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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nicholas Gannon1836285493|title= The DoldrumsDouble Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= If you are Will is a keen player of an imaginative dispositionvideo games, you go to school in an elegant building which used to be a button factoryconscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and your house a supportive friend. But most of all, he is an aspiring writer. English is full of giraffeshis favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, ostriches and badgers - stuffedone at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, of course - then the odds are and she has suggested to Will and his mum that you'll end up on some kind he spends a couple of adventureafternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended. And if your grandparents happen }}{{Frontpage|isbn= 1836282028|title=The Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Would you like to be famous explorers whoadopt a ghost?'' ''ve managed Young spirit, born 1887, seeks kind home to get themselves lost haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on well with other children. Jokes and shocks a speciality.'' ''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, in the shape of an iceberg in Antarctica then arrow, pointing to your particular mission front door...'' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is pretty well handed to you, wrapped up neatly celebrating a decade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's ''Spirits'' series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a big bow new adventure that is both a reboot and a label on top saying 'quest starts here'continuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. All you have Ruby and Jayden respond to do this intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the rules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is work out the fine details adopted by them and set offtakes up residence in... Easy-peasy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008149399</amazonuk>a wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elen CaldecottRob Keeley|title=Crowns and Codebreakers Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|summary=MinnieAround here, we're big fans of children's not too keen on sharing her already tiny room with her gran when she arrives from Nigeriaauthor Rob Keeley. HoweverHe's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, worries about floor space and how he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to open the wardrobe door are quickly replaced by more serious concernslecture or hector. Gran is upset. She picked up the wrong suitcase at the airport and she The ''s convinced itChildish Spirits's a bad omen. And it almost seems like she's right when their flat is burgled and the only thing that is taken series is the suitcaseone of his greatest achievements. The police arenIt't interested but Minnie and her friends know there must be s a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a reason behind stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the burglary. There's spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a mystery spoiled lordling and it's up to them to solve it. the first spirit Ellie encounters|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408852713</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shel SilversteinMax Boucherat|title=Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot BackLast Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Meet We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the finest shooter house to herself – no neighbour to pop in the world, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. NoWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, not she has one of those huntersmain intention, who go and that is to log on to Africa and kill off all Voxminer, the wonderful wildlife thereworld-building, but Lafcadio. Hecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a liontiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and his real name might have been then she finds something even more like ''Ruggrrg'' or ''Grummfgff''spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, but one day when where is a hunter was about girl to shoot at him (with an unloaded rifle)turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he ate is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the hunter sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and picked the gun up race to try out – then carried on shooting until he was the world's bestexit, standing on his head perhaps bothering with the treasure or with paws tied behind his backthe big bad and the points they grant you along the way. His new life gives him Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new nametrio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, but is that really what he would have wanted has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a young lion cubteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690824</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)James Sherwood Metts|title=Once Upon a PlacePlanet Storyland|rating=34.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=You know Things have been a bit sticky for the bit 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 think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the blurb many daily social interactions on every 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 he has 'Artemis Fowl'the wrong shoes' book, where Eoin Colfer had it said about how you pronounce he has the wrong shoes because his name? That wasndad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the intention most basic of an up-things like food, and-coming author to be recognisable; ratherhis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, it was prideworking a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Pride Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in the difference of itevery direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of the Irishness of ithope. IrelandHe is good at art, it seems and clings to me, the moments of joy when he is more full than usual of people, things and ideasdrawing, and places that are different by dint feel like a light at the end of their singular nationality – a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1805141872|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Seventeen banks and so many deserve to a jeweller’s have pride attached to thembeen raided. The places might not be the famous onespolice are baffled, but they can be only Ben knows the source of pridetruth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and of storiesBen go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job...'' Goodness me, which that Miss Judson is where this compilation of short works 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 young comes inpupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, with the authors invited son of a famous magician who has ambitions to select their chosen place be as good as his father some day, and write about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191041137X</amazonuk>who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris O'Dowd and Nick Vincent MurphyChristopher Edge|title=Moone Boy 2: The Fish DetectiveBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Christmas is coming, Lucas and Martin Moone's family his friends are on all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a strict budgetplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Placed in charge All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of finding exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the family a Christmas tree Martinmovie starts, actuallythey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, is more worried about how heand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn'll ever manage to get a Game Boyt even imagine. He decides But as they lurch from one film genre to get himself a job but of course, being Martinthe next, he can't they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get himself back to the usual paper round. Nocinema, Martin Moone becomes a butcher's boy!and to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447270975</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin Colfer and Victor AmbrusAdam Stower|title=The Seal's Fate (Colour Conker) Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers |summary=Bobby Parrish was reluctant Murray is supposed to admit that the seal was cutebe a humble, tidy and friendly cat, even one who is able to himself. That sort sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of thing was for girls and he was here to club the sealtwo. Seals were affecting his fatherBut he's livelihood as a fisherman and there was a bounty of a £1 for a sealbad magician's flipper: in those days that was good money cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and even one of the girls had collected catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the cashregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. StillThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, somehow he couldn't quite bring himself to attack the defenceless cubwhere a troll hunter is expected – well, all bigone much bigger than Murray was, blackto be honest, round eyes but he's turned up and obviously unworried by his presence. What would the other lads say though? More he'll have to the point, what would his father say?do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124310</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo Alex Bell and Catherine RaynerTim McDonagh|title=Clare and Her Captain (Colour Conker)The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Clare didn't enjoy Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the journey down to Devon. Her parents always argued wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and it was usually because Mum had lost her way or got caught in the evening a traffic jam helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and this time she'd done bothruns. It was Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a little better when they got to Aunt Dorageneration missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's houseparents were both lost to the titular race, but Aunt Dora wasn't exactly a peacemaker and tended globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to stick up for Dad against everybody elsenavigate the world in the company of a magical beast. The holiday improved This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when Clare got out for a walk on her own and discovered a stray lamb on bad incident at the road. She took it eatery leads to the nearest house and Mr Jones was delighted: Clare had just saved half a confession from gran, Eli knows his flock. Clare got on only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the old man - and with sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his horse, Captaingran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124353</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin Richards and Dan GreenHelen Cooper|title=Doctor Who: The Dangerous Book Taming of Monstersthe Cat|rating=3.5

|summary=It's imperative you keep Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up with The Doctor, in both senses against Gorgonzola the cat – meaning and in case you're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the first thing he tells you names used here seem to do be the names of cheeses. Anyway, Brie is ''Run!'' shunned, scorned and in , if you must, mous-tracised, for the sense of following all way his various adventures and maintaining knowledge of whathabits don's what and who t match the other mice he's faced, enemy-wiselives with. One great way to be enemy wise is to peruse this book, which really is a great present They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for the young fan bedding – he displays it as art and of course a lifemakes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-saving manual for telling will come in handy one night, when you yourself find sharks 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 fogmouse community, gasthough, as all the others had the chance to half-mask wearing boys ''sans'' their mothers or indeed gigantic Cyberking dreadnought spacecraftinch some cheese while the cat was distracted. Honestly, why this is classed as a fiction title I But will the story have no idea…the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405920033</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Renee RussellLauren St John|title=Puppy Love (Dork Diaries)Finding Wonder

|summary=Things have changed drastically in the world of Nikki MaxwellRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her arch nemesis has suddenly upped sticks mum died when she was young, and moved school – well, now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the posher place will only suit police banging on her door to tell her that her welldad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. Nikki now When asked what other family she has a sort of empty feeling, though – nobody is there to make she can only name her feel pesteredaunt, let downJoni, het up and stressedwho she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. Although something is about But she has no one else, and so off she goes to do just that and more – the discovery, outside the sanctuary her crush volunteers at, of an abandoned mother dog live with her seven puppiesunreliable aunt. Looking after them until the place even has space for the new arrivals is going Things continue to fill her world get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the next few days – middle of nowhere and the adventure is going to be just as readable as all the other books in this series.then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471144577</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt HaigAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=A Boy Called Christmas Oscar's Lion|rating=4.53

|summary= Have you ever wondered what Father Christmas was like 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 boy? How he came an unspoken threat to live in the Far North surrounded by elves? Where bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the idea for giving presents came from? Why other month. And it can shapeshift, so he wears can take it to school and it can get him out of a red hat? If youproblem. And it're interested in any of these questionss wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and so on. OK, then it can'A Boy Called Christmas' is the perfect book for yout work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178211789X</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander YatesJudith Eagle|title=The Winter PlaceStolen Songbird

|summary=Axel and Tess live in rural New York state with Caro's mother, a father obsessed with mediaeval reconstructions. They have a knight for a father! This eccentricity is both entertaining world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and a good thing - because Sam is the only parental figure in their livesnow missing. Axel and Tess's Her other mother died when Axel was born. Tess , Ronnie, is just moving into oppositional adolescence. She and Sam enjoy sparring over the having to go up North to take care of Axelher sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, who someone Caro has inherited a rare form of muscular dystrophy from his late heard her motherdespises, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. Axel All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she isstuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, wellalong with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, an individual childas she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, currently haunted by and all across London a mischievous wheelchair only he can see. The pesky thing follows him everywherefearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471123839</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ted Hughes Tania Unsworth|title=Nowhere Island|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a home for himself. He is 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 belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. Them, and Andrew Davidsona 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=The Iron ManFriends and Traitors|rating=53

|summary=''Where had he come from? England, WW2. Nobody knowsTwo young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook.'' But's One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it obvious ''when'' the Iron Man came from – it really does smack of the beginnings of seems, like the environmental movement in the two decades after WWIIfemale generations before her. There's the nuclear element to the storyThe other is Sidney, which is certainly a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed thereaway from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, even and if I can never be sure whether we hadn't guessed that is the title character or the then their behaviour with each other one that turns up for the second halfover their first encounters would only prove it so. But at the same timesomething is amiss, there is also and first separately and then in combination they realise the idea that such Lord Evesham must be a book doesnrum 't really need to be analysedun. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, explained away and diminished thuslynot only that, when it provides some of a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the most enjoyablegirls are wrong, clear and simple yet highly emotive writing for the young audience, that has made it a classic since its inception.upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571327249</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna Starobinets, Andrzej Klimowski and Jane Bugaeva (translator)Jamie Littler|title=CatlantisArkspire

|summary=Meet BaguetteTwo sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Despite the nameJuniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, he's a cat living including relics from prior major wars left out in central Moscow, with a human family, on the twelfth floor of a high-riseBadlands. His place Elodie is intent on getting closer to perch is somehow between the two panes that make up a high window, half power in and half out one of the roomreligious districts of Arkspire, watching perhaps even to become the world and its birds go by. But there's a part child in line to that world he knows nothing about – inherit the whole mythology power of cats and catlife. Cats had possession of their own land, Catlantisthe Watcher, the closest to a place suitable for such sacred creatures to exist. Flowers gave them extra livesruler the district has, up to a maximum and one of nine, just by you sniffing themthe five major victors in said earlier war. But all that is Being trained in the past – and magic that's where Baguette must go, for only five people can use would definitely change the whole future status of catdom hangs in the balance of him going back to right wrongs, and find what was long forgotten about both his and everyone else's destinywhole family. And all he wants is the paw of his sweetheart But in marriage. You finding something oddly magical, Juniper might think you know the lengths just be able to which a cat will go gain some power of her own – for good, or for lovevery, but you won't have read the likes of this…very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690883</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph Garrett024162343X|title=Stampy's Lovely BookStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=35

|summary=If you I 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'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still think . Not too long after the end of Stampy WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the elephant army had to be there in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''The SimpsonsStolen History''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Thiago de Moraes|title=Old Gods New Tricks|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, you need to get larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with itfart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. For But just when she's being told that by her one thing-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Suddenly, TV is so last century practically everything electronic stops working – now ita power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's all about Minecraft and other computer game worldsin but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and often second-screening between different new media at all that powers the same timeInternet, just for our convenience's sake). So why does this book from a Youtube star of Minecraft tasksTrixie, pranks and other activitiesluckily, remind me realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of a certain TV programme that used to invite power from us . And so she begins her epic quest, to turn off gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and do something more active instead?so on known as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281561</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca SteadHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Goodbye StrangerFinding Bear

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= [[The book opens 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 ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a prologue about an eight year old Bridget Barsamianpolar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, who woke up in hospital following things on the domestic and family front are a horrific bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and life threatening traffic accident involving roller skates and New York trafficso can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. Bridget is told by For a nurse that she is lucky to be alive bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and that she must have survived the accident for a reasonwounded. BridgetDesperate to make sure he's OK, who has no real memory of she and her father return to the accident, has to miss Arctic and hope that in a year world of school very white and on her returnvery dangerous things, tells everyone she now wants to be known as Bridge, as, ''I don't feel like Bridget anymore''can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443197</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hans Christian Andersen, Lucie Arnoux and Misha Hoekstra (translator)Simon Fox|title=The Snow QueenDeadlock

|summary=''Listen closely! We're about to begin.'' Once upon a time, Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the devil created a hellish mirrorforce, which only showed eviland then suddenly rings Archie, ill intent and uglinessdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, and which was en route to Heaven to cast a new light join him on it when it shatteredthe run. One They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the people affected by father is arrested, leaving Archie on the numerous shards late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was Kai, who abandoned determined to keep away from his childhood friend Gerdacolleagues, and went off with the Snow Queenbearer of a whole heap of questions. Gerda was forlorn and fearing for his life, but soon found her way to start a miraculous journey to find the truth behind his disappearance and behaviour…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691030</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jonathan StroudCath Howe|title= Lockwood and Co: The Hollow BoyMy Life on Fire|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= The adults are baffled (as usual) Ren's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and only Lockwoodher little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, George and Lucy now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can save London from 't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the murderous ghostsfoods they normally eat. But it won't be easy: as When she goes back to school she discovers that the smallest agency class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of licenced psychic investigators in the capital no one is willing their lives, to listen display things that are important to them, and besides, show who they have their own problemsare as a person. A new member of the team But Ren has nothing to put in a box, secrets that threaten and so she finds herself starting to destroy friendshipssteal things. Small things, and the sheer exhaustion things that comes from trying people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what will happen to deal with too many hauntings – it surely can't be long before something has to giveher if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552573140</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Geoff RodkeyRob Keeley|title=The Tapper Twins Tear up New YorkBoy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a return to the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, each as fun to read as his previous offerings.|isbn= B0BVW69N1G}}{{Frontpage|author=Laura Noakes|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in the outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059}}{{Frontpage|author=Alice M Ross|title=The Nowhere Thief

|summary=If you didn't [[The Tapper Twins Go to War (With Each Other) by Geoff Rodkey|At last time]], meet there is new stock in the Tapper Twins, Claudia impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and Reese. They're her mother run in sixth grade at a posh New York City school, and are just trying to get on with things – while making no attempt whatsoever at getting on with each otherseaside town. This time round, Claudia was instantly sniffy at her brother's idea declared to her on a school bus, just Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it was his, but soon realised how great it could be – to host a school charity treasure hunt for gangs of four fellow pupils. With a great prize on offer She also knows she bows down should be free from organising it worries about being found out, because she has the ability to leave this world, and takes partuse an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, against her brother where the sea levels are rising dramatically and everyone else – the buildings are generally empty of humans and that's when ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the problems start. shop? It's not as frightening as Well yes, is the tabloids make outanswer, she assures us – but let's face it, there's high drama, celebrity, greed, urgency – and those pesky adults, all making the smooth running of things most unlikely…fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144401501X</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BoyneNatasha Farrant|title=The Boy at the Top Rescue of the MountainRavenwood|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meet Pierrot. As a very young child in 1930s Paris he This story is going to have a very awkward journey through his young lifeanother excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. His father Ravenwood is a violent drunkan old house, reacting badly to what he saw in WWIthe North of England, where Bea and although married to a French woman, is still staunchly GermanRaffy have been living for most of their lives. That womanThey are part of a complex, Emilieextended family arrangement, as Bea is going to diethere with her Uncle Leo, and leave Pierrot an orphanRaffy is there with his mum, which will leave him in and they are living together as a home where he is bulliedfamily. But from They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the reaches trees, completely at one with all of Europe the nature around the house and loving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the black corners of his family comes an aunt, Beatrix, who will give him a home, of a kind, at property to a most unusual mountaintop building. Itdeveloper as it's not her home – she just works there becoming more and had more expensive to ask special permission from someone specialmaintain. The place? The Berghofchildren find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Spirit Unicorns of London|author=Rob KeeleySilver Street

|summary=EllieJayden's nose is forever in a book, Charlie which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and Mum have left Inchwood Manor and are headed home unicorns of the world, for example. Aisha is addicted to Londonher new tablet, where Mumshe can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 's latest out there''Journeyback'' project is renovating an old 18th century housethemselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, 47 Foster SquareLondon. But itwhen a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's not quite ''home'cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she' s seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to Londonjoin in. They're not returning to their old house but to another tiny Dare they side with Leila, cramped flat. When asked whythe woman on board, all Mum will say isand her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, "Ask your father."and become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624055</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan MeresB09XWSXSKY|title=The Maestro Orpheus and the World of Norm: 9: May Still Be ChargedClock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|summary=If you ever wondered what Harry EnfieldFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn's Kevin going ''UUHt sleep. A tune, that's SO unFAIR!!'' but stretched to rather like the length ticking of a book sounds like then wonder no longerclock was playing over and over in his mind. Norm is only twelve but It happened every time he already knows life is completely unfaircame to visit his grandfather. He has a horrid girl next door who annoyingly wants hadn't really wanted to spend time talking with himcome; after all, he has two awful younger brothers, he has school, and he has a world of parents 's ten now and adults around him all wittering on in the most weird, antique phrasing. They those old clocks don't help appeal to him understand the world at all, just lay all the world's problems on his shoulders and move onanymore. This morning in concern, for instance, Norm has hardly moved at all – he 's still in bed when he's been groundedWho needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the time. His parents have looked up his phone bill online, and itAnd time isn's rather longt good for anything... As long as Norm's entire list of woes, perhaps – and therefore is just one more thing ' And that's a burdenwas why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. And as life is so unfair, It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only way out is to wait six times. There was nothing for his parents it but to decide between him paying them back or grounding him for a month – until something even worse, more unwelcome go and more unfair gets mentioned…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334119</amazonuk>find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?