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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Darren ShanRob 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=Zom-B Fugitive (Zom B 11)The Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! ''Would you like to adopt a ghost?''

If you havenThe 't read 'Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!spirit Ellie encounters|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077929</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeffrey BrownMax Boucherat|title=The Phantom Bully (Star Wars Jedi Academy 3)Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=DoesnWe meet Lori on the first evening she't time flys 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? It only seems Snuggled in a short time ago that Roan Novachez was starting his first term at Jedi Academy Middle Schoolblanket fort, yet here he isshe has one main intention, all grown up and ready that is to start his final year. As alwayslog on to Voxminer, there are plenty of twists and turns, teen troubles and relationship issues mixed in with the forceworld-wieldingbuilding, piloting and lightsaber battlescritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Bullying is still But first Lori has a real issue for Roan tiny inkling that this termstormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, as it seems that someone has made a personal mission and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of setting him tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up to fail. Everything is riding on his performance this yearher phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, as flunking out will mean being held back where is a year and his friends moving on without him.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0545621267</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antony WoottenKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Grubby Feather Gang (Bigshorts)Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Life is confusing for George Sanders: Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his fatherworld, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the local vetsport where a team of warrior, has refused mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to 'do his bit' the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and volunteer to fight in Francethe points they grant you along the way. ThereUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's bad feeling in seen of the village - with latest race on the women giving Dad white feathers - and even George's mum believes inn TV equivalent is that he should go one team has been retired, eaten, and fighta new trio of questors is needed. To top it all George is currently being suspended, upside downPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the rafters token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in the hayloft by the local bully who is determined actually managing that George is going , and how could he possibly hope to do his maths homeworksucceed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. YouAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they'd think re paid to do and other tasks that it couldn't 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 worseshut down and, but along with it, all the next day 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 multitude of ways. He is bullied because hehas 'the wrong shoes's caned at school when , he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't feel that have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in the wrong-hand job on a building site and had an accident. ThereThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's no wonder George life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is confusedgood at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is there?drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0953712389</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Holly Webb1805141872|title=The Truffle MouseTeacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=Alice is going through ''Seventeen banks and a tough time right nowjeweller’s have been raided. Even though her mum and dad split up two years agoThe police are baffled, she'd always hoped that they would eventually get back together. But when dad introduced but only Ben knows the truth – his new girlfriend Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and her daughter gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and announced that they would be moving in, everything changedBen go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job... School isn't any better' Goodness me, either. She's always getting told off in class and that Miss Judson is jealous of a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her best friend Lucy, who seems manage to have the perfect family, but doesnget mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We't appreciate itll find out. When mum sees how withdrawn Alice has becomeLuckily for Miss Judson, she takes the pupil who discovers her to terrible secret is Ben, the pet shop to buy son of a hamster famous magician who has ambitions to take her mind off things. Howeverbe as good as his father some day, it's not a hamster that catches Alice's eye, but a sweet little mouse, with fur like cocoa powder. The trouble is, mum and who thinks Miss Judson is terrified of mice!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407144863</amazonuk>worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreChristopher Edge|title=Pugs of the Frozen North Black Hole Cinema Club

|summary= When Shen finds himself stranded in the middle of Murray is supposed to be a frozen seahumble, with 66 shivering pugs for company tidy and no foodfriendly cat, he’s desperate one who is able to find helpsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. Little does But he suspect that this is just the start of their adventure in the frozen north: with 's a bad magician's cat, so his new friend Sikafavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the pugs pulling their sledcatflap they both use can chuck them out, he’s suddenly part of not into the regular back garden, but into a race to the top world of the worldfrightening adventure and whiffs. Will they make This time round it in time drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to meet the Snowfather or will one of the other contestants beat them be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to it?do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192734571</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura WoodAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Poppy Pym and the Pharaoh's Curse The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary= Poppy Pym Eli is leaving a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the only home she's ever known (wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in Madame Pym's Spectacular Travelling Circus) to become the evening a boarding school student helper at Saint Smithen's Schoolthe dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. And Eli lives with his lovely gran, if starting school too – for there is a generation missing in the first time at age 11 isnfamily. A few short years ago, Eli't enoughs parents were both lost to the titular race, Poppy and her new friends – Kip and Ingrid – find themselves a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the middle company of a mysterymagical beast. Dangerous accidents start This has made the race anathema to occur at Saint Smithen's the moment pair – but when a temporary exhibition of Egyptian artefacts enter bad incident at the school. While everyone else attributes these eatery leads to the Pharaoh's cursea confession from gran, Poppy and her friends are determined Eli knows his only hope is to dare to discover who is really causing enter what he most hates, with the accidents. Then, when sole aim the priceless ruby prize of magic at the heart of end – the collection is stolen, their investigation broadens as they try only thing to uncover the thiefpossibly save his gran. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407158546</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kevin SandsHelen Cooper|title= The Blackthorn KeyTaming of the Cat|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Seventeenth century England isn't always a comfortable place to liveOnce again, mice are pitched against cat. Apart from In this case, principally, we have Brie the obvious differences from mouse, up against Gorgonzola the modern day cat – no National Health Service, no laws to protect orphans like Christopher from cruelty and exploitationin case you're seeing a connection, and they live in a constant foul smell from poor sanitation - fear cheese shop and suspicion are a daily fact therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of lifecheeses. In 1665 Charles II has been back on the throne for several years Anyway, but not everyone Brie is happy about his extravagant shunned, scorned and luxurious life, if you must, mous-styletracised, even among those who found for the Puritan rules of Cromwellway his habits don's time excessively strictt 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. There are spies everywhere And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and rumours of conspiracies fill the streetscast out. It's a time almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep your head down and avoid attention from themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the authoritiescat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014136064X</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen McCombieLauren St John|title=Honey and MeFinding Wonder|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Most girls starting out Brook City School are hoping for something new and different, but Kirsten just wants things to be ''normal'Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Even good things seem to come with a sting Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the tail and worst middle of all, Mum and Dad are really not getting the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead onhis way to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. In fact Kirsten is happiest at school and does all the after-school activities When asked what other family she can manage just to keep away from home for as long as has, she can. Her elder brotheronly name her aunt, FinnJoni, whoshe knows her dad didn's at sixth form college, is struggling too: what used to be thought t think very highly of as ''cheeky'' at school has turned into ''disruptive''. When things get really bad Kirsten is suddenly reminded of her old friend Honey But she has no one else, and wonders if so off she can get in touch goes to live with herunreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124752</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip K DickAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Nick and the GlimmungOscar's Lion|rating=43

|summary=Meet Nick. He lives on a future EarthWe start incredibly bluntly, where multiple large classrooms are taught by just one holographic teacherwith Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, which might sound impractical but can actually help with advice when you declare mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to the class that you are breaking the lawbe ready for school. NickBut when he enters his parents' bedroom, you seeall he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, has a pet catlooking sheepish, and in this massively over-populated and under-resourced world, pets are illegaladmitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. There's But there are benefits to having a simple solution lion around – wait it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the ''anti-pet man'' other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to turn up with his weaponry school and armour and dispose it can get him out of a problem. And it, but the family 's wonderful to have decided to take around the other way out house – emigrate to an entirely different world. Hence they embark on not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the trip to be pioneer farmers on Plowman's Planetrules, even when they're forewarned of a host of different and most unusual animals already resident thereso on. That advice still doesnOK, it can't really prepare them for the battle whose crossfire in which they immediately get caught…work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057513299X</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Saviour Pirotta and Paul HessJudith Eagle|title=The Ghosts Who Danced and other spooky storiesStolen Songbird

|summary=Ghosts are all over the Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, don't you knowhas failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. I don't know Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of any as 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 confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of yet but I dare say that people have fixed ghost stories building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to be set on Antarctica; theya halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady're certainly common on all the other continentss house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. York has 500 spectres to itself allegedlyBut she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, all corners as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all civilisations claim to know of spirit world entities – across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people even go as far as being so undignified they see them in Auschwitz. The lesson from this excellently put-together book is that ghosts are worldwide, and any one from just about anywhere can have a very interesting story Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to tell.Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847804357</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna Claybourne and TillyTania Unsworth|title= Where's Will?Nowhere Island|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Taking 10 of Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the best known stories, this book neatly summarises care system – the plots system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and highlights the must-know elements of eachfind a home for himself. That's just the start He is en route to yet another fosterer, thoughwhen he jumps into an anonymous car, because after you've read what's going on, you get and lets it ride him to his future. That future seems to see it be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in another form. Each story is followed by a camp on an illustrated island between the two page spreaddirections of a motorway, highly detailed a place inaccessible and bursting with activity definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and charactersseclusion. Your mission Them, should you choose to accept itand a mute girl also finding a home there, is to find the stars of the play among the many other people on the pagealbeit so much more successfully. They're hidden Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, but can you find them?or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402284</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben DavisHelen Peters|title=Danny DreadFriends and Traitors|rating=3.5

|summary=Meet Danny DreadEngland, WW2. He's a pupil Two young girls are new at Demento's Academy for Young Evil Geniuses, where classes range from bank robbery and 'applied superhero torture' to creating flying craft and machines with which to do the most dastardly deedscountry pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, and where the head mistress is only too pleased destined to see bullying happening be in service all her life it seems, like the corridorsfemale generations before her. Now meet Mynah Boy – freshly costumedThe other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and talented inasmuch as he can mimic lots of people cheese, and thingsif we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. He might not But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be the worlda rum 's best superheroun. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, but neither talk is Danny Dread the world's best villain – the Dread family have slowly been getting worse at being evilmade of meetings with Germans, and Danny is so hopeless he can't even kill not only that, a flylocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. You might think they'll be set up for But surely the most clumsygirls are wrong, calamitous adventure against each other, until you learn that actually they're one and same lad – but things will still get clumsy and calamitous enough…the upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192742639</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=Thunderbirds are Go Official GuideArkspire

|summary=It's time Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to admit that I am oldbe chalk and cheese. I remember the first series of ''Thunderbirds'' from Saturday morning kids' cinema – Juniper is an episode of thateager hunter and trader in illicit magic, then a second-run film, both for a quidincluding relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. They were only ten years old or so thenElodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, but at least that proved perhaps even to become the franchise was durable. Nothing did that quite as much, however, as child in line to inherit the news a couple power of years ago that the Anderson estate was Watcher, the closest to allow a CG updatingruler the district has, bringing a new generation and one of people to the massed audiencefive major victors in said earlier war. Amid Being trained in the usual worries about it losing everything magic that made it special, it actually did pretty well when it aired in 2015 – even with a breakfast time transmission slotonly five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. This small(ish) format hardback isBut in finding something oddly magical, bar the annualJuniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, the or for very first chance to look at an official book concerning the series, and inasmuch as it inspired me to research the return, and certainly accept it as looking a worthy addition to the canon, it succeeds on all fronts.very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124991</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roland Chambers and Ella Okstad024162343X|title=Nelly and the Quest for Captain PeabodyStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=Nelly's fatherLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, Captain Peabodyand then suddenly rings Archie, sailed away when she was demanding he fetch something from a babysecret place, and join him on the run. He remembered her birthday once or twice sending her a gift They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of painted snails and an egg which hatched into a visionary turtle. This turtleSouthern trains when the father is arrested, Columbusleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, has grown toting a tin his father was determined to become Nelly's closest friend and companion as her mother sits silently knitting and nothing more has been heard keep away from her father. There may be a lesson about parental inadequacy his colleagues, and unreliability here but if so it's understated. I have rarely met the bearer of a less angst-ridden heroine than Nelly though she can give a firm lecture about keeping one's promiseswhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192742698</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clive Gifford and Professor Anil SethCath Howe|title=Brain Twisters: The Science of Thinking and FeelingMy Life on Fire|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Meet the brainRen's family home is destroyed in a fire. We all have oneShe, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. We all use it (She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and by now she is living at her grandmother'its house where they can' I mean a heck of a lot more of it than the 10% of urban myth) every second of t touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the dayfoods they normally eat. We engage with different parts of it for balance, catching When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a ballspecial art project, memorising a list creating boxes of moves in controlling a video game charactertheir lives, or understanding to display things ranging from written instruction that are important to body languagethem and show who they are as a person. It's such But Ren has nothing to put in a vital part of the bodybox, taking up 20% of our glucose fuel intake as well as of oxygenand so she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that understanding of it cannot come at too young an agepeople might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But in this varied and complex book, looking at a varied and complex subject, I do wonder what will happen to her if the right approach has been taken at all times.someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402047</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny Broom and Kristjana S WilliamsRob Keeley|title=The Wonder Garden: Wander through the world's wildest habitats Boy Who Disappeared and discover more than 80 amazing animalsOther Stories

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Is it any wonder that this book calls the outside world The Wonder Garden? I know things in fiction books, on TV and in games can be fabulous, but can they compete – really – Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with what nature has presented? You only need a gate through which to go, and a willingness return to explore. This book provides those gates – there they are, shining luxuriously on the cover of this jumbo-sized hardback. And in five easy-to-take steps, the rest of the book provides for that exploration, taking short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us down south in Amazonia, down below the waters of the Great Barrier Reef, and up – to deserts and mountainseleven new tales, via Germany's own Black Forest. And the trip is nothing if not spectacular each as fun to look atread as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847806473</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Haake and Georgia CherryLaura Noakes|title=City Atlas: Discover the world with 30 city mapsCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=It's not every time I mention the feel of the book I'm reviewingMeet Number One. Or rather, but this time it's worth a mentionCosima Unfortunate. This volume has been lavishly presented in a roughened card coverOr rather, as opposed just Cos to the gloss of others in this format from this publisher, and so looks and feels like an old stamp catalogueher friends. The title image practice in the home she lives in is indeed a stamp, stuck on for the centre of the cover. And girls to just as all stamps be named by the world over are practically number they correspond to in the same yet completely different in designledger, so are the worldand they's citiesre all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. The point of this book is to bring But Cosima bears the common elements tag as well a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and unique features of all in having no known family in the outside world's capitals . During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the forekitchen one afternoon, to show that while she discovers a city may be plan involving said outside world – a city is a citydevilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, their constant variety is and what makes each and every one worth a visit. does that body entail? With that being on And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the costly side, this is a decent enough substitute.past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847806481</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shannon Hale, Dean Hale and LeUyen PhamAlice M Ross|title=The Princess in BlackNowhere Thief

|summary= Eleven yearAt last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-old Katy Carr is full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a tomboy whoseaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, despite her best intentionsbecause she has the ability to leave this world, is always getting into trouble. Lively and adventuroususe an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, Katy is very much where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the leader buildings are generally empty of her five younger brothers and sisters until an accident damages her spine humans and she finds herself confined to a wheelchairripe for plunder. Suddenly Katy's life is turned upside down and she has With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to learn actually generate custom at the most basic things all over againshop? Well yes, to redefine her role in is the familyanswer, and find but the fact a new meaning in life.mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141353961</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ursula DubosarskyNatasha Farrant|title=The Red ShoeRescue of Ravenwood

|summary=They may be quite far apart, but three houses in a row in This story is another excellent adventure from the rural suburbs author of 1950s Sydney contain some incredibly unusual people''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. In one, a solitary Ravenwood is an old man of very few wordshouse, shuffling to in the end North of his days, but brandishing a Japanese sword he's purloined after WWIIEngland, where Bea and with a gun in the corner Raffy have been living for most of his loungetheir lives. In the middleThey are part of a complex, a extended family of fivearrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a father figure suffering from PTSD due to family. They have grown up swimming in the same warcove, a mother feeling friendless and alone in roaming through the isolated time and locationtrees, and their three daughters – completely at one with all of whom has given up on school after an alleged nervous breakdown, the middle one who barely speaks more than nature around the neighbour, house and Matildaloving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, our key interest, who likes as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the idea of spies, property to a developer as it's becoming more and has an imaginary friend who came out of the radiomore expensive to maintain. The third house however might be children find themselves worrying not only about where the most interesting people they're going to live – after all, it had been empty, but now the luxurious building is home to several shady men in suits, who turned up out of the blue in luxury carsif they'll even be together, and with at least one gun of their own…if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406358746</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris ColferRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Land Unicorns of Stories: Beyond the KingdomsSilver Street|rating=4.5

|summary=The last [[The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning by Chris Colfer|Land of Stories]] Jayden's nose is forever in a book left readers on , which means he knows a cliffhanger with a shock revelation lot about mythological creatures – the identity phoenixes and unicorns of the antagonistworld, the villainous 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, is that they are never 'Masked Manout there'themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. Since then But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, fanseducational purpose, myself included, have been waiting desperately for the next book in the series in order to see how our twin heroes Alex and Conner deal with this surprising twist in a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the taleone Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The waiting is over; crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the new book is here rare critters – and ready to transport us once again the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. Dare they side with Leila, the magical Land woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of Stories...the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316339385</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Catherine StorrB09XWSXSKY|title= Clever Polly Maestro Orpheus and the Stupid WolfWorld Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating= 54|genre= Emerging Confident Readers|summary= Polly opens the door one day to find a large black wolf standing on the doorstep. With no preamble whatsoeverFrederick (or Fred, not even a cursory hellobut never Freddy, the wolf informs Polly that he intends to eat her upplease) couldn't sleep. Incredibly Polly invites the wolf into her home and even into A tune, rather like the kitchen! What can she be thinking ticking of? Well, young Polly is clever, resourceful, independent a clock was playing over and charmingover in his mind. The wolf is a wolf of very little brain It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. Therefore it is not long before she is able He hadn't really wanted to outwit the wolf come; after all, he's ten now and send all those old clocks don't appeal to him packinganymore. This first story  ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is very short but sets tell the scene time. And time isn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the ongoing battle of wits between Polly and clock beside the bed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the wolf that will continue clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the remaining clocks stopped at twelve short stories in this charming and entertaining book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141360232</amazonuk>o'clock?