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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jeff Norton1836285493|title= Memoirs The Double Life of a Neurotic ZombieWheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Adam Will is twelve. He has a crush on Corina who's in his class at schoolkeen player of video games, he likes collecting thingsa conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and he has early onset Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, which means he would rather wear purple spandex and dance the Macarena right down Main Street than go within five miles of a germsupportive friend. He frets about a lot But most of thingsall, actually: if worrying was he is an Olympic eventaspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which heexcels. This hasn'd get the goldt gone unnoticed by his headteacher, every time. Other than thatMrs Howarth, things are pretty okay. He and she has normal, loving parents (apart from the fact they still insist on going suggested to SMOOCH concerts), Will and his mum that he spends a small group couple of friends who share his interest in comics and video gamesafternoons a week at a different school, and a standard-issue irritating sister. Nothing weird thereStation Road, then. Nothing but the fact that he's been dead for three monthswhere his ability might be better extended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571327044</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ulrich Hub, Jorg Muhle and Helena Ragg-Kirkby (translator)1836282028|title=Meet at the Ark at Eight!The Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley

|genre= Confident Readers|summary=An educated penguin, an agnostic penguin and ''Would you like to adopt a violentghost?'' ''Young spirit, smallerborn 1887, young penguin walk into a snowdrift… You might not be able seeks kind home to make a full joke out of that opening line, but this book practically does continue haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on from therewell with other children. Three penguins – each a little different from the other, even if they generally look and definitely smell the same, Jokes and God, a subject of their conversation when shocks a butterfly comes along, of all thingsspeciality. The young'' ''If interested, hot-headed one (wellplace outside your home three twigs, in the pictures he wears shape of an arrow, pointing to your front door...'' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a woolly hat, hedecade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's bound to be hot-headed) leaves ''Spirits'' series in umbrage, leaving just two – which Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that is perfectly timed if you're both a reboot and a dovecontinuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. Ruby and come along telling all the animals Jayden respond to get into Noah's Ark in pairsthis intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the rules as an almighty flood usual and absconded from his manor house home, is about to happen…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782690875</amazonuk>adopted by them and takes up residence in.... a wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe SuggRob Keeley|title=UsernameChildish Spirits: Evie10th anniversary special edition|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=Meet Evie. SheWe meet Lori on the first evening she's surprisingly unwelcome and alienated at school got the house to herself – for a trendy and attractive girlno neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, nobody mother at all seems to have any time for herwork, apart from the geeky cardjust an avidly rule-collecting boy with the milk-bottle glasses breaking eleven year old, on the busher lonesome. Perhaps it has something to do with her father's thatched house – after allWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she must be a witch to live there. It's not that she would wish to live there, with nobody else aroundhas one main intention, and the memory of her deceased mother. But luckily someone that is choosing a place for her –her father is able to put all his work into a cyber-world for herlog on to Voxminer, the Eworld-Scapebuilding, which critter-collecting game that is close to the perfect a hit in Lori's world. All But first Lori has a tiny inkling that remains is to programme the humans to be this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her friendsown, and make then she finds something even more spooky. For the connection Evie has with them server she and them with her in return bestie and nobody else should be able to be enter shows signs of mutual, confirming, happy benefittampering. But someone else When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has entered the E-Scapebeen doctored – well, and their influence seems all that much more powerful than Evie's tentative happiness…where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lewis Carroll, Mark Burstein (editor) Kieran Larwood and Salvador DaliJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Alice's Adventures in WonderlandDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=If you don't know Meet Kit. Like most of the story nowpeople in his world, it seems, then he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where have you been for a hundred team of warrior, mage and fifty years? A young girl sees a hurrying white rabbithealer enter specially prepared, follows itcentury-old, falls down a holemagical mazes, fails and race to recognise the 'stranger danger' in partaking of random foods and drinks just because of a label on them, nearly drowns a whole menagerie of animals in a lake of her own tears, takes advice from someone on drugs, plays cardsexit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or croquet, or both or neither, the big bad and wakes up to find it all a dreamthe points they grant you along the way. Someone else tried out such gibberish on a young girl, wrote it down in a flurry, made a hugely successful name Unfortunately for himselfKit, and woke up to find even at this remove that most people (unlike me) adore the only thing. But ithe's not just for nowseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, its 150th birthdayeaten, that the work gets reprintedand a new trio of questors is needed. In the 1960sPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, someone came up with he has taken to the idea to put goading from the esoteric, surreal and daft mind token bully of Salvador Dali in cahoots with the esoteric, surreal his world and daft world of Carrollstumbled into declaring he's Alice, and the result was ll enter as a very rare and valuable edition – a box set of illustrated booklets, perfectly suited to the very surrealistic 105th birthdayteam. Since getting sight of one is like seeing a flat clock What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in Dali's picturesactually managing that, this decent hardback replication is the nearest you'll get and how could he possibly hope to owning one of the most special of Alice editions.succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0691170029</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cressida CowellJames Sherwood Metts|title=How Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to Train Your Dragon 12: How think of other, new ways to Fight a Dragon's Furyspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes

|summary=A relentless battleWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Human against dragon. On He is bullied because he has 'the Doomsday of Yulewrong shoes', he has the battle will end wrong shoes because his dad can't work and only one side can be victorious. If doesn't have enough money for even the dragons winmost basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the human race will be annihilated. If the humans wincollege, they will unlock the secret of the dragon jewel, with the potential to destroy all of the dragons. The only hope is was working a human boy called Hiccup, an unlikely hero who has cash-in-hand job on a wish to unite human building site and dragon once morehad an accident. Unfortunately Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, Hiccup is lying unconscious on a beach at Heroand Will's Endlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, lost and alone with no boathe still has a tiny amount of hope. What He is moregood at art, Hiccup has no memory; no idea who he is and why clings to the moments of joy when he is so important. He also has two poisonous fangs embedded in his arm; drawing, that feel like a light at the ticking teeth end of a Vampire Spydragon which serve as a tracking device for the vicious beastlong, who is closing in as we speak. Suffice to say, things aren't going well for Hiccup and they can only get worse..dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444916580</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darren Shan1805141872|title=Zom-B Fugitive (Zom B 11)The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker!With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job...''

If 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 pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and 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 friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Cooper|title=The Taming of the Cat|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against cat. 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 cheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you havenmust, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't read 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 [[Zomvisuals on it. And that story-B telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep 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 cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=0571376010}}{{Frontpage|author=Lauren St John|title=Finding Wonder|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by Darren Shan|first book]] the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But she has no one else, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in this seriesJoni's old campervan, STOP READING NOW! NOWit breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Spoilers ahoy Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077929</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeffrey BrownAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=The Phantom Bully (Star Wars Jedi Academy 3)Oscar's Lion|rating=53

|summary=Doesn't time fly? It only seems 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 short time ago that Roan Novachez was starting couple of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his first term at Jedi Academy Middle Schoolparents' bedroom, yet here all he sees isa mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, all grown up and ready to start his final yearadmitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. As always, But there are plenty of twists and turns, teen troubles and relationship issues mixed in with benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the force-wielding, piloting and lightsaber battles. Bullying is still bully that ruined a real issue birthday party for Roan this termOscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, as so he can take it to school and it seems that someone has made can get him out of a personal mission of setting him up problem. And it's wonderful to fail. Everything is riding on have around the house – not limiting his performance this yearbiscuit intake, as flunking out will mean being held back a year much more lax about the rules, and his friends moving so on without him. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0545621267</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antony WoottenJudith Eagle|title=The Grubby Feather Gang (Bigshorts)Stolen Songbird

|summary=Life is confusing for George Sanders: his fatherCaro's mother, the local veta world-famous whistler, has refused failed to 'do his bit' return home from her recent work trip abroad and volunteer is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to fight in Francetake care of her sister who is unwell. There's bad feeling in the village - So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with the women giving Dad white feathers - Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and even George's mum believes that he should go confused and fightworried. To top it all George All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is currently being suspendedstuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, upside downalong with an orphan boy, Albie, from the rafters in the hayloft by the local bully who is determined that George is going to do his maths homeworkliving there too. You'd think that it couldn't get much worseBut she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, but the next day heas she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's caned at school when he doesn't feel that he was in old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the wrongSnakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. ThereIs the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's no wonder George is confused, is theremother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0953712389</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly WebbTania Unsworth|title=The Truffle MouseNowhere Island

|summary=Alice is going through a tough time right nowMeet Gil. Even though her mum and dad split up two years ago Just twelve, she'd always hoped he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that they would eventually get back together. But when dad introduced his new girlfriend are not homes – and her daughter and announced that they would be moving in, everything changedfind a home for himself. School isn't any better, either. She's always getting told off in class and He is jealous of her best friend Lucyen route to yet another fosterer, who seems to have the perfect familywhen he jumps into an anonymous car, but doesn't appreciate and lets itride him to his future. When mum sees how withdrawn Alice has become, she takes her That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the pet shop to buy two directions of a motorway, a hamster place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to take her mind off thingsprovide for their safety and seclusion. However Them, it's not and a hamster that catches Alice's eye, but mute girl also finding a sweet little mousehome there, with fur like cocoa powderalbeit so much more successfully. The trouble is Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, mum or if this is terrified of mice!one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407144863</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreHelen Peters|title=Pugs of the Frozen North Friends and Traitors|rating=43|genre=Confident Readers |summary= When Shen finds himself stranded 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 middle of female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a girl from a frozen seahoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with 66 shivering pugs for company each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amiss, and no foodfirst separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, he’s desperate to find help. Little does he suspect that this talk is just the start made of their adventure in the frozen north: meetings with his new friend SikaGermans, and the pugs pulling their slednot only that, he’s suddenly part of a race to the top of the worldlocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. Will they make it in time to meet But surely the Snowfather or will one of girls are wrong, and the other contestants beat them to itupper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192734571</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura WoodJamie Littler|title=Poppy Pym and the Pharaoh's Curse Arkspire

|summary= Poppy Pym Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is leaving an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the only home she's ever known (Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in Madame Pym's Spectacular Travelling Circus) one of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become a boarding school student at Saint Smithen's School. And, if starting school for the first time at age 11 isn't enough, Poppy and her new friends – Kip and Ingrid – find themselves child in line to inherit the middle power of a mystery. Dangerous accidents start to occur at Saint Smithen's the moment a temporary exhibition of Egyptian artefacts enter Watcher, the school. While everyone else attributes these closest to a ruler the Pharaoh's cursedistrict has, Poppy and her friends are determined to discover who is really causing one of the accidentsfive major victors in said earlier war. Then, when Being trained in the priceless ruby at magic that only five people can use would definitely change the heart status of the collection is stolenwhole family. But in finding something oddly magical, their investigation broadens as they try Juniper might just be able to uncover the thief. gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407158546</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kevin Sands024162343X|title= The Blackthorn KeyStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Seventeenth century England isnI was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god't always a comfortable place to live. Apart from Where was the obvious differences from the modern day – no National Health Serviceproof? In history lessons, no laws to protect orphans like Christopher from cruelty and exploitation, and a constant foul smell from poor sanitation - fear and suspicion are a daily fact of lifeit was probably worse still. In 1665 Charles II has been back on Not too long after the throne for several yearsend of WWII, but not everyone is happy I didn't so much want to learn about his extravagant the British army's successes (and luxurious life-styleoccasional failures, even among but we didn't dwell on those who found ) in what came to be called 'the Puritan rules of Cromwellcolonies's time excessively strictas want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. There are spies everywhere Looking back, and rumours of conspiracies fill I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the streetsproblem' politely. It I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's a time to keep your head down and avoid attention from the authorities''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014136064X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen McCombieThiago de Moraes|title=Honey and MeOld Gods New Tricks

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Most girls starting out Brook City School are hoping for something new Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and differentadventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, but Kirsten she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just wants things to be ''normal'when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Even good things seem to come with Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a sting in the tail and worst power-out, even of allelectric cars, Mum and Dad are really hits not getting on. In fact Kirsten is happiest at just the town the school 's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and does all that powers the after-school activities she can manage Internet, just to keep away from home for as long as she canour convenience's sake). Her elder brotherTrixie, Finnluckily, who's at sixth form college, is struggling too: realises what used to be thought has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of as ''cheeky'' at school has turned into ''disruptive''power from us. When things get really bad Kirsten is suddenly reminded of And so she begins her old friend Honey and wonders if she epic quest, to gather all the people that can get steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in touch with herstealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124752</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip K DickHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Nick and the GlimmungFinding Bear|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Nick. He lives [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a future Earthlot further north than many people would venture, where multiple large classrooms are taught by just one holographic teacher, which might sound impractical and finding a ridiculously unexpected but can actually help delightful friendship with advice when you declare to the class a polar bear – that you are breaking the lawshe called Bear. NickBack home, you seethings on the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, has a pet catbut not perfect for her, and in this massively over-populated and under-resourced world, pets are illegalso can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. There's For a simple solution – wait for the ''antibear doing very Bear-pet man'' to turn up with his weaponry y things has been shot and armour and dispose of it, but the family have decided to take the other way out – emigrate to an entirely different worldwounded. Hence they embark on the trip Desperate to be pioneer farmers on Plowmanmake sure he's PlanetOK, even when they're forewarned of she and her father return to the Arctic and hope that in a host world of different very white and most unusual animals already resident therevery dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue. That advice still doesn't really prepare them for the battle whose crossfire in which they immediately get caught…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057513299X</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Saviour Pirotta and Paul HessSimon Fox|title=The Ghosts Who Danced and other spooky storiesDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=Ghosts are all over Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the worldforce, and then suddenly rings Archie, don't you knowdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. I don't know of any as of yet They get together, but I dare say that people have fixed ghost stories barely begin to be set smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on Antarctica; they're certainly common on all the other continents. York has 500 spectres late express to itself allegedlyBrighton, all corners of all civilisations claim toting a tin his father was determined to know of spirit world entities – and people even go as far as being so undignified they see them in Auschwitz. The lesson keep away from this excellently put-together book is that ghosts are worldwidehis colleagues, and any one from just about anywhere can have the bearer of a very interesting story to tellwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847804357</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna Claybourne and TillyCath Howe|title= Where's Will?My Life on Fire|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Taking 10 of the best known storiesRen's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, this book neatly summarises the plots and highlights the must-know elements of eachher little brother lose everything. That She doesn's just the startt have any of her clothes, thoughor any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, because after youand now she is living at her grandmother've read whats house where they can's going ont touch anything, or do anything, you get or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to see it in another form. Each story is followed by an illustrated two page spreadschool she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, highly detailed and bursting with activity to display things that are important to them and charactersshow who they are as a person. Your mission But Ren has nothing to put in a box, should you choose and so she finds herself starting to accept itsteal things. Small things, is to find the stars of the play among the many other things that people on the pagemight not really miss, not when they have so much already. They're hidden, but can you find them But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402284</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben DavisRob Keeley|title=Danny DreadThe Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=3.54

|summary=Meet Danny Dread. He's Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a pupil at Demento's Academy for Young Evil Geniuses, where classes range from bank robbery and 'applied superhero torture' return to creating flying craft and machines with which the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to do the most dastardly deedseleven new tales, and where the head mistress is only too pleased each as fun to see bullying happening in the corridors. Now meet Mynah Boy – freshly costumed, and talented inasmuch read as he can mimic lots of people and things. He might not be the world's best superhero, but neither is Danny Dread the world's best villain – the Dread family have slowly been getting worse at being evil, and Danny is so hopeless he can't even kill a flyhis previous offerings. You might think they'll be set up for the most clumsy, 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192742639</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|author=Laura Noakes|title=Thunderbirds are Go Official GuideCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=It's time to admit that I am oldMeet Number One. I remember the first series of ''Thunderbirds'' from Saturday morning kids' cinema – an episode of that, then a second-run filmOr rather, both for a quidCosima Unfortunate. They were only ten years old or so thenOr rather, but at least that proved the franchise was durablejust Cos to her friends. Nothing did that quite as much, however, as The practice in the news a couple of years ago that home she lives in is for the Anderson estate was girls to allow a CG updating, bringing a new generation of people just be named by the number they correspond to in the massed audience. Amid the usual worries about it losing everything that made it specialledger, it actually did pretty well when it aired in 2015 and they're all Unfortunates – even young people with a breakfast time transmission slotdisabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. This small(ish) format hardback isBut Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, bar as the annualfirst ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in the very first chance outside world. During a daring escapade to look at an official book concerning steal some posh cakes from the serieskitchen one afternoon, and inasmuch as it inspired me she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to research adopt all the returngirls for his Institute. But why, and certainly accept what does that body entail? And could it as looking a worthy addition possibly bring Cos closer to the canon, it succeeds on all fronts.past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124991</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roland Chambers and Ella OkstadAlice M Ross|title=Nelly The Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the ability to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the Quest buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for Captain Peabodyplunder. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, is the answer, but the fact a 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

|summary=NellyThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk's father'. Ravenwood is an old house, Captain Peabodyin the North of England, sailed away when she was where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a baby. He remembered her birthday once or twice sending complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a gift family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of painted snails the nature around the house and an egg which hatched into a visionary turtleloving every inch of the place. This turtle But now the house is under threat, Columbus, has grown as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to become Nellya developer as it's closest friend becoming more and companion as her mother sits silently knitting and nothing more has been heard from her fatherexpensive to maintain. There may be a lesson The children find themselves worrying not only about parental inadequacy and unreliability here where they're going to live, but if so itthey's understated. I have rarely met a less angst-ridden heroine than Nelly though she can give a firm lecture about keeping one's promisesll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192742698</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clive Gifford Robin Birch and Professor Anil SethJobe Anderson|title=Brain TwistersSecret Beast Club: The Science Unicorns of Thinking and FeelingSilver Street|rating=3.54|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Meet Jayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the brainphoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. We all have oneAisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. We all use The problem, as their mothers see it (and by , is that they are never 'itout there' I mean a heck of a lot more of it than themselves, exploring the 10% outside world of urban myth) every second of the dayHackney, London. We engage But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with different parts of it for balance, catching a ballpast involving Jayden's cousin, memorising they find a list magical world they never knew existed. For many of moves in controlling a video game characterthose mythological creatures are real, or understanding things ranging from written instruction to body language. Itincluding the one Aisha thinks she's such seen on a vital part bit of local footage. The crew of the bodyboat, taking up 20% of our glucose fuel intake as well as of oxygenincluding a living gargoyle, that understanding of it cannot come at too young an ageare tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. But Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in this varied and complex booka painting, looking at a varied and complex subject, I do wonder if become saviours of the right approach has been taken at all times.unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402047</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Broom and Kristjana S WilliamsB09XWSXSKY|title=The Wonder Garden: Wander through Maestro Orpheus and the world's wildest habitats World Clock|author=Robert Penee and discover more than 80 amazing animalsJoanne Grodzinski

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Is it any wonder that this book calls the outside world The Wonder Garden? Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. I know things in fiction booksA tune, on TV rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in games can be fabulous, but can they compete – his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really – with what nature has presented? You only need a gate through which wanted to gocome; after all, he's ten now and a willingness all those old clocks don't appeal to explorehim anymore.  ''Who needs old clocks anyway? This book provides those gates – there All they are, shining luxuriously on do is tell the cover of this jumbo-sized hardbacktime. And in five easy-to-take steps, the rest of the book provides time isn't good for anything...'' And that exploration, taking us down south in Amazonia, down below was why he was looking at the clock beside the waters of bed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the Great Barrier Reef, and up – clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to deserts go and mountains, via Germany's own Black Forest. find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the trip is nothing if not spectacular to look clocks stopped at.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806473</amazonuk>twelve o'clock?