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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna StarobinetsMax Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, Andrzej Klimowski 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Jane Bugaeva (translator)Joe Todd-Stanton|title=CatlantisDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Meet BaguetteKit. Despite Like most of the namepeople in his world, it seems, he's is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a cat living in central Moscowteam of warrior, with a human familymage and healer enter specially prepared, on the twelfth floor of a highcentury-rise. His place old, magical mazes, and race to perch is somehow between the two panes that make up a high windowexit, half in perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and half out of the room, watching points they grant you along the world and its birds go byway. But thereUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's a part to seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that world he knows nothing about – the whole mythology of cats and catlife. Cats had possession of their own landone team has been retired, Catlantiseaten, and a place suitable for such sacred creatures to existnew trio of questors is needed. Flowers gave them extra livesPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, up he has taken 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 goading from the balance token bully of him going back to right wrongs, and find what was long forgotten about both his world and everyone elsestumbled into declaring he's destinyll enter as a team. And all What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he wants is the paw of his sweetheart in marriage. You might think you know the lengths possibly hope to which a cat will go for love, but you won't have read the likes of this…succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690883</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joseph GarrettJames Sherwood Metts|title=Stampy's Lovely BookPlanet Storyland|rating=34.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=If you still think of Stampy as Things have been a bit sticky for the elephant in ''The Simpsons'', you need to get with itEarthlings. For one thingAI and automation have been proceeding apace, TV is so last century – now itoften replacing jobs they's all about Minecraft re paid to do and other computer game worlds, and often second-screening between different new media at the same tasks that took timeto accomplish. So why does Just as they were beginning to get used to all this book from a Youtube star technological change and starting to think of Minecraft tasks, pranks and other activities, remind me of a certain TV programme that used new ways to invite us to turn off spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and do something more active instead?, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281561</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca SteadTom Percival|title=Goodbye StrangerThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= The book opens with a prologue about an eight year old Bridget BarsamianWill's life is difficult, who woke up in hospital following a horrific and life threatening traffic accident involving roller skates and New York trafficmultitude of ways. Bridget He is told by a nurse that she is lucky to be alive bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and that she must doesn't have survived enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident for a reason. BridgetThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, who has no real memory of the accidentand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has to miss a year tiny amount of school hope. He is good at art, and on her return, tells everyone she now wants clings to be known as Bridgethe moments of joy when he is drawing, as, ''I don't that feel like Bridget anymore''a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443197</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hans Christian Andersen, Lucie Arnoux and Misha Hoekstra (translator)1805141872|title=The Snow QueenTeacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=''Listen closely! We're about to beginSeventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided.'' Once upon a timeThe police are baffled, but only Ben knows the devil created a hellish mirrortruth – his Maths teacher, which only showed evilMiss Judson, ill intent is really a safecracker! With police and uglinessher gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and which was en route to Heaven to cast a new light Ben go on it when it shatteredthe run. But Al needs them for one last job... One of the people affected by the numerous shards was Kai'' Goodness me, who abandoned his childhood friend Gerda, and went off that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with the Snow Queena bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Gerda was forlorn and fearing Luckily for his lifeMiss Judson, but soon found the pupil who discovers her way to start terrible secret is Ben, the son of a miraculous journey famous magician who has ambitions to find the truth behind be as good as his disappearance father some day, and behaviour…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691030</amazonuk>who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jonathan StroudChristopher Edge|title= Lockwood and Co: The Hollow BoyBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= The adults Lucas and his friends are baffled (as usual) and only Lockwoodall booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, George and Lucy can save London from a place that has the murderous ghostsnickname of 'The Black Hole'. But it won All big movie fans, they't be easy: re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the smallest agency of licenced psychic investigators in the capital no one movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is willing to listen to themvery different, and besides, they have their own problemsare swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. A new member of But as they lurch from one film genre to the teamnext, secrets that threaten can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to destroy friendshipsthe cinema, and the sheer exhaustion that comes from trying to deal with too many hauntings – it surely can't be long before something has to givetheir real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552573140</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Geoff RodkeyAdam Stower|title=The Tapper Twins Tear up New YorkMurray and Bun

|summary=If you didn't [[The Tapper Twins Go to War (With Each Other) Eli is a busy lad – by Geoff Rodkey|last time]], meet day an apprentice in the Tapper Twinswondrous library we start by visiting with him, Claudia and Reese. They're in sixth grade the evening a helper at a posh New York City school, the dessert cafe his gran owns and are just trying to get on runs. Eli lives with things his lovely gran, too – while making no attempt whatsoever at getting on with each otherfor there is a generation missing in the family. This time roundA few short years ago, Claudia was instantly sniffy at her brotherEli's idea declared parents were both lost to her on the titular race, a school bus, just because it was his, but soon realised how great it could be – globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to host navigate the world in the company of a school charity treasure hunt for gangs of four fellow pupilsmagical beast. With a great prize on offer she bows down from organising it and takes part, against her brother and everyone else – and that's when This has made the problems start. It's not as frightening as race anathema to the tabloids make out, she assures us pair – but let's face itwhen a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, there's high dramaEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, celebrity, greed, urgency with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – and those pesky adults, all making the smooth running of things most unlikely…only thing to possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144401501X</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BoyneHelen Cooper|title=The Boy at the Top Taming of the MountainCat|rating=43.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meet PierrotOnce again, mice are pitched against cat. As a very young child In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in 1930s Paris he is going to have case you're seeing a very awkward journey through his young life. His father is a violent drunkconnection, reacting badly to what he saw they live in WWI, a cheese shop and although married therefore all the names used here seem to a French woman, is still staunchly Germanbe the names of cheeses. That woman, EmilieAnyway, Brie is going to dieshunned, scorned and leave Pierrot an orphan, which will leave him in a home where if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he is bulliedlives with. But They nibble up paper wrapping from the reaches of Europe cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and from makes stories based on the black corners of his family comes an aunt, Beatrix, who visuals on it. And that story-telling will give him a homecome in handy one night, of a kind, at a most unusual mountaintop buildingwhen he feels all alone and cast out. It's not her home – she just works almost as if there and were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to ask special permission from someone specialhalf-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. The placeBut will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out? The Berghof.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Spirit of LondonLauren St John|authortitle=Rob KeeleyFinding Wonder

|summary=EllieRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, Charlie and Mum have left Inchwood Manor now she finds herself awoken in the middle of 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 she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But she has no one else, and are headed home so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave Londonin Joni's old campervan, where Mumit 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 latest 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 couple of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents''Journeyback'' project bedroom, all he sees is renovating an old 18th century housea mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, 47 Foster Squareand 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 an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it's not quite ''home'' to Londonschool and it can get him out of a problem. They And it're not returning s wonderful to their old have around the house but to another tiny– not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, cramped flatand so on. When asked why OK, all Mum will say is, "Ask your fatherit can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time."|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624055</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan MeresJudith Eagle|title=The World of Norm: 9: May Still Be ChargedStolen Songbird

|summary=If you ever wondered what Harry EnfieldCaro's Kevin going ''UUHmother, a world-famous whistler, that's SO unFAIR!!'' but stretched has failed to the length of a book sounds like then wonder no longerreturn home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Norm Her other mother, Ronnie, is only twelve but he already knows life having to go up North to take care of her sister who is completely unfairunwell. He has a horrid girl next door So who annoyingly wants is going to look after Caro? Sent to spend time talking stay with himGam, he someone Caro has two awful younger brothers, he has schoolheard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and he has a world of parents confused and adults around him all wittering on in the most weird, antique phrasingworried. They donAll 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't help him understand the world at alls house, just lay all the world's problems on his shoulders and move on. This morning in concernalong with an orphan boy, for instanceAlbie, Norm has hardly moved at all – he's still in bed when he's been groundedwho is living there too. His parents have looked But she soon finds herself caught up his phone bill onlinein a mystery, and it's rather long. As long as Normshe discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's entire list of woesold suitcase, perhaps – and therefore is just one more thing that's all across London a burdenfearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. And as life is so unfair, Is the only way out is painting somehow linked to wait for his parents the gang? And what has happened to decide between him paying them back or grounding him for a month – until something even worse, more unwelcome and more unfair gets mentioned…Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334119</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris RiddellTania Unsworth|title=Goth Girl and the Wuthering FrightNowhere Island|rating=24.5

|summary=Goth Girl and Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the rest of care system – the Attic Club system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not having the best of timeshomes – and find a home for himself. Ada's best friend He is at schoolen route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, while that girl's father Charles Cabbage tries and lets it ride him to his future. That future seems to build a computer 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 weird help two directions of three monkeys a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to fetch provide for their safety and carry his research volumesseclusion. Ruby is so anxious it's left to Ada to care for Them, and cater for her and not the other way round, so frightened is she by the hauntings in the gothic pile they call a mute girl also finding a home. And others are being bullied. So even though there are newcomers of the same age to the place, things need perking upalbeit so much more successfully. So what better time for Ada's father to hold Over a literary dog show – bringing the country's finest authors and few weeks we see if their pooches to parade in contest for a respected audience?oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447277899</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Long Helen Peters|title=Friends and Traitors|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 Nicholas Stevensonfirst 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=Diary Arkspire|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. 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 inherit the power of the Watcher, the closest to a Time Travellerruler the district has, and one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143}}{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=3.5

|summary=With I was the usual complaint that 'History is Boring!', Augustus slumps over his bad company other people got into at school desk – until his teacher, a certain Professor Tempo, comes to his aid. She gives him a notebook and yellow pencil and says he should imagine himself I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a place in 'god'. Where was the past to see how interesting proof? In history lessons, it actually could bewas probably worse still. And lo and behold he's there, seeing Not too long after the world end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the pastBritish army's effect 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 world of army had to be there in the present for his very own eyesfirst place. He ends up doing this more than a couple dozen timesLooking back, filling I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the notebook with amazing sights heproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's seen and people he's stood alongside, from Mozart to Einstein, from Chaucer to Lincoln, and what we read is what he comes up with in this brisk and colourful volume'Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806368</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jeff NortonThiago de Moraes|title= Memoirs of a Neurotic ZombieOld Gods New Tricks|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Adam is twelveMeet Trixie. He has Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a crush on Corina whoyoung goddess of nuisance. But just when she's in his class at schoolbeing told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, he likes collecting things, and he has early onset Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, which means he would rather wear purple spandex and dance the Macarena right down Main Street than go within five miles of a germworld changes. He frets about Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a lot power-out, even of thingselectric cars, actually: if worrying was an Olympic event, hehits not just the town the school'd get s in but the goldentire planet (apart from mobile phones, every time. Other than and all thatpowers the Internet, things are pretty okayjust for our convenience's sake). He Trixie, luckily, realises what has normalhappened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, loving parents (apart to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the fact they still insist on going to SMOOCH concerts)Gods, ie the semi-deities, a small group of friends who share his interest in comics and video gamesgiants, half-gods and a standard-issue irritating sister. Nothing weird there, then. Nothing but so on known as the fact that he's been dead for three monthstricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571327044</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ulrich Hub, Jorg Muhle Hannah Gold and Helena Ragg-Kirkby (translator)Levi Pinfold|title=Meet at the Ark at Eight!Finding Bear|rating=4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=An educated penguin[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, an agnostic penguin and a violentlot further north than many people would venture, smaller, young penguin walk into and finding a snowdrift… You might not be able to make ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a full joke out of polar bear – that opening lineshe called Bear. Back home, but this book practically does continue things on from there. Three penguins – each the domestic and family front are a little different from the otherbit advanced, even if they generally look and definitely smell the samebut not perfect for her, and God, a subject of their conversation so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For a butterfly comes along, of all bear doing very Bear-y thingshas been shot and wounded. The young, hot-headed one (well, in the pictures he wears a woolly hat, Desperate to make sure he's bound OK, she and her father return to be hot-headed) leaves the Arctic and hope that in umbragea world of very white and very dangerous things, leaving just two she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – which is perfectly timed if you're a dove, and come along telling all that the animals to get into Noah's Ark in pairs, as an almighty flood is about to happen…friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690875</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe SuggSimon Fox|title=Username: EvieDeadlock

|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=Meet Evie. She's surprisingly unwelcome Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and alienated at school – for then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a trendy secret place, and attractive girl, nobody at all seems to have any time for her, apart from the geeky card-collecting boy with the milk-bottle glasses join him on the busrun. Perhaps it has something to do with her father's thatched house – after allThey get together, she must be a witch to live there. It's not that she would wish but barely begin to live there, with nobody else around, and smell the memory whiff of her deceased mother. But luckily someone is choosing a place for her –her Southern trains when the father is able to put all his work into a cyber-world for herarrested, leaving Archie on the E-Scapelate express to Brighton, which is close toting a tin his father was determined to the perfect world. All that remains is to programme the humans to be her friendskeep away from his colleagues, and make the connection Evie has with them and them with her in return to be bearer of a whole heap of mutual, confirming, happy benefitquestions. But someone else has entered the E-Scape, and their influence seems all that much more powerful than Evie's tentative happiness…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lewis Carroll, Mark Burstein (editor) and Salvador DaliCath Howe|title=AliceMy Life on Fire|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ren's Adventures family home is destroyed in Wonderlanda fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother'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 special art project, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to put in a box, and so she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=1839942835}}{{Frontpage|author= Rob Keeley|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|summary=If you don't know the story now, then where have you been for a hundred and fifty years? A young girl sees Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a hurrying white rabbit, follows it, falls down a hole, fails return to recognise the 'stranger danger' in partaking of random foods and drinks just because of a label on them, nearly drowns a whole menagerie of animals in a lake of her own tears, takes advice from someone on drugs, plays cards, or croquet, or both or neither, and wakes up to find it all a dream. Someone else tried out such gibberish on a young girl, wrote it down in a flurry, made a hugely successful name for himself, and woke up short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to find even at this remove that most people (unlike me) adore the thing. But it's not just for now, its 150th birthday, that the work gets reprinted. In the 1960seleven new tales, someone came up with the idea each as fun to put the esoteric, surreal and daft mind of Salvador Dali in cahoots with the esoteric, surreal and daft world of Carroll's Alice, and the result was a very rare and valuable edition – a box set of illustrated booklets, perfectly suited to the very surrealistic 105th birthday. Since getting sight of one is like seeing a flat clock in Dali's pictures, this decent hardback replication is the nearest you'll get to owning one of the most special of Alice editionsread as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0691170029</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cressida CowellLaura Noakes|title=How to Train Your Dragon 12: How to Fight Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Dragon's FuryStar|rating=54

|summary=A relentless battleMeet Number One. Human against dragon Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. On the Doomsday of Yule Or rather, the battle will end and only one side can be victoriousjust Cos to her friends. If The practice in the dragons win, home she lives in is for the human race will girls to just be annihilated. If named by the humans win, number they will unlock the secret of the dragon jewel, with the potential correspond to destroy all of in the dragons. The only hope is a human boy called Hiccupledger, an unlikely hero who has a wish to unite human and dragon once more. Unfortunately, Hiccup is lying unconscious on a beach at Herothey's End, lost and alone re all Unfortunates – young people with no boat. What is moredisabilities, Hiccup has no memory; no idea who he is and why he is so importantuncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. He also has two poisonous fangs embedded in his arm; But Cosima bears the ticking teeth of tag as a Vampire Spydragon which serve surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as a tracking device for the vicious beastfirst ever inmate, who is closing and unique in having no known family in as we speakthe outside world. Suffice During a daring escapade to saysteal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, things aren't going well she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for Hiccup his Institute. But why, and they can only get worse...what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444916580</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanAlice M Ross|title=Zom-B Fugitive (Zom B 11)The Nowhere Thief|rating= 4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you haven't read At last there is new stock in the [[Zomimpoverished yet over-B by Darren Shan|first book]] full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this seriesbecause she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!because she has the ability to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, is the answer, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077929</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeffrey BrownNatasha Farrant|title=The Phantom Bully (Star Wars Jedi Academy 3)Rescue of Ravenwood

|summary=DoesnThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''t time fly? It only seems a short time ago that Roan Novachez was starting his first term at Jedi Academy Middle SchoolVoyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, yet here he isin the North of England, all grown up where Bea and ready to start his final yearRaffy have been living for most of their lives. As always They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there are plenty of twists with her Uncle Leo, and turnsRaffy is there with his mum, teen troubles and relationship issues mixed 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 force-wielding, piloting nature around the house and lightsaber battlesloving every inch of the place. Bullying But now the house is under threat, as Leo is still under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a real issue for Roan this term, developer as it seems that someone has made a personal mission of setting him up 's becoming more and more expensive to failmaintain. Everything is riding on his performance this year The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, as flunking out and if Ravenwood itself will mean being held back a year and his friends moving on without himbe torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0545621267</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antony WoottenRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Grubby Feather Gang (Bigshorts)Unicorns of Silver Street

|summary=Life Jayden's nose is confusing for George Sanders: his fatherforever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the local vetworld, has refused for example. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'do his bitout there' and volunteer to fight in Francethemselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. ThereBut when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's bad feeling in cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the village - with the women giving Dad white feathers - and even Georgeone Aisha thinks she's mum believes that he should go and fightseen on a bit of local footage. To top it all George is currently being suspendedThe crew of the boat, upside downincluding a living gargoyle, from are tasked with saving the rafters in rare critters – and the hayloft by kids unknowingly have the local bully who is determined that George is going magical sight needed to do his maths homeworkjoin in. You'd think that it couldn't get much worseDare they side with Leila, but the next day he's caned at school when he doesn't feel that he was woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the wrong. There's no wonder George is confused, is thereunseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0953712389</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Holly WebbB09XWSXSKY|title=The Truffle MouseMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating=4.5

|summary=Alice is going through a tough time right now. Even though her mum and dad split up two years agoFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, sheplease) couldn'd always hoped that they would eventually get back togethert sleep. But when dad introduced his new girlfriend A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and her daughter and announced that they would be moving over in, everything changedhis mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. School isn He hadn't any betterreally wanted to come; after all, either. Shehe's always getting told off in class ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is jealous of her best friend Lucy, who seems to have tell the perfect family, but doesntime. And time isn't appreciate itgood for anything.. When mum sees how withdrawn Alice has become, she takes her to the pet shop to buy a hamster to take her mind off things. However, it's not a hamster ' And that catches Alicewas why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. It was nearly twelve o's eye, clock but a sweet little mouse, with fur like cocoa powderat midnight the clock chimed only six times. The trouble is, mum is terrified of mice!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407144863</amazonuk> There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreNigel Baines|title=Pugs A Tricky Kind of the Frozen North Magic|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Emerging Readers |summary= When Shen finds himself stranded in the middle of Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a frozen seamagician, with 66 shivering pugs for company and no food, he’s desperate to find helpnamed Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. Little does he suspect that this is just the start of their adventure in the frozen north: with his new friend Sika But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and the pugs pulling their slednow Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, he’s suddenly part of a race or how to the top of the worldbe. Will they make it in time And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to meet the Snowfather or will one of the other contestants beat them to it?him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192734571</amazonuk>1444960261