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{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- Reuter -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0995697280How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0995697280/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre==[[Elise and the Second-hand Dog by Bjarne Reuter and Kirsten Raagaard]]===Confident Readers [[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Whilst Elise's mum is away Lucas and his friends are all booked in the Amazon, building for a bridgemovie marathon at their local cinema, she and her father are struggling to get along in her absencea place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Elise begs her father for a dogAll big movie fans, for companythey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and in many, many snacks! However, as the end he agreesmovie starts, though the dog they very quickly realise that they get something about this new film format is most definitely second-hand, rather ugly, and smelly very different, andthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, remarkably, he talks! [[Elise and can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the Second-hand Dog by Bjarne Reuter cinema, and Kirsten Raagaardto their real lives?|Full Review]]isbn=1839942738}} <!-- Faulks 7/3 -->{{Frontpage|-author=Adam Stower| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Murray and Bun[[image:B079RJFN42.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co4.uk/dp/B079RJFN42/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Confident Readers ===[[The Seer's Curse by J J Faulks]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Although ''The Seer's Curse'' Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is billed as a pre-teen novel, I would say that it would appeal able to a wide audience interested in fantasy sleep and eat and eat and sleep and mythology, as well as just , whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a good tale. [[PAGE TITLE|Full Review]] <!-- Montgomery -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0571333486bad magician'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.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0571333486/ref=nosim?tag This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=thebookbag-21]]0008561249}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=[[Max and the Millions Eli is a busy lad – by Ross Montgomery]]=== [[image:4day 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.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Ten year old Max likes being alone Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – it's easier than trying to cope with for there is a generation missing in the feedback from his hearing aid when hefamily. A few short years ago, Eli's surrounded by loud noise or attempting parents were both lost to swivel his head fast enough the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to lip read when several people are speaking at once. However, when he discovers a civilisation of millions behind navigate the world in the door company of the school janitor's room, Max has to learn to lead a teammagical beast. Max finds This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a way bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to communicate enter what he most hates, with Luke, the tiny boy who's Prince (and almost King) of one sole aim the prize of magic at the three tribes now living on end – the floor of the caretaker's roomonly thing to possibly save his gran. Supported by his roommate, Sasha, Max has to find a way to bring |isbn=0571382231}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Cooper|title=The Taming of the three feuding tribes together and find a safe place for them to live before the school's Headteacher disposes of the little people for goodCat|rating=3. [[Max and the Millions by Ross Montgomery5|Full Review]]genre=Confident Readers <!-- Farrant -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0571323561|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against cat.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0571323561/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Children In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – 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 names of Castle Rock by Natasha Farrant]]=== [[image:4starcheeses.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Eleven year old Alice Mistlethwaite used to be brave Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and adventurous but after her mum died she withdrew into herself and started to live in her own world of stories. Unfortunately her dad is an actor and isn, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't around enough to helpmatch the other mice he lives with. Instead, Alice is shipped off to boarding school in They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the Scottish highlandsvisuals on it. But she quickly finds And that this isn't an entirely normal school – for examplestory-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the last student to arrive at the start of term is given the responsibility of waking the rest of top dog in the school every morning for the rest of term. Soonmouse community, howeverthough, as all the others had the strange school curriculum becomes the least of Alice's worries. She receives a secret package from her dad with strict instructions not chance to open half-inch some cheese while the parcel and a request to deliver it to a remote Scottish islandcat was distracted. Will she be able to persuade her new friends to break school rules and help her deliver But will the story have the mysterious parcel to her dad? Will she be able to resist opening successful sequel itneeds when that cheese runs out? [[The Children of Castle Rock by Natasha Farrant|Full Review]]isbn=0571376010}}<!-- Wickson -->{{Frontpage|-author=Lauren St John| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Finding Wonder|rating=4[[image:Wickson_Stan.jpg|leftgenre=Confident Readers|linksummary=http://wwwRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult.amazon.co.uk/dp/0192759043/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Planet Stan Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by Elaine Wickson and Chris Judge]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Stan is 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 space freaklottery ticket. He's nuts about it – to the extent of having too many embarrassing experiences in his rocket undies When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, but thatwho she knows her dad didn's by the byt think very highly of. He's trying to win a telescope But she has no one else, and diligently do all his science-based homework, but one thing stands in the wayso off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Space. Or Things continue to get worse for Roo, more preciselyas when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the space he has to share with his incredibly snotty, annoying, dumb, messy little brother Fred. Stan has a project on the go, which is to get three helpers middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Baron and enter a science fairBenji Davies|title=Oscar's Lion|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, but Fred has also found something with Oscar hoping to concentrate have his erratic mind on mother – the local museum or father, but mother is thinking more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of ditching its T-rex fossil times before he has to be ready for a huge light-up Earth in a new eco gallery. Fred almost thinks of Rory the T-rex as a petschool. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, and is certainly more friendly to it than all he sees is to Stan (when a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that hewon's not colouring the poor thing's legs in with crayon, that is)t be hungry for another two days. Can Stan get something to take But there are benefits to school without bogies all over 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 itcan shapeshift, and will Fred 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 way where Rory is concerned? [[Planet Stan by Elaine Wickson biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and Chris Judge|Full Review]] <!-- Sparkes so on. -->|-OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"0008596751}}{{Frontpage|author=Judith Eagle[[image:Sparkes Night.jpg|lefttitle=The Stolen Songbird|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0192749951/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Night Speakers by Ali Sparkes]]===Confident Readers[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Three young people meet up in unusual circumstances to find that they all share Caro's mother, a strange experience: waking at exactly 1.34amworld-famous whistler, the same time each nighthas failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Elena Her other mother, Matt and Tima try Ronnie, is having to get back go up North to sleep, but after a few days take care of broken sleep they are drawn outside into an adventure that tests their ingenuity her sister who is unwell. So who is going to the limit. Together and completely sleep deprived, they decide look after Caro? Sent to investigate this strange night waking phenomenonstay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and their searches take them to a different confused and scary world where inexplicable things are happeningworried. [[Night Speakers by Ali Sparkes|Full Review]] <!-- Kiernan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kiernan Begone.jpg|left|link=http://wwwAll her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too.amazon.co.uk/dp/1406366021/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Begone The Raggedy Witches: The Wild Magic Trilogy by Celine Kiernan]]=== [[image:4 But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|Confident Readers]]isbn=0571363148 Aunty has died. Mup, her little brother Tipper and Mam are driving back from the hospital, and already it seems everything has changed. It was Aunty who kept the family going, who cared for them all and made sure they were happy, warm and secure. But then, as they approach the house, Mup is astonished to see the white, uncaring faces of witches above them, darting from tree to tree as they follow the car. Things are going to change even more suddenly and dramatically than she could ever have imagined. [[Begone The Raggedy Witches: The Wild Magic Trilogy by Celine Kiernan|Full Review]] <!-- Kenny -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kenny_Tin.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1911077651/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tin by Padraig Kenny]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Christopher can't remember much about his life before he came to live with Mr Absalom. Snatches of memories sometimes surface; images of his mother and father that appear suddenly before fading into the smoke, blackness and flames of the fire. He remembers the fire most of all; his last, most powerful memory of his old life that chokes out everything else. However, his present life working for the eccentric engineer isn't all bad. He has his mechanical friends to keep him company. They are his family now. [[ Tin by Padraig Kenny|Full Review]] <!-- Jennings -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jennings Different.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1910646423/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Different Dog by Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Our hero is a boy, whose name we never learn. We know what he wants in life – with his mother exceedingly poor, and even his bed burnt to keep the two of them warm, he wants the prize offered by a down-a-mountain-and-back-up-and-down-again foot race. Winning the race and the large purse would also give him more status in the eyes of those kids that bully him, and it might even give him a voice – for he is almost mute. We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the motivation, and can only speak aloud to himself – and, so it turns out, to a dog he rescues from a bad road accident he finds on his way up the hill to the start line… [[A Different Dog by Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly|Full Review]] <!-- Forrest -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Forrest_Twister.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/140718511X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=140718511X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Twister by Juliette Forrest]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=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 a force of nature in her own right, and she's fiercely loyal to her family. Her beloved father has disappeared and her mother is sunk in a dreary depression where she barely seems aware of her daughter's existence: if it weren't for Aunt Honey and her wonderful cooking, and Point the dog, she would feel all alone in the world. [[Twister by Juliette Forrest|Full Review]] <!-- Stewart -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stewart_Rebel2.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1526300230?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1526300230]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women by Louise Kay Stewart and Eve Lloyd Knight]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] ''Rule breakers. Risk takers. Rebel women. Law makers. A celebration of women rallying around the globe to win the vote.'' Let's just get straight to it. I loved ''Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women''. And I can't let a review pass without a brief note on the fabulous production values. The cover is stunning and deeply impactful as you can see. It has that lovely, bookish smell. The paper is thick and heavy. Everything about it tells you that this is a book with interesting and important information. It simply begs to be picked up and read. Full marks to Wren and Rook for this investment. [[Rebel Voices: The Rise of Votes for Women by Louise Kay Stewart and Eve Lloyd Knight|Full Review]] <!-- Ure -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ure_Star.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0008164533?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0008164533]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Star Quality (Dance Trilogy 2) by Jean Ure]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Maddy, Caitlyn, Roz and Alex have all just been tested to go to the prestigious City Ballet School full time. Caitlyn, Roz and Alex all get their acceptance about a week later, but Maddy's is a little slower in coming. It was obviously delayed in the post. She was never actually worried that she wouldn't be accepted: well, she's an exceptional dancer and her family is ballet royalty. Where else would she be but City Ballet School? Caitlyn still can't quite believe the opportunity she's been given, particularly as she's not been dancing anywhere near as long as the others. It means so much to her. [[Star Quality (Dance Trilogy 2) by Jean Ure|Full Review]] <!-- Simmons -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Simmons_Swapped.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408877759?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408877759]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[I Swapped My Brother On The Internet by Jo Simmons]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] After a terrible argument over the Hanging Pants of Doom (don't ask), the sibling rivalry between Jonny and his older brother Ted comes to a head. Jonny fills out an application form at siblingswap.com and sits back to wait for a new brother who is bound, surely, to be infinitely better than patronising, mocking, bullying, Ted. Right? Any brother would be better than Ted. Right? Of course! What on earth could go wrong? Well, plenty as it happens. [[I Swapped My Brother On The Internet by Jo Simmons|Full Review]] <!-- Zurcher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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 a terrifying note. Kay and Eloise's father is working late at his college, as usual, but when the two girls and their mother arrive to pick him up, they are told he does not 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, 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 a quest to rescue both her father and her younger sister from ruthless beings who are decidedly not human. [[Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher|Full Review]] <!-- Ignotofsy -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ignotofsky_Sport.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1526360926?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1526360926]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win by Rachel Ignotofsky]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]] ''Women in Sport'' is coming to us just before the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February 2018. It celebrates a century and a half of the development of women's sport by looking at fifty of its highest achievers, covering sports as diverse as swimming, fencing, riding, skating, and much more. Think of a sport and a pioneering women succeeding at it is probably in this book somewhere. Each entry is a double page spread with a brief biography and a striking portrait. [[Women in Sport: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win by Rachel Ignotofsky|Full Review]] <!-- Elphinstone -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Elphinstone Sky.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471146073?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471146073]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] The Ice Queen has cast a spell on Erkenwald, separating the Fur and Feather Tribes and making the third – the Tusk Tribe – the enemy of both. Eager to secure her position by gaining eternal life, the Ice Queen is consuming the voices of the Erkenwald people. There seems little anyone can do until three children – Eska, Flint and Blu – come together. With help from 'the wild', they set off on a quest to find the legendary 'Frost Horn' and the magical 'Sky Song' that will free Erkenwald from the Ice Queen's control. [[Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone|Full Review]] <!-- Hill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hill_Atlas.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1783706961?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1783706961]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Atlas of Monsters by Stuart Hill and Sandra Lawrence]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Spirituality and Religion|Spirituality and Religion]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] There are monsters and mysterious characters, such as trolls, leprechauns, goblins and minotaurs. They're the stuff of far too many stories to remain mysterious, and every schoolchild should know all about them. There are monsters and mysterious characters, such as Gog and Magog, Scylla and Charybdis, and the bunyip. They are what you find if you take an interest in this kind of thing to the next level; even if you cannot place them all on a map you should have come across them. But there are monsters and mysterious characters, such as the dobhar-chu, the llambigyn y dwr, and the girtablili. To gain any knowledge of them you really need a book that knows its stuff. A book like this one… [[The Atlas of Monsters by Stuart Hill and Sandra Lawrence|Full Review]]|}}{{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=England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like the female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'Itun. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=1788004647}}{{Frontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=Arkspire|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|rating=5|genre=Children's just that sometimesNon-Fiction|summary=I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, Zezeit was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, youI didn're too naughtyt so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and 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 be there in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. And thatI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Thiago de Moraes|title=Old Gods New Tricks|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet 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 being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the entire truth about our narratorworld changes. Suddenly, Zeze practically everything electronic stops working – hea power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's a young tykein but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and everyone all that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake). 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 his largestealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-Indian gods and so on known as the tricksters.|isbn=178845295X}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Finding Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=[[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 she called Bear. Back home, things on the domestic and family – heckfront are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, everyone who recognises his blonde and pale looks in so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the neighbourhood – knows islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. 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She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. 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 devil 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 him where Jesus should residea 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. Instantly adept at being able 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|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a return to the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, each as fun to readas his previous offerings.|isbn= B0BVW69N1G}}{{Frontpage|author=Laura Noakes|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Number One. Or rather, even when he's only fiveCosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the precocious brat home she lives in is forced for the girls to face something that might just be named by the changing of himnumber they correspond to in the ledger, once and for they're all Unfortunates – schoolyoung people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. This time of change is also featuring But Cosima bears the tag as a move of homesurname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family cannot afford in the outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one 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 past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059}}{{Frontpage|author=Alice M Ross|title=The Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=At last there is new stock in the rent arrears on their current placeimpoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the ability to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, although having downsized where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the garden comes buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to feature actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, is the titular treeanswer, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which almost works items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769}}{{Frontpage|author=Natasha Farrant|title=The Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, in the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a confessional cum best friendfamily. Whether either They have grown up swimming in the new home or cove, roaming through the school will get to change Zezetrees, or neithercompletely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the plot of this vintage Brazilian junior readproperty to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691537</amazonuk>0571348785

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|summary=12 year-old Jack Tideswell Jayden's nose is not your typical adventurer. In factforever in a book, which means he spends most knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of his time trying the world, for example. Aisha is addicted to prevent his Nan worrying and trying to avoid the gang her new tablet, where she can see videos of school bulliesanything that might be out there. This The problem, howeveras their mothers see it, changes is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. But when a seagull delivers narrowboat turns up carrying a strange package through the cat flap. Suddenly everything is different. Jack finds himself briefly catapulted into the future science-minded, educational purpose, and then into the with a pastinvolving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. It takes him a long time to understand what For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's happening but luckily he has several friends to help himseen on a bit of local footage. There is his best friend from school The crew of the boat, Charlie (occasionally known as Charlotte)including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the people he meets in rare critters – and the past and kids unknowingly have the future (several of whom claim magical sight needed to have met him before)join in. Dare they side with Leila, the stranger Jago Flynwoman on board, and the magical wolf, Alpha. With their help, Jack learns that he's her relative who lives as a fledging Magus (figure in a true magician) painting, and comes to realise that he alone can prevent a Titanic-like disaster in become saviours of the future. Sadly one of his friends isn't everything they claim to be. Will Jack realise in timeunseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788039203</amazonuk>0241573483