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|author=Simon FoxMax Boucherat|title=DeadlockThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift We meet Lori on the forcefirst evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, and then suddenly rings Archiejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, demanding he fetch something from on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a secret placeblanket fort, she has one main intention, and join him that is to log on to Voxminer, the runworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. They get togetherBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, but barely begin and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to smell the whiff enter shows signs of Southern trains when the father is arrestedtampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, leaving Archie on and her safe place in the late express to Brightongame has been doctored – well, toting where is a tin his father was determined girl to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.turn?|isbn=18399444200008666482

|author=Cath HoweKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=My Life on FireDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54

|summary=Ren's family home is destroyed in a fireMeet Kit. SheLike most of the people in his world, her parentsit seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clotheshealer enter specially prepared, or any of her special little knickcentury-knacks from her cupboardold, magical mazes, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anythingrace to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or do anything, or even eat the foods big bad and the points they normally eatgrant you along the way. When she goes back to school she discovers Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that the class are doing a special art projectone team has been retired, creating boxes of their liveseaten, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a personnew trio of questors is needed. But Ren Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has nothing taken to put in the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a box, and so she finds herself starting to steal thingsteam. Small thingsWhat chance does this friendless, things muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what will happen and how could he possibly hope to her if someone finds out what she is doingsucceed?|isbn=18399428351839945184

|author= Rob KeeleyJames Sherwood Metts|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other StoriesPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with Things have been a return bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to eleven think of other, new talesways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, each as fun to read as his previous offeringsall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn= B0BVW69N1G1736128426

|author=Laura NoakesTom Percival|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45

|summary=Meet Number One. Or ratherWill's life is difficult, Cosima Unfortunatein a multitude of ways. Or ratherHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', just Cos to her friends. The practice in he has the home she lives in is wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledgermost basic of things like food, and theyhis dad can're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilitiest work because he lost his job at the college, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly uponwas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. But Cosima bears Throw into that mix the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmatefact that his mum and dad are separated, and unique Will's life seems bleak in having no known family in the outside worldevery direction. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoonAnd yet, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – he still has a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institutetiny amount of hope. But whyHe is good at art, and what does clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to feel like a light at the past she has so little link with?end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=00085790591398527122

|authorisbn=Alice M Ross1805141872|title=The Nowhere ThiefTeacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth ''Seventeen banks and her mother run in a seaside townjeweller’s have been raided. Elsbeth The police are baffled, but only Ben knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found outthe truth – his Maths teacher, because she has the ability to leave this worldMiss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worldsher gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, where the sea levels are rising dramatically Miss Judson and Ben go on the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe run. But Al needs them for plunderone last job... With eviction imminent'' Goodness me, can Elsbeth nab anything that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to actually generate custom at the shopget mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? Well yesWe'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is the answerBen, but the fact son of a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

|author=Natasha FarrantChristopher Edge|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54

|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the author nickname of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk'The Black Hole'. Ravenwood is an old houseAll big movie fans, in the North they're looking forward to lots of Englandexciting films, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. many, many snacks! They are part of a complex, extended family arrangementHowever, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leothe movie starts, and Raffy they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is there with his mumvery different, and they are living together as a familyswept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. They have grown up swimming in But as they lurch from one film genre to the covenext, roaming through can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the treescinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, completely at one with all of the nature around the house who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and loving every inch , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the placetwo. But now he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the house is under threatcatflap they both use can chuck them out, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell not into the property to regular back garden, but into a developer as it's becoming more world of frightening adventure and more expensive to maintainwhiffs. The children find themselves worrying not only about This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where they're going a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to livebe honest, but if theyhe's turned up and he'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.have to do…|isbn=05713487850008561249

|author=Robin Birch Alex Bell and Jobe AndersonTim McDonagh|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns Glorious Race of Silver StreetMagical Beasts

|summary=Jayden's nose Eli is forever a busy lad – by day an apprentice in a bookthe wondrous library we start by visiting with him, which means he knows and in the evening a lot about mythological creatures – helper at the phoenixes dessert cafe his gran owns and unicorns of the world, for exampleruns. Aisha is addicted to her new tabletEli lives with his lovely gran, where she can see videos of anything that might be out too – for thereis a generation missing in the family. The problemA few short years ago, as their mothers see it, is that they are never Eli'out there' themselvess parents were both lost to the titular race, exploring a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the outside world in the company of Hackney, Londona magical beast. But This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a narrowboat turns up carrying bad incident at the eatery leads to a science-mindedconfession from gran, educational purposeEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, and with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew sole aim the prize of magic at the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters end – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed only thing to join inpossibly save his gran. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=02415734830571382231

|isbnauthor=B09XWSXSKYHelen Cooper|title=Maestro Orpheus and The Taming of the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne GrodzinskiCat|rating=43.5

|summary=Frederick (or FredOnce again, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleepmice are pitched against cat. A tuneIn this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, rather like up against Gorgonzola the ticking of cat – and in case you're seeing a connection, they live in a clock was playing over cheese shop and over in his mind. It happened every time he came therefore all the names used here seem to visit his grandfatherbe the names of cheeses. He hadn't really wanted to come; after allAnyway, Brie is shunned, he's ten now scorned and all those old clocks , if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't appeal to him anymorematch the other mice he lives with. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the timevisuals on it. And time isn't good for anything...'' And that was why story-telling will come in handy one night, when he was looking at the clock beside the bedfeels all alone and cast out. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six timess almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. There was nothing for it but This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to go and find grandad half- but where inch some cheese while the cat was he? distracted. And why had all But will the story have the clocks stopped at twelve o'clocksuccessful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=0571376010

|author=Nigel BainesLauren St John|title=A Tricky Kind of MagicFinding Wonder|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Cooper loves to perform magic tricksRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. His father Her mum died when she was a magicianyoung, and named Cooper after now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the great Tommy Coopercorner shop to buy a lottery ticket. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenlyWhen asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, and now Cooper doesnwho she knows her dad didn't quite know who to bethink very highly of. But she has no one else, or how and so off she goes to belive with her unreliable aunt. And Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when his dadshe and Joni leave London in Joni's prop rabbit starts talking to himold campervan, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymoreit breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=14449602610571376169

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Spoonful of SpyingOscar's Lion|rating=43

|summary=[[Alice EclairWe start incredibly bluntly, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for Trouble by Sarah Todd Taylor|Last time around]]with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, Alice Eclair had to prove herself as but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a spy and as a master at all things French and fancy and fondant, as the only way couple of times before he has to save the day involved being an expert baker and icer on the French railwaysbe ready for school. HereBut when he enters his parents' bedroom, we start all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on a bateau-mouche in Paristheir bed, looking sheepish, and even though the espionage isnadmitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a complete success lion around – it proves can be shown as an unspoken threat to Alice and her handlers the bully that things are afootruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. And there will never be more feet than at the World's Fairit can shapeshift, reviving the huge expo that gave the city the Eiffel Tower so he can take it to school and this time showing all her interwar glories off to the worldit can get him out of a problem. Once again Alice will And it's wonderful to have to present around the front to house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the world of being a humble yet world-class cake decoratorrules, while seeking out cluesand so on. At stake? Pioneering flight technology that the enemy just cannot be allowed to smuggle out…OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=18399409720008596751

|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy GreeneJudith Eagle|title=Fritz and KurtThe Stolen Songbird

|summary=We start with the pair of brothers Fritz and KurtCaro's mother, and their muckersa world-famous whistler, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want has failed to do – kicking things around the empty market placereturn home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, helping the neighboursRonnie, being dutiful when it comes is having to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has go up North to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switchtake care of her sister who is unwell. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader So who is going to cave look after Caro? Sent to Hitler's willstay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and instead worried. All her summer holiday plans of having building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a national vote to keep the Nazis outhalt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, invite them in along with open armsan orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. ''Kristallnacht'' happened But she soon finds herself caught up in Vienna just a mystery, as much as in Germanyshe discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, as did and all across London a fearsome gang called the round-ups of JewsSnakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. These in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or Is the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially painting somehow linked to each other, packed off on the same train gang? And what has happened to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. Caro's mother? And us wondering how Is she somehow involved in the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…mystery too?|isbn=024156574X0571363148

|author=Robin StevensTania Unsworth|title=The Ministry of Unladylike ActivityNowhere Island

|summary=May Wong is a long way from her family in Hong KongMeet Gil. She’s stuck in her schoolJust twelve, Deepdean, and desperate he is so determined to get away, and do something useful to help end escape the care system – the war system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and to get find a homefor himself. She just knows that she would make the perfect spy! And He is en route to yet another fosterer, when she finds herself turned away by the Ministry, she takes matters he jumps into her own handsan anonymous car, along with a boy she meets outside the Ministry, Ericand lets it ride him to his future. They both go undercover in a large country house, pretending That future seems to be evacuees, in an attempt to prove jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone there is passing secrets lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to the Nazisprovide for their safety and seclusion. But there is a lot more going on in Elysium Hall than either them have imaginedThem, and suddenly they find themselves in the middle of a murder scenemute girl also finding a home there, with even albeit so much more to try to unravel and solvesuccessfully. 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=02414298621804540080

|author=Greg James and Chris SmithHelen Peters|title=Super GhostFriends and Traitors|rating=53

|summary=Paragon City has been lucky England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to have be in service all her life it seems, like the great Doctor Extraordinary, their very own superhero taking care of themfemale generations before her. Whenever the evil Captain Chaos has come up with another cunning plan (usually involving The other is Sidney, a girl from a giant robot of some description) Doctor Extraordinary hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there to thwart her mischief and save the dayaway from bomber flight-paths. But one day the Doctor The girls are chalk and cheese, and the Captain are trapped together inside a giant robot if we hadn't guessed that then explodestheir behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amiss, and the hero first separately and then in combination they realise the villain Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are no morereceived under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. Or But surely the girls are they…wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=02414705361788004647

|author=Natasha Hastings and Alex T SmithJamie Littler|title=The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost FairArkspire|rating=3.54

|summary=''The River Thames had frozen Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to death be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in its sleepillicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands.'' And thus Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the Frost Fair could happen – people trading on power of the Watcher, the closest to a ruler the completely iced-over riverdistrict has, like our heroine Thomasina's father with his gingerbread and confectionery shopone of the five major victors in said earlier war. Thomasina will be working Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the Fair too – but her twin brother won't, as he dies in Chapter Onewhole family. It was a tragedy she feels no small guilt forBut in finding something oddly magical, and which has made her father a sullen, closed shop – and Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her bed-bound mother has spoken not a word own – not even opened her eyesfor good, more or less – for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143}}{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the four years since, eitherexistence of a 'god'. But into Where was the darkproof? In history lessons, frosted London comes Inigo, with supreme magical powers, and a willingness to help Thomasinait was probably worse still. Not only can he introduce her to too long after the fantastical Other Frost Fairend of WWII, using I didn't so much want to learn about the river surface at night for no end of mystical beasts British army's successes (and characters and their happeningsoccasional failures, but he has a unique proposal for Thomasinawe didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. Looking back, which will shake her world I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to its coreapproach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|isbn=0008496056

|author=Holly WebbThiago de Moraes|title=The Story of GreenriverOld Gods New Tricks

|summary=Silken Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and Sedgeadventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, for all their differences, have she could almost be thought a lot in commonyoung goddess of nuisance. Silken is a girl whose father is the Master Builder of what might be the finest beaver lodge on But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the Greenriverworld changes. Unfortunately she is also Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a kind power-out, even of runt figureelectric cars, and as a result is patronisedhits not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and given all that powers the most tokenistic tasks when it comes to fetching wood and shoring the dam up. She also stands out Internet, just for the unique artistic ability to singour convenience's sake). Otters like Sedge singTrixie, but he tooluckily, as realises what has happened – the son of ancient Gods have taken the lady power of the holt, has pressure on him to be a bit less feckless and more attentive to classpower from us. HeAnd so she begins her epic quest, after to gather all, will eventually inherit the job of keeping people that can steal it back – namely the otters safe characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the wolf that both animal species fear Gods, ie the mostsemi-deities, giants, half-gods and from dreaded events like a Dark Springso on known as the tricksters.|isbn=1510109625178845295X

|author=Anna Kemp Hannah Gold and David WyattLevi Pinfold|title=Into Goblyn WoodFinding Bear|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Hazel. For the last nine of her eleven years she has [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been stuck as on Bear Island, a foundling in lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a horrid, Victorian institution, generally peeling vegetables or acting as ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a servantpolar bear – that she called Bear. She'd arrived at the place at Back home, things on the same time as Pete, domestic and they're inseparably good friends nowfamily front are a bit advanced, until a chance but not perfect for them both to escapeher, and enter so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the outside world, does not go to planislands Bear was last left on. There had always For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been the idea of a life idyllic in the nearby forests, Goblyn Wood, shot and a tribe of Wild Children, but none of that comes wounded. Desperate to passmake sure he's OK, as Hazel finds herself in the care of a professor at the Natural History Museum. But life with him is not anything like what she might have expected it to be – and Hazel is determined to her father return to the Woods, restore her friendship with Pete – Arctic and to work out just what is going on hope that in the foresta world of very white and very dangerous things, both the light she can find one specific white and the shade, dangerous thing – and that the deathly dark..friendship can continue.|isbn=13985038350008582017

|author=Judith EagleSimon Fox|title=The Accidental StowawayDeadlock

|summary=Patch Late one night Graham Blake is a little girl who has been passed late back from one relation to anotherhis shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, until it seems that there is nobody left for her to go to. Her father died when she was very youngdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, and her mother ran awayjoin him on the run. The family lawyerThey get together, after consultation with ‘someone’, arranges for her but barely begin to go to a school in Liverpoolsmell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, but leaving Archie on her arrival therethe late express to Brighton, she gets caught up in an adventure with toting a little boy called Turo who works on a steamship. During a chase with him (when she is both trying tin his father was determined to get her rollerskate back and running keep away from the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding in a lifeboathis colleagues, and before she knows it, the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!bearer of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=05713631211839944420

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorCath Howe|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleMy Life on Fire|rating=45

|summary=Meet Alice EclairRen's family home is destroyed in a fire. A perfect eye She, her parents, and very careful hands her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have made any of her one clothes, or any of Paris's best young cake makers her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and decorators, making sure now she is living at her mothergrandmother's establishment is a classy affairhouse where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. Not bad for When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a thirteen year old. Ohspecial art project, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a perfect eye and a very careful handler and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spyperson. Her first real mission will be But Ren has nothing to chase a traitor across the country – working behind the scenes on put in a posh sleeper train to the south of Francebox, and hoping against hope that so she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents finds herself starting to creep into the country from getting into nefarious handssteal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But while nobody would have what will happen to her down as a spy, can if someone finds out what she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find the baddyis doing?|isbn=18399409561839942835

|author=David SolomonsRob Keeley|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyThe Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|summary=Gavin Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is being followed, seemingly constantly, by back with a return to the new (very annoying) girl at school. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl short story. Because in this instance, the girl in question is Niki, and she is a galactic princess (no, really, she isformat!) So what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled in a situation where, potentiallyThe Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, Earth and everyone on it will be blown each as fun to smithereens, all because of Niki?read as his previous offerings.|isbn=0857639935B0BVW69N1G

|author=Alex CotterLaura Noakes|title=The Mermaid CallCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating=3.54

|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids don't existMeet Number One. But she also knows they have to exist – at least in the public eyeOr rather, Cosima Unfortunate. For there would be nothing Or rather, just Cos to Lake Splendour – a far northern English resort – without themher friends. A hundred years and change ago, two teenaged The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls allegedly spent months with mermaids, but were forced to return just be named by the number they correspond to help out in the ledger, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with the Great War effortdisabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. They also showed female emancipationBut Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, which helped create as the town's tourism industryfirst ever inmate, now faded and falling apart but once a feminist success storyunique in having no known family in the outside world. Alice, During a girl who stumbles into Vivien's gran's tourist shop daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one dayafternoon, knows she certainly wants mermaids discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to exist – she thinks her family's black sheep died searching adopt all the girls for them, or else was just too successful in her hunthis Institute. When the shyBut why, doubting Thomasina and what does that is Vivien collides body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with the exuberant, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?|isbn=18399419010008579059

|author=Alison HughesAlice M Ross|title=FlyThe Nowhere Thief

|summary=This At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a very impressive read, as seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it does a lot of what mainstream teen and tween fiction still struggles with. Its focus is courtesy the first person narration She also knows she should be free from Flyworries about being found out, a secondary school lad with cerebral palsybecause she has the ability to leave this world, a down-on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleaner, a carer while at schooland use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and a bundle the buildings are generally empty of assumptions people lay on himhumans and ripe for plunder. First they assume that with a broken body comes a broken mindWith eviction imminent, then they decide he's a maths savant – they even believe they can get away with calling him FlyElsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, which isn't his real nameis the answer, but everybody just uses it.the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=15253058321839943769

|author=Darren ShanNatasha Farrant|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 The Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=4.5

|summary= So. We're back to the Merge with the first chapter in This story is another excellent adventure from the third volume author of Darren Shan's saga 'Voyage of Archibald Lox, a young man who can pick the locks of portals from our world to another, called the ''MergeSparrowhawk''. Since his last adventure Ravenwood is an old house, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce on in the topic North of his regular disappearancesEngland, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They don't ask too many questions and Archie has settled into are part of a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winstoncomplex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his lock-picking mentor mum, and they are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the ''Merge'' and showing Kojocove, roaming through the young guardiantrees, completely at one with all of the nature around our world the house and loving every inch of the Bornplace. 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 becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD0571348785

|isbnauthor=0008541477Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Clarice BeanSecret Beast Club: Scram!|author=Lauren ChildThe Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=4.5

|summary=It was Jayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a hot summer day right at lot about mythological creatures – the beginning phoenixes and unicorns of the summer holidays and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except world, for sometimesexample. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there.. And only on rare-sh occasions The problem, as their mothers see it, which is hardly ever.that they are never 'out there' There are seven members themselves, exploring the outside world of the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because he's wobbly)Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, Mum and Dad, Claricewith a past involving Jayden's older brothercousin, Kurt and younger brother, Minal Cricketthey find a magical world they never knew existed. There's also MarcieFor many of those mythological creatures are real, whoincluding the one Aisha thinks she's main claim to fame seems to be that she steals seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the batteries from Clarice's torchboat, including a living gargoyle, which means that she can't read are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in the airing cupboard. Clarice would love to have someone who listened to herDare they side with Leila, rather than wanting to talkthe woman on board, but the only one and her relative who does that is Granny and she lives as a figure in New York. The Bean family is ''different''.a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=0241573483

|authorisbn=Fiona LongmuirB09XWSXSKY|title=Looking for EmilyMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating=54

|summary=Meet LilyFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. She and her mother have just moved from A tune, rather like the ticking of a city to a tiny seaside town called Edge, clock was playing over and everyone from said mother over in his mind. It happened every time he came to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friendsvisit his grandfather. It turns out that she doesn He hadn't have any say in the matter, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she is unaware her neighbour, Sam, is just about really wanted to make herself known, and in a big way. But where does Emily come from? Well; after all, Lily used that name because of what shehe'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the most mundane objects, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emilys ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. Sam is completely unaware of this  'museum', too, leaving Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding whattime. And time isn's behind the intriguet good for anything...|isbn=1839942754}}''

{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family And that was why he was happy, if not prosperous, so when looking at the smartly-dressed man and woman came to clock beside the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missedbed. Some money changed hands and Hanh It was on nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the mini-bus to Hanoiclock chimed only six times. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were There was nothing for it but to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery go and beading on the legsfind grandad - but where was he? The ones with And why had all the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched themclocks stopped at twelve o'clock? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.

|isbnauthor=0711266204Nigel Baines|title=The Secret Life A Tricky Kind of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Magic|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionEmerging Readers|summary=I have recently discovered Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a great pleasure: I sit magician, and watch named Cooper after the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basisgreat Tommy Cooper. An hour can pass without my noticing. IBut sadly Cooper've established which species feed from the grounds father died suddenly, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and now Cooper doesn't quite know who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful ifto be, as a child, I'd had access or how to a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''be. So – what is it?}}{{Frontpage|author=Jason Rohan|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access Denied|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Arun and Sam have had little to do with Donna, a girl at their school. But things immediately change at the start of this extended sprint of a novel, And when she insists Arunhis dad's house has become the attention of plain-clothes coppers and that they should bunk off school prop rabbit starts talking to find out why. And thus an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is him, he ''really not Donna's idea of company, but he is the computer buff, Donna seems to ' doesn't know all the criminal ins and outs and survival skills, and Arun? Well, itwhat's his lot to find out that all he based his family life going on isn't true, and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved in something quite unexpected. But how can this disparate trio hope to best MI6, kidnappers, people able to keep the truth about themselves secret for decades, and so much more?anymore!|isbn=18399433861444960261