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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]]==Confident readers==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne OwenMax Boucherat|title=The Alchemist and the AngelLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
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|summary=When JanWe meet Lori on the first evening she's parents die of got the plague, he is sent house to the great city of Vienna herself – no neighbour to live with his aunt and uncle. His uncle is a distinguished alchemistpop in, babysitter poorly, andmother at work, hoping to take the boy's mind off his griefjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, hires him as his apprenticeon her lonesome. Jan loves the work What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, learns quicklyshe has one main intention, and soon the two of them are that is to log on the verge of perfecting a serum said to bring Voxminer, the dead back to life. But then his uncle is found deadworld-building, and Jan critter-collecting game that is being whisked off to Prague by his vain and calculating aunta hit in Lori's world. She But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own plans for the serum, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she will stop at nothing and her bestie and nobody else should be able to accomplish thementer 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444001507</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=MarieKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Louise Fitzpatrick Stanton|title=TimecatcherDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
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|summary=Jessie Minahan Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a pretty average fictional twelve year old girl: she has a dog side-kick named Duff team of warrior, mage and she craves adventure. One dayhealer enter specially prepared, when her scatty mother has an urgent need for buttons Jessie discovers the abandoned Dublin Button Factory in an century-old mill, now inhabited by two detectivesmagical mazes, who have a bigand race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big secretbad and the points they grant you along the way. She also meets G who is not your average fictional twelve year old boy - Unfortunately for oneKit, the only thing he's dead. His worst enemy seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is Greenwood – that one team has been retired, eaten, and a large ghost who lives in the mill and is full new trio of rules. Greenwood questors is also involved in this big secret which Jessie and G soon discover is the Timecatcherneeded. It opens every seven years Possibly very unfortunately indeed for three days and reveals Kit, he has taken to the goading from the past - 'shadow days' token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'shadow people'll enter as a team. It is about to open again What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and there is a ghostly villain named Sullivan Ellz'mede who would do anything how could he possibly hope to have the power source at its heart... succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842556770</amazonuk>1839945184
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip ArdaghJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Wrong End of the Dog (Grubtown Tales)Planet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=If you haven't Things have been to Grubtown before, then feel welcome. It's an auspicious day a bit sticky for the town of grubby Earthlings. AI and inept people with names like Rambo Sanskritautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and Mango Claptrap, other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as well. For today is the day of film star Tawdrey Hipbone's gala charity premiere. But there's they were beginning to get used to be no gala, all this technological change and little charity eitherstarting to think of other, when a pelican (and not the town mascot eithernew ways to spend time, but a different one) comes along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and steals - yes, steals - the beloved dog Snooks - yesalong with it, Snooks - from where he was living all the fine life in Tawdrey's hair - yes, hairmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057124792X</amazonuk>1736128426
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GrimstoneTom Percival|title=Gladiator Boy vs The Living DeadWrong Shoes|rating=2.5
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|summary=[[A HeroWill's Quest (Gladiator Boy) by David Grimstone|A Herolife is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 's Quest]] introduced us to Decimus Rex. This seventh book in the overall wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can'Gladiator Boyt work and doesn'' series (and start t have enough money for even the most basic of a new sub-series of 6) begins with our hero, Decimus Rexthings like food, and his friends all having received messages from their former ally Teo. I say former dad can't work because they all thought Teo he lost his job at the college, was deadworking a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. They're all hoping against hope Throw into that mix the fact that Teo is really alivehis mum and dad are separated, but thereand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a nagging doubt tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that their nemesis Slavious Doom is setting feel like a light at the end of a trap for them..long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340989270</amazonuk>1398527122
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{{Frontpage
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|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too Much
|author=Rob Keeley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''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...''
Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. 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}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny ValentineChristopher Edge|title=Iggy and Me and the Happy BirthdayBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54
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|summary=Ooh, hooray! Iggy Lucas and Flo his friends are back! We loved all booked in for a movie marathon at their [[Iggy and Me by Jenny Valentine|first outing]]local cinema, just as we love all Jenny Valentinea place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole's books for older readers. Flo All big movie fans, they's just your everyday run re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the mill eight year old. Iggy's a normal five year old (going on six). Iggy's a funny little thingmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, Floand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn's sweett even imagine. They're sisters who do what sisters do, in a regular family. They learn But as they lurch from one film genre to swimthe next, can they fall ill, figure out what on earth is going on? Will they make cakesever get back to the cinema, they ride bikes. They toddle along with life and have a lovely time. to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007283636</amazonuk>1839942738
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{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad 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. 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=0008561249}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gene KempAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=No Way OutThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
|rating=4
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|summary=Alex Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and Adam are twinsin the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, and they're telepathic to boottoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. They're very close A few short years ago, but are also like chalk and cheese: AdamEli's looking forward parents were both lost to their holiday on Uncle Ben and Aunt Sadie's farmthe titular race, but Alex can't think a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of anything worsea magical beast. Adam is always happy This has made the race anathema to read to their little sister Emmy, the pair – but Alex resents when a bad incident at the attention she gets (she's disabledeatery leads to a confession from gran, y'see). By and large, they're just ordinary kidsEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with ordinary grumbles. When the car they're in goes through thick fog and crashes, they find themselves in a town from times past, with inhabitants who don't want sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to let them leave, and who have an eye on Emmypossibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571244556</amazonuk>0571382231
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lindsey LeavittHelen Cooper|title=Princess for HireThe Taming of the Cat
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Desi is not the happiest of teenagersOnce again, although when mice are teenage girls ever actually happy? pitched against cat. AnywayIn this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, her ex-best friend Celeste is doing everything possible to humiliate up against Gorgonzola the cat – and alienate her from their friendsin case you're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to top it all off Celeste is also dating be the boy Desi has a huge crush on, Haydennames of cheeses. (He Anyway, Brie is perhaps a dubious prospect shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for Desi since he canthe way his habits don't even get her name right)match the other mice he lives with. Still, she has landed herself summer job working They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for a pet store bedding – he displays it as art and although makes stories based on the visuals on it involves being dressed . And that story-telling will come in a furry groundhog costume at least no-handy one can tell it's her in there. Wellnight, not until Celeste comes along when he feels all alone and unmasks hercast out. In front of Hayden. Desi finds herself feeling more and more like vapour every day, that she doesnIt't matter or s almost doesn't existas if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. Cue This makes Brie the top dog in the fairy-godmother style entrance of Meredithmouse community, though, an agent for Facade which is a magical company that offer jobs as all the others had the chance to teens with magical potential to work as substitute princesses..half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140524612X</amazonuk>0571376010
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria ForesterLauren St John|title=The Girl Who Could FlyFinding Wonder
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you could fly? Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. It would be such a wonderful sensationHer mum died when she was young, soaring through and now she finds herself awoken in the air, looping middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the loop, swooping down over your house and gardencorner shop to buy a lottery ticket. But have you also stopped to think When asked what other people might think if they saw that you could fly whilst no one else could? Would children still want to be your friend? What would your family think? The little girl in this story, Piper McCloudshe has, she can fly. She lives on only name her parents farm and was always a littleaunt, wellJoni, unusualwho she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But she has no one else, and after her mum found her floating in the air one day when she was a baby so off she decided goes to home school Piper, rather than expose live with her to the gossips in the villageunreliable aunt. But one day, at the village picnicThings continue to get worse for Roo, Piper flies during the baseball match as when she tries to catch and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the ball, middle of nowhere and suddenly her whole life is turned upside down...then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330512536</amazonuk>0571376169
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marcus SedgwickAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Lunatics and Luck (Raven Mysteries)Oscar's Lion|rating=4.53
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|summary=It's obvious really. When an earthquake hits Castle OtherhandWe start incredibly bluntly, Valevinewith Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, the head but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of the householdtimes before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, decides what the place needs all he sees is a machine to predict the futuremahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and a new tutor admitting that he won't be hungry for his another two oldest childrendays. And why not? There But there are only those children, benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the suicidal baby twinsother month. And it can shapeshift, Valevineso he can take it to school and it can get him out of a problem. And it's dreadful failed inventions and experimentswonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, Edgar being much more lax about the raven that narrates this series of booksrules, and a monkey. With bells so on. Clearly there is not enough weirdness there already to go aroundOK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842556959</amazonuk>0008596751
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam BladeJudith Eagle|title=Creta the Winged Terror (Beast Quest)The Stolen Songbird
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Our heroCaro's mother, Toma world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is finding his fishing trip now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with his father bugged - literally - by a plague of sickening cockroach thingsGam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. WhatAll 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 morehouse, the whole land of Avantia along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is suffering some form of horrid heatwaveliving there too. Can TomBut she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, recognising yet another threat to his country from the evil Malvel, defeat his nemesis yet again - especially as said baddie has as she discovers a new weapon painting of darkness a massive host of 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. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the roaches, swarming as one giant monstermystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408307359</amazonuk>0571363148
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy Coats and Anthony LewisTania Unsworth|title=The Beasts in the Jar (Greek Beasts and Heroes)Nowhere Island
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Atticus the sandalmaker Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is heading so determined to escape the great storytelling competition care system – the system that constantly puts him in Troyfutureless places that are not homes – and find a home for himself. On his way He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he meets jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him to his future. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a number camp on an island between the two directions of people a motorway, a place inaccessible and, always eager definitely ignored enough to provide for an opportunity to hone his skillstheir safety and seclusion. Them, relates to them tales from Ancient Greek myths and legendsa mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfully. The beasts in the jar of the title? Pandora released them from what Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we mistakenly call her box.would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000659</amazonuk>1804540080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Glenn DakinHelen Peters|title=Candle Man: The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance Friends and Traitors|rating=4.53|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Birthdays for Theo England, WW2. Two young girls are not exactly how we would recognise themnew at the country pile called Stanbrook. One blandis Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, forgettable present from each of like the three people who live in his householdfemale generations before her. Some pink cake at the best of timesThe other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. A trip to the cemeteryThe girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with the butler making sure nobody else is in sighteach other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But this one something is different - some person unknown leaves something for him. And by the time burglars break inamiss, and force Theo to leave the confines of his bedroom first separately and find some of then in combination they realise the secrets Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of the housesecrecy, it talk is too late - Theo is set on made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a nightmarish trail between two warring forces, as local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the truths of his destiny, his originsgirls are wrong, and his hands, come to the fore.upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405246766</amazonuk>1788004647
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diana Wynne-JonesJamie Littler|title=Enchanted GlassArkspire
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Andrew HopeTwo sisters, a rather woolly professorJuniper and Elodie, learns that his magical grandfather has diedborn fifteen minutes apart, leaving him his house are growing to be chalk and his field-of-carecheese. Andrew remembers some things Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from when he was a little boyprior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, such as his grandfather leaving vegetables on perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the roof power of the shed for someoneWatcher, or somethingthe closest to a ruler the district has, to eat each nightand one of the five major victors in said earlier war. He also remembers Being trained in the magic that there is something special about only five people can use would definitely change the beautiful, old coloured glass above status of the kitchen door, but not exactly what that iswhole family. It seems he has forgotten a lot But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of what his grandfather taught himher own – for good, or for very, including very bad…|isbn=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 mystery existence of a 'god'. Where was the field-of-care he has inheritedproof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. But with Not too long after the entrance end of Aidan CainWWII, an orphanI didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, into his house and his life 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 mysteries deepenfirst place. The two are drawn to each otherLooking back, however, and slowly start I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to unravel approach 'the truth that surrounds themproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007320787</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean UreThiago de Moraes|title=Ice LollyOld Gods New Tricks
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It's the funeralMeet Trixie. Laurel - Lolly to those that love her - is concentrating very hard and trying desperately to turn Forever getting into an ice lolly. Ice lollies are frozenscrapes, you seelarks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, and they don't feel so muchshe could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. They can But just when she't miss people s being told that by her one-last- mothers chance- who are gone and people who are still around can't hurt themgiving headteacher, the world changes. A frozen heart is Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a sad thingpower-out, even of electric cars, but ithits not just the town the school's a safe thing. Auntie Ellen doesn't like in but the music at entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the serviceInternet, she thinks itjust for our convenience's inappropriatesake). It isn't even a hymn Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. But And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it was one of Laurel's mother's favouritesback – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and Laurel think it's just perfect. Specialso on known as the tricksters. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007281730</amazonuk>178845295X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip WomackHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=The LiberatorsFinding Bear
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Cass is not having the best of [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time when it comes to secrets]], 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. It's all very well being involved in a top-secret societyBack home, designed to keep things on the secret of the most secretive secret everdomestic and family front are a bit advanced, but those pesky people called adults are keeping things from not perfect for her as well - namely, her very originsand so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. Can MaxFor a bear doing very Bear-Ernest y things has been shot and wounded. Desperate to make sure he's OK, she wade through their junk store base and find her father return to the box Arctic and hope that in a world of very white and very dangerous things, she was delivered in? Can they survive can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the mysterious clown school they end up visiting? And friendship can they keep a mystical tuning fork from falling into the wrong hands?continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409506312</amazonuk>0008582017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Betty G BirneySimon Fox|title=Holidays According to HumphreyDeadlock|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Humphrey the hamster Late one night Graham Blake is worried. Everywhere he turns late back from his little pink ears he hears noises about shift on the school being closed. How can force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he survive without all his adoring fans in room 26fetch something from a secret place, and what is life like for a classroom pet without a classroom? join him on the run. LuckilyThey get together, this is only but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the summer holiday he father is misunderstandingarrested, and what do you know - he will soon be meeting familiar facesleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, not at schooltoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, but at summer campand the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571250904</amazonuk>1839944420
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|rating=5
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|summary=Neal Shusterman continues his part zany adventureRen's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, part philosophical enquiryher parents, and part coming-her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of-age story that began with Everlost in this follow-up that is perhaps even better than its predecessor. Everlost is a kind her clothes, or any of limbo and home to children - Afterlights her special little knick- who have diedknacks from her cupboard, but somehow missed the tunnel and the light - wherever and whatever the light actually now she is. Adults never make it thereliving at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, but significant or much-loved objects and buildings sometimes doanything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. Mary Hightower When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, for instancecreating boxes of their lives, is so-called because she took up residence to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to put in New York in the Twin Towers. Mary thinks Everlost is a wonderful place box, and she "saves" the Afterlights so she finds by giving them repetitive but addictive tasks herself starting to fill eternitysteal 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387322</amazonuk>1839942835
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex MilwayRob Keeley|title=Mousebeard's Revenge (Mousehunter Trilogy)The Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=If you started this trilogy way back when, you would probably never expect the pirate, Mousebeard, and the hero and heroine, Emiline and Scratcher, to be working together. But they are - so deep Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is the world of Old Town in intrigue, subterfuge and wicked plans, that they need to combine forces - and get other returning characters back on hand and on their side - with a return to counter Mousebeard's enemies once and for all. Only, one great thing has changed. Yes, that's right. Mousebeard has had a shave...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571245102</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul|title=Winnie's Jokes|rating=2.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Who turns off the lights at Halloween? short story format! The lights witch. What does an Australian witch ride on? A broomerang. YepBoy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, it's a joke bookeach as fun to read as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192729063</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A G TaylorLaura Noakes|title=Meteorite StrikeCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Sarah is not readyMeet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. She's not ready Or rather, just Cos to forgive her friends. The practice in the man who home she lives in is her father, for abandoning her and her young brother Robert eight years ago. She cannot yet forgive the circumstances of her mother dying, and of girls to just be named by the promise number they were forced correspond to makein the ledger, to go to Australia and they're all Unfortunates – young people with the mandisabilities, and start a new lifeuncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. She is certainly not prepared for But Cosima bears the meteor strike tag as a surname because nothing else seems to smash into Australia just be known about where she came from, as they fly above itthe first ever inmate, which downs and unique in having no known family in the plane in outside world. During a horrid crashdaring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, and she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to carry with want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it an alien virus which forces many people possibly bring Cos closer to drop permanently asleep.the past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409508579</amazonuk>0008579059
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cynthia KadohataAlice M Ross|title=A Million Shades of GreyThe Nowhere Thief|rating=34.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=At just twelve, Tin last there is new stock in the youngest elephant handler impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in his villagea seaside town. Ever since he can remember Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, Tin because she has dreamed the ability to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal of working with elephants and he loves his own elephant, Lady, kaleidoscope colours to distractionenter other worlds, even spending most where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of his nights sleeping by her sidehumans and ripe for plunder. Tin is much less keen on school With eviction imminent, but his parents insist that he goes. Tin really can't see Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the pointshop? Well yes, as his sole ambition is to become a fully-fledged elephant trainer. His parents may talk about opportunities in the world outside his village answer, but if they don't involve elephants, he's not interested. the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738823X</amazonuk>1839943769
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gigi AmateauNatasha Farrant|title=ChanceyThe Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=45
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|summary=ChanceyThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of 's dam was Starry Night '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 owner loved that horse so much that she wanted Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a foal who was exactly like herfamily. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, but when Chancey was born she was bitterly disappointed for instead completely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the black Appaloosa with white marking Chancey was born albinoplace. It was only But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his striped hooves which proved his breedingother two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The owner was children find themselves worrying not big enough only about where they're going to overcome her feelings live, but if they'll even be together, and when she fell on hard times it was Chancey who was left out in the field to suffer despite the fact that he was no longer a young horseif Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140632258X</amazonuk>0571348785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dean Hale, Shannon Hale and Nathan Hale |title=Calamity Jack|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''I was born to scheme'', declares our hero Jack. With flashbacks we see the young lad and a pixie friend, larking about for revenge or small profit. But when his mother's bakery gets more Robin Birch and more into the red, the size of the profit has to increase. And when you add in revenge against the local crime lord - a giant of a man - so does the size of the target of the jape.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747587426</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laurie Halse Jobe Anderson|title=Chains|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Isabel and her sister Ruth are slaves. But they should be free - Miss Mary Finch left a will that said so. But Miss Mary Finch is dead and her greedy nephew and heir denies all knowledge of the will. So Isabel and Ruth are sold to the Locktons and taken to New York. The Revolutionary War is underway and New York is a dangerous place. The Locktons are loyalists, but the patriots are in control of the city. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747598061</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michelle Harrison|title=The Thirteen Curses|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Red is back, but she's trapped in the fairy realm. Having swapped places with Tanya, she is bound there, but is still desperate to get both her and her brother back into the human world. She must seek an audience with the fairy court, but the realm is full of deception and cruelty – it will be a challenge just to get there. And guess what happens when she gets there? She is set another challenge, twisted with the cruelty of the Unseelie (Boo! Hiss!) court. Whilst the journey goes on, she reflects on her pastSecret Beast Club: the car crash that killed her parents and her time at the children's home. Meanwhile, Tanya has returned to Elvesden Manor for half term and let's just say that her ability to see fairies comes back into use when the new housekeeper and her pesky parrot land her and Fabian and the whole Manor crew into trouble with the little people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384501</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nancy Farmer|title=The Islands of the Blessed (Sea Unicorns of Trolls Trilogy) Silver Street
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|summary=In this third adventure, Jack, Jayden's nose is forever in a fourteen year old Saxon apprentice bard, and Thorgilbook, which means he knows a bad-tempered shield maiden, follow lot about mythological creatures – the Bard Dragon Tongue on a quest to quell phoenixes and unicorns of the draugr - the malevolent spirit of a drowned mermaid mistakenly summoned world, for example. Aisha is addicted to Jack's village and who seeks revenge for her earlier ill treatment at human handsnew tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738630X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Garth Nix|title=Into Battle ( The Seventh Tower)|rating=3.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=We've made problem, as their mothers see it to book five in Garth Nix's Seventh Tower series, so a quick recap: The Dark World is blocked from the Sun by an enchanted Veil created by Talthat they are never 'out there's forebears to protect it from themselves, exploring the creatures who inhabit Aenir - a spirit land full outside world of magic and magical beastsHackney, London.Aenir is lit and warmed by the Sun But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, but the Dark World uses sunstones - crystals grown and charged with light and heat in Aenira past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. Some inhabitants For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the Dark World - the Chosen - also bind some of Aenirone Aisha thinks she's creatures to themselves as spiritshadows or spiritguards. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007261233</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Skinner|title=Furnaces seen on a bit of Forge|rating=3local footage.5|genre=Teens|summary=In this [[Blue Fire and Ice ( The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequel]]crew of the boat, it's almost as you wereincluding a living gargoyle, except here are tasked with saving the mysterious powers of rare critters – and the blue flame are not being used by some outlander arsonist, but kids unknowingly have been usurped by two inept young scientists from the Myrmidots, magical sight needed to fuel their industryjoin in. We can predict this will prove a bad thingDare they side with Leila, but the breadth of the journey to capture the flamewoman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the efforts of all our returning characters to put things right might still be a surprise.unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>0241573483
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom PalmerB09XWSXSKY|title=Captain Fantastic (Football Academy)Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski
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|summary=Ryan is a changed boyFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. Since he got into hot water with manager Steve for bullying several books ago A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in his captaincy of the United U12s was threatened, mind. It happened every time he's been determined came to get visit his socks firmly pulled upgrandfather. Hehadn's worked t really hard at redeeming himself too - both on and off the pitch. He's more than halfway towards becoming the best captain the team's ever had. So when Craig's attitude suddenly nosedives and he starts playing dirty during games and being insolent during training, Ryan feels a big responsibility wanted to help sort it out. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141324724</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christopher Russell and Christine Russell|title=The Quest of the Warrior Sheep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Take five rare breed sheep, put them in a fieldcome; after all, and wait for something to fall out the sky on to one of them. You'll find the result is that they gather, confer among themselves, work out their sacred God Aries is in trouble as he's lost the only thing to confer his power over the sacred Demon of sheep, Lambad, and decide to take the fallen object up North to return it. A journey that will take them into London in a market truck, down the Underground, and so much more on their epic journey.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405243767</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dugald Steer|title=The Dragon Diary: Dragonology Chronicles Volume 2|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Daniel ten now and Beatrice Cook are studying Dragonology with Dr Ernest Drake, and are awaiting the hatching of their very own dragon egg. But suddenly their parents have gone missing, an illness is killing dragons and it all smells of evil dragonologist, Alexandra Gorynytchka. Before they know it, the brother, sister and new dragon chick have to deliver Liber Draconis, the dragon diary, and St Petrocthose old clocks don's chalice t appeal to Dr Drake in Hong Wei, which may hold the secret to the curehim anymore. As the back cover reads: ''The future of dragon kind hangs in the balance!'' |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763634255</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ceci JenkinsonNigel Baines|title=Mirror Mischief (Oli and Skipjack's Tales A Tricky Kind of Trouble) Magic
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|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Sid from the pizza shop is on holiday in Africa and she's sent presents Cooper loves to her two best customersperform magic tricks. His father was a magician, Oli Biggles and Skipjack Haynesnamed Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. OliBut sadly Cooper's present is a mirror father died suddenly, and it's not just any mirror as it seems to have magical powers. It was perhaps unfortunate that Vernon Surd, the mean maths teacher who punishes anyone who cannow Cooper doesn't do fractions and Slugger Stubbins, the school bully should be the ones at the wrong end of the magical powers but it seemed quite appropriate that the first should know who to be transformed into a vulture and the second into a blue-faced baboon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571249698</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anthony Horowitz |title=Crocodile Tears (Alex Rider)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Fans of Anthony Horowitz' Alex Rider series have had a two-year wait for this installment of our young hero's escapades and they are not going , or how to be disappointed. HeAnd when his dad's fourteen year old now and not only is he being targeted by a hitmanprop rabbit starts talking to him, he's also being pursued by a journalist who wants to tell the nation all about the fact that MI6 are using one of his tender years to do their dirty work. The trouble is that he can'really'' doesn't be positive that it was a sniper that caused the car he was in to skid off a Scottish road and land at the bottom of a Loch. And MI6 donknow what't seem all that bothered about the journalist, unless, that is, Alex might be willing to find some simple information from a GM crop research centre, in which case they might be able to have a quiet word with the gentleman.s going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406310484</amazonuk>1444960261
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