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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident readersReaders|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Betty G BirneyKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Holidays According Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to Humphreythe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. 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 trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=Humphrey Things have been a bit sticky for the hamster is worriedEarthlings. Everywhere he turns his little pink ears he hears noises about the school being closedAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. How can he survive without Just as they were beginning to get used to all his adoring fans in room 26, this technological change and what is life like for a classroom pet without a classroom? Luckilystarting to think of other, this is only the summer holiday he is misunderstandingnew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and what do you know - he will soon be meeting familiar faces, not at schoolalong with it, but at summer campall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571250904</amazonuk>1736128426

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keith MansfieldTom Percival|title=Johnny Mackintosh: Star BlazeThe Wrong Shoes

|summary=Before I get into Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the review of this bookwrong shoes', Ihe has the wrong shoes because his dad can'd like to suggest that if you havent work and doesn't read Keith Mansfield's first Johnny Mackintosh bookhave enough money for even the most basic of things like food, [[Johnny Mackintosh and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the Spirit of London by Keith Mansfield|The Spirit of London]]college, you go off was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and read had an accident. Throw into that mix the review of fact that first his mum and then go dad are separated, and read the book itself. ItWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a fantastic readtiny amount of hope. But because this He is a sequelgood at art, there are obviously going and clings to be some SPOILERS ahead.  Sothe moments of joy when he is drawing, done that have you?feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849161267</amazonuk>1398527122

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neal Shusterman1805141872|title=EverwildThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5

|summary=Neal Shusterman continues ''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his part zany adventureMaths teacher, part philosophical enquiryMiss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and part coming-of-age story that began with Everlost in this follow-up that is perhaps even better than its predecessorBen go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job...''

Everlost Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a kind of limbo and home terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to children - Afterlights - get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who have dieddiscovers her terrible secret is Ben, but somehow missed the tunnel and the light - wherever and whatever the light actually is. Adults never make it thereson of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, but significant or much-loved objects and buildings sometimes do. Mary Hightower, for instance, is so-called because she took up residence in New York in the Twin Towers. Mary who thinks Everlost Miss Judson is a wonderful place and she "saves" the Afterlights she finds by giving them repetitive but addictive tasks to fill eternity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387322</amazonuk>worth saving

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex MilwayChristopher Edge|title=Mousebeard's Revenge (Mousehunter Trilogy)Black Hole Cinema Club

|summary=If you started this trilogy way back whenLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, you would probably never expect a place that has the piratenickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, Mousebeardthey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the hero and heroinemovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, Emiline and Scratcher, to be working togetherthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they are - so deep is lurch from one film genre to the world of Old Town in intriguenext, subterfuge and wicked plans, that can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they need to combine forces - and ever get other returning characters back on hand to the cinema, and on to their side - to counter Mousebeard's enemies once and for all. Only, one great thing has changed. Yes, that's right. Mousebeard has had a shave...real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571245102</amazonuk>1839942738

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Valerie Thomas and Korky PaulAdam Stower|title=Winnie's JokesMurray and Bun|rating=24.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Who turns off 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 lights at Halloween? The lights witchtwo. What does an Australian witch ride on? A broomerang 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. Yep 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, itbut he's a joke book.turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192729063</amazonuk>0008561249

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=A G TaylorAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Meteorite StrikeThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=Sarah Eli is not readya 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. She's not ready to forgive the man who is her fatherEli lives with his lovely gran, too – for abandoning her and her young brother Robert eight there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago. She cannot yet forgive the circumstances of her mother dying, and of the promise they Eli's parents were forced both lost to makethe titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to go to Australia with navigate the world in the man, and start company of a new lifemagical beast. She is certainly not prepared for This has made the meteor strike race anathema to smash into Australia just as they fly above it, which downs the plane in pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a horrid crashconfession from gran, and seems Eli knows his only hope is to dare to carry enter what he most hates, with it an alien virus which forces many people the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to drop permanently asleeppossibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409508579</amazonuk>0571382231

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cynthia KadohataHelen Cooper|title=A Million Shades The Taming of Greythe Cat

|summary=At just twelveOnce again, Tin is mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the youngest elephant handler cat – and in his villagecase 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. Ever since he can remember Anyway, Brie is shunned, Tin has dreamed of working with elephants scorned and he loves his own elephant, Ladyif you must, to distractionmous-tracised, even spending most of for the way his nights sleeping by her sidehabits don't match the other mice he lives with. Tin is much less keen They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on schoolit. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, but his parents insist that when he goesfeels all alone and cast out. Tin really can It't see 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 pointmouse community, though, as his sole ambition is all the others had the chance to become a fullyhalf-fledged elephant trainerinch some cheese while the cat was distracted. His parents may talk about opportunities in But will the story have the world outside his village but if they don't involve elephants, he's not interested. successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738823X</amazonuk>0571376010

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gigi AmateauLauren St John|title=ChanceyFinding Wonder

|summary=ChanceyRoo's dam life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was Starry Night young, and now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her owner loved that horse so much 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 wanted a foal who was exactly like can only name heraunt, but when Chancey was born Joni, who she was bitterly disappointed for instead knows her dad didn't think very highly of the black Appaloosa with white marking Chancey was born albino. It was only his striped hooves which proved his breedingBut she has no one else, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. The owner was not big enough Things continue to overcome her feelings and get worse for Roo, as when she fell on hard times and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it was Chancey who was left out breaks down in the field to suffer despite the fact that he was no longer a young horse.middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140632258X</amazonuk>0571376169

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dean Hale, Shannon Hale Adam Baron and Nathan Hale Benji Davies|title=Calamity JackOscar's Lion|rating=3.5

|summary=''I was born We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to scheme''have his mother – or father, declares our hero Jack. With flashbacks we see the young lad and but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a pixie friend, larking about couple of times before he has to be ready for revenge or small profitschool. But when he enters his motherparents's bakery gets more bedroom, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and more into the red, the size of the profit has to increaseadmitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. And when you add in revenge against But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the local crime lord - bully that ruined a giant of a man - so does the size of the target of birthday party for Oscar the japeother month.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747587426</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laurie Halse Anderson|title=Chains|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Isabel and her sister Ruth are slaves. But they should be free - Miss Mary Finch left a will that said And it can shapeshift, so. But Miss Mary Finch is dead he can take it to school and her greedy nephew and heir denies all knowledge it can get him out of the willa problem. So Isabel and Ruth are sold And it's wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the Locktons rules, and taken to New Yorkso on. The Revolutionary War is underway and New York is OK, it can't work a dangerous place. The Locktons are loyalists, dimmer switch but the patriots are in control of the cityit can give Oscar a wonderful time. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747598061</amazonuk>0008596751

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle HarrisonJudith Eagle|title=The Thirteen CursesStolen Songbird

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Red is back, but sheCaro's trapped in the fairy realmmother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Having swapped places with Tanya Her other mother, she is bound thereRonnie, but is still desperate having to get both go up North to take care of her and her brother back into the human worldsister who is unwell. She must seek an audience So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with the fairy courtGam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, but the realm is full she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of deception and cruelty – it will be building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a challenge just to get there. And guess what happens when halt whilst she gets there? She is set another challengestuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, twisted along with the cruelty of the Unseelie (Boo! Hiss!) courtan orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. Whilst the journey goes on But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she reflects on discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her past: mum's old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the car crash that killed her parents Snakes are thieving artworks and her time at terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the children's home. gang? Meanwhile, Tanya And what has returned happened to Elvesden Manor for half term and letCaro's just say that her ability to see fairies comes back into use when mother? Is she somehow involved in the new housekeeper and her pesky parrot land her and Fabian and the whole Manor crew into trouble with the little people.mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384501</amazonuk>0571363148

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nancy FarmerTania Unsworth|title=The Islands of the Blessed (Sea of Trolls Trilogy) Nowhere Island|rating=4.5

|summary=In this third adventureMeet Gil. Just twelve, Jackhe 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, a fourteen year old Saxon apprentice bardwhen he jumps into an anonymous car, and Thorgil, 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 bad-tempered shield maiden, follow the Bard Dragon Tongue camp on a quest to quell an island between the draugr - the malevolent spirit two directions of a drowned mermaid mistakenly summoned motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. to Jack's village Them, and who seeks revenge for her earlier ill treatment at human handsa 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738630X</amazonuk>1804540080

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garth NixHelen Peters|title=Into Battle (The Seventh Tower)Friends and Traitors|rating=3.5|genre=EntertainmentConfident Readers|summary=We've made it England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to book five be in Garth Nix's Seventh Tower seriesservice all her life it seems, so a quick recap: like the female generations before her. The Dark World other is blocked Sidney, a girl from the Sun by an enchanted Veil created by Tal's forebears to protect it a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from the creatures who inhabit Aenir bomber flight- a spirit land full of magic paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and magical beastsif we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so.Aenir But something is lit and warmed by the Sunamiss, but the Dark World uses sunstones - crystals grown and charged with light first separately and heat then in Aenir. Some inhabitants of combination they realise the Dark World - the Chosen - also bind some of AenirLord Evesham must be a rum 's creatures to themselves as spiritshadows or spiritguardsun. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007261233</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Skinner|title=Furnaces Midnight deliveries are received under cover of Forge|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In this [[Blue Fire and Ice (The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequel]]secrecy, it's almost as you weretalk is made of meetings with Germans, except here the mysterious powers of the blue flame are and not being used by some outlander arsonistonly that, but have a local Spitfire factory has been usurped by two inept young scientists from the Myrmidots, to fuel their industryattacked. We can predict this will prove a bad thing, but But surely the breadth of the journey to capture the flamegirls are wrong, and the efforts of all our returning characters to put things right might still upper class could never be a surprise.so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>1788004647

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom PalmerJamie Littler|title=Captain Fantastic (Football Academy)Arkspire

|summary=Ryan Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is a changed boyan eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Since he got into hot water with manager Steve for bullying several books ago Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, and his captaincy perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of the United U12s was threatenedWatcher, he's been determined the closest to get his socks firmly pulled up. He's worked really hard at redeeming himself too - both on a ruler the district has, and off one of the pitchfive major victors in said earlier war. He's more than halfway towards becoming Being trained in the best captain magic that only five people can use would definitely change the team's ever hadstatus of the whole family. So when Craig's attitude suddenly nosedives and he starts playing dirty during games and being insolent during training But in finding something oddly magical, Ryan feels a big responsibility Juniper might just be able to help sort it out. gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141324724</amazonuk>0241586143

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Russell and Christine Russell024162343X|title=The Quest of the Warrior SheepStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=Take five rare breed sheep, put them in a fieldMeet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and wait for something to fall out adventures involving flooding the sky on to one school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of themnuisance. YouBut just when she'll find the result is s being told that they gatherby her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, confer among themselvesthe world changes. Suddenly, work practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out their sacred God Aries is , even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in trouble as hebut the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's lost sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the only thing to confer his power over the sacred Demon of sheep, Lambadpower from us. And so she begins her epic quest, and decide to take gather all the fallen object up North to return people that can steal it. A journey back – namely the characters from myth that will take them into London have past form in a market truckstealing from the Gods, down ie the Undergroundsemi-deities, giants, half-gods and so much more on their epic journeyknown as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405243767</amazonuk>178845295X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dugald SteerHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=The Dragon Diary: Dragonology Chronicles Volume 2Finding Bear|rating=34.5

|summary=Daniel [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and Beatrice Cook are studying Dragonology finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with Dr Ernest Drakea polar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, things on the domestic and family front are awaiting a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the hatching of their islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very own dragon egg. But suddenly their parents have gone missing, an illness is killing dragons Bear-y things has been shot and it all smells of evil dragonologist, Alexandra Gorynytchkawounded. Before they know it, the brother Desperate to make sure he's OK, sister she and new dragon chick have her father return to deliver Liber Draconis, the dragon diary, Arctic and St Petroc's chalice to Dr Drake hope that in Hong Weia world of very white and very dangerous things, which may hold the secret to she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the curefriendship can continue. As the back cover reads: ''The future of dragon kind hangs in the balance!'' |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763634255</amazonuk>0008582017

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John WardSimon Fox|title=The Comet's ChildDeadlock

|summary=Teenage Fin Late one night Graham Blake is rescued late back from his remote forest home by Raggshift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the first man he has ever encounteredrun. Having such a sheltered childhood has equipped Fin with They get together, but barely begin to smell the speech and education whiff of a nobleman's son but little idea about Southern trains when the real world. Other than relying father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his instincts father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and resourcefulness, Fin has no way the bearer of a whole heap of knowing who to trust, or where he is bound as he leaves home with Raggquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905537123</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Renee RussellCath Howe|title=Dork DiariesMy Life on Fire|rating=45

|summary=I do like Ren's family home is destroyed in a blurb to be accuratefire. So when I saw the back cover of this book state the obvious to meShe, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid for girls!"her parents, I could rest assuredand her little brother lose everything. I didnShe doesn't relax fullyhave any of her clothes, howeveror any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, for Iand now she is living at her grandmother'd read [[Rodrick Rules (Diary of s house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a Wimpy Kid) by Jeff Kinney|the blue one]] special art project, creating boxes of those and found it a bit feebletheir lives, to display things that are important to them and [[Diary of show who they are as a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney|the yellow one]] and found it person. But Ren has nothing to put in a bit fabulousbox, and so I couldn't guarantee any feminineshe finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, pink variant would be worth my timenot when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387411</amazonuk>1839942835

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ceci JenkinsonRob Keeley|title=Mirror Mischief (Oli The Boy Who Disappeared and Skipjack's Tales of Trouble) Other Stories|rating=4.5

|summary=Sid from Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a return to the pizza shop is on holiday in Africa and she's sent presents short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to her two best customerseleven new tales, Oli Biggles and Skipjack Haynes. Oli's present is a mirror and it's not just any mirror each as it seems fun to have magical powers. It was perhaps unfortunate that Vernon Surd, the mean maths teacher who punishes anyone who can't do fractions and Slugger Stubbins, the school bully should be the ones at the wrong end of the magical powers but it seemed quite appropriate that the first should be transformed into a vulture and the second into a blue-faced baboonread as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571249698</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony Horowitz Laura Noakes|title=Crocodile Tears (Alex Rider)Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=Fans of Anthony Horowitz' Alex Rider series have had a two-year wait for this installment of our young hero's escapades and they are not going to be disappointedMeet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. He's fourteen year old now and not only is he being targeted by a hitmanOr rather, he's also being pursued by a journalist who wants to tell the nation all about the fact that MI6 are using one of his tender years just Cos to do their dirty workher friends. The trouble practice in the home she lives in is that he can't for the girls to just be positive that it was a sniper that caused named by the car he was number they correspond to in to skid off a Scottish road the ledger, and land at the bottom of a Loch. And MI6 donthey't seem re all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that bothered 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 journalistfirst ever inmate, unless, that is, Alex might be willing and unique in having no known family in the outside world. During a daring escapade to find steal some simple information posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a GM crop research centreplan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, in which case they might be able and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to have a quiet word the past she has so little link with the gentleman.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406310484</amazonuk>0008579059

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzy Brownlee Alice M Ross|title=The Littlest Detective in LondonNowhere Thief|rating=34.5

|summary=''The Littlest Detective At last there is new stock in London'' is the first in this series of children's books by Suzy Brownlee impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and will soon be followed by the continuing story of Clementine Cordelia Bird's exploits her mother run in Parisa seaside town. The books are aimed at young girls, aged between around eight and fourteen Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it.  Clemmy (as She also knows she is known) is nine years old, but looks younger, due to her should be free from worries about being rather small. Howeverfound out, because she makes up for has the ability to leave this by being brave world, and inventive. We learn early on that her mother disappeared in mysterious circumstances use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the books have the underlying theme buildings are generally empty of Clemmy trying humans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to find her mum again.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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956122205</amazonuk>1839943769

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary BlackwoodNatasha Farrant|title=Mysterious Messages - A History The Rescue of Codes and CiphersRavenwood

|summary=Dog was This story is another excellent adventure from the runt author of ''Voyage of the litterSparrowhawk''. Unwanted. Half-drowned and left to die on a rubbish tip Ravenwood is an old house, you can imagine better starts in life the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for this scruffy-looking little puppymost of their lives. But it's not so bad. Black Nose takes him under They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her wing Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and gives him they are living together as a little family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of her milk the nature around the house and a lot loving every inch of her lovethe place. More importantly But now the house is under threat, she teaches him as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the rubbish tip ropes and gives him property to a developer as much advice about doghood and ownerhood as she possibly can. And then... thereit's an accidentbecoming more and more expensive to maintain. The last thing Black Nose says to Dog is 'children find themselves worrying not only about where they'If you go re going to the townlive, watch out for the cars. Dodgebut if they'll even be together, little one, rememberand if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406322741</amazonuk>0571348785

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert Crowther|title=Cars - A Pop-Up Book Of Automobiles|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Robert Crowther tells the story of the car, from Cugnot's steam engine, Trevithick's road locomotive Robin Birch and Benz's Motorwagen, right through to the record-breaking Thrust SSC and to future cars, like the biodegradable Eco One. There are plenty of pop-ups and pull tabs to bring it all to life, and it's packed with detail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406312274</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James FitzsimmonsJobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Hudbrax Hoard (Sabrax Clyke Series)Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=34

|summary=Meet Sabrax ClykeJayden'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. Not allowed Aisha is addicted to sit around in her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the hole in the dryoutside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-stone wall he and his family call homeminded, educational purpose, and admire the pretty girl whowith a past involving Jayden's just moved in next doorcousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, heincluding the one Aisha thinks she's persuaded by an urgent message from distant relatives to go to their aid regarding some unmentionable, awful predicamentseen on a bit of local footage. His journey there The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the task itself will involve metal dragonskids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. Dare they side with Leila, odd standing stonesthe woman on board, earth-shattering movementsand her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and unearthly nasties.become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955644216</amazonuk>0241573483

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane RayB09XWSXSKY|title=Snow White|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Jane Ray has taken the classic fairy tale of Snow White, the dwarves Maestro Orpheus and the wicked queen, and created beautiful three-dimensional tableaux. It's a much-loved story that everyone is familiar with, and this is a great opportunity to rediscover a classic in an interesting new way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406311839</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWorld Clock|author=Children's Trust|title=The Walrus Robert Penee and the Carpenter and Other Favourite Poems|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Celebrities, including [[:Category:Richard Hammond|Richard Hammond]], Paul O'Grady, Sienna Miller, McFly and Lorraine Kelly, have chosen their favourite poems for this anthology. All proceeds from the book go to [http://www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk/ The Children's Trust]. It's a fantastic charity, who help disabled children, and I urge you all to buy a copy of ''The Walrus and the Carpenter'' to support them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140632650X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tanya Landman|title=The Head is Dead (Poppy Fields Murder Mystery) Joanne Grodzinski

|summary=MeetFrederick (or Fred, once againbut never Freddy, Poppy Fieldsplease) couldn't sleep. When tasked to create a murder mystery experience for a school fete she is only surprised to find A tune, rather like the headmistress - ticking of a newly employed battleaxe that no-one seems to like - a real-life victim of an assassinclock was playing over and over in his mind. And there is only a school field full of suspectsIt happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. Can she and her best friendHe hadn't really wanted to come; after all, brainbox George, solve the day he's ten now and make the staff room a safer place all those old clocks don't appeal to behim anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the time. And where does the invisible sheepdog come in?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406314633</amazonuk>}}time isn't good for anything...''

{{newreview|author=Michael Morpurgo|title=The Kites are Flying|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Said lives on the West Bank. He herds his family's sheep, spends a lot of time talking in his head to his absent brother Mahmoud, and he makes a great many kites, which And that was why he sends across was looking at the wall to clock beside the girl in the blue headscarf who lives in the occupiers' settlementsbed. What Said doesn It was nearly twelve o't do, is talk out loud, even to his new friend Mister Maxclock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times. Max is a Western journalist who wants There was nothing for it but to make a documentary about how the Palestinian/Israeli conflict affects ordinary people on both sides of the wall. Max is entranced by Said, go and his dozens of kites, find grandad - but where was he? And why had all bearing the message salaam or peace. He can see that Said has a dream, but heclocks stopped at twelve o's not sure what it is. Will the dream come true before Max has to leaveclock? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406317985</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tanya LandmanNigel Baines|title=Dying to be Famous (Poppy Fields Murder Mystery)A Tricky Kind of Magic

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Meet Poppy Fields - an inquisitive young lass, keen on exploring her world - in a slightly different way Cooper loves to her geeky, walking-encyclopaedia of perform magic tricks. His father was a best friendmagician, Grahamand named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. So keen is she But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to explore the phenomenon that is the latest seen-everywherebe, snapped-at-all-hours celebrity, she makes the pair of them go or how to audition for bit parts in the Christmas production of The Wizard of Oz the star is starting to rehearsebe. Unfortunately for herAnd when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, she apparently hasnhe ''really'' doesn't noticed sheknow what's in the third book in a series of young reader murder mysteries, and deaths more unexpected than having a house land on you might just be going on the playbill...anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406314625</amazonuk>1444960261

{{newreview|author=Michael Rosen|title=A To Z - The Best Children's Poetry From Agard To Zephaniah|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Michael Rosen has picked the best modern children's poetry, from John Agard through Move on to Benjamin Zephaniah. It stemmed from Rosen performing in schools and libraries with many of the poets, and as children's poetry anthologies go, it's amongst the very best.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141324503</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Cookery Reviews]]