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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]]==Confident readers==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy CassidyMax Boucherat|title=Love, Peace and Chocolate (Pocket Money Puffins)The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
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|summary=Jess and Kady have been best friends since they were three years old and now theyWe meet Lori on the first evening she're s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in , babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year eight at Parkway Community Schoolold, on her lonesome. They're on the edge of puberty but things have been What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a bit slow blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the boyfriend front – not world-building, critter-collecting game that either of them is looking to rush things, particularly as there isna hit in Lori't a single Y8 boy who can make their eyes light ups world. TheyBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn've a goodt find herself entirely on her own, solid friendship which means a lot to both of them and they both think that nothing can come between the girlsthen she finds something even more spooky. Unfortunately they hadn't taken For the arrival server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of Jack Somers into accounttampering. 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014133021X</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Natasha NarayanKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Maharajah's MonkeyDungeon Runners: A Kit Salter AdventureHero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Kit Salter has a nose for adventure. Somehow she always finds troubleLike most of the people in his world, or it finds herseems, and this latest episode he is no exception as she finds herself travelling from an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the home comforts sport where a team of Oxford all warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way to India. Unfortunately for Kit, then the only thing he's seen of the latest race on to the freezing mountains inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of Tibetquestors is needed. What Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has happened taken to Monsieur Champlon? Has the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he abandoned poor Aunt Hilda? 'll enter as a team. Why is the mysterious monkey leaving threatening messages for Kit? And what What chance does it all this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to do with the Maharajahsucceed? Kit and her friends set off on a fantastic journey to investigate.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847245293</amazonuk>1839945184
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard DenningJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Last SealPlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=In 1380 Things have been a bit sticky for the warlock Stephen Blake released the demon Dantalion from the AbyssEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, only for his nemesis Cornelius Silver often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to banish him straight awayaccomplish. Dantalion has nursed his wounds for nearly 300 years – and in 1666, descendants of the original pair clash Just as heaims they were beginning to return get used to the world, all this technological change and burn down London by starting the Great Fire. While the fire rages around Londonto think of other, and Dantalion’s followers try new ways to break the seals which hold him in the Abyssspend time, four unlikely heroes join forces to stop them from being destroyed – along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and to save , along with it, all the worldmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956483550</amazonuk>1736128426
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{{Frontpage
|author=Tom Percival
|title=The Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have 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. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1805141872
|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too Much
|author=Rob Keeley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job...''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard PlattChristopher Edge|title=Would You Believe...bed testers get paid to sleep?!Black Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=It is quite certain Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the reader nickname of this book will not be a bed tester'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, however broad the smile it carries as it suggests anyone can get the employment they dream after. 're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! Neither will she or he be a vital scribe for some ancient civilisationHowever, a slaveas the movie starts, a drudgethey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, or a worker in a Communist collective farmand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But it as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is definitely an eye-opener how all that going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and so much more can be considered by just 48 tidy pages. to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0199119864</amazonuk>1839942738
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard PlattAdam Stower|title=Would You Believe...Vatican City is a country?!Murray and Bun
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers |summary=Cities don’t just spring up around us. They have taken thousands of years of civilisation Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to formsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, however surprising that might appear at timeswell, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. ConverselyBut he's a bad magician's cat, there are some who are just so his favourite bun has been turned into a few hundreds of years old that have been empty for centurieshyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and others that have been planned over the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a drawing board world of frightening adventure and become whiffs. This time round it drops them into a capital city in Viking land, where a decade-long instant. All are within these tidy 48 pages.troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0199119708</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard PlattAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Would You Believe...two cyclists invented the aeroplane?!The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We first met Felix Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in ''Once''. He thought he was the luckiest child wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the orphanageevening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, since he was too – for there is a generation missing in the only one whose parents weren't deadfamily. Sadly A few short years ago, he was wrong about that. We followed his story in ''Then'Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in which he and his dear friend Zelda are on the run from company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the Nazis pair – but when a bad incident at the height of the Holocaust and its terrifying Final Solution. In Now, we catch up with Felix many years later. He's built eatery leads to a good life as a surgeon in Australiaconfession from gran, and Eli knows his only hope is now frustratingly retiredto dare to enter what he most hates, unable with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to operate because of his shaky hands. He's looking after possibly save his granddaughter, Zelda's namesake, whose parents are doctors volunteering in Darfurgran. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014132998X</amazonuk>0571382231
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carl McInerneyHelen Cooper|title=The Funniest Football Joke Book EverTaming of the Cat
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Who scored Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the most goals cat – and in the Greek Mythology League? The centaur forward. Badoom boom tshhhh. Itcase you's re seeing a football joke bookconnection, packed they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the gills with all sorts names of cheesiness and sillinesscheeses. Funniest ever? Perhaps not Anyway, Brie is shunned, but it's not too bad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849391114</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jenna Burtenshaw|title=Wintercraft|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The wardens raid villages scorned and cities for people competent to fight in the war, a war nobody knows anything about other than if you’re sent to fight you don’t come back. The last time they raided Morvane was ten years agomust, taking Kate’s parents with them. Kate is taken in by her unclemous-tracised, Artemis, and grows up in for the way his habits don't match the book shop other mice he lives with him and her friend, Edgar. But now They nibble up paper wrapping from the wardens are back, and looking cheese for more people to fight. However, they are also looking for the Skilled bedding – a dying breed of people who can see through the veil of life he displays it as art and death. They want to build an army of makes stories based on the deadvisuals on it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755370961</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Prineas|title=The Magic Thief: Found|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When we last saw Conn And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he had blown up his wizard master's house, was exiled from the city of Wellmet, feels all alone and lost his locus magicalus (it's like a magic wand, just it's a stone)cast out. He It's been unable almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to do magic ever sincekeep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, which is rough because he needs his powers now more than ever. A terrible evil is blazing a trail towards Wellmetthough, intent on destroying as all the others had the city, and Conn's only hope chance to defeat it is to somehow get a new locus magicalushalf-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. He sets out on a quest to find one, but But will the story have the journey is long and dangerous, and time is running successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849161917</amazonuk>0571376010
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul CooksonLauren St John|title=The World At Our FeetFinding Wonder
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Paul lives Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the basement 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 large tower blocklottery ticket. He When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn's feeling lonely and out t think very highly of sorts. But she has no one else, and so he feigns a headache and stomach ache and has a day off schoolshe goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Spending his day wisely, he gets Things continue to know the eccentric people who inhabit the buildingget worse for Roo, as well as embracing his own eccentric idea that the moon is actually a hole when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the sky.middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406314579</amazonuk>0571376169
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carlos Ruiz ZafonAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=The Prince of MistOscar's Lion|rating=53
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|summary=During World War TwoWe start incredibly bluntly, Max's with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father decides to move the whole family to , but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a seaside retreat he knows couple of - a wooden house far away from the city times before he's grown his family up inhas to be ready for school. Nobody seems too keen on the idea, neither of MaxBut when he enters his parents's sistersbedroom, his mother, nor all he - and Max sees is gifted a pocket watch by his lovingmahoosive male lion on their bed, talented mechanic cum engineer cum watchmaker of a fatherlooking sheepish, enscribed as "Maxand admitting that he won's Time Machine"t be hungry for another two days. But the house they move there are benefits to, and its surroundings, are full of more successful time machines - having a stash of early home videos, a public clock lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that runs backwards, ruined a sunken shipwreckbirthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, a yard full of statues so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a stone circus..problem. And letit's wonderful to have around the house – not forget limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the mysteriousrules, and so on. OK, spider-eating cat that joins in with proceedingsit can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297856421</amazonuk>0008596751
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James RollinsJudith Eagle|title=Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The prologue to this splendid book recounts a terrifying chase, the discovery of fabulous Mayan artifacts, and a shadowy enemy. And that gripping scene sets the tone for the rest of the book. After the strange disappearance of their parents, who were on an archeological dig on the Mountain of Bones, Jake Ransom and his sister Kady are sent a parcel containing two halves of a Mayan coin, their mother's sketchbook and their father's notebook. There is no indication what these things mean or what to do with them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000616</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andy Stanton|title=Mr Gum and the Cherry TreeStolen Songbird|rating=54
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|summary="WoeCaro's mother, woea world-famous whistler, woehas failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, and a bottle of glum" declares a character in this storyRonnie, and you would is having to go up North to if you shared the sensibilities take care of Polly, her friend Alan Taylor (the ridiculously named gingerbread man sister who serves as electrified schoolmaster to some ex-goblins), or any right minded personis unwell. The problem So who is that all the right minded people have switched going to being wrong minded. look after Caro? For the old granny they call Old Granny Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has declared the Old Times backheard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and taken the entire village population (except for confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a magician halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who vanishes from the story) to a sacred glade is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a nearby woodmystery, where as she discovers a tree spirit painting of Old is trying a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to enslave them.Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405252189</amazonuk>0571363148
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gregory HughesTania Unsworth|title=Unhooking the MoonNowhere Island
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The summer holidays Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a time home for relaxinghimself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, playing in the sunwhen he jumps into an anonymous car, and getting bored – precisely what Joe and Scarlett are doing lets it ride him to his future. That future seems to be in jeopardy when we encounter them at the beginning someone steals his one bag of this thrilling book. It is hardly surprising then, belongings – but that when someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the two children see directions of a ghostly train racing towards them in the woodsmotorway, they take a risk place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and step insideseclusion. The train itself is strange Them, but when they find clothes laid out in the single compartment with their own names marked on themand a mute girl also finding a home there, Joe starts to get really worriedalbeit so much more successfully. His sister Scarlett, however Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is more curious – or more reckless – and she immediately begins to try on the blue dress which has been left for her. And then Joe's phone starts to count down from an hour . . .one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0746097530</amazonuk>1804540080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eleanor UpdaleHelen Peters|title=Johnny SwansonFriends and Traitors|rating=43
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary='Strength England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in What Remains' service all her life it seems, like the female generations before her. The other is the inspirational account of DeogratiasSidney, a man who girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has fled been removed there away from the genocide 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 civil war then in Burundi (just south of combination they realise the equator in East Central Africa, bordering Rwanda)Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. He escapes to New York Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, out talk is made of fear meetings with Germans, and want of not only that, a safer life; only his new found American life isn't quite what it promisedlocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385616422</amazonuk>1788004647
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lynne Reid BanksJamie Littler|title=I, HoudiniArkspire
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Houdini Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is not your usualan eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, commonplace hamsterincluding relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Oh no, he Elodie is a hamster intent on a missiongetting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, a mission perhaps even to become the child in line to escape! From his very first glorious taste inherit the power of freedom he spends his life inventing ways the Watcher, the closest to escape a ruler the district has, and scurrying away (usually straight into a heap 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 trouble) at every possible opportunitythe whole family. This is his taleBut in finding something oddly magical, related entirely from his Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own– for good, rather conceitedor for very, point of view.very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007341539</amazonuk>0241586143
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Matthews and Tony Ross024162343X|title=The Merchant Of Venice (Shakespeare Stories)Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=BassanioI was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 's got god'. Where was the hots for Portiaproof? In history lessons, and she for himit was probably worse still. His friend Not too long after the end of WWII, Antonio, borrows money from Shylock I didn't so Bassanio can woo her. Antonio is usually well-offmuch want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but all his money is tied up with his ships at we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the momentfirst place. Due to past rivalries Looking back, Shylock demands I still believe I was right - but I regret that Antonio pay him back with a pound of flesh if he can't come up with I lacked the money. Meanwhile, Portia is putting various suitors maturity to approach 'the testproblem' politely. As someone wise once said elsewhere, the course of true love never did run smooth I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408305046</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gabrielle LordThiago de Moraes|title=April (Conspiracy 365)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's April and Cal has survived three months of his year on the run. Will the fourth bring him any closer to answers about the Ormond Singularity? And can he trust Winter Frey? You guys last saw Cal in January, feeling rather shell-shocked after his father's death from a mysterious disease and his brush with a crazed lunatic who told him that his father was murdered and he'd be next unless he could hold out until next Old Gods New Year's Eve. Within days, Cal found himself on the run, accused of battering his own sister, and in search of something called the Ormond Singularity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996471</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Zizou Corder|title=HaloTricks
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When Halo is a babyMeet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a centaur finds young goddess of nuisance. But just when she's being told that by her crawling up a beachone-last-chance-giving headteacher, the sole survivor of world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a shipwreck. This scene showspower-out, right from the first pageeven of electric cars, hits not just the courage and determination which characterise her during town the course of this book. No one has any idea who this human child is, school's in but the golden owl amulet entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the curious tattoo on her forehead suggest she is specialInternet, just for our convenience's sake). She is adopted by Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the family and for ten years she and her centaur brother Arko lead an idyllic life on ancient Gods have taken the island power of Zakynthos. But ten years later Halo is kidnapped by fishermen and sold into slaverypower from us. She escapes and disguises herself as a boy because as a girl And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have little or no respectpast form in stealing from the Gods, and no freedom of action. Still disguised as a boy she lives with ie the Spartanssemi-deities, falls in lovegiants, half-gods and is given clues to her true identity by so on known as the famous Oracle at Delphitricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141328304</amazonuk>178845295X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip ArdaghHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Trick Eggs and Rubber Chickens: Grubtown Tales Finding Bear
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=If you haven't [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been to Grubtown beforeon Bear Island, then feel welcome. As newly arrived lorry driver John Jones finds outa lot further north than many people would venture, it's and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a place of exceedingly silly names for people polar bear – Blue-Ridge Handheld my favourite so far – and exceedingly silly things happening for exceedingly silly reasonsthat she called Bear. One of those silly Back home, things is John Jones arriving into town with a giant octopus on the back of his lorry – domestic and family front are a realbit advanced, live onebut not perfect for her, destined for and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the brand new aquarium islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and carwashwounded. AnotherDesperate to make sure he's OK, coinciding, silly thing, is she and her father return to the mayor having Arctic and hope that in a huge festival day for the opening world of his new homevery white and very dangerous things, which he has just finished knittingshe can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571247938</amazonuk>0008582017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily BearnSimon Fox|title=A Seaside Adventure (Tumtum and Nutmeg)Deadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There's Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something very comforting about returning to from a story with familiar friends secret place, and this latest in join him on the Tumtum and Nutmeg series does not disappointrun. Our brave little mousey friends are heading off for some new excitementThey get together, this time travelling by train but barely begin to smell the seaside whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep an eye on Arthur away from his colleagues, and Lucy who have been sent to stay with their Unclethe bearer of a whole heap of questions. Nutmeg is sure it won't be any bother, but Tumtum suspects they may well end up on another adventure!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405248203</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe FriedmanCath Howe|title=Boobela and Worm Ride the WavesMy Life on Fire|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Boobela Ren's family home is destroyed in a girl who is just like any other fire. She, her parents, and her little girl, except for the fact that she isnbrother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick- knacks from her cupboard, and now sheis living at her grandmother's a gianthouse where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. Worm is her best friend (he actually is When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a worm) special art project, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and he rides around show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to put in a box , and so she straps finds herself starting to her shouldersteal things. This outing sees them visiting some underground caves and learning to surfSmall things, things that people might not really miss, amongst other adventuresnot when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842556819</amazonuk>1839942835
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally GardnerRob Keeley|title=The Red NecklaceBoy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Paris's streets are already humming Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with talk of revolution, when a return to the young gypsy Yann Margoza is summoned short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to perform his magic at the chateau of a selfisheleven new tales, debt-ridden marquise. He is each as fun to tell the assembled aristocracy their future. But what he hoped would be the ticket to a better life turns into a nightmare when he has a vision of the richly-dressed crowd drowning in a sea of bloodread as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842556347</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kaye UmanskyLaura Noakes|title=Clover Twig and the Perilous PathCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There's non-stop fun and action in this storyMeet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. Granny Dismal comes The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to warn Mrs Eckles that just be named by the Perilous Path has been spotted number they correspond to in the forestledger, and this kicks off a funny story involving witches (both good and bad)they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, trolls, missing little boys, clowns, imps and magic sweetiesuncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. It's But Cosima bears the sequel tag as a surname because nothing else seems to Clover Twig and be known about where she came from, as the Incredible Flying Cottage, but I don't think I lost out too much for not having read that first. Everyone is generally so well describedever inmate, and previous story arcs are quickly filled unique in having no known family in if requiredthe outside world. This is During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the sort of book I would have stayed up late reading under the covers with kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a torch when I was plan involving said outside world – a little girl myselfdevilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, and is now what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the sort of book I would steal from my daughter's room late at night past she has so I can keep reading it without waiting for a chapter a night!little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408801876</amazonuk>0008579059
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=R J AndersonAlice M Ross|title=Rebel (Knife)The Nowhere Thief
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Fifteen years after At last there is new stock in the events of Knife, the Queen of the Oakenwyld is dying of old ageimpoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She charges Knife's daughteralso knows she should be free from worries about being found out, Lindenbecause she has the ability to leave this world, with the task and use an unworldly portal of finding kaleidoscope colours to enter other faeries out in worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the worldbuildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. Knife is now living in the human world with her husband Paul With eviction imminent, and her mission can Elsbeth nab anything to protect actually generate custom at the Oak shop? Well yes, is put in jeopardy by the arrival of Paul's teenage cousinanswer, Timothy.but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408307375</amazonuk>1839943769
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin RichardsNatasha Farrant|title=The Chamber Rescue of ShadowsRavenwood|rating=45
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=ItThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''s LondonVoyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, in the North of England, 1886where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. A company building those new underground train tunnels finds They are part of a hidden vault at impossible depth - complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and seems to release into the world The Lord of Fliesthey are living together as a family. A mysterious masked stage magician does They have grown up swimming in the obviously impossible. A robotic killer stalks cove, roaming through the streetstrees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and a street gang loving every inch of ruffians-on-the-up decides to solve the mysteryplace. A man in charge of Fortean artefacts at But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the British Museum has property to a new employer, asking something much developer as it's becoming more and more evil from himexpensive to maintain. Surely all of that cannot The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be connected in some way? Surely one book can not have all those dark and mysterious elements we can probably all recognisetogether, and put them into one period thriller without coming over as a horrendous porridge of parody?if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571237991</amazonuk>0571348785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David YellandRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Truth About LeoUnicorns of Silver Street
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Eleven year old Tom Oakley thinks heJayden's going mad when nose is forever in a book, which means he seems knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. Aisha is addicted to relive short periods her new tablet, where she can see videos of his life, and dreams about other people from different timesanything that might be out there. The reality problem, as their mothers see it, is far stranger – hethat they are never 'out there's a Walkerthemselves, with the power to rescue those he dreamed about. Travelling to exploring the battle outside world of IsandlwanaHackney, the Great Fire of London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a German U-Boatpast involving Jayden's cousin, guided by the mysterious Professorthey find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, Tom saves including the lives one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of soldier Edwardthe boat, servant Maryincluding a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and Able Seaman Charlie, who also the kids unknowingly have powersthe magical sight needed to join in. There are others Dare they side with Leila, however, with similar powersthe woman on board, and her relative who aren't lives as pleasant as Tom's new friends – a figure in a painting, and the four become saviours of them, allied with the Professor and his roguish helper Septimus, are pitched into a battle to save the worlds. That's intentionally plural – there are two parallel universes at stake here.unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445251388</amazonuk>0241573483
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve VoakeB09XWSXSKY|title=Hooey Higgins Maestro Orpheus and the SharkWorld Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=A shark has been spotted in Shrimpton-on-SeaFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn's bayt sleep. The local chocolate shop has A tune, rather like the ticking of a mahousive egg for sale for £65clock was playing over and over in his mind. Hooey Higgins decides It happened every time he came to capture the former so he can charge admission and buy the lattervisit his grandfather. Hehadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's helped out on his adventures by Twig ten now and Will, whilst they all hope they wonthose old clocks don't fall foul of the big bully Basboappeal to him anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406322342</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony McGowanNigel Baines|title=Einstein's Underpants - And How They Saved The WorldA Tricky Kind of Magic
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=A delightfully silly school cum sci-fi romp for confident readersCooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, with plenty of pants-based humourand now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, but never at the expense of a rollicking good reador how to be. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0440869242</amazonuk>1444960261
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