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|isbn=17765728581836285493|title=How Do You Make The Double Life of a Baby?Wheelchair User|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)Rob Keeley

|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=ItWill 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's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed t gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and told me his mum that she'd get me he spends a book about it. A couple of days later I was handed afternoons a week at a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basicsdifferent school, Station Road, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldnwhere his ability might be better extended.}}{{Frontpage|isbn= 1836282028|title=The Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary='t be discussed any further as it 'Would you like to adopt a ghost?'wasn't something which nice people talked about ''Young spirit, born 1887, seeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on well with other children. Jokes and shocks a speciality. I ''knew '' moreIf interested, place outside your home three twigs, in the shape of an arrow, but was little pointing to your front door...''wiser Hooray! 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 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 this intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the rules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is adopted by them and takes up residence in.... a wardrobe!}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. ThankfullyHe's a ball of happy positivity, times have changedhe understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector. The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|author=Darren ShanMax Boucherat|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Time We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to catch you all up with some of my lockdown reading pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule- I've been doing so much of it breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that I'm a bit late is to the party with actual reviewing. Oops! And where better log on to start than with Voxminer, the new series from Bookbag favouriteworld-building, Darren Shan? Archie critter-collecting game that is very down. Hea hit in Lori's lost world. But first Lori has a dear friend recently, in a tragic accidenttiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and Archie blames himselfthen she finds something even more spooky. He can't face school so he takes himself for a truanting wander around London For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. As he strolls across a footbridge When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, he sees a girl who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men and her safe place in white suits. He watchesthe game has been doctored – well, aghast. What where is going ona girl to turn?|isbn=B086LKBHD60008666482

|author=Antony WoottenKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Season of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary= Tannash and her brother Geb are waiting Meet Kit. Like most of the people in great excitement for his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the hunting party led by their uncle to return. They're hoping for sport where a feast team of mammoth meatwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Geb longs Unfortunately for Kit, the day only thing he can join his uncle Gagba and 's seen of the other warriors latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a hunting party and take part in their deeds new trio of derring-doquestors is needed. But their father Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the leader token bully of the villagehis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, thinks muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that they also need an education; that knowledge is power., and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=19392696791839945184}}

|author=Tania UnsworthJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerPlanet Storyland

|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girlThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. The sort of small girl who often gets overlooked, AI and forgotten. She is quietautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and compliant, and makes the best of whatever happens other tasks that took time to heraccomplish. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free to take care of her, Just as they have were beginning to arrange for her get used to go all this technological change and stay with her Great Uncle for a week. Poor Elsie, forgotten againstarting to think of other, just decides new ways to make the best of things. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boyspend time, and he has along came an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one of the roomsawful pandemic. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappyLife was pretty much shut down and, and he says he has to keep along with it because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years old, and he says it was all the worst thing he ever did. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tiger, in order to put something right that happened a long time agodaily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=17885417071736128426

|author=Natasha FarrantTom Percival|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkThe Wrong Shoes

|summary=Set Will's life is difficult, in England in the aftermath a multitude of World War One, this ways. He is bullied because he has 'the story of two childrenwrong shoes', Lotti he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and Ben, who doesn't have lost everyone they loveenough money for even the most basic of things like food, but donand his dad can't want to let go of their lastwork because he lost his job at the college, tiny glimpses of hopewas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Ben is living on a narrowboat on Throw into that mix the canalfact that his mum and dad are separated, lying to the police about his brotherand Will's imminent return from the battlefields to take care life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of himhope. Lotti, meanwhileHe is good at art, has been expelled from school and clings to the moments of joy when he is back drawing, that feel like a light at home; itthe end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1805141872|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''s Seventeen banks and a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently jeweller’s have guardianship forbeen raided. The day Lotti meets police are baffled, but only Ben (knows the day she steals truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a dogsafecracker!) is the beginning of a deepWith police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and powerful friendshipBen go on the run. It sees But Al needs them become each otherfor one last job...'s family' Goodness me, and undertake that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a perilous trip nice teacher like her manage to Franceget mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, in the boatpupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, to try to find out the truth son of the people they both love.|isbn=0571348769a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

|author=Joanne M HarrisChristopher Edge|title=A Pocketful of CrowsBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= I have always been Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of the mind that once you'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're above picture-book level and before you get looking forward to graphic sex & violencelots of exciting films, there is no difference between books for children and books for adults. many, many snacks! There are good books and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful of Crows'' is clearly aimed at the younger readers However, as witness the use of the middle initial in the authormovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn's name to differentiate from her adult offerst even imagine. Ignore that if you have loved anything But as they lurch from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress of one film genre to the modern fairy tale. This next, can they figure out what on earth is no different. going on? It is an utter delight.Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=14732221841839942738

|author=Ele FountainAdam Stower|title=LostMurray and Bun

|summary=Lola lives in an Indian city with her father, and her brother, AmitRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. She lives with them in a nice apartmentHer mum died when she was young, and although they are not rich like some now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the girls at school, they have enough money night by the police banging on her door to be comfortable. Lola spends tell her time thinking about that her school friends, and trying dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to fit in with thembuy a lottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, until one dayshe can only name her aunt, suddenlyJoni, everything in who she knows her life changesdad didn't think very highly of. After taking a work trip awayBut she has no one else, Lola's father doesn't come homeand so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. They have nobody else Things continue to helpget worse for Roo, as when she and as they wait day after dayJoni leave London in Joni's old campervan, Lola wonders what will become it breaks down in the middle of them until, finally, they are evicted from their flat, nowhere and she and her brother find themselves forced to live on the streets.then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=178269255X0571376169

|author= Angela WoolfeAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title= Roxy and Jones: The Great Fairytale Cover-UpOscar's Lion|rating= 4.53|genre= Confident Readers|summary= After her We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father gets married for the umpteenth time, Roxy Humperdinck but mother is sent more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to live with her half-sister Gretel in Rexopolis, capital city of the Kingdom of Illustria. Gretel works as a toilet cleaner be ready for the Ministry of Soupschool. Why does But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is a country like Illustria need an entire ministry dedicated to soupmahoosive male lion on their bed, you ask? Welllooking sheepish, after Roxy finds a secret passage in her bathroom and meets admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a snarky young woman known only lion around – it can be shown as Jones, she soon finds out why. Turns out, fairy tales are real, and an unspoken threat to the Ministry’s official job is to safeguard all knowledge of them and monitor bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the living fairy talesother month. Andit can shapeshift, when an evil queen breaks so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a maximum-security prison and threatens problem. And it's wonderful to reinstate her reign of terrorhave around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, Roxy and Jones hold the fate of the world in their young hands…soso on. OK, no pressure then!it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=14063913790008596751

|title=The Pear AffairStolen 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=Set in the 1960'sMeet Gil. Just twelve, this he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a mystery adventure storyhome for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, all about a little girl called Nell and her quest lets it ride him to find her nanny, Perrine (Pear) who left her very suddenly and then, after keeping in touch regularly by post, disappeared completely from her life, leaving Nell berefthis future. There's everything That future seems to be in this story, jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with underground tunnels as his brother in a camp on an island between the playground two directions of gangs of childrena motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to travel provide for their safety and detective workseclusion. Them, and a mute girl also finding a mystery mould infecting Parisian bakerieshome there, mysterious figures following Nell aroundalbeit so much more successfully. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, and a set of truly dreadful parents!or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=05713468551804540080

|author= Kirsty ApplebaumHelen Peters|title= TroofriendFriends and Traitors|rating= 4.53|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Are you tired of your child's classmates constantly being horrible England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to them? Do you want your child to have some positive experiences with people? Introducing be in service all her life it seems, like the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These statefemale generations before her. The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-oftoity 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-art machines Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are capable received under cover of emulating the full range secrecy, talk is made of human emotions without lyingmeetings with Germans, and not only that, stealing or bullyinga local Spitfire factory has been attacked. They're But surely the perfect companion for any child! Any mention that these androids girls are beginning to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours wrong, and have absolutely no basis in reality…rightthe upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=17880034701788004647

|author= M G Leonard and Sam SedgmanJamie Littler|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefArkspire|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Harrison BeckTwo sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, or Hal as he prefers are growing to be called, isn't exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a travel writer, on a long train journeychalk and cheese. Although, this isn't any old train; this Juniper is the Highland Falconan eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the royal train, and this Badlands. Elodie is its last ever journey before it gets sent intent on getting closer to a museum. A number power in one of the religious districts of high-society figuresArkspire, including film stars, millionaires and aristocrats, will be on this train, so it is quite perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the event on power of the social calendar. However, when an expensive brooch is stolenWatcher, Hal realises that maybe this trip won't be as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin closest to turn on each othera ruler the district has, Hal vows to get to the bottom and one of the mystery…before five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the train gets to magic that only five people can use would definitely change the end status of the linewhole 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=15290130620241586143

|isbn=1781129312024162343X|title=Sequin and StitchStolen History|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)Sathnam Sanghera

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Sequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she I was the bad company other people got very cross with herinto at school. It wasnI was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 't that mum wouldngod't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - . Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was because she never pushed to get credit for what she didprobably worse still. Mum is a seamstress and she makes Not too long after the sort end of clothes that you see WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on red carpets or at important weddings. Shethose) in what came to be called 's not the designer - theycolonies're as want to dispute what right the people who make a lot of money from army had to be there in the clothesfirst place. Mum is Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the person who actually maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'makesd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History' the garments and she's really talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.

|author= Hana TookeThiago de Moraes|title= The UnadoptablesOld Gods New Tricks|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the winter school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of 1880nuisance. But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, five babies are abandoned at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdamworld changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, much to the annoyance even of matron Gasbeek. Twelve years later, Milouelectric cars, hits not just the last of town the five babies to be abandoned back school's in that winter, struggles to work out but the identity of her parents entire planet (apart from the clues she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks on the outsidemobile phones, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker and a velvet blanket. She, along with all that powers the other fourInternet, patiently wait just for Milouour convenience's parents to come back and take her homesake). However Trixie, luckily, when realises what has happened – the five children are sold to ancient Gods have taken the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotman, they know they have to escapepower of power from us. And so she begins the adventure of a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou with her parentsepic quest, to gather all the time being pursued by people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the Kinderbureau semi-deities, giants, half-gods and Rotman…so on known as the tricksters.|isbn=0241417465178845295X

|author=Rob HarrellHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=WinkFinding Bear

|summary=When Ross is diagnosed [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a rare form of cancer, aged 12, his desperate attempts at school to just be 'normal' become impossiblepolar bear – that she called Bear. Suddenly he is Back home, things on the cancer kid, domestic and everything he doesfamily front are a bit advanced, how he looksbut not perfect for her, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the other kids in schoolislands Bear was last left on. Ross is, understandably, angry. He is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed in For a permanent winkbear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. He has gloopy eye medicine Desperate to try to help with the painmake sure he's OK, plus the need to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due she and her father return to the ongoing treatment. With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friends, Arctic and hope that in a series world of horrible memes that someone at school creates about Ross, nothing about his life is normal any morevery white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and he has to find new ways to deal with his feelings, dangerous thing – and survivethat the friendship can continue.|isbn=14714091470008582017

|author=Alastair ChisholmSimon Fox|title=Orion LostDeadlock

|summary= Thirteen-year-old Beth Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and her parents board the transport ship Orion ready for then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a new life secret place, and join him on Eos Fivethe run. Their new home is still being terra-formed and life there isn't going to be easy They get together, but it ''barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is'' going arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to be a fresh start. As Beth's mum puts itBrighton, ''There's toting a future waiting for us. A chance tin his father was determined to make our own decisionskeep away from his colleagues, create our own livesand the bearer of a whole heap of questions.''|isbn= 17880059291839944420

|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)Cath Howe|title=Orphans of the TideMy Life on Fire

|summary= In the last city on EarthRen's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, anyone can be the vessel or any of The Enemy her special little knick- knacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the god who drowned the world - who has come foods they normally eat. When she goes back to wreak havoc on school she discovers that the last of humanity. When class are doing a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse special art project, creating boxes of a whaletheir lives, the citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, display things that are important to them and show who they are as a girl inventorperson. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares But Ren has nothing to put in a box, and so she finds herself starting to execute the boysteal things. Small things, Ellie must prove things that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepestpeople might not really miss, darkest secrets..not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=02413844351839942835

|author= Holly RiversRob Keeley|title= Demelza The Boy Who Disappeared and the Spectre DetectorsOther Stories|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Demelza Clock Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a scientist, often staying up late to work on her various gadgets, much return to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. However, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the ability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Under the guidance of her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to master her newfound skills. Howevereleven new tales, there is a mysterious individual on the prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's up each as fun to Demelza and her best friend Percy to get to the bottom of this..read as his previous offerings.|isbn=1912626039B0BVW69N1G

|author=Tanya LandmanLaura Noakes|title=Jane Eyre: Cosima Unfortunate Steals a RetellingStar|rating=54

|summary=A young womanMeet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about just Cos to her, and years friends. The practice in the home she lives in a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to have something like in the life she wants ledger, and they're all Unfortunates – and young people with only one jobdisabilities, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absentuncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. When he does turn up he But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be darkknown about where she came from, brooding and troubled – but that's nothing compared to as the darkerfirst ever inmate, more broody and even more troubling secret unique in having no known family in the houseoutside world. YesDuring a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest she discovers a plan involving said outside world – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to turn want toadopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=17811291260008579059

|author=Innosanto NagaraAlice M Ross|title=M is for MovementThe Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Set At last there is new stock in Indonesia, the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in the not too distant past, a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this is a story about social changebecause she has stolen it. Dealing with some difficult issuesShe also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the ability to leave this world, such as political corruption and nepotismuse an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the book is neither boring nor preachybuildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. It educates gentlyWith eviction imminent, with vibrant, challenging illustrationscan Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, and it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they will fail. The message is a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain worldthe answer, we do still have but the power to instigate change.fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=16098093511839943769

|isbnauthor=1401286208Natasha Farrant|title=Black Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGeeThe Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=3.5

|summary=Meet Dinah LanceThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, in the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. Frustrated that They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her policeman father will not allow her to try Uncle Leo, and follow in Raffy is there with his footstepsmum, and seemingly lumbered with being they are living together as a cheerleader family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at schoolone with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, she as Leo is desperate under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to find her voice. But a developer as it's actually becoming more and 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 singerexpensive to maintain. You could almost call it a weapon, or a power. But in order for her The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to call herself a superherolive, there has to but if they'll even be a whole path of steps for her to take – one of which together, and if Ravenwood itself will be into her past…torn down.|isbn=0571348785

|isbnauthor=1609809378Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Rabbits' Rebellion|author=Ariel Dorfman and Chris RiddellUnicorns of Silver Street|rating=4.5

|summary=WeJayden're s nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the realm phoenixes and unicorns of the rabbitsworld, for example. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, only the foxes and wolves have taken overwhere she can see videos of anything that might be out there. King WolfThe problem, His Wolfinessas their mothers see it, has declared the rabbits donis that they are never 'out there't existthemselves, but exploring the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that the bunnies are in fact still aroundoutside world of Hackney, London. Demanding But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a propaganda spreepast involving Jayden's cousin, King Wolf orders they find a humble monkey to be his official portrait photographermagical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, but whatever including the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there is one Aisha thinks she's seen on a distinct leporine hintbit of local footage. Can King Wolf succeed The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in proving himself victorious. Dare they side with Leila, can the rabbits show their continued existence to all woman on board, and her relative who need to know lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of it – and what can the poor monkey caught in between dounseen? |isbn=0241573483

|isbn=1406389331B09XWSXSKY|title=In Maestro Orpheus and the Key of CodeWorld Clock|author=Aimee LucidoRobert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|summary=Emmy is moving with her parents halfway across AmericaFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, to follow her fatherplease) couldn's dreams t sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a big break clock was playing over and over in his music careermind. She leaves behind her friends and her school in Wisconsin, and moves It happened every time he came to California, knowing only what she has heard in songsvisit his grandfather. Her struggle He hadn't really wanted to settle into her new lifecome; after all, make friends and feel happy he's ten now and confident again, is agonisingly told in a way we can all relate those old clocks don't appeal tohim anymore. There are many new opportunities and setbacks, taking  ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the reader on a rollercoaster of emotions, but it time. And time isn't until Emmy joins a coding class using computer language good for anything...'' And that she begins was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to feel she might have a chance to feel like she truly belongs.go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?