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|author=M G LeonardMax Boucherat|title=TwitchThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4

|summary=Twitch Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at hometeam of warrior, mage and chickenshealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and helping birds is easy compared to that of his time in schoolthe points they grant you along the way. But things are about to change Unfortunately for Twitch in all aspects Kit, the only thing he's seen of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber the latest race on the runinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and it's possible that the missing bank haul a new trio of questors is hidden somewhere in Aves Woodneeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the place where Twitch has token bully of his secret hide world and that stumbled into declaring he knows like the back of his hand! 'll enter as a team. Can Twitch solve the mysteryWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and find the missing millionshow could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14063893741839945184

|author=Hannah PeckJames Sherwood Metts|title=Kate on the CasePlanet Storyland|rating=34.5

|summary=Meet Kate, although I got Things have been a bit sticky for the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at thatEarthlings. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, AI and the author of our heroine's favourite possessionautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they''The Special Correspondent Manual''re paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Armed with a plucky father, that book, Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped starting to manage a train ride to the Arcticthink of other, new ways to see her scientist mother for the first spend time in yonks, along came an awful pandemic. HoweverLife was pretty much shut down and, this is a train ride along with a differenceit, for all the many daily social interactions on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist..which they depend so heavily.|isbn=184812970X1736128426

|author=Hayley WebsterTom Percival|title=Luna Rae is Not AloneThe Wrong Shoes

|summary=Luna Rae has just moved houseWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Moving house He is always trickybullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', but especially when youhe has the wrong shoes because his dad can're ten years old, t work and you miss your old homedoesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and you and your little sister have to start a new school but your mum seems to be out working all the time. Then there's your his dad, who doesncan't seem like work because he's coping so welllost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and so there's no one to take care of things but youhad an accident. Everything feels different, Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and strangedad are separated, and mysteriousWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, and so Luna finds he still has a way tiny amount of coping is by watchinghope. She turns detectiveHe is good at art, and starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhoodclings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, but it turns out she's not that feel like a light at the only one keeping watch!end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=17880060461398527122

|authorisbn=Francesca Simon and Steve May1805141872|title=Two Terrible VikingsThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=In ''Seventeen banks and a small Viking village there live two twinsjeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Hack and WhackMiss Judson, who are eager to be the very worst Vikings everis really a safecracker! Nothing can stop With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their mad maraudingtrail, as they cause havoc at a birthday partyMiss Judson and Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job...'' Goodness me, chaos whilst tracking that Miss Judson is a troll, and undertake terror! How on earth did a grand journey nice teacher like her manage to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of a famous magician who has ambitions to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Biteybe as good as his father some day, and their crazy cast of friends.|isbn=0571349498who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellChristopher Edge|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54

|summary=Meet Stella Lucas and her family. They're just innocently trying to have his friends are all booked in for a Sunday evening in togethermovie marathon at their local cinema, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when ''poofplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole' everything goes blank. And itAll big movie fans, they's not just their home, but the entire south-western village re looking forward to lots of Mouseholeexciting films, and not just thatmany, eithermany snacks! However, but as the whole countrymovie starts, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen backvery quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and not what they were constantly doing on them beforeare swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do But as they lurch from one film genre to the V part of their jobnext, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandmacinema, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – for it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.their real lives?|isbn=14711968871839942738

|author=Hannah GoldAdam Stower|title=The Last BearMurray and Bun

|summary=April's father, Eli is a scientistbusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, has been given a job on and in the evening a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts helper at the job deciding to take dessert cafe his daughter April with himgran owns and runs. They live alone anywayEli lives with his lovely gran, since April's mother died some time before, and he feels it will be educational too – for her to experience there is a generation missing in the island and all its natural beautyfamily. April already has an affinity with natureA few short years ago, and sheEli's excited parents were both lost to travel with her fatherthe titular race, thinking of a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the fun things they will be able to experience together on world in the islandcompany of a magical beast. But This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when they get therea bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of Eli knows his time, and so April only hope is left to explore by herself. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Islanddare to enter what he most hates, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse with the sole aim the prize of one, and so she sets out to find magic at the end – the Bear, and then when she sees he is injured, only thing to befriend and help himpossibly save his gran.|isbn=000841128X0571382231

|author=Emma Carroll and Kaja KajfezHelen Cooper|title=The Ghost GardenTaming of the Cat|rating=43.5

|summary=FranOnce again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the gardenermouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you's daughter at re seeing a posh country houseconnection, is worriedthey live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous- a large bonetracised, buried under for the potatoesway his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, They nibble up paper wrapping from the older child of cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the housevisuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawnwhen he feels all alone and cast out. She is due It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems tell stories to foretell a surprisekeep themselves alive. Tasked with shoving Leo around This makes Brie the grounds top dog in his bathchairthe mouse community, though, she might have reason as all the others had the chance to be out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking half- a long-forgotten burial chamberinch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But surely will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914cheese runs out?|isbn=17811290020571376010

|author=Rob WintersLauren St John|title=His Name Was WrenFinding Wonder

|summary=In September 1944 something came down in Oban Woods, near the village of HurstwickRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. It came down hardHer mum died when she was young, taking and now she finds herself awoken in the spire middle of the village church with itnight 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, destroying a stone shackshe can only name her aunt, and leaving a wide trail through the woodJoni, but no trace who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of what it actually was. German secret weapon was the local gossipBut she has no one else, but there should have been an explosion and a craterso off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and there were neither Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of those things.nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=B08KGVNVNB0571376169

|author=Alex WheatleAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeOscar's Lion|rating=2.53

|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – only they should be the best of times. He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema dateor father, but mother is more likely – read him his phone very favourite book a couple of times before he has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in response, and the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anywayready for school. On a bigger scale But when heenters his parents's living with his mother bedroom, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and not much income now admitting that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad theyhe won're resorting to having cabbage t be hungry for dinneranother two days. I know, right? But surely this is just there are benefits to having a blip, a day at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This lion around – it can't be shown as an unspoken threat to the start of bully that ruined a most nightmarish time birthday party for young Welton?|isbn=1781129495}}{{Frontpage|author= Katharine Orton|title= Glassheart|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since Oscar the Blitz claimed the lives of her familyother month. Now And it can shapeshift, in the aftermath so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a problem. And it's wonderful to have around the warhouse – not limiting his biscuit intake, they travel all over the country, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombs. Their latest job takes them out to being much more lax about the wilds of Dartmoorrules, where Nona discovers that her world is full of ancient and powerful magicso on. She also discovers that a mysterious entity OK, known only as The Soldier, is hell-bent on using Nonait can's innate magic for his own ends, and will not stop until he has her…t work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=14063852390008596751

|author=Rob KeeleyJudith Eagle|title=The Treasure in the TowerStolen Songbird

|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read Caro's mother, a new adventure from Rob world- his stories combine fast pace and lots of actionfamous whistler, an easy has failed to read style, an unerring eye for children's friendships return home from her recent work trip abroad and rivalriesis now missing. Her other mother, and always a good dollop of naughty humour. They're all present hereRonnie, in ''The Treasure in the Tower''. The chance purchase is having to go up North to take care of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventureher sister who is unwell. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure So who is going to look after Caro? Jess Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her brother Mason mother despises, she feels frustrated and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with confused and worried. All her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?|isbn=1800461321}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This could have been one summer holiday plans of those books which 'preaches building herself some equipment to the choir': the only people who'll buy it practise her gymnastics are the people who know that nudity brought to a halt whilst she is OK and the ones who ''know'' that itstuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is coughing fit to bustliving there too. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of a book about not wearing clothes. Itbird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a celebration of bodies: bodies large fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and small and of every possible hueterrorising people. Bodies with disabilities and markings. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? TheyAnd what has happened to Caro're fine. s mother? In fact, they're wonderful.Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=0571363148

|author=Onjali Q RaufTania Unsworth|title=The Night Bus HeroNowhere Island

|summary=Hector is a bullyMeet Gil. Egged on by his two 'friends'Just twelve, he takes other children's sweets, harasses is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and threatens, plays pranks at school, and gets into trouble at every turnfind a home for himself. Yet He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he finds himself frustrated when something actually isn't his faultjumps into an anonymous car, but then he isn't believed as everyone expects and lets it ride him to be telling lieshis future. Nothing That future seems fair. His parents are barely home, and seem to only care about be in jeopardy when someone steals his perfect sister and one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his annoying little brother when they arein a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and his teachers have abandoned him as a lost causeseclusion. So what happens whenThem, in trying to tell the truth & fight to be believedand a mute girl also finding a home there, Hector finds himself embroiled with the police; first trying to accusealbeit so much more successfully. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, and then trying to save a homeless man from his local park?or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=15101067741804540080

|author=Carlie SorosiakHelen Peters|title=My Life as a CatFriends and Traitors|rating=4.53

|summary=This England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is the story of an alien who has come down Nancy, destined to spend some time on earth living as a human. It's something that each member be in service all her life it seems, like the alien collective female generations before her. The other is allowed to doSidney, for 1 month, once they reach a certain agegirl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en routeThe 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 goes wrong with his arrival is amiss, and first separately and he finds that instead of landing then in Yellowstone Park, ready to work as combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a park rangerrum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, he talk is instead in the body made of a cat on the other side of the country! This is meetings with Germans, and not what he had planned! Not only is he in the wrong place and the wrong bodythat, he is also in the middle of a storm, stuck in a tree! local Spitfire factory has been attacked. And so he meets Olive, But surely the little girl who rows out in a boat to rescue himgirls are wrong, and who names him Leonard.the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=17880060891788004647

|author=Yara Evans and Luciana BettiJamie Littler|title=The Adventures of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesArkspire

|summary=Black Cat Two sisters, Juniper and Tabby Cat Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are minding their own business 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 their own house when a very alarming thing happensthe Badlands. A creature - 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 largeruler the district has, dog-like creature - appears and one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in their housethe magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. Black Cat But in finding something oddly magical, always one Juniper might just be able to take chargegain some power of her own – for good, or for very, challenges this fearsome creature with all very bad…|isbn=0241586143}}{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I was the courage he can musterbad company other people got into at school. Tabby Cat backs him I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we 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.. from a rather safe distance. The creature is indignant Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem'politely. Iwish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''m not .}}{{Frontpage|author=Thiago de Moraes|title=Old Gods New Tricks|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a dogyoung goddess of nuisance. I But just when she'm s being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a fox!power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.|isbn=1511658649 178845295X

|author=Darren ShanHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment Finding Bear|rating=4.5

|summary=This third [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and final book in finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, things on the first volume of Darren Shan's new ''Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and Inez make it almost all so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the way islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Desperate to the Cuckoomake sure he's NestOK, where she and her father return to the Vote Arctic and hope that in a world of Alignment will be heldvery white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue. But how will they get in?|isbn=B086LLWP4V0008582017

|isbnauthor=B086LLRZFHSimon Fox|title=Archibald Lox and the Empress of SuanpanDeadlock|author=Darren Shan|rating=4.5

|summary=Archie's second foray into 'Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the Merge' opens with a fantastic vista. All of the Born's most famous buildings force, and monuments - Big Benthen suddenly rings Archie, the Taj Mahaldemanding he fetch something from a secret place,  and join him on the Eiffel Tower - are collected run. They get together, joined by those clever Merge vines. But there's no time to waste in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help from Inez to a venerable locksmith called Winston.Winston is a darling but is afraid barely begin to help - what smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is to be done? Despite yearning to go home and worry for his foster parentsarrested, leaving Archie feels an obligation on the late express to take Winston's place. And so Archie embarks on Brighton, toting a newtin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and even more dangerous, adventure...the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=1839944420

|isbnauthor=1776572858Cath Howe|title=How Do You Make a Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)My Life on Fire

|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=ItRen's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were madefamily home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. My mother was deeply embarrassed She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and told me that now sheis living at her grandmother'd get me a book about its house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. A couple When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basicstheir lives, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) to display things that are important to them and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further show who they are as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''a person. I ''knew'' moreBut Ren has nothing to put in a box, but was little ''wiser''and so she finds herself starting to steal things. ThankfullySmall things, times things that people might not really miss, not when they have changedso much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=1839942835

|author=Darren ShanRob Keeley|title=Archibald Lox The Boy Who Disappeared and the Bridge Between WorldsOther Stories|rating=4.5

|summary=Time to catch you all up Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with some of my lockdown reading - I've been doing so much of it that I'm a bit late return to the party with actual reviewing. Oopsshort story format! And where better The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to start than with the eleven new series from Bookbag favouritetales, Darren Shan? Archie is very down. He's lost a dear friend recently, in a tragic accident, and Archie blames himself. He can't face school so he takes himself for a truanting wander around Londoneach as fun to read as his previous offerings. As he strolls across a footbridge, he sees a girl who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suits. He watches, aghast. What is going on?|isbn=B086LKBHD6B0BVW69N1G

|author=Antony WoottenLaura Noakes|title=Season of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary= Tannash and Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her brother Geb are waiting friends. The practice in the home she lives in great excitement is for the hunting party led girls to just be named by their uncle the number they correspond to return. Theyin the ledger, and they're hoping for a feast of mammoth meatall Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. Geb longs for But Cosima bears the day he can join his uncle Gagba and tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the other warriors on a hunting party first ever inmate, and take part unique in their deeds of derring-dohaving no known family in the outside world. But their father During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the leader of the villagegirls for his Institute. But why, thinks and what does that they also need an education; that knowledge is power.body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=19392696790008579059}}

|author=Tania UnsworthAlice M Ross|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerNowhere Thief

|summary=Elsie At last there is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlooked, and forgotten. She is quiet, and compliant, and makes new stock in the best of whatever happens to her. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free to take care of her, they have to arrange for her to go impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and stay with her Great Uncle for mother run in a weekseaside town. Poor Elsie, forgotten again, just decides to make the best of thingsElsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. On investigating the house She also knows she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boyshould be free from worries about being found out, and he because she has an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one of the rooms. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappyability to leave this world, and he says he has use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to keep it because he was enter other worlds, where the one who shot sea levels are rising dramatically and the tiger when he was 12 years old, buildings are generally empty of humans and he says it was the worst thing he ever didripe for plunder. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many yearsWith eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years oldshop? Well yes, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing is the tigeranswer, in order to put something right that happened but the fact a long time ago.mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=17885417071839943769

|title=Voyage The Rescue of the SparrowhawkRavenwood

|summary=Set in England in This story is another excellent adventure from the aftermath author of World War One''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, this is in the story North of two childrenEngland, Lotti where Bea and Ben, who Raffy have lost everyone they love, but don't want to let go been living for most of their last, tiny glimpses of hopelives. Ben They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living on together as a narrowboat on family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the place. But now the canalhouse is under threat, lying as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the police about his brotherproperty to a developer as it's imminent return from the battlefields becoming more and more expensive to take care of himmaintain. LottiThe children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, meanwhilebut if they'll even be together, has been expelled from school and is back at home; itif Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|isbn=0571348785}}{{Frontpage|author=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jayden's nose is forever in a beautiful house that belongs book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. Aisha is addicted to her but new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship formight be out there. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals a dog!) problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the beginning outside world of Hackney, London. But when a deepnarrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and powerful friendshipwith a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. It sees them become each otherFor many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's familyseen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and undertake a perilous trip the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to Francejoin in. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in the boata painting, to try to find out the truth and become saviours of the people they both love.unseen?|isbn=05713487690241573483

|authorisbn=Joanne M HarrisB09XWSXSKY|title=A Pocketful of CrowsMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating=54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= I have always been Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of the a clock was playing over and over in his mind that once you. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn're above picture-book level and before you get t really wanted to graphic sex & violencecome; after all, there is no difference between books for children he's ten now and books for adultsall those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore.  ''Who needs old clocks anyway? There are good books and poor onesAll they do is tell the time. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor onestime isn't good for anything... ''A Pocketful of Crows'' is clearly aimed  And that was why he was looking at the younger readers as witness the use of the middle initial in clock beside the author's name to differentiate from her adult offersbed. Ignore that if you have loved anything from It was nearly twelve o''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress of clock but at midnight the modern fairy taleclock chimed only six times. This is no different. There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? It is an utter delight.|isbn=1473222184And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?

|author=Ele FountainNigel Baines|title=LostA Tricky Kind of Magic

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Lola lives in an Indian city with her father, and her brother, AmitCooper loves to perform magic tricks. She lives with them in His father was a nice apartmentmagician, and although they are not rich like some of named Cooper after the girls at school, they have enough money to be comfortablegreat Tommy Cooper. Lola spends her time thinking about her school friendsBut sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and trying now Cooper doesn't quite know who to fit in with thembe, until one day, suddenly, everything in her life changesor how to be. After taking a work trip awayAnd when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, Lolahe ''really''s father doesn't come home. They have nobody else to help, and as they wait day after day, Lola wonders know what will become of them until, finally, they are evicted from their flat, and she and her brother find themselves forced to live 's going on the streets.anymore!|isbn=178269255X1444960261