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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gwynedd Rae Max 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, 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 Clara VulliamyJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Mostly Mary (Mary Plain 1)Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Meet Mary PlainKit. SheLike most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a bearnew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, living in he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a pit team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in the Swiss city of Berneactually managing that, and bears how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been there as a tradition bit sticky for centuriesthe Earthlings. She's not AI and automation have been there longproceeding apace, for sheoften replacing jobs they's just re paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an exuberantawful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, slightly stroppy and definitely naïvealong with it, little cuball the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, trying to catch up to her two slightly-older cousinsin a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', loving life with her aunt he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and uncledoesn'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 generations above themcollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. SheThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's got life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a lot to learn about lifetiny amount of hope. He is good at art, however – from how snow and ice change her world clings to what sitting on sticky paint can mean. Oh the innocence moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of little tykes – such as these books were written fora long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281227</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Katherine Woodfine1805141872|title= The Painted Dragon (The Sinclair's Mysteries)Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Ornate hats''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the best cigars, fine foods and delicate perfumes truth – Mr Sinclair offers it all in his wondrous new department storeMaths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a marvel never before seen safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on the streets of London. Comforttheir trail, refinement Miss Judson and luxury abound, with smoking rooms, tea rooms and even an art gallery to excite and intrigue Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job...''haut monde Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We' as they examine the merchandise and chatter their days awayll find out. But beneath Luckily for Miss Judson, the wealth lies something more sinisterpupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, and once again Sophie and Lil find themselves solving the son of a complicated famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and multi-layered mystery. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405282894</amazonuk>who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maz EvansChristopher Edge|title=Who Let the Gods Out?Black Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Zeus retired as chief god Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a long time agomovie marathon at their local cinema, so a place that has the rulers nickname of things are the Constellations'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, even when they're a far-too-juvenile nineteen hundred year old like Virgo. looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! Feeling left outHowever, she steals as the ambrosia movie starts, they very quickly realise that the Earth resident known as Prisoner Forty-Two needssomething about this new film format is very different, with hardly any clue and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what to do with it or where he on earth is. going on? So it's no surprise that she crashlands on Will they ever get back to the farm where Elliot cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4. He's got enough problems without worrying about 5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a girl humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who seems doolally arriving – his father is nowhere able to be seensleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his mother has got dementia and fancy next of the farm is a week from being repossessedtwo. ItBut he's the birth of a most mismatched partnership – the wise-cracking but hard-done-by ladbad magician's cat, and so his problemsfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the godlike girl who thought she could do it allcatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but stumbles at the first receipt into a world of sarcasmfrightening adventure and whiffs. But not even together can they see the This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger problems around the cornerthan Murray was, to be honest, for both of them – nor the enormity of the help they might end but he's turned up calling on…and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655414</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alex WoolfBell and Tim McDonagh|title= The Shakespeare Plot 1: Assassin's CodeGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Shakespeare's London Eli is a busy lad – a vibrant, colourful city rich by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with promisehim, new discoveries and great artin the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. A place Eli lives with his lovely gran, too, rife with conspiracies and schemes – for murder and mayhemthere is a generation missing in the family. Add A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the mix a mysterious codetitular race, a girl disguised as globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a boy and magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a young servant asked bad incident at the eatery leads to spy on a confession from gran, Eli knows his aristocratic masteronly hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, and with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the stage is set for thrills and adventureonly thing to possibly save his gran. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911242385</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue Hardy-DawsonHelen Cooper|title=Where Zebras GoThe Taming of the Cat

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseConfident Readers|summary=I doubt if you could have zebrasOnce again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, foxesprincipally, we have Brie the end of mouse, up against Gorgonzola the world, penguins, dinosaurs cat – and people out of fairy tale all together if it wasnin case you't re seeing a connection, they live in a book of poetry. Even short stories would struggle cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to fit be the breadth names of content into as few pages as this volume doescheeses. Add in home lifeAnyway, Brie is shunned, school life scorned and, erif you must, footballmous-tracised, and you really do have a diverse selection of subjectsfor the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. All have caught They nibble up paper wrapping from the eye of our author ever since she started her career – some of these poems date back a decade cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and now she is going cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to try her damnedestkeep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, with some brilliant designthough, as all the others had the chance to make sure they all catch half-inch some cheese while the eye of youcat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910959316</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Judd WinickLauren St John|title= Hilo: Saving the Whole Wide World (Hilo Book 2)Finding Wonder|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Judd Winick certainly knows how Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to keep tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his readers in suspense. The first ''Hilo'' book ended on a massive cliffhanger and I've been eagerly awaiting way to the next instalment corner shop to find out buy a lottery ticket. When asked what happens nextother family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. The first book was pure comic-book joy But she has no one else, with bright and bold artwork and an engaging fish-out-of water story about a boy with superpowers who fell so off she goes to earth live with no memory of his identityher unreliable aunt. In this sequel Things continue to get worse for Roo, Hilo returns as when she and discovers that mysterious portals are opening up all over townJoni leave London in Joni's old campervan, releasing all sorts of strange creatures from other dimensions. As the townsfolk run it breaks down in panic from the invading monsters, its the job middle of Hilo and his friends to send them back where they came from nowhere and seal the portals for good.then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141376902</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sam GaytonAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title= His Royal WhiskersOscar's Lion|rating=3.5

|summary= What would you do if your only son was accidently transformed into 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 cat? The Czar couple of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is beside himself, as a war chiefmahoosive male lion on their bed, the emperor of the landlooking sheepish, and admitting that he needs won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an heir strong enough unspoken threat to follow his legacythe bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. Instead And it can shapeshift, so he has can take it to school and it can get him out of a fluffy ginger kittenproblem. He is And it's wonderful to have around the laughing stock of house – not limiting his enemiesbiscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and he really needs to turn these odds back in his favourso on. So he forces those responsible to change the cat into OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a giant cat through the same magic they used the first wonderful time: alchemy. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443820</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HoffmanJudith Eagle|title=TiltThe Stolen Songbird

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=To make an authorCaro's mother, you first show someone books. To make a readerworld-famous whistler, you first show them the books they want has failed to, return home from her recent work trip abroad and/or can, readis now missing. To make a builderHer other mother, Ronnie, you first show someone buildingsis having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. I use those platitudes So who is going to introduce Simonettalook after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, or Nettasomeone Caro has heard her mother despises, who lives in Pisa late in the thirteenth centuryshe feels frustrated and confused and worried. She All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is surrounded by fabulous buildings – itstuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's not for nothing the area will become known as the Field of Miracleshouse, along with an orphan boy, for the CathedralAlbie, Baptistry and bell tower look gorgeouswho is living there too. But something is wrong with the latter one – itshe soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's definitely leaningold suitcase, cracks and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are showing, thieving artworks and over the hundred-plus years it's taken to get this far terrorising people have built . Is the floors at odd angles painting somehow linked to correct the problem. gang? Netta is intent on being the person who can solve it, alongside her father whoAnd what has happened to Caro's employed to finish it off. mother? But therein lies Is she somehow involved in the problem – it's all well and good showing someone buildings, and making them want to be an architect, but if they're the wrong gender then all hope is lost… or is itmystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125651</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda NewberyTania Unsworth|title=Until We WinNowhere Island|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly Confident Readers|summary=The best journeys are made with little stepsMeet Gil. Lizzy Just twelve, he is slowly leaving her boring village behind so determined to escape the care system – by being cheeky yet clever at her lessons, and getting a job the system that constantly puts him in an office in the nearest proper town futureless places that are not homes – and by saving find a home for himself. He is en route to buyyet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and teaching herself lets it ride him to ride, a bicyclehis future. All That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that's under someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the watchful eye two directions of a mother insistent she learns motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to knuckle down with the housework on behalf of the men, provide for their safety and an older brother working at the village huntseclusion. At the officeThem, however, further steps are suggested to her – shorthand and typing classesa mute girl also finding a home there, but she gets divertedalbeit so much more successfully. A chance encounter in Over a tea rooms puts more stepping stones in her way – en route to becoming a fully committed Suffragettefew weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, concerned only with making demands for votes for women.or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125791</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Barry HutchisonHelen Peters|title= Worst Ever School Trip: Beaky MaloneFriends and Traitors|rating= 53

|summary=Dylan 'Beaky' Malone has 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 reputation as girl from a prolific liarhoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. He lies to his teachers The girls are chalk and cheese, friends and family and has become if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so good at it, he rarely gets caught out. Everything changed But something is amiss, however, when he stepped into Madame Shirleyand first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 's magical truth-telling machineun. Now it's impossible for Beaky to tell a lie Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, but worse than and not only that, he now a local Spitfire factory has a habit of blurting the truth out without warningbeen attacked. So whether it's telling But surely the headteacher that his breath smellsgirls are wrong, confessing undying love for and the dinner lady, or embarrassing his friends by sharing their deepest secrets, the saying: ''the truth hurts'' has upper class could never been more appropriate.be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847157750</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kevin SandsJamie Littler|title= Mark of the Plague: a Blackthorn Key AdventureArkspire|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= London during the plague – a terrifying place Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be in any erachalk and cheese. And Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in 1665illicit magic, a time when including relics and blessings are considered just as effective – if not more so – than medicines, it spreads at a horrific ratefrom prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Imagine it: if Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one person of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child in a family starts line to show inherit the distinctive signspower of the Watcher, everyone in the household is sealed inclosest to a ruler the district has, meaning that they too will almost inevitably succumb and die a painful deathone of the five major victors in said earlier war. Quacks sell all manner Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of rubbish the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to desperate townsfolkgain some power of her own – for good, and prophets draw large crowds as they preach repentance or for sin. very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141360666</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Laird024162343X|title=Welcome to NowhereStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|genre= TeensChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Omar is I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a twelve-year-old boy living in Bosra'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, Syriait was probably worse still. He works two small jobs before and Not too long after school. He prefers the jobs to school. Omar dreams end of becoming a successful entrepreneur with a network of businesses WWII, I didn't so much want to rule over. Helearn about the British army's already developing a successful sales patter. Omar has a clever sister who wants 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 army had to be a teacherthere in the first place. Looking back, and a clever brother who few realise is clever because he has cerebral palsy and people canI still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem't see past his speech impedimentpolitely. He has a father who works for the government, a mother who worries too much, a hypercritical granny and a couple of annoying younger siblings I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509853448</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah RubinThiago de Moraes|title= Alice Jones: The Ghost LightOld Gods New Tricks|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Actors are superstitious creatures at Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the best school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of times, but it doesnnuisance. But just when she't help s being told that the cast (including Alice's twin Della) is rehearsing in a historic old theatre once ravaged by fire and haunted, so they sayher one-last-chance-giving headteacher, by the ghost of a former leading ladyworld changes. After Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a spate power-out, even of inexplicable and apparently random accidents threaten electric cars, hits not just the town the show Aliceschool's sister insists she investigate in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and stop the culprit before someone is seriously hurt. But can it all be blamed on the shady businessman who wants to tear that powers the place down and build a multi-plex insteadInternet, or is the explanation something a good deal more spooky? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910002879</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Karen McCombie|title=St Grizzle's School just for Girls, Goats and Random Boys|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Daniour convenience's mum is a zoologist which – according to Dani – means she's obsessed with penguins' bumssake). There are lots of penguins in Antarctica and it's Trixie, thereforeluckily, not surprising that Dani's mum can't turn down realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to join a three month expedition to study her beloved penguins in their natural habitat. But where does gather all the people that leave Dani? Mum thinks can steal it means sending Dani to a sensible boarding school for girls. Dani hates back – namely the idea and she hates characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the school even more when she arrives and discovers Gods, ie the new headteacher has made some rather unusual changes. Dani's convinced there is no way she'll ever fit in in a school where students run wildsemi-deities, where the receptionist barely speaks Englishgiants, half-gods and where they have to remember to lock their dormitory door to keep out so on known as the resident goattricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847157769</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ross WelfordHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=What Not to Do If You Turn InvisibleFinding Bear

|summary=Meet Ethel. Yes[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, it's an old-fashioned name for such a young girllot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but she has connections delightful friendship with the generations that came before, in a polar bear – that she lives with her gran in the far north-east of Englandcalled Bear. Mother deadBack home, and dad long absent, it's them and things on the dog, domestic and very little in the way of friendshipfamily front are a bit advanced, mostly because Ethel is but not allowed to be as cool as she would wishperfect for her, and because she has horrendous acneso can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. The nearest thing to For a friend would seem to be a boy in class who bear doing very Bear-y things has allegedly awful BO, been shot and obviously worse, is an Arsenal fanwounded. So why are we meeting Ethel? Oh yes, itDesperate to make sure he's because OK, she woke up one morning, after trying and her father return to the Arctic and hope that in a sunbed that had been offloaded on to her for freeworld of very white and very dangerous things, to she can find she'd been on it well over an hour, one specific white and dangerous thing – and had in fact become totally invisiblethat the friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008156352</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jason FrySimon Fox|title=Star Wars Rogue One: Mission FilesDeadlock

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Out of several books I've seen to tie-in to Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the seventh official cinema movie in the ''Star Wars'' universeforce, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, this – and join him on the resulting review – is the greatest source of spoilersrun. What you They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is a surprisingly mature look at arrested, leaving Archie on the background and events late express to ''Rogue One'' for such a juvenile bookBrighton, with some fine stills photographs, and toting a volume that introduces all the main characters and gears you up tin his father was determined to understand keep away from his colleagues, and enjoy a lot of the events bearer of the film. So if you don't want to know those in advance, look away now. But certainly consider this as a purchase for reading once you've watched itwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285036</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy LeeCath Howe|title=Amy Lee and the Darkness HexMy Life on Fire|rating=35|genre=Emerging Confident Readers |summary=Amy Lee wakes up from one of her usual dreams, where she combats an evil pirateRen's family home is destroyed in a fire. You would think that was the only nastiness in She, her life – she lives in a lovely place in the Land of Loveparents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have to worry about paying for steaks for any of her nine dogsclothes, nor salmon for or any of her special little knick-knacks from her catscupboard, 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. She can go When she goes back to her favourite tree who will entertain her with school she discovers that the class are doing a storyspecial art project, and she can go adventuring with her bottomless rucksackcreating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and spend all day daydreaming of show who they are as a wicked new house for her dogs… person. Until But Ren has nothing to put in a box, and so she sees threatening purple clouds over the forestsfinds herself starting to steal things. And Small things, things that people might not really miss, not even in this fantasy world do you want when they have so much already. But what will happen to see purple clouds…her if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407172239</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christian O'ConnellRob Keeley|title=Radio The BoyWho Disappeared and Other Stories

|summary=Meet Spike. There're two things he loves in life: Katherine Hamilton, Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a return to the unattainable girl at school everyone does their best short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to warn him offeleven new tales, and radio. He is the youngest person volunteering for his local hospital station – he's each as fun to read all the books and knows that's the best classroom to learn as his trade in. But he's been sacked – the only listener recently was someone who'd died and not turned her radio offprevious offerings. Never mind, though, the horrid headmaster has always promised the school its own radio – but prime presenter will not be Spike, but the headmaster's own son, who is not only Katherine's squeeze but the biggest bully around. Is there any way for Spike to possibly get his lips to the mike and his talents on to the airwaves?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008183325</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary McKayLaura Noakes|title=The Sticky WitchCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating=54|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Tom and Ellie's parents have set sail around Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the world on a raft made of rubbish! They tell girls to just be named by the children that number they will be gone for three yearscorrespond to in the ledger, but it will go by very quickly and they'll re all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be safe known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and happy unique in having no known family in the company of Aunt Taboutside world. But who is this strange lady who applied for During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the job of caring girls for two wonderful children his Institute. But why, and their cat, Whiskerswhat does that body entail? She doesn't seem And could it possibly bring Cos closer to be the kind guardian that the children need, and why is everything in her house past she has so very, very stickylittle link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125996</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Judd WinickAlice M Ross|title= Hilo Book 1: The Boy Who Crashed to EarthNowhere Thief|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Meet D.J. He's At last there is new stock in the odd one out impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a family of talented prodigiesseaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. Whilst his siblings excel at music She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, artsbecause she has the ability to leave this world, science and sportuse an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, Dwhere the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder.J. isn't particularly good at With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything. When D.J. discovers a boy who seems to have crash-landed to earthactually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, things start to change. Suddenlyis the answer, this very ordinary boy has but the potential to be fact a real hero; especially when he discovers that his new friend is not the mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only thing that fell to earth that day...raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141376929</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria Farrer and Daniel RieleyNatasha Farrant|title=Me and Mister PThe Rescue of Ravenwood

|summary=Meet ArthurThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. He's a young lad with a lot on his shouldersRavenwood is an old house, in the North of England, where Bea and nearly all Raffy have been living for most of it seems to come courtesy of his younger brother, Liamtheir lives. LiamThey are part of a complex, you seeextended family arrangement, as Bea is on the autistic spectrum – at the colour marked rocking to there with her Uncle Leo, and fro lotsRaffy is there with his mum, face to and they are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the TV screen so Arthur can't see cove, roaming through the footballtrees, and shrieking completely at one with all of the nature around the slightest sign house and loving every inch of stressthe place. Arthur for one stresses because of this situationBut now the house is under threat, so as Leo is leaving home for good one day – with lucky charms in under pressure from his pockets – when he nearly bumps into Mister P on their doorstep. Mister P is other two brothers to sell the property to a tall, distinguished character, oddly bearing a small suitcase that smells of fish and has a label on developer as it stating Arthur and Liam's addressbecoming more and more expensive to maintain. Has he possibly come The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to stay? That would live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be weirdtorn down. And what is even weirder, as of course the cover tells you, is that Mister P is a polar bear…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192744216</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kieran LarwoodRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title= Podkin One-EarSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=This lovely tale of Jayden's nose is forever in a small rabbit herobook, begins in which means he knows a time lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of peace and contentment the world, for the rabbit kingdomexample. In the cold and snowy days leading up Aisha is addicted to the mid-winter holidayher new tablet, an old Bard visits Thornwood Burrow to entertain the rabbits around a roaring firewhere she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The Bard tells a gripping tale from the pastproblem, as their mothers see it, about Podkinis that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the son outside world of Hackney, London. But when a rabbit chieftain. When narrowboat turns up carrying a dark science-minded, educational purpose, and frightening powerwith a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, known as including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the Gormboat, rises up in including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rabbit world, Podkin rare critters – and his sister and brother are forced the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to leave their burrow and run for their livesjoin in. The story follows their journey and their attempt to defeat Dare they side with Leila, the Gorm woman on board, and restore peace her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and safety to become saviours of the rabbit communities across the land.unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0545474248</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert SwindellsB09XWSXSKY|title=The First HunterMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Tan and his family are scavengers - stone age scavengersFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. When a big cat makes a kill one A tune, rather like the ticking of the family - the brand man - dashes in and frightens the big cat off its kill with a firy brand clock was playing over and one of the others snatches some of the meat for the familyover in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. If they donHe hadn't get the meat then itreally wanted to come; after all, he's down ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to roots, insects or lizardshim anymore.  ''Who needs old clocks anyway? Some of All they do is tell the family are concerned about Wid, who grew, but his brain didntime. And time isn't and they dongood for anything...''t see  And that was why they should hunt for meat to keep he was looking at the clock beside the boy alivebed. TheyIt was nearly twelve o're clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all for leaving him the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?}}{{Frontpage|author=Nigel Baines|title=A Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and named Cooper after the wolvesgreat Tommy Cooper. Tan wonBut sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't have it and for the moment Wid is safequite know who to be, or 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>1781126011</amazonuk>1444960261