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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Bobbie PeersMax Boucherat|title= William Wenton and the Luridium Thief|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Bobbie Peers is a pretty talented guy. Not only did he win a ''Palme d'Or'' award for a film he wrote and directed in 2006, but with this, his first book, he's turned his hand to writing for young people. And the list of awards he's collecting in his native Norway are testament to his vivid and entertaining imagination. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140637170X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Frances Castle|title=Spot the Mistake: Lands The Last Life of Long AgoLori Mills

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=You'll like as not have seen a childrenWe meet Lori on the first evening she's book before and harangued it for containing errorsgot 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. This book What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has at least two hundredone main intention, and thatis to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's not a problemworld. Yes, in personifying the idea of learning through your mistakes, we get ten large dioramas of historical activity, all containing twenty things But first Lori has a tiny inkling that shouldnthis stormy night doesn't be therefind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Your task, For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should you choose be able to accept it, is to try and find them allenter shows signs of tampering. And the learning is also hereWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, as we get text to tell us what and her safe place in the goofs were designed to show us. Make no mistakegame has been doctored – well, this where is a clever and absorbing read…girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryder WindhamKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Star WarsDungeon Runners: A New Hope Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 1)Hero Trial

|summary=It takes a greater mind than mine to keep track Meet Kit. Like most of all the different versions people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of ''Star Wars Dungeon Running – A New Hope'' that there have been. That was never the name it was known under at the startsport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, for one thingmagical mazes, but beyond and race to the exuberant cinema classic known to so manyexit, you get perhaps bothering with the digitally retouched version, then treasure or the DVD version, which both added to big bad and took away some of those changesthe points they grant you along the way. And as it is with the filmUnfortunately for Kit, so it is with the novels. This new presentation only thing he's seen of the YA trilogy, while bearing latest race on the 2017 Copyright mark, inn TV equivalent is the 2004 children's novelisationsthat one team has been retired, as far as I can make outeaten, minus the picturesand a new trio of questors is needed. You do getPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, on this first one, a '40 years he has taken to the goading from the token bully of Star Warshis world and stumbled into declaring he' sticker, which is proof ll enter as a team. What chance does this is a classic we're looking atfriendless, but more than muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, just goes and how could he possibly hope to make me feel old…succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285427</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt TavaresJames Sherwood Metts|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman PilotPlanet Storyland

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=WeThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're in Paris, paid to do and – not other tasks that took time to be too rude about things – we seem surrounded by idiotsaccomplish. For one, it seems Just as they think the perfect place were beginning to get used to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights is in the middle of the biggest city in the world. For another, they think only men could suffer the slightly colder all this technological change and slightly thinner air experienced on such an adventure – women would never be able starting to cope. Meanwhile, a young girl is dreaming think of flightother, as so many are wont new ways to dospend time, completely unaware that she will soon marry one of the most famed balloonistsalong came an awful pandemic. They will have joint journeys skywardLife was pretty much shut down and, before his early demise – leaving the young woman, Sophie Blanchardalong with it, to go it alone and become all the first female pilotmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lorraine Gregory Tom Percival|title=Mold and the Poison Plot The Wrong Shoes

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=MoldWill's mum abandoned him life is difficult, in a dustbin when multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he was a baby but has the binmen didnwrong shoes because his dad can't want him. Luckily old Aggy gave him a home work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, andhis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, with was working a crusty onecash-legged sailor as in-hand job on a friend, Mold is happybuilding site and had an accident. Happy until Aggy is accused of poisoning Throw into that mix the Kingfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. Suddenly Mold finds himself alone and thrust into the unlikely role And yet, he still has a tiny amount of herohope. He sets off to rescue Aggy is good at art, and along the way finds himself trying clings to save the King and prevent moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a war with light at the Boggers. It's end of a lot for one small boy with an enormous nose but luckily he finds he's uniquely fashioned to sniff out dangerlong, dark tunnel. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192745824</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Danny Wallace1805141872|title= Hamish and the Gravity BurpThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=BUUUUUURRRRRRRRPPPPP''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker!With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job...''

A terrifying noise Goodness me, that Miss Judson is rumbling through the sleepy town of Starkley (the fourth most boring town in Britain) and having a peculiar effect terror! How on the residents. Gravity has gone into reverse and the poor townsfolk are floating skyward, helplessly trying earth did a nice teacher like her manage to grab onto whatever they can in order to slow their ascent. Hamish Ellerby has just arrived home to find his family stuck to the ceiling, along get mixed up with a bowl of fruit, six batteries and a wind-up meerkat. What could be causing this strange phenomenon? Could it be leading up to something biggerbad 'un like Al? A ''gravity-belch'We'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, or heaven forbidthe pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of a ''gravity-FART''? It's up famous magician who has ambitions to Hamish and be as good as his gangfather some day, the PDF, to solve the mystery and restore order to Starkley in time for the official visit from the Public Office of Pride, or POP (shouldn't it be POOP?).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471147126</amazonuk>who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah CarrollChristopher Edge|title=The Girl In BetweenBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=After Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a family argumentmovie marathon at their local cinema, a girl and her mother are stuck out on place that has the streets nickname of Ireland, finding shelter finally in an old, abandoned mill'The Black Hole'. The mill becomes the girl's castleAll big movie fans, where she finally feels safe from the lurking threat of they'the authorities' and some re looking forward to lots of the strange men in her mother's life. Her motherexciting films, howeverand many, seems to be tumbling deeper into depressionmany snacks! However, keeping her daughter locked upas the movie starts, out of sight insidethey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and now there they are strange men in hard hats coming around the mill to measure and make notesswept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Can But as they lurch from one film genre to the two of them move next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, or will they be too late and to escapetheir real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471160629</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan Litton and Thomas HegbrookAdam Stower|title=The Earth Book: A World of Exploration Murray and WonderBun

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers |summary=The Earth. I kind of quite like itMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, you know – it seems one who is able to serve my purposesleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. I donBut he't think Is a bad magician've taken too much s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out , not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round itdrops them into a Viking land, all toldwhere a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, and if itbut he's divided turned up into 200 countries Iand he'm getting close ll have to having visited do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a quarter of thembusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. But way back when I just didn't get on Eli lives with studying ithis lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. I didnA few short years ago, Eli't like geography – what with having s parents were both lost to draw mapsthe titular race, oxbow lakes and whatnot I think it was one a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of those subjects I was put off through a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pictorial element pair – and dropped it as soon as I could. But thenbut when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, I didn't have with the sole aim the likes prize of this book magic at the end – the only thing to inspire me…possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg RosoffHelen Cooper|title=Good Dog McTavishThe Taming of the Cat|rating=3.5

|summary=McTavish did wonder whether he was making Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing a mistake connection, they live in adopting the Peachey family: it was a decision which came from cheese shop and therefore all the heart rather than names used here seem to be the headnames of cheeses. You see the Peacheys were dysfunctional: Ma PeacheyAnyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, an accountant by professionif you must, decided that she was fed up with chasing around after an ungrateful familymous-tracised, so she resigned and dedicated herself to her yoga for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with half a hint that she might also dedicate herself to her yoga teacher. She gave They nibble up cooking, cleaning, baking, washing paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and all makes stories based on the other things which kept the family goingvisuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, such as finding lost keys when he feels all alone and getting people cast out of bed so that they got . It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to wherever they were going on timekeep themselves alive. And This makes Brie the top dog in the family? Wellmouse community, though, they as all the others had no idea of how the chance to cope, with one exceptionhalf-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126836</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom AnglebergerLauren St John|title=Marvel Rocket and Groot: Keep on Truckin'Finding Wonder

|summary=Last time our favourite space-gun toting smallRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, furry woodland creature and his humanoid yet woody friend Groot, escaped a [[Marvel Rocket and Groot: Stranded on Planet Shopping Mall by Tom Angleberger|planet-sized shopping mall of death]], complete with their new companion now she finds herself awoken in the form 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 tape dispenserlottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, and an old friend (for Ishe can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn'm sure Rocket would t think very highly of any old space ship of his as a friend, much as I'm sure that if the reverse were technically possible, the ship would never do the same back). But when they run out of fuel, as we were led to expect, there is only she has no one optionelse, and that is so off she goes to land on the nightmarish world – nightmarish to Rocket, at least – of HappyHappyFunFunlive with her unreliable aunt. But what's this? The whole world's inhabitants are now stuck hiding in caves Things continue to get worse for fear of the dangers of the roadRoo, as every vehicle is seemingly on a collision course with them, when she and Joni leave London in a planet-wide instance of road rage. Surely even RocketJoni's old campervan, who laughs it breaks down in the face middle of danger, nowhere and Groot, who says ''I am Groot'' in the face of danger, cannot hope to help?then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285478</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom AnglebergerAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Marvel Rocket 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 other 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 Groot: Stranded so on Planet Shopping Mall. 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

|summary=Caro''I am Groot''s mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. I know what you're saying thereHer other mother, Ronnie, it ''is'' good having to go up North to see the japery take care of our favourite small woodland creature and tree-man-thing in book form, even if here it her sister who is a particularly unusual formunwell. Everything here So who is unusualgoing to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, on Planet Shopping Mallsomeone Caro has heard her mother despises, where our heroes have arrived – she feels frustrated and not by choiceconfused and worried. Take the first place they go All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought toa halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, a dry-cleanersAlbie, so that Rocket can clean his clothes of space piranha blood – the toilet in back just tries to eat himwho is living there too. The sickly-sweet sweet shop is manned by angry robot tooth fairiesBut she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, with as she discovers a painting of a battle modebird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and they too have all across London a fearsome gang called the consumption of peculiar life-forms in mindSnakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Can Is the stranded duo battle every evil thing around, and survive painting somehow linked to find a way off-worldthe gang? And can they cope with being forced what has happened to enter partnership with a purple tape dispenserCaro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140528546X</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Ardagh and Tom Morgan-JonesTania Unsworth|title=Norman the Norman from Normandy (Little Gems)Nowhere Island|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Meet NormanGil. Norman Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the Norman, from Normandy. Not Big Bad Norman care system – the Norman from Normandy, and system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not Norma the Norman from Normandy homes – and not even Nora the Norman fromfind a home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, well and lets it doesn't say, but my guess is Normandyride him to his future. Norman isn't very big at all That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – he's just but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the two directions of a little boymotorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and he's not badseclusion. Or at least he doesn't think he isThem, and a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfully. But because his father, Big Bad NormanOver a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is buried in three parts (don't ask), and little baby Norman has inherited Big Bad Norman's big bad Norman sword, he's going to visit the three parts – but only good will happen… Right?one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126976</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane MitchellHelen Peters|title= A Dangerous CrossingFriends and Traitors|rating= 53|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Award winning author Jane Mitchell passionately believes England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in using literature as service all her life it seems, like the female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a conduit to highlight Human Rightsgirl 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' issues t guessed that children need to understand and talk aboutthen their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. She explains But something is amiss, ''Children hear the political rhetoric on the right side and the left side – that we should open our doors first separately and let everybody then in, versus we should build barriers, we should build walls, we should ban peoplecombination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. And children Midnight deliveries are struggling to make sense received under cover of itsecrecy, adults are struggling to make sense talk is made of itmeetings with Germans, we don't know what approach to take and what our views are because this is newnot only that, this is completely different to all of usa local Spitfire factory has been attacked.'' 'A Dangerous Crossing' gets to But surely the heart of girls are wrong, and the matter. upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411582</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane KerrJamie Littler|title=The Elephant ThiefArkspire|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including 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, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of the Watcher, the closest to a ruler the district has, and one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. 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…|isbn=0241586143}}{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|genre= Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= In 1872 Maharajah I was the elephant bad company other people got into at school. I was sold at auction disruptive in Edinburgh to religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a zoo owner'god'. Shortly Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after boarding the train end of WWII, I didn't so much want to his new home he destroyed learn about the train carriage British army's successes (and his new owner then decided that they would walk occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to his new home be there in Manchesterthe first place. The journey Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to take them ten daysapproach 'the problem' politely. Jane Kerr has used this event as the inspiration for her debut novel for children that tells a story that is exciting, compelling and ultimately very moving I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655759</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Joshua KhanThiago de Moraes|title= Dream MagicOld Gods New Tricks|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= It's great to welcome our old friends back in thisMeet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the second of their adventuresschool aircon with fart powder, even though we know it means they'll she could almost be going through all sorts thought a young goddess of terrors and dangers once more as they battle not one but two enemies bent on destroying Gehennanuisance. Lady Lilith Shadow may be the sole heir to her country, but But just when she's still just a girl and therefore expected to do nothing more useful than marry some feeblebeing told that by her one-last-chance-witted prince to forge an alliance with a stronger kingdom. Her friend Thorngiving headteacher, on the other handworld changes. Suddenly, is practically everything electronic stops working – a peasant boy from a neighbouring country with a talent for getting into scrapes and an absolutely wonderful giant bat he uses to travel round on (when power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the batschool's in but the mood to be helpfulentire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that ispowers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake). Together they make a great team Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the 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 stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407172093</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elena Favilli Hannah Gold and Francesca CavalloLevi Pinfold|title=Good Night Stories for Rebel GirlsFinding Bear

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=It's [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been said very often 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 'history is told by the winners'she called Bear. Well, too often historyBack home, things on the news domestic and even destinies family front are written by mena bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the proof is between these coversislands Bear was last left on. I didn't know anything about this before reading it, even if it For a bear doing very Bear-y things has become the most richly-backed crowd-funded book everbeen shot and wounded. I'd never heard of the Hollow Flashlight, powered purely by body warmth – which is rich if you're old enough Desperate to remember the brou-ha-ha when a maverick British bloke did a wind-up radio. Imake sure he'd never read about the Niger female who has successfully made a stand against forced, arranged marriages OK, rejecting a cousin for a fate she wishes and her father return to write for herself. My ignorance may, perhaps, show me up to be a chauvinist of sorts, but I think it is further evidence that 'the gaze is male' Arctic and that the media are phallocentric. I hope too that this book doesn't turn any in a world of its readers into a feministvery white and very dangerous things, for she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that would be as bad as the chauvinist charge against mefriendship can continue. If anything it is designed to create equals, and that is as it should be, even if there is still a long way to go…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014198600X</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Evie's GhostSimon Fox|authortitle=Helen PetersDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=Evie Late one night Graham Blake is not happy. Not only has her mother disrupted their hitherto happy duo by getting marriedlate back from his shift on the force, she has flown off on honeymoon with new husband Marcus and sent Evie off to stay with then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a godmother she hasn't seen for years secret place, and can join him on the run. They get together, but barely remember. And if that weren't bad enoughbegin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, godmother Anna lives in toting a creaky old mansion miles tin his father was determined to keep away from anywherehis colleagues, without such necessities as internet access and the bearer of a mobile phone signal. Anna doesn't even own a television, for heavens sakewhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857638424</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah DriverCath Howe|title= The Huntress: SeaMy Life on Fire|rating= 45|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Feisty heroines who refuse to accept the limitations set on them by men abound Ren's family home is destroyed in literature at the moment – which is all to the good – a fire. She, her parents, and thirteen-year-old Mouse is no exceptionher little brother lose everything. She lives a precarious but happy life on the doesn''Huntress'' with t have any of her clothes, or any of her onespecial little knick-eyed grandmaknacks from her cupboard, who and now she is the shipliving at her grandmother's captainhouse where they can't touch anything, or do anything, and her little brother Sparrowor even eat the foods they normally eat. Their tribe worships When she goes back to school she discovers that the whales class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as godsa person. But Ren has nothing to put in a box, protecting and working together with them so she finds herself starting to defeat the vicious and bloodthirsty terrodylssteal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, and despite not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her young age Mouse if someone finds out what she is already a gifted diver for the pearls which they trade for food. doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405284676</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Stargazing for BeginnersRob Keeley|authortitle=Jenny McLachlanThe Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meg loves space. And when we say Meg loves space, this doesn't quite explain how much Meg loves space. Meg loves all things space Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a return to the exclusion of almost everything else. She has a space mural in her bedroom. She belongs short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to a stargazing club with her grandfather. She is determined to become an astronaut one day. And she dreams of winning a competition that will earn her a place on a trip eleven new tales, each as fun to NASA in Houstonread as his previous offerings. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408879751</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan Tubridy and P J LynchLaura Noakes|title=Patrick and the PresidentCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers |summary=Meet PatrickNumber One. Such a direction is a little facetious hereOr rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, because it's who ''he's'' going just Cos to meet that's the keyher friends. He The practice in the home she lives in New Rossis for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, County Wexfordand they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, and his school has been chosen to perform uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a choir for the much-anticipated arrival of President J F Kennedysurname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the man traces the path of his Irish ancestryfirst ever inmate, and unique in what (having no known family in addition the outside world. During a daring escapade to stop-overs in England and Italy on steal some posh cakes from the same trip) was kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to be want to adopt all the girls for his last state visit abroadInstitute. But surely just being one among three hundred on such an auspiciouswhy, yet brief, occasion is not enough for such an enterprising ladand what does that body entail? Well, no, for his connected parents have got another trick up their sleeve for him…And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406366927</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt ForbeckAlice M Ross|title=Star Wars: Rogue One: Junior NovelThe Nowhere Thief|rating=34.5

|summary=The bad thing about bad people At last there is they keep on getting worsenew stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. The Empire Elsbeth knows this because she has done so much evil, but they're finding new depths – they've managed to get enough of a special kind of crystal to power a new planet-shattering weapon, the Death Starstolen it. The Rebel Alliance, such as it is, have She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out , because she has the ability to leave this is no mere rumourworld, courtesy and use an unworldly portal of word from kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the horse's mouth in sea levels are rising dramatically and the shape buildings are generally empty of an escaped Imperial pilothumans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, and news has followed it that could inspire them can Elsbeth nab anything to fight back, of a potential set of plans showing a flaw in actually generate custom at the weapon's construction. shop? But with Well yes, is the search for answer, but the plans going to be so dangerous, and with anything that might result fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from them going to be such a hare-brained response, how dare they possibly commit any of their limited resources on even getting them?these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285680</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meurig Bowen, Rachel Bowen and Daniel FrostNatasha Farrant|title=The School Rescue of MusicRavenwood|rating=35|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=I have a love/hate relationship with musicThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. I love it Ravenwood is an old house, in that I own several large bookshelves full the North of CDsEngland, where Bea and Raffy have seen and met quite been living for most of their lives. They are part of a few noted performerscomplex, from Radiohead to Philip Glassextended family arrangement, but I hate it in that as regards making it I can only hit things (Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and that only Raffy is there with my handshis mum, never with my feet at the same time)and they are living together as a family. Only They have grown up swimming in the last few years have people been cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all appreciative of my singing, for want of a better word, the nature around the house and one loving every inch of those suggested closing my eyes to sound better (I think she also may have plugged her ears when I wasn't looking). That from a kid who was lumbered with something big and brass to lumber about on the school bus with, dammitplace. But hey, what's now the use of my own example being so off-puttinghouse is under threat, when there as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a world of pleasure, mental and physical exercise developer as it's becoming more and fun more expensive to be had from being active in music? maintain. This bookThe children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, dressed as the lesson programme of a full-onbut if they'll even be together, proper musical college, is only designed to encourage and informif Ravenwood itself will be torn down. But does it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847808603</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul GallicoRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title= ThomasinaSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A father Jayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and his six year old daughterunicorns of the world, Mary MacDhuifor example. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are struggling to cope with never 'out there' themselves, exploring the death outside world of Mary’s motherHackney, London. They move from Glasgow so that Mr MacDhui can take But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a new job as Vet in past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a small Scottish seaside resortmagical world they never knew existed. Burying his head in For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a job he does not wholly lovebit of local footage. The crew of the boat, Mr MacDhui spares his young daughter little time or attentionincluding a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and she finds solace the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in her new friends . Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her beloved pet cat. Thomasina, relative who lives as a remarkable cat, drives the plot figure in this storya painting, which Paul Gallico tells with heart breaking and emotional twists and turns.become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007395183</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilda OffenB09XWSXSKY|title=Message from Maestro Orpheus and the MoonWorld Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseConfident Readers|summary=YesFrederick (or Fred, that is really a but never Freddy, please) couldn'Message from the Moon' you receive courtesy of this bookt sleep. You also get A tune, rather like the point ticking of view of the sea itself, as well as children seeing the city night from their bedroom window a clock was playing over and other people witnessing geese flying overin his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's ten now and you even get a message from a snailall those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore.  ''Who needs old clocks anyway? The range of verses in this book All they do is however tell the time. And time isn't good for anything...'' 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 one of its many qualities…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909991430</amazonuk>where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M G Leonard Nigel Baines|title=Beetle Queen A Tricky Kind of Magic

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers |summary=A modern Cruella De Vil – only with beetles rather than Dalmatians – Lucretia Cutter has Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a plan: a plan that will dramatically (and theatrically) unleash her latest batch of genetically modified magician, and highly intelligent beetles. The consequences will be devastating for mankind but few realise named Cooper after the dangergreat Tommy Cooper. Luckily firm friends Darkus But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, Virginia and Bertolt have figured out that Lucretia Cutter is up now Cooper doesn't quite know who to something and are determined be, or how to do whatever it takes be. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to stop the evil beetle diva.him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002771</amazonuk>1444960261