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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Simon Mayle Rob Keeley|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and Nikalas Catlowa supportive friend. But most of all, he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.}}{{Frontpage|isbn= 1836282028|title=How Harry Riddles Made The Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Would you like to adopt a ghost?'' ''Young spirit, born 1887, seeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on well with other children. Jokes and shocks a speciality.'' ''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, in the shape of an arrow, pointing to your front door...'' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a decade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's ''Spirits'' series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that is both a reboot and a continuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. Ruby and Jayden respond to this intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the rules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is adopted by them and takes up residence in.... a wardrobe!}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a Mega Amount sequence of Money (Shoutykidghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, Book a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5)|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is 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 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, where is a girl to 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 his world, it seems, he is 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 way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=34.5

|summary=There is Things have been a child who likes his schoolbit sticky for the Earthlings. It just takes him AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to be fictional for do and other tasks that comment took time to be trueaccomplish. YesJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, while the building is way above his older sister in Harry's estimationnew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and while school is way below his enjoyment of playing zombie games, he likes it. He likes it enough to worry about along with it being forced to close when there's a heinous sum of £7,000 to be made up – but does he like anything profitable enough to make sure he can get all the place saved?many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008158924</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony HorowitzTom Percival|title=Never Say Die The Wrong Shoes

|summary=Set just five weeks after the events of ''Scorpia Rising'Will's life is difficult, Alex Rider is living in San Francisco and attempting to adjust to life as a normal high school studentmultitude of ways. Normal, however, is not a word that we associate with this particular fifteen year old. After all, this He is bullied because he has 'the boy whowrong shoes's completed nine successful missions for M16: the teenager who , he has saved the world (more than once) wrong shoes because his dad can't work and effectively brought down doesn't have enough money for even the international criminal organisationmost basic of things like food, Scorpia. And things arenand his dad can't about to changework because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Given everything Throw into that has happened in Alexmix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's young lifeseems 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, it's not surprising that feel like a light at the past is about to catch up with him…end of a long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406377058</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1805141872|title=Running on the Roof of the WorldThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Jess ButterworthRob Keeley

|summary=Rule Number One: Don't run in front of 'Seventeen banks and a soldierjeweller’s have been raided.<br>Rule Number Two: Never look at The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a soldiersafecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the run. <br>Rule Number Three: Say as little as possibleBut Al needs them for one last job.<br>..''

There are two words banned in Tibet: Dalai Lama. Tash lives in Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a Tibet under the Chinese occupation that began in 1950. Chinese soldiers are terror! How on earth did a constant and oppressive feature of nice teacher like her lifemanage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Most Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of Tibet's cultural 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|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and religious traditions his friends are severely suppressed and any act of rebellion can result all booked in you taken away by the soldiersfor a movie marathon at their local cinema, never to be seen again. But there is resistance. Tash's father belongs to a secret cell place that tries to get information out to has the wider worldnickname of 'The Black Hole'. But it All big movie fans, they's dangerous. And whenre looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, one daymany snacks! However, a man self-immolates in her village 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 act of protestadventure they couldn't even imagine. 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 Chinese authorities crack down hard.cinema, and to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510102086</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mark Huckerby and Nick OstlerAdam Stower|title= Defender of the Realm: Dark AgeMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=King Alfred the Second Murray is still growing into his roles as King supposed to be a humble, tidy and Defender of the Realm. Just having defeated the Black Dragon at his coronationfriendly cat, Alfie one who is trying able to focus on making less of a fool of himself in his day jobsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, something the Prime Minister is keen to encourage as much as possiblewell, when a new threat hits whatever takes his fancy next of the Kingdomtwo. The UK is being savaged by But he's a hoard of undead Vikings, intent on causing as much trouble as possible, who have all been stirred up by Alfiebad magician's old History teachercat, Professor Lock. But how do you kill something that's already dead? Alfie is trying to save the Kingdom by nightso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, rule it by day and keep his family togetherthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, all not into the while knowing if he failsregular back garden, we could be thrown but into another dark agea world of frightening adventure and whiffs. Well This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, no one said being King would much bigger than Murray was, to be easy. honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407164244</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth P JonesAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Beards From Outer SpaceThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary= You might not realise it but Earth Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is under constant alien attacka generation missing in the family. Luckily we humans don A few short years ago, Eli't need s parents were both lost to worry because the Pet Defenders (titular race, a secret society globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of our domestic pets) are always on standby a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to keep us safe. The activities of the Pet Defenders are normally kept secret pair – but Stripes Publishing are kindly allowing human children when a brief glimpse into their exciting adventures. In ''Beards From Outer Space'' we are able bad incident at the eatery leads to read how a dog and cat – secret agents Biskit and Mitzy – team up confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to rid enter what he most hates, with the world sole aim the prize of an army of alien beardsmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847157858</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen Cooper|title=The Secret Taming of the Wooden Chest (Roman Magic)|author= Catherine RosevearCat

|summary=Hannah lives with her parents 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 flat above cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the nursing home where her mother is matronnames of cheeses. Hannah Anyway, Brie is an only child shunned, scorned and so she enjoys making friends , if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with some of . They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the homevisuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. It's residentsalmost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. So when Mrs Oberto moves This makes Brie the top dog inthe mouse community, Hannah is keen though, as all the others had the chance to make her acquaintance half- Hannah has never met anyone Italian before. Mrs Oberto is quite standoffish at first but Hannah persists and soon they are inch some cheese while the best of friends. Mrs Oberto is particularly keen on helping Hannah with her school project about ancient Rome and relates many interesting stories about her Sicilian childhoodcat was distracted. But she remains tight-lipped about will the mysterious wooden chest, story have the key to which she keeps around her neck...successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788032535</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan GibbonsLauren St John|title=The Beautiful GameFinding Wonder

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Football is all about its coloursRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. And even if I write in the season Her mum died when one team she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in blue knocks another team in blue from the throne middle of English football, it's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour night by the police banging on her door to wear. But is tell her that flame red? Blood red? The red of her dad has dropped dead on his way to the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in corner shop to buy a tragedy – and that it had been one of their own making? lottery ticket. And while weWhen asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn're on about colour, where were the people t think very highly of colour in football in the olden days? . There are But she has no one else, and so many darker sides off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to footballget worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's history old campervan, it's enough to make a young lad question breaks down in the whole game…middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernard AshleyAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Lena Lenik S.O.S.|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Lena's mother seems very ill. Scary noises are coming from the bathroom, sheOscar's off food and completely listless, complaining of the effort involved in sewing a patch onto a cub scout uniform. It might be a surprise to the young reader of this book when we learn what the reason is – certainly it was obvious from page two for me – but there are definitely more surprises to come. 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>}}{{newreview|author=Maria McArdle|title=Dancing Paws of MagicLion

|summary=''Dancing Paws 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 Magictimes before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents'bedroom, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that he won' offers us almost t be hungry for another two related stories in onedays. Part One focuses on But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the problems bully that arise when the dancing cats of ruined a birthday party for Oscar the Pusska Mogginsky Ballet Company go on strikeother month. There is only one feline who And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and it can put things right but sadly the lepremog (the cat equivalent get him out of a leprechaun) Galway O-Toot is dead, crushed by a falling wallproblem. If And it's wonderful to have around the animal ballet is to be savedhouse – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the remaining members of the ballet company must work together to find his bones rules, and restore his life even if this means taking so on the Black Treacle Farm Gang. In Part Two OK, we move on to the long-awaited performance of it can''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 revenget work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036875</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreview|title=The Harder They Fall|author=Bali Rai|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Cal loves comic books. He also dreams of being a superhero and saving the day while simultaneously winning the heart of the girl (Freya being the girl, hopefully). Batman is his favourite superhero. But Cal's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superhero-like. Because Cal is a bit of a geek and he is being bullied by mean girl Anu, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on to lazy classmates. Still, it's not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely and the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz PichonJudith Eagle|title=Family, Friends and Furry Creatures (Tom Gates)The Stolen Songbird

|summary=Tom Gates Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has got a problem: his shoes are making a noisefailed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. They sort Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of rasp when he walksher sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, only he can't recreate the sound at homesomeone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. At school itAll her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's a different matter: not only is the noise very loudhouse, there are those of his classmates who suggest that it has originated from somewhere a little morealong with an orphan boy, wellAlbie, ''intimate''who is living there too. All But she soon finds herself caught up in all it's not a good start to the day for Tommystery, particularly when he realises that heas she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's also forgotten his baby photo for old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the latest school projectSnakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Class 5F are building their family trees and they've got Is the painting somehow linked to interview family members the gang? And what has happened to get stories of their lives for Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the project.mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407168118</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cheeky Charlie: Bugs and Bananas (My Crazy Brother Book 2)Tania Unsworth|authortitle=Mat WaughNowhere Island|rating=4.5

|summary=Cheeky Charlie has already had [[Cheeky Charlie by Mat Waugh|one book]] written about Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and now find a home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he has anotherjumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him to his future. His slapstick adventures are related once more by That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his sister Harry. I love Harrybrother in a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. Harry is by turn infuriated Them, and amused by her brother Charlie. And Harry a mute girl also brims over with enthusiasmfinding 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B072F58644</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire FayersHelen Peters|title= Journey to Dragon Island (The Accidental Pirates)Friends and Traitors|rating= 53|genre= Confident Readers|summary= England, WW2. Two questsyoung girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. Can the crew of the good ship Onion (don't ask) help their young friend Brine One is Nancy, destined to find be in service all her home? And does the legendary island of dragons really exist or – a rather important pointlife it seems, this – if like the ship keeps sailing westfemale generations before her. The other is Sidney, will it just topple off the edge of the world? Of course, if you think a little thing like terrible peril and neargirl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-certain death should stop Captain Cassie paths. The girls are chalk and her shipmates from going wherever they fancycheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then you're reading the wrong seriestheir behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447290623</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Bear Grylls|title= New Jungle Book Adventures: Spirit of the Jungle|rating= 3|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This book But something is technically excellent but unfortunately it falls flat amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the actual execution. Grylls uses trusted storytelling techniques such as the heroLord Evesham must be a rum 's journey and Chekov's Gun to produce a frame that should be engaging with the target audience but unfortunately it does not quite hit the markun. What we ultimately have Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is a great idea made of meetings with some wonderful moments Germans, and not only that never really recovers from , a slow beginninglocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509828486</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Spudboy and ChipJamie Littler|authortitle=David WindleArkspire

|summary=''Sticky Toffee Trifle flavour mashed potato. This one's a winner!'' Er... ok then. Not. Colin Sludge's parents run a fish Two sisters, Juniper and chip shop Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and it isn't doing so wellcheese. So Colin's mum Juniper is trying an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out new recipes in the Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer to tempt power in more customers and Colin's dad is using Colin as 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 guinea pig. The only problem is that Colin ruler the district has eaten quite enough exotic mashed potato, thankyouverymuchand one of the five major victors in said earlier war. He's practically bursting with it. And Being trained in the house is practically bursting with potato peelings, so it's no wonder magic that Colin slips and falls when he's taking them out to only five people can use would definitely change the status of the garbage binswhole 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>154314702X</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Priestley024162343X|title=Flesh and BloodStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Families change in wartime – in size, if not any I was the bad company other waypeople got into at school. Bill and Jane have already had to get used to their father being away to fight, ''and'' they've tried the evacuee experience, but are back I was disruptive in London – just in time for religious education classes because I disputed the Battle existence of Britain, which is a circumstance Bill hates Jane for, as he quickly grew to love 'god'. Where was the countrysideproof? In history lessons, while Jane resisted it was probably worse still. Not too long after the idea end of them settling thereWWII, I didn't so they were returned much want to an allegedly safe capital. One night after a bombing raid they settle outside learn about the neighbourhoodBritish army's token emptysuccesses (and occasional failures, boarded up and deserted home – only for Bill but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to convince himself he hears someone insidebe there in the first place. The unidentifiable and severely burnt child Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that gets rescued becomes a kind of new family member – but does this have anything I lacked the maturity to do with Billapproach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's resent-filled wish for a brother to replace Jane?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126887</amazonuk>''Stolen History''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matilda WoodsThiago de Moraes|title=The Boy, the Bird and the Coffin MakerOld Gods New Tricks

|summary=Alberto is a carpenterMeet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the very best in the town school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of Alloranuisance. But after just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the plague sweeps through world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town, taking many of the citizens and Albertoschool's wife and children, he turns his skills away in but the entire planet (apart from furniture and toys to making coffins. Wrapped in sadnessmobile phones, and waiting only for all that powers the plague to come and claim his life tooInternet, Alberto lives alone, keeping company with the dead who are delivered to his house to await their coffinjust for our convenience's sake). One dayTrixie, howeverluckily, he realises that he must what has happened – the ancient Gods have a living visitor, as food starts to go missingtaken the power of power from us. He And so she begins her epic quest, to leave scraps of foodgather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, to try half-gods and discover who his mystery thief is…so on known as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407178695</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gill Lewis Hannah Gold and Jo WeaverLevi Pinfold|title= A Story Like the WindFinding Bear|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A small group of [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people huddle together in would venture, and finding a tiny boat in ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a large seapolar bear – that she called Bear. Strangers to each other Back home, things on the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but united by not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For a common experiencebear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. They have each lost everything Desperate to make sure he's OK, she and yet each has her father return to the Arctic and hope that in a dream world of seeking very white and finding refuge. They each have hope. A small hopevery dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192758950</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryder WindhamSimon Fox|title=Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 3)Deadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=We open here with Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the Rebellion in disarrayforce, and our heroes separated. Obviously they need to rescue the ones imprisonedthen suddenly rings Archie, liaise with the ones acting as demanding he fetch something from a secret agentsplace, and join him on the run. They get back together, but barely begin to what they do best. For smell the Empire are doing whiff of Southern trains when the same – they are building another Death Star – a newfather is arrested, biggerleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, quicker one without toting a piddly little hole in it that just happens to allow the goodies the chance tin his father was determined to destroy it at the first attempt. Ohkeep away from his colleagues, and our main hero, Luke, still has the matter bearer of who he should count as a family member to settle… Yes, this is the third film made in the ''Star Wars'' universe, in a handy form for the eager junior novelisation readerwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285443</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julia GoldingCath Howe|title= The Diamond of Drury LaneMy Life on Fire|rating= 45|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Set Ren's family home is destroyed in 18th Century Londona fire. She, her parents, this historical thriller captures all the rawness and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of life in the grimy city. A young girlher clothes, Cator any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, who was orphaned and now she is living at birthher grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, is taken under or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the wing of class are doing a kind benefactorspecial art project, Mr Sheridan, who found her abandoned on the steps creating boxes of his theatre. The Theatre Royaltheir lives, Drury Lane, is an exciting place to grow up, display things that are important to them and Cat becomes show who they are as a well-loved member of the staff behind the scenesperson. While running errands But Ren has nothing to put in the theatrea box, and so she dreams of being a famous writer finds herself one daystarting to steal things. Before Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her dream if someone finds out what she is realised though, Cat has an important role to play in solving a mystery - the mystery of a diamond hidden in the Theatre Royal itself.doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285303</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryder WindhamRob Keeley|title=Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 2)Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=3.54

|summary=I've never actually held by the theory that ''The Empire Strikes Back'' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is the best film in the series. To me, as back with a youngster, I got the willies suitably with what happens return to one character, 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 me. I certainly wasn't impressed by the kissy-kissy nonsense interrupting the great space-faring action. But I have always been eager enough short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to revisit iteleven new tales, each as the film I've seen the least of the seven, and these YA variants of the films – adaptations of the canonical 2004 DVD editions, and first published at that time – are about the best way fun to do thatread as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285435</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Bobbie PeersLaura Noakes|title= William Wenton and the Luridium ThiefCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Bobbie Peers is a pretty talented guyMeet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Not only did he win a ''Palme d' Or'' award rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for a film he wrote and directed the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in 2006the ledger, but and they're all Unfortunates – young people with thisdisabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, his as the first bookever inmate, he's turned his hand and unique in having no known family in the outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to writing adopt all the girls for young peoplehis Institute. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the list of awards he's collecting in his native Norway are testament to his vivid and entertaining imagination. past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140637170X</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Frances CastleAlice M Ross|title=Spot the Mistake: Lands of Long AgoThe Nowhere Thief

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=You'll like as not have seen At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a children's book before 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, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and harangued it ripe for containing errorsplunder. This book has With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at least two hundredthe shop? Well yes, is the answer, and thatbut the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769}}{{Frontpage|author=Natasha Farrant|title=The Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''s not a problem. YesRavenwood is an old house, in personifying the idea North of learning through your mistakesEngland, we get ten large dioramas where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of historical activitytheir lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, all containing twenty things that shouldn't be and Raffy is therewith his mum, and they are living together as a family. Your taskThey have grown up swimming in the cove, should you choose to accept itroaming through the trees, is to try completely at one with all of the nature around the house and find them allloving every inch of the place. And But now the learning house is also hereunder threat, as we get text Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to tell us what sell the goofs were designed property to show usa developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. Make no mistakeThe children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, this is a clever and absorbing read…if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryder WindhamRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Star WarsSecret Beast Club: A New Hope Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 1)The Unicorns of Silver Street

|summary=It takes Jayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a greater mind than mine to keep track lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of all the different versions world, for example. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of ''Star Wars – A New Hope'' anything that might be out there have been. That was never the name The problem, as their mothers see it was known under at the start, for one thingis that they are never 'out there' themselves, but beyond exploring the exuberant cinema classic known to so manyoutside world of Hackney, you get the digitally retouched versionLondon. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, then the DVD versioneducational purpose, which both added to and took away some with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those changes. And as it is with the filmmythological creatures are real, so it is with including the novelsone Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. This new presentation The crew of the YA trilogyboat, including a living gargoyle, while bearing are tasked with saving the 2017 Copyright mark, is rare critters – and the 2004 children's novelisations, as far as I can make out, minus kids unknowingly have the picturesmagical sight needed to join in. You do getDare they side with Leila, the woman on this first oneboard, and her relative who lives as a '40 years of Star Wars' sticker, which is proof this is figure in a classic we're looking atpainting, but more than that, just goes to make me feel old…and become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285427</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt TavaresB09XWSXSKY|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, Maestro Orpheus and the First Woman PilotWorld Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=WeFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn're in Paris, and – not to be too rude about things – we seem surrounded by idiotst sleep. For oneA tune, it seems they think the perfect place to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights is in rather like the middle ticking of the biggest city a clock was playing over and over in the worldhis mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. For anotherHe hadn't really wanted to come; after all, they think only men could suffer the slightly colder he's ten now and slightly thinner air experienced on such an adventure – women would never be able all those old clocks don't appeal to copehim anymore.  ''Who needs old clocks anyway? Meanwhile, a young girl All they do is dreaming of flight, as so many are wont to do, completely unaware tell the time. And time isn't good for anything...'' And that she will soon marry one of was why he was looking at the clock beside the most famed balloonistsbed. They will have joint journeys skyward, before his early demise – leaving It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the young woman, Sophie Blanchard, clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to go it alone and become find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the first female pilot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?