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=='''28 SEPTEMBER4 JULY'''==
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|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldMax Boucherat|title=Finding BearThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, April had been on Bear Islandmother at work, a lot further north than many people would venturejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bearon her lonesome. Back home, things on the domestic and family front are What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a bit advancedblanket fort, but not perfect for hershe has one main intention, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from that is to log on to Voxminer, the islands Bear was last left onworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. For But first Lori has a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and woundedthen she finds something even more spooky. Desperate to make sure he's OK, For the server she and her father return bestie and nobody else should be able to the Arctic and hope that in a world enter shows signs of very white and very dangerous thingstampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing her safe place in the game has been doctored and that the friendship can continue.well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=00085820170008666482
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=='''5 OCTOBER'''==
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|author=Helen CooperJenny Lecoat|title=The Taming of the CatBeyond Summerland|rating=3.54|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Once again, mice Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are pitched against catcelebrating the end of the occupation. In this case, principally, we have Brie During the mousewar, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case youJean're seeing s father was arrested for listening to a connectionbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, they live in a cheese shop leaving Jean and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names her mother waiting for years for news of cheeseshim. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for As the way his habits don't match British finally free the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping Channel islands from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one nightNazis, when he feels all alone and cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=0571376010}}=='''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
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