kind of CrowsMagic|rating=4.5|genre= Confident Emerging Readers|summary= I have always been of the mind that once you're above picture-book level and before you get Cooper loves to graphic sex & violenceperform magic tricks. His father was a magician, there is no difference between books for children and books for adultsnamed Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. There are good books But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and poor onesnow Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to be. 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 authorwhen his dad's name prop rabbit starts talking to differentiate from her adult offers. Ignore that if you have loved anything from him, he ''really'Chocolat'doesn' onwards you will t know that Harris is mistress of the modern fairy tale. This is no different. It is an utter delight.what's going on anymore!|isbn=14732221841444960261
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