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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Ted HughesRob Keeley|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of all, he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.}}{{Frontpage|isbn= 1836282028|title=The Tigerboy (Faber Children's Classics)Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=This is ''Would you like to adopt a smallghost?'' ''Young spirit, born 1887, but beautifully formed bookseeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by birth. Containing just one short story it is perhaps over Good company. Gets on well with other children. Jokes and shocks a little quicklyspeciality.'' ''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, considering in the price shape of the bookan arrow, but it is a really lovely object pointing to ownyour front door... It '' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is the story celebrating a decade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's ''Spirits'' series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that is both a reboot and a perfectly normal little continuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, with the very ordinary name of Fredhas some new companions. FredRuby and Jayden respond to this intriguing advertisement and Edward, howeverwho has broken the rules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, knows that there is something different about him, adopted by them and that he is specialtakes up residence in.... Everything about his life is unremarkable until one night his foot starts to itch and he finds himself turning into a tigerwardrobe!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571320627</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Walliams and Tony RossRob Keeley|title=The Midnight GangChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=54

|summary=Meet TomAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. The experience is easier and more pleasant after He's a few pages ball of this bookhappy positivity, for it begins without him remembering his own name. But eventually he pieces his day understands children, and his life together – he is a student at a stereotypically bad posh boarding schoolwrites for their pleasure and enjoyment, with his new-money parents working abroad (not to lecture or hector.  The ''somewhere with a desertChildish Spirits'')series is one of his greatest achievements. He was struck It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on the head by a cricket ballEllie, and has now been admitted to a hospital for a few days – and nights. With four very diverse residents already in stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the children's wardspirit world throws at her, added to the horrid matron, the inept young doctor and the incredibly ugly and evil-looking porter, he settles downEdward, finding it not quite the holiday from school he expects, but worthwhile all the same. He also finds that some of the other kids have a Midnight Gang. What and where is this, can Tom go – spoiled lordling and what might he get out of it – immediately become the salient points of this latest huge-seller by [[:Category:David Walliams|David Walliams]].first spirit Ellie encounters|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008164614</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeff KinneyMax Boucherat|title=Double Down (Diary The Last Life of a Wimpy Kid book 11)Lori Mills|rating=34.5

|summary=ThereWe meet Lori on the first evening she's one thing we learn from this book's October setting got the house to herself – Greg Heffley's best buddy Rowley is a complete scaredyno neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-catbreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Everything makes him quake What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in frighta blanket fort, but it should surely be Greg quivering in the corner with fearshe has one main intention, considering what his life brings him. He's begun and that is to think he's in a sequel log on to ''The Truman Show''Voxminer, due to the fact everything must all be scripted against himworld-building, and life like critter-collecting game that doesnis a hit in Lori't occur naturallys world. His mum thinks But first Lori has a drive to get him registered as tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn'Talented t find herself entirely on her own, and Gifted' at school will help with then she finds something even more spooky. For the family self-esteem, but there are all sorts server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of things going against everyone, ranging from a disembodied witch's laugh to killer geese marauding around towntampering. YesWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, this and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is certainly a Hallowe'en girl to be glad to see the other side of…turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141373016</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=AnneKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Sophie Baumann, Olivier Latyk and Robb Booker (translator)Stanton|title=The Ultimate Book of SpaceDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=SpaceMeet Kit. For all Like most of the hugepeople in his world, empty expanse of itseems, it's he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a full and very fiddly thing to experience. The National Space Centreteam of warrior, in the hotbed of cosmology mage and space science that is Leicesterhealer enter specially prepared, is chock full of things to touchcentury-old, gripmagical mazes, pull and move around – race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and so is this bookthe points they grant you along the way. ItUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's a right gallimaufry seen of things the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that pop up out of the pageone team has been retired, with things to turn and pulleaten, and even an astronaut on the end a new trio of a curtain wirequestors is needed. Within minutes of opening this book I had undressed an astronaut Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to find what was under his spacesuit, dropped the dome on an observatory to open up goading from the telescope, token bully of his world and swung stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a Soyuz supply module around so it could dock at the International Space Stationteam. Educational fun like What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that can only be a good thing for the budding young scientist., and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B01AGIOSQ2</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt Haig and Chris MouldJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Girl Who Saved ChristmasPlanet Storyland

|summary=Meet AmeliaThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. She is not the character that invented ChristmasAI and automation have been proceeding apace, but someone who certainly helped create it – it was her magic, her dreams often replacing jobs they're paid to do and her concern other tasks that reached across the miles took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to Father Christmas all this technological change and got his spirit (starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and reindeer) up enough for , along with it , all to workthe many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. But now|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, things are in a lot worse for her – she multitude of ways. He is stuck in bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the nightmare job of chimney sweep in Victorian London to help feed wrong shoes because his dad can't work and pay doesn't have enough money for medicine for her dying mother. Elsewhere even the most basic of things are taking a turn for like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the worsecollege, too – Elfhelm is under threat from was working a cash-in-hand job on a nasty, underground source, building site and with it being Christmas Eve it looks like had an accident. Throw into that mix the glimmer of light fact that would normally be Christmas itself is his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a dim prospecttiny amount of hope. As it works both ways – Elfhelm helping lift the human worldHe is good at art, which in turn inspires the elvish festivity and work – what could be clings to the consequence moments of joy when both sides begin to lose he is drawing, that feel like a light at the most vital aspect end of lifea long, the one called hope?dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782118578</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jody Revenson1805141872|title=Incredibuilds: Buckbeak: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=The general perception is that to become ''Seventeen banks and a leading British actor, you need the fillip of Eton or somesuch education. But you don't jeweller’s have to be an actor to make a great filmbeen raided. ''Gravity'' for instance has extended scenes where the The police are baffled, but only thing natural is Ben knows the performers' faces truth – everything elsehis Maths teacher, even Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their bodiestrail, was made in Britain by people using computersMiss Judson and Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job... The eight ''Harry Potter'' films Goodness me, also made in the UK, needed that Miss Judson is a lot of computing power as well, but also terror! How on earth did a lot of craftsmen nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with their hands on tools and a keen eyebad 'un like Al? We'll find out. What better way to start training Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the young reader into that side son of things, than with tasking them with making afamous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, er, hippogriff?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707232</amazonuk>and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jody RevensonChristopher Edge|title=Incredibuilds: Aragog: Deluxe Model and Book Set (Harry Potter)Black Hole Cinema Club

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Aragog Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the giant spidernickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, donthey't you know, took six man years just re looking forward to buildlots of exciting films, and weighed a ton. many, many snacks! After countless trial models and pieces of visual design workHowever, as the movie starts, he could finally be constructedthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and he stretched across eighteen feet of the studio floorthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. OrBut as they lurch from one film genre to the next, conversely, he can they figure out what on earth is about seven inches long and seven widegoing on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and you put him together in a day or two, for the cost of this book-and-gift set and some craft paints.to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783707240</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jody RevensonAdam Stower|title=Incredibuilds: House-Elves: Deluxe Book Murray and Model Set (Harry Potter)Bun

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers |summary=How do you create Murray is supposed to be a house-elf like Dobby? Wellhumble, you have a tennis ball on a stringtidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and point actors so they look at itsleep and, well, and say their lines to a pretty-much empty spacewhatever takes his fancy next of the two. You then film Toby Jones doing the elfBut he's a bad magician's linescat, and use that sound file and so his facial expressions as basis for your CGI creation – the first major character to come from the digital realm in the ''Harry Potter'' films. You can throw in favourite bun has been turned into a few puppetshyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and now and again a gifted small personthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, particularly at not into the end regular back garden, but into a world of film #7… frightening adventure and whiffs. OrThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, of coursewhere a troll hunter is expected – well, you can get this gift setone much bigger than Murray was, and press the wooden parts outto be honest, muckle them together – but he's turned up and lo and behold, a six inch tall Dobby for your windowsill.he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783707070</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo (Editor)Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= Greatest Animal StoriesThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating= 54|genre= For SharingConfident Readers|summary= We all know of Aesop and his animal fables: Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the hare and the tortoisewondrous library we start by visiting with him, the boy who cried wolf or the ant and in the grasshopper. In this stunning collection of animal stories, Michael Morpurgo has collated well-known and much-loved animal stories in evening a beautifully presented book. In helper at the introduction he writes that we often first meet animals in stories before we meet them in real life dessert cafe his gran owns and this collection is selected from his favourite childhood animal talesruns. Within Eli lives with his own storieslovely gran, Morpurgo favours too – for there is a generation missing in the inclusion of animals as the central character and these are all well received by childrenfamily. As a primary school teacherA few short years ago, I value Eli's parents were both lost to the fact that such titular race, a wellglobe-known author has collected these valuable animal-centred stories which can be used not only trotting adventure where all entrants have to engage children with tales from different cultures but also navigate the world in providing life lessonsthe company of a magical beast. Each is beautifully illustrated and individual in style This has made the race anathema to each story. Prefacing each tale is the pair – but when a short paragraph giving information on bad incident at the origin of the story and often eatery leads to a question or two confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to promote thought and discussion within dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the story. The stories originate from across end – the globe: Iceland, Africa, China and North America only thing to name a fewpossibly save his gran. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192748629</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dave SheltonHelen Cooper|title= Good Dog Bad Dog: Double IdentityThe Taming of the Cat|rating= 43.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= There has been Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing a killing connection, they live in Colliea cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-woodtracised, a bustling movie-making cityfor the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. Two detectives are on They nibble up paper wrapping from the case cheese for bedding – Kirk Bergman he displays it as art and Duncan McBoomakes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, however this onewhen he feels all alone and cast out. It's not going almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to be easy tell stories to solvekeep themselves alive. Throughout Muttropolis there are crafty canines who will stop at nothing This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to keep half-inch some cheese while the truth locked awaycat was distracted. Surely nothing is going to stop these shrewd detectives from solving But will the story have the case and enjoying a celebratory glass of milk-shake.successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910989002</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula HarrisonLauren St John|title=Robyn Silver: The Midnight Chimes Finding Wonder

|summary= The Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the middle child in 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 of five childrenshe has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, ten year old Robyn Silver longs for who she knows her life to be more excitingdad didn't think very highly of. However But she has no one else, and so off she means exciting like owning a pool goes to live with a water slide or winning a life-time supply of pizzaher unreliable aunt. She doesn Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni't mean seeing freaky things s old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of the night nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Oscar's Lion|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or discovering father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is a whole creepy world mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that most people donhe won't know aboutbe hungry for another two days. But that is what she gets: the moment she hears the Mortal Clock strike she is able there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to see the creatures of bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the Unseen Worldother month. Suddenly her life is turned upside down as she begins the secret training And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a problem. And it'Chimes wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407170589</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin ColferJudith Eagle|title=Marvel Iron Man: The GauntletStolen Songbird

|summary=No superhero story is really complete without Caro's mother, a lesson of some kindworld-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and this adventure starts with one toois now missing. Tony Stark – a youngHer other mother, Ronnie, teenaged fan is having to go up North to take care of Duran Duran Tony Stark – her sister who is unwell. So who is taking his latest home invention going to his father. look after Caro? It's a perfect drone, able Sent to do no manner of humanitarian thingsstay with Gam, but the lesson from Howard Starksomeone Caro has heard her mother despises, the weapons developer she feels frustrated and confused and seller, is that toys like that don't help the security of the worldworried. From now on, Tony will be All her summer holiday plans of building things that herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are definitely not cutesybrought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, or do-goodyalong with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. Butshe soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, while the gamut as she discovers a painting of Iron Man suits he has developed since then allow him to have a playful playboy figure in bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the limelight, especially courtesy of his party DJ variant, Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the threats continue painting somehow linked to rise. the gang? And this one seems what has happened to come from within…Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285419</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex T SmithTania Unsworth|title=Santa ClaudeNowhere Island|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him to his future. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. Them, and a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfully. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Peters|title=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 first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=1788004647}}{{Frontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=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 ruler 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

|genre=For Sharing Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Ah Claude! I was the bad company other people got into at school. He is such an endearing little dogI was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. He's back on an adventure with Sir Bobblysock and this time Where was the proof? In history lessons, it is a Christmas adventurewas probably worse still. There are baubles and trees and carols and reindeer and, Not too long after the end of courseWWII, thereI didn't so much want to learn about the British army's trouble! For who else successes (and occasional failures, but Claude would accidentally handcuff Santa we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to an armchair on Christmas Evebe there in the first place. Looking back, and then need I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to deliver all approach 'the presents himself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444926497</amazonuk>problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John Dougherty and David TazzymanThiago de Moraes|title= Stinkbomb and Ketchup Face-and the Great Kerfuffle Christmas KidnapOld Gods New Tricks|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= It's Christmas Eve and Father Christmas is missingMeet Trixie. Brother and sister Stinkbomb Forever getting into scrapes, larks and Ketchup Face wake up in adventures involving flooding the middle school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the night expecting to find a huge pile of presentsworld changes. Instead they find Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a huge pile power-out, even of nothingelectric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake). They know something must be wrong because they Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have been good all year long (honestly)taken the power of power from us. The only possible answer is And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that Father Christmas is have past form in trouble stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so they have to save him and save Christmas for everyone on known as the island of Great Kerfuffletricksters. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192747789</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cameron McAllisterHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title= The Demon UndertakerFinding Bear|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Fourteen[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, things on the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-year-old Thomas y things has already seen much sorrow been shot and wounded. Desperate to make sure he's OK, she and her father return to the Arctic and hope that in his young life –notably the death a world of his beloved father very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the accidental loss of his own handfriendship can continue.|isbn=0008582017}}{{Frontpage|author=Simon Fox|title=Deadlock|rating=4. His mother hopes to give him a new start by sending him away 5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from Virginia to join his uncle Sir Henry Fieldingshift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, chief magistrate of Londondemanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. They get together, but before barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the boy has even had father is arrested, leaving Archie on the chance late express to greet Brighton, toting a tin his new father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=1839944420}}{{Frontpage|author=Cath Howe|title=My Life on Fire|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ren's family he home is embroiled destroyed in a life 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 death chase through now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the grimy foods they normally eat. When she goes back streets of to school she discovers that the capital in the hopes class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of rescuing their lives, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a young noblewomanperson. All London is agog: what happens But Ren has nothing to put in a box, and so she finds herself starting to the steal things. Small things, things that people who disappearmight not really miss, never not when they have so much already. But what will happen to be seen again, and her if someone finds out what exactly does the terrible masked fiend in the hearse want them forshe is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>055257404X</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Helen Peters and Ellie SnowdonRob Keeley|title= A Piglet Called TruffleThe Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating= 54|genre= For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Living on a farm, Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with her father who works as a farmer and a mother who is a farm-vet, Jasmine has spent all her young life learning how to care for animals. On a visit to a neighbouring farm, Jasmine is excited return to see the new baby piglets. Expecting short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to see eleven pigletsnew tales, she is stunned each as fun to find one extra - a tiny little runt hiding in the corner. Being smaller than her hand, the farmer has no sympathy and expects it to die by the end of the day. Of course, Jasmine can't allow this to happen. The story is then set for a struggle to save the smallest piglet, called Truffleread as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857637738</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Megan Shepherd and Levi PinfoldLaura Noakes|title= The Secret Horses of Briar HillCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating= 4

|summary=Megan Shepherd has written a stunning taleMeet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, which just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is exquisitely illustrated for the girls to just be named by the artwork of Levi Pinfold. Secret Horses tells number they correspond to in the story of a ledger, and they're all Unfortunates – young girl and her friendship people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a magical winged horse. When Emmaline is evacuated surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from Nottingham during , as the Second World Warfirst ever inmate, she enters a fantasy and unique in having no known family in the outside world of discovery behind the silvery glass of the mirrors in her new country home at Briar Hill. An old sprawling mansion once owned by During a wealthy familydaring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, Briar Hill has become she discovers a children’s hospital run by Nuns. Emmaline and the other children are struggling to recover from plan involving said outside world – a serious illness and have been quarantined away from their families. To add devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to their plight, they worry about their fathers away at war and their mothers left at home want to face bombing raids and adopt all the scarcity of food. Emmaline and her friends are carefully nursed by the Nuns through the harsh and snowy winter of 1941girls for his Institute. This is a story of bravery and fortitude But why, good and evil and how one small child can find light even in what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the darkest of places.past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406367583</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lou TreleavenAlice M Ross|title= Letter to PlutoThe Nowhere Thief|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Letter to Pluto At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a story told through an inter-planetary pen-pal friendshipseaside town. Set in the year 2317, writing with a pen and sending letters Elsbeth knows this because she has certainly become a dying art-formstolen it. HoweverShe also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, Jon’s teacherbecause she has the ability to leave this world, Mrs Halland use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, decides it is important to keep where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the art buildings are generally empty of letter writing alivehumans and ripe for plunder. The only difference is that Jon’s pen-pal lives a long way away. 75 billion km With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to be precise. On Pluto. At first the idea of writing actually generate custom at all is bad enough, but when Jon finds out that his pen-pal is a girl he nearly quits the programme. shop? Encouraged by his teacher’s bribes of merit awards for his best writingWell yes, Jon soon learns that Pluto is not as boringthe answer, small and smelly as he first thought.but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848862318</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackie MorrisNatasha Farrant|title=The White FoxRescue of Ravenwood

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Sol had never been happy in Seattle. It wasn't just that he was bullied at school: being Inuit he looked This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''differentVoyage of the Sparrowhawk'' and that always makes you a target. Sol's heart was somewhere else - Ravenwood is an old house, in the ArcticNorth of England, where he felt he belonged Bea and where he had grandparents whom he'd not seen Raffy have been living for such most of their lives. They are part of a long timecomplex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a family. Everything changed when his father told him about They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the white Arctic fox which had been seen on nature around the docks house and Sol set about finding loving every inch of the fox - and then feeding itplace. But what would happen now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the fox when property to a developer as it was trapped? 's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. And how would Sol handle the situation?The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125228</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Allie EsiriRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title= A Poem for Every Night Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of the YearSilver Street|rating= 4|genre= Children's Rhymes and VerseConfident Readers|summary=Poetry can feel Jayden's nose is forever in a little intimidatingbook, to children which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and grown-upsunicorns of the world, for example. All those school lessons Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of dissecting poems in order to ascertain exactly what the poet intended with every word and stylistic form tend to kill anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the beauty outside world of a well-written poemHackney, London. This collection is But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a yearscience-long tour through minded, educational purpose, and with a vast history past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of poetrythose mythological creatures are real, and gives including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the reader boat, including a new poem to try every nightliving gargoyle, are tasked with everything from Michael Rosen saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to Shakespeare to Christina Rosettijoin in. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509813136</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Michael ForemanB09XWSXSKY|title=The Fox Maestro Orpheus and the Ghost KingWorld Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating=3.54

|summary=Considering how bizarre Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the stories ticking of a clock was playing over and over in juvenile literature can sometimes be, it's weird his mind. It happened every time he came to think that occasionally it's the actual source material that inspired it that is even more unusualvisit his grandfather. Whoever would He hadn't really credit writing a book where footballing underdogswanted to come; after all, he's ten now and firm favourites all those old clocks don't appeal to be relegated, defied odds of 5000 to 1 to win him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the Premiership? time. But And time isn't good for anything...'' And that's what happened in was why he was looking at the 2015/16 season, in a certain town in clock beside the East Midlands of Englandbed. Despite every worry directed their way, they sustained their fine form long enough to win the league, in a run that some people soon realised had started when said city had had another momentous event, namely holding It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the proper burial accorded a lost King of Englandclock chimed only six times. Like I say, completely unusual There was nothing for it but to go and unexpected events – surely too odd to be turned into fictionfind grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008215774</amazonuk>