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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Noel StreatfeildRob 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=White BootsThe Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=Many moons ago''Would you like to adopt a ghost?'' ''Young spirit, when I was a young girl obsessed born 1887, seeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on well with Torvill other children. Jokes and Dean and wishing we lived much closer shocks a speciality.'' ''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, in the shape of an arrow, pointing to your front door...'' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a skating rink, I discovered Noel Streatfeilddecade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's wonderful Shoe stories including this one, ''White BootsSpirits''. It soon became one of my favourite re-reads, so it was interesting to come back to the story as series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a grown up and find new adventure that it is still funny both a reboot and engaginga continuation. Just like Doctor Who, all these years laterEdward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. Ruby and that it still Jayden respond to this intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the enduring power to make me wish for my own pair of white skating boots toorules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is adopted by them and takes up residence in.... a wardrobe!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007580460</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lindsay Mattick and Sophie BlackallRob Keeley|title=Finding WinnieChildish Spirits: The Story of the Real Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh10th anniversary special edition|rating=54|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=A little boy called Cole wanted a storyAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He particularly wanted 's a true story ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and it had he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to be about a bearlecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It was getting late's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, but Mummy said that 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|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she would do 's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her bestlonesome. Her story began about What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a hundred years before Cole was born blanket fort, she has one main intention, and it was about that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a man called Harry Colebourn who lived hit in WinnipegLori's world. He was But first Lori has a vet tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and was on his way then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to Europe to look after the horses enter shows signs of the soldiers fighting tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the Great War when he met game has been doctored – well, where is a trapper with a baby beargirl to 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 head might have said that there was nothing world, it seems, he could dois an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, but his heart told him and race to get hold of the bear exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and he gave the trapper $20points they grant you along the way. WinnipegUnfortunately for Kit, as the only thing he named 's seen of the bear, went latest race on the train with Captain Coulbourn inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and his troopa new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, across he has taken to the goading from the ocean token bully of his world and finally arrived stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in England.actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408340232</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate de Goldi and Gregory O'BrienJames Sherwood Metts|title=The ACB with Honora LeePlanet Storyland|rating=34.5

|summary=Meet Perry. She's Things have been a hen-pecked sort of girl – forever having her grammar corrected by her parents, who love nothing more than packing her off to after-school classes, such as music lessons she has no aptitude bit sticky forthe Earthlings. Her father has one dutiful extra-curricular activity, too – visiting his own mother in her care homeAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and taking Perry with himother tasks that took time to accomplish. But when one Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of the classes she is involved with packs upother, she decides new ways to spend more time with the old dear – after all, she finds it hard to identify her own kith along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and kin, has memory problemsalong with it, and reverts to being a teacher yet cannot even play I Spy correctly. Once in the routine, Perry finds all the weird happenings and characters in the home would be ideal ingredients for an ABC book for a school projectmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405052</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jackie MorrisTom Percival|title= The Wild SwansWrong Shoes|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= The most well known version Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of the wild swans ways. He is probably bullied because he has 'the one penned by Hans Andersen. This extended retelling by Jackie Morris adds depthwrong shoes', emotional resonance he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and a number doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of new twists to things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the talecollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. As in most versionsThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, Eliza and her brothers live a happy and privileged life until their fatherWill's remarriage brings jealousylife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, mistrust and trouble in its wakehe still has a tiny amount of hope. The brothers are magically changed into wild swans He is good at art, and it clings to the moments of joy when he is up to brave Eliza to rescue themdrawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847805361</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nicholas Gannon1805141872|title= The DoldrumsTeacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= If you ''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are of an imaginative dispositionbaffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, you go to school in an elegant building which used to be is really a button factory, safecracker! With police and your house is full of giraffesher gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, ostriches Miss Judson and badgers - stuffedBen go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job...'' Goodness me, of course - then the odds are that you'll end up Miss Judson is a terror! How on some kind of adventure. And if your grandparents happen to be famous explorers who've managed earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get themselves lost on an iceberg in Antarctica then your particular mission is pretty well handed to you, wrapped mixed up neatly with a big bow and a label on top saying bad 'quest starts hereun like Al? We'll find out. All you have to do Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is work out Ben, the fine details son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and set off. Easy-peasy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008149399</amazonuk>who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elen CaldecottChristopher Edge|title=Crowns and Codebreakers Black Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Minnie's not too keen on sharing her already tiny room with her gran when she arrives from Nigeria. However, worries about floor space Lucas and how to open the wardrobe door his friends are quickly replaced by more serious concerns. Gran is upset. She picked up the wrong suitcase all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the airport and shenickname of 's convinced itThe Black Hole's a bad omen. And it almost seems like she All big movie fans, they's right when their flat is burgled re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the only thing movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is taken is the suitcase. The police arenvery different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't interested but Minnie and her friends know there must be a reason behind 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 burglary. There's a mystery cinema, and it's up to them to solve it. their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408852713</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shel SilversteinAdam Stower|title=Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot BackMurray and Bun

|summary=Meet Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the finest shooter wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the worldevening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. NoEli lives with his lovely gran, not one of those hunterstoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, who go Eli's parents were both lost to Africa and kill off all the wonderful wildlife theretitular race, but Lafcadio. He's a lion, and his real name might globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have been something more like ''Ruggrrg'' or ''Grummfgff'', to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but one day when a hunter was about bad incident at the eatery leads to shoot at him (with an unloaded rifle)a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he ate most hates, with the sole aim the hunter and picked prize of magic at the gun up to try out end – then carried on shooting until he was the world's best, standing on only thing to possibly save his head or with paws tied behind his backgran. His new life gives him a new name, but is that really what he would have wanted as a young lion cub?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690824</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)Helen Cooper|title=Once Upon a PlaceThe Taming of the Cat

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=You know the bit of the blurb on every ''Artemis Fowl'' bookOnce again, where Eoin Colfer had it said about how you pronounce his name? mice are pitched against cat. That wasn't In this case, principally, we have Brie the intention of an mouse, up-against Gorgonzola the cat – and-coming author to be recognisable; ratherin case you're seeing a connection, it was pride. Pride they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the difference of it, of names used here seem to be the Irishness names of itcheeses. Ireland, it seems to meAnyway, Brie is more full than usual of peopleshunned, things scorned and ideas, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and places makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that are different by dint of their singular nationality – story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and so many deserve cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to have pride attached tell stories to themkeep themselves alive. The places might not be This makes Brie the famous ones, but they can be top dog in the source of pridemouse community, and of storiesthough, which is where this compilation of short works for as all the young comes in, with others had the authors invited chance to select their chosen place and write about half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it.needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191041137X</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris O'Dowd and Nick Vincent MurphyLauren St John|title=Moone Boy 2: The Fish DetectiveFinding Wonder

|summary=Christmas is coming, and Martin MooneRoo's family are on a strict budgetlife has become almost impossibly difficult. Placed Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in charge the middle of finding the night by 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 a Christmas tree Martinshe has, she can only name her aunt, actuallyJoni, is more worried about how hewho she knows her dad didn'll ever manage t think very highly of. But she has no one else, and so off she goes to get a Game Boylive with her unreliable aunt. He decides Things continue to get himself 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!|isbn=0571376169}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Oscar's Lion|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a job but couple of coursetimes before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, being Martinall he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that he canwon't get himself be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the usual paper roundother month. NoAnd it can shapeshift, Martin Moone becomes so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a butcherproblem. And it's boy!wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447270975</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin Colfer and Victor AmbrusJudith Eagle|title=The Seal's Fate (Colour Conker) Stolen Songbird

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Bobby Parrish was reluctant Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to admit that the seal was cutereturn home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, even is having to himselfgo up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. That sort of thing was for girls 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 he was here to club the sealworried. Seals were affecting his fatherAll her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's livelihood house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a fisherman and there was a bounty painting of a £1 for bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a sealfearsome 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 flipper: mother? Is she somehow involved in those days that was good money and even one of the girls had collected the cashmystery too?|isbn=0571363148}}{{Frontpage|author=Tania Unsworth|title=Nowhere Island|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Gil. StillJust twelve, somehow he couldn't quite bring 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 attack the defenceless cubyet another fosterer, all bigwhen he jumps into an anonymous car, black, round eyes and obviously unworried by lets it ride him to his presencefuture. What would 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 other lads say though? two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. Them, and a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfully. More to the pointOver a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, what or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would his father say?not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124310</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo Helen Peters|title=Friends and Catherine RaynerTraitors|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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 female generations before her. The 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 cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=1788004647}}{{Frontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=Clare and Her Captain (Colour Conker)Arkspire

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Clare didn't enjoy the journey down Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to Devonbe chalk and cheese. Her parents always argued Juniper is an eager hunter and it was usually because Mum had lost her way or got caught trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in a traffic jam and this time she'd done boththe Badlands. It was a little better when they got Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child in line to Aunt Dora's houseinherit the power of the Watcher, but Aunt Dora wasn't exactly a peacemaker and tended the closest to stick up for Dad against everybody else. The holiday improved when Clare got out for a walk on her own ruler the district has, and discovered a stray lamb on one of the roadfive major victors in said earlier war. She took it to Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the nearest house and Mr Jones was delighted: Clare had just saved half his flockwhole family. Clare got on with the old man - and with his horseBut in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, Captain.very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124353</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Richards and Dan Green024162343X|title=Doctor Who: The Dangerous Book of MonstersStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=It's imperative you keep up with The Doctor, I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in both senses – meaning in case religious education classes because I disputed the first thing he tells you to do is existence of a 'god'Run!. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn'' and in t so much want to learn about the sense of following all his various adventures and maintaining knowledge of whatBritish army's what successes (and who heoccasional failures, but we didn's faced, enemy-wise. One great way t dwell on those) in what came to be enemy wise is called 'the colonies' as want to peruse this book, which really is a great present for dispute what right the young fan – and of course a life-saving manual for when you yourself find sharks army had to be there in the fogfirst place. Looking back, gasI still believe I was right -mask wearing boys but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem'sanspolitely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History'' their mothers or indeed gigantic Cyberking dreadnought spacecraft. Honestly, why this is classed as a fiction title I have no idea…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405920033</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Renee RussellThiago de Moraes|title=Puppy Love (Dork Diaries)Old Gods New Tricks|rating=4.5

|summary=Things have changed drastically in Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the world school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of Nikki Maxwellnuisance. Her arch nemesis has suddenly upped sticks and moved school – wellBut just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the posher place will only suit her wellworld changes. Nikki now has Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a sort power-out, even of empty feelingelectric cars, though – nobody is there to make her feel pesteredhits not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, let downand all that powers the Internet, het up and stressedjust for our convenience's sake). Although something is about to do just that and more Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the discovery, outside ancient Gods have taken the sanctuary her crush volunteers at, power of an abandoned mother dog with her seven puppiespower from us. Looking after them until And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the place even has space for people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the new arrivals is going to fill her world for Gods, ie the next few days – semi-deities, giants, half-gods and the adventure is going to be just so on known as readable as all the other books in this seriestricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471144577</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt HaigHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=A Boy Called Christmas Finding Bear

|summary= Have you ever wondered what Father Christmas was like as boy? How he came to live in the Far North surrounded [[The Last Bear by elves? Where 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 polar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, things on the idea domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for giving presents came her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from? Why the islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Desperate to make sure he wears a red hat? If you're interested s OK, she and her father return to the Arctic and hope that in any a world of these questionsvery white and very dangerous things, then 'A Boy Called Christmas' is she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the perfect book for youfriendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178211789X</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander YatesSimon Fox|title=The Winter PlaceDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=Axel Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and Tess live in rural New York state with then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a father obsessed with mediaeval reconstructionssecret place, and join him on the run. They have a knight for a father! This eccentricity is both entertaining and a good thing - because Sam is get together, but barely begin to smell the only parental figure in their lives. Axel and Tess's mother died whiff of Southern trains when Axel was born. Tess the father is just moving into oppositional adolescence. She and Sam enjoy sparring over arrested, leaving Archie on the care of Axellate express to Brighton, who has inherited toting a rare form of muscular dystrophy tin his father was determined to keep away from his late mother. Axel iscolleagues, well, an individual child, currently haunted by and the bearer of a mischievous wheelchair only he can see. The pesky thing follows him everywherewhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471123839</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ted Hughes and Andrew DavidsonCath Howe|title=The Iron ManMy Life on Fire

|summary=Ren''Where had he come from? s family home is destroyed in a fire. Nobody knowsShe, her parents, and her little brother lose everything.'' ButShe doesn's it obvious ''when'' the Iron Man came from – it really does smack t have any of the beginnings her clothes, or any of the environmental movement in the two decades after WWII. Thereher special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother's the nuclear element to the storyhouse where they can't touch anything, which is certainly thereor do anything, or even if I can never be sure whether that is the title character or eat the other one that turns up for the second halffoods they normally eat. But at When she goes back to school she discovers that the same timeclass are doing a special art project, there is also the idea creating boxes of their lives, to display things that such are important to them and show who they are as a book doesn't really need person. But Ren has nothing to be analysedput in a box, explained away and diminished thuslyso she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when it provides some of the most enjoyable, clear and simple yet highly emotive writing for the young audience, that has made it a classic since its inceptionthey have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571327249</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna Starobinets, Andrzej Klimowski and Jane Bugaeva (translator)Rob Keeley|title=CatlantisThe Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|summary=Meet Baguette. Despite the name, he's a cat living in central Moscow, Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a human family, on the twelfth floor of a high-rise. His place return to perch is somehow between the two panes that make up a high window, half in and half out of the room, watching the world and its birds go by. But there's a part short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to that world he knows nothing about – the whole mythology of cats and catlife. Cats had possession of their own land, Catlantiseleven new tales, a place suitable for such sacred creatures each as fun to exist. Flowers gave them extra lives, up to a maximum of nine, just by you sniffing them. But all that is in the past – and that's where Baguette must go, for the whole future 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 destiny. And all he wants is the paw of read as his sweetheart in marriageprevious offerings. You might think you know the lengths to which a cat will go for love, but you won't have read the likes of this…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690883</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joseph GarrettLaura Noakes|title=Stampy's Lovely BookCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating=34|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=If you still think of Stampy as 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 elephant number they correspond to in the ledger, and they''The Simpsons''re all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, you need uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to get with itbe known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in the outside world. For During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one thingafternoon, TV is so last century she discovers a plan involving said outside world – now it's a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all about Minecraft and other computer game worlds, and often second-screening between different new media at the same timegirls for his Institute. So But why does this book from a Youtube star of Minecraft tasks, pranks and other activities, remind me of a certain TV programme what does that used body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to invite us to turn off and do something more active insteadthe past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281561</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca SteadAlice M Ross|title=Goodbye StrangerThe Nowhere Thief

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= The book opens with a prologue about an eight year old Bridget Barsamian, who woke up At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in hospital following a horrific and life threatening traffic accident involving roller skates and New York trafficseaside town. Bridget is told by a nurse that Elsbeth knows this because she is lucky to be alive and that she must have survived the accident for a reasonhas stolen it. BridgetShe also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, who because she has no real memory of the accidentability to leave this world, has and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to miss a year enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of school humans and on her returnripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, tells everyone she now wants can Elsbeth nab anything to be known as Bridgeactually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, asis the answer, ''I don't feel like Bridget anymore''.but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443197</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hans Christian AndersenNatasha Farrant|title=The Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, Lucie Arnoux in the North of England, where Bea and Misha Hoekstra (translator)Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a 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 family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of 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 property to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|isbn=0571348785}}{{Frontpage|author=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Snow QueenUnicorns of Silver Street|rating=4.5

|summary=Jayden''Listen closely! s nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. We're about Aisha is addicted to beginher 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 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. Once upon But when a time, the devil created narrowboat turns up carrying a hellish mirrorscience-minded, which only showed evileducational purpose, ill intent and uglinesswith a past involving Jayden's cousin, and which was en route to Heaven to cast they find a new light magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on it when it shattereda bit of local footage. One The crew of the people affected by the numerous shards was Kaiboat, who abandoned his childhood friend Gerdaincluding a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and went off with the Snow Queenkids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. Gerda was forlorn Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and fearing for his life, but soon found her way to start relative who lives as a figure in a miraculous journey to find painting, and become saviours of the truth behind his disappearance and behaviour…unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691030</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jonathan StroudB09XWSXSKY|title= Lockwood Maestro Orpheus and Co: The Hollow Boythe World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= The adults are baffled Frederick (as usualor Fred, but never Freddy, please) and only Lockwood, George and Lucy can save London from the murderous ghosts. But it woncouldn't be easy: as sleep. A tune, rather like the smallest agency ticking of licenced psychic investigators a clock was playing over and over in the capital no one is willing his mind. It happened every time he came to listen visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to themcome; after all, he's ten now and besides, all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they have their own problemsdo is tell the time. And time isn't good for anything... A new member of '' And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the team, secrets that threaten clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to destroy friendships, go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the sheer exhaustion that comes from trying to deal with too many hauntings – it surely canclocks stopped at twelve o't be long before something has to giveclock?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552573140</amazonuk>