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<!{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The 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- Kiernan 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*[[image|title=Dungeon Runners:Kiernan BegoneHero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=Confident Readers|linksummary=https://wwwThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish.amazonJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic.coLife was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.uk/gp/product/1406366021?ie|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=UTF8&tagConfident Readers|summary=thebookbagWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-21&linkCodehand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the 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 the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1805141872|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=as2&campRob Keeley|rating=1634&creative4.5|genre=6738&creativeASINConfident Readers|summary=1406366021]]''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...''

===[[Begone The Raggedy Witches: The Wild Magic Trilogy by Celine Kiernan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Aunty has died. MupGoodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her little brother Tipper and Mam are driving back from the hospital, and already it seems everything has changedmanage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. It was Aunty who kept the family going, who cared Luckily for them all and made sure they were happyMiss Judson, warm and secure. But then, as they approach the housepupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, Mup is astonished to see the white, uncaring faces son of witches above them, darting from tree a famous magician who has ambitions to tree be as good as they follow the car. Things are going to change even more suddenly his father some day, and dramatically than she could ever have imagined. [[Begone The Raggedy Witches: The Wild Magic Trilogy by Celine Kiernan|Full Review]]who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving<br>}}<!-- Kenny -->{{Frontpage*[[image:Kenny_Tin.jpg|leftauthor=Christopher Edge|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1911077651?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1911077651]]Black Hole Cinema Club|rating===[[Tin by Padraig Kenny]]===4 [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Christopher can't remember much about summary=Lucas and his life before he came to live with Mr Absalom. Snatches of memories sometimes surface; images of his mother and father friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that appear suddenly before fading into has the smoke, blackness and flames nickname of the fire'The Black Hole'. He remembers the fire most All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of all; his lastexciting films, and many, most powerful memory of his old life that chokes out everything else. many snacks! However, his present life working for as the eccentric engineer isnmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't all badeven imagine. He has his mechanical friends But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to keep him company. They are his family now. [[ Tin by Padraig Kennytheir real lives?|Full Review]]isbn=1839942738<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Jennings -->*[[image:Jennings Different.jpg|left|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1910646423?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1910646423]]Adam Stower|title===[[A Different Dog by Paul Jennings Murray and Geoff Kelly]]==Bun|rating= [[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Our hero summary=Murray is supposed to be a boyhumble, whose name we never learn. We know what he wants in life – with his mother exceedingly poortidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and even eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his bed burnt to keep fancy next of the two of them warm, . But he wants the prize offered by 's a down-bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a-mountain-and-back-up-hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and-down-again foot race. Winning the race and catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the large purse would also give him more status in the eyes regular back garden, but into a world of those kids that bully him, frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it might even give him drops them into a Viking land, where a voice troll hunter is expected – for he is almost mute. We quickly learn he never talks back to anyonewell, whatever the motivationone much bigger than Murray was, and can only speak aloud to himself – andbe honest, so it turns out, to a dog but he rescues from a bad road accident 's turned up and he finds on his way up the hill 'll have to the start line… [[A Different Dog by Paul Jennings and Geoff Kellydo…|Full Review]]isbn=0008561249<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Forrest -->|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh*[[image:Forrest_Twister.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/140718511X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=140718511X]]The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating===[[Twister by Juliette Forrest]]===4[[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Twister certainly lives up to her stormy name. She's so stubborn and determined that she's almost summary=Eli is a force of nature busy lad – by day an apprentice in her own rightthe wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and she's fiercely loyal to her familyin the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Her beloved father has disappeared and her mother Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is sunk a generation missing in a dreary depression where she barely seems aware of her daughterthe family. A few short years ago, Eli's existence: if it weren't for Aunt Honey and her wonderful cooking, and Point parents were both lost to the dogtitular race, she would feel a globe-trotting adventure where all alone entrants have to navigate the world in the worldcompany of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but 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, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran. [[Twister by Juliette Forrest|Full Review]]isbn=0571382231<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Stewart -->*[[image:Stewart_Rebel2.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1526300230?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creativeauthor=6738&creativeASIN=1526300230]]Helen Cooper ==|title=[[Rebel Voices: The Rise Taming of Votes for Women by Louise Kay Stewart and Eve Lloyd Knight]]the Cat|rating===3.5[[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] ''Rule breakerssummary=Once again, mice are pitched against cat. Risk takers. Rebel women. Law makers. A celebration of women rallying around In this case, principally, we have Brie the globe to win mouse, up against Gorgonzola the vote.'cat – and in case you' Let's just get straight to it. I loved ''Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women''. And I can't let re seeing a review pass without connection, they live in a brief note on cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the fabulous production valuesnames of cheeses. The cover Anyway, Brie is stunning shunned, scorned and deeply impactful as , if you can see. It has that lovelymust, mous-tracised, bookish smellfor the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. The They nibble up paper is thick wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and heavymakes stories based on the visuals on it. Everything about it tells you And that this is a book with interesting story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and important informationcast out. It simply begs 's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to be picked up and readtell stories to keep themselves alive. Full marks This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to Wren and Rook for this investmenthalf-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. [[Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women by Louise Kay Stewart and Eve Lloyd Knight But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|Full Review]]isbn=0571376010<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Ure -->|author=Lauren St John*[[image:Ure_Star.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0008164533?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0008164533]]Finding Wonder|rating===[[Star Quality (Dance Trilogy 2) by Jean Ure]]===4[[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Maddy, Caitlynsummary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, Roz and Alex have all just been tested now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to go tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the prestigious City Ballet School full timecorner shop to buy a lottery ticket. Caitlyn When asked what other family she has, Roz and Alex all get their acceptance about a week latershe can only name her aunt, Joni, but Maddywho she knows her dad didn's is a little slower in comingt think very highly of. It was obviously delayed in the post. She was never actually worried that But she wouldn't be accepted: wellhas no one else, and so off she's an exceptional dancer and goes to live with her family is ballet royaltyunreliable aunt. Where else would she be but City Ballet School? Caitlyn still can't quite believe the opportunity she's been given Things continue to get worse for Roo, particularly as when sheand Joni leave London in Joni's not been dancing anywhere near as long as old campervan, it breaks down in the others. It means so much to her. [[Star Quality (Dance Trilogy 2) by Jean Uremiddle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|Full Review]]isbn=0571376169<br><br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Simmons -->|author=Adam Baron and Benji Davies*[[image:Simmons_Swapped.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408877759?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408877759]]Oscar's Lion|rating===[[I Swapped My Brother On The Internet by Jo Simmons]]===3 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] After a terrible argument over the Hanging Pants of Doom (don't ask)summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, the sibling rivalry between Jonny and but mother is more likely – read him his older brother Ted comes to very favourite book a head. Jonny fills out an application form at siblingswap.com and sits back couple of times before he has to wait be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is a new brother who is boundmahoosive male lion on their bed, surelylooking sheepish, to and admitting that he won't be infinitely better than patronising, mocking, bullying, Tedhungry for another two days. Right? Any brother would But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be better than Tedshown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. Right? Of course! What on earth could go wrong? Well And it can shapeshift, plenty as so he can take it to school and it happens. [[I Swapped My Brother On The Internet by Jo Simmons|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Zurcher -->*[[image:Zurcher 12.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0141385545?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0141385545]] ===[[Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] This story opens on can get him out of a terrifying noteproblem. Kay and Eloise And it's father is working late at wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his collegebiscuit intake, as usualbeing much more lax about the rules, but when the two girls and their mother arrive to pick him upso on. OK, they are told he does not it can't work there. In fact, everyone they meet insists they have never heard of him. It sounds like the beginning of a scary murder-mystery, or a cat-and-mouse chase in the style of James Bond or Dan Brown, dimmer switch but what actually lies behind this event is far stranger and more confusing. Later that night Kay hears voices at her window and embarks on it can give Oscar a quest to rescue both her father and her younger sister from ruthless beings who are decidedly not humanwonderful time. [[Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher|Full Review]]isbn=0008596751<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Ignotofsy -->|author=Judith Eagle*[[image:Ignotofsky_Sport.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1526360926?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1526360926]]The Stolen Songbird|rating===[[Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win by Rachel Ignotofsky]]===4 [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Childrensummary=Caro's Nonmother, a world-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] ''Women in Sport'' famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018now missing. It celebrates a century and a half of the development of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers Her other mother, covering sports as diverse as swimmingRonnie, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. Think is having to go up North to take care of a sport and a pioneering women succeeding at it her sister who is probably in this book somewhereunwell. Each entry So who is a double page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait. [[Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played going to Win by Rachel Ignotofsky|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Elphinstone -->*[[image:Elphinstone Sky.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471146073look after Caro?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471146073]] ===[[Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] The Ice Queen Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has cast a spell on Erkenwaldheard her mother despises, separating the Fur she feels frustrated and Feather Tribes confused and making the third – the Tusk Tribe – the enemy worried. All her summer holiday plans of both. Eager building herself some equipment to secure practise her position by gaining eternal lifegymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, the Ice Queen who is consuming the voices of the Erkenwald peopleliving there too. There seems little anyone can do until three children – Eska But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, Flint and Blu – come together. With help from 'the wildas she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, they set off on and all across London a quest to find fearsome gang called the legendary 'Frost Horn' Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the magical 'Sky Song' that will free Erkenwald from painting somehow linked to the Ice Queengang? And what has happened to Caro's control. [[Sky Song by Abi Elphinstonemother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|Full Review]]<br>isbn=0571363148}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan SmithTania Unsworth|title=Below ZeroNowhere Island

|summary=Twelve year old Zak Reeve Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is supposed so determined to be enjoying escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a relaxing holiday in the sunshine with his family before home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he goes jumps into hospital for surgery. Insteadan anonymous car, the whole family are on a plane and lets it ride him to the Antarctic because the 'spider drones' his parents have designed future. That future seems to support the Exodus mission to Mars have started to malfunction. His parents assure Zak and be in jeopardy when someone steals his older sister, May, one bag of belongings – but that this will be someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the two directions of a flying visit butmotorway, as you'd expect with any action adventure story, things go wrong from the moment a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their plane crashes into the ice outside Outpost Zerosafety and seclusion. Zak Them, and his family are about to find themselves in a chilling adventure that will leave them fighting for survivalmute 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655929</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos and Alison Entrekin (translator)Helen Peters|title=My Sweet Orange TreeFriends and Traitors

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=''It's just that sometimesEngland, Zeze, you're too naughtyWW2.'' And that's almost Two young girls are new at the entire truth about our narratorcountry pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, Zeze – he's a young tykedestined to be in service all her life it seems, and everyone in his largelike the female generations before her. The other is Sidney, halfa girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-Indian family – heckpaths. The girls are chalk and cheese, everyone who recognises his blonde and pale looks in the neighbourhood – knows heif we hadn's skilled at being up to no good, t guessed that perhaps he was born then their behaviour with a little of the devil in him where Jesus should resideeach other over their first encounters would only prove it so. Instantly adept at being able to read, even when he's only fiveBut something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the precocious brat is forced to face something that might Lord Evesham must be the changing of him, once and for all – schoola rum 'un. This time Midnight deliveries are received under cover of change secrecy, talk is also featuring a move made of homemeetings with Germans, as the family cannot afford the rent arrears on their current placeand not only that, although having downsized the garden comes to feature the titular tree, which almost works as a confessional cum best friendlocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. Whether either the new home or But surely the school will get to change Zezegirls are wrong, or neither, is and the plot of this vintage Brazilian junior read.upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691537</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=J S LandorJamie Littler|title=The Mirror of PharosArkspire

|summary=12 year-old Jack Tideswell is not your typical adventurer. In factTwo sisters, he spends most of his time trying to prevent his Nan worrying Juniper and trying to avoid the gang of school bullies. ThisElodie, howeverborn fifteen minutes apart, changes when a seagull delivers a strange package through the cat flapare growing to be chalk and cheese. Suddenly everything Juniper is different. Jack finds himself briefly catapulted into the future an eager hunter and then into trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the pastBadlands. It takes him a long time Elodie is intent on getting closer to understand what's happening but luckily he has several friends power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to help him. There is his best friend from school, Charlie (occasionally known as Charlotte), become the people he meets child in line to inherit the power of the past and Watcher, the future (several of whom claim closest to have met him before), a ruler the stranger Jago Flyndistrict has, and one of the magical wolf, Alphafive major victors in said earlier war. With their help, Jack learns Being trained in the magic that he's a fledging Magus (a true magician) and comes to realise that he alone only five people can prevent a Titanic-like disaster in use would definitely change the future. Sadly one status of his friends isn't everything they claim to bethe whole family. Will Jack realise But in time?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>1788039203</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Katie Haworth and Dinara Mirtalipova024162343X|title= Beauty and the BeastStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= We all know I was the story of beauty and the beastbad company other people got into at school. A prince, transformed I was disruptive in to a monster for his cruel and malicious nature, trapped in his grotesque form seemingly for religious education classes because I disputed the rest existence of his daysa 'god'. Then comes along a young woman Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the beauty end of the storyWWII, who mellows I didn't so much want to learn about the beastBritish army's harsh character successes (and grows to love him for who he isoccasional failures, and not because of his appearance. Itbut we didn's a fairy tale of old and a story of love crossing boundaries which has been adapted countless times both t dwell on screen and those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in literaturethe first place. So is this new retelling worth Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the read? maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I think so, because wish I loved it'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704578</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hilary Lee-CorbinThiago de Moraes|title= Conkers and GrenadesOld Gods New Tricks|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=ItMeet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when she's Bristol in 1916being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Britain is halfway through Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the Great War and everyone is expected to put their shoulder to town the wheel of school's in but the war effort. Mar entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and Appy might be boysall that powers the Internet, but theyjust for our convenience're no differents sake). Both their fathers are away fighting and Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the two young boys are expected power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to help with household choresgather 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, look after younger siblingsgiants, earn a few extra pennies through casual jobs half-gods and concentrate so on getting an education..known as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788033515</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Under Finding Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=[[The Light 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 she called Bear. Back home, things on the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Desperate to make sure he's OK, she and her father return to the Arctic and hope that in a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.|isbn=0008582017}}{{Frontpage|author=Simon Fox|title=Deadlock|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a Full Moonwhole heap of questions.|isbn=1839944420}}{{Frontpage|author=Donna McGrathCath Howe|title=My Life on Fire|rating=35|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ren's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything.5 She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the 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 a person. But Ren has nothing to put in a box, and so she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=1839942835}}{{Frontpage|author= Rob Keeley|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=4

|summary=When the bad dreams and the whispers at night first start, Clara has no idea what's going on. All she knows Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is that the lack of sleep is making her feel ill. But back with a visit from her Great Aunt Selina supplies some answers. Clara's family has a gift. One member of each generation has return to the ability short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to shape-shift into the form of any species of animal. But the gift comes with an ancient curse - bearers of it can only transform during the three days of the full moon eleven new tales, each monthas fun to read as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00D9V7QOA</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tony MittonLaura Noakes|title= Potter's BoyCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Life Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is unpredictable; it never goes exactly where we want it for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to despite how much effort we put in to shape a direction for ourselvesthe ledger, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. It's But Cosima bears the tag as a hard lesson surname because nothing else seems to learnbe known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in the outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one Tony Mitton captures with vivid simplicity afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the potter's boy. past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910989347</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan Wood and Alice M Ross MacDonald|title=American Gothic: The Life of Grant WoodNowhere Thief

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