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|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author= Kirsty ApplebaumRob Keeley|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of all, he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.}}{{Frontpage|isbn= 1836282028|title= TroofriendThe Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Are ''Would you tired of your child's classmates constantly being horrible like to themadopt a ghost? Do you want your child '' ''Young spirit, born 1887, seeks kind home to have some positive experiences haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on well with people? Introducing the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-of-the-art machines are capable of emulating other children. Jokes and shocks a speciality.'' ''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, in the full range shape of human emotions without lyingan arrow, stealing or bullyingpointing to your front door... They're the perfect companion for any child' Hooray! Any mention Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a decade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's ''Spirits'' series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that these androids are beginning is both a reboot and a continuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. Ruby and Jayden respond to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours this intriguing advertisement and have absolutely no basis Edward, who has broken the rules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is adopted by them and takes up residence in reality…right?|isbn=1788003470.... a wardrobe!

|author= M G Leonard and Sam SedgmanJames Sherwood Metts|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefPlanet Storyland|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Harrison Beck, or Hal as he prefers to be called, isn't exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, Things have been a travel writer, on a long train journeybit sticky for the Earthlings. AlthoughAI and automation have been proceeding apace, this isnoften replacing jobs they't any old train; re paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this is the Highland Falcon, the royal train, technological change and this is its last ever journey before it gets sent starting to a museum. A number think of high-society figuresother, including film starsnew ways to spend time, millionaires along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and aristocrats, will be on this trainalong with it, so it is quite the event on all the many daily social calendar. However, when an expensive brooch is stolen, Hal realises that maybe this trip won't be as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin to turn interactions on each other, Hal vows to get to the bottom of the mystery…before the train gets to the end of the linewhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=15290130621736128426

|isbnauthor=1781129312Tom Percival|title=Sequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)The Wrong Shoes

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Sequin loved her mum to bitsWill's life is difficult, but sometimes she got very cross with herin a multitude of ways. It wasnHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't that mum wouldnhave enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't go outside their flat work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in- Sequin coped with hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that - it was because she never pushed to get credit for what she didhis mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. Mum He is a seamstress good at art, and she makes clings to the sort moments of clothes joy when he is drawing, that you see on red carpets or feel like a light at important weddingsthe end of a long, dark tunnel. She|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1805141872|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary='s not the designer - they're Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the people who make truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a lot of money from safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the clothesrun. But Al needs them for one last job... Mum is the person who actually ''makes Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We' ll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the garments and she's really talentedpupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, but when people talk about the dress or the suitson of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, they talk about the designer. The seamstress and who thinks Miss Judson is never mentioned.worth saving

|author= Hana TookeChristopher Edge|title= The UnadoptablesBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In the winter of 1880, five babies Lucas and his friends are abandoned all booked in for a movie marathon at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdamtheir local cinema, much to a place that has the annoyance nickname of matron Gasbeek'The Black Hole'. Twelve years later All big movie fans, Milou, the last of the five babies to be abandoned back in that winter, struggles they're looking forward to work out the identity lots of her parents from the clues she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks on the outsideexciting films, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker and a velvet blanket. Shemany, many snacks! However, along with as the other fourmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, patiently wait for Milouand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn's parents to come back and take her homet even imagine. However, when the five children are sold But as they lurch from one film genre to the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotmannext, can they know figure out what on earth is going on? Will they have ever get back to escape. And so begins the adventure of a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou with her parentscinema, all the time being pursued by the Kinderbureau and Rotman…to their real lives?|isbn=02414174651839942738

|author=Rob HarrellAdam Stower|title=WinkMurray and Bun

|summary=When Ross Eli is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, aged 12, his desperate attempts at school to just be 'normal' become impossible. Suddenly he is busy lad – by day an apprentice in the cancer kidwondrous library we start by visiting with him, and everything he does, how he looks, and how he behaves falls under in the scrutiny of evening a helper at the other kids in schooldessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Ross isEli lives with his lovely gran, understandably, angry. He too – for there is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed a generation missing in a permanent winkthe family. He has gloopy eye medicine A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to try to help with the paintitular race, plus the need to wear a hat at globe-trotting adventure where all times to protect his face due entrants have to navigate the world in the ongoing treatmentcompany of a magical beast. With This has made the race anathema to the sudden ghosting by one of his best friends, and pair – but when a series of horrible memes that someone bad incident at school creates about Rossthe eatery leads to a confession from gran, nothing about Eli knows his life only hope is normal any more, and he has to find new ways dare to deal enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his feelings, and survivegran.|isbn=14714091470571382231

|author=Alastair ChisholmHelen Cooper|title=Orion LostThe Taming of the Cat|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=0571376010}}{{Frontpage|author=Lauren St John|title=Finding Wonder|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. 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 door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But she has no one else, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Oscar's Lion|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined 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 rules, and so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=0008596751}}{{Frontpage|author=Judith Eagle|title=The Stolen Songbird|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, is 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 Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=0571363148}}{{Frontpage|author=Tania Unsworth|title=Nowhere Island

|summary= Thirteen-year-old Beth Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and her parents board the transport ship Orion ready find a home for a new life on Eos Fivehimself. Their new home He is still being terra-formed and life there isn't going en route to be easyyet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, but and lets it ''is'' going 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 fresh start. As Beth's mum puts itcamp on an island between the two directions of a motorway, ''There's a future waiting place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for ustheir safety and seclusion. A chance to make our own decisions Them, and a mute girl also finding a home there, create our own livesalbeit 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= 17880059291804540080

|author=Struan Murray Helen Peters|title=Friends and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)Traitors|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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 girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if 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 first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=1788004647}}{{Frontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=Orphans Arkspire|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. 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 power of the Watcher, the closest to a ruler the district has, and one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the Tidewhole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143}}{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary= In Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the last city on Earthschool aircon with fart powder, anyone can she could almost be the vessel thought a young goddess of The Enemy nuisance. But just when she's being told that by her one- the god who drowned last-chance-giving headteacher, the world - who has come to wreak havoc on the last of humanitychanges. When Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse power-out, even of a whaleelectric cars, hits not just the citizens immediately believe him to be town the school's in but the Vessel - entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all except that powers the Internet, just for young Ellie Lancasterour convenience's sake). Trixie, luckily, a girl inventorrealises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. As And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the boyGods, Ellie must prove that he is innocent ie the semi- even if it means revealing her deepestdeities, giants, darkest secrets..half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.|isbn=0241384435178845295X

|author= Holly RiversHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title= Demelza and the Spectre DetectorsFinding Bear|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Demelza Clock is a scientist[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], often staying up late to work April had been on her various gadgetsBear Island, much to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. Howevera lot further north than many people would venture, she has also inherited and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a certain set of skills polar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, things on the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not especially scientific: Spectre Detectingperfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the ability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Under the guidance of her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to master her newfound skillsislands Bear was last left on. However, there is For a mysterious individual on the prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectorsbear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. It Desperate to make sure he's up to Demelza OK, she and her best friend Percy to get father return to the bottom Arctic and hope that in a world of this..very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.|isbn=19126260390008582017

|author=Tanya LandmanSimon Fox|title=Jane Eyre: Deadlock|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. They 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, toting a Retellingtin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=1839944420}}{{Frontpage|author=Cath Howe|title=My Life on Fire

|summary=A young womanRen's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about herparents, and years in a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have something like the life she wants – and with only one jobany of her clothes, to tutor a young halfor any of her special little knick-French girlknacks from her cupboard, whose father and now she is almost always absentliving at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. When he does turn up he seems she goes back to be darkschool she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, brooding to display things that are important to them and troubled – but that's show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing compared to the darkerput in a box, more broody and even more troubling secret in the houseso she finds herself starting to steal things. YesSmall things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=1839942835}}{{Frontpage|author= Rob Keeley|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a wonderful book return to turn the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, each as fun toread as his previous offerings.|isbn=1781129126B0BVW69N1G

|author=Innosanto NagaraLaura Noakes|title=M is for MovementCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Set in IndonesiaMeet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the not too distant past, this home she lives in is a story about social change. Dealing with some difficult issuesfor the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, such as political corruption and nepotismthey're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, the book is neither boring nor preachyuncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. It educates gentlyBut Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, with vibrant, challenging illustrationsas the first ever inmate, and it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they will failunique in having no known family in the outside world. The message is During a positive daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one; that in an increasingly uncertain afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world– a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, we do still have and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the power to instigate change.past she has so little link with?|isbn=16098093510008579059

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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Black Canary: Ignite by Meg Cabot and Cara McGee]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, and seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, she is desperate to find her voice. But it's actually more a case of her voice finding her, as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it a weapon, or a power. But in order for her to call herself a superhero, there has to be a whole path of steps for her to take – one of which will be into her past… [[Black Canary: Ignite by Meg Cabot and Cara McGee|Full Review]] <!-- Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1609809378.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1609809378/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Rabbits' Rebellion by Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] We're in the realm of the rabbits, only the foxes and wolves have taken over. King Wolf, His Wolfiness, has declared the rabbits don't exist, but the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that the bunnies are in fact still around. Demanding a propaganda spree, King Wolf orders a humble monkey to be his official portrait photographer, but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there is a distinct leporine hint. Can King Wolf succeed in proving himself victorious, can the rabbits show their continued existence to all who need to know of it – and what can the poor monkey caught in between do? [[The Rabbits' Rebellion by Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell|Full Review]] <!-- Aimee Lucido -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1406389331.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1406389331/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Emmy is moving with her parents halfway across America, to follow her father's dreams of a big break in his music career. She leaves behind her friends and her school in Wisconsin, and moves to California, knowing only what she has heard in songs. Her struggle to settle into her new life, make friends and feel happy and confident again, is agonisingly told in a way we can all relate to. There are many new opportunities and setbacks, taking the reader on a rollercoaster of emotions, but it isn't until Emmy joins a coding class using computer language that she begins to feel she might have a chance to feel like she truly belongs. [[In the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido|Full Review]] <!-- Maxwell N Andrews -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1983376353.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1983376353/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''| ===[[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I put Move on a par with comments about Marmite. You're supposed to love it or hate it and I'm halfway between, and likewise, the old adage is halfway true. From the cover of this I had a child-friendly fantasy, what with that name and that attractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. That was only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, with their non-standard spelling, as if texts of scripture in this book's world predated our standardised literacy. But why was I two chapters in and just finding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and more flashbacks, and no proof that this was what I'd bought in for? [[Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Maxwell N Andrews|Full Review]] <!-- Day -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0241351391.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0241351391/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It by Susie Day]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Newest Cookery Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] When Max’s dad finds himself in a spot of hot water, he disappears for a few days, leaving Max in charge of his three younger sisters, Thelma, Louise and Ripley. Max has no problem with stepping up to fill his dad’s shoes and be the man in charge, but when his dad still doesn’t come home, he starts to panic that interfering grown-ups will realise that the children are home alone and that they will step in and separate the family. So Max takes his sisters to Wales, to hide out in a friend’s cottage. It won’t be for long, surely? Because his dad wouldn’t miss Christmas, would he? [[Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It by Susie Day|Full Review]] <!-- Eoin Colfer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0008324859.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008324859/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Relax, everyone – our old friend Artemis may be off-planet, but the baddies aren't getting away with skulduggery any time soon because they now have not one but two members of the Fowl family to contend with. Those cute little twins are now eleven (and, frankly, cute no longer) and in this, their first independent adventure, they meet a troll and without even trying to manage to make two deadly enemies: a nobleman obsessed with immortality whatever the cost (to other people), and an unusual interrogator-nun. The boys are chased, kidnapped, arrested and even killed (though not for long), all with the help of one trainee fairy. [[Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer|Full Review]] <!-- Pike -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0192771604.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0192771604/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Last Spell Breather by Julie Pike]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Rayne lives in the small, hidden village of Penderin where she is a somewhat unwilling apprentice to her mother, the spell breather. Not everyone can spell breathe, you have to born with a magic spark and Rayne wishes she hadn't been born with one. She's a terrible spell breather, her attempts are always followed by disaster and she positively hates Mam's spell book with its sharp teeth that suck your blood. When a stranger finds their village one day, Mam must set off on a journey to the great library, leaving Rayne in the village as their chief spell breather, but an unfortunate mistake sees Rayne breaking her mother's book and turning everyone into monsters. She must face her fear travel across the monster-ridden country to find Mam and restore the book to save their village. [[The Last Spell Breather by Julie Pike|Full Review]]  <!-- Jamie Smart -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:bookreviewercentre.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1910989460/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Flember: The Secret Book by Jamie Smart]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] On the mysterious island of Flember, a young inventor named Dev finds an ancient book hidden in an old antiques shop. This book contains information about Flember, the energy of life. In true Frankenstein fashion, Dev uses it to create an enormous robot bear to help him clean up after himself. Hilarious chaos ensues. [[Flember: The Secret Book by Jamie Smart|Full Review]] <!-- Gardner -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786695227.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786695227/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Invisible in a Bright Light by Sally Gardner]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] The beginning of this excellent story will leave the reader more than a little confused: who is the man in the green suit, what is the Reckoning, and why are rows of people in a cave? But stick with it – Ms Gardner is very cleverly letting us experience the same disorientation as our heroine. We watch in dismay as the strange man, who seems to have no eyes, does his best to persuade her to answer his questions. But for some reason, Celeste, despite her bewilderment, remains wary and gives nothing away. [[Invisible in a Bright Light by Sally Gardner|Full Review]] <!-- Sorosiak -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:178800387X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178800387X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[I, Cosmo by Carlie Sorosiak]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]  Cosmo's family is in crisis. Mom and Dad argue all the time. Emmaline doesn't quite understand it because she's too little but she feels it. And Max, who is bigger, does understand it and is terrified by it. Long ago, when Max was just a baby, Cosmo made a promise to protect Max forever and so he sets about his mission of repairing the family with everything he's got... [[I, Cosmo by Carlie Sorosiak|Full Review]]<!-- Keret -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1609809319.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1609809319/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub by Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] One day a boy is in the zoo with his father when the man gets called away on urgent business. The boy isn't hustled into a cab and taken home first, though, no – he's given hot dog money, and taxi money, and told to just stick around on his own and enjoy himself. Well, it's no surprise that the orphan-for-an-afternoon sensation the lad feels doesn't make him happy, and so he thinks of a species name for himself and curls himself up into an empty cage as if he were a new exhibit. And it's then the drama begins… [[Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub by Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Saramago -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1609809335.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1609809335/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Lizard by Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)]]=== [[image:2star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging Readers|Emerging Readers]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] One day a giant lizard appears in the city. We don't even get told how it arrived, but it certainly appeared. People took against it, and if they weren't shrugging it off as a hallucination brought on by tiredness just as they fled it, they wanted something done about it. Can something be done about it, though? [[The Lizard by Jose Saramago, J Borges, Nick Caistor (translator) and Lucia Caistor (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}