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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Cornelia FunkeRob Keeley|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of all, he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.}}{{Frontpage|isbn= 1836282028|title=Dragon RiderThe Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=My daughter first read ''Dragon RiderWould you like to adopt a ghost?'' when she discovered it in her school library aged about 8. She loved it ''Young spirit, so much so that she borrowed it over and overborn 1887, reading seeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on well with other children. Jokes and re-reading it, her head full of dragons. I finally sat down to give it a read myself, excited at the prospect of shocks a good fantasy storyspeciality. Firedrake is the one, brave dragon from a small dragon community who'' ''If interested, when faced with the incoming humans who will destroy their place outside your homethree twigs, decides to go out into the world to try to find in the Rim shape of Heavenan arrow, pointing to your front door...'' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a hidden home for the dragons. Theredecade 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 far-rangingcontinuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, adventurous journeyour incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. Ruby and there are fantasy creatures galoreJayden respond to this intriguing advertisement and Edward, such who has broken the rules as Firedrake's brownie friendusual and absconded from his manor house home, Sorrel, a djinn, a basilisk, a sea serpent is adopted by them and the big baddie, Nettlebrandtakes up residence in....|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911077856</amazonuk>a wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jo Manton, Phyllis Bray and David BuckmanRob Keeley|title=Titania and OberonChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4.5

|summary=''Equus''Around here, we're big fans of children'Waiting for Godot'' and ''A Mid-summer Nights author Rob Keeley. He's Dream'' – three very distinctive plays, and my favourite three, out a ball of which you won't often get me choosing just one. But were I to do sohappy positivity, it might actually be the lasthe understands children, and he writes for the simple reason I would delight in playing any their pleasure and all characters from it. Yesenjoyment, I know Hermia and Helena look a bit implausible now – but I put it not to you stranger things happen on stage… Some of the strangest things involve a player himself, a lowly actor who gets given an asslecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits''s head and series is forced to be the enamoured one of a fairy queenhis greatest achievements. It's this section a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the play that this book concentrates onspirit world throws at her, and Edward, in quite stunning form.a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184365329X</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo and Briony May SmithMax Boucherat|title=The Giant's NecklaceLast Life of Lori Mills

|summary=On holiday 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 Cornwall Cherry found a length of fishing line blanket fort, she has one main intention, and decided that she was going is to log on to make Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a gianthit in Lori's necklace with cowrie shellsworld. SheBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's patient and painstaking - it takes t find herself entirely on her weeks to gather the shellsown, clean, polish and string them togetherthen she finds something even more spooky. On the final day of For the holiday server she knows how many more she needs and she's determined that she's not going her bestie and nobody else should be able to be beatenenter shows signs of tampering. The family head off for a day When malevolent eyes spark up on their beach her phone screen, and Cherry begs to stay on for her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a little longer so that she can get the shells she needs. Only she's not ''quite'' careful enough and allows herself girl to be cut off by the tide when the weather takes a turn for the worse.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406373494</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek LandyKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=ResurrectionDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Skulduggery Pleasant Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sharply dressed sport where a team of warrior, mage and wisehealer enter specially prepared, century-cracking skeleton – is back 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 needs help. A small group 's seen of disgruntled sorcerers have banded together the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and have plans to use their unique set a new trio of skills questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to wage war on the mortal goading from the token bully of his worldand stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Others What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have tried this in the past but this particular group have a scheme actually managing that should guarantee their success: they're going to resurrect a terrifying evil. Despite his powers, Skulduggery can't defeat them alone. He successfully persuades his former partner – Valkyrie Cain – and how could he possibly hope to join him for just twenty-four hours. But will she stay when the time runs out? Will they be able to save the worldsucceed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008169020</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barry HutchisonJames Sherwood Metts|title= Super Creepy Camp (Beaky Malone)Planet Storyland|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=First of allThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, Ioften replacing jobs they'd like re paid to start off by making a complaint do and other tasks that took time to Barry Hutchisonaccomplish. His latest bookJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, ''Super Creepy Camp'' has been giving me sleepless nightsnew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. I've been kept awake by the raucous laughter emanating from my son's bedroom as he reads it before bed. I'd just be settling Life was pretty much shut down and then , along with it would start again, bouncing off the walls in all the dead of night and probably keeping the neighbours awake too. I'd stomp angrily across the landing, open his door, to find him helplessly rolling around many daily social interactions on the bed in fits of giggles. So thanks, Barry. Thanks a lotwhich they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847158129</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Renee RussellTom Percival|title=The Misadventures of Max Crumbly 2: Middle School MayhemWrong Shoes|rating=2.5

|summary=Max Will's life is difficult, in the middle a multitude of a situation, and no mistakeways. [[The Misadventures of Max Crumbly: Locker Hero by Rachel Renee Russell|Last time]] He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he had to bust himself out has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of his own school lockerthings like food, and found himself caught up in a right scrape suitable only for his own superhero aspirations, involving burglars dad can't work because he lost his job at the school, retrieving valuable comicscollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and so much morehad an accident. Joining right back Throw into that mix the action with a literal ''splat'' this time we face the thieves up front fact that his mum and personaldad are separated, and at the same see Max trying to save what little friendship Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has with the hot computer-loving girl a tiny amount of hope. He is good at schoolart, who can easily rank as his only friend there – and whose clothes clings to the moments of joy when he happens to be wearingis drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. Oh woe is he…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147114464X</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Rosemary Sutcliff1805141872|title= Black Ships Before TroyThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This ''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 perfect book run. But Al needs them for those one last job...'' Goodness me, that want Miss Judson is a taste of Homerterror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We's Iliad before attempting the full workll find out. Although aimed at a younger reading audienceLuckily for Miss Judson, Sutcliff's writing the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is concise and gripping; thusBen, this will the son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as equally beneficial to adults. Thisgood as his father some day, when brought together with the excellent artistic skills of Allan lee, makes for a lavish retelling of the Iliad. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809952</amazonuk>and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Judith KerrChristopher Edge|title=When Hitler Stole Pink RabbitBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54

|summary=It's GermanyLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, 1933 and nine year old Anna a place that has a dream – she wants to be famous when she grows up. Unfortunately nearly all the famous people she's heard nickname of have suffered from a 'The Black Hole'difficult childhood'' and Anna knows that's not her. She has a loving family with enough money. Her life is All big movie fans, however, turned upside down by Adolf Hitlerthey's rise re looking forward to power. Anna's told that she's Jewish (her parents aren't particularly religious so she was only dimly aware lots of this) exciting films, and her dad is likely to be a target under a Nazi government. Anna and her family are forced to flee Germany and build a new life many, many snacks! However, as refugees in Switzerlandthe movie starts, then France and ultimately England. It's a hard lifethey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, especially when money worries settle in, but for Anna and her brother it's also they are swept up into an adventurethey couldn't even imagine. It's But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, thereforecan they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, a long time before Anna realises that her experiences might actually count as a ''difficult childhood''.and to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007274777</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Geraldo ValerioAdam Stower|title=My Book Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. 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…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of BirdsMagical Beasts

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=I never really caught Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the bird-watching habitwondrous library we start by visiting with him, even 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 a generation missing in the opportunity of growing up on family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the edge of titular race, a village globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the middle company of nowherea magical beast. It was in This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the familyeatery leads to a confession from gran, tooEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, but I resigned myself with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to never possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Cooper|title=The Taming of the Cat|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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 much that was spectaculara connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and once , if youmust, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don've seen t match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one blackbird you've seen them night, when he feels all, was my thinkingalone and cast out. If IIt'd s almost as if there were another character from fable who had had this book as a youngsterto tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, who knows – I may have come out of it differentlythough, having been shown as all the diversity of others had the bird world in snippets of text, and chance to half-inch some quite unusual illustrations…cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1526360004</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danna Smith and Bagram IbatoullineLauren St John|title= The Hawk of the Castle: A Story of Medieval FalconryFinding Wonder|rating=54|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse Confident Readers|summary=I donRoo't know why I s life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was surprised young, and now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by this book – I've read enough volumes for the young audiences police banging on her door to know tell her that as far as subject matter is concernedher 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, pretty much anything goeswho she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But this is about falconryshe has no one else, of all things – the use of a once-wild and still pretty much free-spirited bird of prey so off she goes to hunt down animals, either for the heck of it or for the potlive with her unreliable aunt. An attractive girl and her father Things continue to get their hawk readyworse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave the castle with all the equipment London in tow – bells to hear the landed bird and what itJoni's capturedold campervan, the hood to act as blinkers for it on breaks down in the way there, the lure if necessary. The story concerns just one trip out, girl, father, hound – middle of nowhere and hawk. then bursts into flames! But while that may surprise you as a subject matter of choice, it was the whole artistic approach that won me over here…Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406376698</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon Mayle Adam Baron and Nikalas CatlowBenji Davies|title=How Harry Riddles Made a Mega Amount of Money (Shoutykid, Book 5)Oscar's Lion|rating=3.5

|summary=There 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 child who likes his school. It just takes him couple of times before he has to be fictional ready for that comment to be trueschool. Yes, while the building is way above But when he enters his older sister in Harryparents's estimationbedroom, and while school all he sees is way below his enjoyment of playing zombie gamesa mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that he likes won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – itcan be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. He likes And it can shapeshift, so he can take it enough to worry about school and it can get him out of a problem. And it being forced to close when there's a heinous sum of £7,000 wonderful to be made up have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but does he like anything profitable enough to make sure he it can get the place saved?give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008158924</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony HorowitzJudith Eagle|title=Never Say Die The Stolen Songbird|rating=54

|summary=Set just five weeks after the events of ''Scorpia Rising'Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, Alex Rider is living in San Francisco and attempting having to adjust go up North to life as a normal high school studenttake care of her sister who is unwell. Normal So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, howeversomeone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is not a word that we associate with stuck inside this particular fifteen year staid old. After allVictorian lady's house, this is the along with an orphan boy , Albie, whois living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's completed nine successful missions for M16: old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the teenager who has saved Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the world (more than once) and effectively brought down painting somehow linked to the international criminal organisation, Scorpia. gang? And things aren't about to change. Given everything that what has happened in Alexto Caro's young life, it's not surprising that mother? Is she somehow involved in the past is about to catch up with him…mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406377058</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Running on the Roof of the WorldTania Unsworth|authortitle=Jess ButterworthNowhere Island

|summary=Rule Number One: Don't run in front of a soldierMeet Gil.<br>Rule Number Two: Never look at a soldier. <br>Rule Number Three: Say as little as possible.<br> There are two words banned in Tibet: Dalai Lama. Tash lives in a Tibet under Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the care system – the Chinese occupation system that began constantly puts him in 1950. Chinese soldiers futureless places that are not homes – and find a constant home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and oppressive feature of her lifelets it ride him to his future. Most That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of Tibet's cultural and religious traditions are severely suppressed and any act of rebellion can result belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in you taken away by a camp on an island between the soldierstwo directions of a motorway, never a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to be seen againprovide for their safety and seclusion. But Them, and a mute girl also finding a home there is resistance, albeit so much more successfully. Tash's father belongs to Over a secret cell that tries to get information out to the wider world. But it's dangerous. And whenfew weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one day, a man self-immolates in her village place where life as an act of protest, the Chinese authorities crack down hard.we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510102086</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mark Huckerby and Nick OstlerHelen Peters|title= Defender of the Realm: Dark AgeFriends and Traitors|rating= 4.53|genre= Confident Readers|summary=King Alfred England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the Second country pile called Stanbrook. One is still growing into his roles as King and Defender of the Realm. Just having defeated the Black Dragon at his coronationNancy, Alfie is trying destined to focus on making less of a fool of himself be in his day jobservice all her life it seems, something like the Prime Minister female generations before her. The other is keen to encourage as much as possibleSidney, when a new threat hits the Kingdomgirl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The UK girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is being savaged by amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a hoard rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of undead Vikingsmeetings with Germans, intent on causing as much trouble as possibleand not only that, who have all a local Spitfire factory has been stirred up by Alfie's old History teacher, Professor Lockattacked. But how do you kill something that's already dead? Alfie is trying to save surely the Kingdom by nightgirls are wrong, rule it by day and keep his family together, all the while knowing if he fails, we upper class could never be thrown into another dark age. Well, no one said being King would be easy. so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407164244</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth P JonesJamie Littler|title=Beards From Outer SpaceArkspire

|summary=Hannah lives with her parents 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 a flat above the nursing home where her mother is matronBadlands. Hannah Elodie is an only intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child and so she enjoys making friends with some in line to inherit the power of the home's residents. So when Mrs Oberto moves inWatcher, Hannah is keen the closest to make her acquaintance - Hannah a ruler the district has never met anyone Italian before, and one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Mrs Oberto is quite standoffish at first but Hannah persists and soon they are Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the best status 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 childhoodthe whole family. But she remains tight-lipped about the mysterious wooden chestin finding something oddly magical, the key Juniper might just be able to which she keeps around gain some power of her neck...own – for good, or for very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788032535</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Gibbons024162343X|title=The Beautiful GameStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Football is all about its coloursI was the bad company other people got into at school. And even if I write was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from the throne existence of English football, ita 'god's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour to wear. But is that flame redWhere was the proof? Blood red? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. The red Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – British army's successes (and that it had been one of their own making? And while occasional failures, but wedidn're t dwell on about colour, where were those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the people of colour in football army had to be there in the olden days? first place. There are so many darker sides Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to footballapproach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's history it's enough to make a young lad question the whole game…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>'Stolen History''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernard AshleyThiago de Moraes|title=Lena Lenik S.O.S.Old Gods New Tricks|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Lena's mother seems very illMeet Trixie. Scary noises are coming from Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the bathroomschool aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when she's off food and completely listlessbeing told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, complaining of the effort involved in sewing a patch onto a cub scout uniformworld changes. It might be Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a surprise to power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the young reader of this book when we learn what school's in but the reason is – certainly it was obvious entire planet (apart from page two mobile phones, and all that powers the Internet, just for me our convenience's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – but there are definitely more surprises to comethe ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. Mother makes a slightly unusual decision about And so she begins her condition epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – leaving Lena with a lot namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on her plate when fate sets in with a surprise of its own…known as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125716</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria McArdleHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Dancing Paws of MagicFinding Bear|rating=34.5

|summary=''Dancing Paws of Magic'' offers us almost two related stories in one[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. Part One focuses Back home, things on the problems that arise domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the dancing cats of the Pusska Mogginsky Ballet Company go islands Bear was last left on strike. There is only one feline who can put things right but sadly the lepremog (the cat equivalent of For a leprechaun) Galway Obear doing very Bear-Toot is dead, crushed by a falling wally things has been shot and wounded. If the animal ballet is Desperate to be savedmake sure he's OK, she and her father return to the remaining members Arctic and hope that in a world of the ballet company must work together to very white and very dangerous things, she can find his bones one specific white and restore his life even if this means taking on dangerous thing – and that the Black Treacle Farm Gang. In Part Two, we move on to 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 revengefriendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036875</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Harder They FallSimon Fox|authortitle=Bali RaiDeadlock

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Cal loves comic books. He also dreams of being Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a superhero secret place, and saving join him on the day while simultaneously winning run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the heart whiff of Southern trains when the girl (Freya being father is arrested, leaving Archie on the girllate express to Brighton, hopefully). Batman is toting a tin his favourite superhero. But Cal's world outside father was determined to keep away from 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. Stillcolleagues, it's not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely and the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures..bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz PichonCath Howe|title=FamilyMy Life on Fire|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ren's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to put in a box, Friends and Furry Creatures (Tom Gates)so she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=1839942835}}{{Frontpage|author= Rob Keeley|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|summary=Tom Gates has got a problem: his shoes are making a noise. They sort of rasp when he walks, only he can't recreate the sound at home. At school it's a different matter: not only Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is the noise very loud, there are those of his classmates who suggest that it has originated from somewhere a little more, well, ''intimate''. All in all it's not back with a good start return to the day for Tomshort story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, particularly when he realises that he's also forgotten each as fun to read as his baby photo for the latest school project. Class 5F are building their family trees and they've got to interview family members to get stories of their lives for the projectprevious offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407168118</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cheeky Charlie: Bugs and Bananas (My Crazy Brother Book 2)Laura Noakes|authortitle=Mat WaughCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=Cheeky Charlie has already had [[Cheeky Charlie Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by Mat Waugh|one book]] written the number they correspond to in the ledger, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, 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 him where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and now he has anotherunique in having no known family in the outside world. His slapstick adventures are related once more by 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 adopt all the girls for his sister Harry. I love HarryInstitute. Harry is by turn infuriated But why, and amused by her brother Charlie. what does that body entail? And Harry also brims over could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with enthusiasm. ?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B072F58644</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire FayersAlice M Ross|title= Journey to Dragon Island (The Accidental Pirates)Nowhere Thief|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Two questsAt last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Can 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 crew ability to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the good ship Onion (don't ask) help their young friend Brine to find her home? And does sea levels are rising dramatically and the legendary island buildings are generally empty of dragons really exist or – a rather important pointhumans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, this – if can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the ship keeps sailing westshop? Well yes, will it just topple off is the edge of answer, but the world? Of course, if you think fact a little thing like terrible peril and near-certain death should stop Captain Cassie and her shipmates mysterious man knows exactly which items come from going wherever they fancy, then you're reading the wrong series. these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447290623</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Bear GryllsNatasha Farrant|title= New Jungle Book Adventures: Spirit The Rescue of the JungleRavenwood|rating= 35|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This book story is technically another excellent but unfortunately it falls flat adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, in the actual executionNorth of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. Grylls uses trusted storytelling techniques such They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the herotrees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's journey becoming more and Chekovmore expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|isbn=0571348785}}{{Frontpage|author=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jayden's Gun nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. Aisha is addicted to produce a frame her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that should might be engaging with the target audience but unfortunately out there. The problem, as their mothers see it does not quite hit , is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the markoutside world of Hackney, London. What we ultimately have is But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a great idea science-minded, educational purpose, and with some wonderful moments that a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never really recovers from knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boat, including a slow beginningliving 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 woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509828486</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09XWSXSKY|title=Spudboy Maestro Orpheus and Chipthe World Clock|author=David WindleRobert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|summary=Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn'Sticky Toffee Trifle flavour mashed potato. This onet really wanted to come; after all, he's a winner!'ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore.

Er''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the time. And time isn't good for anything.. ok then. Not.''

Colin Sludge's parents run a fish and chip shop and it isn't doing so wellAnd that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. So Colin It was nearly twelve o's mum is trying out new recipes to tempt in more customers and Colin's dad is using Colin as a guinea pig. The clock but at midnight the clock chimed only problem is that Colin has eaten quite enough exotic mashed potato, thankyouverymuchsix times. He's practically bursting with There was nothing for it. but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the house is practically bursting with potato peelings, so it's no wonder that Colin slips and falls when heclocks stopped at twelve o's taking them out to the garbage bins.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>154314702X</amazonuk>clock?