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|author=Alex FoulkesMax Boucherat|title=Rules for VampiresThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or We meet Lori on the first evening she'Leo' for short) is 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 Vampire. She drinks bloodblanket fort, she sleeps during the dayhas one main intention, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats that is to travel around, although not all of them remember log on to come back). Pretty cool stuff. NowVoxminer, on 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 of doesn't find herself entirely on her hundredth birthnightown, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she has to go out and hunt her first humanbestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. However, instead she ends When malevolent eyes spark up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worseon her phone screen, the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her. So, not only does Leo have to team up with safe place in the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulgame has been doctored – well, she has where is a girl to do it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each otherturn? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X0008666482

|author= Angharad Walker|title= The Ash House|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the system, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever Kieran Larwood and The Ash House will never be the same again.|isbn=1912626977}}{{Frontpage|author=Emma CarrollJoe Todd-Stanton|title=The Week at World's EndDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|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

|author=Ian Mark and Louis GhibaultJames Sherwood Metts|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersPlanet Storyland

|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

|author=Lisa ThompsonTom Percival|title=The Small ThingsWrong Shoes

|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 his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and so she feels like her Will's life at home is boring seems bleak in comparison to theirsevery direction. When And yet, he still has a new girl joins her classtiny amount of hope. He is good at art, Anna and clings to the moments of joy when he is asked to partner herdrawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1805141872|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but things are complicated because only Ben knows the new girltruth – his Maths teacher, EllieMiss Judson, is unwell really a safecracker! With police and so canher gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job...''t attend school in person. Instead Goodness me, she joins in that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with the class by using a robotbad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Can Anna overcome Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the challenge son of making friends with someone through a robotfamous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649worth saving

|author=Alex CotterChristopher Edge|title=The House on the EdgeBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=FaithLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 's family home The Black Hole'. All 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 something about this new film format is teetering on the edge of a cliffvery different, literallyand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Is that crack in But as they lurch from one film genre to the garden getting biggernext, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Is Will they ever get back to the house starting cinema, and to slope a littletheir real lives? And as the house seems |isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be falling aparta humble, so tidy and friendly cat, one who is Faithable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's family. Her dad a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has disappearedbeen turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and her mum is struggling to copethe catflap they both use can chuck them out, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in chargenot into the regular back garden, taking care but into a world of her little brother Noahfrightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, taking care of her mumwhere a troll hunter is expected – well, feeding everyoneone much bigger than Murray was, getting Noah to schoolbe honest, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what but 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? What's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe turned up and he'll come back if she manages have to get funding for the house? She carries the weight of all these worries on her constantly, and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping on.do…|isbn=17880086260008561249

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave Alex Bell and Tom de FrestonTim McDonagh|title=Julia and the SharkThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=JuliaEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from in the evening a helper at the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a summer, generation missing in the far NE of the Scottish islandsfamily. Here be VikingsA few short years ago, that kind Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of Scottish islanda magical beast. Dad is going This has made the race anathema to be automating the lanternpair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, which Eli knows his only hope is his specialist thingto dare to enter what he most hates, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt with the sole aim the prize of magic at the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone end – until she suddenly finds company one nightthe only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=15101077890571382231

|author=Louie StowellHelen Cooper|title=OtherlandThe Taming of the Cat|rating=3.5

|summary= Myra and Rohan Once again, mice are like Yin pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and Yang – Myra is loudin case you're seeing a connection, bright they live in a cheese shop and hates rulestherefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. Anyway, while Rohan Brie is very politeshunned, serious scorned and worries about , if you must, mous-tracised, for the tiniest thingsway his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. Their only connection? Being born They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and briefly dying at makes stories based on the same time at the same hospital visuals on Midsummer's dayit. And sothat story-telling will come in handy one night, every year their families get together to celebrate the twowhen he feels all alone and cast out. It's birthday/deathdayalmost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa is taken by This makes Brie the fairy queen, they must journey to top dog in the Otherland, a magical realm full of fairiesmouse community, vampiresthough, dragons, and Gods. It's going as all the others had the chance to be half-inch some cheese while the worst night of their livescat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=17880004630571376010

|author=Darren ShanLauren St John|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Finding Wonder|rating=4.5

|summary=SoRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Having done the impossible Her mum died when she was young, and unpicked now she finds herself awoken in the lock to middle of the Forgotten Crypt, from which night by the Departed communicate with police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the Merge, Archie now has ''grop'' corner shop to think aboutbuy a lottery ticket. But before that When asked what other family she has, soirees. Soirees! Archieshe can only name her aunt, much to Inez's amusementJoni, doesnwho she knows her dad didn't even know what one think very highly of those is. But he manages she has no one else, and so off she goes to come through the fancy party unscathedlive with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtisas when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed it breaks down in the first volume middle of this series. nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=B093J9TF730571376169

|author=Maisie ChanAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsOscar's Lion|rating=4.53

|summary=Danny We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is eleven years old, and what more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he really, really loves has to do is drawbe ready for school. He creates fantastical comics, whilst But when he enters his best friend Ravi adds the words. Dannyparents's dadbedroom, howeverall he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, wants Danny to concentrate on his mathslooking sheepish, and forget about the drawing, because admitting that he says nobody won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can make be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a living from drawing! birthday party for Oscar the other month. At least Danny has his own roomAnd it can shapeshift, where so he can draw in secret take it to school and in peaceit can get him out of a problem. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with them, and who will not only be sharing DannyAnd it's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on wonderful to have around the top bunk of house – not limiting his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no Englishbiscuit intake, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysittermuch more lax about the rules, and showing her around the townso on. Poor DannyOK, stuck on it can't work a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a falling out with Raviwonderful time...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X0008596751

|author=Darren ShanJudith Eagle|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3The Stolen Songbird|rating=4.5

|summary=The second trilogy in ShanCaro's ''Merge'' saga opens 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 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 our heroGam, Archiesomeone Caro has heard her mother despises, back in London in the world she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of the Born. Itbuilding herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's not been easyhouse, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, explaining to his foster parents where heas she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's beenold suitcase, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has done his best.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Benhappened to Caro's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock mother? Is she somehow involved in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.the mystery too?|isbn=B093H8DPQZ0571363148

|author=Gianna Pollero and Sarah HorneTania Unsworth|title=Monster DoughnutsNowhere Island

|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappearedMeet Gil. Just twelve, Grace and Danni have been left he is so determined to run escape the family bakery. But Grace needs care system – the doughnuts system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and sweet treats that Danni bakes find a home for a rather unusual reasonhimself...even though she's only ten years old He is en route to yet another fosterer, she is a monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet toothwhen he jumps into an anonymous car, and Grace uses lets it ride him to his future. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a number camp on an island between the two directions of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on thema motorway, or tricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, ultimately, be place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their demisesafety and seclusion. One dayThem, though, Grace finds herself facing and a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who has mute girl also finding a weakness for doughnuts but doesn't seem to explode as the other monsters dohome there, and albeit so much more successfully. things start to get very strange…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=18481294321804540080

|author=M G LeonardHelen Peters|title=TwitchFriends and Traitors|rating=53

|summary=Twitch England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like the female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a boy who loves birdsgirl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. He keeps pigeons at homeThe girls are chalk and cheese, and chickensif we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amiss, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching first separately and helping birds is easy compared to that of his time then in schoolcombination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. But things Midnight deliveries are about to change for Twitch in all aspects received under cover of his life as there secrecy, talk is a dangerous bank robber on the runmade of meetings with Germans, and it's possible not only that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch a local Spitfire factory has his secret hide and that he knows like the back of his hand! been attacked. Can Twitch solve But surely the mysterygirls are wrong, and find the missing millionsupper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=14063893741788004647

|author=Hannah PeckJamie Littler|title=Kate on the CaseArkspire|rating=3.54

|summary=Meet KateTwo sisters, although I got the impression she'd rather Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be a Catherine – chalk and one specific Catherine at thatcheese. For Catherine Rodriguez Juniper is Kate's idolan eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, and including relics from prior major wars left out in the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''Badlands. Armed with a plucky father, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she Elodie is all equipped to manage a train ride intent on getting closer to power in one of the Arcticreligious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to see her scientist mother for become the first time child in yonks. Howeverline to inherit the power of the Watcher, this is the closest to a train ride with a differenceruler the district has, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from one of the darkness five major victors in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them stylesaid earlier war. It's Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely a case change the status of the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for a new young investigative journalist...very, very bad…|isbn=184812970X0241586143

|authorisbn=Hayley Webster024162343X|title=Luna Rae is Not AloneStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=Luna Rae has just moved houseMeet Trixie. Moving house is always tricky, but especially when you're ten years oldForever getting into scrapes, larks and you miss your old homeadventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, and you and your little sister have to start she could almost be thought a new school but your mum seems to be out working all the timeyoung goddess of nuisance. Then thereBut just when she's your dadbeing told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Suddenly, who doesn't seem like hepractically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's coping so wellin but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and so thereall that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's no one to take care of things but yousake). Everything feels differentTrixie, and strangeluckily, and mysterious, and so Luna finds a way realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of coping is by watchingpower from us. She turns detectiveAnd 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 stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and starts keeping an eye so on her new neighbourhood, but it turns out she's not known as the only one keeping watch!tricksters.|isbn=1788006046178845295X

|author=Francesca Simon Hannah Gold and Steve MayLevi Pinfold|title=Two Terrible VikingsFinding Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=In [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a small Viking village there live two twinslot further north than many people would venture, Hack and Whackfinding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, who things on the domestic and family front are eager to a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very worst Vikings ever! Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a trollDesperate to make sure he's OK, she and her father return to the Arctic and undertake hope that in a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to all kinds world of mischief very white and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Biteyvery dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and their crazy cast of friendsthat the friendship can continue.|isbn=05713494980008582017

|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellSimon Fox|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their home, but Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the entire south-western village of Mouseholeforce, and not just thatthen suddenly rings Archie, either, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get demanding he fetch something from a screen backsecret place, and not what they were constantly doing join him on them beforethe run. Toasters can toastThey get together, but TVs cannot do barely begin to smell the V part whiff of their job, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this Southern trains when the father is going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their willarrested, but no. For leaving Archie on the family finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if they can get across country late express to her. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just thatBrighton, toting a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than thattin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, too – for it's and the bearer of a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids whole heap of all ages will lovequestions.|isbn=14711968871839944420

|author=Hannah GoldCath Howe|title=The Last BearMy Life on Fire|rating=4.5

|summary=AprilRen's father, family home is destroyed in a scientistfire. She, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Islandher parents, and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with himher little brother lose everything. They live alone anyway, since AprilShe doesn's mother died some time beforet have any of her clothes, and he feels it will be educational for or any of her special little knick-knacks from her to experience the island and all its natural beauty. April already has an affinity with naturecupboard, and now sheis living at her grandmother's excited to travel with her fatherhouse where they can't touch anything, or do anything, thinking of all or even eat the fun things foods they will be able to experience together on the islandnormally eat. But when they get there, her father finds When she goes back to school she discovers that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of his timetheir lives, to display things that are important to them and so April is left to explore by herselfshow who they are as a person. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches But Ren has nothing to put in a glimpse of onebox, and so she sets out finds herself starting to find the Bearsteal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, and then not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she sees he is injured, to befriend and help him.doing?|isbn=000841128X1839942835

|author=Emma Carroll and Kaja KajfezRob Keeley|title=The Ghost GardenBoy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=4.5

|summary=Fran, the gardener's daughter at a posh country house, Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is worried. She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - back with a large bone, buried under the potatoes. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, the older child of the house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. She is due return to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to be out of her mind with feareleven new tales, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. But surely that won't act each as a premonition fun to anything - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?read as his previous offerings.|isbn=1781129002B0BVW69N1G

|author=Rob WintersLaura Noakes|title=His Name Was WrenCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=In September 1944 something came down in Oban WoodsMeet Number One. Or rather, near the village of HurstwickCosima Unfortunate. It came down hardOr rather, taking just Cos to her friends. The practice in the spire of home she lives in is for the village church girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with itdisabilities, destroying uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a stone shacksurname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, and leaving a wide trail through as the woodfirst ever inmate, but and unique in having no trace of what it actually wasknown family in the outside world. German secret weapon was During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the local gossipkitchen one afternoon, but there should have been an explosion and she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a craterdevilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, and there were neither of those things.what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=B08KGVNVNB0008579059

|author=Alex WheatleAlice M Ross|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeNowhere Thief|rating=24.5

|summary=We meet Welton Blake at At last there is new stock in the worst of times – only they should be the best of timesimpoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. He She also knows she should be getting a text free from worries about being found out, because she has the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards ability to a cinema dateleave this world, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in responseuse an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, and where the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale he's living with his mother sea levels are rising dramatically and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things buildings are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage generally empty of humans and ripe for dinnerplunder. I knowWith eviction imminent, rightcan Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? But surely this Well yes, is just a blipthe answer, but the fact a day at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all mysterious man knows exactly which items come out in the wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=17811294951839943769

|author= Katharine OrtonNatasha Farrant|title= GlassheartThe Rescue of Ravenwood|rating= 45|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona 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 Uncle Antoni Raffy have lived together ever since the Blitz claimed the 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, and they are living together as a family. Now, They have grown up swimming in the aftermath of cove, roaming through the wartrees, they travel completely at one with all over of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the country, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombsplace. Their latest job takes them out to But now the wilds of Dartmoorhouse is under threat, where Nona discovers that her world as Leo is full of ancient under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's becoming more and powerful magicmore expensive to maintain. She also discovers that a mysterious entity, known The children find themselves worrying not only as The Soldierabout where they're going to live, is hell-bent on using Nonabut if they's innate magic for his own endsll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will not stop until he has her…be torn down.|isbn=14063852390571348785

|author=Rob KeeleyRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Treasure in the TowerUnicorns of Silver Street

|summary= Rob Keeley Jayden's nose is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read forever in a book, which means he knows a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and lots unicorns of actionthe world, an easy for example. Aisha is addicted to read styleher new tablet, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalries, and always a good dollop where she can see videos of naughty humouranything that might be out there. They're all present here The problem, as their mothers see it, in is that they are never 'out there'The Treasure in themselves, exploring the Tower''outside world of Hackney, London. The chance purchase of But when a book during narrowboat turns up carrying a school trip sparks the whole adventure. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jessscience-minded, educational purpose, 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 Isna past involving Jayden't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=5|genre=s cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For Sharing|summary=This could have been one many of those books which 'preaches to mythological creatures are real, including the choirone Aisha thinks she': s seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the only people who'll buy it boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the people who know that nudity is OK rare critters – and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. Dare they avoid side with Leila, the hot-woman on board, and-bothered person in the supermarket her relative who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than lives as a book about not wearing clothes. It's figure in a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small painting, and become saviours of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.the unseen?|isbn=0241573483

|authorisbn=Onjali Q RaufB09XWSXSKY|title=The Night Bus HeroMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating=4.5

|summary=Hector is Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a bullyclock was playing over and over in his mind. Egged on by It happened every time he came to visit his two 'friendsgrandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he takes other children's sweets, harasses ten now and threatens, plays pranks at school, and gets into trouble at every turnall those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the time. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually And time isn't his fault, but then good for anything...'' And that was why he isn't believed as everyone expects him to be telling lieswas looking at the clock beside the bed. Nothing seems fairIt was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times. His parents are barely home, and seem There was nothing for it but to only care about his perfect sister go and his annoying little brother when they are, and his teachers have abandoned him as a lost cause. find grandad - but where was he? So what happens when, in trying to tell And why had all the truth & fight to be believed, Hector finds himself embroiled with the police; first trying to accuse, and then trying to save a homeless man from his local parkclocks stopped at twelve o'clock?|isbn=1510106774

|author=Carlie SorosiakNigel Baines|title=My Life as a CatA Tricky Kind of Magic

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=This is the story of an alien who has come down Cooper loves to spend some time on earth living as perform magic tricks. His father was a humanmagician, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. It But sadly Cooper's something that each member in the alien collective is allowed father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to dobe, for 1 month, once they reach a certain ageor how to be. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en route, and so something goes wrong with And when his arrival and he finds that instead of landing in Yellowstone Park, ready dad's prop rabbit starts talking to work as a park rangerhim, he is instead in the body of a cat ''really'' doesn't know what's going on the other side of the country! This is not what he had plannedanymore! Not only is he in the wrong place and the wrong body, he is also in the middle of a storm, stuck in a tree! And so he meets Olive, the little girl who rows out in a boat to rescue him, and who names him Leonard.|isbn=17880060891444960261