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|author= Rob KeeleyMax Boucherat|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other StoriesLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is back with to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a return 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 short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new talesgame has been doctored – well, each as fun where is a girl to read as his previous offerings.turn?|isbn= B0BVW69N1G0008666482
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|author=Laura NoakesKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Number OneKit. Or ratherLike most of the people in his world, Cosima Unfortunate. Or ratherit seems, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in he is for an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the girls sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to just be named by the number they correspond to in exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the ledger, big bad and the points they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upongrant you along the way. But Cosima bears Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came fromlatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, as the first ever inmateeaten, and unique in having no known family in the outside worlda new trio of questors is needed. During a daring escapade Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to steal some posh cakes the goading from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside token bully of his world – and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Instituteteam. But whyWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and what does that body entail? And how could it he possibly bring Cos closer hope to the past she has so little link withsucceed?|isbn=00085790591839945184
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|author=Alice M RossJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Nowhere ThiefPlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=At last there is new stock in Things have been a bit sticky for the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and her mother run in a seaside townother tasks that took time to accomplish. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the ability Just as they were beginning to get used to leave all this world, technological change and use an unworldly portal starting to think of kaleidoscope colours other, new ways to enter other worldsspend time, where the sea levels are rising dramatically along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yesalong with it, is all the answer, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly many daily social interactions on which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…they depend so heavily.|isbn=18399437691736128426
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|author=Natasha FarrantTom Percival|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodWrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This story Will's life is another excellent adventure from the author difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawkwrong shoes''. Ravenwood is an old house, in he has the North of England, where Bea wrong shoes because his dad can't work and Raffy doesn't have been living enough money for even the most basic of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leothings like food, and Raffy is there with his mumdad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and they are living together as a familyhad an accident. They have grown up swimming in Throw into that mix the covefact that his mum and dad are separated, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving Will's life seems bleak in every inch direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of the placehope. But now He is good at art, and clings to the house moments of joy when he is under threatdrawing, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell that feel like a light at the property to end of 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 livelong, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn downdark tunnel.|isbn=05713487851398527122
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|authorisbn=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson1805141872|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver StreetTeacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Jayden's nose is forever in 'Seventeen banks and a bookjeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, which means he but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and unicorns of Ben go on the world, run. But Al needs them for exampleone last job.. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves Goodness me, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. But when that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a narrowboat turns nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jaydenbad 'un like Al? We's cousin, they ll find a magical world they never knew existedout. For many of those mythological creatures are realLuckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew son of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed famous magician who has ambitions to join in. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on boardbe as good as his father some day, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=0241573483thinks Miss Judson is worth saving
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|isbnauthor=B09XWSXSKYChristopher Edge|title=Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne GrodzinskiBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Frederick (or FredLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, but never Freddy, please) couldna place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole't sleep. A tuneAll big movie fans, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadnthey't really wanted re looking forward to come; after alllots of exciting films, he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? many, many snacks! All However, as the movie starts, they do very quickly realise that something about this new film format is tell the time. And time isnvery different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bedeven imagine. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight But as they lurch from one film genre to the clock chimed only six times. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? There was nothing for it but Will they ever get back to go the cinema, and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clockto their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|author=Nigel BainesAdam Stower|title=A Tricky Kind of MagicMurray and Bun
|rating=4.5
|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Cooper loves Murray is supposed to perform magic tricks. His father was be a magicianhumble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and named Cooper after eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the great Tommy Coopertwo. But sadly Cooperhe's father died suddenlya bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to bethe catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, or how to bebut into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to himbe honest, but he 's turned up and he'really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!ll have to do…|isbn=14449602610008561249
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|author=Sarah Todd TaylorAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Spoonful The Glorious Race of SpyingMagical Beasts
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=[[Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for Trouble Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by Sarah Todd Taylor|Last time around]]visiting with him, Alice Eclair had to prove herself as a spy and as in the evening a master helper at all things French and fancy and fondant, as the only way to save the day involved being an expert baker dessert cafe his gran owns and icer on the French railwaysruns. HereEli lives with his lovely gran, we start on too – for there is a bateau-mouche generation missing in Paris, and even though the espionage isn't a complete success it proves to Alice and her handlers that things are afootfamily. And there will never be more feet than at the WorldA few short years ago, Eli's Fairparents were both lost to the titular race, reviving the huge expo that gave the city the Eiffel Tower and this time showing a globe-trotting adventure where all her interwar glories off entrants have to navigate the worldin the company of a magical beast. Once again Alice will have This has made the race anathema to present the front 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, with the world sole aim the prize of being a humble yet world-class cake decorator, while seeking out clues. At stake? Pioneering flight technology that magic at the end – the enemy just cannot be allowed only thing to smuggle out…possibly save his gran.|isbn=18399409720571382231
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|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy GreeneHelen Cooper|title=Fritz and KurtThe Taming of the Cat|rating=43.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We start with Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurtmouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and their muckersin case you're seeing a connection, doing things any Jewish lad they live in 1930s Vienna would want a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to do – kicking things around be the empty market placenames of cheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, helping for the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to way his habits don't match the synagogue choir and at a vocational schoolother mice he lives with. Kurt has to make sure They nibble up paper wrapping from the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night cheese for bedding – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly he displays it as mechanical art and workmanlike as a light switchmakes stories based on the visuals on it. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's And that story-telling willcome in handy one night, when he feels all alone and instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis cast out, invite them in with open arms. It''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much 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 Germanythe mouse community, though, as did all the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave others had the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious chance to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, half-inch some cheese while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry therecat was distracted. And us wondering how But will the titular event for story have the adult variant of all this could come about…successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=024156574X0571376010
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|author=Robin StevensLauren St John|title=The Ministry of Unladylike ActivityFinding Wonder|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=May Wong is a long way from her family in Hong KongRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. She’s stuck Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her school, Deepdean, and desperate door to get away, and do something useful tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to help end the war and corner shop to get homebuy a lottery ticket. She just knows that When asked what other family she would make the perfect spy! And when she finds herself turned away by the Ministryhas, she takes matters into can only name her own handsaunt, Joni, along with a boy who she meets outside the Ministry, Ericknows her dad didn't think very highly of. They both go undercover in a large country houseBut she has no one else, pretending and so off she goes to be evacuees, in an attempt to prove that someone there is passing secrets to the Nazislive with her unreliable aunt. But there is a lot more going on Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Elysium Hall than either them have imaginedJoni's old campervan, and suddenly they find themselves it breaks down in the middle of a murder scene, with even more to try to unravel nowhere and solve.then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=02414298620571376169
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|author=Greg James Adam Baron and Chris SmithBenji Davies|title=Super GhostOscar's Lion|rating=53
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Paragon City has been lucky We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have the great Doctor Extraordinaryhis mother – or father, their but mother is more likely – read him his very own superhero taking care favourite book a couple of themtimes before he has to be ready for school. Whenever the evil Captain Chaos has come up with another cunning plan (usually involving But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is a giant robot of some description) Doctor Extraordinary has been there to thwart her mischief mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and save the dayadmitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But one day the Doctor and the Captain there are trapped together inside benefits to having a giant robot lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that then explodesruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a problem. And it's wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the hero rules, and the villain are no moreso on. Or are they…?OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=02414705360008596751
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|author=Natasha Hastings and Alex T SmithJudith Eagle|title=The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost FairStolen Songbird|rating=3.54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Caro''The River Thames had frozen to death in its sleep.'' And thus the Frost Fair could happen – people trading on the completely iceds mother, a world-over riverfamous whistler, like our heroine Thomasina's father with his gingerbread has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and confectionery shopis now missing. Thomasina will be working the Fair too – but Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of her twin brother won't, as he dies in Chapter Onesister who is unwell. It was a tragedy she feels no small guilt forSo who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, and which someone Caro has made heard her father a sullenmother despises, closed shop – she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her bed-bound mother has spoken not gymnastics are brought to a word – not even opened her eyeshalt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, more or less – in the four years sinceAlbie, eitherwho is living there too. But into the darkshe soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, frosted London comes Inigo, with supreme magical powersas she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a willingness to help Thomasinafearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Not only can he introduce her Is the painting somehow linked to the fantastical Other Frost Fair, using the river surface at night for no end of mystical beasts and characters and their happenings, but he gang? And what has a unique proposal for Thomasina, which will shake her world happened to its core.Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=00084960560571363148
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|author=Holly WebbTania Unsworth|title=The Story of GreenriverNowhere Island
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Silken and Sedge, for all their differences, have a lot in commonMeet Gil. Silken is a girl whose father Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the Master Builder of what might be care system – the finest beaver lodge on the Greenriversystem that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a home for himself. Unfortunately she He is also a kind of runt figureen route to yet another fosterer, and as a result is patronisedwhen he jumps into an anonymous car, and given the most tokenistic tasks when lets it comes ride him to fetching wood and shoring the dam uphis future. She also stands out for the unique artistic ability That future seems to sing. Otters like Sedge sing, be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but he too, as that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the son two directions of the lady of the holta motorway, has pressure on him to be a bit less feckless place inaccessible and more attentive definitely ignored enough to classprovide for their safety and seclusion. He, after all, will eventually inherit the job of keeping the otters safe from the wolf that both animal species fear the mostThem, and from dreaded events like a Dark Springmute girl also finding a 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=15101096251804540080
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|author=Anna Kemp and David WyattHelen Peters|title=Into Goblyn WoodFriends and Traitors|rating=43
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet HazelEngland, WW2. For Two young girls are new at the last nine of country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her eleven years she has been stuck as a foundling in a horridlife it seems, Victorian institutionlike the female generations before her. The other is Sidney, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servantgirl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. She'd arrived at the place at the same time as Pete The girls are chalk and cheese, and theyif we hadn're inseparably good friends now, until a chance for them both to escapet guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amiss, and enter first separately and then in combination they realise the outside world, does not go to planLord Evesham must be a rum 'un. There had always been the idea Midnight deliveries are received under cover of a life idyllic in the nearby forestssecrecy, Goblyn Woodtalk is made of meetings with Germans, and a tribe of Wild Children, but none of not only that comes to pass, as Hazel finds herself in the care of a professor at the Natural History Museumlocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. But life with him is not anything like what she might have expected it to be – and Hazel is determined to return to surely the Woodsgirls are wrong, restore her friendship with Pete – and to work out just what is going on in the forest, both the light and the shade, and the deathly dark...upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=13985038351788004647
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|author=Judith EagleJamie Littler|title=The Accidental StowawayArkspire|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Patch is a little girl who has been passed from one relation to anotherTwo sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, until it seems that there is nobody left for her to go are growing tobe chalk and cheese. Her father died when she was very youngJuniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, and her mother ran awayincluding relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. The family lawyerElodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, after consultation with ‘someone’perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of the Watcher, arranges for her to go the closest to a school in Liverpoolruler the district has, but on her arrival there, she gets caught up and one of the five major victors in an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works on a steamshipsaid earlier war. During a chase with him (when she is both trying to get her rollerskate back and running away from Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the police!) she winds up on status of the steamship hiding whole family. But in a lifeboatfinding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, and before she knows itor for very, the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!very bad…|isbn=05713631210241586143
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|authorisbn=Sarah Todd Taylor024162343X|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Meet Alice EclairI was the bad company other people got into at school. A perfect eye and very careful hands have made her one I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of Parisa 's best young cake makers and decorators, making sure her mothergod's establishment is a classy affair. Not bad for a thirteen year oldWhere was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. OhNot too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and a perfect eye and a very careful handler and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spy. Her first real mission will occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to chase a traitor across dispute what right the country – working behind the scenes on a posh sleeper train army had to be there in the south of Francefirst place. Looking back, and hoping against hope I still believe I was right - but I regret that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents I lacked the maturity to creep into approach 'the country from getting into nefarious handsproblem' politely. But while nobody would have her down as a spy, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find the baddy?|isbn=1839940956I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.
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|author=David SolomonsThiago de Moraes|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyOld Gods New Tricks|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Gavin is being followedMeet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, seemingly constantly, by larks and adventures involving flooding the new (very annoying) girl at schoolaircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl storyBut just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Because in this instanceSuddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the girl school's in question is Nikibut the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and she is a galactic princess (no, reallyall that powers the Internet, she is!just for our convenience's sake) . So Trixie, luckily, realises what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. And 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 a situation wherestealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, potentiallygiants, Earth half-gods and everyone so on it will be blown to smithereens, all because of Niki?known as the tricksters.|isbn=0857639935178845295X
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|author=Alex CotterHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=The Mermaid CallFinding Bear|rating=34.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids don't exist. But she also knows they have to exist – at least in the public eye. For there [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would be nothing to Lake Splendour – venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a far northern English resort polar bear – without themthat she called Bear. A hundred years Back home, things on the domestic and change agofamily front are a bit advanced, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaidsbut not perfect for her, but were forced to return to help out with and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the Great War effortislands Bear was last left on. They also showed female emancipation, which helped create the town's tourism industry, now faded For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and falling apart but once a feminist success storywounded. Alice, a girl who stumbles into Vivien's granDesperate to make sure he's tourist shop one dayOK, knows she certainly wants mermaids and her father return to exist – she thinks her family's black sheep died searching for them, or else was just too successful the Arctic and hope that in her hunt. When the shya world of very white and very dangerous things, doubting Thomasina she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that is Vivien collides with the exuberant, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?friendship can continue.|isbn=18399419010008582017
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|author=Alison HughesSimon Fox|title=FlyDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This Late one night Graham Blake is a very impressive readlate back from his shift on the force, as it does a lot of what mainstream teen and tween fiction still struggles with. Its focus is courtesy the first person narration from Flythen suddenly rings Archie, a secondary school lad with cerebral palsy, a down-on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement demanding he fetch something from being a cleaner, a carer while at schoolsecret place, and a bundle of assumptions people lay join him on himthe run. First they assume that with a broken body comes a broken mindThey get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, then they decide he's toting a maths savant – they even believe they can get tin his father was determined to keep away with calling him Fly, which isn't from his real namecolleagues, but everybody just uses itand the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=15253058321839944420
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|author=Darren ShanCath Howe|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 My Life on Fire|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= So. WeRen're back to the Merge with the first chapter s family home is destroyed in the third volume of Darren Shana fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn's saga t have any of Archibald Loxher clothes, a young man who can pick the locks or any of portals her special little knick-knacks from our world to anotherher cupboard, called the ''Mergeand now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. Since his last adventure When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a slightly uneasy truce on the topic of his regular disappearancesperson. They don't ask too many questions and Archie But Ren has settled into nothing to put in a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winstonbox, his lock-picking mentor in the ''Merge'' and showing Kojoso she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, the young guardianthings that people might not really miss, around our world of the Bornnot when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn= B09Z2MTCZD1839942835
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|isbnauthor=0008541477Rob Keeley|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!|author=Lauren ChildThe Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It was Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a hot summer day right at the beginning of the summer holidays and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except for sometimes... And only on rare-sh occasions, which is hardly ever.'' There are seven members of the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because he's wobbly), Mum and Dad, Clarice's older brother, Kurt and younger brother, Minal Cricket. There's also Marcie, who's main claim return to fame seems to be that she steals the batteries from Clarice's torch, which means that she can't read in the airing cupboard. Clarice would love to have someone who listened short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to hereleven new tales, rather than wanting each as fun to talk, but the only one who does that is Granny and she lives in New York. The Bean family is ''different''read as his previous offerings.|isbn= B0BVW69N1G
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|author=Fiona LongmuirLaura Noakes|title=Looking for EmilyCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet LilyNumber One. She and her mother have Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called Edge, and everyone from said mother Cos to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friends. It turns out that she doesn't have any say The practice in the matter, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she lives in is unaware her neighbour, Sam, is for the girls to just about be named by the number they correspond to make herself knownin the ledger, and in a big waythey're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where does Emily come she came from? Well, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of as the most mundane objectsfirst ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in the outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some converted houses behind posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a most unassuming door, in plan involving said outside world – a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emily'devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. Sam is completely unaware of this 'museum' But why, too, leaving the two girls and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind the intrigue...past she has so little link with?|isbn=18399427540008579059
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|isbnauthor=1800901232Alice M Ross|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve ColeThe Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=TwelveAt last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-year-old Hanh wanted to be full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a fashion designerseaside town. Life in the rural village where Elsbeth knows this because she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi has stolen it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the mini-bus ability to Hanoi. Onlyleave this world, Hanh and the use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other girls were not going to work in a shopworlds, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: where the ones with intricate embroidery sea levels are rising dramatically and beading on the legs? buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. The ones with With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched themshop? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.Well yes, is the answer, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769
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|isbnauthor=0711266204Natasha Farrant|title=The Secret Life Rescue of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Ravenwood
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Arun and Sam have had little to do with Donna, a girl at their school. But things immediately change at This story is another excellent adventure from the start author of this extended sprint ''Voyage of a novel, when she insists Arunthe Sparrowhawk''s . Ravenwood is an old house has become , in the attention North of plain-clothes coppers England, where Bea and that they should bunk off school to find out whyRaffy have been living for most of their lives. And thus an unlikely trio They are part of misfit young heroes a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is formed – Sam there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is really not Donna's idea of companythere with his mum, and they are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, but he is roaming through the computer bufftrees, Donna seems to know completely at one with all of the criminal ins nature around the house and outs and survival skills, and Arun? Wellloving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's his lot becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find out that all he based his family life on isnthemselves worrying not only about where they't true, and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved in something quite unexpected. But how can this disparate trio hope re going to best MI6live, kidnappers, people able to keep the truth about themselves secret for decadesbut if they'll even be together, and so much more?if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|isbn=18399433860571348785
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|author=Lissa EvansRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=WishedSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When things contrive to force Ed Jayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) unicorns of the world, for example. Aisha is addicted to stay with her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanoutside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, Miss Fileyeducational purpose, for and with a week of half-termpast involving Jayden's cousin, they're not looking forward to itfind a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one thing, Aisha thinks she thinks Wi-Fi is 's seen on a special brand bit of biscuitlocal footage. They don't particularly take to Willard eitherThe crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the new kid next door, who seems magical sight needed to ebulliently take over everything and everywherejoin in. But things soon change when Dare they find some tiny old birthday candlesside with Leila, the woman on board, and manage to work out that these candles, for her relative who lives as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come true. How will things change for a second time when they realise thatfigure in a painting, having used up three and become saviours of them, these should really be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than themunseen?|isbn=178845202X0241573483
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|authorisbn=Richard SmithB09XWSXSKY|title=Time Trap TwoMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn''Jamie t sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and Todd are horrified to learn that the Grand Plan, which they thought had been defeated, is about to be implemented over in 1775, Americahis mind. Hector and Catherine have It happened every time he came to thwart Travis - an agent of the Grand Plan - who is hell bent on world dominationvisit his grandfather. Jamie and Todd go with Hector and Catherine on a mission He hadn't really wanted to 1775come; after all, he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to prevent a super gun from being used in him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the Battle of Bunker Hill, during the American War of Independence, but only have days to stop history from being alteredtime. And time isn't good for anything...''
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