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|author=Judith EagleMax Boucherat|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 Last Life 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 IslandLori Mills

|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape We meet Lori on the care system – first evening she's got the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes house to herself – and find a home for himself. He is en route no neighbour to yet another fostererpop in, when he jumps into babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an anonymous caravidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and lets it ride him to his futureon her lonesome. That future seems to be What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in jeopardy when someone steals his a blanket fort, she has one bag of belongings – but main intention, and that someone lives with his brother in a camp is to log on an island between to Voxminer, the two directions of a motorwayworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusionhit in Lori's world. ThemBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much then she finds something even more successfullyspooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combineWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, or if this is one and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where life as we would want it just would not work…is a girl to turn?|isbn=18045400800008666482

|author=T KingfisherJenny Lecoat|title=Thornhedge|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''You had a right to retake your place.'' T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spells.|isbn=1803364238}}=='''7 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Lauren St John|title=Finding WonderBeyond Summerland

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the middle end 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 ticketoccupation. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, JoniDuring the war, who she knows her dad didnJean't think very highly of. But she has no s father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one elsenight, leaving Jean and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse mother waiting for years for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle news of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169}}=='''28 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Finding Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=[[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 polar bear – that she called Bearhim. Back home, things on As the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from British finally free the Channel islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Desperate to make sure he's OK, she and her father return to from the Arctic and hope that in a world of very white and very dangerous thingsNazis, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.|isbn=0008582017}}=='''26 OCTOBER'''=={{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 war 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' bedroomfinally over, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting hopes rise that he won't be hungry for another two daysthey will finally learn what became of him. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown will the truth come as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshiftrelief, so he can take or will it to school and it can get him out of a problem. raise further questions around what else happened during the war? And it's wonderful to have around Who was the informer who told the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax Nazis about the rules, and so on. radio? OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=00085967511846976537