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|author=Emma CarrollMax Boucherat|title=The Week 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 Worldwork, 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 Endworld. 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
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|summary=First, Meet Kit. Like most of the title. We're people in World's End Closehis world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a mediocre set team of houseswarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, where Stevie (Vie magical mazes, and race to her friends) finds fun only the exit, perhaps bothering with the family dog treasure or the big bad and with the boy over points they grant you along the roadway. But we could also be at World Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's End, because something taking a great chunk seen of the fun away latest race on the inn TV equivalent is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshoreone team has been retired, eaten, and not much else a new trio of questors is able to make the newsneeded. That said Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, Vie he has news taken to the goading from the token bully of her own – Anna, his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shedteam. Anna has What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Closeactually managing that, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed how could he possibly hope to leave, and implied her life was at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles awaysucceed?|isbn=05713644381839945184
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|author=Ian Mark and Louis GhibaultJames Sherwood Metts|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersPlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet JackThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble AI and quickautomation have been proceeding apace, for heoften replacing jobs they's a slight boy, re paid to do and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses other tasks that took time to let him out of his sightaccomplish. That's because Jack's mother knew Just as they were beginning to get used to all about monsters, this technological change and look what happened starting to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point think of viewother, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOLnew ways to spend time, Jack will fluke the ogre's deathalong came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunteralong with it, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''..many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=07555019421736128426
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|author=Lisa ThompsonTom Percival|title=The Small ThingsWrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Although Anna has friends at schoolWill's life is difficult, she feels like she never really fits ina multitude of ways. Her family don He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money to let her do after school activitiesfor even the most basic of things like food, and so she feels like her life his dad can't work because he lost his job at home is boring the college, was working a cash-in comparison to theirs-hand job on a building site and had an accident. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are complicated because the new girlseparated, Ellie, is unwell and so canWill't attend school s life seems bleak in personevery direction. Instead And yet, she joins in with he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the class by using moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a robot. Can Anna overcome light at the challenge end of making friends with someone through a robotlong, and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?dark tunnel.|isbn=17811296491398527122
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|authorisbn=Alex Cotter1805141872|title=The House on the EdgeTeacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Faith's family home is teetering on the edge of 'Seventeen banks and a cliffjeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, literally. Is that crack in but only Ben knows the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little? And as the house seems to be falling aparttruth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, so is Faith's family. Her dad has disappeared, really a safecracker! With police and her mum is struggling to copegangster boyfriend Al on their trail, barely leaving her bedMiss Judson and Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job... So '' Goodness me, that leaves Faith in charge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah manage to school, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed get mixed up with what he claims is a ghost in the cellar? What should she do about the house? Can she find a way to raise enough money to fix it? Whatbad 's happened to her dad? Why did he disappearun like Al? Maybe heWe'll come back if she manages to get funding find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the house? She carries pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the weight son of all these worries on her constantlya famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping on.|isbn=1788008626who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving
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|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonChristopher Edge|title=Julia and the SharkBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents Lucas and their cat from the family home his friends are all booked in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summermovie marathon at their local cinema, in a place that has the far NE nickname of the Scottish islands'The Black Hole'. Here be VikingsAll big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that kind of Scottish islandsomething about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Dad is going But as they lurch from one film genre to be automating the lanternnext, which can they figure out what on earth is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind going on? Will they ever get back to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, wellcinema, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.to their real lives?|isbn=15101077891839942738
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|author=Louie StowellAdam Stower|title=OtherlandMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Myra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra Murray is loudsupposed to be a humble, bright tidy and hates rulesfriendly cat, while Rohan one who is very polite, serious able to sleep and eat and eat and worries about the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born sleep and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer's day. And so, every year their families get together to celebrate well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's birthday/deathday. But when Rohana bad magician's little sister Shilpa is taken by cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the fairy queencatflap they both use can chuck them out, they must journey to not into the Otherlandregular back garden, but into a magical realm full world of fairiesfrightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, vampireswhere a troll hunter is expected – well, dragonsone much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and Gods. Ithe's going ll have to be the worst night of their lives.do…|isbn=17880004630008561249
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|author=Darren ShanAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 The Glorious Race of 3Magical Beasts|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=So. Having done Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the impossible wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and unpicked in the lock to evening a helper at the Forgotten Cryptdessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, from which too – for there is a generation missing in the Departed communicate with the Mergefamily. A few short years ago, Archie now has ''grop'Eli' s parents were both lost to think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archiethe titular race, much a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to Inez's amusement, doesn't even know what one navigate the world in the company of those isa magical beast. But he manages This has made the race anathema to come through the fancy party unscathedpair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, even after an uncomfortable encounter with KurtisEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume sole aim the prize of this seriesmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran. |isbn=B093J9TF730571382231
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|author=Maisie ChanHelen Cooper|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsThe Taming of the Cat|rating=43.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Danny is eleven years old, and what he reallyOnce again, really loves to do is drawmice are pitched against cat. He creates fantastical comicsIn this case, principally, whilst his best friend Ravi adds we have Brie the words. Danny's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his mathsmouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make in case you're seeing a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own roomconnection, where he can draw they live in secret and in peace. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, cheese shop and this surprise turns out therefore all the names used here seem to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with them, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk names of his bunk bed! cheeses. Danny Anyway, Brie is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no Englishshunned, scorned and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and showing her around makes stories based on the townvisuals on it. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situationAnd that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and then he even has a falling cast out with Ravi. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted.how on earth But will things ever get betterthe story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?!|isbn=180078001X0571376010
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|author=Darren ShanLauren St John|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Finding Wonder|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The second trilogy in ShanRoo's ''Merge'' saga opens with our herolife has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, Archie, back in London and now she finds herself awoken in the world middle of the Bornnight by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. It's not been easy When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, explaining to his foster parents where hewho she knows her dad didn's beent think very highly of. But she has no one else, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his bestso off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt.... well Things continue to get worse for Roo, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston as when she and Joni leave London in Big BenJoni's clock tower old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=B093H8DPQZ0571376169
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|author=Gianna Pollero Adam Baron and Sarah HorneBenji Davies|title=Monster DoughnutsOscar's Lion|rating=4.53
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappearedWe start incredibly bluntly, Grace and Danni with Oscar hoping to have been left his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to run the family bakerybe ready for school. But Grace needs the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reason...even though shewhen he enters his parents's only ten years oldbedroom, she all he sees is a monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet toothmahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and Grace uses admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a number of methods lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, or tricking them into eating the bully that ruined a sweet treat that will, ultimately, be their demisebirthday party for Oscar the other month. One dayAnd it can shapeshift, though, Grace finds herself facing so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who has a weakness for doughnuts but doesnproblem. And it't seem s wonderful to explode as have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the other monsters dorules, and so on. things start to get very strange…OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=18481294320008596751
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|author=M G LeonardJudith Eagle|title=TwitchThe Stolen Songbird|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Twitch Caro'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, is a boy having to go up North to take care of her sister who loves birdsis unwell. He keeps pigeons at homeSo who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and chickens, confused and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! worried. His time spent watching and helping birds All her summer holiday plans of 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 an orphan boy, Albie, who is easy compared to that of his time in schoolliving there too. But things are about to change for Twitch she soon finds herself caught up in all aspects a mystery, as she discovers a painting of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the run, and itbird hidden away inside her mum's possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Woodold suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the place where Twitch has his secret hide Snakes are thieving artworks and that he knows like terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the back of his hand! gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Can Twitch solve Is she somehow involved in the mystery, and find the missing millionstoo?|isbn=14063893740571363148
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|author=Hannah PeckTania Unsworth|title=Kate on the CaseNowhere Island|rating=34.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet KateGil. Just twelve, although I got he is so determined to escape the care system – the impression she'd rather be a Catherine system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and one specific Catherine at thatfind a home for himself. For Catherine Rodriguez He is Kate's idol, and the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky fatheren route to yet another fosterer, that bookwhen he jumps into an anonymous car, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train lets it ride him to the Arctic, his future. That future seems to see her scientist mother for the first time be in yonks. However, this is a train ride jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a difference, for camp on board is an island between the two directions of a greedy-seeming harridan and her catmotorway, a thief – place inaccessible and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and-you'll-miss-them styleseclusion. It's definitely Them, and a case for mute girl also finding a new young investigative journalist..home there, albeit so much more successfully. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=184812970X1804540080
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|author=Hayley WebsterHelen Peters|title=Luna Rae is Not AloneFriends and Traitors|rating=53
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Luna Rae has just moved houseEngland, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. Moving house One is always tricky, but especially when you're ten years old, and you miss your old homeNancy, and you and your little sister have to start a new school but your mum seems destined to be out working in service all her life it seems, like the timefemale generations before her. Then The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there's your dadaway from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, who doesnand if we hadn't seem like he's coping guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so well. But something is amiss, and so therefirst separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 's no one to take care of things but youun. Everything feels differentMidnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, and strangetalk is made of meetings with Germans, and mysteriousnot only that, and so Luna finds a way of coping is by watchinglocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. She turns detectiveBut surely the girls are wrong, and starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhood, but it turns out she's not the only one keeping watch!upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=17880060461788004647
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|author=Francesca Simon and Steve MayJamie Littler|title=Two Terrible VikingsArkspire
|rating=4
|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=In a small Viking village there live two twinsTwo sisters, Hack Juniper and WhackElodie, born fifteen minutes apart, who are eager growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the very worst Vikings ever! Badlands. Nothing can stop their mad maraudingElodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, as they cause havoc at a birthday partyperhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of the Watcher, chaos whilst tracking the closest to a trollruler the district has, and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. They get up But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to all kinds gain some power of mischief and naughty behaviourher own – for good, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Biteyor for very, and their crazy cast of friends.very bad…|isbn=05713494980241586143
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|authorisbn=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll024162343X|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Meet Stella and her familyI was the bad company other people got into at school. They're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening I was disruptive in together, watching religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when 'god'poof'' everything goes blank. And Where was the proof? In history lessons, it's not just their home, but was probably worse still. Not too long after the entire south-western village end of MouseholeWWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and not just that, eitheroccasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping theycolonies're first as want to get a screen back, and not dispute what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do right the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this is going army had to be a social comedy about people stuck there in such a Luddite experience against their will, but nothe first place. For the family finally remember Stella's grandmaLooking back, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has to go down as a roadI still believe I was right -trip book. But not just but I regret that, a slapstick road-trip comedyI lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. And more than that, too – for itI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love''Stolen History''.|isbn=1471196887
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|author=Hannah GoldThiago de Moraes|title=The Last BearOld Gods New Tricks
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=April's father, a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear IslandMeet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and he accepts adventures involving flooding the job deciding to take his daughter April school aircon with himfart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. They live alone anyway, since AprilBut just when she's mother died some time beforebeing told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, and he feels it will be educational for her to experience the island and all its natural beautyworld changes. April already has an affinity with natureSuddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, and shehits not just the town the school's excited to travel with her fatherin but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, thinking of and all that powers the fun things they will be able to experience together on the islandInternet, just for our convenience's sake). But when they get thereTrixie, luckily, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the temperatures just takes up too much power of his time, and so April is left to explore by herselfpower from us. Her father had reassured And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Islandcan steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of onegiants, half-gods and so she sets out to find on known as the Bear, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend and help himtricksters.|isbn=000841128X178845295X
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|author=Emma Carroll Hannah Gold and Kaja KajfezLevi Pinfold|title=The Ghost GardenFinding Bear
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Fran[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, the gardener's daughter at a posh country houselot further north than many people would venture, is worried. She's just cracked her garden fork through quite and finding a grim discovery - ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a large bone, buried under the potatoespolar bear – that she called Bear. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with LeoBack home, things on the older child of domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the house, breaking his leg while playing cricket islands Bear was last left on the lawn. She is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell For a surprisebear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchairDesperate to make sure he's OK, she might have reason and her father return to be out the Arctic and hope that in a world of her mind with fearvery white and very dangerous things, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. But surely can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?friendship can continue.|isbn=17811290020008582017
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|author=Rob WintersSimon Fox|title=His Name Was WrenDeadlock|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In September 1944 Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something came down in Oban Woodsfrom a secret place, near and join him on the village of Hurstwickrun. It came down hardThey get together, taking but barely begin to smell the spire whiff of Southern trains when the village church with it, destroying a stone shackfather is arrested, and leaving a wide trail through Archie on the woodlate express to Brighton, but no trace of what it actually toting a tin his father was. German secret weapon was the local gossipdetermined to keep away from his colleagues, but there should have been an explosion and the bearer of a crater, and there were neither whole heap of those thingsquestions.|isbn=B08KGVNVNB1839944420
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|author=Alex WheatleCath Howe|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeMy Life on Fire|rating=2.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst Ren's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of times – only they should be the best her clothes, or any of times. He should be getting a text her special little knick-knacks from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema dateher cupboard, but his phone has packed up, heand now she is living at her grandmother's chundered last nighthouse where they can's meal and his breakfast over another girl in classt touch anything, who's duffed him up in responseor do anything, and or even eat the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anywayfoods they normally eat. On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now When she goes back to school she discovers that the dad has left the picture – yesclass are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are so bad important to them and show who they're resorting to having cabbage for dinnerare as a person. I know, right? But surely this is just Ren has nothing to put in a blipbox, a day at school and so she finds herself starting to forgetsteal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, and everything (like his vomit) not when they have so much already. But what will all come happen to her if someone finds out in the wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Weltonwhat she is doing?|isbn=17811294951839942835
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|author= Katharine OrtonRob Keeley|title= GlassheartThe Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a return to the Blitz claimed the lives of her family. Nowshort story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, in the aftermath of the war, they travel all over the country, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombs. Their latest job takes them out each as fun to the wilds of Dartmoor, where Nona discovers that her world is full of ancient and powerful magic. She also discovers that a mysterious entity, known only read as The Soldier, is hell-bent on using Nona's innate magic for his own ends, and will not stop until he has her…previous offerings.|isbn=1406385239B0BVW69N1G
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|author=Rob KeeleyLaura Noakes|title=The Treasure in the TowerCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace and lots of actionMeet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, an easy just Cos to read style, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalries, and always a good dollop of naughty humourher friends. They're all present here, in '' The Treasure practice in the Tower''. The chance purchase of a book during a school trip sparks home she lives in is for the whole adventure. Who can follow girls to just be named by the clues best and find number they correspond to in the treasure? Jessledger, 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't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only re all Unfortunates – young people who'll buy it are the people who know with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that nudity is OK and Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the hot-first ever inmate, and-bothered person unique in having no known family in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bustoutside world. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a book about not wearing clothesdevilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large But why, and small and of every possible hue. what does that body entail? Bodies And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.?|isbn=0008579059
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|author=Onjali Q RaufAlice M Ross|title=The Night Bus HeroNowhere Thief
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Hector At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a bullyseaside town. Egged on by his two 'friends', he takes other children's sweets, harasses and threatens, plays pranks at school, and gets into trouble at every turnElsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isn't his faultShe also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, but then he isn't believed as everyone expects him because she has the ability to be telling lies. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely homeleave this world, and seem use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to only care about his perfect sister enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and his annoying little brother when they the buildings are, generally empty of humans and his teachers have abandoned him as a lost causeripe for plunder. So what happens whenWith eviction imminent, in trying can Elsbeth nab anything to tell actually generate custom at the truth & fight to be believedshop? Well yes, Hector finds himself embroiled with is the police; first trying to accuseanswer, and then trying to save but the fact a homeless mysterious man knows exactly which items come from his local park?these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=15101067741839943769
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|author=Carlie SorosiakNatasha Farrant|title=My Life as a CatThe Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the story author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an alien who has come down to spend some time on earth living as a human. It's something that each member old house, in the alien collective is allowed to doNorth of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for 1 month, once they reach a certain agemost of their lives. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en routeThey are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and so something goes wrong Raffy is there with his arrival mum, and he finds that instead of landing in Yellowstone Park, ready to work they are living together as a park rangerfamily. They have grown up swimming in the cove, he is instead in roaming through the body trees, completely at one with all of a cat on the other side nature around the house and loving every inch of the country! place. This But now the house is not what he had planned! Not only is he in the wrong place and the wrong bodyunder threat, he as Leo is also in under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the middle of property to a storm, stuck in a tree! developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. And so he meets OliveThe children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, the little girl who rows out in a boat to rescue himbut if they'll even be together, and who names him Leonardif Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|isbn=17880060890571348785
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|author=Yara Evans Robin Birch and Luciana BettiJobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Adventures Unicorns of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesSilver Street
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Black Cat and Tabby Cat are minding their own business Jayden's nose is forever in their own house when a very alarming thing happens. A creature - book, which means he knows a largelot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, dog-like creature - appears in their housefor example. Black Cat, always one Aisha is addicted to take chargeher new tablet, challenges this fearsome creature with all the courage he where she can muster. Tabby Cat backs him.... from a rather safe distancesee videos of anything that might be out there. The creature problem, as their mothers see it, is indignant - that they are never 'out there'Ithemselves, 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'm not s cousin, they find a dogmagical world they never knew existed. I For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she'm s seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a fox!''painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=1511658649 0241573483
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|authorisbn=Darren ShanB09XWSXSKY|title=Archibald Lox Maestro Orpheus and the Vote of Alignment World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This third Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and final book over in the first volume of Darren Shanhis mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's new ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the time. And time isn't good for anything...'Archibald Lox' And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. It was nearly twelve o' series sees Archie clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to go and Inez make it almost find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the way clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?}}{{Frontpage|author=Nigel Baines|title=A Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and named Cooper after the Cuckoogreat Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's Nestfather died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, where the Vote of Alignment will or how to be held. But how will they get in? And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|isbn=B086LLWP4V1444960261
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