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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Harder They FallDouble Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Bali RaiRob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Cal loves comic books. He also dreams Will is a keen player of being video games, a conscientious student, a superhero slightly annoying brother and saving the day while simultaneously winning the heart a supportive friend. But most of the girl (Freya being the girlall, hopefully)he is an aspiring writer. Batman English is his favourite superherolesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. But CalThis hasn's world outside t gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and his daydreams is not particularly superhero-like. Because Cal is mum that he spends a bit couple of afternoons a geek and he is being bullied by mean girl Anuweek at a different school, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on to lazy classmates. StillStation Road, it's not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely and the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures.where his ability might be better extended..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Liz Pichon1836282028|title=Family, Friends and Furry Creatures (Tom Gates)The Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=Tom Gates has got ''Would you like to adopt a problem: his shoes are making 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 noisespeciality. They sort '' ''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, in the shape of rasp when he walksan arrow, only he canpointing to your front door...'t recreate the sound at home. At school it's  Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a different matter: not only is the noise very loud, there are those decade of his classmates who suggest that it has originated from somewhere a little more, well, wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's ''intimateSpirits''. All series in all it's not Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that is both a reboot and a good start to the day for Tomcontinuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, particularly when he realises that he's also forgotten his baby photo for the latest school projecthas some new companions. Class 5F are building their family trees Ruby and they've got Jayden respond to interview family members to get stories of their lives for this intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the projectrules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is adopted by them and takes up residence in....|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407168118</amazonuk>a wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cheeky Charlie: Bugs and Bananas (My Crazy Brother Book 2)Rob Keeley|authortitle=Mat WaughChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|summary=Cheeky Charlie has already had [[Cheeky Charlie by Mat Waugh|one book]] written about him Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and now he has anotherwrites for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector. His slapstick adventures are related once more by  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his sister Harrygreatest achievements. I love Harry. Harry is by turn infuriated 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 amused by her brother Charlie. And Harry also brims over with enthusiasm. the first spirit Ellie encounters|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B072F58644</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire FayersMax Boucherat|title= Journey to Dragon Island (The Accidental Pirates)Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Two quests. Can We meet Lori on the crew of first evening she's got the good ship Onion (don't ask) help their young friend Brine house to herself – no neighbour to find pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her homelonesome. What could possibly go wrong? And does the legendary island of dragons really exist or – Snuggled in a rather important pointblanket fort, she has one main intention, this – if the ship keeps sailing westand that is to log on to Voxminer, will it just topple off the edge of the world? Of course-building, if you think critter-collecting game that is a little thing like terrible peril and near-certain death should stop Captain Cassie and hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her shipmates from going wherever they fancyown, and then you're reading she finds something even more spooky. For the wrong seriesserver 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, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447290623</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Bear GryllsKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= New Jungle Book AdventuresDungeon Runners: Spirit of the JungleHero Trial|rating= 34|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This book Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is technically excellent but unfortunately it falls flat in an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team 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 actual executionway. Grylls uses trusted storytelling techniques such as Unfortunately for Kit, the heroonly thing he's journey seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and Chekov's Gun a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to produce a frame that should be engaging with the target audience but unfortunately it does not quite hit goading from the marktoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What we ultimately chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have is a great idea with some wonderful moments in actually managing that never really recovers from a slow beginning., and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509828486</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Spudboy and ChipJames Sherwood Metts|authortitle=David WindlePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=''Sticky Toffee Trifle flavour mashed potato. This one's Things have been a winner!'' Erbit sticky for the Earthlings... ok then. Not. Colin SludgeAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's parents run a fish re paid to do and chip shop other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and it isn't doing so well. So Colin's mum is trying out starting to think of other, new recipes ways to tempt in more customers spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and Colin's dad is using Colin as a guinea pig. The only problem is that Colin has eaten quite enough exotic mashed potato, thankyouverymuch. He's practically bursting along with it. And , all the house is practically bursting with potato peelings, many daily social interactions on which they depend so it's no wonder that Colin slips and falls when he's taking them out to the garbage binsheavily.|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, and waiting only for the plague to come and claim his life toopupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, Alberto lives alone, keeping company with the dead son of a famous magician who are delivered has ambitions to be as good as his house to await their coffin. One father some day, however, he realises that he must have a living visitor, as food starts to go missing. He begins to leave scraps of food, to try and discover who his mystery thief is…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407178695</amazonuk>thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gill Lewis and Jo WeaverChristopher Edge|title= A Story Like the WindBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A small group of people huddle together Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a tiny boat in movie marathon at their local cinema, a large seaplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, 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. Strangers But as they lurch from one film genre to each other but united by the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the 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 common experiencehumble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. They have each lost everything But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and yet each has the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a dream world of seeking frightening adventure and finding refugewhiffs. They each 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's turned up and 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 the biggest city in the worlda motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. For anotherThem, they think only men could suffer the slightly colder and slightly thinner air experienced on such an adventure – women 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 never 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 country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be able to copein service all her life it seems, like the female generations before her. MeanwhileThe other is Sidney, a young girl is dreaming of from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, as and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so many . But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are wont to doreceived under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, completely unaware and not only that she will soon marry one of the most famed balloonists, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. They will have joint journeys skyward, before his early demise – leaving But surely the young woman, Sophie Blanchardgirls are wrong, to go it alone and become the first female pilot.upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lorraine Gregory Jamie Littler|title=Mold Arkspire|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie is intent on 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 one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the Poison Plot magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143}}{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=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 ''just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is'' good for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to see in the japery of our favourite small woodland creature ledger, and tree-man-thing in book formthey're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, even if here it is a particularly unusual formuncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. Everything here is unusualBut Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, on Planet Shopping Mallas the first ever inmate, where our heroes have arrived – and not by choiceunique in having no known family in the outside world. Take During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the first place they go tokitchen one afternoon, she discovers a dry-cleaners, so that Rocket can clean his clothes of space piranha blood plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the toilet in back just tries to eat himgirls for his Institute. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059}}{{Frontpage|author=Alice M Ross|title=The sicklyNowhere Thief|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-sweet sweet full antiques shop is manned by angry robot tooth fairiesElsbeth 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, with a battle modeand use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and they too have the consumption buildings are generally empty of peculiar life-forms in mindhumans and ripe for plunder. Can the stranded duo battle every evil thing aroundWith eviction imminent, and survive can Elsbeth nab anything to find a way off-worldactually generate custom at the shop? And can they cope with being forced to enter partnership with Well yes, is the answer, but the fact a purple tape dispenser?mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140528546X</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Ardagh and Tom Morgan-JonesNatasha Farrant|title=Norman the Norman from Normandy (Little Gems)The Rescue of Ravenwood

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Meet NormanThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Norman Ravenwood is an old house, in the NormanNorth of England, from Normandywhere Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. Not Big Bad Norman the Norman from NormandyThey are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and not Norma the Norman from Normandy – Raffy is there with his mum, and not even Nora they are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the Norman fromcove, well it doesn't sayroaming through the trees, but my guess is Normandy. Norman isn't very big completely at one with all – he's just a little boy, of the nature around the house and he's not badloving every inch of the place. Or at least he doesn't think he But now the house is. But because his father, Big Bad Normanunder threat, as Leo is buried in three parts (donunder pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it't ask), s becoming more and little baby Norman has inherited Big Bad Normanmore expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they's big bad Norman sword, he's re going to visit the three parts – live, but only good if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will happen… Right?be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126976</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane MitchellRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title= A Dangerous CrossingSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Award winning author Jane Mitchell passionately believes Jayden's nose is forever in using literature as a conduit to highlight Human Rights' issues that children need to understand and talk book, which means he knows a lot about. She explains, ''Children hear the political rhetoric on mythological creatures – the right side phoenixes and unicorns of the left side – that we should open our doors and let everybody in, versus we should build barriersworld, we should build walls, we should ban peoplefor example. And children are struggling Aisha is addicted to make sense her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, adults is that they are struggling to make sense never 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of itHackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, we donand with a past involving Jayden't know what approach to take and what our views s cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are because this is newreal, this is completely different to all including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of uslocal footage.'' 'A Dangerous Crossing' gets The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. Dare they side with Leila, the heart woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the matter. unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411582</amazonuk>0241573483