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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident readersReaders|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carlos Ruiz ZafonKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Prince of MistDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54
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|summary=During World War Two, Max's father decides to move the whole family to a seaside retreat he knows Meet Kit. Like most of - a wooden house far away from the city he's grown people in his family up in. Nobody world, it seems too keen on , he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the idea, neither sport where a team of Max's sisterswarrior, his mothermage and healer enter specially prepared, nor he century- and Max is gifted a pocket watch by his lovingold, talented mechanic cum engineer cum watchmaker of a fathermagical mazes, enscribed as "Max's Time Machine". But and race to the house they move toexit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and its surroundingsthe points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, are full the only thing he's seen of more successful time machines - a stash of early home videos, a public clock the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that runs backwardsone team has been retired, a sunken shipwreckeaten, and a yard full new trio of statues questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a stone circus..team. And let's not forget the mysteriousWhat chance does this friendless, spidermuscle-free-eating cat zone have in actually managing that joins in with proceedings., and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297856421</amazonuk>1839945184
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James RollinsSherwood Metts|title=Jake Ransom and the Skull King's ShadowPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5
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|summary=The prologue to this splendid book recounts Things have been a terrifying chase, bit sticky for the discovery of fabulous Mayan artifactsEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and a shadowy enemy. And other tasks that gripping scene sets the tone for the rest of the booktook time to accomplish. After the strange disappearance Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of their parentsother, new ways to spend time, who were on along came an archeological dig on the Mountain of Bones, Jake Ransom awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and his sister Kady are sent a parcel containing two halves of a Mayan coin, their mother's sketchbook and their father's notebook. There is no indication what these things mean or what to do along with themit, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000616</amazonuk>1736128426
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy StantonTom Percival|title=Mr Gum and the Cherry TreeThe Wrong Shoes
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|summary="WoeWill's life is difficult, woe, woe, and in a bottle multitude of glum" declares a character in this storyways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and you would to if you shared doesn't have enough money for even the sensibilities most basic of Pollythings like food, her friend Alan Taylor (and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the ridiculously named gingerbread man who serves as electrified schoolmaster to some excollege, was working a cash-in-goblins), or any right minded personhand job on a building site and had an accident. The problem is Throw into that all mix the right minded people have switched to being wrong mindedfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. For the old granny they call Old Granny And yet, he still has declared the Old Times backa tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and taken clings to the entire village population (except for moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a magician who vanishes from light at the story) to a sacred glade in end of a nearby woodlong, where a tree spirit of Old is trying to enslave themdark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405252189</amazonuk>1398527122
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregory Hughes1805141872|title=Unhooking the MoonThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley
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|summary=''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The summer holidays is a time for relaxingpolice are baffled, playing in but only Ben knows the sun, and getting bored truth – precisely what Joe and Scarlett are doing when we encounter them at the beginning of this thrilling book. It is hardly surprising thenhis Maths teacher, that when the two children see a ghostly train racing towards them in the woodsMiss Judson, they take is really a risk safecracker! With police and step inside. The train itself is strange, but when they find clothes laid out in the single compartment with her gangster boyfriend Al on their own names marked on themtrail, Joe starts to get really worried. His sister Scarlett, however, is more curious – or more reckless – Miss Judson and she immediately begins to try Ben go on the blue dress which has been left run. But Al needs them for her. And then Joe's phone starts to count down from an hour one last job. . .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0746097530</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lynne Reid BanksChristopher Edge|title=I, HoudiniBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|summary=Houdini is not your usualLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, commonplace hamstera place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Oh noAll big movie fans, he is a hamster on a missionthey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, a mission to escapemany snacks! From his However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very first glorious taste of freedom he spends his life inventing ways to escape different, and scurrying away (usually straight they are swept up into a heap of trouble) at every possible opportunityan adventure they couldn't even imagine. This is his tale, related entirely But as they lurch from his ownone film genre to the next, rather conceitedcan they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, point of view.and to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007341539</amazonuk>1839942738
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew Matthews and Tony RossAdam Stower|title=The Merchant Of Venice (Shakespeare Stories)Murray and Bun
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|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Bassanio's got the hots for PortiaMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and she for him. His friendfriendly cat, Antonioone who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, borrows money from Shylock so Bassanio can woo her. Antonio is usually well-off, but all whatever takes his money is tied up with fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his ships at favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the moment. Due to past rivalriescatflap they both use can chuck them out, Shylock demands that Antonio pay him not into the regular back with garden, but into a pound world of flesh if he can't come up with the moneyfrightening adventure and whiffs. Meanwhile This time round it drops them into a Viking land, Portia where a troll hunter is putting various suitors expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to the test. As someone wise once said elsewherebe honest, the course of true love never did run smooth.but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408305046</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gabrielle LordAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=April (Conspiracy 365)The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
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|summary=When Halo Eli is a baby, a centaur finds her crawling up a beachbusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the sole survivor of evening a shipwreck. This scene shows, right from helper at the first page, the courage dessert cafe his gran owns and determination which characterise her during the course of this bookruns. No one has any idea who this human child is Eli lives with his lovely gran, but the golden owl amulet and the curious tattoo on her forehead suggest she too – for there is special. She is adopted by a generation missing in the family and for ten . A few short years she and her centaur brother Arko lead an idyllic life on ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the island of Zakynthos. But ten years later Halo is kidnapped by fishermen and sold into slavery. She escapes and disguises herself as titular race, a boy because as a girl she can globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have little or no respect, and no freedom to navigate the world in the company of actiona magical beast. Still disguised as This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a boy she lives with bad incident at the Spartanseatery leads to a confession from gran, falls in love, and Eli knows his only hope is given clues to her true identity by dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the famous Oracle prize of magic at Delphithe end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141328304</amazonuk>0571382231
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip ArdaghHelen Cooper|title=Trick Eggs and Rubber Chickens: Grubtown Tales The Taming of the Cat|rating=43.5
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|summary=If you haven't been to Grubtown beforeOnce again, then feel welcomemice are pitched against cat. As newly arrived lorry driver John Jones finds outIn this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, itup against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you's re seeing a connection, they live in a place cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of exceedingly silly names for people – Bluecheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-Ridge Handheld my favourite so far – and exceedingly silly things happening tracised, for exceedingly silly reasonsthe way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. One of those silly things is John Jones arriving into town with a giant octopus They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the back of his lorry – a real, live visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy onenight, destined for the brand new aquarium when he feels all alone and carwashcast out. AnotherIt's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, coincidingthough, silly thing, is as all the others had the mayor having a huge festival day for chance to half-inch some cheese while the opening of his new home, which he has just finished knittingcat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571247938</amazonuk>0571376010
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily BearnLauren St John|title=A Seaside Adventure (Tumtum and Nutmeg)Finding Wonder|rating=4.5
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|summary=ThereRoo's something very comforting about returning to a story with familiar friends life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and this latest now she finds herself awoken in the Tumtum and Nutmeg series does not disappoint. Our brave little mousey friends are heading off for some new excitement, this time travelling middle of the night by train the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the seaside corner shop to keep an eye on Arthur buy a lottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But she has no one else, and Lucy who have been sent so off she goes to stay live with their Uncleher unreliable aunt. Nutmeg is sure it wonThings continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni't be any bothers old campervan, but Tumtum suspects they may well end up on another adventureit breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405248203</amazonuk>0571376169
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe FriedmanAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Boobela and Worm Ride the WavesOscar's Lion|rating=3.5
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|summary=Boobela We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a girl who couple of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is just like any other little girla mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, except and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the fact bully that she isn't little - she's ruined a giantbirthday party for Oscar the other month. Worm is her best friend (And it can shapeshift, so he actually is a worm) can take it to school and he rides around in it can get him out of a box she straps problem. And it's wonderful to her shoulderhave around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and so on. This outing sees them visiting some underground caves and learning to surfOK, amongst other adventuresit can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842556819</amazonuk>0008596751
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally GardnerJudith Eagle|title=The Red NecklaceStolen Songbird|rating=4.5
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|summary=ParisCaro's streets are already humming with talk of revolutionmother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, when the young gypsy Yann Margoza is summoned having to go up North to perform his magic at the chateau take care of a selfish, debt-ridden marquiseher sister who is unwell. He So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to tell the assembled aristocracy their futurestay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. But what he hoped would be the ticket All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a better life turns into halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a nightmare when he has mystery, as she discovers a vision 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. Is the painting somehow linked to the richly-dressed crowd drowning gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in a sea of blood.the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842556347</amazonuk>0571363148
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kaye UmanskyTania Unsworth|title=Clover Twig and the Perilous PathNowhere Island
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There's non-stop fun and action in this storyMeet Gil. Granny Dismal comes Just twelve, he is so determined to warn Mrs Eckles escape the care system – the system that the Perilous Path has been spotted constantly puts him in the forest, futureless places that are not homes – and this kicks off find a funny story involving witches (both good and bad)home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, trollswhen he jumps into an anonymous car, missing little boys, clowns, imps and magic sweetieslets it ride him to his future. It's the sequel That future seems to Clover Twig and be 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 Incredible Flying Cottagetwo directions of a motorway, but I don't think I lost out too much a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for not having read that firsttheir safety and seclusion. Everyone is generally so well describedThem, and previous story arcs are quickly filled in if requireda mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfully. This is the sort of book I would have stayed up late reading under the covers with Over a torch when I was a little girl myselffew weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, and or if this is now the sort of book I one place where life as we would steal from my daughter's room late at night so I can keep reading want it without waiting for a chapter a night!just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408801876</amazonuk>1804540080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=R J AndersonHelen Peters|title=Rebel (Knife)Friends and Traitors|rating=4.53
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|summary=Fifteen years after England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the events of Knifecountry pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like the Queen of the Oakenwyld female generations before her. The other is dying of old ageSidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. She charges Knife The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn's daughter, Linden, t guessed that then their behaviour with the task of finding each other faeries out over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the worldLord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Knife Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is now living in the human world made of meetings with her husband PaulGermans, and her mission to protect not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the Oak is put in jeopardy by girls are wrong, and the arrival of Paul's teenage cousin, Timothy.upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408307375</amazonuk>1788004647
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin RichardsJamie Littler|title=The Chamber of ShadowsArkspire
|rating=4
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|summary=It's LondonTwo sisters, 1886. A company building those new underground train tunnels finds a hidden vault at impossible depth - Juniper and seems Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to release into the world The Lord of Fliesbe chalk and cheese. A mysterious masked stage magician does Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the obviously impossibleBadlands. A robotic killer stalks Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the streetsreligious districts of Arkspire, and a street gang perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of ruffians-on-the-up decides Watcher, the closest to solve a ruler the mysterydistrict has, and one of the five major victors in said earlier war. A man Being trained in charge the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of Fortean artefacts at the British Museum has a new employer, asking something much more evil from himwhole family. Surely all of that cannot But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be connected in able to gain some way? Surely one book can not have all those dark and mysterious elements we can probably all recognisepower of her own – for good, or for very, and put them into one period thriller without coming over as a horrendous porridge of parody?very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571237991</amazonuk>0241586143
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Yelland024162343X|title=The Truth About LeoStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45|genre=TeensChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Leo lives inside his own head for much 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 timeproof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. You can Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't really blame him. Heso much want to learn about the British army's always tired for a start. Thatsuccesses (and occasional failures, but we didn's because het dwell on those) in what came to be called 's often up early, tidying up the house after one of his fathercolonies's rampagesas want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. His father drinks too much Looking back, you see, and sometimes he smashes up I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the houseproblem' politely. Leo can I wish I't risk this being discovered because his fatherd had Sathnam Sanghera's the only person he's got since his mother died of cancer. He misses her like crazy, and he's afraid heStolen History'll be taken into care if anyone finds out about his dad's drinking. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141330031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard DenningThiago de Moraes|title=Tomorrow's GuardianOld Gods New Tricks
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Eleven year old Tom Oakley thinks he's going mad when he seems to relive short periods of his lifeMeet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and dreams about other people from different timesadventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. The reality is far stranger – he But just when she's a Walkerbeing told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, with the power to rescue those he dreamed aboutworld changes. Travelling to the battle of Isandlwana Suddenly, the Great Fire of London, and practically everything electronic stops working – a German Upower-Boatout, even of electric cars, guided by hits not just the town the school's in but the mysterious Professorentire planet (apart from mobile phones, Tom saves and all that powers the lives of soldier EdwardInternet, servant Maryjust for our convenience's sake). Trixie, and Able Seaman Charlieluckily, who also realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have powerstaken the power of power from us. There are others And so she begins her epic quest, however, with similar powers, who aren't as pleasant as Tom's new friends to gather all the people that can steal it back – and namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the four of themGods, allied with ie the Professor semi-deities, giants, half-gods and his roguish helper Septimus, are pitched into a battle to save so on known as the worlds. That's intentionally plural – there are two parallel universes at stake heretricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445251388</amazonuk>178845295X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve VoakeHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Hooey Higgins and the SharkFinding Bear|rating=4.5
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|summary=A shark has [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been spotted in Shrimpton-on-Sea's bayBear 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. The local chocolate shop has Back home, things on the domestic and family front are a mahousive egg bit advanced, but not perfect for sale for £65. Hooey Higgins decides to capture the former her, and so he can charge admission easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and buy the latterwounded. He Desperate to make sure he's helped out on his adventures by Twig OK, she and her father return to the Arctic and Will, whilst they all hope they won't fall foul that in a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the big bully Basbofriendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406322342</amazonuk>0008582017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate MaryonSimon Fox|title=ShineDeadlock|rating=4.5
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|summary=''You Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and methen suddenly rings Archie, Mumdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, you and me.'' Twelve-year-old Tiff and her mother are a double actjoin him on the run. They're so close that they're almost more like sisters than mother and daughter. They both like shinyget together, girlybut barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, thingsleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and Tiff's mum seemingly has an endless supply the bearer of a whole heap of new, ever more glamorous baubles for them to share. There's only one problem: how she comes by them. Because Tiff's mum has rather sticky fingers. She shoplifts. She defrauds credit cards. She's very naughty and sometimes it makes Tiff feel rather uncomfortable. She knows deep down that it can't lastquestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007326270</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony McGowanCath Howe|title=Einstein's Underpants - And How They Saved The WorldMy Life on Fire|rating=4.5
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|summary=A delightfully silly school cum sci-fi romp for confident readersRen's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, with plenty or any of pantsher special little knick-based humourknacks from her cupboard, but never and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the expense 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 rollicking good readperson. But Ren has nothing to put in a box, and so she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0440869242</amazonuk>1839942835
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alec SillifantRob Keeley|title=Jake Highfield: Chaos UnleashedThe Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories
|rating=4
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|summary=What's this that Jake Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is doing - breaking into a building? Vandalising it back with graffiti, having ruined someone's privacy and infiltrated something he shouldn't have done? Three years ago he would have been doing this as a yobbish kick, but now he's a teenage agent of a shadowy organisation called the Academy, and people want him return to succeed in his mission. But do they all want that? Who are his taskmasters after all? And what does the Void have in store for his future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845393481</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Garth Edwards|title=Shipwrecked (short story format! The Adventures of Titch and Mitch)|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Titch and Mitch are two little pixies who have run away from home. Through a series of misadventures they find themselves shipwrecked on an island, and the story revolves around them making Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new friends there. They come to the rescue of a strange coloured seagulltales, they save a trapped fairy, they play dentist for a little dragon mouse and they aid and abet an intelligent turkey who is trying each as fun to escape from the turkey farmread as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956231500</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve VoakeLaura Noakes|title=Fightback|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kier. A smart, yet lonely, young teen, he's been farmed off to Cosima Unfortunate Steals a private school by his dad since mother died. Among his achievements are several successes on the karate mat, but all this is about to change. When his father is rammed off a motorway and murdered, Kier finds he's even more alone, and duty-bound to fight even more, when he gets clues to just who his father might have been, and how to go about responding to his death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571230032</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Gordon|title=Fen RunnersStar
|rating=4
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|summary=Years agoMeet Number One. Or rather, a boy fell through the ice under Cottle's BridgeCosima Unfortunate. He said afterwards that something pulled him Or rather, a sleek silvery creature dragging him down into just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the blackness. Now, decades later, two boys go swimming number they correspond to in the very same spot ledger, and find one of his ice skatesthey're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a so-called fen runnersurname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, buried and unique in having no known family in the mud at outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the bottom of kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the channelgirls for his Institute. But when they take it homewhy, dark secrets begin to resurface around them and they become aware what does that an ancient evil is stirring out in body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the fens.past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842556843</amazonuk>0008579059
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah McConnell and Lucy Courtenay Alice M Ross|title=Swashbuckle School (Scarlet Silver)The Nowhere Thief
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Young Scarlet Silver had always wanted to be a pirate At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and eventually her wish came true when 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 her family took use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the high seas in their pirate ship, 55 Ocean Drive. The problem was though that neither Scarlet nor anyone else in sea levels are rising dramatically and the family knew how to be a pirate buildings are generally empty of humans and they soon discovered that it was quite a tricky businessripe for plunder. Scarlet became With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the self appointed captain and did her best but her parentsshop? Well yes, brother Cedricis the answer, grandfather and his mate One Eyed Jake formed but the fact a pretty inept crew. This resulted in them all soon falling foul to hostile pirate ships and narrowly escaping death and disaster!mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340959673</amazonuk>1839943769
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz KesslerNatasha Farrant|title=Philippa Fisher and the Dream Maker's Daughter The Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Since 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 fairy godsister Daisy went back to ATC - fairy high command - Uncle Leo, and moved on to other missionsRaffy is there with his mum, Philippa Fisher has felt rather lonely. Her parents and they are living together as oddball as evera family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, wandering roaming through life the trees, completely at one with all of the kind nature around the house and loving every inch of benign muddleheadedness that makes them loveablethe place. But now the house is under threat, but more than as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a tad inattentive. They haven't really picked up on the fact that Philippadeveloper as it's human best friend has moved away becoming more and lost touchmore expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, or that she hasnbut if they't yet found a group of friends at secondary school. She misses Daisy like madll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842557831</amazonuk>0571348785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elise BroachRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=MasterpieceSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Marvin Jayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and his family are a kindly bunchunicorns of the world, for example. They even get him Aisha is addicted to go down inside the bathroom sink drainpipe to retrieve a missing contact lensher new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. This The problem, as their mothers see it, is not so difficult when youthat they are never 'out there're a small kind themselves, exploring the outside world of beetle like MarvinHackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they worry about the standard find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of birthday presents given to Jamesthose mythological creatures are real, including the boy one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the human family that have unwittingly fostered themboat, things get very unpredictable. Marvin sees James being given including a pen and ink sketching setliving gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and when trying to deliver a special coin to James, falls into making a sketch himself of the view outside kids unknowingly have the windowmagical sight needed to join in. A sketch James could never have created - an ink masterwork that makes far too many adult human eyes bulge Dare they side with surpriseLeila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, delight - and possibly greed.become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406321834</amazonuk>0241573483
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda NewberyB09XWSXSKY|title=LobMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lob is a Green Man – an ancient nature spirit and garden helper. Can you spot him hiding on the front cover of the book? Lucy believes in LobFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, though her Mum and Dad tell her 'it's just Grandpa's storyplease) couldn't sleep. When Lucy finally manages to catch A tune, rather like the ticking of a fleeting glimpse of Lob, she is entranced clock was playing over and delighted to share Grandpa's secretover in his mind. But when Grandpa dies and It happened every time he came to visit his home is sold Lucy is heartbrokengrandfather. She wonders if she will ever see Lob again. What follows is a journey through the seasons tracing LucyHe hadn's life t really wanted to come; after Grandpaall, he's death ten now and Loball those old clocks don's search t appeal to find a new garden homehim anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385610815</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate SaundersNigel Baines|title=BeswitchedA Tricky Kind of Magic
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Flora is furious at being sent away Cooper loves to boarding schoolperform magic tricks. His father was a magician, even one which is very progressive with luxurious facilities and school rock bandsnamed Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. Her parents need to sell her grandmother But sadly Cooper's house in Italy and build a granny flat at homefather died suddenly, and Flora is resentful at having her life turned upside down for a grumpynow Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, unpleasant old woman. On the train, she falls asleep and wakes up or how to find herself in another erabe. Trendy 21st century Flora is horrified And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to find herself in a hideous pinafore dress with a childish haircut and no make up. What has happened to her Ipodhim, mobile phone and brand new laptop?he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407108972</amazonuk>1444960261
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