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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=E K JohnstonMax Boucherat|title=Star WarsThe 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 Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: AhsokaHero Trial

|summary=The problem with having a past is Meet Kit. Like most of the worry people in his world, it causes in seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the presentsport where a team of warrior, mage and the risk of it turning into your future. Ahsoka has certainly had a past – she was with Obihealer enter specially prepared, century-Wan Kenobiold, magical mazes, and was Padawan race to Anakin Skywalkerthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. While able to experience Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the Forceinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, she was not eaten, and a full Jedi, but still suffers survivor's guilt after Order 66 wiped her kind outnew trio of questors is needed. She is forced Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to hide deep in the Outer Rim goading from the token bully of the galaxy, under an assumed name, on his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a tiny farming moonteam. But lo What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and behold the Imperial nasties still seem how could he possibly hope to find her, even if by accident...succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140528790X</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Abby Hanlon James Sherwood Metts|title=Dory Fantasmagory Planet Storyland

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Dory – known as 'Rascal' – is Things have been a bit sticky for the little one in her familyEarthlings. SheAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they'd love 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 play with her older sisterthink of other, Violetnew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and her brother, Lukealong with it, but all the many daily social interactions on which they both think Dory depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is too much difficult, in a multitude of a babyways. They find her very irritating He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', from he has the way she sees monsters everywhere to her constant stream of questions. Thatwrong shoes because his dad can's why they decide theyt work and doesn've got to think t have enough money for even the most basic of something that will force Dory to grow up. Violet comes up with things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the perfect idea – they tell Dory about Mrs Gobble Cracker (college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a five hundred year old robber who steels baby girlsbuilding site and had an accident.) They tell Dory Throw into that mix the only way fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to escape Mrs Gobble Cracker the moments of joy when he is to stop acting drawing, that feel like such a baby. Their scheme, howeverlight at the end of a long, quickly backfires and they get much more than they bargained fordark tunnel. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571325580</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Daykin1805141872|title=Fish BoyThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=Billy is struggling at school. He's being picked on by the school bully 'Seventeen banks and he's starting to feel very alonea jeweller’s have been raided. His mum The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is sickreally a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, although nobody seems to know what's wrong with herMiss Judson and Ben go on the run. She has been sick But Al needs them for a long time meaning that she canone last job...''t work Goodness me, so Billy's dad that Miss Judson is working extra hours a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to try to keep the family afloat and Billy is frequently left to fend get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for himself. His only escape is in watching his favourite, David AttenboroughMiss Judson, or in swimming in the sea. One day, however, things take a magical turn as whilst swimming Billy meets a mackerel pupil who speaks to him! Thisdiscovers her terrible secret is Ben, combined with the entrance son of a new boy at school, starts famous magician who has ambitions to change Billy's life in be as good as his father some rather unexpected ways.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571328229</amazonuk>day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jack ChengChristopher Edge|title=See You in the CosmosBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=Teens Confident Readers|summary=Meet Alex. He's just elevenLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, but is sure he a place that has the responsibility age nickname of a thirteen year old'The Black Hole'. HeAll big movie fans, they'll prove this by taking his rocket ''Voyager 3'' and his dog Carl Sagan on an Amtrak train re looking forward to the desert to a launch festival for hobbyist rocket-makers – lots of exciting films, and all without the help of many, many snacks! However, as the adult brother he only knows now from phone callsmovie starts, his seemingly comatose couch potato motherthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and the father he was told died when Alex was three years oldthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. This book is a transcript of verbal essays and conversations he has made to put in his rocket to send But as they lurch from one film genre to the starsnext, so aliens can learn about life they figure out what on earth in 2017. is going on? The fact that we're able Will they ever get back to find out what's on it does seem the cinema, and to suggest a failure with ''Voyager 3'', but as for finding out about life – we can only suppose the lad is a bit more successful…their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141365609</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garth NixAdam Stower|title=Frogkisser!Murray and Bun|rating=24.5

|summary=Trallonia Murray is in trouble. It's supposed to be a kingdom – a very small onehumble, mind – with no real leadership. Three months away from becoming queen in her own right is the older princess, Morven, but she's besotted with each tidy and every prince that comes a-wooingfriendly cat, and would probably only want the pretty frocks side of reigning. Ruler regent at the moment one who is the second husband able to the girls' stepmother (ie stepstepfather) sleep and eat and eat and sleep and all round Bad Egg, Rikardwell, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. HeBut he's building a bad magician's cat, so his influence on favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the landcatflap they both use can chuck them out, and increasing his magical powernot into the regular back garden, turning all kinds of people but into all kinds a world of animalsfrightening adventure and whiffs. All of which means younger princessThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, Anyawhere a troll hunter is expected – well, will have to go on one of those capital letter-deserving Questsmuch bigger than Murray was, to find a remedy for such species-swappingbe honest, but he's turned up and muster an army he'll have to keep Rikard from the throne. But even that hugely important demand might be swamped by what is really troubling the world…do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848126018</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly Webb Alex Bell and Jason CockcroftTim McDonagh|title=The Moonlight Statue (The Hounds Glorious Race of Penhallow Hall)Magical Beasts

|summary=When Polly and her mum move to Penhallow Hall Polly hopes that it will be Eli is a busy lad – by day an escape from apprentice in the continual reminders that her dadwondrous library we start by visiting with him, who died, is no longer with them. With her mum's new job and in the evening a helper at the hall comes a fresh start for both of themdessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Polly, howeverEli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is left to her own devices a lot of generation missing in the timefamily. A few short years ago, feeling lonely as sheEli's wandering around parents were both lost to the hall and grounds during titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the summer holidayscompany of a magical beast. She had previously been sleepwalking in her old house, so she's worried when she finds herself wandering This has made the grounds during race anathema to the night, and pair – but when she sees one of a bad incident at the stone statues of eatery leads to a dog come to lifeconfession from gran, she Eli knows his only hope is unsure if she is awake or dreaming! How does this mysterious dog come to life? And why are there canine guardians for dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the children prize of Penhallow Hall?magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156606</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nathan HaleHelen Cooper|title=One Trick PonyThe Taming of the Cat|rating=43.5|genre=Graphic Novels Confident Readers|summary=Forget Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the moon being made of cheesemouse, here up against Gorgonzola the Earth looks like itcat – and in case you's re seeing a connection, they live in a huge dollop cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of the finest Swiss stuffcheeses. HorridAnyway, giant insectoid alien things have taken overBrie is shunned, scorned and they have zapped anything technological they can find , if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – pumping a blob of something over 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 turning whatever turns up cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the resulting spheres into sandmouse community, though, or carting as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it off to larger shipsneeds when that cheese runs out?|isbn=0571376010}}{{Frontpage|author=Lauren St John|title=Finding Wonder|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Our heroes belong 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 tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a travelling caravan of a villagelottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, keeping intact as much human knowledge as they she can (only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think a digital version very highly of those readers in ''Fahrenheit 451''). But she has no one else, but they've left their compatriots behind and so off she goes to go exploringlive with her unreliable aunt. They'll never expect Things continue to find a magicalget worse for Roo, wondrousas when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, robotic horse, though – which is where their problems begin…it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419721283</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Jenkins Adam Baron and Stephen BiestyBenji Davies|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and BeyondOscar's Lion|rating=53|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=I take it as We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read that you know some him his very favourite book a couple of the history of space exploration, even if the young person you buy books times before he has to be ready for doesnschool. But when he enters his parents't know it bedroom, all. So I he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that he won't go into the extremes reached by the ''Voyager'' space craft, and the processes we needed to be expert in before we could launch anythinghungry for another two days. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that we're not the centre of everything But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the gradual discovery of how curved bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the planet was, and how other things orbited other things in turn proving we are not that around which everything revolvesmonth. What you might not be And it can shapeshift, so genned up on is the history he can take it to school and it can get him out of books conveying all this to a young audienceproblem. When I was a nipper they were stately texts, with a few accurate diagrams And it's wonderful to have around the house – if you were lucky. For a long time nownot limiting his biscuit intake, however, they've been anything but statelybeing much more lax about the rules, and often aren't worried about accuracy as such in their visual designso on. They certainly long ago shod the boringOK, plain white pageit can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time. Until now…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joy Cowley and Gavin BishopJudith Eagle|title=Helper and HelperThe Stolen Songbird

|summary=Snake and LizardCaro's mother, after deciding not to eat or be eaten by the othera world-famous whistler, have set up their business designed has failed to help other animals in needreturn home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. But they need a new sign for their premisesHer other mother, Ronnie, and work done is having to go up North to the entrance burrowtake care of her sister who is unwell. But what name goes first on the advert, and So who is going to do the labour for the expansionlook after Caro? Those arguments done – Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and there will be arguments aplenty before this book is out – they find a rival has stolen all their trafficworried. Can they get any business back All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to their door? A rabbit thatpractise 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 pale for the desert life. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, critters in need as she discovers a painting of a bed for the nightbird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and even one wondering if all across London a fearsome gang called the world is flat or round, all prove they canSnakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. ItIs the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's a hard life being such unlikely partners…mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1776571053</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Palmer Tania Unsworth|title=Nowhere Island|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him to his future. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. Them, and Garry Parsonsa mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfully. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Peters|title=Friends and Traitors|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like the female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=1788004647}}{{Frontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=Secret FCArkspire

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Meet LilyTwo sisters, MaddieJuniper and Elodie, Zack, Khalborn fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and James and Battscheese. They all go to a school together – Juniper is an eager hunter and they do it eagerlytrader in illicit magic, as their inner city life including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie is so devoid intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of nature and Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the open space that power of the playground is Watcher, the only room large enough for football. But lo and behold closest to a ruler the new head teacher district has banned all ball games, on health and safety groundsone of the five major victors in said earlier war. How do these friends get over their disappointment? Why, with imagination, hard work and a firm belief Being trained in the magic that what they're doing is right, is how – they convert a rotting tennis court handily hidden in only five people can use would definitely change the school's woods into a pitch, where after a lot status of labours they can play to their heart's contentthe whole family. Or so they think…But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126879</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meg Rosoff024162343X|title=Good Dog McTavishStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=McTavish did wonder whether he I was making a mistake the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in adopting religious education classes because I disputed the Peachey family: it was existence of a decision which came from the heart rather than the head'god'. You see Where was the Peacheys were dysfunctional: Ma Peacheyproof? In history lessons, an accountant by profession, decided that she it was fed up with chasing around probably worse still. Not too long after an ungrateful familythe end of WWII, I didn't so she resigned much want to learn about the British army's successes (and dedicated herself occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to her yoga with half a hint that she might also dedicate herself dispute what right the army had to her yoga teacherbe there in the first place. She gave up cookingLooking back, cleaning, baking, washing and all I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the other things which kept maturity to approach 'the family going, such as finding lost keys and getting people out of bed so that they got to wherever they were going on timeproblem' politely. And the family? Well, they I wish I'd had no idea of how to cope, with one exceptionSathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126836</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julia LeeThiago de Moraes|title= Nancy Parker's Spooky Speculations|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nancy Parker, likeable maidservant, and part-time super sleuth, returns in this enjoyable mystery story set in 1920. Nancy is delighted to be rescued from her job on the fruit and vegetable market stall when she is offered the job of housemaid at an old house by the sea thanks to her old friend Ella who lives nearby. However strange noises and bumps in the night coupled with ghostly appearances soon disturb Nancy's contentment. The two friends team up and decide to investigate the mysterious happenings. However all does not go smoothly for our young heroines as they cope with unfriendly neighbours, spooky cellars and Nancy's kindly but eccentric boss. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192746979</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jean Ure|title=Born to Dance (Dance Trilogy 1)Old Gods New Tricks

|summary=Maddy O'Brien is just eleven years old Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and her life revolves around ballet dancingadventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. ItBut just when she's not surprising really: being told that by her father is a leading choreographerone-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Suddenly, her mother was practically everything electronic stops working – a ballerina but now runs her own ballet schoolpower-out, her brothereven of electric cars, Sean, has hits not just been promoted to soloist and her sister Jen might be having a baby but she was in the business too. Maddytown the school's enthusiasm in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the Internet, just for ballet isnour convenience't s sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the usual passing interest which many young girls ancient Gods have - she's longing to be off to ballet school full timetaken the power of power from us. In the meantime And so she and a couple of begins her friends are looking over epic quest, to gather all the new arrivals at their school and Maddy is convinced people that one of them is a ballet dancer. Only Caitlyn is ''adamant'' can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that she's not have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and quite definite that she doesn't go to classesso on known as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008164525</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Renee RussellHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=The Misadventures of Max Crumbly: Locker HeroFinding Bear

|summary=We start this book introducing us to Max Crumbly in the dark. Literally – I don't mean as regards knowing very little about him and it. It's clearly a diary-styled[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], heavily pictorialApril had been on Bear Island, light read for a young audiencelot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but we're in the dark as regards Max because ''he'' is in the darkdelightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. School bully Thug Thurston has locked him in his lockerBack home, things on the domestic and he's scribbling family front are a goodbye to the world in his journalbit advanced, but not perfect for her, with and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the help of a handy pocket torchislands Bear was last left on. Over an extended flashback – For a flashback that would never really work otherwise in a diarybear doing very Bear-styled book – we see more of who Max isy things has been shot and wounded. HeDesperate to make sure he's buddy OK, she and her father return to the boyf Arctic and hope that in a world of Nikki Maxwell from this author's other seriesvery white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and is a friendless yet cool chap at his middle school, which he's riding out dangerous thing – complete with Thug – because the alternative is his gran's version of home-schooling, which is much worse. But when and that 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 to change his mindfriendship can continue. But events here will more than make up his resolve…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471144623</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Moorhouse and Holly SwainSimon Fox|title=The New Adventures of Mr Toad: A Race for Toad HallDeadlock|rating=34.5

|summary=''Poop-poop!'' Yes, that must be the most inaccurate representation of the noise a toad makes. But of course, it's not just ''a toad'', but Mr Toad – Toad of Toad Hall. The irrepressible juvenile driver, thrusting himself into Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the Edwardian eraforce, and scaring the bejaysus out of his friends, Moleythen suddenly rings Archie, Ratty and Badger. But demanding he's long gone. Toad Hall is fetch something from a shell – a ruin compared to what it once was. Stumbling into its underground regions (don't ask) are Mosecret place, Ratty and TJ – Toad Junior, in full – and what they're about to discover will shock them. But that's nothing compared to join him on the shock that what they find will face, for Mr Toad will be revived after a century of being frozen, and not like what he finds one bitrun. ApartThey get together, that is, from but barely begin to smell the modern cars…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192746731</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lucy Worsley|title= My Name is Victoria|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Miss V is the daughter of Sir John Conroy. Sir John Conroy is the comptroller of the household whiff of Southern trains when the widowed Duchess of Kent. And the widowed Duchess of Kent father is mother to the young Princess Victoriaarrested, who will go leaving Archie on the late express to be one of Britain's most memorable monarchs. Miss V is also called Victoria - wellBrighton, Victoire actually - but distinctions of rank are important, especially when one of you will become toting a queen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408882019</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Trenton Lee Stewart|title= The Secret Keepers|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Reuben is a small boy growing up with tin his mum in a big city full of injustice and fear. The family have little money and working two jobs means that Reuben's mum trusts him father was determined to be on keep away from his own a lot. For a young child Reuben develops a lot of independencecolleagues, which really helps him when he finds an unusual and precious object and decides to try to uncover its secret. He hopes it might be valuable and dreams the bearer of being able to buy his mum her ideal home. Unfortunately there is someone else also looking for the object and Reuben enters into a dangerous game whole heap of hide and seek as he dares to take on the most powerful and ruthless man in the cityquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911077287</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa ThompsonCath Howe|title=The Goldfish BoyMy Life on Fire

|summary=Matthew has OCD. Not that he knows thatRen's what it family home isdestroyed in a fire. He just likes things cleanShe, he really hates germs, or going outsideher parents, and he feels safest upstairs in his room and the front bedroomher little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, where he can control the dirtor any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where he they can watch everything that's going on outsidet touch anything, or do anything, making notes on his neighbours' activitiesor even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a little boyspecial art project, Teddycreating boxes of their lives, from next door goes missing one day, it turns out to display things that Matthew was the last are important to them and show who they are as a person . But Ren has nothing to see himput in a box, and with all of his neighbours as suspects Matthew struggles against his crippling anxieties in order so she finds herself starting to try and uncover the truth of steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what happened will happen to Teddy.her if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407170996</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gwynedd Rae and Clara VulliamyRob Keeley|title=All Mary (Mary Plain 2)The Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|summary=Mary Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is growing up – and going out into back with a return to the world. Which you might expect of a young girl in society, but this is a young girl ''bear'' in society. Stillshort story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, she's finding the Ps and Qs and her manners are equally each as important fun to read as our daughters wouldhis previous offerings. But when she's told to be on her best behaviour and she thinks it is something to sit upon, is there any hope?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281235</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gwynedd Rae and Clara VulliamyLaura Noakes|title=Mostly Mary (Mary Plain 1)Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=Meet Mary PlainNumber One. She's a bearOr rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, living just Cos to her friends. The practice in a pit the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the Swiss city of Berneledger, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears have been there the tag as a tradition for centuries. She's not been there long, for surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she's just an exuberantcame from, slightly stroppy and definitely naïve, little cub, trying to catch up to her two slightly-older cousins, loving life with her aunt and uncleas the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in the generations above themoutside world. She's got During a lot daring escapade to learn about lifesteal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, however she discovers a plan involving said outside world – from how snow a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, and ice change her world to what sitting on sticky paint can mean. does that body entail? Oh And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the innocence of past she has so little tykes – such as these books were written for.link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281227</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katherine WoodfineAlice M Ross|title= The Painted Dragon (The Sinclair's Mysteries)Nowhere Thief|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Ornate hatsAt 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 best cigarsability to leave this world, fine foods and delicate perfumes – Mr Sinclair offers it all in his wondrous new department storeuse an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, a marvel never before seen on where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the streets buildings are generally empty of Londonhumans and ripe for plunder. Comfort With eviction imminent, refinement and luxury aboundcan Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, with smoking roomsis the answer, tea rooms and even an art gallery to excite and intrigue 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|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''haut mondeVoyage of the Sparrowhawk'' . Ravenwood is an old house, in the North of England, where Bea and Raffy 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 Raffy is there with his mum, and they examine are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the merchandise trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and chatter their days awayloving every inch of the place. But beneath now the wealth lies something house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's becoming more sinister, and once again Sophie and Lil more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves solving a complicated worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, and multi-layered mysteryif Ravenwood itself will be torn down. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405282894</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maz EvansRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Who Let the Gods Out?Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street

|summary=Zeus retired as chief god Jayden's nose is forever in a long time agobook, so which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the rulers phoenixes and unicorns of things are the Constellationsworld, even when they're a far-too-juvenile nineteen hundred year old like Virgofor example. Feeling left outAisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she steals the ambrosia can see videos of anything that the Earth resident known as Prisoner Forty-Two needsmight be out there. The problem, with hardly any clue as to what to do with their mothers see it or where he , isthat they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. So itBut when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's no surprise that she crashlands on the farm where Elliot livescousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. HeFor many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's got enough problems without worrying about a girl who seems doolally arriving – his father is nowhere to be seen, his mother has got dementia and the farm is on a week from being repossessedbit of local footage. It's the birth The crew of a most mismatched partnership – the wise-cracking but hard-done-by ladboat, and his problemsincluding a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the godlike girl who thought she could do it all, but stumbles at kids unknowingly have the first receipt of sarcasmmagical sight needed to join in. But not even together can Dare they see side with Leila, the bigger problems around the cornerwoman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, for both of them – nor the enormity and become saviours of the help they might end up calling on…unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655414</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alex WoolfB09XWSXSKY|title= The Shakespeare Plot 1: Assassin's CodeMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Shakespeare's London – a vibrantFrederick (or Fred, colourful city rich with promisebut never Freddy, new discoveries and great artplease) couldn't sleep. A place, tootune, rife with conspiracies and schemes for murder and mayhem. Add to rather like the mix a mysterious code, a girl disguised as ticking of a boy clock was playing over and a young servant asked over in his mind. It happened every time he came to spy on visit his aristocratic mastergrandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the stage is set time. And time isn't good for thrills and adventureanything... '' |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911242385</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=Sue Hardy-DawsonNigel Baines|title=Where Zebras GoA Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=34.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseEmerging Readers|summary=I doubt if you could have zebras, foxes, the end of the world, penguins, dinosaurs and people out of fairy tale all together if it wasn't in a book of poetry. Even short stories would struggle Cooper loves to fit the breadth of content into as few pages as this volume doesperform magic tricks. Add in home lifeHis father was a magician, school life and, er, football, and you really do have a diverse selection of subjectsnamed Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. All have caught the eye of our author ever since she started her career – some of these poems date back a decade – But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now she is going Cooper doesn't quite know who to try her damnedest, with some brilliant designbe, or how to make sure they all catch the eye of yoube. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910959316</amazonuk>1444960261