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|isbnauthor=0008541477Max Boucherat|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!|author=Lauren ChildThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
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|summary=It was a hot summer day right at We meet Lori on the beginning of the summer holidays and Clarice Bean was bored: first evening she''Nothing ever happens except for sometimes... And only on rare-sh occasions, which is hardly ever.'' There are seven members of s got the Bean family living house to herself – no neighbour to pop in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because he's wobbly), Mum and Dadbabysitter poorly, Clarice's older brothermother at work, Kurt and younger brotherjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, Minal Cricketon her lonesome. There's also MarcieWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, who's she has one main claim intention, and that is to fame seems log on to be Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that she steals the batteries from Clariceis a hit in Lori's torch, which means world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that she canthis stormy night doesn't read in find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the airing cupboardserver she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Clarice would love to have someone who listened to When malevolent eyes spark up on herphone screen, rather than wanting to talk, but the only one who does that is Granny and she lives her safe place in New York. The Bean family the game has been doctored – well, where is ''different''.a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482
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|author=Fiona LongmuirKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Looking for EmilyDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54
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|summary=Meet LilyKit. She and her mother have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called Edge Like most of the people in his world, it seems, and everyone from said mother to her teacher are making demands he is an avid fan of Lily that she make new friends. It turns out that she doesn't have any say in Dungeon Running – the mattersport where a team of warrior, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emilymage and healer enter specially prepared, she is unaware her neighbourcentury-old, Sammagical mazes, is just about and race to make herself knownthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and in a big the points they grant you along the way. But where does Emily come from? Well Unfortunately for Kit, Lily used that name because of what shethe only thing he'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection s seen of the most mundane objectslatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, in some converted houses behind and a most unassuming doornew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, in a place calling itself 'The Museum he has taken to the goading from the token bully of Emilyhis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Sam is completely unaware of What chance does this 'museum'friendless, toomuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, leaving the two girls and how could he possibly hope to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind the intrigue...succeed?|isbn=18399427541839945184
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|isbnauthor=1800901232James Sherwood Metts|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve ColePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be Things have been a fashion designerbit sticky for the Earthlings. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happyAI and automation have been proceeding apace, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man often replacing jobs they're paid to do and woman came other tasks that took time to the village accomplish. Just as they were beginning to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not get used to be missed. Some money changed hands all this technological change and Hanh was on the mini-bus starting to Hanoi. Onlythink of other, Hanh and the other girls were not going new ways to work in a shopspend time, they were to work in virtual slavery in along came an illegal garment factoryawful pandemic. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery Life was pretty much shut down and beading on the legs? The ones , along with it, all the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt many daily social interactions on which they depend so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made themheavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=0711266204Tom Percival|title=The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Arun and Sam have had little to do with DonnaWill's life is difficult, in a girl at their schoolmultitude of ways. But things immediately change at He is bullied because he has 'the start of this extended sprint of a novelwrong shoes', when she insists Arun's house he has become the attention of plain-clothes coppers wrong shoes because his dad can't work and that they should bunk off school to find out why. And thus an unlikely trio of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is really not Donnadoesn's idea t have enough money for even the most basic of companythings like food, but and his dad can't work because he is lost his job at the computer buffcollege, Donna seems to know all was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the criminal ins fact that his mum and outs and survival skillsdad are separated, and Arun? Well, itWill's his lot to find out that all he based his family life on isn't true, and that his father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved seems bleak in something quite unexpectedevery direction. But how can this disparate trio And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope . He is good at art, and clings to best MI6the moments of joy when he is drawing, kidnappers, people able to keep that feel like a light at the truth about themselves secret for decadesend of a long, and so much more?dark tunnel.|isbn=18399433861398527122
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|authorisbn=Lissa Evans1805141872|title=WishedThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When things contrive to force Ed ''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanMaths teacher, Miss FileyJudson, for is really a week of half-termsafecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, they're not looking forward to itMiss Judson and Ben go on the run. For But Al needs them for one thinglast job...'' Goodness me, she thinks Wi-Fi that Miss Judson is a special brand of biscuitterror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. They don't particularly take to Willard eitherLuckily for Miss Judson, the new kid next doorpupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of a famous magician who seems has ambitions to ebulliently take over everything and everywhere. But things soon change when they find be as good as his father some tiny old birthday candlesday, and manage to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come true. How will things change for a second time when they realise that, having used up three of them, these should really be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202Xwho thinks Miss Judson is worth saving
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|author=Richard SmithChristopher Edge|title=Time Trap TwoBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they'Jamie re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and Todd many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are horrified swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to learn that the Grand Plannext, which can they thought had been defeatedfigure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is about supposed to be implemented in 1775a humble, America. Hector tidy and Catherine have to thwart Travis - an agent of the Grand Plan - friendly cat, one who is hell bent on world domination. Jamie able to sleep and eat and eat and Todd go with Hector sleep and Catherine on a mission to 1775, to prevent a super gun from being used in the Battle well, whatever takes his fancy next of Bunker Hill, during the American War of Independence, but only have days to stop history from being alteredtwo. But he's a bad magician' The second book in the ''Time Trap'' series, as you can sees cat, so his favourite bun has an urgent been turned into a mission for our young heroes as hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the firstcatflap they both use can chuck them out, which took place in not into the smog regular back garden, but into a world of Victorian Londonfrightening adventure and whiffs. This timeround it drops them into a Viking land, Jamie and Todd are off to the grand landscapes of North America. Traviswhere a troll hunter is expected – well, an agent of the Grand Planone much bigger than Murray was, is attempting to take the Gatling gun back in time be honest, but he's turned up and change the outcome of the Battle of Bunker Hill, a pivotal episode in the American War of Independence.he'll have to do…|isbn=B094ZFF85P0008561249
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|author=Justyn EdwardsAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Great Fox IllusionGlorious Race of Magical Beasts
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show Eli is a contest busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a differencehelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. No singing Eli lives with his lovely gran, no dancing, this show too – for there is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks worka generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, and who can attempt to win The Great FoxEli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical legacy - beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the secrets eatery leads to all of a confession from gran, Eli knows his tricks! Flick only hope is determined to windare to enter what he most hates, but not because she wants to own with the sole aim the prize of magic at the tricks. She is interested in just ''one'' trick, end – the trick that The Great Fox stole from her father. And she's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able only thing to bring her missing father homepossibly save his gran.|isbn=15295019460571382231
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|author=Sarah Ann JuckesHelen Cooper|title=The Hunt for Taming of the NightingaleCat|rating=43.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Jasper is a little boy who has some strugglesOnce again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, and whilst we're never told why exactlyprincipally, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attackshave Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotions. His big sisterin case you're seeing a connection, Rosie, has been they live in a huge support cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to himbe the names of cheeses. Anyway, talking him down when things were difficultBrie is shunned, encouraging himscorned and, and writing a book with himif you must, all about birdsmous-tracised, that for the way his habits don't match the other mice he can read when he gets scared to help him calm downlives with. His parents seem completely caught They nibble up in their business, paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and so makes stories based on the visuals on it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him And that she story-telling will still be there come in handy one night, when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, feels all alone and she isn't answering her phonecast out. His parents won It't speak s almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to him or when they dokeep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be rightthough, and as all the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find others had the nightingale and listen chance to its song, as they do together every Springhalf-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=13985108900571376010
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|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsLauren St John|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinFinding Wonder
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet TomasRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Happy 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 work with tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his father in way to the blacksmith's forgecorner shop to buy a lottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, hewho she knows her dad didn's almost t think very highly of the age . But she has no one else, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to become a full apprenticeget worse for Roo, as when she and help with Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the new batch middle of dragonswords 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 certainly needed. Not that there are any dragons, more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except..times before he has to be ready for school. Strange signals from within the forge furnaceBut when he enters his parents' bedroom, and all he sees is a peculiar invite to become an apprentice clerk insteadmahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are things for Tom benefits to puzzle over having a lion around – until it all comes out in can be shown as an unspoken threat to the wash, bully that yes dragons do still exist in this worldruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and that Tom is rare in it can get him out of a problem. And it's wonderful to have around the ability to summon themhouse – not limiting his biscuit intake, share magical attributesbeing much more lax about the rules, and ride with them.so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=18399400260008596751
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|author=Louie StowellJudith Eagle|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodThe Stolen Songbird|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided thereCaro's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending mother, a month both in exile world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and in the physical form of a middle-school kid here on Earthis now missing. He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents Her other mother, and Thor has come along as wellRonnie, is having to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother go up North to take care of the twoher sister who is unwell. Loki So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has a month to redeem his reputationheard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to prove it he has practise her gymnastics are brought to write the text we read 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 sentient notebookmystery, that is able to cry foul as she discovers a painting of his liesa bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and judge his progressall across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. But Loki is Is the painting somehow linked to the kind of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going gang? And what has happened to be a walk Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the park...rightmystery too?|isbn=14063997520571363148
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|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmyTania Unsworth|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondNowhere Island
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There is no mermaid in the millpondMeet Gil. That at least is what Bess Just twelve, he is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold so determined to escape the mill-owners by care system – the London workhouse they used to call system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a homefor himself. Bess knows there He is no time for friendship in a hand-en route to-mouthyet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, every man for himself kind and lets it ride him to his future. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of existence. But despite herself Bess does find belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a bit camp on an island between the two directions of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dotmotorway, a place inaccessible and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and how befriending people only leads to harmseclusion. Them, and a mute girl also finding a home there might be , albeit so much more successfully. Over a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=180090049X1804540080
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|author=Christopher EdgeHelen Peters|title=Escape RoomFriends and Traitors
|rating=3
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=I've seen junior variants of England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like the process by which female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a character or characters start by being trapped in girl from a specific locationhoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and have to solve problems in order to get their way out. What Iif we hadn've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for t guessed that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, then their behaviour with the regular second person narrative replaced by the each other over their firstencounters would only prove it so. Here But something is amiss, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to each other first separately and booked into then in combination they realise the game without any Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of their friendssecrecy, are a team – starting out at the game's main officestalk is made of meetings with Germans, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are not only that, a world-changerlocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite surely the ramped-up threat levelsgirls are wrong, change much in and the world of literatureupper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=17880079641788004647
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|author=Lucy HopeJamie Littler|title=FledglingArkspire|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=BavariaTwo sisters, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop houseJuniper and Elodie, built bit by bit over the decadesborn fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods belowcheese. It's Juniper is an eccentric houseeager hunter and trader in illicit magic, to host eccentrics, so including relics from prior major wars left out in the library shelving system Badlands. Elodie is not as we'd know it, intent on getting closer to power in one of the roof is retractablereligious districts of Arkspire, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so on. At perhaps even to become the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for child in line to inherit the long-standing family hobby power of taxidermythe Watcher, the closest to a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudlyruler the district has, and one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all magic that only five people can use would definitely change the maintenance status of this bizarre machine-like abodethe whole family. Oh but it's also going to house someone or But in finding something elseoddly magical, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going Juniper might just be able to be a completely great and wonderful thinggain some power of her own – for good, or for very, think again...very bad…|isbn=183994188X0241586143
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|authorisbn=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie Blackall024162343X|title=The Beatryce ProphecyStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''Stories have joy and surprises I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in themreligious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god', we are told here. And none more so than in this wondrous story Where was the proof? In history lessons, which feels an instant classic with the freshness and the agelessness it has in equal proportionwas probably worse still. We start with a group Not too long after the end of monksWWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, British army's successes (and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upendingoccasional failures, trampling but we didn't dwell on and biting those) in what came to be called 'the poor Brothers. Things change drastically when colonies' as want to dispute what right the beast takes a totally maternal approach army had to a homeless girl, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King be there in his castle, desperate to find the girlfirst place. Looking back, for it is prophesied I still believe I was right - but I regret that a young child can unseat I lacked the maturity to approach 'the throne and cause great changeproblem' politely. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simple, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=1529500893I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.
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|author=Greg James and Chris SmithThiago de Moraes|title=The Great Dream RobberyOld Gods New Tricks|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Maya's father is a professor who invented an amazing dream machineMeet Trixie. But something went wrong Forever getting into scrapes, larks and now he can't wake upadventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. Or at least, that But just when she's what Maya has been being toldthat by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. In Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a rather strange dream one night Maya makes a new friendpower-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and discovers all that powers the only way to save her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and reality collide...really...and thereInternet, just for our convenience's everything sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from llamas and bananasus. And so she begins her epic quest, dream machines made to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from hairdresser castmyth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-offsdeities, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.|isbn=024147051X178845295X
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|author=Keith GrayHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=The ClimbersFinding Bear|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Sully is the best tree climber in the village. He has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach'. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], called NottinghamApril had been on Bear Island, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threateneda lot further north than many people would venture, and not only finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – thatshe called Bear. Back home, that his chance to name things on the finaldomestic and family front are a bit advanced, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer itbut not perfect for her, might and so can easily be snatched ignored when word comes through from his handsthe islands Bear was last left on. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Desperate to make sure he's OK, or maybe even all she and her father return to the Arctic and hope that in a world of his friendsvery white and very dangerous things, to do so?she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.|isbn=17811299910008582017
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|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettSimon Fox|title=Locked Out LilyDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lily Late one night Graham Blake islate back from his shift on the force, or wasand then suddenly rings Archie, or has been, very illdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, and to give her parents relief she's been told to stay with her grandma for a few days. The parents need join him on the relief as Lily's baby sibling is just about to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do withrun. But on tracking back home for word of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parents They get together, and but barely begin to smell the babe-in-arms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get whiff of Southern trains when the family back intactfather is arrested, even if it's not leaving Archie on the family Lily wants – and all she has late express to help her in the task are some talking animals – CrowBrighton, Moletoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, Mouse and Snakethe bearer of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=14711948331839944420
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|author=Philip ReeveCath Howe|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the DeepMy Life on Fire
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In a word, rich. There Ren's family home is certainly an abundance of riches destroyed in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildseafire. She, British but way westher parents, beyond the Scilliesand her little brother lose everything. There are troll people on it She doesn't have any of her clothes, and seaor any of her special little knick-witchesknacks from her cupboard, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, now she is living at her grandmother's house where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcherthey can't touch anything, Andreweor do anything, who has or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to keep notes of activity from school she discovers that the Hidden Landsclass are doing a special art project, his brother Will who creating boxes of their lives in London with too much science in his head , to display things that are important to worry about such local yokel superstitions, them and Andrewe's foundling daughter, show who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years agothey are as a person. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himselfRen has nothing to put in a box, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their islandso she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, like it or notwhen they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=17884523721839942835
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|author=Alex FoulkesRob Keeley|title=Rules for VampiresThe Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a Vampire. She drinks blood, she sleeps during the day, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember return to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the night of her hundredth birthnight, she has to go out and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oopsshort story format! And The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to make things worse, the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her. Soeleven new tales, not only does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X}}{{Frontpage|author= Angharad Walker|title= The Ash House|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the system, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out as fun to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working read as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same againhis previous offerings.|isbn=1912626977B0BVW69N1G
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|author=Emma CarrollLaura Noakes|title=The Week at World's EndCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=FirstMeet Number One. Or rather, the titleCosima Unfortunate. We're in World's End Close Or rather, a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie just Cos to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and with the boy over the road. But we could also be at World's End, because something taking a great chunk of The practice in the fun away home she lives in is for the fact that girls to just be named by the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries number they correspond to reduce in the risk of nuclear missiles offshoreledger, and not much they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else is able seems to make be known about where she came from, as the news. That said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna hasfirst ever inmate, and unique in having no short time, taken a strong interest known family in the American airforce base behind outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the Closekitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to leaveadopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, and implied her life was at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has got nothing to do so little link with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=05713644380008579059
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|author=Ian Mark and Louis GhibaultAlice M Ross|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersThe Nowhere Thief
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet JackAt last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Now Jack Elsbeth knows very little this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being fearless and nimble and quickfound out, for he's a slight boybecause she has the ability to leave this world, and although he wants for danger use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and peril the buildings are generally empty of humans and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sightripe for plunder. That's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters With eviction imminent, and look what happened can Elsbeth nab anything to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily thenactually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOLis the answer, Jack will fluke but the ogre's death, fact a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=07555019421839943769
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|author=Lisa ThompsonNatasha Farrant|title=The Small ThingsRescue of Ravenwood
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Although Anna has friends at schoolThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, she feels like she never really fits inthe North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. Her They are part of a complex, extended family don't have enough money to let her do after school activitiesarrangement, and so she feels like her life at home as Bea is boring in comparison to theirs. When a new girl joins there with her classUncle Leo, Anna and Raffy is asked to partner herthere with his mum, but things and they are complicated because living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the new girlcove, Ellieroaming through the trees, is unwell completely at one with all of the nature around the house and so can't attend school in personloving every inch of the place. Instead But now the house is under threat, she joins in with as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the class by using property to a robotdeveloper as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through a robot The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, and is she even interesting enough to if Ravenwood itself will be a good friend to Ellie?torn down.|isbn=17811296490571348785
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|author=Alex CotterRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The House on the EdgeUnicorns of Silver Street
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=FaithJayden's family home nose is teetering on the edge of forever in a cliffbook, literally. Is that crack in which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the garden getting bigger? Is phoenixes and unicorns of the house starting to slope a little? And as the house seems to be falling apartworld, so is Faith's familyfor example. Her dad has disappeared, and her mum Aisha is struggling addicted to copeher new tablet, barely leaving her bedwhere she can see videos of anything that might be out there. So The problem, as their mothers see it, is that leaves Faith in chargethey are never 'out there' themselves, taking care exploring the outside world of her little brother NoahHackney, taking care of her mum, feeding everyoneLondon. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, getting Noah to schooleducational purpose, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims is a ghost in past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the cellar? What should one Aisha thinks she do about 's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the house? Can she find boat, including a way living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages to get funding for the house? She carries join in. Dare they side with Leila, the weight of all these worries woman on board, and her constantlyrelative who lives as a figure in a painting, and she doesn't know how much longer become saviours of the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping on.unseen?|isbn=17880086260241573483
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|authorisbn=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonB09XWSXSKY|title=Julia Maestro Orpheus and the SharkWorld Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=JuliaFrederick (or Fred, our pre-teen heroinebut never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from rather like the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for ticking of a summer, clock was playing over and over in the far NE of the Scottish islandshis mind. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish islandIt happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. Dad is going He hadn't really wanted to be automating the lanterncome; after all, which he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt tell the elusive Greenland sharktime. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one nighttime isn't good for anything...''|isbn=1510107789And that 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 go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?
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|author=Louie StowellNigel Baines|title=Otherland|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Myra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loud, bright and hates rules, while Rohan is very polite, serious and worries about the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer's day. And so, every year their families get together to celebrate the two's birthday/deathday. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queen, they must journey to the Otherland, a magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragons, and Gods. It's going to be the worst night of their lives.|isbn=1788000463}}{{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 A Tricky Kind of 3Magic
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=SoCooper loves to perform magic tricks. Having done the impossible His father was a magician, and unpicked named Cooper after the lock to the Forgotten Cryptgreat Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie and now has ''grop'Cooper doesn' t quite know who to think about. But before thatbe, soireesor how to be. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez And when his dad's amusementprop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't even know what one of those is. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this series. 's going on anymore!|isbn=B093J9TF731444960261
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