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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Paula HarrisonRob Keeley|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of all, he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.}}{{Frontpage|isbn= 1836282028|title=Robyn Silver: The Midnight Chimes Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley

|summary= The middle child in ''Would you like to adopt a family of five childrenghost?'' ''Young spirit, born 1887, ten year old Robyn Silver longs for her life seeks kind home to be more excitinghaunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. However, she means exciting like owning a pool Gets on well with other children. Jokes and shocks a water slide or winning a life-time supply of pizzaspeciality. She doesn't mean seeing freaky things ' ''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, in the middle shape of the night or discovering an arrow, pointing to your front door...'' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a whole creepy world that most people dondecade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's ''Spirits''t know about. But series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that is what she gets: both a reboot and a continuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. Ruby and Jayden respond to this intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the moment she hears the Mortal Clock strike she rules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is able to see the creatures of the Unseen Worldadopted by them and takes up residence in.... Suddenly her life is turned upside down as she begins the secret training of a 'Chime'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407170589</amazonuk>wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin ColferRob Keeley|title=Marvel Iron ManChildish Spirits: The Gauntlet10th anniversary special edition

|summary=No superhero story is really complete without a lesson of some kindAround here, and this adventure starts with one too. Tony Stark – a young, teenaged fan we're big fans of Duran Duran Tony Stark – is taking his latest home invention to his fatherchildren's author Rob Keeley. ItHe's a perfect drone, able to do no manner ball of humanitarian thingshappy positivity, but the lesson from Howard Starkhe understands children, the weapons developer and sellerhe writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is that toys like that donone of his greatest achievements. It't help the security s a sequence of the world. From now ghost stories centring onEllie, Tony will be building things that are definitely not cutesy, or do-goody. But, while the gamut of Iron Man suits he has developed since then allow him to have a playful playboy figure in stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the limelightspirit world throws at her, especially courtesy of his party DJ variantand Edward, a spoiled lordling and the threats continue to rise. And this one seems to come from within…first spirit Ellie encounters|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285419</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex T SmithMax Boucherat|title=Santa ClaudeThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing Confident Readers|summary=Ah Claude! He is such an endearing little dog. HeWe meet Lori on the first evening she's back got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on an adventure with Sir Bobblysock and this time it is a Christmas adventureher lonesome. There are baubles and trees and carols and reindeer What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, andthat is to log on to Voxminer, of coursethe world-building, therecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's trouble! world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For who the server she and her bestie and nobody else but Claude would accidentally handcuff Santa should be able to an armchair enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on Christmas Eveher phone screen, and then need her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to deliver all the presents himselfturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444926497</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John Dougherty Kieran Larwood and David TazzymanJoe Todd-Stanton|title= Stinkbomb and Ketchup Face-and the Great Kerfuffle Christmas KidnapDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= It's Christmas Eve and Father Christmas is missingMeet Kit. Brother and sister Stinkbomb and Ketchup Face wake up Like most of the people in the middle his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the night expecting to find sport where a huge pile team of presents. Instead warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they find a huge pile of nothinggrant you along the way. They know something must be wrong because they have been good all year long (honestly). The Unfortunately for Kit, the only possible answer thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that Father Christmas one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is in trouble so they have needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to save him and save Christmas for everyone on the island goading from the token bully of Great Kerfufflehis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192747789</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cameron McAllisterJames Sherwood Metts|title= The Demon UndertakerPlanet Storyland|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Fourteen-year-old Thomas has already seen much sorrow in his young life –notably Things have been a bit sticky for the death of his beloved father Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and the accidental loss of his own handother tasks that took time to accomplish. His mother hopes Just as they were beginning to give him a new start by sending him away from Virginia get used to all this technological change and starting to join his uncle Sir Henry Fielding, chief magistrate think of Londonother, but before the boy has even had the chance new ways to greet his new family he is embroiled in a life spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and death chase through the grimy back streets of the capital in the hopes of rescuing a young noblewoman. All London is agog: what happens to the people who disappear, never to be seen againalong with it, and what exactly does all the terrible masked fiend in the hearse want them for?many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>055257404X</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Helen Peters and Ellie SnowdonTom Percival|title= A Piglet Called TruffleThe Wrong Shoes|rating= 5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Living on a farmWill's life is difficult, with her father who works as in a farmer and a mother who multitude of ways. He is a farm-vetbullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', Jasmine he has spent all her young life learning how to care the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for animalseven the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. On a visit to a neighbouring farmThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, Jasmine is excited to see the new baby pigletsand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. Expecting to see eleven piglets And yet, she is stunned to find one extra - he still has a tiny little runt hiding in the corneramount of hope. Being smaller than her handHe is good at art, the farmer has no sympathy and expects it clings to die by the end moments of the day. Of coursejoy when he is drawing, Jasmine can't allow this to happen. The story is then set for that feel like a struggle to save light at the smallest pigletend of a long, called Truffledark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857637738</amazonuk>1398527122

Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Megan Shepherd and Levi PinfoldChristopher Edge|title= The Secret Horses of Briar HillBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating= 4

|summary=Megan Shepherd has written Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a stunning talemovie marathon at their local cinema, which is exquisitely illustrated by a place that has the artwork nickname of Levi Pinfold'The Black Hole'. Secret Horses tells the story All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of a young girl exciting films, and her friendship with a magical winged horse. When Emmaline is evacuated from Nottingham during many, many snacks! However, as the Second World Warmovie starts, she enters a fantasy world of discovery behind the silvery glass of the mirrors in her they very quickly realise that something about this new country home at Briar Hill. An old sprawling mansion once owned by a wealthy familyfilm format is very different, Briar Hill has become a children’s hospital run by Nuns. Emmaline and the other children they are struggling to recover swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from a serious illness and have been quarantined away from their families. To add one film genre to their plightthe next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they worry about their fathers away at war and their mothers left at home ever get back to face bombing raids and the scarcity of food. Emmaline and her friends are carefully nursed by the Nuns through the harsh and snowy winter of 1941. This is a story of bravery and fortitudecinema, good and evil and how one small child can find light even in the darkest of places.to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406367583</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lou TreleavenAdam Stower|title= Letter to PlutoMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers |summary= Letter Murray is supposed to Pluto is be a story told through an inter-planetary pen-pal friendship. Set in the year 2317humble, writing with a pen tidy and sending letters has certainly become a dying art-form. Howeverfriendly cat, Jon’s teacherone who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, Mrs Hallwell, decides it is important to keep whatever takes his fancy next of the art of letter writing alivetwo. The only difference is that Jon’s pen-pal lives But he's a long way away. 75 billion km to be precise. On Pluto. At first the idea of writing at all is bad enoughmagician's cat, but when Jon finds out that so his pen-pal is favourite bun has been turned into a girl he nearly quits hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the programmeregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. Encouraged by his teacher’s bribes of merit awards for his best writingThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, Jon soon learns that Pluto where a troll hunter is not as boringexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, small but he's turned up and smelly as he first thought.'ll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848862318</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackie MorrisAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The White FoxGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Sol had never been happy Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in Seattlethe evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. It wasn't just that he was bullied at school: being Inuit he looked ''different'' and that always makes you Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a targetgeneration missing in the family. SolA few short years ago, Eli's heart was somewhere else parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe- trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the Arctic, where he felt he belonged and where he had grandparents whom he'd not seen for such company of a long timemagical beast. Everything changed This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his father told him about only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the white Arctic fox which had been seen on sole aim the docks and Sol set about finding prize of magic at the end – the fox - and then feeding itonly thing to possibly save his gran. But what would happen to the fox when it was trapped? And how would Sol handle the situation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125228</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Allie EsiriHelen Cooper|title= A Poem for Every Night The Taming of the YearCat|rating= 43.5|genre= Children's Rhymes and VerseConfident Readers|summary=Poetry can feel a little intimidatingOnce again, to children and grown-upsmice are pitched against cat. All those school lessons of dissecting poems 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 order to ascertain exactly what a cheese shop and therefore all the poet intended with every word and stylistic form tend names used here seem to kill be the beauty names of a well-written poemcheeses. This collection Anyway, Brie is a yearshunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-long tour through a vast history of poetrytracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and gives makes stories based on the reader a new poem to try every visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, with everything when he feels all alone and cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from Michael Rosen fable who had had to Shakespeare 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 Christina Rosettihalf-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509813136</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo and Michael ForemanLauren St John|title=The Fox Finding Wonder|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the Ghost Kingmiddle 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 ticket. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But she has no one else, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Oscar's Lion|rating=3.5

|summary=Considering how bizarre the stories in juvenile literature can sometimes beWe start incredibly bluntly, it's weird with Oscar hoping to think that occasionally it's the actual source material that inspired it that have his mother – or father, but mother is even more unusuallikely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be ready for school. Whoever would really credit writing But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is a book where footballing underdogsmahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and firm favourites admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be relegated, defied odds of 5000 shown as an unspoken threat to 1 to win the Premiership? But bully that's what happened in ruined a birthday party for Oscar the 2015/16 seasonother month. And it can shapeshift, in so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a certain town in the East Midlands of Englandproblem. Despite every worry directed their way, they sustained their fine form long enough And it's wonderful to win have around the leaguehouse – not limiting his biscuit intake, in a run that some people soon realised had started when said city had had another momentous eventbeing much more lax about the rules, namely holding the proper burial accorded a lost King of Englandand so on. Like I sayOK, completely unusual and unexpected events – surely too odd to be turned into fiction?it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008215774</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fleur Hitchcock Judith Eagle|title=Murder In MidwinterThe Stolen Songbird|rating=54

|summary=ItCaro's almost Christmas mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and Maya is happily snapping pictures now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of the Christmas lights on Regent Street from the top of a busher sister who is unwell. Everything seems perfect until she sees the couple arguing and So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, when the flash goes off, it reveals something unbelievable – the man someone Caro has a gun in his hands. To make matters worseheard her mother despises, the flash makes him look upshe feels frustrated and confused and worried. Suddenly Maya All her summer holiday plans 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 a witness andhouse, along with an orphan boy, Albie, when who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a body turns upmystery, as she's whisked discovers a painting of a bird hidden away from her immediate family to somewhere the police think is safe – inside her auntmum's remote farm in old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Welsh mountainsSnakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Cut off by Is the snow, Maya should have nothing painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to fear. But Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the police can be wrong.mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857636383</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David O'Doherty and Chris JudgeTania Unsworth|title=Danger Really is Everywhere: School of DangerNowhere Island

|summary=There Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is nothing more dangerous than being so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a danger specialisthome for himself. A Docter in DangerologyHe is en route to yet another fosterer, no less – like Noel Zonewhen he jumps into an anonymous car, who has long since taken off his 'L' plates and become fully qualified in a science all of lets it ride him to his own inventionfuture. If you've been here since [[Danger Is Everywhere: A Handbook for Avoiding Danger by David O'Doherty and Chris Judge|the start]] you should That future seems to be a Level 3 Pupil in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of Dangerology, and once our author has ascertained belongings – but that you're not someone lives with his brother in a werewolf, mummy, giant or Segway-riding vampire, you can read camp onan island between the two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and see the life of the good Docter in actiondefinitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. And what action – we're only just beginning to find out what happens on a Danger PatrolThem, when all calamity happens – and lo and beholda mute girl also finding a home there, Docter Noel Zone becomes albeit so much more successfully. Over a danger to others…few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141371102</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tracey Corderoy and Steven LentonHelen Peters|title= Shifty McGifty Friends and Slippery Sam: The Spooky SchoolTraitors|rating= 53|genre= For Sharing Confident Readers|summary= As a teacher and a parentEngland, one of WW2. Two young girls are new at the main aims I have when it comes to reading country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to promote a love of reading be in service all childrenher life it seems, like the female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. This can of course in general be more challenging The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with boyseach other over their first encounters would only prove it so. Tracey Corderoy But something is amiss, and Steven Lenton have created first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a wonderful book with two familiar characters at the centrerum 'un. Their previous tales Midnight deliveries are received under cover of Shifty McGifty were shorter books around 35 pages told though rhyme. However, their latest book, The Spooky School, at 124 pagessecrecy, talk is perfect for the maturing primary school student (approximately 6-9 years made of age). If these children had experienced the earlier booksmeetings with Germans, and not only that, then there is a feeling that Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam have grown up with themlocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. Although this book will appeal to both boys and But surely the girlsare wrong, boys will particularly enjoy these fun tales.and the upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857637010</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lari DonJamie Littler|title= The Dragon's HoardArkspire|rating= 3.54|genre= For SharingConfident Readers|summary= If you ask anyone to name a Viking storyTwo sisters, Juniper and Elodie, legend or taleborn fifteen minutes apart, my money would are growing to be on ''Beowulf''chalk and cheese. However, it Juniper is not clear whether this was an Anglo-Saxon or Viking taleeager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Try further and search Elodie is intent on Amazon for Viking sagas for children getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of the Watcher, the closest to a ruler the district has, and you won't get very farone of the five major victors in said earlier war. Until now, Being trained in the magic that isonly five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. Lari Don has written a collection But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of stories which bring tales from this historical era to life. Most primary schools study Vikings as a topicher own – for good, so it is surprising that there are so few quality stories around or for this age group.very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847806813</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Hawkins and Alice Letherland024162343X|title=Atlas of Miniature Adventures: A pocket-sized collection of small-scale wondersStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=3.5

|summary=I've hardly ever had a trouser pocket big enough to cram was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a whole 'pocket-sizedgod' book in, and while . Where was the book under concern here won't comply eitherproof? In history lessons, it's not far offwas probably worse still. But itNot too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's an atlas – you know, one of those books that are usually clunky successes (and hugeoccasional failures, fitting awkwardly but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the bottom shelf and taken out whenever some project or quirk of trivial life inspires a browsefirst place. But this is a special kind of atlas – it's a compendium of detailsLooking back, and very small details at I still believe I was right - but I regret that, of all I lacked the maturity to approach 'the tiny things on our large planetproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780909X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Clover MoonThiago de Moraes|authortitle=Jacqueline WilsonOld Gods New Tricks

|summary=Clover Moon lives in Cripps AlleyMeet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a slum street power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in Victorian England. Her father works at but the factory entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the heavy work Internet, just for our convenience's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.|isbn=178845295X}}{{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 toll on his healthpolar bear – that she called Bear. He likes to drink an ale or two after work Back home, spending money things on the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so can barely affordeasily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Clover Desperate to make sure he's mother died giving birth OK, she and her father return to her younger sisterthe Arctic and hope that in a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.|isbn=0008582017}}{{Frontpage|author=Simon Fox|title=Deadlock|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, Megsand then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a wispysecret place, shy childand join him on the run. Father married again - They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to MildredBrighton, toting a sharp-tongued woman who tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=1839944420}}{{Frontpage|author=Cath Howe|title=My Life on Fire|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ren's family home is free with destroyed in a beatingfire. She, particularly if the beating goes to Cloverher parents, and her little brother lose everything. Clover has another four half She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-siblings knacks from her cupboard, and itnow she is living at her grandmother's Cloverhouse where they can't touch anything, rather than Mildredor do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, who takes care creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to themand show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to put in a box, and so she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=1839942835}}{{Frontpage|author= Rob Keeley|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a return to the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, each as fun to read as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532731</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Martin BrownLaura Noakes|title= Lesser Spotted AnimalsCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary=There may be as many as 5Meet Number One. Or rather,500 different species of mammal on our planetCosima Unfortunate. Or rather, but how many of those do we actually get just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to see in the ledger, and read about? 'Animal Booksthey' are packed re all Unfortunates – young people with cute pictures of tigersdisabilities, elephantsuncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, monkeys and zebras, but what about their lesser-unique in having no known neglected cousins? Don't they deserve family in the outside world. During a minute in daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the spotlight? Numbatkitchen one afternoon, Solenodonshe discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, Zorilla, Onager and Linsang: Now is your time what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to shine!the past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200530</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=There May Be a CastleAlice M Ross|authortitle=Piers TordayThe Nowhere Thief

|summary=HeartbreakingAt last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the ability to leave this world, surprisingand use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, uplifting - Mouse's snowbound journey is one you'll remember for a longthe answer, long time. ''There May Be but the fact a Castle'' proves that stories matter.mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848668627</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bruno VincentNatasha Farrant|title=Danger MouseThe Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, in the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|isbn=0571348785}}{{Frontpage|author=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: DeclassifiedThe Unicorns of Silver Street

|genre=Entertainment Confident Readers|summary=There Jayden's nose is nothing else for it but to declare my love for ''Danger Mouse'' (and noforever in a book, I don't mean which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the musician/producer, or phoenixes and unicorns of the remakeworld, which I've not sampled)for example. What I didn't know at the time Aisha is addicted to call her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'breaking the fourth wallout there'themselves, exploring the chutzpah and energy outside world of the storytellingHackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and primarily the simple and simply brilliant character design made it one with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of my go-to sources for entertainmentthose mythological creatures are real, and about including the only thing that would get the TV switched to ITV, apart from ''Blockbusters'one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The dates on the front crew of this volume prove we're referring to the genius original seriesboat, but these contents seem including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to me fully newjoin in. Taking it that Dare they areside with Leila, has the idea stood the test of timewoman on board, and will people be on board for what is surely her relative who lives as a figure in a much-belated tribute gift bookpainting, and become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0753545225</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jeremy de QuidtB09XWSXSKY|title= The Wrong TrainMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn'Imagine that itt really wanted to come; after all, he's darkten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore.  ''Who needs old clocks anyway? You look up, and suddenly you realise that you've taken All they do is tell the wrong train…so you get off at the next stationtime. Only it And time isn't a station…and yougood for anything...''re not alone And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. It was nearly twelve o'' The wrong Train is a collection of spineclock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad -chilling stories which are told as part of a strange game to keep the boy entertained whilst but where was he waits for ? And why had all the next train to appear…if there even is a next train. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200816</amazonuk>clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?