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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob 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=The Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Would you like to adopt a ghost?'' ''Young spirit, born 1887, seeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on well with other children. Jokes and shocks a speciality.'' ''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, in the shape of an arrow, pointing to your front door...'' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a decade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's ''Spirits'' series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that is both a reboot and a continuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. Ruby and Jayden respond to this intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the rules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is adopted by them and takes up residence in.... a wardrobe!}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Renee RussellRob Keeley|title=Dork DiariesChildish Spirits: Drama Queen (Dork Diaries 9)10th anniversary special edition

|summary=Meet Mackenzie Hollister. SheAround here, we're big fans of children's a typical American tweenager – concerned in popularity, looks, the hot guys like Brandon, and getting one over on all those around herauthor Rob Keeley. ThatHe's made a lot more easy by her parents being spoilingly rich – if Mackenzieball of happy positivity, sayhe understands children, wants a new cover and he writes for her diary she will just rip up a new $220 leopard print designer blouse their pleasure and use thatenjoyment, not to lecture or hector. But the problem is, what she The 's reading back over, and what she's writing in, isnChildish Spirits't ''exactly'' her diary – itseries 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 diary belonging to our beloved heroine, Nikki, and Mackenzie has managed to purloin it for evil deeds. Can Nikki get it back – or live spirit world throws at all without her beloved journal? And could there actually be something worse than her biggest enemy of, likeand Edward, all time, being a spoiled lordling and the person reading it?first spirit Ellie encounters|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471117707</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lewis Carroll and Sir John TennielMax Boucherat|title=Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=It can hardly have escaped anyoneWe meet Lori on the first evening she's attention got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that 2015 is to log on to Voxminer, the 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carrollworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' t find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and we've seen numerous anniversary editionsnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447287118</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy Bass Kieran Larwood and Pete WilliamsonJoe Todd-Stanton|title=The Beast of Grubbers Nubbin (Stitch Head)Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=It's all wrong in Castle GrotteskewMeet Kit. The very walls should be terrified by Like most of the monsters people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the Mad Professor in sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the basement is creatingexit, out of various body parts perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and different animalsthe points they grant you along the way. But noUnfortunately for Kit, the clamour only thing he's seen of noisethe latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, the unlikely activities and horrendous appetite for food come from something else entirely – a hundred rescued human orphansnew trio of questors is needed. That appetite needs feeding – so it’s perfect timing Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the village below goading from the castletoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, Grubbers Nubbinmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have their annual podge-been a-thon feastbit sticky for the Earthlings. But when Stitch Head AI and his human friend Arabella go to purloin some human food – there being no decent alternative – automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're horrified paid to do and other tasks that took time to find something even worse than 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 monsters trapped in the castle above…many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156096</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cassie BeasleyTom Percival|title=Circus MirandusThe Wrong Shoes

|summary=Micah Will's life is an orphan who has been raised by his grandfatherdifficult, but now Micah’s grandfather in a multitude of ways. He is dying. And if that wasn’t bad enoughbullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his horrible great aunt has arrived to take care dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of himthings like food, cutting their limited time together further. But don’t worry all hope is not and his dad can't work because he lost. When grandpa Ephraim his job at the college, was working a child he visited cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the mysterious Circus Mirandusfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, where he was promised still has a miracle by the miraculous Man Who Bends Lighttiny amount of hope. All Micah has He is good at art, and clings to do the moments of joy when he is get drawing, that feel like a message to light at the Light Bender end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1805141872|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Seventeen banks and his grandfather can a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his miracle. 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 help of Jenny Mendoza (run. But Al needs them for one last job...'' Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the smartest girl in pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the class)son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, Micah sets and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his sights on the circusfriends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a task place that requires unconditional love has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and faith. Aunt Gertrudis many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is wrongvery different, Ephraim’s stories aren’t just stories and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine... are But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will theyever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1101892315</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Owen DaveyAdam Stower|title=Mad About MonkeysMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers |summary=Of all the many millions of animals on our planet that deserve Murray is supposed to be a large format hardback non-fiction bookhumble, tidy and friendly cat, I guess monkeys are one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the ideal places to starttwo. They areBut he's a bad magician's cat, of courseso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, our distant cousinsand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, with not into the ancestor we have in common with them walking around our regular back garden, but into a world within the past thirty million yearsof frightening adventure and whiffs. They have This time round it drops them into a large range across the planetViking land, they have over 250 variant specieswhere a troll hunter is expected – well, and they have a lot of interesting facts and details regarding their social lifeone much bigger than Murray was, their dietto be honest, their diversity but he's turned up and their potential future – all of which makes this an interesting read whatever your species bias may be.he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263575</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Josh LaceyAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Dragonsitter TroubleThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=You don't need me to tell you what it's like when your uncle owns two dragons. He's Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the pig-headed type who has a mummy and baby dragon living wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and he must live on a remote island off Scotland, and he must spend half the time hunting the world of dragons in Outer Mongolia, or searching for the yeti, so that trouble starts from evening a helper at the very moment you arrive dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with your mother and sister to housesit his lovely gran, too – for him – there's no food, the dragons are pooing everywhere and you can't even use is a generation missing in the front door properly because he didn't leave the key in an obvious placefamily. StillA few short years ago, thatEli's nothing compared parents were both lost to when the neighbouring farmer gets his guns trained on titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the dragons when he accuses them company of stealing his sheep… a magical beast. Or how about This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when your big birthday party is herea bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, and the magician Eli knows his only hope is booked – and the two dragons come to staydare to enter what he most hates, because somebody else with the talent sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to care for them has the hots for your mother…possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783442972</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jo SimmonsHelen Cooper|title=Super-Loud SamThe Taming of the Cat|rating=3.5

|summary=Sam is loudOnce again, mice are pitched against cat. Not just loud as in In this case, principally, we have Brie the loudest lad in classmouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and not just loud as in loudest fire alarm case you're seeing a connection, they live in schoola cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. NoAnyway, Sam Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don'''LOUD''' loudt match the other mice he lives with. Stop traffic in They nibble up paper wrapping from the streets loud. Scary loud. Loud enough to make passing birds forget how to fly loud. There's little rhyme or reason cheese for this, just bedding – he displays it as there is no real reason why his best friend Nina does nothing but knit all art and makes stories based on the livelong dayvisuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, even when walking to schoolhe feels all alone and cast out. It's just something you have almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to acceptkeep themselves alive. But what's this? Their favourite teacher has vanishedThis makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, and a new one has taken his place – Mrs Mann. She's ridiculous with her weirdly large handsthough, her huge cardigan and even huger beehive hairdoas all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. The biggest thing about her though is But will the story have the threat she poses – successful sequel it needs when that of eternal silence in her lessons. How can Sam possibly continue at school, when even him clearing his throat is like a plane crash in your earscheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407152300</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher MyersLauren St John|title=My PenFinding Wonder

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=How long does it take you to read a picture book? Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Don't worry counting Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the number middle of words, forget totalling the pages, and ignore how many times you may return night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to bring it off the shelfcorner shop to buy a lottery ticket. What matters so much more than how long it takes to scan a page When asked what other family she has, she can be how long it lies in the memoryonly name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But she has no one else, and what it can lead so off she goes tolive with her unreliable aunt. This example, Things continue to get worse for instanceRoo, can be perused as when she and Joni leave London in secondsJoni's old campervan, but creates a vivid and long-standing mental image, and will if it hits breaks down in the right buttons lead to untold future activities. middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! You can't judge something like this on the value of time.Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423103718</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cath Senker Adam Baron and Melvyn EvansBenji Davies|title=Ancient Egypt in 30 Seconds: 30 Awesome Topics for Pharaoh Fanatics Explained in Half a Minute (ChildrenOscar's 30 Second)Lion|rating=43|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Egypt. It's up there We start incredibly bluntly, with dinosaursOscar hoping to have his mother – or father, space travel and not much else that can hold but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a young child throughout the length couple of their times before he has to be ready for school career. Considering a lot of them will grow up declaring they have no interest inBut when he enters his parents' bedroom, or even all he sees is a hatred formahoosive male lion on their bed, historylooking sheepish, it all was relevant a long, long time ago – and with Carter's finding of King Tut's tomb closing in on its centenary it admitting that he won't go away yetbe hungry for another two days. There But there are indeed books benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that solely concern themselves with ruined a birthday party for Oscar the history of our love affair with Egyptother month. But I guess And it can shapeshift, so he can take it does boil down to school and it being introduced by can get him out of a fine teacherproblem. Whether this latest book will supplant And it's wonderful to have around the human in giving us all house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the lessons we need remains to be seenrules, and so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402373</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan MeresJudith Eagle|title=The World of Norm: 8: May Contain ButsStolen Songbird

|summary=Why is it the only person in NormCaro's mother, a world able -famous whistler, has failed to think straight return home from her recent work trip abroad and is Norm? now missing. His best mate Mikey is clamming up on certain subjectsHer other mother, and blaming mood swings on his hormones (wellRonnie, he is all having to go up North to take care of thirteen, her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after all). Caro? His dad seems Sent to be mourning the loss of an antique bottle of aftershavestay with Gam, his someone Caro has heard her mother thinks sorting the recycling is a cure for boredomdespises, she feels frustrated and his grandfather is all full of weird expressions confused and euphemism thingiesworried. ThatAll her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's not to mention his younger brothershouse, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who have it is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in mind to use a mystery, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's hair straightener on old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the dogSnakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. And that's certainly not Is the painting somehow linked to mention the girl next door, who evidently gang? And what has been incapable of thinking straight since birth, but at least is doing the good thing by moving house. Ithappened to Caro's a flipping miracle that Norm can get through a weekend like this without anything disastrous happening. mother? Or can heIs she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334062</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Piers TordayTania Unsworth|title= The Wild BeyondNowhere Island|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers |summary= Stories for younger readers about the effects of climate change, known as cli-fi, are growing massively in popularity right now, as environmental disasters and the disappearance of many of the planet's animals and plants hit the news on a depressingly regular basis4. Shrinking glaciers mean rising water levels and the slow extinction of polar bears, and in many cities pollution and smog are so dire at times that governments are forced to ban cars and urge their citizens to stay indoors. But far from frightening children with tales of ever-increasing destruction and death, Piers Torday offers them a way to hope. No matter how bad things are, this trilogy tells us, all it takes is determination, and together we'll save our beautiful world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848668481</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Caleb Krisp and John Kelly|title=Anyone But Ivy Pocket|rating=5

|summary=12-year-old maid Ivy Pocket Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is at a loose end after her employer the Countess Carbunkle leaves her for South America "for no other reason than it is far enough away from Paris so determined to ensure that I never see you again." Charitably deciding that escape the old woman is 'bonkers' on care system – the basis system that constantly puts him in futureless places that anyone who doesn't see how wonderful she are not homes – and find a home for himself. He is couldn't possibly be in their right minden route to yet another fosterer, Ivy thinks she'll stroll when he jumps into another job but finds an anonymous car, and lets it more difficult than she'd expect - until the Duchess ride him to his future. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of Trinity gives her belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an important mission; to deliver a priceless diamond necklace to island between the granddaughter two directions of an estranged friend. But what should be a simple task becomes fraught with danger as Ivy faces obnoxious aristocratsmotorway, strange creaturesa place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. Them, and betrayala 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>1408858630</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Esme KerrHelen Peters|title=Mischief at MidnightFriends and Traitors

|summary= At England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like the slightly strange female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school of Knight's Haddonthat has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, thereand if we hadn's always t guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something intriguing going on. New girl Janetis amiss, cool and confident even when arguing with first separately and then in combination they realise the teacherLord Evesham must be a rum 'sun. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the big surprise for Edie this termgirls are wrong, and they become friends - but Anastasia feels forced out by the newer student's presence. Then some things happen which make Edie start to wonder if Janet is hiding something - can she solve another mysteryupper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190948900X</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth P JonesJamie Littler|title=Attack of the Giant Sea Spiders (Adventures of the Steampunk Pirates)Arkspire

|summary=It's a three-way battle 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 the Slurring Mariner pubBadlands. On Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the one hand, four Steampunk Pirates – a fine mix religious districts of viciousArkspire, nefarious and metallic mariners who would make any passing human gulp (which is more than you could ever say perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of the beer). On anotherWatcher, the Dread Captain Inkybeard, who is married closest to a squid who lives on his head ruler the district has, and keeps his facial hair darkone of the five major victors in said earlier war. On Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the third, a ridiculously rich, ridiculously French and ridiculously successful recruiter – but to just what is he taking so many seamen? whole family. Whatever it isBut in finding something oddly magical, it's enough to get the Pirates and Inkybeard working together (ish) to solve the problem – but someone else Juniper might just be controlling the whole farrago…able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847155995</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Liz Pichon024162343X|title=Yes! No (Maybe...) (Tom Gates)Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= WorkI was the bad company other people got into at school. ItI was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god's not something Tom Gates has been guilty . Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much before now – unless itwant to learn about the British army's to work out how successes (and where to hide his favourite caramel wafersoccasional failures, or how but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to deflect be called 'the evil grin of his slightly goth older sister. But itcolonies's on as want to dispute what right the cards this time round – not only does his mother have army had to be there in the inspired idea of clearing first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the house out for a car boot sale (which causes disasters) maturity to approach 'the school is having an enterprise competition, where groups of students have to create something to sell on to their peers at a profitproblem' politely. But itI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's not like Tom wants much – of course, he's a simple lad, with no real desires as such – he's never going to want to go hell for leather to get anything, is he?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407143190</amazonuk>Stolen History''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda Chapman and Kate HindleyThiago de Moraes|title=Best Friends’ Bakery: Birthdays and BiscuitsOld Gods New Tricks

|summary=In thisMeet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the fourth story in the Best Friends’ Bakery seriesschool aircon with fart powder, Hannah is recovering from she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when she's being told that by her sadness at being thrown off one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the Junior Baker show on TVworld changes. Fortunately there’s plenty going on Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in her town but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and at her mum’s bakery to keep her busyall that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. There’s a new beauty shop opening And so she begins her epic quest, to bake forgather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, a doggy rescue centre in troublegiants, half-gods and a new girl who seems intent so on stopping anyone from befriending herknown as the tricksters. How will Hannah get on with these new challenges in her life?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444011944</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances HardingeHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Cuckoo SongFinding Bear

|summary=Marketed as [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a twisted fairy talelot further north than many people would venture, ''Cuckoo Song'' is so much more. Hardinge’s lyrical style sets it apart from other fantasy reads. Such phrases as ''and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she was weeping spider silk'' lend it a melody all of its owncalled Bear. At Back home, things on the story’s heart is the sense of wanting to belong domestic and connect with others. It revolves around Piers Crescent’s daughter Triss who wakes up after an accident to find that family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her world has changed. She doesn’t feel that she is herself , and starts to exhibit extremely peculiar behaviourso can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. She is ravenous For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and inexplicably binge eatswounded. For some reason her little sister Pen appears Desperate to hate hermake sure he's OK, scissors act strangely around her she and her parents are anxious for her father return to remain ill the Arctic and hope that in a world of very white and cosseted. She has memories from the time before very dangerous things, she nearly drowned but she can’t visualise can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the actual incidentfriendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330519735</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil Earle and Sara OgilvieSimon Fox|title=Demolition DadDeadlock

|summary=Jake's dad 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 wrestlersecret place, and join him on the run. Nobody knows howeverThey get together, because Jake's dad also insists that Jake keeps it a secret, so that no one realises that come but barely begin to smell the weekend he leaves behind whiff of Southern trains when the demolition sites that he works onfather is arrested, puts leaving Archie on his spandex suit and enters the ring as 'Demolition Man'! But Jake is so proud of late express to Brighton, toting a tin his dad that father was determined to keep away from his alter ego can't remain a secret for longcolleagues, and he sets about trying to change his dad's life through the world bearer of a whole heap of wrestlingquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444013866</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg CabotCath Howe|title=Notebooks of a Middle-School PrincessMy Life on Fire|rating=45

|summary=The author of the hugely successful Ren''Princess Diaries'' has written s family home is destroyed in a brand-new series for younger girlsfire. She, her parents, telling the story of awkward middle-school student Olivia Graceand her little brother lose everything. She discovers that doesn't have any of her father is actually the Prince clothes, or any of Genoviaher special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, making and now she is living at hergrandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat...a princess! Not everyone responds well When she goes back to school she discovers that the newsclass are doing a special art project, howevercreating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and poor Olivia is soon thrown into show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to put in a world of jealous bulliesbox, intrusive paparazzi, disgruntled relatives and a whole new family so she never knew existedfinds 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>1447280652</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel HamiltonRob Keeley|title=The Case of the Exploding BrainsBoy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|summary= You'd think, Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with one parent in prison and a return to the other one hardly ever moving from the sofashort story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, that middle school student Noelle Hawkins would have far too many problems on her hands already each as fun to start worrying about the occasional little explosion at the Science Museumread as his previous offerings. After all, that's the kind of thing that's bound to happen in a place littered with heaps of seriously wacky inventions, right?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147112133X</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave LoweLaura Noakes|title= Squirrel Boy vs the Squirrel Hunter Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|genre=Confident Readers |summary= Ten year old Walter Kettle Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is an ordinary boy until he eats for the girls to just be named by 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 nut. Then he transforms into unlikely superhero Squirrel Boy whose only superpowers seem surname because nothing else seems to be a large bushy tailknown about where she came from, an ability to climb trees and run very fastas the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in the outside world. During a sudden understanding of ‘Squirrelish’ (daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the language used by squirrels). In his second adventurekitchen one afternoon, we join Walter she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to find out whether these unusual powers will be enough want to defeat adopt all the determined Squirrel Hunter girls for his Institute. But why, and save what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the squirrel population in the local park.past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907912738</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lewis CarrollAlice M Ross|title=Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition with Dame Vivienne Westwood)The Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5

|summary=Somewhere At last there is new stock in the book reviewing gods have a list of those classic titles that you cannot deny or begrudge their place impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in literary history, that are soon to have a 150th birthday party with my name on an inviteseaside town. That means little, as I – and in fact most people – will of course be reading them on their unbirthday, but the list does include the current recipient of that honour, ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. It She also knows she should be free from worries about being long found out of copyright anyone can put together a 150th birthday edition for it, but because she has the ability to leave this is one world, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the more distinctive efforts, for it comes with sea levels are rising dramatically and the help buildings are generally empty of Dame Vivienne Westwoodhumans and ripe for plunder. And even though I have [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|spoken before]] of how I don't take With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the bookshop? Well yes, I can hereby declare this party was made all is the better for being twice as longanswer, all courtesy of but the presence of Lewis Carroll.fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178487017X</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithNatasha Farrant|title=Akimbo AdventuresThe Rescue of Ravenwood

|summary=I amThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, it must be saidin the North of England, something where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of an Alexander McCall Smith addicttheir lives. I have handed out free copies They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his books for World Book Night, I met him in Oxford at a literary festivalmum, and I read pretty much everything he writes they are living together as he writes it! a family. This time it’s a children’s bookThey have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with three stories in one volume all about a boy called Akimboof the nature around the house and loving every inch of the place. He lives on But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the edge of property to a game reserve in Africadeveloper 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 these stories are all about his rather amazing adventures with the animals who also share his homeif Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405265345</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah GarlandRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|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 closer. Her father still worked as a doctor and her mother made beautiful clothes. Her grandmother wove warm blankets. Then the day came when they had to run, for their lives, and escape was by boat and they became refugees. Secret Beast Club: The three Unicorns 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 home, although it was just one room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806511</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Garland|title=Eddie's Tent and How to go Camping|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Mum, Tom, Tilly, Lily and Eddie wanted to go on holiday and camping seemed like the ideal way to go. Lily and Tilly thought it was a brilliant idea 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 holiday, but Lily and Tilly had to be told to start again when Mum saw what they'd packed! But finally, Tom began to load the car and off they went.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780408X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=W Awdry|title=Thomas the Tank Engine 70th Anniversary SlipcaseSilver Street|rating=54

|summary=Thomas, if you donJayden't know, s nose is forever in a little Tank Enginebook, who is very quick to build up which means he knows a head lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of steam and move his coaches and trucks around the train yards and networks he works onworld, for example. That does mean Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that he has to might be shown up by out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the largeroutside world of Hackney, slower engines London. But when he continually blows his whistle to disturb their resta narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and can even forget to bring any carriages with him when hea past involving Jayden's pulling cousin, they find a train, but he does mean wellmagical world they never knew existed. HeFor many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's a warm, feisty little character, and was probably always bound to become seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boat, including a favourite with warm, feisty young readersliving gargoyle, especially those brought up are tasked with an eye to saving the rare critters – and the romance of kids unknowingly have the railwaysmagical sight needed to join in. But he wasn't Dare they side with Leila, the first we met woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the series that in public shorthand at least bears his name.unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405277270</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy HopkinsB09XWSXSKY|title=Mum Never Did Learn to KnockMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=#People are worrying about Emily: her Dad and Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the staff at school are all worried that she's spending ticking of a lot of clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time talking he came to her Mumvisit his grandfather. You might think that thereHe hadn's nothing wrong with that - in fact that itt really wanted to come; after all, he's entirely commendable ten now and young people ought all those old clocks don't appeal to spend more him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the time talking to their parents - but Emily's Mum died a few months ago. Emily has reached the stage of And time isn't good for anything...'hiding'' the fact  And 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 why he was alive, now would you? looking at the clock beside the bed. At school sheIt was nearly twelve o's sent to see a counsellor, clock but it doesn't go quite at midnight the way that the counsellor clock chimed only six times. There was expecting... particularly when Emily asked where people nothing for it but to go when they die and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the ultimate clocks stopped at twelve o'what comes after spaceclock?'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124957</amazonuk>