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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob 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=The Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Would you like to adopt a ghost?'' ''Young spirit, born 1887, seeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on well with other children. Jokes and shocks a speciality.'' ''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, in the shape of an arrow, pointing to your front door...'' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a decade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's ''Spirits'' series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that is 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 rules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is adopted by them and takes up residence in.... a wardrobe!}}{{Frontpage|author=Jody RevensonRob Keeley|title=IncredibuildsChildish Spirits: Buckbeak: Deluxe Model 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and Book Set (Harry Potter)the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=The general perception We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is that to become a leading British actorlog on to Voxminer, you need the fillip of Eton or somesuch educationworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But you donfirst Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't have to be an actor to make a great filmfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. ''Gravity'' for instance has extended scenes where For the only thing natural is the performers' faces – everything server she and her bestie and nobody else, even their bodies, was made in Britain by people using computersshould be able to enter shows signs of tampering. The eight ''Harry Potter'' filmsWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, also made and her safe place in the UK, needed a lot of computing power as game has been doctored – well, but also where is a lot of craftsmen with their hands on tools and a keen eye. What better way girl to start training the young reader into that side of things, than with tasking them with making a, er, hippogriffturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783707232</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jody RevensonKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=IncredibuildsDungeon Runners: Aragog: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)Hero Trial

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Aragog Meet Kit. Like most of the giant spiderpeople in his world, don't you knowit seems, took six man years just to buildhe is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and weighed a ton. After countless trial models healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and pieces of visual design work, he could finally be constructedrace to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and he stretched across eighteen feet of the studio floorpoints they grant you along the way. Or, converselyUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he 's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is about seven inches long and seven widethat one team has been retired, eaten, and you put him together in a day or twonew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, for he has taken to the goading from the cost token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this bookfriendless, muscle-andfree-gift set zone have in actually managing that, and some craft paints.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783707240</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jody RevensonJames Sherwood Metts|title=Incredibuilds: House-Elves: Deluxe Book and Model Set (Harry Potter)Planet Storyland

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=How do you create Things have been a house-elf like Dobby? Well, you bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have a tennis ball on a stringbeen proceeding apace, and point actors so often replacing jobs they look at it, 're paid to do and say their lines other tasks that took time to a pretty-much empty spaceaccomplish. You then film Toby Jones doing the elf's lines, and use that sound file and his facial expressions Just as basis for your CGI creation – the first major character they were beginning to get used to come from the digital realm in the ''Harry Potter'' films. You can throw in a few puppets, all this technological change and now and again a gifted small person, particularly at the end starting to think of film #7… Orother, of course, you can get this gift setnew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and press the wooden parts out, muckle them together – and lo and beholdalong with it, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsillall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo (Editor)Tom Percival|title= Greatest Animal StoriesThe Wrong Shoes|rating= 5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers|summary= We all know Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of Aesop and his animal fables: the hare and ways. He is bullied because he has 'the tortoisewrong shoes', he has the boy who cried wolf or the ant wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the grasshopper. In this stunning collection most basic of animal storiesthings like food, Michael Morpurgo has collated well-known and muchhis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-loved animal stories in -hand job on a beautifully presented bookbuilding site and had an accident. In Throw into that mix the introduction he writes fact that we often first meet animals in stories before we meet them in real life his mum and this collection is selected from his favourite childhood animal tales. Within his own storiesdad are separated, Morpurgo favours the inclusion of animals as the central character and these are all well received by childrenWill's life seems bleak in every direction. As a primary school teacherAnd yet, I value the fact that such he still has a well-known author has collected these valuable animal-centred stories which can be used not only to engage children with tales from different cultures but also in providing life lessonstiny amount of hope. Each He is beautifully illustrated good at art, and individual in style clings to each story. Prefacing each tale the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a short paragraph giving information on light at the origin end of the story and often a question or two to promote thought and discussion within the story. The stories originate from across the globe: Icelandlong, Africa, China and North America to name a fewdark tunnel. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192748629</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dave Shelton1805141872|title= Good Dog Bad Dog: Double IdentityThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= There has ''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been a killing in Collie-wood, a bustling movie-making cityraided. Two detectives The police are on baffled, but only Ben knows the case truth – Kirk Bergman his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and Duncan McBooher gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, however this Miss Judson and Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for onelast job...''s not going  Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to be easy to solveget mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Throughout Muttropolis there are crafty canines Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who will stop at nothing to keep discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the truth locked away. Surely nothing is going son of a famous magician who has ambitions to stop these shrewd detectives from solving the case be as good as his father some day, and enjoying a celebratory glass of milk-shake.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910989002</amazonuk>who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula HarrisonChristopher Edge|title=Robyn Silver: The Midnight Chimes Black Hole Cinema Club

|summary= The middle child Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a family place that has the nickname of five children'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, ten year old Robyn Silver longs for her life they're looking forward to be more lots of exciting. films, and many, many snacks! However, she means exciting like owning a pool with a water slide or winning a life-time supply of pizza. She doesn't mean seeing freaky things in as the middle of the night or discovering a whole creepy world movie starts, they very quickly realise that most people donsomething about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't know abouteven imagine. But that as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is what she gets: going on? Will they ever get back to the moment she hears the Mortal Clock strike she 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 supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to see the creatures sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the Unseen Worldtwo. Suddenly her life is But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned upside down as she begins into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the secret training 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 be honest, but he'Chimes turned up and he'.ll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407170589</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin ColferAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Marvel Iron Man: The GauntletGlorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=No superhero story Eli is really complete without a lesson of some kindbusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and this adventure starts with one tooin the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Tony Stark – a youngEli lives with his lovely gran, teenaged fan of Duran Duran Tony Stark too – for there is taking his latest home invention to his fathera generation missing in the family. ItA few short years ago, Eli's a perfect drone, able parents were both lost to do no manner of humanitarian things, but the lesson from Howard Starktitular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the weapons developer and seller, is that toys like that don't help world in the security company of the worlda magical beast. From now on, Tony will be building things that are definitely not cutesy, or do-goody. But, while This has made the gamut of Iron Man suits he has developed since then allow him race anathema to have the pair – but when a playful playboy figure in bad incident at the limelighteatery leads to a confession from gran, especially courtesy of Eli knows his party DJ variantonly hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the threats continue only thing to risepossibly save his gran. And this one seems to come from within…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285419</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex T SmithHelen Cooper|title=Santa ClaudeThe Taming of the Cat|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing Confident Readers|summary=Ah Claude! Once again, mice are pitched against cat. He is such an endearing little dogIn 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. HeAnyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don's back on an adventure t match the other mice he lives with Sir Bobblysock . They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and this time makes stories based on the visuals on it is a Christmas adventure. There are baubles And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and trees and carols and reindeer and, of course, therecast out. It's trouble! For almost as if there were another character from fable who else but Claude would accidentally handcuff Santa had had to an armchair on Christmas Evetell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, and then need as all the others had the chance to deliver all half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the presents himselfsuccessful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444926497</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lauren St John Dougherty and David Tazzyman|title= Stinkbomb and Ketchup Face-and the Great Kerfuffle Christmas KidnapFinding Wonder|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= ItRoo's Christmas Eve and Father Christmas is missinglife has become almost impossibly difficult. Brother Her mum died when she was young, and sister Stinkbomb and Ketchup Face wake up now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night expecting by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to find the corner shop to buy a huge pile of presentslottery ticket. Instead they find a huge pile 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 nothing. They know something must be wrong because they have been good all year long (honestly)But she has no one else, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. The only possible answer is that Father Christmas is in trouble so they have Things continue to save him get worse for Roo, as when she and save Christmas for everyone on Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the island middle of Great Kerfuffle. nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192747789</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cameron McAllisterAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title= The Demon UndertakerOscar's Lion|rating= 4.53|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Fourteen-year-old Thomas has already seen much sorrow in We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his young life –notably the death of his beloved mother – or father and the accidental loss of his own hand. His , but mother hopes to give is more likely – read him his very favourite book a new start by sending him away from Virginia to join his uncle Sir Henry Fielding, chief magistrate couple of London, but times before the boy he has even had the chance to greet be ready for school. But when he enters his new family parents' bedroom, all he sees is embroiled in a life mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and death chase through admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the grimy back streets of bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the capital in the hopes other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and it can get him out of rescuing a young noblewomanproblem. All London is agog: what happens And it's wonderful to have around the people who disappearhouse – not limiting his biscuit intake, never to be seen againbeing much more lax about the rules, and what exactly does the terrible masked fiend in the hearse want them for?so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>055257404X</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Helen Peters and Ellie SnowdonJudith Eagle|title= A Piglet Called TruffleThe Stolen Songbird|rating= 54|genre= For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Living on Caro's mother, a farmworld-famous whistler, with has failed to return home from her father who works as a farmer recent work trip abroad and a is now missing. Her other mother , Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is a farm-vetunwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, Jasmine someone Caro has spent all heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her young life learning how gymnastics are brought to care for animalsa halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. On But she soon finds herself caught up in a visit to mystery, as she discovers a painting of a neighbouring farmbird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, Jasmine is excited and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to see Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the new baby pigletsmystery too?|isbn=0571363148}}{{Frontpage|author=Tania Unsworth|title=Nowhere Island|rating=4. Expecting to see eleven piglets5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelve, she he is stunned so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find one extra - a tiny little runt hiding in the cornerhome for himself. Being smaller than her handHe is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, the farmer has no sympathy and expects lets it ride him to die by his future. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the end two directions of the day. Of coursea motorway, Jasmine can't allow this a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to happenprovide for their safety and seclusion. The story is then set for Them, and a mute girl also finding a struggle to save the smallest piglethome there, called Trufflealbeit so much more successfully. Over a 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>0857637738</amazonuk>1804540080

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Megan Shepherd and Levi PinfoldHelen Peters|title= The Secret Horses of Briar HillFriends and Traitors|rating= 43

|summary=Megan Shepherd has written a stunning taleEngland, which is exquisitely illustrated by the artwork of Levi PinfoldWW2. Secret Horses tells Two young girls are new at the story of a young girl and her friendship with a magical winged horsecountry pile called Stanbrook. When Emmaline One is evacuated from Nottingham during the Second World WarNancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, she enters a fantasy world of discovery behind like the silvery glass of the mirrors in female generations before her new country home at Briar Hill. An old sprawling mansion once owned by a wealthy family The other is Sidney, Briar Hill has become a children’s hospital run by Nuns. Emmaline and the other children are struggling to recover girl from a serious illness and have hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been quarantined removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their familiesbehaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. To add to their plight But something is amiss, they worry about their fathers away at war and their mothers left at home to face bombing raids first separately and then in combination they realise the scarcity of foodLord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Emmaline and her friends Midnight deliveries are carefully nursed by the Nuns through the harsh and snowy winter received under cover of 1941. This secrecy, talk is a story made of bravery meetings with Germans, and fortitudenot only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, good and evil and how one small child can find light even in the darkest of places.upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406367583</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lou TreleavenJamie Littler|title= Letter to PlutoArkspire|rating= 54|genre= For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Letter Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to Pluto be chalk and cheese. Juniper is a story told through an inter-planetary pen-pal friendshipeager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Set Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the year 2317religious districts of Arkspire, writing with a pen and sending letters has certainly perhaps even to become a dying art-form. Howeverthe child in line to inherit the power of the Watcher, Jon’s teacher, Mrs Hall, decides it is important the closest to keep a ruler the art district has, and one of letter writing alivethe five major victors in said earlier war. The Being trained in the magic that only difference is that Jon’s pen-pal lives a long way away. 75 billion km to be precise. On Pluto. At first five people can use would definitely change the idea status of writing at all is bad enough, but when Jon finds out that his pen-pal is a girl he nearly quits the programmewhole family. Encouraged by his teacher’s bribes But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of merit awards her own – for his best writinggood, Jon soon learns that Pluto is not as boringor for very, small and smelly as he first thought.very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848862318</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jackie Morris024162343X|title=The White FoxStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Sol had never been happy I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in Seattlereligious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. It wasnNot too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't just 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 first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that he was bullied at school: being Inuit he looked I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''differentStolen History'' .}}{{Frontpage|author=Thiago de Moraes|title=Old Gods New Tricks|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and that always makes you adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a targetyoung goddess of nuisance. SolBut just when she's heart was somewhere else being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power- out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but the Arcticentire planet (apart from mobile phones, where he felt he belonged and where he had grandparents whom heall that powers the Internet, just for our convenience'd not seen for such a long times sake). Everything changed when his father told him about the white Arctic fox which had been seen on Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the docks and Sol set about finding ancient Gods have taken the fox - and then feeding itpower of power from us. But what would happen And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the fox when people that can steal it was trapped? And how would Sol handle 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 situation?tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125228</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Allie EsiriHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title= A Poem for Every Night of the YearFinding Bear|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Rhymes and VerseConfident Readers|summary=Poetry can feel [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a little intimidatinglot further north than many people would venture, to children and grown-upsfinding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. All those school lessons of dissecting poems in order to ascertain exactly what Back home, things on the poet intended with every domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word and stylistic form tend to kill comes through from the beauty of islands Bear was last left on. For a wellbear doing very Bear-written poemy things has been shot and wounded. This collection is a year-long tour through Desperate to make sure he's OK, she and her father return to the Arctic and hope that in a vast history world of poetryvery white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and gives that the reader a new poem to try every night, with everything from Michael Rosen to Shakespeare to Christina Rosettifriendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509813136</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo and Michael ForemanSimon Fox|title=The Fox and the Ghost KingDeadlock|rating=34.5

|summary=Considering how bizarre Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the stories in juvenile literature can sometimes beforce, it's weird to think that occasionally it's and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the actual source material that inspired it that is even more unusualrun. Whoever would really credit writing a book where footballing underdogsThey get together, and firm favourites but barely begin to be relegated, defied odds smell the whiff of 5000 to 1 to win Southern trains when the Premiership? But that's what happened in the 2015/16 seasonfather is arrested, in a certain town in leaving Archie on the East Midlands of England. Despite every worry directed their way, they sustained their fine form long enough late express to win the leagueBrighton, in toting a run that some people soon realised had started when said city had had another momentous eventtin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, namely holding and the proper burial accorded bearer of a lost King whole heap of Englandquestions. Like I say, completely unusual and unexpected events – surely too odd to be turned into fiction?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008215774</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fleur Hitchcock Cath Howe|title=Murder In MidwinterMy Life on Fire

|summary=ItRen's almost Christmas family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and 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 Maya now she is happily snapping pictures of living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the Christmas lights on Regent Street from foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the top class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a busperson. Everything seems perfect until But Ren has nothing to put in a box, and so she sees the couple arguing andfinds 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 flash goes offshort story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, it reveals something unbelievable – the man has each as fun to read as his previous offerings.|isbn= B0BVW69N1G}}{{Frontpage|author=Laura Noakes|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a gun in his handsStar|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. To make matters worse Or rather, 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 in the flash makes him look up. Suddenly Mayaledger, and they's a witness andre all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, when uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a body turns up, surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she's whisked away came from her immediate , as the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family to somewhere the police think is safe – her aunt's remote farm in the Welsh mountainsoutside world. Cut off by During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the snowkitchen one afternoon, Maya should have nothing she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to fearadopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the police can be wrong.past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857636383</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David O'Doherty and Chris JudgeAlice M Ross|title=Danger Really is Everywhere: School of DangerThe Nowhere Thief

|summary=There At last there is nothing more dangerous than being new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a danger specialistseaside town. A Docter in Dangerology, no less – like Noel Zone, who Elsbeth knows this because she has long since taken off his 'L' plates and become fully qualified in a science all of his own inventionstolen it. If you've been here since [[Danger Is Everywhere: A Handbook for Avoiding Danger by David O'Doherty and Chris Judge|the start]] you She also knows she should be a Level 3 Pupil of Dangerologyfree from worries about being found out, and once our author because she has ascertained that you're not a werewolfthe ability to leave this world, mummy, giant or Segway-riding vampire, you can read onand use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and see the life buildings are generally empty of the good Docter in actionhumans and ripe for plunder. And what action – we're only just beginning With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to find out what happens on a Danger Patrolactually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, when all calamity happens – and lo and beholdis the answer, Docter Noel Zone becomes but the fact a danger to others…mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141371102</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tracey Corderoy and Steven LentonNatasha Farrant|title= Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Spooky SchoolRescue of Ravenwood|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing Confident Readers|summary= As a teacher and a parentThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, one in the North of the main aims I England, where Bea and Raffy have when it comes to reading is to promote a love been living for most of reading in all childrentheir lives. This can They are part of course in general be more challenging a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with boyshis mum, and they are living together as a family. Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton They have created a wonderful book with two familiar characters at grown up swimming in the centre. Their previous tales of Shifty McGifty were shorter books around 35 pages told though rhyme. Howevercove, their latest book, The Spooky Schoolroaming through the trees, completely at 124 pages, is perfect for one with all of the nature around the maturing primary school student (approximately 6-9 years house and loving every inch of age)the place. If these children had experienced But now the earlier bookshouse is under threat, then there as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a feeling that Shifty McGifty developer as it's becoming more and Slippery Sam have grown up with themmore expensive to maintain. Although this book will appeal The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to both boys live, but if they'll even be together, and girls, boys if Ravenwood itself will particularly enjoy these fun talesbe torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857637010</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lari DonRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title= Secret Beast Club: The Dragon's HoardUnicorns of Silver Street|rating= 3.54|genre= For SharingConfident Readers|summary= If you ask anyone to name Jayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a Viking storylot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, legend or talefor example. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, my money would where she can see videos of anything that might be on ''Beowulf''out there. HoweverThe problem, as their mothers see it , is not clear whether this was an Anglo-Saxon or Viking talethat they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. Try further But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and search on Amazon for Viking sagas for children and you wonwith a past involving Jayden't get very fars cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. Until nowFor many of those mythological creatures are real, that isincluding the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. Lari Don has written The crew of the boat, including a collection of stories which bring tales from this historical era living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to lifejoin in. Most primary schools study Vikings Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a topicfigure in a painting, so it is surprising that there are so few quality stories around for this age group.and become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847806813</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09XWSXSKY|title=Emily Hawkins Maestro Orpheus and Alice Letherlandthe World Clock|titleauthor=Atlas of Miniature Adventures: A pocket-sized collection of small-scale wondersRobert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating=3.54|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=IFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn've hardly ever had t sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a trouser pocket big enough clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to cram a whole visit his grandfather. He hadn'pocket-sizedt really wanted to come; after all, he' book in, s ten now and while all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the book under concern here wontime. And time isn't comply either, itgood for anything...''s not far off And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. But itIt was nearly twelve o's an atlas – you know, one of those books that are usually clunky and huge, fitting awkwardly on clock but at midnight the bottom shelf and taken out whenever some project or quirk of trivial life inspires a browseclock chimed only six times. But this is a special kind of atlas – There was nothing for it's a compendium of details, but to go and very small details at that, of find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the tiny things on our large planet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780909X</amazonuk>clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?