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|author=Greg James and Chris SmithMax Boucherat|title=Super GhostThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=Paragon City has been lucky We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to have the great Doctor Extraordinarypop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, their very own superhero taking care of themon her lonesome. Whenever the evil Captain Chaos has come up with another cunning plan (usually involving What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a giant robot of some description) Doctor Extraordinary blanket fort, she has been there one main intention, and that is to log on to thwart her mischief and save Voxminer, the dayworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But one day the Doctor and the Captain are trapped together inside first Lori has a giant robot tiny inkling that then explodesthis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the hero server she and her bestie and the villain are no morenobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Or are they…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=02414705360008666482

|author=Natasha Hastings Kieran Larwood and Alex T SmithJoe Todd-Stanton|title=The Miraculous SweetmakersDungeon Runners: The Frost FairHero Trial|rating=3.54

|summary=''The River Thames had frozen to death in its sleepMeet Kit.'' And thus Like most of the Frost Fair could happen – people trading on the completely iced-over riverin his world, like our heroine Thomasina's father with his gingerbread and confectionery shop. Thomasina will be working the Fair too – but her twin brother won'tit seems, as he dies in Chapter One. It was is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a tragedy she feels no small guilt forteam of warrior, mage and which has made her father a sullenhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, closed shop – and her bed-bound mother has spoken not a word – not even opened her eyesrace to the exit, more perhaps bothering with the treasure or less – in the four years since, eitherbig bad and the points they grant you along the way. But into Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the dark, frosted London comes Inigoinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, with supreme magical powerseaten, and a willingness to help Thomasinanew trio of questors is needed. Not only can Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he introduce her has taken to the fantastical Other Frost Fair, using goading from the river surface at night for no end token bully of mystical beasts his world and characters and their happenings, but stumbled into declaring he has 'll enter as a unique proposal for Thomasinateam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, which will shake her world and how could he possibly hope to its core.succeed?|isbn=00084960561839945184

|author=Holly WebbJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Story of GreenriverPlanet Storyland

|summary=Silken and Sedge, for all their differences, Things have been a lot in common. Silken is a girl whose father is the Master Builder of what might be bit sticky for the finest beaver lodge on the GreenriverEarthlings. Unfortunately she is also a kind of runt figure, AI and as a result is patronisedautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and given the most tokenistic other tasks when it comes that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to fetching wood all this technological change and shoring the dam up. She also stands out for the unique artistic ability starting to sing. Otters like Sedge sing, but he too, as the son think of the lady of the holtother, has pressure on him new ways to be a bit less feckless spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and more attentive to class. He, after along with it, all, will eventually inherit the job of keeping the otters safe from the wolf that both animal species fear the most, and from dreaded events like a Dark Springmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=15101096251736128426

|author=Anna Kemp and David WyattTom Percival|title=Into Goblyn WoodThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45

|summary=Meet Hazel. For the last nine of her eleven years she has been stuck as a foundling Will's life is difficult, in a horrid, Victorian institution, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servantmultitude of ways. She He is bullied because he has 'd arrived at the place at wrong shoes', he has the same time as Pete, wrong shoes because his dad can't work and theydoesn're inseparably good friends now, until a chance t have enough money for them both to escapeeven the most basic of things like food, and enter his dad can't work because he lost his job at the outside worldcollege, does not go to planwas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. There had always been Throw into that mix the idea of a fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life idyllic seems bleak in the nearby forestsevery direction. And yet, Goblyn Wood, and he still has a tribe of Wild Children, but none of that comes to pass, as Hazel finds herself in the care tiny amount of a professor at the Natural History Museumhope. But life with him He is not anything like what she might have expected it to be – good at art, and Hazel is determined to return clings to the Woods, restore her friendship with Pete – and to work out just what moments of joy when he is going on in the forestdrawing, both the that feel like a light and at the shadeend of a long, and the deathly dark..tunnel.|isbn=13985038351398527122

|authorisbn=Judith Eagle1805141872|title=The Accidental StowawayTeacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=Patch is ''Seventeen banks and a little girl who has jeweller’s have been passed from one relation to anotherraided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, until it seems that there is nobody left for really a safecracker! With police and her to go to. Her father died when she was very younggangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and her mother ran awayBen go on the run. The family lawyer, after consultation with ‘someone’, arranges But Al needs them for her to go to a school in Liverpoolone last job...'' Goodness me, but on her arrival there, she gets caught up in an adventure with that Miss Judson is a little boy called Turo who works terror! How on earth did a steamship. During a chase with him (when she is both trying nice teacher like her manage to get her rollerskate back and running away from the police!) she winds mixed up on the steamship hiding in with a lifeboatbad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, and before she knows itthe pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the ship son of a famous magician who has left the docks ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and she who thinks Miss Judson is an accidental stowaway!|isbn=0571363121worth saving

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorChristopher Edge|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Meet Alice Eclair. A perfect eye Lucas and very careful hands have made her one his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of Paris's best young cake makers and decorators, making sure her motherThe Black Hole's establishment is a classy affair. Not bad for a thirteen year old. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! OhHowever, as the movie starts, and a perfect eye and a they very careful handler and remote trainer have also made sure she quickly realise that something about this new film format is a very competent young spydifferent, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Her first real mission will be But as they lurch from one film genre to chase a traitor across the country – working behind the scenes next, can they figure out what on earth is going on a posh sleeper train ? Will they ever get back to the south of Francecinema, and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents to creep into the country from getting into nefarious hands. But while nobody would have her down as a spy, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find the baddytheir real lives?|isbn=18399409561839942738

|author=David SolomonsAdam Stower|title=A BeginnerMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's Guide cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to Ruling the Galaxybe honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=Gavin Eli is being followeda busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, seemingly constantly, by and in the new (very annoying) girl evening a helper at schoolthe dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Only this Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is not your typical boy meets girl storya generation missing in the family. Because in this instanceA few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the girl titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in question is Niki, and she is the company of a galactic princess (no, really, she is!) magical beast. So what will Gavin do This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when he becomes embroiled in a situation wherebad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, potentially, Earth and everyone on it will be blown Eli knows his only hope is to dare to smithereensenter what he most hates, all because with the sole aim the prize of Niki?magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=08576399350571382231

|author=Alex CotterHelen Cooper|title=The Mermaid CallTaming of the Cat

|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't existmatch the other mice he lives with. But she also knows they have to exist They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – at least he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in the public eyehandy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. For It's almost as if there would be nothing were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to Lake Splendour – a far northern English resort – without themkeep themselves alive. A hundred years and change agoThis makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaidsthough, but were forced as all the others had the chance to return to help out with half-inch some cheese while the Great War effortcat was distracted. They also showed female emancipation, which helped create But will the story have the townsuccessful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=0571376010}}{{Frontpage|author=Lauren St John|title=Finding Wonder|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Roo's tourism industrylife has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now faded and falling apart but once she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a feminist success storylottery ticket. AliceWhen asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, a girl who stumbles into Vivienshe knows her dad didn's gran's tourist shop t think very highly of. But she has no one dayelse, knows and so off she certainly wants mermaids goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to exist – get worse for Roo, as when she thinks her familyand Joni leave London in Joni's black sheep died searching for themold campervan, or else was just too successful it breaks down in her hunt. the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! When the shy, doubting Thomasina that is Vivien collides with the exuberant, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?Poor Roo!|isbn=18399419010571376169

|author=Alison HughesAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=FlyOscar's Lion|rating=4.53

|summary=This We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is a more likely – read him his very impressive read, as it does favourite book a lot couple of what mainstream teen and tween fiction still struggles withtimes before he has to be ready for school. Its focus But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is courtesy the first person narration from Fly, a secondary school lad with cerebral palsy, a down-mahoosive male lion on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleanertheir bed, a carer while at schoollooking sheepish, and a bundle of assumptions people lay on himadmitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. First they assume But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that with ruined a broken body comes a broken mindbirthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, then they decide so hecan take it to school and it can get him out of a problem. And it's a maths savant wonderful to have around the house – they even believe they not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and so on. OK, it can get away with calling him Fly, which isn't his real name, work a dimmer switch but everybody just uses itcan give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=15253058320008596751

|author=Darren ShanJudith Eagle|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 The Stolen Songbird|rating=4.5

|summary= So. We're back to the Merge with the first chapter in the third volume of Darren ShanCaro's saga of Archibald Loxmother, a young man who can pick the locks of portals from our world -famous whistler, has failed to anotherreturn home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, called the ''Merge''Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. Since his last adventure So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, Archie someone Caro has persuaded his foster parents into 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 slightly uneasy truce on the topic of his regular disappearances. They donhalt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady't ask s house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too many questions and Archie has settled into . But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a fairly peaceful routine painting of visiting Winstona bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, his lock-picking mentor in and all across London a fearsome gang called the ''Merge'' Snakes are thieving artworks and showing Kojo, terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the young guardian, around our world of gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the Born. mystery too?|isbn= B09Z2MTCZD0571363148

|isbnauthor=0008541477Tania Unsworth|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!|author=Lauren ChildNowhere Island

|summary=It was a hot summer day right at Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the beginning of care system – the summer holidays system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except find a home for sometimeshimself... And only on rare-sh occasions He is en route to yet another fosterer, which is hardly ever.'' There are seven members of the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because when he's wobbly)jumps into an anonymous car, Mum and Dad, Clarice's older brother, Kurt and younger brother, Minal Cricketlets it ride him to his future. There's also Marcie, who's main claim to fame That future seems to be that she in jeopardy when someone steals the batteries from Clarice's torch, which means his one bag of belongings – but that she can't read someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the airing cupboardtwo directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. Clarice would love to have someone who listened to herThem, rather than wanting to talkand a mute girl also finding a home there, but the only one who does that is Granny and she lives in New Yorkalbeit so much more successfully. The Bean family Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is ''different''.one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080

|author=Fiona LongmuirHelen Peters|title=Looking for EmilyFriends and Traitors|rating=53

|summary=Meet LilyEngland, WW2. She and her mother have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town Two young girls are new at the country pile called EdgeStanbrook. One is Nancy, and everyone from said mother destined to be in service all her teacher are making demands of Lily life it seems, like the female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that she make new friendshas been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. It turns out that she doesn The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't have any say in the matter, for while pretending when phoning home guessed that she was then their behaviour with someone called Emily, she each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is unaware her neighbour, Sam, is just about to make herself knownamiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a big wayrum 'un. But where does Emily come from? Well Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, Lily used that name because talk is made of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the most mundane objectsmeetings with Germans, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming doorand not only that, in a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emily'local Spitfire factory has been attacked. Sam is completely unaware of this 'museum', too, leaving But surely the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind are wrong, and the intrigue...upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=18399427541788004647

|isbnauthor=1800901232Jamie Littler|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve ColeArkspire|rating=54|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be a fashion designerchalk and cheese. Life Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in the rural village where she lived with her family was happyillicit magic, if not prosperous, so when including relics from prior major wars left out in the smartly-dressed man and woman came Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the village religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to offer Hahn a job become the child in Hanoi it was an opportunity not line to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on inherit the power of the mini-bus to Hanoi. OnlyWatcher, Hanh and the other girls were not going closest to work in a shopruler the district has, they were to work and one of the five major victors in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factorysaid earlier war. You know those jeans you really wanted: Being trained in the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on magic that only five people can use would definitely change the legs? The ones with status of the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? whole family. It's quite possible that Hanh and But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her co-workers made them.own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143

|isbn=0711266204024162343X|title=The Secret Life of BirdsStolen History|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I sit and watch disputed the vast numbers existence of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis'god'. An hour can pass without my noticingWhere was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, Ididn've established which species feed from t so much want to learn about the groundBritish army's successes (and occasional failures, which pop but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in for a good munch the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I wish regret that I was more knowledgeablelacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I wish I'd had access to a book such as Sathnam Sanghera's ''The Secret Life of BirdsStolen History''. So – what is it?

|author=Jason RohanThiago de Moraes|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access DeniedOld Gods New Tricks|rating=34.5

|summary=Arun Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and Sam have had little to do adventures involving flooding the school aircon with Donnafart powder, she could almost be thought a girl at their schoolyoung goddess of nuisance. But things immediately change at the start of this extended sprint of a novel, just when she insists Arun's house has become being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the attention of plainworld changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-clothes coppers and that they should bunk off school to find out why. And thus an unlikely trio , even of misfit young heroes is formed – Sam is really electric cars, hits not Donnajust the town the school's idea of company, in but he is the computer buffentire planet (apart from mobile phones, Donna seems to know and all that powers the criminal ins and outs and survival skillsInternet, and Arun? Well, itjust for our convenience's his lot 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 find out that gather all he based his family life on isn't true, and the people that his father can steal it back – kidnapped namely the characters from myth that very morning – is involved have past form in something quite unexpected. But how can this disparate trio hope to best MI6stealing from the Gods, kidnappersie the semi-deities, people able to keep the truth about themselves secret for decadesgiants, half-gods and so much more?on known as the tricksters.|isbn=1839943386178845295X

|author=Lissa EvansHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=WishedFinding Bear

|summary=When things contrive to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old woman[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], Miss FileyApril had been on Bear Island, for a week of half-termlot further north than many people would venture, they're not looking forward to itand finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. For one thingBack home, she thinks Wi-Fi is things on the domestic and family front are a special brand of biscuit. They don't particularly take to Willard eitherbit advanced, the new kid next doorbut not perfect for her, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywhereso can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. But For a bear doing very Bear-y things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candleshas been shot and wounded. Desperate to make sure he's OK, she and manage her father return to work out the Arctic and hope that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come true. How will things change for in a second time when they realise that, having used up three world of themvery white and very dangerous things, these should really be used for she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the wishes of someone two generations older than them?friendship can continue.|isbn=178845202X0008582017

|author=Richard SmithSimon Fox|title=Time Trap TwoDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary= ''Jamie and Todd are horrified to learn that Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the Grand Planforce, which they thought had been defeatedand then suddenly rings Archie, is about to be implemented in 1775demanding he fetch something from a secret place, America. Hector and Catherine have to thwart Travis - an agent of join him on the Grand Plan - who is hell bent on world dominationrun. Jamie and Todd go with Hector and Catherine on a mission to 1775 They get together, but barely begin to prevent a super gun from being used in smell the Battle whiff of Bunker HillSouthern trains when the father is arrested, during leaving Archie on the American War of Independence, but only have days late express to stop history from being altered.'' The second book in the ''Time Trap'' series, as you can seeBrighton, has an urgent toting a mission for our young heroes as the first, which took place in the smog of Victorian London. This time, Jamie and Todd are off tin his father was determined to the grand landscapes of North America. Travis, an agent of the Grand Plankeep away from his colleagues, is attempting to take the Gatling gun back in time and change the outcome bearer of the Battle of Bunker Hill, a pivotal episode in the American War whole heap of Independencequestions.|isbn=B094ZFF85P1839944420

|author=Justyn EdwardsCath Howe|title=The Great Fox IllusionMy Life on Fire|rating=45

|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show Ren's family home is destroyed in a contest with a differencefire. No singing She, no dancingher parents, this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks workand her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and who now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can attempt to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - t touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the secrets foods they normally eat. When she goes back to all school she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of his tricks! Flick is determined their lives, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to winput in a box, but not because and so she wants finds herself starting to own the trickssteal things. She is interested in just ''one'' trick Small things, the trick things that The Great Fox stole from her fatherpeople might not really miss, not when they have so much already. And she's hoping if she can find that trick then she But what will be able happen to bring her missing father home.if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=15295019461839942835

|author=Sarah Ann JuckesRob Keeley|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleBoy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=4.5

|summary=Jasper Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is a little boy who has some struggles, and whilst we're never told why exactly, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing back with change and big emotions. His big sister, Rosie, has been a huge support return to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, and writing a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught up in their businesseleven new tales, and so it is Rosie he always turns each as fun to. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be right, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its song, read as they do together every Springhis previous offerings.|isbn=1398510890B0BVW69N1G

|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsLaura Noakes|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=Meet TomasNumber One. Happy to work with his father in the blacksmith's forge, he's almost of the age to become a full apprentice Or rather, and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly neededCosima Unfortunate. Not that there are any dragons Or rather, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except..just Cos to her friends. Strange signals from within the forge furnace, and a peculiar invite to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out The practice in the wash, that yes dragons do still exist home she lives in this world, and that Tom is rare in for the ability to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with them...|isbn=1839940026}}{{Frontpage|author=Louie Stowell|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide girls to Being Good|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must just be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile and in named by the physical form of a middle-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by a giant and a god number they correspond to in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, to be the more suaveledger, more popular and more successful brother of the two. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the right way againthey're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or else, and to prove it he has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, suchlike that is able to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progressVictorian society frowns greatly upon. But Loki is Cosima bears the kind of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving tag as a bit more virtuously for a month is going surname because nothing else seems to be a walk in known about where she came from, as the park...right?|isbn=1406399752}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Strange first ever inmate, and Pam Smy|title=The Mermaid unique in the Millpond|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=There is having no mermaid known family in the millpondoutside world. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be During a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouthkitchen one afternoon, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find she discovers a bit of plan involving said outside world – a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in adopt all the tired-out mill workersgirls for his Institute. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Escape Room|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific locationwhy, and have to solve problems in order to get their way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for what does that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to each other and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at the game's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage past she has so little link with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=17880079640008579059

|author=Lucy HopeAlice M Ross|title=FledglingThe Nowhere Thief

|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a most peculiar hilltop houseseaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, built bit by bit over because she has the decadesability to leave this world, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. It's use an eccentric house, unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to host eccentricsenter other worlds, so where the library shelving system is not as we'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, sea levels are rising dramatically and so on. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD buildings are generally empty of humans and a passion ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the long-standing family hobby of taxidermyshop? Well yes, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and is the dying grandma to our heroineanswer, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all but the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is fact a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=183994188X1839943769

|author=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie BlackallNatasha Farrant|title=The Beatryce ProphecyRescue of Ravenwood

|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Stories have joy and surprises in themVoyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, we in the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are told here. And none more so than in this wondrous storypart of a complex, extended family arrangement, which feels an instant classic as Bea is there with the freshness her Uncle Leo, and the agelessness it has in equal proportion. We start Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a group of monksfamily. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the Order trees, completely at one with all of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, and nature around the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on house and biting loving every inch of the poor Brothersplace. Things change drastically when But now the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girlhouse is under threat, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past as Leo is under pressure from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King in his castle, desperate other two brothers to find sell the girl, for property to a developer as it is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne 's becoming more and cause great changemore expensive to maintain. Who foretold that revolution The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simpleif they'll even be together, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|isbn=15295008930571348785

|author=Greg James Robin Birch and Chris SmithJobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Great Dream RobberyUnicorns of Silver Street|rating=54

|summary=MayaJayden's father nose is forever in a professor who invented an amazing dream machinebook, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. But something went wrong Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, and now he where she can't wake upsee videos of anything that might be out there. Or at least The problem, as their mothers see it, is thatthey are never 's what Maya has been toldout there' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. In But when a rather strange dream one night Maya makes narrowboat turns up carrying a new friendscience-minded, educational purpose, and discovers that with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including 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 thereAisha thinks she's everything from llamas seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and bananasthe kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. Dare they side with Leila, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offsthe woman on board, to and her relative who lives as a figure in a talking cat called Bin Bag!painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=024147051X0241573483

|authorisbn=Keith GrayB09XWSXSKY|title=The ClimbersMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|summary=Sully is Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the best tree climber ticking of a clock was playing over and over in the villagehis mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He has whathadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's known amongst the kids as ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. 'reach'. But what happens when a new kid shows up in townWho needs old clocks anyway? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of All they do is tell the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, and not only that, time. And time isn't good for anything...'' And that his chance to name was why he was looking at the final, unnamed big tree in clock beside the park by being bed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the first clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. How can Sully stop Nottinghamgo and find grandad - but where was he? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even why had all of his friends, to do sothe clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?|isbn=1781129991

|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettNigel Baines|title=Locked Out LilyA Tricky Kind of Magic

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Lily is, or Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was, or has been, very illa magician, and to give her parents relief shenamed Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's been told to stay with her grandma for a few days. The parents need the relief as Lilyfather died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn's baby sibling is just about t quite know who to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do with. 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, and the babe-in-arms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need or how to be ousted . And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to get the family back intacthim, even if ithe ''really'' doesn't know what's not the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snake.going on anymore!|isbn=14711948331444960261