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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Catherine Storr1836285493|title= Clever Polly and the Stupid WolfThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Confident Readers|summary= Polly opens the door one day to find Will is a large black wolf standing on the doorstep. With no preamble whatsoeverkeen player of video games, not even a cursory helloconscientious student, the wolf informs Polly that he intends to eat her upa slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. Incredibly Polly invites the wolf into her home and even into the kitchen! What can she be thinking But most of? Wellall, young Polly he is cleveran aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, resourcefulMarlowe Park, independent and charmingone at which he excels. The wolf is a wolf of very little brain. Therefore it is not long before This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she is able has suggested to outwit the wolf Will and send him packing. This first story is very short but sets the scene for the ongoing battle his mum that he spends a couple of wits between Polly and the wolf that will continue for the remaining twelve short stories in this charming and entertaining bookafternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141360232</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rupert Wallis1836282028|title=All Sorts of PossibleThe Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''When the sinkhole openedWould you like to adopt a ghost?'' ''Young spirit, there was no time born 1887, seeks kind home to break or turn the wheel, haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on well with other children. Jokes and the old green Land Rover was snatched off the dirt road over the smoking rimshocks a speciality.''

Somehow''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, Daniel makes it out of the sinkhole and emerges to safety with just a few scratches and bruises. But his father isn't so lucky. While he lies in hospital in an induced coma due to a severe brain injury, Daniel is released into the care shape of his aunt, a woman he has never met. There had been a family falling out after Daniel's mother died when he was just a babyan arrow, and since then it's just been Daniel and his dad. Although his aunt seems nice enough, Daniel finds it difficult pointing to trust her or open up to heryour 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 there's a lot Jayden respond to open 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 aboutresidence in....|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114366X</amazonuk>a wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fuzzy MudRob Keeley|authortitle=Louis SacharChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|summary=Tamaya isnAround here, we't allowed to walk home from school on her ownre big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. And Tamaya doesnHe't like to break any rules. So when walking partner Marshall insists on taking s a "shortcut" through the woods one dayball of happy positivity, she goes with himhe understands children, even though she isn't really supposed to walk through the woods. Unbeknownst to Tamayaand he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, Marshall has chosen the route in order not to avoid school bully Chad, who has threatened him with a reckoning. A reckoning for nothing at all - but you know, that's how school bullies worklecture or hector.

But lying in the woods The ''Childish Spirits'' series is an even greater threat than Chad..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|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408864746</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul Stewart and Chris RiddellMax Boucherat|title=Scavenger 2: Chaos ZoneThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=York is a lad We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on a missionher lonesome. So would you beWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, if your space station habitation was constantly attacked by evolvedshe has one main intention, mutated and evil robots. Trying that is to get log on to Voxminer, the core of things – both the situation and the centre of the giant biosphere carrying the last humans to world-building, critter-collecting game that is a future planet to reside on – hehit in Lori's just starting to enter the second level, alongside some surprising companions (surprising, world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that is, if you haventhis stormy night doesn't read [[Scavenger 1: Zoid by Paul Stewart find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and Chris Riddell|book one]]) her bestie and a lot nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of gung ho spirittampering. The next stage is a 'mid deck' levelWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, where all of Earth's habitation zones have and her safe place in the game has been recreated doctored – but nothingwell, either animal or human, has stayed the same since the ship's launch…where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447234421</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katherine WoodfineKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= The Mystery of the Clockwork SparrowDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This entrancing Edwardian mystery Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is set in an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the exoticsport where a team of warrior, sensuous mage and opulent world of a Department store which draws healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the reader in exit, perhaps bothering with enticing sights, sounds the treasure or the big bad and smells from the startpoints they grant you along the way. When Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the heroine Sophie first steps latest race on to the shop floor she feels like she inn TV equivalent is "stepping inside a chocolate box". Furthermore there is also something sacred about the experience- "Nowthat one team has been retired, a reverent hush hung in the aireaten, and she found herself almost tiptoeing…gazing around her at the immense chandeliersa new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the glittering looking-glasses, goading from the glossy walnut panelling. It smelled luscious: no sawdust now, but a glorious fragrance token bully of cocoa his world and candied violets and some other spicy scentstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, like the cigars muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that Papa used , and how could he possibly hope to smoke after dinner." succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405276177</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David O'Doherty and Chris JudgeJames Sherwood Metts|title=Danger is Still Everywhere: Beware of the Dog!Planet Storyland

|summary=Meet GordonThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. HeAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's a very safe betre 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, now you have met himalong with it, as heall 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's life is difficult, in a source multitude of highly intelligent and descriptive warnings about dangerways. He and is bullied because he alone can voice warnings about has 'the Puddle Shark you might get eaten bywrong shoes', he has the Parp Donkey that might evict you by farting through your letter box, wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the Headphones Crab that – wellmost basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the illustration here says it all. Nowcollege, I know what you're thinkingwas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Advice this intelligent Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and salient could only really come from Docter Noel Zonedad are separated, the worldand Will's only Level Five Dangerologistlife seems bleak in every direction. And you'd be rightyet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. Gordon He is good at art, and clings to the name Noel gives to his wardrobe. And Noel moments of joy when he is currently living in Gordon the wardrobedrawing, as his house has been taken over by a messy, noisy, and incredibly dangerous puppy. Add into the mix that feel like a pet contest hosted by light at the world's most dangerous man and you have a recipe for disaster (when all you wanted was end of a completely safe recipe for cabbage souplong, as well…)dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014135920X</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gillian Cross1805141872|title= Shadow CatThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley

|genre= Confident Readers|summary= When Nolan's effervescent mother suddenly takes him on 'Seventeen banks and a surprise journey he jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is in as much fear really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and doubt as Ben go on the reader about what will happen nextrun. Meanwhile music sensation Midir's daughter Feather is tired of being controlled and dreading the next photo opportunity But Al needs them for the pressone last job... Then'' Goodness me, one night, as that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her father prepares for manage to get mixed up with a shocking, spectacular event, everything changes. Cross keeps us guessing as Nolanbad 'un like Al? We's world is turned upside down and he has to make difficult choicesll find out. Why Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is his mother in the clouds on an exultant high one minute and greyBen, stressed and in the doldrums son of despair the next? Does Feather really want a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his friend or do they just have the serval they have sworn to protect in common?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736736</amazonuk>father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julian Clary and David RobertsChristopher Edge|title= The BoldsBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= The Bolds, Mr and Mrs Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their two small childrenlocal cinema, live in an ordinary semi-detached house in suburban Teddingtona place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. They have jobs; Mrs Bold designs All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and sells flamboyant hats many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and Mr Bold writes jokes for Christmas crackers. But they are most definitely not swept up into an ordinary familyadventure they couldn't even imagine. Oh no! They are in fact hyenas. So far But as they have managed lurch from one film genre to successfully pretend to be human beings. Although very hairy and prone to laughing a lot they have kept the truth (and their tails!) a secret from everyone. But their grumpy next door neighbour, Mr McNumptycan they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, is growing suspicious and then a trip to the local safari park has repercussions. Will the Bolds' carefully long kept secret be revealedtheir real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443057</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Maudie SmithAdam Stower|title= The Cake, the Wolf Murray and the WitchBun|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Max doesn't believe in happy endings. How could heMurray is supposed to be a humble, when lovelytidy and friendly cat, brave, caring Mum got killed climbing a mountain? He doesn't like heights or small dark spaces one who is able to sleep and he doesn't like silly fairy stories. He absolutely hates being dressed in knickerbockers, silk slippers eat and a cape for Dad eat and Ilona's wedding, sleep and in fact, the only thing that's worsewell, in whatever takes his opinion, is fancy next of the fact that once ittwo. But he's over hea bad magician'll have to share s cat, so his home with favourite bun has been turned into a horrible new brother hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and sister. I meanthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, come onnot into the regular back garden, people! Nettle is but into a total grouch who's clearly never cracked world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a smile in her whole lifeViking land, and little Wild where a troll hunter is just . . . expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to tell the truthbe honest, but he's plain daft. He prances about the place like a demented butterfly, turned up and he never takes his baseball cap off, even to go to bed. How's Max supposed ll have to get along with that pair?do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444015605</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rose Lagercrantz Alex Bell and Eva ErikssonTim McDonagh|title=When I Am HappiestThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=If Dani leaves her school for Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the summer holidays wondrous library we start by visiting with one souvenirhim, it will either be and in the memories of evening a helper at the fabulous friendship she formed dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with Ellahis lovely gran, who struck too – for there is a chord generation missing in [[My Happy Life by Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|book one]] then moved awaythe family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, or it will be a book she has written and compiled globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to remind her of all navigate the happiness she has encountered along world in the waycompany of a magical beast. That This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is not quite finishedto dare to enter what he most hates, for with the sole aim the following day is to be prize of magic at the great end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Cooper|title=The Taming of year partythe Cat|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Once again, and her classroom decorations mice are complete and her dress has been bought new speciallypitched against cat. But not In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of life cheeses. Anyway, Brie is happiness shunned, scorned and jollity , if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and Dani is removed cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from the classroom fable who had had to tell stories to face very bad newskeep themselves alive. What ending is This makes Brie the top dog in storethe mouse community, for her book and for oursthough, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1927271894</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Noel Streatfeild Lauren St John|title=Ballet Shoes Finding Wonder

|summary=Roo''Ballet Shoes'' tells s life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the story middle of three adopted orphans – Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil. Brought to 1930s London as babies the night by an eccentric explorer (Great Uncle Matthew, otherwise known as Gum), the girls have a comfortable life until police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the family begin corner shop to run out of moneybuy a lottery ticket. Luckily they are all given places at the Children When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn's Academy t think very highly of Dancing . But she has no one else, and Stage Training and soon start so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to earn their own way get worse for Roo, as child performers on when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the stage. middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141359803</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth P JonesAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Clash Oscar's Lion|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that he won'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 the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the Rival Robots (Adventures other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a problem. And it's wonderful to have around the Steampunk Pirates)house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=0008596751}}{{Frontpage|author=Judith Eagle|title=The Stolen Songbird

|summary=We learn Caro's mother, a lot about the world -famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of the Steampunk Pirates in this volume of their adventuresher sister who is unwell. While having had references So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to Britain fighting France before nowstay with Gam, we find the location matters more than [[Attack of the Giant Sea Spiders (Adventures of the Steampunk Pirates) by Gareth P Jones|last time]]someone Caro has heard her mother despises, as we head back to Englandshe feels frustrated and confused and worried. The Pirates have been told All her summer holiday plans of a way building herself some equipment to get into the Tower of London practise her gymnastics are brought to steal the Crown Jewels. We also learn a lot about their upbringinghalt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, if you can call it that – certainly more than last timealong with an orphan boy, as we see what made them piratical in the first placeAlbie, which was a surprise to their inventor when it happenedwho is living there too. But you never knowshe soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, they may be about to face and all across London a showdown against said scientist – fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and, worse, his next generation of robotsterrorising people. If only they perhaps had been programmed Is the painting somehow linked to avoid temptation…the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156061</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Karen McCombieTania Unsworth|title= Catching Falling StarsNowhere Island|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= It Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is 1940 so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and after find a year home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him to his future. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of the ''phoney war'' London is suffering belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the Blitztwo directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. Glory Them, and her younger brother Rich have now been evacuated to a country village far from everything they know 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…|isbn=1804540080}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Peters|title=Friends and loveTraitors|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=England, WW2. When Two young girls are new at the arrangements made by their mother fall through country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like the children are sent to live with Miss Saundersfemale generations before her. The other is Sidney, a cold girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and unwelcoming woman who is not popular in the village cheese, and Glory wonders if they we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would have been better off remaining in London despite the danger of falling bombsonly prove it so. The local children appear unfriendly But something is amiss, and first separately and even then in the countryside combination they are not completely safe from realise the enemyLord Evesham must be a rum 'un. All Glory wants Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is to return home to her parents but she will soon discover made of meetings with Germans, and not only that her life is to change in unexpected ways , a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and she will learn that her first impressions should not always the upper class could never be trusted.so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407138898</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithJamie Littler|title=Precious Arkspire|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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 Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of the Watcher, the closest to a ruler the district has, and one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the Zebra Necklacemagic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143}}{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=There is [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a new girl at Precious Ramotswe's schoolridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. Her name is NancyBack home, things on the domestic and Precious is asked to look after family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her , and make sure she settles into schoolso can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. Precious, already For a budding detective at such a young agebear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Desperate to make sure he's OK, soon sniffs out she and her father return to the Arctic and hope that there is in a little bit world of a mystery surrounding Nancy very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and on discovering that all Nancy has left of her parents is a fading photograph dangerous thing – and a zebra necklace she decides that she must try to help Nancy discover the truth about what happened to themfriendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780273274</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary McKaySimon Fox|title=Binny in SecretDeadlock

|summary=Reading Binny in Secret was rather like that moment whenLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, as a child, I discovered that Noel Streatfield had written a LOT of other shoe books orand then suddenly rings Archie, just demanding he fetch something from a few years agosecret place, when I suddenly discovered Jeanne Birdsall and her Penderwick stories, and I gorged join him on them, utterly delighting in their humour and kindnessthe run. I don't quite know how I haven't come across Hilary McKay beforeThey get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of course now Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a long list of her books have gone onto my 'tin his father was determined to read' pile because I thoroughly enjoyed this story keep away from his colleagues, and I immediately wanted more!the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444913409</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kate PankhurstCath Howe|title= The Disappearing Dinner Lady (Mariella Mystery)My Life on Fire|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Mariella has to admit it: the school dinners have been much better latelyRen's family home is destroyed in a fire. When Big G was in charge She, vegetable mush was the order of the dayher parents, but since the 'Ladies Who Lunchand her little brother lose everything. She doesn' agency t have been supplying the mealsany of her clothes, they have been serving up heavenly dishes like 'Monday Munchie Madness'or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, 'Princess Pie' and now she is living at her grandmother'Pirate Pasta Bakes house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. The mystery girls love When she goes back to school she discovers that the new menuclass are doing a special art project, but even more than creating boxes of their lives, to display things that, are important to them and show who they love the new dinner lady, Diana Dumplingare as a person. When Diana goes missing But Ren has nothing to put in mysterious circumstancesa box, Mariella and her friends are on the case so she finds herself starting to discover steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what really happened will happen to their favourite dinner lady.her if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444012347</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tomiko Inui and Ginny Tapley Takemori (translator)Rob Keeley|title=The Secret of the Blue GlassBoy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|summary=One problem with being four inches or so tall, as any [[The Borrowers: The Borrowers and The Borrowers Afield by Mary Norton|Borrower]]-type creature I'm sure will tell you, Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is getting around. There're the impracticalities of being so small, encounters with cats, and a whole lot more. But back with this modern world things can happen – such as an English governess-type taking a married couple of Little People return to Japan with her. There they have kids, and she leaves them with her favourite pupil – alongside the most necessary equipmentshort story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, a small blue glass goblet, that helps the human bond with the Little People by using it each as fun to donate milk to them on a daily basis. We're now into the second generation of Japanese people looking after them, but something much more threatening, all-enveloping and worrying than a cat is around the corner – World War Tworead as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690344</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|author=Laura Noakes|title=In Their Shoes: Fairy Tales and FolktalesCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=Lots of books haveMeet Number One. Or rather, in their own wayCosima Unfortunate. Or rather, shown fairy tales just Cos to have relied on certain tropesher friends. You certainly don't have The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to read them all, or indeed many, just be named by the number they correspond to see in the wily child outsmart the adult again ledger, and again, they're all Unfortunates – young people tricked into changing ownership of magical thingswith disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the power of being tag as a stepmothersurname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, or as the power of doing things first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in threesthe outside world. Still, I think this must be one of During a very rare few collections daring escapade to look at footwear as steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a theme, with plan involving said outside world – a tidydevilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, small selection of fairy and folk-tales what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to entertain, all the past she has so little link with that subject.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691014</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ulrich Hub, Jorg Muhle and Helena Ragg-Kirkby (translator)Alice M Ross|title=Meet at the Ark at Eight!The Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=An educated penguin, an agnostic penguin At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a violent, smaller, young penguin walk into a snowdrift… seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. You might not She also knows she should be able free from worries about being found out, because she has the ability to make a full joke out leave this world, and use an unworldly portal of that opening linekaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, but this book practically does continue on from therewhere the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. Three penguins – each With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, is the answer, but the fact a little 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 otherauthor of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, even if they generally look and definitely smell in the sameNorth of England, where Bea and God, a subject Raffy have been living for most of their conversation when lives. They are part of a butterfly comes alongcomplex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, of all thingsand they are living together as a family. The youngThey have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, hot-headed completely at one (wellwith all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, in as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the pictures he wears property to a woolly hat, hedeveloper as it's bound becoming more and more expensive to be hot-headed) leaves in umbragemaintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, leaving just two – which is perfectly timed but if youthey're a dovell even be together, and come along telling all the animals to get into Noah's Ark in pairs, as an almighty flood is about to happen…if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690875</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven ButlerRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Diary Unicorns of Dennis the Menace: Canine Carnage (book 5)Silver Street

|summary= IJayden'm sure Dennis the Menace has s nose is forever in a hate-hate relationship with schoolbook, but which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the nature phoenixes and unicorns of it the world, for example. Aisha is relevant when considering these booksaddicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The fact he goes at all problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the cause for them in the first place – he [[The Diary outside world of Dennis the Menace by Steven Butler|originally]] was tasked with writing Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a journal as homeworkscience-minded, educational purpose, and turned it into with a menacing manual for uspast involving Jayden's cousin, his readersthey find a magical world they never knew existed. But if he paid attention there he might realise £1For many of those mythological creatures are real,000 is not quite enough to build his ownincluding the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boat, self-aggrandising theme parkincluding a living gargoyle, even if he manages to employ are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the bummy, booky, wimpy types behind kids unknowingly have the scenes. The grand sum is what Dennis intends magical sight needed to win when The Fame Factor TV talent show hits townjoin in. ThatDare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as we can easily foretella figure in a painting, is going to be very menacingly interesting, but that's not the site and become saviours of the titular carnage – for that we have to rely on an unusual sleep-over…unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141355840</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09XWSXSKY|title=Cheeky CharlieMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Mat WaughRobert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|summary=Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn''My book is about all the naughty things that my brother Charlie has donet sleep. Some of it is funny A tune, some rather like the ticking of it is a bit sad, clock was playing over and lots of it is disgusting, because that's what Charlie can beover in his mind. It might even make you be sickhappened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, so get ready.he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore.

You know what? That's about the size of it. After Harry has introduced herself - she's almost seven years Who needs old, she doesn't like her freckles, she's used to people thinking that someone called Harry ought to be a boy, and she has a younger brother, who clocks anyway? All they do is three and called Charlietell the time. This is Harry And time isn's book about Charliet good for anything. Charlie is a cheeky chappie. He never shuts up. He likes to push his luck. '' And, having pushed his luck once, that was why he likes to push it againwas looking at the clock beside the bed. And again It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And again. This is much to Harrywhy had all the clocks stopped at twelve o's exasperation, as she explains by dint of a book full of anecdotes... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1508910510</amazonuk>clock?