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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan Litton and Thomas HegbrookMax Boucherat|title=The Earth Book: A World Last Life of Exploration and WonderLori Mills

|summary=McTavish did wonder whether he was making a mistake in adopting We meet Lori on the Peachey family: it was a decision which came from first evening she's got the heart rather than the headhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. You see the Peacheys were dysfunctional: Ma Peachey, an accountant by professionWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, decided that she was fed up with chasing around after an ungrateful familyhas one main intention, so she resigned and dedicated herself that is to log on to her yoga with half Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a hint tiny inkling that she might also dedicate this stormy night doesn't find herself to entirely on her yoga teacherown, and then she finds something even more spooky. She gave up cooking, cleaning, baking, washing For the server she and all the other things which kept the family going, such as finding lost keys her bestie and getting people out nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of bed so that they got to wherever they were going on timetampering. And When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the family? Wellgame has been doctored – well, they had no idea of how where is a girl to cope, with one exception.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126836</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom AnglebergerKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Marvel Rocket and GrootDungeon Runners: Keep on Truckin'Hero Trial

|summary=Last time our favourite space-gun toting smallMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, furry woodland creature and his humanoid yet woody friend Grootit seems, escaped a [[Marvel Rocket and Groot: Stranded on Planet Shopping Mall by Tom Angleberger|planet-sized shopping mall he is an avid fan of death]], complete with their new companion in Dungeon Running – the form sport where a team of a tape dispenserwarrior, mage and an healer enter specially prepared, century-old friend (for I'm sure Rocket would think of any old space ship of his as a friend, much as I'm sure that if magical mazes, and race to the reverse were technically possibleexit, perhaps bothering with the ship would never do treasure or the same back)big bad and the points they grant you along the way. But when they run out of fuelUnfortunately for Kit, as we were led to expect, there is the only one option, and that is to land on the nightmarish world – nightmarish to Rocket, at least – of HappyHappyFunFun. But whatthing he's this? The whole world's inhabitants are now stuck hiding in caves for fear seen of the dangers of latest race on the roadinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, as every vehicle is seemingly on a collision course with themeaten, in and a planet-wide instance new trio of road ragequestors is needed. Surely even RocketPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, who laughs in he has taken to the goading from the face token bully of danger, his world and Grootstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, who says ''I am Groot'' muscle-free-zone have in the face of dangeractually managing that, cannot and how could he possibly hope to helpsucceed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285478</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom AnglebergerJames Sherwood Metts|title=Marvel Rocket and Groot: Stranded on Planet Shopping MallStoryland|rating=4.5

|summary=''I am Groot''Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. I know what youAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're saying there, it ''is'' good paid to see the japery of our favourite small woodland creature do and tree-man-thing in book form, even if here it is a particularly unusual formother tasks that took time to accomplish. Everything here is unusual, on Planet Shopping Mall, where our heroes have arrived – Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and not by choice. Take the first place they go starting tothink of other, a dry-cleanersnew ways to spend time, so that Rocket can clean his clothes of space piranha blood – the toilet in back just tries to eat himalong came an awful pandemic. The sickly-sweet sweet shop is manned by angry robot tooth fairiesLife was pretty much shut down and, along with a battle modeit, and all the many daily social interactions on which they too have the consumption of peculiar life-forms in minddepend so heavily. Can the stranded duo battle every evil thing around, and survive to find a way off-world? And can they cope with being forced to enter partnership with a purple tape dispenser?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140528546X</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Ardagh and Tom Morgan-JonesPercival|title=Norman the Norman from Normandy (Little Gems)The Wrong Shoes

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Meet Norman. Norman the NormanWill's life is difficult, from Normandyin a multitude of ways. Not Big Bad Norman He is bullied because he has 'the Norman from Normandywrong shoes', and not Norma he has the Norman from Normandy – wrong shoes because his dad can't work and not doesn't have enough money for even Nora the Norman frommost basic of things like food, well it doesnand his dad can't saywork because he lost his job at the college, but my guess is Normandywas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Norman isn't very big at all – he's just a little boyThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and heWill's not badlife seems bleak in every direction. Or at least And yet, he doesn't think he isstill has a tiny amount of hope. But because his father, Big Bad Norman, He is buried in three parts (don't ask)good at art, and little baby Norman has inherited Big Bad Norman's big bad Norman swordclings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, he's going to visit that feel like a light at the three parts – but only good will happen… Right?end of a long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126976</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Mitchell1805141872|title= A Dangerous CrossingThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Award winning author Jane Mitchell passionately believes in using literature as a conduit to highlight Human Rights' issues that children need to understand 'Seventeen banks and talk abouta jeweller’s have been raided. She explainsThe police are baffled, ''Children hear the political rhetoric on the right side and but only Ben knows the left side truth – that we should open our doors and let everybody inhis Maths teacher, versus we should build barriersMiss Judson, we should build wallsis really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, we should ban peopleMiss Judson and Ben go on the run. And children are struggling to make sense of it, adults are struggling to make sense of it, we donBut Al needs them for one last job...''t know what approach to take and what our views are because this is new Goodness me, this that Miss Judson is completely different a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to all of us.get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We' 'A Dangerous Crossing' gets to ll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the heart son of the matter. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910411582</amazonuk>a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane KerrChristopher Edge|title=The Elephant ThiefBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In 1872 Maharajah the elephant was sold Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at auction in Edinburgh to their local cinema, a zoo ownerplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Shortly after boarding All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the train to his movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new home he destroyed the train carriage film format is very different, and his new owner then decided that they would walk to his new home in Manchesterare swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. The journey was But as they lurch from one film genre to take them ten days. Jane Kerr has used this event as the inspiration for her debut novel for children that tells a story that next, can they figure out what on earth is excitinggoing on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, compelling and ultimately very moving. to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655759</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Joshua KhanAdam Stower|title= Dream Magic|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= It's great to welcome our old friends back in this, the second of their adventures, even though we know it means they'll be going through all sorts of terrors and dangers once more as they battle not one but two enemies bent on destroying Gehenna. Lady Lilith Shadow may be the sole heir to her country, but she's still just a girl and therefore expected to do nothing more useful than marry some feeble-witted prince to forge an alliance with a stronger kingdom. Her friend Thorn, on the other hand, is a peasant boy from a neighbouring country with a talent for getting into scrapes Murray and an absolutely wonderful giant bat he uses to travel round on (when the bat's in the mood to be helpful, that is). Together they make a great team. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407172093</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo|title=Good Night Stories for Rebel GirlsBun

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers |summary=It's been said very often that 'history Murray is told by the winners'. Wellsupposed to be a humble, too often historytidy and friendly cat, the news one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and even destinies are written by men, and well, whatever takes his fancy next of the proof is between these coverstwo. I didnBut he's a bad magician't know anything about this before reading its cat, even if it so his favourite bun has become been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the most richly-backed crowd-funded book ever. I'd never heard of catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the Hollow Flashlightregular back garden, powered purely by body warmth – which is rich if you're old enough to remember the brou-ha-ha when but into a maverick British bloke did a wind-up radioworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. I'd never read about the Niger female who has successfully made This time round it drops them into a stand against forced, arranged marriageViking land, rejecting where a cousin for a fate she wishes to write for herself. My ignorance maytroll hunter is expected – well, perhapsone much bigger than Murray was, show me up to be a chauvinist of sortshonest, but I think it is further evidence that 'the gaze is malehe' s turned up and that the media are phallocentric. I hope too that this book doesnhe't turn any of its readers into a feminist, for that would be as bad as the chauvinist charge against me. If anything it is designed to create equals, and that is as it should be, even if there is still a long way ll have to go…do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014198600X</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Evie's GhostAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|authortitle=Helen PetersThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=Evie Eli is not happy. Not only has her mother disrupted their hitherto happy duo a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by getting marriedvisiting with him, she has flown off on honeymoon with new husband Marcus and sent Evie off to stay in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a godmother she hasn't seen for generation missing in the family. A few short years and can barely remember. And if that werenago, Eli't bad enoughs parents were both lost to the titular race, godmother Anna lives a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a creaky old mansion miles magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from anywheregran, without such necessities as internet access and a mobile phone signal. Anna doesn't even own a televisionEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, for heavens sakewith the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857638424</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah DriverHelen Cooper|title= The Huntress: SeaTaming of the Cat|rating= 43.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Feisty heroines who refuse to accept Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the limitations set on them by men abound in literature at mouse, up against Gorgonzola the moment cat – which is and in case you're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the good – names of cheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and thirteen, if you must, mous-year-old Mouse is no exceptiontracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. She lives a precarious but happy life They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the ''Huntress'' with her visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one-eyed grandmanight, who is the shipwhen he feels all alone and cast out. It's captain, and her little brother Sparrowalmost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. Their tribe worships This makes Brie the top dog in the whales mouse community, though, as gods, protecting and working together with them all the others had the chance to defeat half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the vicious and bloodthirsty terrodyls, and despite her young age Mouse is already a gifted diver for story have the pearls which they trade for food. successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405284676</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Stargazing for BeginnersLauren St John|authortitle=Jenny McLachlanFinding Wonder

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meg loves spaceRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. And Her mum died when we say Meg loves spaceshe was young, this doesn't quite explain how much Meg loves space. Meg loves all things space 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 exclusion of almost everything elsecorner shop to buy a lottery ticket. She When asked what other family she has a space mural in , she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her bedroomdad didn't think very highly of. She belongs But she has no one else, and so off she goes to a stargazing club live with her grandfatherunreliable aunt. She is determined Things continue to become an astronaut one day. And get worse for Roo, as when she dreams and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of winning a competition that will earn her a place on a trip to NASA in Houston. nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408879751</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan Tubridy Adam Baron and P J LynchBenji Davies|title=Patrick Oscar's Lion|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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 couple of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the Presidentother month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a problem. And it's wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=0008596751}}{{Frontpage|author=Judith Eagle|title=The Stolen Songbird

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers |summary=Meet PatrickCaro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Such a direction Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is a little facetious here, because it's unwell. So who ''he's'' is going to meet thatlook 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 the keyhouse, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. He lives But she soon finds herself caught up in New Rossa mystery, County Wexfordas she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and his school has been chosen to perform as all across London a choir for fearsome gang called the much-anticipated arrival of President J F Kennedy, as Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the man traces painting somehow linked to the path of his Irish ancestry, in gang? And what (in addition has happened to stop-overs Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in England and Italy on the same trip) was to be his last state visit abroad. But surely just being one among three hundred on such an auspicious, yet brief, occasion is not enough for such an enterprising ladmystery too? Well, no, for his connected parents have got another trick up their sleeve for him…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406366927</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt ForbeckTania Unsworth|title=Star Wars: Rogue One: Junior NovelNowhere Island|rating=34.5

|summary=The bad thing about bad people is they keep on getting worseMeet Gil. The Empire has done Just twelve, he is so much evil, but they're finding new depths determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – they've managed to get enough of and find a special kind of crystal to power a new planet-shattering weapon, the Death Starhome for himself. The Rebel Alliance, such as it He isen route to yet another fosterer, have found out this is no mere rumour, courtesy of word from the horse's mouth in the shape of when he jumps into an escaped Imperial pilotanonymous car, and news has followed lets it that could inspire them ride him to his future. That future seems to fight back, be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a potential set camp on an island between the two directions of plans showing a flaw in the weapon's constructionmotorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. But with the search for the plans going to be so dangerousThem, and with anything that might result from them going to be such a hare-brained responsemute girl also finding a home there, how dare they possibly commit any of albeit so much more successfully. Over a few weeks we see if their limited resources on even getting them?oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285680</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meurig Bowen, Rachel Bowen and Daniel FrostHelen Peters|title=The School of MusicFriends and Traitors

|summary=I have a love/hate relationship with musicwas the bad company other people got into at school. I love it was disruptive in that religious education classes because I own several large bookshelves full disputed the existence of CDs, and have seen and met quite a few noted performers, from Radiohead to Philip Glass'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, but I hate it in that as regards making it I can only hit things (and that only with my hands, never with my feet at the same time)was probably worse still. Only in Not too long after the last few years have people been at all appreciative end of my singingWWII, for I didn't so much want of a better word, and one of those suggested closing my eyes to sound better learn about the British army's successes (I think she also may have plugged her ears when I wasnand occasional failures, but we didn't lookingdwell on those). That from a kid who was lumbered with something big and brass in what came to lumber about on be called 'the school bus with, dammit. But hey, colonies' as want to dispute what's right the use of my own example being so off-putting, when there is a world of pleasure, mental and physical exercise and fun army had to be had from being active there in music? the first place. This bookLooking back, dressed as I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the lesson programme of a full-on, proper musical college, is only designed maturity to encourage and informapproach 'the problem' politely. But does it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847808603</amazonuk>I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul GallicoThiago de Moraes|title= ThomasinaOld Gods New Tricks|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A father Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and his six year old daughteradventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, Mary MacDhui, are struggling to cope with the death she could almost be thought a young goddess of Mary’s mothernuisance. They move from Glasgow so But just when she's being told that Mr MacDhui can take up a new job as Vet in a small Scottish seaside resortby her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Burying his head in Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a job he does not wholly lovepower-out, Mr MacDhui spares his young daughter little time or attentioneven of electric cars, and she finds solace hits not just the town the school's in her new friends but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and her beloved pet catall that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake). Thomasina Trixie, a remarkable catluckily, drives realises what has happened – the plot ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in this storystealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, which Paul Gallico tells with heart breaking half-gods and emotional twists and turnsso on known as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007395183</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilda OffenHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Message from the MoonFinding Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseConfident Readers|summary=Yes[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that is really a 'Message from the Moon' you receive courtesy of this bookshe called Bear. You also get the point of view of the sea itselfBack home, as well as children seeing things on the city night from their bedroom window domestic and other people witnessing geese flying overfamily front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and you even get a message so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For a snailbear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. The range Desperate to make sure he's OK, she and her father return to the Arctic and hope that in a world of verses in this book is however but very white and very dangerous things, she can find one of its many qualities…specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909991430</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M G Leonard Simon Fox|title=Beetle Queen Deadlock

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=A modern Cruella De Vil – only with beetles rather than Dalmatians – Lucretia Cutter has a plan: a plan that will dramatically (and theatrically) unleash her latest batch of genetically modified and highly intelligent beetles. The consequences will be devastating for mankind but few realise Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the danger. Luckily firm friends Darkusforce, Virginia and Bertolt have figured out that Lucretia Cutter is up to then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and are determined to do whatever it takes to stop join him on the evil beetle divarun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910002771</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=W S Markendale|title=Owen Pendragon|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Monsters are slipping through somehow from somewhere They get together, but barely begin to kidnap children in Cornwall and smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the army seems powerless late express to do anything about it. 12-year-olds Owen and Mary assume they too are therefore powerless as they watch friends and neighbours disappear. Imagine their surprise when they realise that thanks Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to an ancient relativekeep away from his colleagues, they have more influence on what happens than they think and not just on what happens on Earth. And their distant relative? The former monarch and head the bearer of a whole heap of the round table, no less: King Arthurquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524667579</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlotte Guillain and Yuval ZommerCath Howe|title=The Street Beneath My FeetLife on Fire

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=ItRen's one thing for family home is destroyed in a nonfire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-fiction book for the young to show them something knacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they themselves can explore – the pattern of the stars't touch anything, perhapsor do anything, or even eat the life in their back yardfoods they normally eat. But when it gets When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are equally important to know about but them and show who they are impossible to see in real life, why, then the game is changedas a person. The artistic imagination But Ren has nothing to be key, put in portraying the invisiblea box, and presenting what can only come from the pages of a bookso she finds herself starting to steal things. And this example does it at its bestSmall things, as it delves into the layers of the soil below said back yardthings that people might not really miss, down and down, through all the different kinds of rock, until we reach the unattainable centre of the planetnot when they have so much already. And there's only one way But what will happen to go from there – back her if someone finds out the other side, with yet more for us to be shown. It's a fantastic journey, then – and a quite fantastic volume.what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784937312</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matilda WoodsRob Keeley|title=The Boy, the Bird Who Disappeared and the Coffin MakerOther Stories|rating=4.5

|summary=Alberto Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a carpenter, the very best in the town of Allora. But after the plague sweeps through the town, taking many of the citizens and Alberto's wife and children, he turns his skills away from furniture and toys return to making coffins. Wrapped in sadness, and waiting only for the plague short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to come and claim his life tooeleven new tales, Alberto lives alone, keeping company with the dead who are delivered each as fun to read as his house to await their coffinprevious offerings. One day, however, he realises that he must have a living visitor, as food starts to go missing. He begins to leave scraps of food, to try and discover who his mystery thief is…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407178695</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian MosesLaura Noakes|title=Lost Magic: The Very Best of Brian MosesCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseConfident Readers|summary=For a poet with the very memorable name of [[:Category:Brian Moses|Moses]]Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, I have just Cos to admit never having come across it before, nor having knowingly read any of his worksher friends. This collection was The practice in the perfect place home she lives in is for me the girls to come late just be named by the number they correspond to in the partyledger, as it takes the authorand they's own favourites from several previous anthologies of hisre all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, and adds new versesuncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. I read them with very little clue But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to which was which – be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and certainly couldn't tell unique in having finished no known family in the bookoutside world. There is During a lot here that will grab daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the young schoolchildkitchen one afternoon, but she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the topics cover so much there really will be a universal appealgirls for his Institute. But why, meaning and what does that a lot of people will have a definite favourite from these pages, even if body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the author himself cannot decide…past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509838767</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Bill Nye and Gregory MoneAlice M Ross|title= Jack and the Geniuses 1: At the Bottom of the WorldThe Nowhere Thief|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=It's tough being At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a geniusseaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. There are few She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, if anybecause she has the ability to leave this world, people you can talk about your interests and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours toenter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and words like ''nerd'', ''geek'' the buildings are generally empty of humans and ''boffin'' get bandied around by folk who somehow think it's your fault your cleverness makes them feel a bit dimripe for plunder. But how does it feel With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to be actually generate custom at the one surrounded by such geniuses all day every dayshop? Fortunately Well yes, Jack is the answer, but the fact a resilient sort, and his common sense approach to life is going to be essential if he, Ava and Matt are going to survive their trip to Antarctica. mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419723030</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yuval ZommerNatasha Farrant|title=The Big Book Rescue of Beasts (Big Books)Ravenwood|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=One This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the many issues people 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 the TV nature programmeher Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, such and they are living together as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]]a family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, is roaming through the obvious trees, completely at one with all of all the blood nature around the house and guts it features – yes, in amongst all loving every inch of the place. But now the cutesyhouse is under threat, comical animal life are creatures eating as Leo is under pressure from his other creatures (normally two brothers to sell the cutesy, comical ones, whatproperty to a developer as it's worse)becoming more and more expensive to maintain. YouThe children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be pleased to knowtogether, howeverand if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|isbn=0571348785}}{{Frontpage|author=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jayden's nose is forever in a book, that this book is very light on death which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and destructionunicorns of the world, for example. YesAisha is addicted to her new tablet, here are lions sharing some chunks where she can see videos of meat (while the females anything that caught and killed might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it sit and wait their turn), here is that they are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bearsnever 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and here is with a red fox stashing past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a dead mouse while in magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a time bit of plentylocal footage. The crew of the boat, but there is so little to make this even including a PG book living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – it will be perfect for and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. Dare they side with Leila, the home shelf or that woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a primary school.painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09XWSXSKY|title=Ulf Nilsson Maestro Orpheus and Gitte Speethe World Clock|titleauthor=A Case in Any CaseRobert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|summary=The [[Detective Gordon: The First Case by Ulf Nilsson Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and Gitte Spee|last over in his mind. It happened every time]] we saw he came to visit his grandfather. 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 toad called Detective Gordon time. And time isn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at work he had a mouse colleague in the forest police with him, and in fact clock beside the two were so close they often shared a bed in . It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the old prison cells togetherclock chimed only six times. But now Gordon has practically retired, There was nothing for it but to go and the mouse, Police Chief Buffy, is doing find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the work herselfclocks stopped at twelve o'clock?}}{{Frontpage|author=Nigel Baines|title=A Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. It's quite scary workHis father was a magician, too, when something horrid, nasty and slightly smelling of toad is rootling around named Cooper after the police station at nightgreat Tommy Cooper. But when the two are together theresadly Cooper's no stopping themfather died suddenly, and any crime can now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be solved – which is probably a very good thing , or how to be. And when not one but two of the forest babies go missing…his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1776571096</amazonuk>1444960261