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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Bernard AshleyRob Keeley|rating=5|titlegenre=Confident Readers|summary=Lena Lenik SWill 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.OEnglish is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels.SThis 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

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Lena's mother seems very ill'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. Scary noises are coming from '' ''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, in the bathroomshape of an arrow, shepointing to your front door...'' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a decade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's off food and completely listless, complaining of the effort involved ''Spirits'' series in sewing Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that is both a patch onto reboot and a cub scout uniformcontinuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. It might be a surprise Ruby and Jayden respond to the young reader of this book when we learn what intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the reason rules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is – certainly it was obvious from page two for me – but there are definitely more surprises to comeadopted by them and takes up residence in.... Mother makes a slightly unusual decision about her condition – leaving Lena with a lot on her plate when fate sets in with a surprise of its own…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125716</amazonuk>wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria McArdleRob Keeley|title=Dancing Paws of MagicChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=34

|summary=Around here, we''Dancing Paws re big fans of Magicchildren's author Rob Keeley. He' offers us almost two related stories in one. Part One focuses on the problems that arise when the dancing cats s a ball of the Pusska Mogginsky Ballet Company go on strikehappy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector. There  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is only one feline who can put things right but sadly the lepremog (the cat equivalent of his greatest achievements. It's a leprechaun) Galway O-Toot is deadsequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, crushed by a falling wall. If stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the animal ballet is to be savedspirit world throws at her, the remaining members of the ballet company must work together to find his bones and restore his life even if this means taking on the Black Treacle Farm Gang. In Part TwoEdward, we move on to a spoiled lordling and the long-awaited performance of ''The Sleeping Beauty''. Here everything seems to be going just purr-fectly until the Black Treacle Farm Gang – including Gang Leader Bruiser Bumfluff – appear to get their revenge.first spirit Ellie encounters|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036875</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Harder They FallMax Boucherat|authortitle=Bali RaiThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Cal loves comic booksWe 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. He also dreams of being What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a superhero blanket fort, she has one main intention, and saving that is to log on to Voxminer, the day while simultaneously winning the heart of the girl (Freya being the girlworld-building, hopefully). Batman critter-collecting game that is his favourite superhero. But Cala hit in Lori's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superhero-like. Because Cal is But first Lori has a bit of a geek tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and he is being bullied by mean girl Anu, who makes him complete homework assignments which then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she then sells on and her bestie and nobody else should be able to lazy classmatesenter shows signs of tampering. Still When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, it's not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely and her safe place in the gorgeous Freya game has been doctored – well, where is making friendly overtures...a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz PichonKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Family, Friends and Furry Creatures (Tom Gates)Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Tom Gates has got a problem: his shoes are making a noiseMeet Kit. They sort Like most of rasp when the people in his world, it seems, he walksis 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, only he can't recreate perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the sound at homeway. At school itUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's a different matter: not only seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is the noise very loud, there are those of his classmates who suggest that it one team has originated from somewhere a little morebeen retired, welleaten, ''intimate''and a new trio of questors is needed. All in all it's not a good start to the day Possibly very unfortunately indeed for TomKit, particularly when he realises that has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's also forgotten his baby photo for the latest school projectll enter as a team. Class 5F are building their family trees What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and they've got how could he possibly hope to interview family members to get stories of their lives for the project.succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407168118</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Cheeky Charlie: Bugs Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and Bananas (My Crazy Brother Book 2), along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Mat WaughTom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1805141872|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''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 safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job...'' Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Cheeky Charlie Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has already had [[Cheeky Charlie by Mat Waugh|one book]] written 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 him this new film format is very different, and now he has another. His slapstick adventures they are related once more by his sister Harryswept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. I love Harry But as they lurch from one film genre to 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. Harry 5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is by turn infuriated able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and amused by her brother Charlie, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. And Harry also brims over with enthusiasm But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the 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's turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B072F58644</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire FayersAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= Journey to Dragon Island (The Accidental Pirates)Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Two quests. Can Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the crew of wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the good ship Onion (don't ask) help their young friend Brine to find her home? And does evening a helper at the legendary island of dragons really exist or dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a rather important pointgeneration missing in the family. A few short years ago, this – if Eli's parents were both lost to the ship keeps sailing westtitular race, will it just topple off a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the edge world in the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the world? Of course, if you think eatery leads to a little thing like terrible peril and near-certain death should stop Captain Cassie and her shipmates confession from going wherever they fancygran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, then you're reading with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the wrong seriesonly thing to possibly save his gran. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447290623</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Bear GryllsHelen Cooper|title= New Jungle Book Adventures: Spirit The Taming of the JungleCat|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This book Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. Anyway, Brie is technically excellent but unfortunately it falls flat in shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the actual executionother mice he lives with. Grylls uses trusted storytelling techniques such They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the hero's journey visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and Chekovcast out. It's Gun almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to produce a frame that should be engaging with keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the target audience but unfortunately it does not quite hit chance to half-inch some cheese while the markcat was distracted. What we ultimately But will the story have is a great idea with some wonderful moments the successful sequel it needs when that never really recovers from a slow beginning.cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509828486</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Spudboy and ChipLauren St John|authortitle=David WindleFinding Wonder

|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the 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, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn'Sticky Toffee Trifle flavour mashed potatot think very highly of. This But she has no oneelse, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's a winnerold campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!''|isbn=0571376169Er... ok then. Not.}}{{FrontpageColin Sludge|author=Adam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Oscar's Lion|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents run ' bedroom, all he sees is a fish mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and chip shop and it isnadmitting that he won't doing so wellbe hungry for another two days. So Colin's mum is trying out new recipes But there are benefits to tempt in more customers and Colin's dad is using Colin having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a guinea pigbirthday party for Oscar the other month. The only And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a problem is that Colin has eaten quite enough exotic mashed potato, thankyouverymuch. He And it's practically bursting with it. And wonderful to have around the house is practically bursting with potato peelings– not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and so on. OK, itcan's no wonder that Colin slips and falls when he's taking them out to the garbage binst work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>154314702X</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyJudith Eagle|title=Flesh and BloodThe Stolen Songbird|rating=54|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Families change in wartime – in sizeCaro's mother, a world-famous whistler, if not any has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other waymother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. Bill and Jane have already had So who is going to get used look after Caro? Sent to their father being away to fightstay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, ''she feels frustrated and confused andworried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady'' they've tried the evacuee experiences house, along with an orphan boy, but are back in London – just in time for the Battle of BritainAlbie, which who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a circumstance Bill hates Jane formystery, as he quickly grew to love the countryside, while Jane resisted the idea she discovers a painting of them settling there, so they were returned to an allegedly safe capital. One night after a bombing raid they settle outside the neighbourhoodbird hidden away inside her mum's token emptyold suitcase, boarded up and deserted home – only for Bill all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to convince himself he hears someone inside. the gang? The unidentifiable and severely burnt child that gets rescued becomes a kind of new family member – but does this have anything And what has happened to do with BillCaro's resent-filled wish for a brother to replace Janemother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126887</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matilda WoodsTania Unsworth|title=The Boy, the Bird and the Coffin MakerNowhere Island

|summary=Alberto Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is a carpenter, so determined to escape the care system – the very best system that constantly puts him in the town of Allorafutureless places that are not homes – and find a home for himself. But after the plague sweeps through the townHe is en route to yet another fosterer, taking many of the citizens and Alberto's wife and childrenwhen he jumps into an anonymous car, he turns his skills away from furniture and toys lets it ride him to making coffinshis future. Wrapped That future seems to be in sadness, and waiting only for the plague to come and claim jeopardy when someone steals his life too, Alberto one bag of belongings – but that someone lives alone, keeping company with his brother in a camp on an island between the dead who are delivered two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to his house to await provide for their coffinsafety and seclusion. One dayThem, howeverand a mute girl also finding a home there, he realises that he must have albeit so much more successfully. Over a living visitorfew weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as food starts to go missing. He begins to leave scraps of food, to try and discover who his mystery thief is…we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407178695</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gill Lewis and Jo WeaverHelen Peters|title= A Story Like the WindFriends and Traitors|rating= 53|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A small group of people huddle together England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like the female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a tiny boat in girl from a large seahoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. Strangers to The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other but united by a common experienceover their first encounters would only prove it so. They have each lost everything But something is amiss, and first separately and yet each has then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a dream rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of seeking meetings with Germans, and finding refuge. They each have hope. A small hopenot only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192758950</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryder WindhamJamie Littler|title=Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 3)Arkspire

|summary=We open here with the Rebellion in disarrayTwo sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and our heroes separatedcheese. Obviously they need to rescue the ones imprisonedJuniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, liaise with including relics from prior major wars left out in the ones acting as secret agents, and get back to what they do bestBadlands. For Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the Empire are doing religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the same – they are building another Death Star – a new, bigger, quicker one without a piddly little hole child in it that just happens line to allow inherit the goodies power of the chance Watcher, the closest to destroy it at a ruler the district has, and one of the first attemptfive major victors in said earlier war. Oh, and our main hero, Luke, still has Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the matter status of who he should count as a the whole family member to settle… . YesBut in finding something oddly magical, this is the third film made in the ''Star Wars'' universeJuniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, in a handy form or for the eager junior novelisation reader.very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285443</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Julia Golding024162343X|title= The Diamond of Drury LaneStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating= 45|genre= Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Set I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in 18th Century London, this historical thriller captures all religious education classes because I disputed the rawness existence of life in a 'god'. Where was the grimy city. A young girlproof? In history lessons, Cat, who it was orphaned at birth, is taken under probably worse still. Not too long after the wing end of a kind benefactorWWII, Mr SheridanI didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, who found her abandoned but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the steps of his theatre. The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, is an exciting place colonies' as want to grow up, and Cat becomes a well-loved member of dispute what right the staff behind the scenes. While running errands army had to be there in the theatre, she dreams of being a famous writer herself one dayfirst place. Before her dream is realised though Looking back, Cat has an important role to play in solving a mystery I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the mystery of a diamond hidden in maturity to approach 'the Theatre Royal itselfproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285303</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryder WindhamThiago de Moraes|title=Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 2)Old Gods New Tricks|rating=34.5

|summary=I've never actually held by the theory that ''The Empire Strikes Back'' is the best film in the seriesMeet Trixie. To meForever getting into scrapes, as a youngster, I got larks and adventures involving flooding the willies suitably school aircon with what happens to one characterfart powder, and it was great to meet the Emperor at last, but beyond the assault on Hoth there was too much that didn't work for meshe could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. I certainly wasnBut just when she't impressed s being told that by the kissyher one-last-chance-kissy nonsense interrupting giving headteacher, the great space-faring actionworld changes. But I have always been eager enough to revisit itSuddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, as hits not just the town the film Ischool've seen s in but the least of the sevenentire planet (apart from mobile phones, and these YA variants of all that powers the films Internet, just for our convenience's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – adaptations the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the canonical 2004 DVD editions, and first published at people that time can steal it back – are about namely the best way to do characters from myth that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285435</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Bobbie Peers|title= William Wenton and have past form in stealing from the Luridium Thief|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Bobbie Peers is a pretty talented guy. Not only did he win a ''Palme d'Or'' award for a film he wrote and directed in 2006Gods, but with thisie the semi-deities, his first bookgiants, he's turned his hand to writing for young people. And half-gods and so on known as the list of awards he's collecting in his native Norway are testament to his vivid and entertaining imaginationtricksters. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140637170X</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley Hannah Gold and Frances CastleLevi Pinfold|title=Spot the Mistake: Lands of Long AgoFinding Bear

|summary=It takes [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a greater mind lot further north than mine to keep track of all the different versions of ''Star Wars many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – A New Hope'' that there have beenshe called Bear. That was never Back home, things on the name it was known under at the startdomestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for one thingher, but beyond the exuberant cinema classic known to and so many, you get can easily be ignored when word comes through from the digitally retouched version, then the DVD version, which both added to and took away some of those changesislands Bear was last left on. And as it is with the film, so it is with the novelsFor a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. This new presentation of the YA trilogy, while bearing the 2017 Copyright mark, is the 2004 childrenDesperate to make sure he's novelisationsOK, as far as I can make out, minus she and her father return to the pictures. You do get, on this first one, Arctic and hope that in a '40 years world of Star Wars' stickervery white and very dangerous things, which is proof this is a classic we're looking at, but more than she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that, just goes to make me feel old…the friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285427</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt TavaresSimon Fox|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman PilotDeadlock

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=We're in ParisLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and – not to be too rude about things – we seem surrounded by idiots. For onethen suddenly rings Archie, it seems they think the perfect demanding he fetch something from a secret place to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights is in the middle of the biggest city in the world. For another, they think only men could suffer the slightly colder and slightly thinner air experienced join him on such an adventure – women would never be able to copethe run. MeanwhileThey get together, a young girl is dreaming of flight, as so many are wont but barely begin to do, completely unaware that she will soon marry one smell the whiff of Southern trains when the most famed balloonists. They will have joint journeys skywardfather is arrested, before his early demise – leaving Archie on the young womanlate express to Brighton, Sophie Blanchardtoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, to go it alone and become the first female pilotbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lorraine Gregory Cath Howe|title=Mold and the Poison Plot My Life on Fire

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=MoldRen's mum abandoned him family home is destroyed in a dustbin when he was a baby but the binmen didnfire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't want him. Luckily old Aggy gave him a home andhave any of her clothes, with a crusty oneor any of her special little knick-legged sailor as a friendknacks from her cupboard, Mold and now she is happy. Happy until Aggy is accused of poisoning living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the Kingfoods they normally eat. Suddenly Mold finds himself alone and thrust into When she goes back to school she discovers that the unlikely role class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of hero. He sets off their lives, to rescue Aggy and along the way finds himself trying display things that are important to save the King them and prevent show who they are as a war with the Boggersperson. It's But Ren has nothing to put in a lot for one small boy with an enormous nose but luckily he box, and so she finds he's uniquely fashioned 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 sniff her if someone finds out danger. what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192745824</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Danny WallaceRob Keeley|title= Hamish The Boy Who Disappeared and the Gravity BurpOther Stories|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary=BUUUUUURRRRRRRRPPPPPHooray! A terrifying noise Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is rumbling through the sleepy town of Starkley (the fourth most boring town in Britain) and having back with a peculiar effect on the residents. Gravity has gone into reverse and the poor townsfolk are floating skyward, helplessly trying to grab onto whatever they can in order to slow their ascent. Hamish Ellerby has just arrived home to find his family stuck return to the ceiling, along with a bowl of fruit, six batteries and a wind-up meerkat. What could be causing this strange phenomenon? Could it be leading up short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to something bigger? A ''gravity-belch''eleven new tales, or heaven forbid, a ''gravity-FART''? It's up each as fun to Hamish and read as his gang, the PDF, to solve the mystery and restore order to Starkley in time for the official visit from the Public Office of Pride, or POP (shouldn't it be POOP?)previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471147126</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah CarrollLaura Noakes|title=The Girl In BetweenCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=After a family argumentMeet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, a girl and just Cos to her mother are stuck out on the streets of Ireland, finding shelter finally in an old, abandoned millfriends. The mill becomes practice in the girl's castle, where home she finally feels safe from lives in is for the girls to just be named by the lurking threat of 'number they correspond to in the authorities' ledger, and some of the strange men in her motherthey's lifere all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. Her mother, however, But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be tumbling deeper into depressionknown about where she came from, keeping her daughter locked up, out of sight insideas the first ever inmate, and now there are strange men unique in hard hats coming around having no known family in the outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the mill kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to measure and make notesadopt all the girls for his Institute. Can the two of them move onBut why, or will they be too late and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to escapethe past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471160629</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan Litton and Thomas HegbrookAlice M Ross|title=The Earth Book: A World of Exploration and WonderNowhere Thief

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=The EarthAt last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. I kind of quite like Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it, you know – it seems to serve my purpose. I don't think I've taken too much She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out of it, all toldbecause she has the ability to leave this world, and if it's divided up into 200 countries I'm getting close to having visited a quarter use an unworldly portal of them. But way back when I just didn't get on with studying it. I didn't like geography – what with having kaleidoscope colours to draw mapsenter other worlds, oxbow lakes where the sea levels are rising dramatically and whatnot I think it was one the buildings are generally empty of those subjects I was put off through the pictorial element – humans and dropped it as soon as I couldripe for plunder. But thenWith eviction imminent, I didn't have can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the likes of this book to inspire me…shop? Well yes, is the answer, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg RosoffNatasha Farrant|title=Good Dog McTavishThe Rescue of Ravenwood

|summary=McTavish did wonder whether he was making a mistake in adopting the Peachey family: it was a decision which came This story is another excellent adventure from the heart rather than author of ''Voyage of the headSparrowhawk''. You see Ravenwood is an old house, in the Peacheys were dysfunctional: Ma PeacheyNorth of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a complex, an accountant by professionextended family arrangement, decided that she was fed up as Bea is there with chasing around after an ungrateful familyher Uncle Leo, so she resigned and dedicated herself to her yoga Raffy is there with half his mum, and they are living together as a hint that she might also dedicate herself to her yoga teacherfamily. She gave They have grown up cookingswimming in the cove, cleaningroaming through the trees, baking, washing completely at one with all of the nature around the house and all loving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other things which kept two brothers to sell the family going, such property to a developer as finding lost keys it's becoming more and getting people out of bed so that they got more expensive to wherever maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they were 're going on time. And the family? Wellto live, but if they had no idea of how to cope'll even be together, with one exceptionand if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126836</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom AnglebergerRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Marvel Rocket and GrootSecret Beast Club: Keep on Truckin'The Unicorns of Silver Street

|summary=Last time our favourite space-gun toting small, furry woodland creature and his humanoid yet woody friend GrootJayden's nose is forever in a book, escaped which means he knows a [[Marvel Rocket lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and Groot: Stranded on Planet Shopping Mall by Tom Angleberger|planet-sized shopping mall unicorns of death]]the world, complete with their for example. Aisha is addicted to her new companion in the form of a tape dispensertablet, and an old friend (for I'm sure Rocket would think of any old space ship where she can see videos of his as a friend, much as I'm sure anything that if the reverse were technically possible, the ship would never do the same back)might be out there. But when they run out of fuelThe problem, as we were led to expecttheir mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there is only one option' themselves, and that is to land on exploring the nightmarish outside world – nightmarish to Rocketof Hackney, at least – of HappyHappyFunFunLondon. But whatwhen a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's this? cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. The whole worldFor many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's inhabitants are now stuck hiding in caves for fear seen on a bit of the dangers local footage. The crew of the roadboat, as every vehicle is seemingly on including a collision course living gargoyle, are tasked with them, saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in a planet-wide instance of road rage. Surely even RocketDare they side with Leila, who laughs in the face of dangerwoman on board, and Groot, her relative who says ''I am Groot'' lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the face of danger, cannot hope to helpunseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285478</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom AnglebergerB09XWSXSKY|title=Marvel Rocket Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Groot: Stranded on Planet Shopping MallJoanne Grodzinski

|summary=Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn''I am Groot''t sleep. I know what you're saying thereA tune, it ''is'' good to see rather like the japery ticking of our favourite small woodland creature a clock was playing over and tree-man-thing over in book form, even if here it is a particularly unusual formhis mind. Everything here is unusual, on Planet Shopping Mall, where our heroes have arrived – and not by choiceIt happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. Take the first place they go He hadn't really wanted tocome; after all, a dry-cleaners, so that Rocket can clean his clothes of space piranha blood – the toilet in back just tries he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to eat himanymore.  ''Who needs old clocks anyway? The sickly-sweet sweet shop All they do is manned by angry robot tooth fairies, with a battle mode, and they too have tell the time. And time isn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the consumption of peculiar life-forms in mindbed. Can It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the stranded duo battle every evil thing around, clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to go and survive to find a way offgrandad -worldbut where was he? And can they cope with being forced to enter partnership with a purple tape dispenserwhy had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140528546X</amazonuk>