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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa ThompsonMax Boucherat|title=The Goldfish BoyLast 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 Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to 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 new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they'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 awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes

|summary=Matthew has OCD. Not that he knows thatWill's what it life isdifficult, in a multitude of ways. He just likes things clean, is bullied because he really hates germshas 'the wrong shoes', or going outside, and he feels safest upstairs in has the wrong shoes because his room dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the front bedroommost basic of things like food, where and his dad can't work because he can control lost his job at the dirtcollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and where he can watch everything had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact thathis mum and dad are separated, and Will's going on outsidelife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, making notes on his neighbours' activitieshe still has a tiny amount of hope. When a little boyHe is good at art, Teddyand clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, from next door goes missing one day, it turns out that Matthew was feel like a light at the last person to see himend of a long, and with all of his neighbours as suspects Matthew struggles against his crippling anxieties in order to try and uncover the truth of what happened to Teddydark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407170996</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gwynedd Rae and Clara Vulliamy1805141872|title=All Mary (Mary Plain 2)The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5

|summary=Mary is growing up – ''Seventeen banks and going out into the worlda jeweller’s have been raided. Which you might expect of a young girl in societyThe police are baffled, but this only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a young girl 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...''bear 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' in societyll find out. StillLuckily for Miss Judson, she's finding the Ps and Qs and pupil who discovers her manners are equally terrible secret is Ben, the son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as important good as our daughters would. But when she's told to be on her best behaviour his father some day, and she who thinks it is something to sit upon, Miss Judson is there any hope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281235</amazonuk>worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gwynedd Rae and Clara VulliamyChristopher Edge|title=Mostly Mary (Mary Plain 1)Black Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Meet Mary Plain. She's Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a bearmovie marathon at their local cinema, living in a pit in place that has the Swiss city nickname of Berne, and bears have been there as a tradition for centuries'The Black Hole'. She's not been there longAll big movie fans, for shethey's just an exuberantre looking forward to lots of exciting films, slightly stroppy and definitely naïvemany, little cubmany snacks! However, trying to catch up to her two slightly-older cousinsas the movie starts, loving life with her aunt and unclethey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and the generations above themthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. She's got a lot But as they lurch from one film genre to learn about lifethe next, however – from how snow and ice change her world to can they figure out what sitting on sticky paint can mean. earth is going on? Oh Will they ever get back to the innocence of little tykes – such as these books were written for.cinema, and to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281227</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katherine WoodfineAdam Stower|title= The Painted Dragon (The Sinclair's Mysteries)Murray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Ornate hatsMurray is supposed to be a humble, the best cigarstidy and friendly cat, fine foods one who is able to sleep and eat and delicate perfumes – Mr Sinclair offers it all in eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his wondrous new department store, a marvel never before seen on fancy next of the streets of Londontwo. Comfort But he's a bad magician's cat, refinement and luxury abound, with smoking roomsso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, tea rooms and even an art gallery to excite and intrigue the ''haut monde'' as catflap they examine both use can chuck them out, not into the merchandise regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and chatter their days awaywhiffs. But beneath the wealth lies something more sinister This time round it drops them into a Viking land, and once again Sophie and Lil find themselves solving where a complicated troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and multi-layered mystery. he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405282894</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maz EvansAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Who Let the Gods Out?The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=Zeus retired as chief god Eli is a long time agobusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, so and in the rulers of things are evening a helper at the Constellations, even when they're a far-too-juvenile nineteen hundred year old like Virgodessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Feeling left outEli lives with his lovely gran, she steals too – for there is a generation missing in the ambrosia that the Earth resident known as Prisoner Forty-Two needs, with hardly any clue as to what to do with it or where he isfamily. So itA few short years ago, Eli's no surprise that she crashlands on parents were both lost to the farm titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where Elliot lives. He's got enough problems without worrying about a girl who seems doolally arriving – his father is nowhere all entrants have to be seen, his mother has got dementia and navigate the world in the farm is company of a week from being repossessedmagical beast. It's This has made the race anathema to the birth of pair – but when a most mismatched partnership – bad incident at the wise-cracking but hard-done-by ladeatery leads to a confession from gran, and Eli knows his problemsonly hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, and with the godlike girl who thought she could do it all, but stumbles at sole aim the first receipt prize of sarcasm. But not even together can they see magic at the bigger problems around the corner, for both of them end – nor the enormity of the help they might end up calling on…only thing to possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655414</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alex WoolfHelen Cooper|title= The Shakespeare Plot 1: Assassin's Code|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Shakespeare's London – a vibrant, colourful city rich with promise, new discoveries and great art. A place, too, rife with conspiracies and schemes for murder and mayhem. Add to the mix a mysterious code, a girl disguised as a boy and a young servant asked to spy on his aristocratic master, and Taming of the stage is set for thrills and adventure. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911242385</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sue Hardy-Dawson|title=Where Zebras GoCat

|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 timesnuisance. But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but it doesn't help the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the cast (including AliceInternet, just for our convenience's twin Dellasake) is rehearsing in a historic old theatre once ravaged by fire and haunted. Trixie, so they sayluckily, by realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the ghost power of a former leading ladypower from us. After a spate of inexplicable and apparently random accidents threaten the show Alice's sister insists And so she investigate and stop begins her epic quest, to gather all the culprit before someone is seriously hurt. But people that can steal it all be blamed on back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the shady businessman who wants to tear Gods, ie the place down and build a multisemi-plex insteaddeities, or is giants, half-gods and so on known as the explanation something a good deal more spooky? tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002879</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen McCombieHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=St Grizzle's School for Girls, Goats and Random BoysFinding Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Dani's mum is [[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 zoologist which polar bear – according to Dani – means that she's obsessed with penguins' bumscalled Bear. There Back home, things on the domestic and family front are lots of penguins in Antarctica and it'sa bit advanced, thereforebut not perfect for her, not surprising that Dani's mum and so can't turn down easily be ignored when word comes through from the once-in-islands Bear was last left on. For abear doing very Bear-lifetime opportunity y things has been shot and wounded. Desperate to join a three month expedition to study make sure he's OK, she and her beloved penguins in their natural habitat. But where does that leave Dani? Mum thinks it means sending Dani father return to a sensible boarding school for girls. Dani hates the idea Arctic and she hates the school even more when she arrives and discovers the new headteacher has made some rather unusual changes. Dani's convinced there is no way she'll ever fit in hope that in a school where students run wild, where the receptionist barely speaks Englishworld of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and where they have to remember to lock their dormitory door to keep out that the resident goatfriendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847157769</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ross WelfordSimon Fox|title=What Not to Do If You Turn InvisibleDeadlock

|summary=Meet Ethel. Yes, it's an old-fashioned name for such a young girl, but she has connections with the generations that came before, in that she lives with her gran in Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the far north-east of England. Mother deadforce, and dad long absentthen suddenly rings Archie, it's them and the dogdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, and very little in join him on the way of friendship, mostly because Ethel is not allowed to be as cool as she would wish, and because she has horrendous acnerun. The nearest thing They get together, but barely begin to a friend would seem to be a boy in class who has allegedly awful BO, and obviously worse, smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is an Arsenal fan. So why are we meeting Ethel? Oh yes, it's because she woke up one morningarrested, after trying a sunbed that had been offloaded leaving Archie on the late express to her for freeBrighton, toting a tin his father was determined to find she'd been on it well over an hourkeep away from his colleagues, and had in fact become totally invisiblethe bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008156352</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jason FryCath Howe|title=Star Wars Rogue One: Mission FilesMy Life on Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Out of several books IRen've seen to tie-s family home is destroyed in to the seventh official cinema movie in the a fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother'Star Warss house where they can'' universet touch anything, or do anything, this – and or even eat the resulting review – is the greatest source of spoilersfoods they normally eat. What you get is a surprisingly mature look at When she goes back to school she discovers that the background and events to ''Rogue One'' for such class are doing a juvenile bookspecial art project, with some fine stills photographscreating boxes of their lives, and a volume to display things that introduces all the main characters and gears you up are important to understand them and enjoy show who they are as a lot of the events of the filmperson. So if you don't want But Ren has nothing to know those put in advancea box, and so she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, look away nowthings that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But certainly consider this as a purchase for reading once you've watched it.what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285036</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy LeeRob Keeley|title=Amy Lee The Boy Who Disappeared and the Darkness HexOther Stories|rating=34|genre=Emerging Confident Readers |summary=Amy Lee wakes up from one of her usual dreams, where she combats an evil pirate. You would think that was the only nastiness in her life – she lives in Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a lovely place in return to the Land of Love, and doesn't have short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to worry about paying for steaks for her nine dogseleven new tales, nor salmon for her cats. She can go each as fun to her favourite tree who will entertain her with a story, and she can go adventuring with her bottomless rucksack, and spend all day daydreaming of a wicked new house for her dogs… Until she sees threatening purple clouds over the forestsread as his previous offerings. And not even in this fantasy world do you want to see purple clouds…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407172239</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christian O'ConnellLaura Noakes|title=Radio BoyCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=Meet SpikeNumber One. ThereOr rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, and they're two things he loves in life: Katherine Hamiltonall Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the unattainable girl at school everyone does their best tag as a surname because nothing else seems to warn him offbe known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and radiounique in having no known family in the outside world. He is During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the youngest person volunteering for his local hospital station kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – he's read a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the books girls for his Institute. But why, and knows what does that's body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the best classroom to learn his trade past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059}}{{Frontpage|author=Alice M Ross|title=The Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=At last there is new stock in. But he's been sacked – the only listener recently was someone who'd died impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and not turned her radio offmother run in a seaside town. Never mind, thoughElsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, the horrid headmaster because she has always promised the school its own radio – but prime presenter will not be Spikeability to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, but where the headmaster's own son, who is not only Katherine's squeeze but sea levels are rising dramatically and the biggest bully aroundbuildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. Is there any way for Spike to possibly get his lips With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, is the mike and his talents on to answer, but the airwaves?fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008183325</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary McKayNatasha Farrant|title=The Sticky WitchRescue of Ravenwood

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Tom This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, in the North of England, where Bea and Ellie's parents Raffy have set sail around the world on a raft made been living for most of rubbish! their lives. They tell the children that they will be gone for three yearsare part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, but it will go by very quickly and they'll be safe and happy are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the company cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of Aunt Tabthe nature around the house and loving every inch of the place. But who now the house is under threat, as Leo is this strange lady who applied for under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the job of caring for two wonderful children property to a developer as it's becoming more and their cat, Whiskers? more expensive to maintain. She doesnThe children find themselves worrying not only about where they't seem re going to live, but if they'll even be the kind guardian that the children needtogether, and why is everything in her house so very, very sticky?if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125996</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Judd WinickRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title= Hilo Book 1Secret Beast Club: The Boy Who Crashed to EarthUnicorns of Silver Street|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Meet D.J. HeJayden's the odd one out nose is forever in a family book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of talented prodigiesanything that might be out there. Whilst his siblings excel at music The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, artsexploring the outside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science -minded, educational purpose, and sportwith a past involving Jayden's cousin, Dthey find a magical world they never knew existed.J. isn For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she't particularly good at anythings seen on a bit of local footage. When D.J. discovers The crew of the boat, including a boy who seems to living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have crash-landed the magical sight needed to earth, things start to changejoin in. Suddenly Dare they side with Leila, this very ordinary boy has the potential to be woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a real hero; especially when he discovers that his new friend is not painting, and become saviours of the only thing that fell to earth that day...unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141376929</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09XWSXSKY|title=Maria Farrer Maestro Orpheus and Daniel Rieleythe World Clock|titleauthor=Me Robert Penee and Mister PJoanne Grodzinski|rating=54

|summary=Meet ArthurFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. Hehadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's a young lad with a lot on his shoulders, ten now and nearly all of it seems those old clocks don't appeal to come courtesy of his younger brother, Liamhim anymore.  ''Who needs old clocks anyway? Liam, you see, All they do is on tell the autistic spectrum – time. And time isn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the colour marked rocking to and fro lots, face to clock beside the TV screen so Arthur canbed. It was nearly twelve o't see the football, and shrieking clock but at midnight the slightest sign of stressclock chimed only six times. Arthur There was nothing for one stresses because it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?}}{{Frontpage|author=Nigel Baines|title=A Tricky Kind of this situation, so is leaving home for good one day – with lucky charms in his pockets – when he nearly bumps into Mister P on their doorstepMagic|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. Mister P is His father was a tallmagician, distinguished characterand named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, oddly bearing a small suitcase that smells of fish and has a label on it stating Arthur and Liamnow Cooper doesn's address. Has he possibly come t quite know who to be, or how to stay? That would be weird. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't know what is even weirder, as of course the cover tells you, is that Mister P is a polar bear…'s going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192744216</amazonuk>1444960261