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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Claire Fayers1836285493|title= Journey to Dragon Island (The Accidental Pirates)Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Two questsWill is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. Can the crew But most of the good ship Onion (donall, he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. This hasn't ask) help their young friend Brine gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to find her home? And does the legendary island Will and his mum that he spends a couple of dragons really exist or – afternoons a week at a rather important point, this – if the ship keeps sailing westdifferent school, will it just topple off the edge of the world? Of course, if you think a little thing like terrible peril and near-certain death should stop Captain Cassie and her shipmates from going wherever they fancyStation Road, then you're reading the wrong serieswhere his ability might be better extended. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447290623</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bear Grylls1836282028|title= New Jungle Book Adventures: The Fighting Spirit of the Jungle|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 34|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This book is technically excellent but unfortunately it falls flat ''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 actual executionshape of an arrow, pointing to your front door... Grylls uses trusted storytelling techniques such as the hero'' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a decade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's journey and Chekov's Gun to produce 'Spirits'' series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a frame new adventure that should be engaging with the target audience but unfortunately it does not quite hit the mark. What we ultimately have is both a great idea with reboot and a continuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some wonderful moments that never really recovers 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 slow beginning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509828486</amazonuk>wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Spudboy and ChipRob Keeley|authortitle=David WindleChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children'Sticky Toffee Trifle flavour mashed potatos author Rob Keeley. This oneHe's a winner!''ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.

ErThe ''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 the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.. ok then. Not.5|genre=Confident ReadersColin Sludge|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's parents run 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 fish blanket fort, she has one main intention, and chip shop and it isnthat is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't doing so find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well. So Colin's mum , where is trying out new recipes a girl to tempt turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the people in more customers and Colin's dad his world, it seems, he is using Colin as an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a guinea pigteam of 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 grant you along the way. The Unfortunately for Kit, the only problem thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that Colin one team has been retired, eaten quite enough exotic mashed potato, thankyouverymuchand a new trio of questors is needed. He Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's practically bursting with itll 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?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4. And 5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a bit sticky for the house is practically bursting with potato peelingsEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, so itoften replacing jobs they's no wonder re paid to do and other tasks that Colin slips took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and falls when he's taking them out starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the garbage binsmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>154314702X</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyTom Percival|title=Flesh and BloodThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Families change Will's life is difficult, in wartime – in size, if not any other waya multitude of ways. Bill and Jane have already had to get used to their father being away to fightHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can''t work anddoesn'' they've tried the evacuee experience, but are back in London – just in time t have enough money for even the Battle most basic of Britainthings like food, which is a circumstance Bill hates Jane for, as and his dad can't work because he quickly grew to love lost his job at the countrysidecollege, while Jane resisted the idea of them settling there, so they were returned to was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an allegedly safe capitalaccident. One night after a bombing raid they settle outside Throw into that mix the neighbourhoodfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's token emptylife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, boarded up and deserted home – only for Bill to convince himself he hears someone insidestill has a tiny amount of hope. The unidentifiable He is good at art, and severely burnt child clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that gets rescued becomes feel like a kind light at the end of new family member – but does this have anything to do with Bill's resent-filled wish for a brother to replace Jane?long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126887</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matilda Woods1805141872|title=The Boy, the Bird and the Coffin MakerTeacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=Alberto ''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a carpentersafecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the very best in the town of Allorarun. But after the plague sweeps through the town, taking many of the citizens and AlbertoAl needs them for one last job...''s wife and children Goodness me, he turns his skills away from furniture and toys that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to making coffinsget mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Wrapped in sadnessLuckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, and waiting only for the plague son of a famous magician who has ambitions to come and claim be as good as his life toofather some day, Alberto lives alone, keeping company with the dead and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are delivered to his house to await all booked in for a movie marathon at their coffinlocal cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. One dayAll big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, howeverand many, he realises that he must have a living visitormany snacks! However, as food the movie starts to go missing, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. He begins But as they lurch from one film genre to leave scraps of foodthe next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to try the cinema, and discover who his mystery thief is…to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407178695</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gill Lewis and Jo WeaverAdam Stower|title= A Story Like the WindMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A small group 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 people huddle together in the two. But he's a tiny boat in bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a large sea. Strangers to each other hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but united by into a common experienceworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. They have each lost everything and yet each has This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a dream of seeking troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and finding refuge. They each he'll have hope. A small hope.to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192758950</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryder WindhamAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Star Wars: Return The Glorious Race of the Jedi Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 3)Magical Beasts

|summary=We open here Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with the Rebellion in disarrayhim, and our heroes separated. Obviously they need to rescue in the ones imprisoned, liaise with evening a helper at the ones acting as secret agents, dessert cafe his gran owns and get back to what they do bestruns. For the Empire are doing the same – they are building another Death Star Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a new, bigger, quicker one without a piddly little hole generation missing in it that just happens to allow the goodies the chance to destroy it at the first attemptfamily. OhA few short years ago, and our main hero, LukeEli's parents were both lost to the titular race, still has the matter of who he should count as a family member globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to settle… Yes, this is navigate the third film made world in the ''Star Wars'' universe, in company of a handy form for the eager junior novelisation readermagical beast.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285443</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Julia Golding|title= The Diamond of Drury Lane|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Set in 18th Century London, this historical thriller captures all This has made the rawness of life in race anathema to the grimy city. A young girl, Cat, who was orphaned pair – but when a bad incident at birth, is taken under the wing of eatery leads to a kind benefactor, Mr Sheridanconfession from gran, who found her abandoned on the steps of Eli knows his theatre. The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, only hope is an exciting place to grow updare to enter what he most hates, and Cat becomes a well-loved member of with the staff behind sole aim the scenes. While running errands in the theatre, she dreams prize of being a famous writer herself one day. Before her dream is realised though, Cat has an important role to play in solving a mystery - magic at the mystery of a diamond hidden in end – the Theatre Royal itselfonly thing to possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285303</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryder WindhamHelen Cooper|title=Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 2)Taming of the Cat

|summary=I've never actually held by Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the theory that cat – and in case you''The Empire Strikes Back'' is re seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the best film in names used here seem to be the seriesnames of cheeses. To meAnyway, Brie is shunned, as a youngsterscorned and, I got the willies suitably with what happens to one characterif you must, and it was great to meet the Emperor at lastmous-tracised, but beyond for the assault on Hoth there was too much that didnway his habits don't work for mematch the other mice he lives with. I certainly wasn't impressed by They nibble up paper wrapping from the kissy-kissy nonsense interrupting cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the great spacevisuals on it. And that story-faring actiontelling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. But I have always been eager enough It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to revisit itkeep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the film I've seen others had the least of chance to half-inch some cheese while the seven, and these YA variants of cat was distracted. But will the films – adaptations of story have the canonical 2004 DVD editions, and first published at successful sequel it needs when that time – are about the best way to do that.cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285435</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Bobbie PeersLauren St John|title= William Wenton and the Luridium ThiefFinding Wonder|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Bobbie Peers is a pretty talented guyRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Not only did he win a ''Palme d'Or'' award for a film he wrote Her mum died when she was young, and directed now she finds herself awoken in 2006the 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 lottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, but with thisshe can only name her aunt, his first bookJoni, hewho she knows her dad didn's turned his hand 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 writing get worse for young people. And the list of awards heRoo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's collecting old campervan, it breaks down in his native Norway are testament to his vivid the middle of nowhere and entertaining imagination. then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140637170X</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley Adam Baron and Frances CastleBenji Davies|title=Spot the Mistake: Lands of Long AgoOscar's Lion|rating=4.53|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=You'll like as not We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have seen his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a children's book couple of times before and harangued it he has to be ready for containing errorsschool. This book has at least two hundredBut when he enters his parents' bedroom, and that's not all he sees is a problem. Yesmahoosive male lion on their bed, in personifying the idea of learning through your mistakeslooking sheepish, we get ten large dioramas of historical activity, all containing twenty things and admitting that shouldnhe won't be hungry for another two days. But thereare benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. Your taskAnd it can shapeshift, should you choose to accept so he can take it, is to try school and find them allit can get him out of a problem. And it's wonderful to have around the learning is also herehouse – not limiting his biscuit intake, as we get text to tell us what being much more lax about the goofs were designed to show usrules, and so on. Make no mistakeOK, this is it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a clever and absorbing read…wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryder WindhamJudith Eagle|title=Star Wars: A New Hope Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 1)The Stolen Songbird

|summary=It takes Caro's mother, a greater mind than mine world-famous whistler, has failed to keep track of all the different versions of ''Star Wars – A New Hope'' that there have beenreturn home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. That was never the name it was known under at the startHer other mother, for one thingRonnie, but beyond the exuberant cinema classic known is having to so many, you get the digitally retouched version, then the DVD version, which both added go up North to and took away some take care of those changesher sister who is unwell. And as it So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with the filmGam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, so it is with the novelsshe feels frustrated and confused and worried. This new presentation All her summer holiday plans of the YA trilogy, while bearing the 2017 Copyright mark, building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is the 2004 childrenstuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's novelisationshouse, as far as I can make outalong with an orphan boy, Albie, minus the pictureswho is living there too. You do get, on this first oneBut she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a '40 years painting of Star Warsa bird hidden away inside her mum' stickers old suitcase, which is proof this is and all across London a classic wefearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro're looking at, but more than that, just goes to make me feel old…s mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285427</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt TavaresTania Unsworth|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman PilotNowhere Island

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=We're in ParisMeet Gil. Just twelve, and he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not to be too rude about things homes – we seem surrounded by idiotsand find a home for himself. For oneHe is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him to his future. That future seems they think the perfect place to experiment be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with manned hot air balloon flights is his brother in a camp on an island between the middle two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. Them, and a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit 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…|isbn=1804540080}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Peters|title=Friends and Traitors|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the biggest city country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like the worldfemale generations before her. For anotherThe other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they think realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only men could suffer that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the slightly colder girls are wrong, and slightly thinner air experienced on such an adventure – women would the upper class could never be able so underhand?|isbn=1788004647}}{{Frontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=Arkspire|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to copebe chalk and cheese. MeanwhileJuniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, a young girl including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie is dreaming intent on getting closer to power in one of flightthe religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of the Watcher, as so many are wont the closest to doa ruler the district has, completely unaware and one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the magic that she will soon marry one only five people can use would definitely change the status of the most famed balloonistswhole family. They will have joint journeys skywardBut in finding something oddly magical, before his early demise Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – leaving the young womanfor good, Sophie Blanchardor for very, to go it alone and become the first female pilot.very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lorraine Gregory 024162343X|title=Mold and the Poison Plot Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|genre=Confident Readers Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Mold's mum abandoned him I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a dustbin when he 'god'. Where was a baby but the binmen proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want him. Luckily old Aggy gave him a home to learn about the British army's successes (andoccasional failures, with a crusty one-legged sailor but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as a friend, Mold is happy. Happy until Aggy is accused of poisoning want to dispute what right the King. Suddenly Mold finds himself alone and thrust into army had to be there in the unlikely role of herofirst place. He sets off to rescue Aggy and along Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the way finds himself trying maturity to save approach 'the King and prevent a war with the Boggersproblem' politely. It I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's a lot for one small boy with an enormous nose but luckily he finds he's uniquely fashioned to sniff out danger'Stolen History''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192745824</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Danny WallaceThiago de Moraes|title= Hamish and the Gravity BurpOld Gods New Tricks|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=BUUUUUURRRRRRRRPPPPP! A terrifying noise is rumbling through the sleepy town of Starkley (the fourth most boring town in Britain) and having a peculiar effect on the residentsMeet Trixie. Gravity has gone Forever getting into reverse scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the poor townsfolk are floating skywardschool aircon with fart powder, helplessly trying to grab onto whatever they can in order to slow their ascentshe could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. Hamish Ellerby has But just arrived home to find his family stuck to when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the ceilingworld changes. Suddenly, along with practically everything electronic stops working – a bowl power-out, even of fruitelectric cars, six batteries and a wind-up meerkat. What could be causing this strange phenomenon? Could it be leading up to something bigger? A ''gravity-belch'hits not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, or heaven forbidand all that powers the Internet, a ''gravity-FART''? Itjust for our convenience's up to Hamish and his gangsake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the PDFpower of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to solve gather all the mystery and restore order to Starkley people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in time for stealing from the official visit from Gods, ie the Public Office of Pridesemi-deities, giants, or POP (shouldn't it be POOP?)half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471147126</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah CarrollHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=The Girl In BetweenFinding Bear|rating=4.5

|summary=After [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a family argumentlot further north than many people would venture, and finding a girl ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, things on the domestic and her mother family front are stuck out on the streets of Irelanda bit advanced, finding shelter finally in an oldbut not perfect for her, abandoned milland so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. The mill becomes the girlFor a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Desperate to make sure he's castleOK, where she finally feels safe from the lurking threat of 'and her father return to the authorities' Arctic and some of the strange men hope that in her mother's life. Her mother, however, seems to be tumbling deeper into depression, keeping her daughter locked up, out a world of sight insidevery white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and now there are strange men in hard hats coming around dangerous thing – and that the mill to measure and make notesfriendship can continue. Can the two of them move on, or will they be too late to escape?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471160629</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan Litton and Thomas HegbrookSimon Fox|title=The Earth Book: A World of Exploration and WonderDeadlock

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=The Earth. I kind of quite like itLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, you know – it seems to serve my purposeand join him on the run. I don't think I've taken too much out of it, all toldThey get together, and if it's divided up into 200 countries I'm getting close but barely begin to having visited a quarter smell the whiff of them. But way back Southern trains when I just didn't get the father is arrested, leaving Archie on with studying it. I didn't like geography – what with having the late express to draw mapsBrighton, oxbow lakes and whatnot I think it toting a tin his father was one of those subjects I was put off through the pictorial element – determined to keep away from his colleagues, and dropped it as soon as I could. But then, I didn't have the likes bearer of this book to inspire me…a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg RosoffCath Howe|title=Good Dog McTavishMy Life on Fire

|summary=McTavish did wonder whether he was making a mistake Ren's family home is destroyed in adopting the Peachey family: it was a decision which came from the heart rather than the headfire. You see the Peacheys were dysfunctional: Ma PeacheyShe, an accountant by profession, decided that she was fed up with chasing around after an ungrateful familyher parents, so she resigned and dedicated herself to her yoga with half a hint that she might also dedicate herself to her yoga teacherlittle brother lose everything. She gave up cookingdoesn't have any of her clothes, cleaningor any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, bakingor do anything, washing and all or even eat the other things which kept foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the family goingclass are doing a special art project, such as finding lost keys and getting people out creating boxes of bed so their lives, to display things that they got are important to wherever them and show who they were going on timeare as a person. And the family? WellBut Ren has nothing to put in a box, they had no idea of how and so she finds herself starting to copesteal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, with one exceptionnot when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126836</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom AnglebergerRob Keeley|title=Marvel Rocket The Boy Who Disappeared and Groot: Keep on Truckin'Other Stories

|summary=Last time our Hooray! Bookbag favourite space-gun toting small, furry woodland creature and his humanoid yet woody friend Groot, escaped a [[Marvel Rocket and Groot: Stranded on Planet Shopping Mall by Tom Angleberger|planet-sized shopping mall of death]], complete Rob Keeley is back with their new companion in the form of a tape dispenser, and an old friend (for I'm sure Rocket would think of any old space ship of his as a friend, much as I'm sure that if return to the reverse were technically possible, the ship would never do the same back). But when they run out of fuelshort story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, each as we were led fun to expect, there is only one option, and that is to land on the nightmarish world – nightmarish to Rocket, at least – of HappyHappyFunFun. But what's this? The whole world's inhabitants are now stuck hiding in caves for fear of the dangers of the road, read as every vehicle is seemingly on a collision course with them, in a planet-wide instance of road ragehis previous offerings. Surely even Rocket, who laughs in the face of danger, and Groot, who says ''I am Groot'' in the face of danger, cannot hope to help?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285478</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom AnglebergerLaura Noakes|title=Marvel Rocket and Groot: Stranded on Planet Shopping MallCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=''I am Groot''Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. I know what you're saying thereOr rather, it ''is'' good just Cos to see her friends. The practice in the japery of our favourite small woodland creature and tree-man-thing home she lives in book form, even if here it is a particularly unusual form. Everything here is unusual, on Planet Shopping Mall, where our heroes have arrived – and not for the girls to just be named by choice. Take the first place number they go correspond toin the ledger, a dry-cleanersand they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, so uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Rocket can clean his clothes of space piranha blood – Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the toilet in back just tries tag as a surname because nothing else seems to eat him. The sickly-sweet sweet shop is manned by angry robot tooth fairiesbe known about where she came from, with a battle modeas the first ever inmate, and they too have unique in having no known family in the consumption of peculiar life-forms in mindoutside world. Can During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the stranded duo battle every evil thing aroundkitchen one afternoon, and survive to find she discovers a way off-plan involving said outside world– a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, and what does that body entail? And can they cope with being forced could it possibly bring Cos closer to enter partnership the past she has so little link with a purple tape dispenser?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140528546X</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Ardagh and Tom Morgan-JonesAlice M Ross|title=Norman the Norman from Normandy (Little Gems)The Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Meet NormanAt last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Norman the Norman, from NormandyElsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. Not Big Bad Norman She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the Norman from Normandyability to leave this world, and not Norma use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the Norman from Normandy – sea levels are rising dramatically and not even Nora the Norman from, well it doesn't say, but my guess is Normandybuildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. Norman isn't very big at all – he's just a little boyWith eviction imminent, and he's not bad. Or can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at least he doesn't think he is. the shop? But because his father, Big Bad NormanWell yes, is buried in three parts (don't ask)the answer, and little baby Norman has inherited Big Bad Norman's big bad Norman sword, he's going to visit but the three parts – but fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only good will happen… Right?raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126976</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane MitchellNatasha Farrant|title= A Dangerous Crossing|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Award winning author Jane Mitchell passionately believes in using literature as a conduit to highlight Human Rights' issues that children need to understand and talk about. She explains, ''Children hear the political rhetoric on the right side and the left side – that we should open our doors and let everybody in, versus we should build barriers, we should build walls, we should ban people. And children are struggling to make sense of it, adults are struggling to make sense of it, we don't know what approach to take and what our views are because this is new, this is completely different to all of us.'' 'A Dangerous Crossing' gets to the heart The Rescue of the matter. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910411582</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jane Kerr|title=The Elephant ThiefRavenwood

|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In 1872 Maharajah This story is another excellent adventure from the elephant was sold at auction author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, in Edinburgh to 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 zoo ownerfamily. Shortly after boarding They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the train 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 his new home he destroyed sell the train carriage property to a developer as it's becoming more and his new owner then decided that they would walk more expensive to his new home in Manchestermaintain. The journey was children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to take them ten days. Jane Kerr has used this event as the inspiration for her debut novel for children that tells a story that is excitinglive, but if they'll even be together, compelling and ultimately very movingif Ravenwood itself will be torn down. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655759</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Joshua KhanRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title= Dream MagicSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= ItJayden's great to welcome our old friends back nose is forever in thisa book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the second world, for example. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their adventuresmothers see it, even though we know it means is that theyare never 'll be going through all sorts out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of terrors Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and dangers once more as with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they battle not one but two enemies bent on destroying Gehennanever knew existed. Lady Lilith Shadow may be For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the sole heir to her country, but one Aisha thinks she's still just seen on a girl and therefore expected to do nothing more useful than marry some feeble-witted prince to forge an alliance with a stronger kingdombit of local footage. Her friend Thorn, on The crew of the other handboat, is including a peasant boy from a neighbouring country living gargoyle, are tasked with a talent for getting into scrapes saving the rare critters – and an absolutely wonderful giant bat he uses to travel round on (when the bat's in kids unknowingly have the mood magical sight needed to be helpful, that is)join in. Together Dare they make side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a great team. painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407172093</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09XWSXSKY|title=Elena Favilli Maestro Orpheus and Francesca Cavallothe World Clock|titleauthor=Good Night Stories for Rebel GirlsRobert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=It's been said very often that 'history is told by the winnersFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. Well, too often historyA tune, rather like the news ticking of a clock was playing over and even destinies are written by men, and the proof is between these coversover in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. I didnHe hadn't know anything about this before reading itreally wanted to come; after all, even if it has become the most richly-backed crowd-funded book everhe's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. I 'd never heard of the Hollow Flashlight, powered purely by body warmth – which is rich if you're Who needs old enough to remember clocks anyway? All they do is tell the brou-ha-ha when a maverick British bloke did a wind-up radiotime. IAnd time isn'd never read about the Niger female who has successfully made a stand against forced, arranged marriage, rejecting a cousin t good for a fate she wishes to write for herselfanything... My ignorance may, perhaps, show me up to be a chauvinist of sorts, but I think it is further evidence that 'the gaze is male' and  And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the media are phallocentricbed. I hope too that this book doesnIt was nearly twelve o't turn any of its readers into a feminist, for that would be as bad as clock but at midnight the chauvinist charge against meclock chimed only six times. If anything There was nothing for it is designed but to create equals, go and that is as it should be, even if there is still a long way to go…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014198600X</amazonuk>find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?