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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Jenkins and Stephen BiestyMax Boucherat|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and BeyondThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=I take it as read that you know some of We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the history of space explorationhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, even if the young person you buy books for doesn't know it allon her lonesome. So I won't What could possibly go into the extremes reached by the ''Voyager'' space craftwrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the processes we needed to be expert world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in before we could launch anythingLori's world. You probably have some But first Lori has a tiny inkling of how we learnt that wethis stormy night doesn're not the centre of everything – the gradual discovery of how curved the planet wast find herself entirely on her own, and how other things orbited other things in turn proving we are not that around which everything revolvesthen she finds something even more spooky. What you might not For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be so genned up on is the history able to enter shows signs of books conveying all this to a young audiencetampering. When I was a nipper they were stately texts, with a few accurate diagrams – if you were lucky. For a long time now, however, they've been anything but statelymalevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and often aren't worried about accuracy as such her safe place in their visual design. They certainly long ago shod the boringgame has been doctored – well, plain white page. Until now…where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joy Cowley Kieran Larwood and Gavin BishopJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Helper and HelperDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Snake 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 Lizardhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, after deciding not and race to eat the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or be eaten by the other, have set up their business designed to help other animals in needbig bad and the points they grant you along the way. But they need a new sign Unfortunately for their premisesKit, and work done to the entrance burrow. But what name goes first only thing he's seen of the latest race on the advertinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and who a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to do the labour for goading from the expansion? Those arguments done – token bully of his world and there will be arguments aplenty before this book is out – they find stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a rival has stolen all their trafficteam. Can they get any business back to their door? A rabbit that's too pale for the desert lifeWhat chance does this friendless, critters muscle-free-zone have in need of a bed for the nightactually managing that, and even one wondering if the world is flat or round, all prove they can. It's a hard life being such unlikely partners…how could he possibly hope to succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1776571053</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Palmer and Garry ParsonsJames Sherwood Metts|title=Secret FCPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Meet Lily, Maddie, Zack, Khal, and James and BattsThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. They all go to a school together – AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they 're paid to do it eagerly, as their inner city life is so devoid of nature and the open space other tasks that the playground is the only room large enough for footballtook time to accomplish. But lo Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and behold the starting to think of other, new head teacher has banned all ball gamesways to spend time, on health along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and safety grounds. How do these friends get over their disappointment? Why, along with imaginationit, hard work and a firm belief that what they're doing is right, is how – they convert a rotting tennis court handily hidden in all the school's woods into a pitch, where after a lot of labours many daily social interactions on which they can play to their heart's contentdepend so heavily. Or so they think…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126879</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg RosoffTom Percival|title=Good Dog McTavishThe Wrong Shoes

|summary=McTavish did wonder whether Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was making working a mistake cash-in adopting the Peachey family: it was -hand job on a decision which came from the heart rather than the headbuilding site and had an accident. You see Throw into that mix the Peacheys were dysfunctional: Ma Peachey, an accountant by profession, decided fact that she was fed up with chasing around after an ungrateful familyhis mum and dad are separated, so she resigned and dedicated herself to her yoga with half Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a hint that she might also dedicate herself to her yoga teachertiny amount of hope. She gave up cooking, cleaning, bakingHe is good at art, washing and all clings to the other things which kept the family goingmoments of joy when he is drawing, such as finding lost keys and getting people out of bed so that they got to wherever they were going on time. And feel like a light at the family? Well, they had no idea end of how to copea long, with one exceptiondark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126836</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Julia Lee1805141872|title= Nancy Parker's Spooky SpeculationsThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nancy Parker''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, likeable maidservantbut only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, and part-time super sleuthMiss Judson, returns in this enjoyable mystery story set in 1920. Nancy is delighted to be rescued from really a safecracker! With police and her job gangster boyfriend Al on the fruit their trail, Miss Judson and vegetable market stall when she is offered Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job of housemaid at an old house by the sea thanks ...'' Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to her old friend Ella who lives nearby. However strange noises and bumps in the night coupled get mixed up with ghostly appearances soon disturb Nancya bad 's contentmentun like Al? We'll find out. The two friends team up and decide Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of a famous magician who has ambitions to investigate the mysterious happenings. However all does not go smoothly for our young heroines be as good as they cope with unfriendly neighbourshis father some day, spooky cellars and Nancy's kindly but eccentric boss. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192746979</amazonuk>who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean UreChristopher Edge|title=Born to Dance (Dance Trilogy 1)Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5

|summary=Maddy O'Brien is just eleven years old Lucas and her life revolves around ballet dancing. It's not surprising really: her father is his friends are all booked in for a leading choreographermovie marathon at their local cinema, her mother was a ballerina but now runs her own ballet school, her brother, Sean, place that has just been promoted to soloist and her sister Jen might be having a baby but she was in the business toonickname of 'The Black Hole'. MaddyAll big movie fans, they's enthusiasm for ballet isn't the usual passing interest which re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many young girls have - she's longing to be off to ballet school full time. snacks! In However, as the meantime she movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and a couple of her friends they are looking over swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the new arrivals at their school and Maddy is convinced that one of them next, can they figure out what on earth is a ballet dancer. going on? Only Caitlyn is ''adamant'' that she's not Will they ever get back to the cinema, and quite definite that she doesn't go to classes.their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008164525</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Renee RussellAdam Stower|title=The Misadventures of Max Crumbly: Locker HeroMurray and Bun

|summary=We Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start this book introducing us to Max Crumbly by visiting with him, and in the dark. Literally – I don't mean as regards knowing very little about him evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and itruns. It's clearly a diary-styledEli lives with his lovely gran, heavily pictorial, light read too – for there is a young audience, but we're in the dark as regards Max because ''he'' is generation missing in the darkfamily. School bully Thug Thurston has locked him in his lockerA few short years ago, and heEli's scribbling parents were both lost to the titular race, a goodbye globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in his journal, with the help company of a handy pocket torchmagical beast. Over an extended flashback This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a flashback that would never really work otherwise in bad incident at the eatery leads to a diary-styled book – we see more of who Max is. He's buddy to the boyf of Nikki Maxwell confession from this author's other seriesgran, and Eli knows his only hope is a friendless yet cool chap at his middle schoolto dare to enter what he most hates, which he's riding out – complete with Thug – because the alternative is his gran's version sole aim the prize of home-schooling, which is much worse. But when magic at the end – the locker, official notes of his attending late, and problems with classroom beauty Erin all conspire to make Max hate school even more, you might just expect him only thing to change possibly save his mindgran. But events here will more than make up his resolve…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471144623</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Moorhouse and Holly SwainHelen Cooper|title=The New Adventures Taming of Mr Toad: A Race for Toad Hallthe Cat

|summary=''Poop-poop!'' Once again, mice are pitched against cat. YesIn this case, that must be principally, we have Brie the most inaccurate representation of mouse, up against Gorgonzola the noise cat – and in case you're seeing a toad makes. But of courseconnection, it's not just ''they live in a toad'', but Mr Toad – Toad cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of Toad Hallcheeses. The irrepressible juvenile driverAnyway, thrusting himself into the Edwardian eraBrie is shunned, scorned and scaring , if you must, mous-tracised, for the bejaysus out of way his friends, Moley, Ratty and Badger. But habits don't match the other mice he's long gonelives with. Toad Hall is a shell They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – a ruin compared to what he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it once was. Stumbling into its underground regions (don't ask) are MoAnd that story-telling will come in handy one night, Ratty when he feels all alone and TJ – Toad Junior, in full – and what they're about to discover will shock themcast out. But thatIt's nothing compared almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the shock that what they find will facetop dog in the mouse community, for Mr Toad will be revived after a century of being frozenthough, and not like what he finds one bitas all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. Apart, But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that is, from the modern cars…cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192746731</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy WorsleyLauren St John|title= My Name is VictoriaFinding Wonder|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Miss V is the daughter of Sir John ConroyRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Sir John Conroy is Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the comptroller middle of the household of night by the widowed Duchess of Kent. And police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the widowed Duchess of Kent is mother corner shop to the young Princess Victoriabuy a lottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who will go on to be one she knows her dad didn't think very highly of Britain's most memorable monarchs. Miss V is also called Victoria - well But she has no one else, Victoire actually - but distinctions of rank are importantand so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, especially as when one she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of you will become a queen.nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408882019</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Trenton Lee StewartAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title= The Secret KeepersOscar's Lion|rating= 53|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Reuben We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is a small boy growing up with more likely – read him his mum in very favourite book a big city full couple of injustice and feartimes before he has to be ready for school. The family have little money But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and working two jobs means admitting that Reubenhe won's mum trusts him t be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be on his own shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a lotbirthday party for Oscar the other month. For a young child Reuben develops a lot of independence And it can shapeshift, which really helps him when so he finds an unusual can take it to school and precious object and decides to try to uncover its secretit can get him out of a problem. He hopes And it might be valuable and dreams of being able 's wonderful to buy have around the house – not limiting his mum her ideal home. Unfortunately there is someone else also looking for biscuit intake, being much more lax about the object rules, and Reuben enters into so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a dangerous game of hide and seek as he dares to take on the most powerful and ruthless man in the citywonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911077287</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa ThompsonJudith Eagle|title=The Goldfish BoyStolen Songbird|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=0571363148}}{{Frontpage|author=Tania Unsworth|title=Nowhere Island|rating=4.5

|summary=Matthew has OCDMeet Gil. Not Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that he knows constantly puts him in futureless places that's what it isare not homes – and find a home for himself. He just likes things cleanis en route to yet another fosterer, when he really hates germs, or going outsidejumps into an anonymous car, and he feels safest upstairs lets it ride him to his future. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his room and one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the front bedroomtwo directions of a motorway, where he can control the dirta place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. Them, and where he can watch everything that's going on outsidea mute girl also finding a home there, making notes on his neighbours' activitiesalbeit so much more successfully. When Over a little boyfew weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, Teddy, from next door goes missing or if this is one day, place where life as we would want it turns out that Matthew was the last person to see him, 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 Teddy.just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407170996</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gwynedd Rae and Clara VulliamyHelen Peters|title=All Mary (Mary Plain 2)Friends and Traitors|rating=43

|summary=Mary is growing up – and going out into England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the worldcountry pile called Stanbrook. Which you might expect of a young girl One is Nancy, destined to be in societyservice all her life it seems, but this like the female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a young 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''bear'' in societyt guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. StillBut something is amiss, she's finding the Ps and Qs first separately and her manners then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are equally as important as our daughters wouldreceived under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But when she's told to surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be on her best behaviour and she thinks it is something to sit upon, is there any hopeso underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281235</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gwynedd Rae and Clara VulliamyJamie Littler|title=Mostly Mary (Mary Plain 1)Arkspire

|summary=Meet Mary Plain. She's a bearTwo sisters, Juniper and Elodie, living in a pit in the Swiss city of Berneborn fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and bears have been there as a tradition for centuriescheese. She's not been there long, for she's just Juniper is an exuberant, slightly stroppy eager hunter and definitely naïvetrader in illicit magic, little cubincluding 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, trying perhaps even to catch up become the child in line to her two slightly-older cousinsinherit the power of the Watcher, loving life with her aunt and unclethe closest to a ruler the district has, and one of the generations above themfive major victors in said earlier war. She's got a lot to learn about life, however – from how snow and ice Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change her world to what sitting on sticky paint can meanthe status of the whole family. Oh the innocence But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of little tykes her own – such as these books were written for.good, or for very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281227</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Katherine Woodfine024162343X|title= The Painted Dragon (The Sinclair's Mysteries)Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Ornate hats, I was the best cigars, fine foods and delicate perfumes – Mr Sinclair offers it all bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in his wondrous new department store, a marvel never before seen on religious education classes because I disputed the streets existence of Londona 'god'. Comfort Where was the proof? In history lessons, refinement and luxury aboundit was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, with smoking rooms, tea rooms and even an art gallery I didn't so much want to excite and intrigue learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn'haut mondet dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as they examine want to dispute what right the merchandise and chatter their days awayarmy had to be there in the first place. But beneath the wealth lies something more sinister Looking back, and once again Sophie and Lil find themselves solving a complicated and multiI still believe I was right -layered mysterybut I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405282894</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maz EvansThiago de Moraes|title=Who Let the Old Gods Out?New Tricks|rating=4.5

|summary=Zeus retired as chief god a long time agoMeet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, so larks and adventures involving flooding the rulers school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of things are the Constellations, even nuisance. But just when theyshe're a fars being told that by her one-last-toochance-juvenile nineteen hundred year old like Virgogiving headteacher, the world changes. Feeling left Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, she steals even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but the ambrosia entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the Earth resident known as Prisoner Forty-Two needsInternet, with hardly any clue as to what to do with it or where he is. So itjust for our convenience's no surprise that she crashlands on the farm where Elliot livessake). He's got enough problems without worrying about a girl who seems doolally arriving – his father is nowhere to be seenTrixie, luckily, his mother realises what has got dementia and happened – the ancient Gods have taken the farm is a week power of power from being repossessedus. It's And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the birth of a most mismatched partnership people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the wise-cracking but hard-donesemi-by laddeities, and his problemsgiants, half-gods and so on known as the godlike girl who thought she could do it all, but stumbles at the first receipt of sarcasmtricksters. But not even together can they see the bigger problems around the corner, for both of them – nor the enormity of the help they might end up calling on…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655414</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alex WoolfHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title= The Shakespeare Plot 1: Assassin's CodeFinding Bear|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Shakespeare's London – [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a vibrantlot further north than many people would venture, colourful city rich and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with promisea polar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, new discoveries things on the domestic and great art. A placefamily front are a bit advanced, toobut not perfect for her, rife with conspiracies and schemes for murder so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and mayhemwounded. Add Desperate to make sure he's OK, she and her father return to the mix Arctic and hope that in a mysterious codeworld of very white and very dangerous things, a girl disguised as a boy she can find one specific white and a young servant asked to spy on his aristocratic master, dangerous thing – and that the stage is set for thrills and adventurefriendship can continue. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911242385</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue Hardy-DawsonSimon Fox|title=Where Zebras GoDeadlock|rating=34.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseConfident Readers|summary=I doubt if you could have zebrasLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, foxesand then suddenly rings Archie, the end of the worlddemanding he fetch something from a secret place, penguins, dinosaurs and people out of fairy tale all together if it wasn't in a book of poetryjoin him on the run. Even short stories would struggle They get together, but barely begin to fit smell the breadth whiff of content into as few pages as this volume does. Add in home lifeSouthern trains when the father is arrested, school life andleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, er, footballtoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and you really do have a diverse selection of subjects. All have caught the eye of our author ever since she started her career – some bearer of these poems date back a decade – and now she is going to try her damnedest, with some brilliant design, to make sure they all catch the eye whole heap of youquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910959316</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Judd WinickCath Howe|title= Hilo: Saving the Whole Wide World (Hilo Book 2)My Life on Fire|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Judd Winick certainly knows how to keep his readers Ren's family home is destroyed in suspense. The first ''Hilo'' book ended on a massive cliffhanger and I've been eagerly awaiting the next instalment to find out what happens nextfire. The first book was pure comic-book joy She, her parents, with bright and bold artwork and an engaging fish-out-her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of water story about a boy with superpowers who fell to earth with no memory her clothes, or any of his identity. In this sequelher special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, Hilo returns and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that mysterious portals the class are opening up all over towndoing a special art project, releasing all sorts creating boxes of strange creatures from other dimensionstheir lives, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a person. As the townsfolk run But Ren has nothing to put in panic from the invading monstersa box, its the job of Hilo and his friends so she finds herself starting to send them back where steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they came from and seal the portals for goodhave so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141376902</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sam GaytonRob Keeley|title= His Royal WhiskersThe Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=3.54

|summary= What would you do if your only son was accidently transformed into a cat? The Czar Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is beside himself, as back with a war chief, return to the emperor of the land, he needs an heir strong enough short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to follow his legacy. Insteadeleven new tales, he has a fluffy ginger kitten. He is the laughing stock of his enemies, and he really needs each as fun to turn these odds back in read as his favour. So he forces those responsible to change the cat into a giant cat through the same magic they used the first time: alchemyprevious offerings. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443820</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HoffmanLaura Noakes|title=TiltCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=To make an author, you first show someone booksMeet Number One. To make a reader, you first show them the books they want toOr rather, and/or can, readCosima Unfortunate. To make a builderOr rather, you first show someone buildingsjust Cos to her friends. I use those platitudes to introduce Simonetta, or Netta, who The practice in the home she lives in Pisa late in the thirteenth century. She is surrounded by fabulous buildings – it's not for nothing the area will become known as girls to just be named by the Field of Miracles, for number they correspond to in the Cathedralledger, Baptistry and bell tower look gorgeousthey're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But something is wrong with Cosima bears the latter one – it's definitely leaningtag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, cracks are showingas the first ever inmate, and over the hundred-plus years it's taken to get this far people have built unique in having no known family in the floors at odd angles to correct the problemoutside world. Netta is intent on being During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the person who can solve itkitchen one afternoon, alongside her father who's employed she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to finish it offadopt all the girls for his Institute. But therein lies the problem – it's all well and good showing someone buildingswhy, and making them want what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to be an architect, but if they're the wrong gender then all hope is lost… or is itpast she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125651</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda NewberyAlice M Ross|title=Until We WinThe Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the ability to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, is the answer, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769}}{{Frontpage|author=Natasha Farrant|title=The Rescue of Ravenwood

|genre=Dyslexia Friendly Confident Readers|summary=The best journeys are made with little stepsThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Lizzy Ravenwood is slowly leaving her boring village behind – by being cheeky yet clever at her lessonsan old house, and getting a job in an office in the nearest proper town – North of England, where Bea and by saving to buyRaffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and teaching herself to rideRaffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a bicyclefamily. All that's under They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the watchful eye trees, completely at one with all of a mother insistent she learns to knuckle down with the housework on behalf of nature around the men, house and an older brother working at loving every inch of the village huntplace. At But now the officehouse is under threat, however, further steps are suggested as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to her – shorthand a developer as it's becoming more and typing classes, but she gets divertedmore expensive to maintain. A chance encounter in a tea rooms puts more stepping stones in her way – en route The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to becoming a fully committed Suffragettelive, but if they'll even be together, concerned only with making demands for votes for womenand if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125791</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Barry HutchisonRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title= Worst Ever School TripSecret Beast Club: Beaky MaloneThe Unicorns of Silver Street|rating= 54

|summary=Dylan Jayden'Beaky' Malone has s nose is forever in a reputation as book, which means he knows a prolific liarlot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. He lies Aisha is addicted to his teachersher new tablet, friends and family and has become so good at where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, he rarely gets caught is that they are never 'outthere' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. Everything changed But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, howevereducational purpose, when he stepped into Madame Shirleyand with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical truth-telling machineworld they never knew existed. Now it For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's impossible for Beaky to tell seen on a liebit of local footage. The crew of the boat, but worse than thatincluding a living gargoyle, he now has a habit of blurting are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the truth out without warningmagical sight needed to join in. So whether it's telling the headteacher that his breath smells Dare they side with Leila, confessing undying love for the dinner ladywoman on board, or embarrassing his friends by sharing their deepest secretsand her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the saying: ''the truth hurts'' has never been more appropriate.unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847157750</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kevin SandsB09XWSXSKY|title= Mark of Maestro Orpheus and the Plague: a Blackthorn Key AdventureWorld Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= London during Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the plague – ticking of a terrifying place to be clock was playing over and over in any erahis mind. And in 1665, a It happened every time when relics and blessings are considered just as effective – if not more so – than medicines, it spreads at a horrific ratehe came to visit his grandfather. Imagine it: if one person in a family starts He hadn't really wanted to show the distinctive signscome; after all, everyone in the household is sealed in, meaning that they too will almost inevitably succumb he's ten now and die a painful death. Quacks sell all manner of rubbish those old clocks don't appeal to desperate townsfolk, and prophets draw large crowds as him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they preach repentance do is tell the time. And time isn't good for sinanything. ..'' |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141360666</amazonuk>And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. It was nearly twelve o'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 the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth LairdNigel Baines|title=Welcome to NowhereA Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5|genre= TeensEmerging Readers|summary= Omar is Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a twelve-year-old boy living in Bosramagician, Syria. He works two small jobs before and named Cooper after schoolthe great Tommy Cooper. He prefers the jobs But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to school. Omar dreams of becoming a successful entrepreneur with a network of businesses be, or how to rule overbe. He And when his dad's already developing a successful sales patter. Omar has a clever sister who wants prop rabbit starts talking to be a teacherhim, and a clever brother who few realise is clever because he has cerebral palsy and people can''really'' doesn't see past his speech impediment. 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.know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509853448</amazonuk>1444960261