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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Chapman and Kate Hindley1836285493|title=Best Friends’ Bakery: Birthdays and BiscuitsThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5

|summary=In thisWill is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, the fourth story in the Best Friends’ Bakery seriesa slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of all, Hannah he is an aspiring writer. English is recovering from her sadness his favourite lesson at being thrown off the Junior Baker show on TV. Fortunately there’s plenty going on in her town his school, Marlowe Park, and one at her mum’s bakery to keep her busywhich he excels. There’s a new beauty shop opening to bake forThis hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, a doggy rescue centre in troubleMrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a new girl who seems intent on stopping anyone from befriending herdifferent school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended. How will Hannah get on with these new challenges in her life?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011944</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Hardinge1836282028|title=Cuckoo Song|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Marketed as a twisted fairy tale, ''Cuckoo Song'' is so much more. Hardinge’s lyrical style sets it apart from other fantasy reads. Such phrases as ''she was weeping spider silk'' lend it a melody all of its own. At the story’s heart is the sense of wanting to belong and connect with others. It revolves around Piers Crescent’s daughter Triss who wakes up after an accident to find that her world has changed. She doesn’t feel that she is herself and starts to exhibit extremely peculiar behaviour. She is ravenous and inexplicably binge eats. For some reason her little sister Pen appears to hate her, scissors act strangely around her and her parents are anxious for her to remain ill and cosseted. She has memories from the time before she nearly drowned but she can’t visualise the actual incident.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330519735</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Fighting Spirit|author=Phil Earle and Sara Ogilvie|title=Demolition DadRob Keeley|rating=4.5

|summary=Jake's dad is 'Would you like to adopt a wrestler. Nobody knows however, because Jakeghost?'' ''s dad also insists that Jake keeps it a secretYoung spirit, so that no one realises that come the weekend he leaves behind the demolition sites that he works onborn 1887, puts seeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on his spandex suit well with other children. Jokes and enters shocks a speciality.'' ''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, in the ring as shape of an arrow, pointing to your front door...'Demolition Man' Hooray! But Jake Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is so proud celebrating a decade of his dad wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's ''Spirits'' series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that his alter ego can't remain is both a reboot and a secret for longcontinuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. Ruby and he sets about trying Jayden respond to change this intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the rules as usual and absconded from his dad's life through the world of wrestlingmanor house home, is adopted by them and takes up residence in....|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444013866</amazonuk>a wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg CabotRob Keeley|title=Notebooks of a Middle-School PrincessChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|summary=The Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of the hugely successful happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The ''Princess DiariesChildish Spirits'' has written a brand-new series for younger girls, telling the story is one of awkward middle-school student Olivia Gracehis greatest achievements. She discovers that her father is actually the Prince It's a sequence of Genoviaghost stories centring on Ellie, making her...a princess! Not everyone responds well to stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the newsspirit world throws at her, howeverand Edward, and poor Olivia is soon thrown into a world of jealous bullies, intrusive paparazzi, disgruntled relatives spoiled lordling and a whole new family she never knew existed.the first spirit Ellie encounters|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447280652</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel HamiltonMax Boucherat|title=The Case Last Life of the Exploding BrainsLori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary= YouWe meet Lori on the first evening she'd thinks got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, with one parent just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in prison and the other a blanket fort, she has one hardly ever moving from the sofamain intention, and that middle school student Noelle Hawkins would have far too many problems is to log on her hands already to start worrying about the occasional little explosion at Voxminer, the Science Museum. After allworld-building, critter-collecting game thatis a hit in Lori's the kind of thing world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling thatthis stormy night doesn's bound to happen in a place littered with heaps of seriously wacky inventionst find herself entirely on her own, right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147112133X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dave Lowe|title= Squirrel Boy vs and then she finds something even more spooky. For the Squirrel Hunter |rating=4|genre=Confident Readers |summary= Ten year old Walter Kettle is an ordinary boy until he eats a nut. Then he transforms into unlikely superhero Squirrel Boy whose only superpowers seem to server she and her bestie and nobody else should be a large bushy tail, an ability able to climb trees and run very fast, and a sudden understanding enter shows signs of ‘Squirrelish’ (the language used by squirrels)tampering. In his second adventure When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, we join Walter to find out whether these unusual powers will be enough to defeat the determined Squirrel Hunter and save the squirrel population her safe place in the local park.game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907912738</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lewis CarrollKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition with Dame Vivienne Westwood)Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Somewhere Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the book reviewing gods have sport where a list team of those classic titles that you cannot deny or begrudge their place in literary historywarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, that are soon and race to have a 150th birthday party the exit, perhaps bothering with my name on an invitethe treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. That means littleUnfortunately for Kit, as I – and in fact most people – will the only thing he's seen of course be reading them the latest race on their unbirthday, but the list does include the current recipient of inn TV equivalent is that honourone team has been retired, ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. It being long out of copyright anyone can put together a 150th birthday edition Possibly very unfortunately indeed for itKit, but this is one of he has taken to the more distinctive efforts, for it comes with goading from the help token bully of Dame Vivienne Westwoodhis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. And even though I What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll actually managing that, and Anthony Browne|spoken before]] of how I don't take could he possibly hope to the book, I can hereby declare this party was made all the better for being twice as long, all courtesy of the presence of Lewis Carroll.succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178487017X</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithJames Sherwood Metts|title=Akimbo AdventuresPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=I am, it must be said, something of an Alexander McCall Smith addictThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. I AI and automation have handed out free copies of his books for World Book Night, I met him in Oxford at a literary festivalbeen proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and I read pretty much everything he writes as he writes it! This other tasks that took time it’s a children’s book, with three stories in one volume all about a boy called Akimbo. He lives on the edge of a game reserve in Africa, and these stories are all about his rather amazing adventures with the animals who also share his home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405265345</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Garland|title=Azzi in Between|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Our story begins in a country at war. Unfortunately you could probably put a name to it (although it isn't named) as it happens all too regularly. Our heroine is Azzi, a young girl whose life was not ''too'' affected by the war, but every day it came a little closeraccomplish. Her father still worked Just as a doctor and her mother made beautiful clothes. Her grandmother wove warm blankets. Then the day came when they had were beginning to run, for their lives, get used to all this technological change and escape was by boat and they became refugees. The three starting to think of them - for Grandma had been left behind - had been luckier than most for they were accepted on a temporary basis into another country (again it's not named) and they had a homeother, although it was just one room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Garland|title=Eddie's Tent and How new ways to go Camping|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Mumspend time, Tom, Tilly, Lily and Eddie wanted to go on holiday and camping seemed like the ideal way to goalong came an awful pandemic. Lily and Tilly thought it Life was a brilliant idea pretty much shut down and they had some experience, although their 'tent' did look just a little bit like a duvet over a chair. It's surprising what you need for a holidayalong with it, but Lily and Tilly had to be told to start again when Mum saw what they'd packed! But finally, Tom began to load all the car and off many daily social interactions on which they wentdepend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184780408X</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=W AwdryTom Percival|title=Thomas the Tank Engine 70th Anniversary SlipcaseThe Wrong Shoes

|summary=Thomas, if you donWill't know, s life is a little Tank Enginedifficult, who is very quick to build up in a head multitude of steam and move ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his coaches dad can't work and trucks around doesn't have enough money for even the train yards most basic of things like food, and networks his dad can't work because he works lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job ona building site and had an accident. That does mean Throw into that he has to be shown up by mix the larger, slower engines when he continually blows fact that his whistle to disturb their restmum and dad are separated, and can even forget to bring any carriages with him when heWill's pulling a trainlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, but he does mean wellstill has a tiny amount of hope. He's a warm, feisty little characteris good at art, and was probably always bound to become a bit of a favourite with warm, feisty young readers, especially those brought up with an eye clings to the romance moments of the railways. But joy when he wasn't the first we met in the series is drawing, that in public shorthand feel like a light at least bears his namethe end of a long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405277270</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy Hopkins1805141872|title=Mum Never Did Learn to Knock|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=#People are worrying about Emily: her Dad and the staff at school are all worried that she's spending a lot of time talking to her Mum. You might think that there's nothing wrong with that - in fact that it's entirely commendable and young people ought to spend more time talking to their parents - but Emily's Mum died a few months ago. Emily has reached the stage of ''hiding'' the fact that Mum appears to her in very real form, perhaps just a little bit ''ghostly'', but then you wouldn't expect her to look just like she was when she was alive, now would you? At school she's sent to see a counsellor, but it doesn't go quite the way that the counsellor was expecting... particularly when Emily asked where people go when they die and the ultimate 'what comes after space?'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124957</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Ally Kennen|title=How to Speak Spook (and Stay Alive)Rob Keeley|rating=4.5

|summary= Everybody knows if you have ''Seventeen banks and a special gift like seeing through walls or the ability to speak giraffe you jeweller’s have to keep it secretbeen raided. If you don'tThe 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, men in dark suits Miss Judson and wrap-around shades take you away to experiment Ben go on youthe run. But Al needs them for one last job... (And if it's the wall thing' Goodness me, girls will assume you're spying that Miss Judson is a terror! How on them when they earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get changed mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for PE Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and beat you up.) |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407148753</amazonuk>who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eric ColossalChristopher Edge|title=Rutabaga the Adventure Chef: Book 1Black Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Meet Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the latest adventurer to scour the landnickname of 'The Black Hole'. He has a talent for finding the obscure All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and seeking out many, many snacks! However, as the raremovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and surviving all the undignified fates the world has in store. He they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even has a magical companionimagine. He will be open to any challenge set upon him, But as they lurch from locating dragon-smiting swords one film genre to besting the largestnext, most locally loved, rival. can they figure out what on earth is going on? He is RutabagaWill they ever get back to the cinema, and he is, of course, a chef.to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419715976</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom McLaughlin Adam Stower|title=The Accidental Prime Minister Murray and Bun|rating=34.5

|summary=What would happen if Murray is supposed to be a shyhumble, slightly clumsytidy and friendly cat, 12 year old boy accidently found himself in one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the top jobtwo. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, living in Number Ten and making decisions for the country as Prime Minister? This is catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the premise behind Tom McLaughlin’s debut middle grade novel regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and the answer whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is simple expected – there’d be national ‘Fancy Dress Friday’ every week (on a Thursday)well, high fives would be used instead of handshakesone much bigger than Murray was, jelly would to be available on the NHShonest, but he's turned up and one day every month the pupils would get he'll have to be the teachers. do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192737740</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Derek Keilty Alex Bell and Jonny DuddleTim McDonagh|title= Will Gallows and the Wolfer's Deadly MagicThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=Will Gallows Eli is just a week away from being busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a fully-fledged member of helper at the Sky Cavalry – dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his talkinglovely gran, winged horse too – for there is even more keen on hitting a generation missing in the passing out ceremony on the nosefamily. But things arenA few short years ago, Eli't s parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all going entrants have to go their way – Mid-Rock City has received a blackmail note, extorting navigate the world in the town out of a lot of gold for threat company of a 'death mace', of which nobody has ever heardmagical beast. Certain factors all point This has made the race anathema to Will being the best cadet pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to take part in nixing enter what he most hates, with the handover to sole aim the criminal, not least prize of which is his half-hidden secret magic skill due to being part-elf at the end – but as soon as it's realised who the baddy is, things immediately step up a gearonly thing to possibly save his gran. And if that isn't bad enough, Will's grandma and great-uncle have just turned up for a pleasant trip based around his graduation…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440597</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate PankhurstHelen Cooper|title= Mariella Mystery Investigates: A Kitty Calamity The Taming of the Cat|rating=43.5|genre= Confident Readers |summary= When Mariella Mystery (amazing girl detectiveOnce again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, aged nine principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing a bit) connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the other Mystery Girls – Violet and Poppy – start names used here seem to investigate be the disappearance names of their neighbour’s cat they think it’s going to be an easy casecheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. Aren’t missing cats usually just stuck They nibble up a tree or off visiting a house where there’s tastier food? But paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the girls’ views begin to change visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when more he feels all alone and more cats start cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to disappearkeep themselves alive. Soon everyone This makes Brie the top dog in Puddleford is worried. The situation is suddenly serious and it’s up to the Mystery Girls to put an end mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the catnappingcat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444012320</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=R D ShanksLauren St John|title=Merlin and Guinevere: A Happenstance Meeting: Volume 1Finding Wonder

|summary=Merlin is both ordinary and specialRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. He is living a quiet Her mum died when she was young, ordinary life with his father 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 quiet, ordinary villageway to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. Murrow is a fisherman and he and his son have a great relationship When asked what other family she has, supportive and loving. So farshe can only name her aunt, so ordinaryJoni, right? But Merlin isnwho she knows her dad didn't like the other boysthink very highly of. While they are raucous But she has no one else, and socialso off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, Merlin is quiet as when she and contemplative. His best friend isn't another boy; itJoni leave London in Joni's Happenstanceold campervan, his cat. Murrow and Merlin might not realise it but breaks down in the reader will - there's something special about Merlin.middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1505689740</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=BarrouxAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=WhereOscar's the Elephant?|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=We've all had great fun with books such as ''Where's Wally'', haven't we? They appeal to children and adults and everyone who has seen ''Where's the Elephant?'' has jumped in with great enthusiasm, keen to show just how observant they are. We start off with a forest - actually it's the Amazon Rainforest - full of glorious colours and our three friends, who are hiding in there. Elephant is probably the easiest to spot, but Snake and Parrot are in there too and with a little concentration you'll find them. When you turn the page you'll scan the trees again and discover their hiding places. You even wonder if it might get a little ''boring'' if it goes on like this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405271388</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Forbes|title=Elspeth Hart and the School for Show-offsLion|rating=3.5

|summary=ImagineWe start incredibly bluntly, dear readerwith Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a poor girl who couple of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is never allowed a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to play outside like the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other childrenmonth. Instead And it can shapeshift, she has so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a problem. And it's wonderful to spend her day performing horrid choreshave around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, like sweeping up mouse-droppings in being much more lax about the creepyrules, dark cellar and shooing away the cockroaches in the kitchenso on. So begins OK, it can't work a long list of woes for shy Elspeth Hart, who toils tirelessly during the day and spends her nights sleeping in dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a dusty, cramped wardrobewonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847155952</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie CleverlyJudith Eagle|title=Scarlet and Ivy The Lost TwinStolen Songbird

|summary=IvyCaro's twin sister Scarlet had been the strong willedmother, fearless one whilst Ivya world-famous whistler, on the has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other handmother, Ronnie, was timid 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 Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and shyconfused and worried. Following Scarlet's sudden death Ivy is forced All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to take practise her twingymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's place at the sinister Rockwood Boarding School for girls and once house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. But she soon finds herself thrust into caught up in a mystery , as she struggles to solve. Her only hope is to behave as Scarlet would have done, so with the help discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her new friendmum's old suitcase, Ariadne, Ivy attempts to conquer her fears and stand up all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the wicked Miss Fox and discover gang? And what really has happened to her sister.Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007589182</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam WatkinsTania Unsworth|title=Creature TeacherNowhere Island|rating=4.5

|summary=Jake’s nervous about starting his new schoolMeet Gil. His class teacher, Mr Hyde 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 find a home for himself. He is new too buten route to yet another fosterer, unlike Jakewhen he jumps into an anonymous car, he has a reason and lets it ride him to his future. That future seems to be worried. Although class 5b quickly decide in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that Mr Hyde is someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the best teacher they’ve ever hadtwo directions of a motorway, they also discover a problem – whenever he experiences a strong emotion Mr Hyde starts place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to glow provide for their safety and seclusion. Them, and transforms into a naughty, fartingmute girl also finding a home there, biscuit-loving creaturealbeit so much more successfully. Suddenly Over a few weeks we see if their teacher oddball destinies can combine, or if this is wrecking the classroom and they need to work together to find a way to turn the creature back into their teacher before their evil headmistress finds out.one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192742655</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kris HumphreyHelen Peters|title=A Whisper of WolvesFriends and Traitors

|summary=Alice England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is a WhispererNancy, able destined to communicate with be in service all her animal companionlife it seems, Storm like the wolffemale generations before her. It's The other is Sidney, a girl from a gift hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that inspires awe has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and fear 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 amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the villagers she servesLord Evesham must be a rum 'un. A Whisperer is a guardian Midnight deliveries are received under cover of the wildssecrecy, protector talk is made of naturemeetings with Germans, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the only ones able to fight back against girls are wrong, and the demonic Narlaw.upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847155960</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon NicholsonJamie Littler|title=Young Houdini: The Magician's FireArkspire

|summary= As it happensTwo sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, several facts about perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the childhood power of the man who became world famous for his daring stunts Watcher, the closest to a ruler the district has, and death-defying shows have been recordedone of the five major victors in said earlier war. But fiction is Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the world status of what-ifthe whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, where anything can Juniper might just be imaginedable to gain some power of her own – for good, anything can happenor for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143}}{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I was the bad company other people got into at school. So what if all those I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'factsgod' were actually a cover. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, made up I didn't so much want to conceal Houdinilearn about the British army's earliest exploits? What ifsuccesses (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as a boy, he ended up far away from his family and his native Hungary and all alone want to dispute what right the army had to be there in New Yorkthe first place. Looking back, having to earn a few meagre pennies each day by shining shoes? And what if his fascination with theatre life led him into dangers even greater than anything he I still believe I was able right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to create in his later stage act?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192734741</amazonuk>approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M G HarrisThiago de Moraes|title=Gerry Anderson's Gemini Force One, Black HorizonOld Gods New Tricks|rating=34.5

|summary=Life is changing very fast for Ben CarringtonMeet Trixie. He is at Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the opening school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of a huge skyscraper hotel his late father founded in Abu Dhabi when disaster strikes – the chap is hardly cold in his grave nuisance. But just when Benshe's mum and the lad have to prove how adept they are at being told that by her old jobone-last-chance-giving headteacher, of mountain rescuethe world changes. She feels like setting up Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a new rescue agency with her nous and power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the family fortunes, school's in but someone who can just amble into the opening/memorial ceremony is Jason Trubyentire planet (apart from mobile phones, a monumentally rich and all that powers the Internet magnate, who actually has a modern-day just for our convenience''Thunderbirds'' entity alreadys sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the top secret Gemini Forceancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. Truby starts to get close And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the family of twoGods, but ie the schoolsemi-deities, giants, half-aged Ben isn't going to be allowed to learn just what dramatic escapades gods and so on known as the agency has to cover – is he?tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444014064</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Geoff RodkeyHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=The Tapper Twins Go to War (With Each Other)Finding Bear|rating=4.5

|summary=There are two kinds of children in this world[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, those who are repulsed by fartsa lot further north than many people would venture, and those who delight in letting them rip, or regale their friends for their efforts finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – or wilfully accuse the innocent of dropping onethat she called Bear. You can argue til the cows come Back home as to what , things on the ratio of those two camps is – which is pretty much what Claudia domestic and Reesefamily front are a bit advanced, two 12but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-year old siblings in New York City, do – arguey things has been shot and wounded. This time the problem is that Reese loudly announced his sister Desperate to have a windy arse right in the middle of the school canteenmake sure he's OK, which led she and her father return to retaliate with the Arctic and hope that in a means to make him embarrassingly smellyworld of very white and very dangerous things, which led him to she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – well, let's just say and that when Claudia defines the result as war, she's not far offfriendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444014978</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer Gray and Hannah GeorgeSimon Fox|title=Chicken Mission: The Curse of Fogsham FarmDeadlock

|summary=Life Late one night Graham Blake is hard for a chicken. Threat comes late back from anywhere you look – which is where his shift on the Elite Chicken Squad comes in. [[Chicken Mission: Danger in the Deep Dark Woods by Jennifer Gray|Last time]] they had a nasty fox force, and his friends to counterthen suddenly rings Archie, but this time they've got it worse. A local legend speaks of demanding he fetch something from a vampire mink, concerned only with draining all fowl of their bloodsecret place, and all indications suggest join him on the legend is actually a lot more real and worryingrun. Even They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the barman – sorryfather is arrested, bar-chicken, Ichabod Comb, has vanished after an attack leaving Archie on his juice bar. What's morethe late express to Brighton, it seems the mink's victim becomes toting a zombie soldiertin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, fighting for her cause. Can and the three plucky stalwarts bearer of the Squad – Amy, Boo and Ruth – prove themselves a match for such evil?whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057129829X</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elen CaldecottCath Howe|title=Diamonds and Daggers - The Marsh Street MysteriesMy Life on Fire|rating=4.5

|summary=Group of pre-teens get together to solve Ren's family home is destroyed in a mystery? Been therefire. She, her parents, done thatand her little brother lose everything. But don She doesn't be fooled. This book stands out have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from the crowdher cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even though it has eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to be said school she discovers that many of those detective stories the class are really very gooddoing a special art project, for the way it incorporates utterly contemporary issues like economic migrationcreating boxes of their lives, celebrity to display things that are important to them and prejudiceshow who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to put in a box, while remaining both funny and thrillingso 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408847523</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aby King and Sam UsherRob Keeley|title=Lupo The Boy Who Disappeared and the Secret of Windsor CastleOther Stories

|summary=Based on Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a return to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's real dog, this is Lupo's short storyformat! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, and although it uses the real Royals it is, of course, a fictional story each as fun to read as you soon realise with the talking mice from MI5 and the evil villain in the form of one of the Queen's Dorgi's (a cross between a corgi and a Dachshund). If you're looking for a fantasy animal adventure, with plenty of action, then look no furtherhis previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444921444</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda Chapman and Kate HindleyLaura Noakes|title=Best Friends' Bakery: Cupcakes and ContestsCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=Hannah's favourite TV show Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is Junior Brilliant Bakerfor the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, and when she hears that they are auditioning for new contestants for the show she simply can't wait to applyre all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. She rushes But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to tell her best friendbe known about where she came from, Miaas the first ever inmate, about and unique in having no known family in the outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the competition as kitchen one afternoon, she's also discovers a plan involving said outside world – a fan, but then what will happen if only one of them gets on devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the show? girls for his Institute. And But why, and what would they bake for the auditionsdoes that body entail? And would could it possibly bring Cos closer to the show live up to everything they've imaginedpast she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444011928</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frank Cottrell BoyceAlice M Ross|title=The Astounding Broccoli BoyNowhere Thief

|summary=Rory Rooney At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a boy who likes 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 be preparedenter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. His mum owns With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, is the answer, but the fact a book titled 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'Don't Be Scared. 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 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 trees, Be Preparedcompletely 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 becoming more and more 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 nose is forever in a book, which means he knows every page a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it. Rory , is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the type outside world of boy who knows how to survive Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a hippo attackmagical world they never knew existed. Then For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one day Aisha thinks she's seen on a school trip Rory turns greenbit of local footage. Not pale The crew of the boat, feeling including a bit queasy green but bright broccoli green all over. Even Rory isn't prepared for thisliving 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>1405054670</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meg CabotB09XWSXSKY|title=Notebooks of a Middle-School PrincessMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|summary=The author Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of the hugely successful a clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. 'Princess Diaries'Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the time. And time isn' has written a brand-new series t good for younger girls, telling the story of awkward middle-school student Olivia Graceanything... She discovers '' And that her father is actually was why he was looking at the clock beside the Prince of Genovia, making herbed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times..a princess! Not everyone responds well There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the news, however, and poor Olivia is soon thrown into a world of jealous bullies, intrusive paparazzi, disgruntled relatives and a whole new family she never knew existed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447280652</amazonuk>clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?