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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]]==Confident readers==__NOTOC__ {{newreview|author=Gary Blackwood|title=Mysterious Messages <!-- Remove - A History of Codes and Ciphers|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=There's something utterly cool about codes and ciphers. It's not just the spies with their secret world, it's the mystery of an ostensibly random set of letters or pictures. It's being able to unravel them and see what they're hiding. It's a combination of geeky riddle solving (and geeks are cool, so there) and uncovering the unknown meanings. Gary Blackwood treats us to a history of codes and ciphers, looking at their creation, the stories behind them, and how to crack them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0525479600</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel PennacMax Boucherat|title=DogThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Dog was We meet Lori on the runt of first evening she's got the litterhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Unwanted. Half-drowned What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and left that is to die log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a rubbish tip, you can imagine better starts hit in life for this scruffy-looking little puppy. But itLori's not so badworld. Black Nose takes him under her wing and gives him But first Lori has a little of tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her milk own, and a lot of her lovethen she finds something even more spooky. More importantly, For the server she teaches him the rubbish tip ropes and gives him as much advice about doghood her bestie and ownerhood as she possibly cannobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. And then... there's an accident. The last thing Black Nose says to Dog is ''If you go to the town When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, watch out for and her safe place in the cars. Dodgegame has been doctored – well, little one, remember.''where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406322741</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert Crowther|title=Cars - A Pop-Up Book Of Automobiles|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Robert Crowther tells the story of the car, from Cugnot's steam engine, Trevithick's road locomotive Kieran Larwood and Benz's Motorwagen, right through to the recordJoe Todd-breaking Thrust SSC and to future cars, like the biodegradable Eco One. There are plenty of pop-ups and pull tabs to bring it all to life, and it's packed with detail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406312274</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James FitzsimmonsStanton|title=The Hudbrax Hoard (Sabrax Clyke Series)Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=34

|summary=Meet Sabrax ClykeKit. Not allowed to sit around in Like most of the hole people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the drysport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-stone wall he old, magical mazes, and his family call homerace to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and admire the pretty girl who's just moved in next doorpoints they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's persuaded by an urgent message from distant relatives to go to their aid regarding some unmentionableseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, awful predicamentand a new trio of questors is needed. His journey there Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and the task itself will involve metal dragonsstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, odd standing stones, earthmuscle-free-shattering movementszone have in actually managing that, and unearthly nasties.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955644216</amazonuk>1839945184

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane RayJames Sherwood Metts|title=Snow WhitePlanet Storyland|rating=34.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Jane Ray has taken the classic fairy tale of Snow White, the dwarves and the wicked queen, and created beautiful three-dimensional tableaux. It's a much-loved story that everyone is familiar with, and this is a great opportunity to rediscover a classic in an interesting new way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406311839</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Children's Trust|title=The Walrus and the Carpenter and Other Favourite Poems|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Celebrities, including [[:Category:Richard Hammond|Richard Hammond]], Paul O'Grady, Sienna Miller, McFly and Lorraine Kelly, have chosen their favourite poems for this anthology. All proceeds from the book go to [http://www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk/ The Children's Trust]. It's a fantastic charity, who help disabled children, and I urge you all to buy a copy of ''The Walrus and the Carpenter'' to support them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140632650X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tanya Landman|title=The Head is Dead (Poppy Fields Murder Mystery) |rating=4

|summary=MeetThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, once again, Poppy Fieldsoften replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. When tasked Just as they were beginning to create a murder mystery experience for a school fete she is only surprised get used to find the headmistress - a newly employed battleaxe that no-one seems all this technological change and starting to like - a real-life victim think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an assassinawful pandemic. And there is only a school field full of suspects. Can she Life was pretty much shut down and her best friend, brainbox Georgealong with it, solve all the day and make the staff room a safer place to be? And where does the invisible sheepdog come in?!many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406314633</amazonuk>1736128426

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael MorpurgoTom Percival|title=The Kites are FlyingWrong Shoes

|summary=Said lives on the West Bank. He herds his familyWill's sheeplife is difficult, spends in a lot multitude of time talking in his head to his absent brother Mahmoud, and ways. He is bullied because he makes a great many kiteshas 'the wrong shoes', which he sends across has the wall to the girl in the blue headscarf who lives in the occupierswrong shoes because his dad can' settlements. What Said t work and doesn't dohave enough money for even the most basic of things like food, is talk out loudand his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, even to was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his new friend Mister Maxmum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. Max is a Western journalist who wants to make And yet, he still has a documentary about how the Palestinian/Israeli conflict affects ordinary people on both sides tiny amount of the wallhope. Max He is entranced by Saidgood at art, and his dozens clings to the moments of kitesjoy when he is drawing, all bearing that feel like a light at the message salaam or peace. He can see that Said has end of a dreamlong, but he's not sure what it isdark tunnel. Will the dream come true before Max has to leave? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406317985</amazonuk>1398527122

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tanya Landman1805141872|title=Dying to be Famous (Poppy Fields Murder Mystery)The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=Meet Poppy Fields - an inquisitive young lass, keen on exploring her world - in ''Seventeen banks and a slightly different way to her geeky, walking-encyclopaedia of a best friendjeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, Graham. So keen is she to explore the phenomenon that is but only Ben knows the latest seen-everywheretruth – his Maths teacher, snapped-at-all-hours celebrityMiss Judson, she makes the pair of them go to audition for bit parts in the Christmas production of The Wizard of Oz the star is starting to rehearse. Unfortunately for really a safecracker! With police and hergangster boyfriend Al on their trail, she apparently hasn't noticed she's in the third book in a series of young reader murder mysteries, Miss Judson and deaths more unexpected than having a house land on you might just be Ben go on the playbillrun.But Al needs them for one last job..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406314625</amazonuk>}}.''

{{newreview|author=Michael Rosen|title=A To Z - The Best ChildrenGoodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a bad 's Poetry From Agard To Zephaniah|rating=5|genre=Childrenun like Al? We's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Michael Rosen has picked ll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the best modern children's poetrypupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, from John Agard through the son of a famous magician who has ambitions to Benjamin Zephaniah. It stemmed from Rosen performing in schools and libraries with many of the poetsbe as good as his father some day, and as children's poetry anthologies go, it's amongst the very best.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141324503</amazonuk>who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philippa Pearce and Helen CraigChristopher Edge|title=A Finder's MagicBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5

|summary=Till (Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place thathas the nickname of 's short for Tillawn) has lost his dog Bess and he has no idea how heThe Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they's going re looking forward to find her until a mysterious stranger appears. lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! Mr Finder interviews various witnessesHowever, including a catas the movie starts, a molethey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, a heron and Miss Mouseythey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. It's not what Miss Mousey says that gives Mr Finder the vital clue But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what has happened on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to Bess, but the sketch she made of the riverbank at the time that Bess went missing. There's a lot of magic in the quest to find Besscinema, but it's all very confusing for Till and at one point he even doubts the motives of Mr Finder.to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406319821</amazonuk>1839942738

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily BearnAdam Stower|title=Tumtum Murray and Nutmeg's Christmas AdventureBun

|summary=I do look forward to Eli is a good children's storybusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and having read Tumtum in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and Nutmeg's [[The Pirates' Treasure (Tumtum and Nutmeg) by Emily Bearn|previous adventure on a pirate ship]] I was particularly looking forward to this oneruns. It's ChristmasEli lives with his lovely gran, and our two friendly little mice have been working hard, preparing delicious treats and temptations ready too – for Christmas Day. One evening they go upstairs to check on the children who live there is a generation missing in their house, Arthur and Lucy, and find their letters to Father Christmas. Last year the children didn't get any presents because their chimney was blocked up and Father Christmas couldn't get infamily. TheyA few short years ago, Eli've asked for s parents were both lost to the same presents again this yeartitular race, hopeful that this year Father Christmas will manage to find a way through even though their father refuses globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to unblock navigate the world in the chimney for fear company of draftsa magical beast. Tumtum and Nutmeg are worried anyway that This has made the race anathema to the letter won't reach Father Christmas in time, and that pair – but when a bad incident at the children will be disappointed once again. They decide eatery leads to take matters into their own hands and set off a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to visit the terrifying Baron Toymouse in Toy Kingdom dare to see if enter what he can help. Howevermost hates, with clockwork cats to contend with, and the capture sole aim the prize of Tumtum by magic at the end – the evil Baron, Christmas could turn out only thing to be an even bigger disaster than they'd thought..possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405250267</amazonuk>0571382231

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael GrantHelen Cooper|title=HungerThe Taming of the Cat|rating=43.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=The kids of Perdido Beach Once again, mice are still within pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the FAYZmouse, a barrier erected by Little Pete - no-one knows how - when up against Gorgonzola the nuclear plant went into meltdown. An uneasy truce between Samcat – and in case you's tribe of Perdido Beach kids re seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and Caine's Coates Academy kids is beginning therefore all the names used here seem to waverbe the names of cheeses. The food Anyway, Brie is running out shunned, scorned and , if you must, mous-tracised, for the Darkness has its claws in all those itway his habits don's encounteredt match the other mice he lives with. Caine himself is reduced to delirium by They nibble up paper wrapping from the voice of the Darkness in his head cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and Lana makes stories based on the healer knows visuals on it's inevitable . And that she too story-telling will answer its callcome in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. Sam is struggling It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep any form of orderthemselves alive. As more and more kids begin This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to develop special powers and half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the hunger bites deeper into everyone's bellies, successful sequel it's inevitable needs when that conflict will break cheese runs out. And it does, in some very unpleasant ways. ?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405251522</amazonuk>0571376010

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam OsmanLauren St John|title=QuicksilverFinding Wonder|rating=4.5

|summary=Roo''Quicksilver'' is s life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the story middle of Wolfiethe 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 lottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Tala and ZiJoni, who she knows her dad didn'ibt think very highly of. But she has no one else, three ordinary children from three different continentsand so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. They have never met Things continue to get worse for Roo, until a strange chain of events involving gun-toting gangs as when she and eccentric Joni leave London in Joni's old men means they all end up in Thornhamcampervan, a London suburb. They soon realise they are connected: they all have green eyes with golden flecks and a missing parent. But was it fate, chance or breaks down in the ley lines that encompass the earth that brought them together? Before you know it they're solving clues middle of nowhere and fulfilling a one thousand year old prophecy. But all they want to do is find their parents.then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407105736</amazonuk>0571376169

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne Dahme Adam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Tombstone TeaOscar's Lion|rating=3.5

|summary=Having recently moved We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to a new schoolhave his mother – or father, in but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a new town, Jessie is struggling couple of times before he has to make friends and fit inbe ready for school. She But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is afraid to show these new people who she really is - in her old school she often found she had 'blank' momentsa mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, when she could hear voices and 'see' people who werenadmitting that he won't really be hungry for another two days. But there. In desperation are benefits to become part of having a 'group' she accepts lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the dare of bully that ruined a group of girls to spend birthday party for Oscar the night in the Cemetery and collect some gravestone rubbings to prove she was thereother month. Once there she bumps into Paul, the handsome caretakerAnd it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and finds herself in the middle it can get him out of a strange evening when, Paul claims, local actors get together problem. And it's wonderful to rehearse for something called have around the 'Tombstone Tea'house – not limiting his biscuit intake, a play in which they portray those buried in being much more lax about the graveyardrules, and so on...there OK, it can's something strange though about these actors and Jessie soon finds herself caught up in t work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a chilling dramawonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0762437189</amazonuk>0008596751

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David MillerJudith Eagle|title=Sea WolfThe Stolen Songbird|rating=3.54

|summary=Meet HannaCaro's mother, a world-famous whistler, Ned has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and Jikis now missing. They're on an unlikely quest to recover the world's biggest and richest pearlHer other mother, from the hiding place Jik alone knows ofRonnie, when there's a problem in the shape is having to go up North to take care of a tornadoher sister who is unwell. They're thrown from the craft they're onSo who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, Ned disappears - she feels frustrated and confused and then there were twoworried. Hanna and Jik get rescued by the occupants All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a horridhalt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, piratical craftalong with an orphan boy, engaged in very environmentally-unfriendly fishing. Jik gets overworked and underfedAlbie, and then who is living there was one..too. Only one - Hanna - with the spunkBut she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, brainpower and energy to keep as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her spirit togethermum's old suitcase, and try all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and get one up on terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the Maestro who commands gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the boat.mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192729020</amazonuk>0571363148

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katie DaviesTania Unsworth|title=The Great Hamster MassacreNowhere Island

|summary=Meet AnnaGil. Rather than write the usual staid what-I-did-in-my-holidays report for schoolJust twelve, she he is taking the time so determined to tell us about her pet issues over escape the summer, from recalling care system – the Old Cat, system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and the horror that find a home for himself. He is the New Caten route to yet another fosterer, to the New Rabbit down the roadwhen he jumps into an anonymous car, and her own demands for a hamster or twolets it ride him to his future. There are family secrets That future seems to be revealed relating to hamsters in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the two directions of olda motorway, parents a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to argue withprovide for their safety and seclusion. Them, and finally a trip to the pet shop - and that's mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfully. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just the start of Anna's troubles.would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385958</amazonuk>1804540080

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Josh LaceyHelen Peters|title=Friends and Traitors|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=England, WW2. Two Tigers on 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 Stringgirl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=1788004647}}{{Frontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=Arkspire

|summary=Ben's not too keen Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be sharing his bedroom with his half-brotherchalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, Frankincluding relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. But you don't have Elodie is intent on getting closer to be power in one of the hero religious districts of a detective adventure such as this book Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child in line to know that as Frank's mother has vanished from inherit the face power of the EarthWatcher, Ben will let it lie - for the closest to a whileruler the district has, and one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Nor is it too surprising to see Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the four Misfitz togetherwhole family. But in finding something oddly magical, on another caseJuniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, as they go on the hunt or for the missing woman.very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407109782</amazonuk>0241586143

{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-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, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't 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. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick O'BrienThiago de Moraes|title=You Are The First Kid On MarsOld Gods New Tricks

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=It is 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 world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a scipower-fi future out, even of no danger whatsoeverelectric cars, with no technological breakdownhits not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and no fatal meteor strikeall that powers the Internet, but that of course is only to be expected just for this marketour convenience's sake). I say it more to highlight how well Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the book has been illustrated. Digital airbrush techniques and more ancient Gods have taken the antiseptic sheen off power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the whole experience, but people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have still allowed for a great detail past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the machinerysemi-deities, giants, half-gods and also a lovely warmth in the face of so on known as the lad we're empathising withtricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0399246347</amazonuk>178845295X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary NaylusHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=The DresskeeperFinding Bear|rating=4.5

|summary=Things are pretty grim for Picky. She is thirteen years old[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], being bullied at schoolApril had been on Bear Island, and has to spend her weekends helping her singlea lot further north than many people would venture, working mum to take care of her little brother and her senile grandmotherfinding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. One eveningBack home, things on the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, at but not perfect for her Gran's house, she goes up into and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the attic and tries islands Bear was last left on an old dress that she finds inside an old chest. The dress turns out to be magic, and she suddenly finds herself back in 17th Century London, struggling with For a strange man who is calling her 'Amelia' bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and is trying to kill herwounded. Picky ends up embroiled in AmeliaDesperate to make sure he's 17th century life as OK, she tries and her father return to find out the truth Arctic and hope that in a world of who is attempting to murder hervery white and very dangerous things, at the same time as trying to avoid arousing suspicion with her strange behaviour whenever she returns to can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the present dayfriendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956122280</amazonuk>0008582017

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Abbott Nez Simon Fox|title=Cromwell Dixon's Sky-CycleDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Meet Cromwell DixonLate 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. He's a real tinkererThey 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, forever in toting a barn or somewhere building something manically unusual. Luckily - although tin his father was determined to keep away from his long-suffering mother may disagree with that word - he's around at colleagues, and the birth bearer of a whole heap of powered flightquestions. Will his plans for a pedalled air machine work?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0399250417</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeff KinneyCath Howe|title=Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog DaysMy Life on Fire|rating=4.5

|summary=It Ren's family home is destroyed in a truth universally acknowledged that school summer holidays are only enjoyable if you want to enjoy summerfire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. Greg here She doesn't want to notice ithave any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and would prefer to spend his days curtains drawnnow she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, face glued to late night TV or a computer gamedo anything, hand either clicking away at a controller or shovelling in snackseven eat the foods they normally eat. The last thing he needsWhen she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, thencreating boxes of their lives, is his mother, on to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to put in a ''family togetherness'' tripbox, and on a budgetso she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, with bad ideas of not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what Greg should be she is doing instead.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141327650</amazonuk>1839942835

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rick YanceyRob Keeley|title=The Monstrumologist: The Terror BeneathBoy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|summary=In late 19th century America, young Will Henry has been Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a return to the apprentice of the stern, forbidding Dr Warthrop since the death of his parentsshort story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, who were also employed by the doctor. The twelve year old boy has seen many things in his service each as fun to the monstrumologist - a specialist in monsters - but nothing can prepare him for the fateful day when an elderly grave robber brings the doctor the twin corpses of a young girl and the headless creature with fangs in read as his chest who had tried to feast on herprevious offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738546X</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt and DaveLaura Noakes|title=Yuck's Robotic BottomCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=It's concerned me for a while that it's relatively easy Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to pick up early readers her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, and they're all Unfortunates – princessesyoung people with disabilities, magic soft toysuncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, mermaids and pets abound unique in having no known family 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 – but there's a much smaller choice devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for boyshis Institute. It's important too with early readers But why, and what does that the content is ''interesting'' and reading becomes more than just something which you ''have'' body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to do at school and moves into being fun. Matt and Dave have found the answer in Yuck.past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847382991</amazonuk>0008579059

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo and Emma Chichester ClarkAlice M Ross|title=The Best of TimesNowhere Thief

|summary=Most children enjoy a good traditional tale and this lovely book by Michael Morpurgo seems to have all At last there is new stock in the right ingredients – a handsome prince impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a beautiful princess who fall in love, get married and live happily ever afterseaside town. Or do they? Sadly, not long after Prince Frederico marries the lovely Princess Serafina, Elsbeth knows this because she becomes very sadhas stolen it. Nobody She also knows what she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has caused such great sadnessthe ability to leave this world, but poor Prince Frederico is desperate and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to find a cure enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for his wife's miseryplunder. He tries everything in his power and eventually decides to offer his kingdom to anyone who With eviction imminent, can make her happy again before she dies of a broken heart. Lots of people come Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, is the palace to try and help answer, but in the end the solution is fact a simple one provided by some very kind travellers.mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405232552</amazonuk>1839943769

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon WestonNatasha Farrant|title=Nelson 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 family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely 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 Rescueproperty 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.|isbn=0571348785}}{{Frontpage|author=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street

|summary=Nelson used to pull Mike the MilkJayden's milk floatnose is forever in a book, but which means he has now retiredknows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. He lives in 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 never 'out there' themselves, exploring the stable at the back outside world of the dairy along with Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a couple of tricky ratsscience-minded, educational purpose, Rhodri and Rhyswith a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a pigeon who has no sense magical world they never knew existed. For many of directionthose mythological creatures are real, a frog who including the one Aisha thinks heshe's seen on a secret agent spy and an old racehorse who spends most bit of his time sleepinglocal footage. Rhodri and Rhys find The crew of the boat, including a mysterious message on Mike's fridge living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the animals believe that Mike has been invited kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to Buckingham Palace to receive an MBEjoin in. Somehow our heroDare they side with Leila, Nelsonthe woman on board, finds himself travelling down to London, pulling and her relative who lives as a ceremonial coach for Prince Charles as well as giving figure in a TV interview about his experience.painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848510454</amazonuk>0241573483

''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is 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 where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon BerkeleyNigel Baines|title=The Lightning Key (Circus Trilogy)A Tricky Kind of Magic

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=I shall start with a word of adviceCooper loves to perform magic tricks. When you're being hounded by His father was a circus mastermagician, and a magician, for named Cooper after the soul of a tiger thatgreat Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's contained in a tigerfather died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn's egg that's contained in the brain of your teddy beart quite know who to be, and your best friend - a fallen angel - is trying her best or how to make sure the other angels do not turn on you in a big way - then you're probably living the third book in a fantasy trilogybe. Still - never mind, the angelAnd when his dad's efforts will involve you entering a dream world of flight and cloud cities, the chase after your enemies will take you across the world prop rabbit starts talking to desert oases and backhim, and friends new and old will be he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on board to help.anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384447</amazonuk>1444960261