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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Libby WaldenRob 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=In Focus: CitiesThe Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=The [[In Focus: 101 Close Ups''Would you like to adopt a ghost?'' ''Young spirit, born 1887, Cross-Sections seeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on well with other children. Jokes and Cutaways by Libby Walden|first book shocks a speciality.'' ''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, in this 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'' seriesin Chronological Order|Spirits]] promised 101 close-upsseries 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, cross sections who has broken the rules as usual and/or cutwaysabsconded from his manor house home, but 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 restricted 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 just tenlecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4. Why? Because 5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the subject matters are so much bigger house to herself – one is home no neighbour to 37 million peoplepop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, of all thingsjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. YesWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, we're talking citiesshe has one main intention, and while this book tries that is to log on to follow the previous – different artist every pageVoxminer, an exclusive inside look within the volumeworld-building, and critter-collecting game that is a self-deceiving page count – we are definitely hit in new territoryLori's world. WeBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn're seeking t find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the trivialserver 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, the geographical and her safe place in the culturalgame has been doctored – well, all so that the inquisitive young student can find out the variety where is a girl to be had in the world's metropolises.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848575912</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cornelia FunkeKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dragon RiderDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=My daughter first read ''Dragon Rider'' when she discovered it in her school library aged about 8Meet Kit. She loved Like most of the people in his world, itseems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, so much so that she borrowed it over mage and overhealer enter specially prepared, reading and recentury-reading itold, magical mazes, her head full of dragons. I finally sat down and race to give it a read myself, excited at the prospect of a good fantasy story. Firedrake is the oneexit, brave dragon from a small dragon community who, when faced perhaps bothering with the incoming humans who will destroy their home, decides to go out into treasure or the world to try to find big bad and the Rim of Heaven, a hidden home for points they grant you along the dragonsway. ThereUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's a far-rangingseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, adventurous journeyeaten, and there are fantasy creatures galorea new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, such he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as Firedrake's brownie friend, Sorrel, a djinnteam. What chance does this friendless, a basiliskmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, a sea serpent and the big baddie, Nettlebrand.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911077856</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jo Manton, Phyllis Bray and David BuckmanJames Sherwood Metts|title=Titania and OberonPlanet Storyland

|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, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will'Equuss 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'Waiting t have enough money for Godot'' and ''A Mid-summer Night's Dream'' – three very distinctive playseven the most basic of things like food, and my favourite three, out of which you wonhis dad can't often get me choosing just one. But were I to do so, it might actually be work because he lost his job at the lastcollege, for the simple reason I would delight was working a cash-in playing any -hand job on a building site and all characters from ithad an accident. Yes Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, I know Hermia and Helena look Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a bit implausible now – but I put it to you stranger things happen on stage… tiny amount of hope. Some of the strangest things involve a player himselfHe is good at art, a lowly actor who gets given an ass's head and is forced clings to be the enamoured moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a fairy queen. It's this section light at the end of the play that this book concentrates ona long, in quite stunning formdark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184365329X</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Briony May Smith1805141872|title=The Giant's NecklaceTeacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=On holiday in Cornwall Cherry found a length of fishing line ''Seventeen banks and decided that she was going to make a giant's necklace with cowrie shellsjeweller’s have been raided. She's patient and painstaking - it takes her weeks to gather The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the shellstruth – his Maths teacher, cleanMiss Judson, polish is really a safecracker! With police and string them together. On the final day of the holiday she knows how many more she needs and she's determined that she's not going to be beaten. The family head off for a day her gangster boyfriend Al on their beach trail, Miss Judson and Cherry begs to stay Ben go on for a little longer so that she can get the shells she run. But Al needsthem for one last job... Only she's not ' 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 'quiteun like Al? We'' careful enough and allows herself to be cut off by ll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the tide when pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the weather takes son of a turn for the worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406373494</amazonuk>famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek LandyChristopher Edge|title=ResurrectionBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Skulduggery Pleasant – the sharply dressed Lucas and wise-cracking skeleton – is back and he needs help. A small group of disgruntled sorcerers have banded together and have plans to use his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their unique set local cinema, a place that has the nickname of skills to wage war on the mortal world'The Black Hole'. Others have tried this in the past but this particular group have a scheme that should guarantee their success: All big movie fans, they're going looking forward to resurrect a terrifying evil. Despite his powerslots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, Skulduggery canand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't defeat them aloneeven imagine. He successfully persuades his former partner – Valkyrie Cain – But as they lurch from one film genre to join him for just twenty-four hours. But will she stay when the time runs next, can they figure outwhat on earth is going on? Will they be able ever get back to save the worldcinema, and to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008169020</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barry HutchisonAdam Stower|title= Super Creepy Camp (Beaky Malone)Murray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=First of all, I'd like Murray is supposed to start off by making be a complaint humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to Barry Hutchisonsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. His latest book, ''Super Creepy Camp But he's a bad magician' s cat, so his favourite bun has been giving me sleepless nights. I've been kept awake by turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the raucous laughter emanating from my son's bedroom as he reads it before bed. I'd just be settling down and then it would start againcatflap they both use can chuck them out, bouncing off not into the walls in the dead regular back garden, but into a world of night frightening adventure and probably keeping the neighbours awake toowhiffs. I'd stomp angrily across the landing This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, open his doorone much bigger than Murray was, to find him helplessly rolling around on the bed in fits of giggles. So thanksbe honest, Barry. Thanks a lot.but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847158129</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Renee RussellAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Misadventures Glorious Race of Max Crumbly 2: Middle School MayhemMagical Beasts|rating=2.54

|summary=Max Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the middle of a situation, and no mistake. [[The Misadventures of Max Crumbly: Locker Hero wondrous library we start by Rachel Renee Russell|Last time]] he had to bust himself out of his own school lockervisiting with him, and found himself caught up in the evening a right scrape suitable only for his own superhero aspirations, involving burglars helper at the school, retrieving valuable comics, dessert cafe his gran owns and so much moreruns. Joining right back into the action Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a literal generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli''splat'' this time we face s parents were both lost to the thieves up front and personaltitular race, and a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the same see Max trying eatery leads to save a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what little friendship he has most hates, with the hot computer-loving girl sole aim the prize of magic at school, who can easily rank as his the end – the only friend there – and whose clothes he happens thing to be wearingpossibly save his gran. Oh woe is he…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147114464X</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rosemary SutcliffHelen Cooper|title= Black Ships Before TroyThe Taming of the Cat|rating= 43.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This is Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the perfect book for those that want cat – and in case you're seeing a connection, they live in a taste cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of Homercheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don's Iliad before attempting 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 full workvisuals on it. Although aimed at a younger reading audience And that story-telling will come in handy one night, Sutcliffwhen he feels all alone and cast out. It's writing is concise and gripping; thus, this will be almost as equally beneficial if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to adultskeep themselves alive. Thismakes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, when brought together with though, as all the others had the excellent artistic skills of Allan lee, makes for a lavish retelling of chance to half-inch some cheese while the Iliadcat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809952</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Judith KerrLauren St John|title=Finding Wonder|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|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 Hitler Stole Pink Rabbitasked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But she has no one else, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Oscar's Lion|rating=53

|summary=It's GermanyWe start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, 1933 and nine year old Anna but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has a dream – she wants to be famous ready for school. But when she grows up. Unfortunately nearly he enters his parents' bedroom, all the famous people she's heard of have suffered from he sees is a ''difficult childhood'' and Anna knows that's not her. She has a loving family with enough money. Her life ismahoosive male lion on their bed, howeverlooking sheepish, turned upside down by Adolf Hitler's rise to power. Anna's told and admitting that she's Jewish (her parents arenhe won't particularly religious so she was only dimly aware of this) and her dad is likely to be a target under a Nazi governmenthungry for another two days. Anna and her family But there are forced benefits to flee Germany and build having a new life lion around – it can be shown as refugees in Switzerlandan unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, then France so he can take it to school and ultimately Englandit can get him out of a problem. It And it's a hard lifewonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, especially when money worries settle inbeing much more lax about the rules, but for Anna and her brother so on. OK, itcan's also an adventure. It's, therefore, t work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a long wonderful time before Anna realises that her experiences might actually count as a ''difficult childhood''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007274777</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Geraldo ValerioJudith Eagle|title=My Book of BirdsThe Stolen Songbird

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=I never really caught the birdCaro's mother, a world-watching habitfamous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, even Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with the opportunity Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of growing building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up on the edge in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of a village in bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the middle of nowhereSnakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. It was Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the family, mystery too?|isbn=0571363148}}{{Frontpage|author=Tania Unsworth|title=Nowhere Island|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelve, but I resigned myself he is so determined to never seeing much escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that was spectacular, are not homes – and once you've seen one blackbird you've seen them all, was my thinkingfind a home for himself. If I'd had this book as a youngsterHe is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, who knows – I may have come out of and lets it differently, having been shown the diversity ride him to his future. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the bird world in snippets two directions of texta motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and some quite unusual illustrations…seclusion. Them, and a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfully. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1526360004</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danna Smith and Bagram IbatoullineHelen Peters|title= The Hawk of the Castle: A Story of Medieval FalconryFriends and Traitors|rating=53|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse Confident Readers|summary=I don't know why I was surprised by this book – I've read enough volumes for England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the young audiences country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to know that as far as subject matter is concernedbe in service all her life it seems, pretty much anything goeslike the female generations before her. But this The other is about falconrySidney, of all things – the use of a oncegirl from a hoity-wild toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and still pretty much free-spirited bird of prey to hunt down animalscheese, either for the heck of and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it or for the potso. An attractive girl But something is amiss, and her father get their hawk ready, first separately and leave the castle with all the equipment then in tow – bells to hear combination they realise the landed bird and what itLord Evesham must be a rum 's captured, the hood to act as blinkers for it on the way there, the lure if necessaryun. The story concerns just one trip outMidnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, girltalk is made of meetings with Germans, fatherand not only that, hound – and hawka local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But while that may surprise you as a subject matter of choicesurely the girls are wrong, it was and the whole artistic approach that won me over here…upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406376698</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon Mayle and Nikalas CatlowJamie Littler|title=How Harry Riddles Made a Mega Amount of Money (Shoutykid, Book 5)Arkspire|rating=3.54

|summary=There is a child who likes his school. It just takes him Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be fictional for that comment to be truechalk and cheese. YesJuniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, while including relics from prior major wars left out in the building Badlands. Elodie is way above his older sister intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child in Harry's estimationline to inherit the power of the Watcher, the closest to a ruler the district has, and while school is way below his enjoyment one of playing zombie games, he likes itthe five major victors in said earlier war. He likes it enough to worry about it being forced to close when there's a heinous sum Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of £7the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical,000 Juniper might just be able to be made up gain some power of her own – but does he like anything profitable enough to make sure he can get the place saved?for good, or for very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008158924</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Horowitz024162343X|title=Never Say Die Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=Set just five weeks after Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the events school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when she''Scorpia Rising''s being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Suddenly, Alex Rider is living in San Francisco and attempting to adjust to life as practically everything electronic stops working – a normal high school student. Normalpower-out, howevereven of electric cars, is hits not a word that we associate with this particular fifteen year old. After all, this is just the town the boy whoschool's completed nine successful missions for M16: in but the teenager who has saved the world entire planet (more than once) apart from mobile phones, and effectively brought down all that powers the international criminal organisationInternet, Scorpia. And things arenjust for our convenience't about to changes sake). Given everything that Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened in Alex's young life– the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it's not surprising back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the past is about to catch up with him…semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406377058</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Running on the Roof of the WorldHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|authortitle=Jess ButterworthFinding Bear

|summary=Rule Number One: Don't run in front of [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a soldier.<br>Rule Number Two: Never look at lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a soldier. <br>Rule Number Three: Say as little as possible.<br> There are two words banned in Tibet: Dalai Lama. Tash lives in ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a Tibet under the Chinese occupation polar bear – that began in 1950she called Bear. Chinese soldiers Back home, things on the domestic and family front are a constant and oppressive feature of bit advanced, but not perfect for her life. Most of Tibet's cultural , and religious traditions are severely suppressed and any act of rebellion so can result in you taken away by easily be ignored when word comes through from the soldiers, never to be seen againislands Bear was last left on. But there is resistance For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Tash Desperate to make sure he's OK, she and her father belongs return to the Arctic and hope that in a secret cell that tries to get information out to the wider world. But it's of very white and very dangerous. And whenthings, she can find one day, a man self-immolates in her village as an act of protest, specific white and dangerous thing – and that the Chinese authorities crack down hardfriendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510102086</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mark Huckerby and Nick OstlerSimon Fox|title= Defender of the Realm: Dark AgeDeadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=King Alfred the Second Late one night Graham Blake is still growing into late back from his roles as King shift on the force, and Defender of then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the Realmrun. Just having defeated the Black Dragon at his coronation They get together, Alfie is trying but barely begin to focus on making less of a fool smell the whiff of himself in his day job, something the Prime Minister is keen to encourage as much as possible, Southern trains when a new threat hits the Kingdom. The UK father is being savaged by a hoard of undead Vikingsarrested, intent leaving Archie on causing as much trouble as possiblethe late express to Brighton, who have all been stirred up by Alfie's old History teacher, Professor Lock. But how do you kill something that's already dead? Alfie is trying toting a tin his father was determined to save the Kingdom by night, rule it by day and keep away from his family togethercolleagues, all and the while knowing if he fails, we could be thrown into another dark age. Well, no one said being King would be easybearer of a whole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407164244</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth P JonesCath Howe|title=Beards From Outer Space|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= You might not realise it but Earth is under constant alien attack. Luckily we humans don't need to worry because the Pet Defenders (a secret society of our domestic pets) are always My Life on standby to keep us safe. The activities of the Pet Defenders are normally kept secret but Stripes Publishing are kindly allowing human children a brief glimpse into their exciting adventures. In ''Beards From Outer Space'' we are able to read how a dog and cat – secret agents Biskit and Mitzy – team up to rid the world of an army of alien beards.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847157858</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Secret of the Wooden Chest (Roman Magic)|author= Catherine RosevearFire|rating=3.5

|summary=Hannah lives with Ren's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents in a flat above the nursing home where , and her mother is matronlittle brother lose everything. Hannah is an only child and so she enjoys making friends with some She doesn't have any of the home's residents. So when Mrs Oberto moves inher clothes, Hannah is keen to make or any of her acquaintance special little knick- Hannah has never met anyone Italian before. Mrs Oberto knacks from her cupboard, and now she is quite standoffish living at first but Hannah persists and soon her grandmother's house where they are can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the best of friendsfoods they normally eat. Mrs Oberto is particularly keen on helping Hannah with her When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a special art project about ancient Rome , creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and relates many interesting stories about her Sicilian childhoodshow who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to put in a box, and so she remains tight-lipped about the mysterious wooden chestfinds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, the key not when they have so much already. But what will happen to which her if someone finds out what she keeps around her neck...is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788032535</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan GibbonsRob Keeley|title=The Beautiful GameBoy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Football Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is all about its colours. And even if I write in back with a return to the season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from the throne of English footballshort story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, it's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour each as fun to wearread as his previous offerings. But is that flame red? Blood red? The red of the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – and that it had been one of their own making? And while we're on about colour, where were the people of colour in football in the olden days? There are so many darker sides to football's history it's enough to make a young lad question the whole game…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernard AshleyLaura Noakes|title=Lena Lenik S.O.S.Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=LenaMeet 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 the number they correspond to in the ledger, and they's mother seems very illre all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. Scary noises are coming But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from , as the bathroomfirst ever inmate, she's off food and completely listless, complaining of unique in having no known family in the effort involved in sewing a patch onto a cub scout uniformoutside world. It might be During a surprise daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the young reader of this book when we learn what kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the reason is – certainly it was obvious from page two girls for me – but there are definitely more surprises to comehis Institute. Mother makes a slightly unusual decision about her condition – leaving Lena But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with a lot on her plate when fate sets in with a surprise of its own…?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125716</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria McArdleAlice M Ross|title=Dancing Paws of MagicThe Nowhere Thief|rating=34.5

|summary=''Dancing Paws of Magic'' offers us almost two related stories At last there is new stock in one. Part One focuses on the problems that arise when the dancing cats of the Pusska Mogginsky Ballet Company go on strike. There is only one feline who can put things right but sadly the lepremog (the cat equivalent of a leprechaun) Galway Oimpoverished yet over-Toot is dead, crushed by full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a falling wallseaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. If She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the animal ballet is ability to be savedleave this world, the remaining members and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the ballet company must work together to find his bones sea levels are rising dramatically and restore his life even if this means taking on the Black Treacle Farm Gangbuildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. In Part Two With eviction imminent, we move on can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the long-awaited performance of ''The Sleeping Beauty''. Here everything seems to be going just purr-fectly until shop? Well yes, is the answer, but the Black Treacle Farm Gang – including Gang Leader Bruiser Bumfluff – appear to get their revenge.fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036875</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Harder They FallNatasha Farrant|authortitle=Bali RaiThe Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Cal loves comic booksThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. He also dreams Ravenwood is an old house, in the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of being a superhero complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and saving 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 trees, completely at one with all of the day while simultaneously winning nature around the heart house and loving every inch of the girl (Freya being place. But now the girlhouse is under threat, hopefully). Batman as Leo is under pressure from his favourite superhero. But Calother two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superhero-like. Because Cal is a bit of a geek becoming more and he is being bullied by mean girl Anu, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on more expensive to lazy classmatesmaintain. Still The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, itbut if they's not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely ll even be together, and the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures..if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz PichonRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Family, Friends and Furry Creatures (Tom Gates)Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street

|summary=Tom Gates has got Jayden's nose is forever in a problem: his shoes are making book, which means he knows a noiselot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. They sort of rasp when he walksAisha is addicted to her new tablet, only he where she can't recreate the sound at homesee videos of anything that might be out there. At school The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there's a different matter: not only is themselves, exploring the noise very loudoutside world of Hackney, there are those of his classmates who suggest that it has originated from somewhere London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a little morescience-minded, welleducational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden''intimate''s cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. All in all itFor many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's not seen on a good start to bit of local footage. The crew of the day for Tomboat, including a living gargoyle, particularly when he realises that he's also forgotten his baby photo for are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the latest school projectmagical sight needed to join in. Class 5F are building their family trees Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and they've got to interview family members to get stories become saviours of their lives for the project.unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407168118</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09XWSXSKY|title=Cheeky Charlie: Bugs Maestro Orpheus and Bananas (My Crazy Brother Book 2)the World Clock|author=Mat WaughRobert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|summary=Cheeky Charlie has already had [[Cheeky Charlie by Mat Waugh|one book]] written about him and now he has anotherFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. His slapstick adventures are related once more by his sister Harry. I love Harry. Harry is by turn infuriated A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and amused by her brother Charlie. And Harry also brims over with enthusiasmin his mind. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B072F58644</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Claire Fayers|title= Journey It happened every time he came to Dragon Island (The Accidental Pirates)|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Two questsvisit his grandfather. Can the crew of the good ship Onion (don He hadn't ask) help their young friend Brine really wanted to find her home? And does the legendary island of dragons really exist or – a rather important pointcome; after all, this – if the ship keeps sailing west, will it just topple off the edge of the world? Of course, if you think a little thing like terrible peril he's ten now and near-certain death should stop Captain Cassie and her shipmates from going wherever they fancy, then youall those old clocks don're reading the wrong seriest appeal to him anymore. |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 ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is technically excellent but unfortunately it falls flat in tell the actual executiontime. And time isn't good for anything... Grylls uses trusted storytelling techniques such as the hero's journey and Chekov's Gun to produce a frame  And that should be engaging with was why he was looking at the target audience clock beside the bed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but unfortunately at midnight the clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it does not quite hit but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the mark. What we ultimately have is a great idea with some wonderful moments that never really recovers from a slow beginning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509828486</amazonuk>clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?