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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]]==Confident readers==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz KesslerMax Boucherat|title=Philippa Fisher and the Stone Fairy's PromiseThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
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|summary=In We meet Lori on the third book of this enchanting series Liz Kessler manages to show both first evening she's got the delights and the sorrows of friendship: a topic which is eternally popular with young (and not so young) readers. Philippa has travelled with her father and mother house to Ravenleigh herself – no neighbour to spend New Year with pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her new friend Robynlonesome. But What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has only just arrived when disaster strikes. Daisyone main intention, her other best friend and fairy godsister (like a fairy godmother but that is to log on to Voxminer, the same age as you)world-building, realises Philippacritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's mother is in dangerworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and tries to helpthen she finds something even more spooky. But in order to do so For the server she has and her bestie and nobody else should be able to break a lot enter shows signs of rulestampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and a series of catastrophes means Philippa ends up with Daisy her safe place in ATC (Above The Clouds)the game has been doctored – well, where is a sector of the fairy world. And the other fairies don't realise who she is ... girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842559966</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane Smiley|title=Nobody's Horse|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Abby lives on her family's farm in California. They specialise in taking horses Kieran Larwood and ponies which are not at their peak and bringing them on so that they can be sold at a profit. Abby's father is determined that she won't get attached to any of the horses, because that only increases the pain when they inevitably go, but two are going to make an impact on her that she could not have expected. The first is a foal whose dam dies when he's a matter of weeks old and he takes Abby's heart. The second has the opposite effect because every time that Abby rides him he's determined to buck her off. She's frightened of him and it's a tribute to Abby that the worst she calls him is Grumpy George.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571253547</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neil GaimanJoe Todd-Stanton|title=InstructionsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
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|summary=Getting to Meet Kit. Like most of the end people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a storyteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, even one which really grips youmagical mazes, can be hard work if you have only just learned and race to read independently the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or are at the younger end of big bad and the points they grant you along the confident readers rangeway. But ''Damian Drooth Unfortunately for Kit, Supersleuth: Football Forgery'the only thing he' s seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is a slim book (60 pages)that one team has been retired, with lots of pictureseaten, and a decent-sized fontnew trio of questors is needed. And it is a proper book Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, too, with an engaging main character, lots he has taken to the goading from the token bully of action his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a fascinating mysteryteam. What chance does this friendless, so satisfaction is guaranteed.muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849390355</amazonuk>1839945184
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vicki Myron and Brett WitterJames Sherwood Metts|title=Dewey: The True Story of a World-famous Library CatPlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This heart-warming book tells Things have been a bit sticky for the wonderful true story of a cat called DeweyEarthlings. His beginnings were very humble AI and his life could quite probably automation have been quite short if it had not been for a fortuitous event proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that occurred one cold winter morningtook time to accomplish. Vicki Myron, the chief librarian at Spencer Library in Iowa, heard some very strange noises coming from the book drop box that borrowers Just as they were beginning to get used in order to return their books when the library was closed. On opening the box she discovered a small, dirty, shivering kitten all this technological change and her heart melted. As a consequencestarting to think of other, the kitten, which was soon new ways to be named Deweyspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was adopted pretty much shut down and became , along with it, all the official library catmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388442</amazonuk>1736128426
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|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Adam Will's life is on difficult, in a missionmultitude of ways. Both He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and his father doesn't have spent enough money for even the decade since most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his mother job at the college, was kidnapped by working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an Evil Scientist looking for her, and perfecting their own skillsaccident. They might have got Throw into that mix the best clue of all so far - one fact that has led them to the mysterious, hiddenhis mum and dad are separated, and downright alarming city of Buenos SuenosWill's life seems bleak in every direction. Those skills? Being able to communicate with animalsAnd yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. Since learning to gibber like a spider monkey they can both bark, purr perfectlyHe is good at art, and more. It will take the extraordinary menagerie clings to survive the unusual citymoments of joy when he is drawing, and try and discover what happened to Adam's mum - and what that feel like a light at the Evil Scientist might want by holding her hostage for the same skills in returnend of a long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140880025X</amazonuk>1398527122
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Nimmo1805141872|title=Charlie Bone and the Red KnightThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5
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|summary=Since ''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the loss of truth – his fatherMaths teacher, Charlie Bone has had to live in the house of horrible Grandmother Bone. But when he discovers he can hear people in pictures talkingMiss Judson, is really a whole new world opens to him. His grandmother safecracker! With police and her even more unpleasant sisters insist he should now attend Bloor Academygangster boyfriend Al on their trail, a school where he meets other children endowed with magical abilities because they are descendants of Miss Judson and Ben go on the Red King. This King, an African magician, came to the North nine hundred years ago, and left a part of his powers to each his ten childrenrun. But several of those children turned to evil, as have their descendants, and Charlie and his friends have to stop Al needs them from doing terrible harm to the townfor one last job... In each of the books in the ''Charlie Bone'' series, he encounters new allies and new enemies, until the whole story culminates in one immense final battle in 'Charlie Bone and the Red Knight'. This book is based on the search for a will, a quest which gradually draws together many of the themes of the series, and ends with the kind of solution which will leave the reader sighing with satisfaction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405249609</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pete JohnsonChristopher Edge|title=The Vampire BlogBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The night of Lucas and his thirteenth birthday, Marcus's parents sit him down friends are all booked in for a chat. He fears there'll be some fingernails-on-movie marathon at their local cinema, a-blackboard stuff about place that has the facts nickname of life'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, hethey'll fend them off with a wry remark or twore looking forward to lots of exciting films, and it'll all be over. After allmany, how bad could it be? Very badmany snacks! However, is as the answer. Verymovie starts, they very, quickly realise that something about this new film format is verydifferent, very bad. Because this chat isnand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't about sex at alleven imagine. It's about fangs and blood cravings But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and shape-shifting. Because Marcus is a half-vampire. to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0440869358</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=Anthony HorowitzAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Legends: Battles and QuestsThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Bringing things that are this old to Eli is a busy lad – by day an audience this young cannot be an easy feat. Anthony Horowitz must be more than able. An old volume of retold legends apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and fables from his typewriter in the 1980s has become evening a series of six books, rejigged on helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his computerlovely gran, and presented very nicely by Macmillantoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. The first A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to hit the shelves ([[Legends: Beasts and Monsters by Anthony Horowitz|Legends: Beasts and Monsters]]) was titular race, a successful gift globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to us navigate the world in the company of five stories of olden beasties and baddiesa magical beast. Here we get This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a full half-dozenconfession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, and with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the quality is just as compellingonly thing to possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330510169</amazonuk>0571382231
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ali SparkesHelen Cooper|title=Wishful ThinkingThe Taming of the Cat|rating=43.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We first meet Kevin covered Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing a connection, they live in sicka cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. He doesn't travel wellAnyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and , if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his day out with his gran in the car isnhabits don't going as well as match the other mice he might wish forlives with. He doesn't really seriously wish They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for anything, but a diverting list of things bedding – he'd like – a better complexion, a better chance with displays it as art and makes stories based on the school hottie, a Wii, etc – gets dropped into a streamvisuals on it. And lo and behold, the god of that river, someone called Abandinus, comes to lifestory-telling will come in handy one night, thinking when hefeels all alone and cast out. It's got a worshipper at lastalmost 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, though, and might just be prepared as all the others had the chance to grant half-inch some wishescheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756117</amazonuk>0571376010
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony HorowitzLauren St John|title=Legends: Beasts and MonstersFinding Wonder
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When they say there is nothing new under the sun, they might use this book as evidence - but theyRoo'd only be half-rights life has become almost impossibly difficult. The legends of the sphinx's riddleHer mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the capture middle of the gorgon's head, are as old as night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the Parthenon hill, but they have never been presented as they have herecorner shop to buy a lottery ticket. They were published in a similar fashion in the 1980sWhen asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, with a younger Anthony Horowitz offering a large compendium who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of folk stories. But she has no one else, legends and tales of classical derring-doso off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. With the attention span of the current under-twelve, however, Things continue to be consideredget worse for Roo, his publishers have allowed a sprucing upas when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and a reformatting - one book has been turned then bursts into six, with a brace each year from now til conclusion.flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330510150</amazonuk>0571376169
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tracey TurnerAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Dreadful FatesOscar's Lion|rating=4.53|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Imagine the delight you getWe start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, as a but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book reviewer, when you chance upon a title that stands out, by filling a nice handy gap in the market you'd never even noticed, and doing it so well you want couple of times before he has to alert as many people as possiblebe ready for school. This But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is such a timemahoosive male lion on their bed, Dreadful Fates is such a booklooking sheepish, 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 bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the gap… other month. This book hits upon the darker corners And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and it can get him out of all those copious a problem. And it'highlights of history for s wonderful to have around the kids' bookshouse – not limiting his biscuit intake, touches upon The Darwin Awards compilations of stupid people dying in stupid waysbeing much more lax about the rules, and merges with those collections of famous last words and epitaphs some of us like flicking through now and again – and does so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it all for the under-thirteen audiencecan give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408124211</amazonuk>0008596751
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian Ogilvy and Chris MouldJudith Eagle|title=The Funfair of Fear! - A Measle Stubbs AdventureStolen Songbird|rating=4.5
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|summary=There Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, is one thing Measle could really be called afraid having to go up North to take care ofher sister who is unwell. Not the usual teenage thingsSo who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, like having a bathsomeone Caro has heard her mother despises, noshe feels frustrated and confused and worried. HeAll 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 lived through being inches high and stuck in a nightmarish train-set diorama house, along with an evil cockroach and worse for companyorphan boy, and as a resultAlbie, he's going to be afraid of a wrathmonk – a warlock turned bad – such as the one who put him is living theretoo. So you'll pity him when it becomes obvious But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a gathering painting of wrathmonks are forming, to get their revenge on Measlea bird hidden away inside her mum's newly-found familyold suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. But what are wrathmonks in turn afraid of, I hear you askIs the painting somehow linked to the gang? ThatAnd what has happened to Caro's right – a garden gnome.mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192729713</amazonuk>0571363148
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris MouldTania Unsworth|title=The Werewolf and the Ibis (Something Wickedly Weird)Nowhere Island
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The 'Something Wickedly Weird' series is a splendid mix of Gothic horror and cartoon-style funMeet Gil. The scrawny young hero Just twelve, young Stanley Buggles, who lives he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a 'darkened industrial town'home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, as the first page tells us, is plunged when he jumps into an adventure from the moment he arrives (all aloneanonymous car, as tradition dictates) at Crampton Rockand lets it ride him to his future. He has inherited That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his great-uncle's mansion, brother in a vast old pile camp on an island linked to between the mainland by two directions of a long winding footbridgemotorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. The right atmosphere of isolation Them, and claustrophobic unease is created immediatelya mute girl also finding a home there, especially when albeit so much more successfully. Over a few weeks we learn that letters are only collected from the island once a fortnight. Whatever see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is on this island, Stanley will have to deal with one place where life as we would want it alone.just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340931027</amazonuk>1804540080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian Ogilvy and Chris MouldHelen Peters|title=The Train Set of Terror: A Measle Stubbs AdventureFriends and Traitors|rating=43
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|summary=You will feel sympathy for Measle from England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the very start of this bookcountry pile called Stanbrook. Not only One is he an orphanNancy, and stuck friendless destined to be in a horridly dingy house on service all her life it seems, like the wrong side of the train tracksfemale generations before her. The other is Sidney, but he shares his life with its main torment a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight- his guardian, Basil Tramplebonepaths. Basil makes no effort to improve Measle or his lot - he does not educate him, keeps Measle The girls are chalk and his inheritance a great distance apartcheese, and feeds him slopif we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. Measle would even like to have a bath now But something is amiss, and first separately and again - but not then in combination they realise the putrid brown and green gunk coming from the tapsLord Evesham must be a rum 'un. The Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only thing that redeems Basil at all is that he owns the world's best train set, one Measle would love to get to know a lot betterlocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. Unfortunately for MeasleBut surely the girls are wrong, he's about to get that wish granted...and the upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192729705</amazonuk>1788004647
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy CassidyJamie Littler|title=Love, Peace and Chocolate (Pocket Money Puffins)Arkspire
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Jess Two sisters, Juniper and Kady have been best friends since they were three years old Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and now they're trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in year eight at Parkway Community Schoolthe Badlands. They're Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the edge religious districts of puberty but things have been a bit slow on Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the boyfriend front – not that either power of them is looking the Watcher, the closest to rush thingsa ruler the district has, particularly as there isn't a single Y8 boy who can make their eyes light upand one of the five major victors in said earlier war. They've a good, solid friendship which means a lot to both of them and they both think Being trained in the magic that nothing only five people can come between use would definitely change the girlsstatus of the whole family. Unfortunately they hadn't taken the arrival But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of Jack Somers into account.her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014133021X</amazonuk>0241586143
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Narayan024162343X|title=The Maharajah's Monkey: A Kit Salter Adventure|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Kit Salter has a nose for adventure. Somehow she always finds trouble, or it finds her, and this latest episode is no exception as she finds herself travelling from the home comforts of Oxford all the way to India, then on to the freezing mountains of Tibet. What has happened to Monsieur Champlon? Has he abandoned poor Aunt Hilda? Why is the mysterious monkey leaving threatening messages for Kit? And what does it all have to do with the Maharajah? Kit and her friends set off on a fantastic journey to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847245293</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStolen History|author=Richard Denning|title=The Last SealSathnam Sanghera|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In 1380 the warlock Stephen Blake released the demon Dantalion from the Abyss, only for his nemesis Cornelius Silver to banish him straight away. Dantalion has nursed his wounds for nearly 300 years – and in 1666, descendants of the original pair clash as heaims to return to the world, and burn down London by starting the Great Fire. While the fire rages around London, and Dantalion’s followers try to break the seals which hold him in the Abyss, four unlikely heroes join forces to stop them from being destroyed – and to save the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956483550</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Platt|title=Would You Believe...in Mexico people picnic at granny's grave?!|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Well if there’s one important aspect of families, it is that books are included. It is evident from the details, trivia and facts here that you don’t need a father, a mother, or siblings. You might even have several spreads of half- and step-siblings, and copious parents here, there and everywhere. You might get to have a nanny, a cohort of family helpers, but one thing I would thrust on anybody would be a collection of books at home – and yes, books such as these tidy 48 pages would be among them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119856</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Richard Platt|title=Would You Believe...bed testers get paid to sleep?!|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=It is quite certain I was the reader bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of this book will not be a bed tester'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, however broad the smile it carries as it suggests anyone can get the employment they dream afterwas probably worse still. Neither will she or he be a vital scribe for some ancient civilisationNot too long after the end of WWII, a slaveI didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, a drudge, or a worker 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 a Communist collective farmthe first place. But it is definitely an eyeLooking back, I still believe I was right -opener how all but I regret that and so much more can be considered by just 48 tidy pagesI lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199119864</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard PlattThiago de Moraes|title=Would You Believe...Vatican City is a country?!Old Gods New Tricks
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We first met Felix in ''Once''Meet Trixie. He thought he was the luckiest child in the orphanage Forever getting into scrapes, since he was larks and adventures involving flooding the only one whose parents weren't dead. Sadlyschool aircon with fart powder, he was wrong about thatshe could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. We followed his story in ''Then' But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, in which he and his dear friend Zelda are on the run from world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the Nazis at town the height of school's in but the Holocaust entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and its terrifying Final Solution. In Nowall that powers the Internet, we catch up with Felix many years later. Hejust for our convenience's built a good life as a surgeon in Australiasake). Trixie, and is now frustratingly retiredluckily, unable to operate because realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of his shaky handspower from us. He's looking after his granddaughter And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, Zelda's namesakegiants, whose parents are doctors volunteering in Darfurhalf-gods and so on known as the tricksters. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014132998X</amazonuk>178845295X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carl McInerneyHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=The Funniest Football Joke Book EverFinding Bear|rating=34.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Who scored [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, things on the most goals in domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the Greek Mythology League? The centaur forwardislands Bear was last left on. Badoom boom tshhhh For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. It Desperate to make sure he's a football joke bookOK, packed she and her father return to the gills with all sorts Arctic and hope that in a world of cheesiness very white and silliness. Funniest ever? Perhaps notvery dangerous things, but it's not too badshe can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849391114</amazonuk>0008582017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenna BurtenshawSimon Fox|title=WintercraftDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=The wardens raid villages Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and cities for people competent to fight in the warthen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a war nobody knows anything about other than if you’re sent to fight you don’t come back. The last time they raided Morvane was ten years agosecret place, taking Kate’s parents with themand join him on the run. Kate is taken in by her uncle They get together, Artemis, and grows up in but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the book shop with him and her friendfather is arrested, Edgar. But now leaving Archie on the wardens are backlate express to Brighton, and looking for more people toting a tin his father was determined to fight. Howeverkeep away from his colleagues, they are also looking for and the Skilled – bearer of a dying breed of people who can see through the veil of life and death. They want to build an army whole heap of the deadquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755370961</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PrineasCath Howe|title=The Magic Thief: FoundMy Life on Fire
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When we last saw Conn, he had blown up his wizard masterRen's housefamily home is destroyed in a fire. She, was exiled from the city of Wellmether parents, and lost his locus magicalus (ither little brother lose everything. She doesn's like a magic wandt have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, just itand now she is living at her grandmother's a stone). Hehouse where they can's been unable to t touch anything, or do magic ever sinceanything, which is rough because he needs his powers now more than everor even eat the foods they normally eat. A terrible evil is blazing When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a trail towards Wellmetspecial art project, intent on destroying the citycreating boxes of their lives, and Conn's only hope to defeat it is display things that are important to somehow get them and show who they are as a new locus magicalusperson. He sets out on But Ren has nothing to put in a quest box, and so she finds herself starting to find onesteal things. Small things, but the journey is long and dangerousthings that people might not really miss, and time not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is running out.doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849161917</amazonuk>1839942835
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul CooksonRob Keeley|title=The World At Our FeetBoy Who Disappeared and Other Stories
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseConfident Readers|summary=With the World Cup just around the corner, football Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is on everyone's lips. Paul Cookson, Poet in Residence at back with a return to the [http://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/ National Football Museum]short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, has compiled the best football poems for young childreneach as fun to read as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>033051086X</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David AlmondLaura Noakes|title=The Boy Who Climbed Into The MoonCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Paul Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the basement of a large tower block. Henumber they correspond to in the ledger, and they's feeling lonely and out of sortsre all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, so he feigns uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a headache surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and stomach ache and has unique in having no known family in the outside world. During a day off school. Spending his day wiselydaring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, he gets she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to know want to adopt all the eccentric people who inhabit the buildinggirls for his Institute. But why, as well as embracing his own eccentric idea and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the moon is actually a hole in the sky.past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406314579</amazonuk>0008579059
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carlos Ruiz ZafonAlice M Ross|title=The Prince of MistNowhere Thief|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=During World War Two, Max's father decides to move At last there is new stock in the whole family to impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside retreat he town. Elsbeth knows of - a wooden house far away from the city he's grown his family up inthis because she has stolen it. Nobody seems too keen on She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the ideaability to leave this world, neither of Max's sisters, his mother, nor he - and Max is gifted a pocket watch by his loving, talented mechanic cum engineer cum watchmaker use an unworldly portal of a fatherkaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, enscribed as "Max's Time Machine". But where the house they move to, sea levels are rising dramatically and its surroundings, the buildings are full generally empty of more successful time machines - a stash of early home videoshumans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, a public clock that runs backwardscan Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, a sunken shipwreckis the answer, but the fact a yard full of statues of a stone circus... And let's not forget the mysterious, spider-eating cat that joins in with proceedings.man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297856421</amazonuk>1839943769
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James RollinsNatasha Farrant|title=Jake Ransom and the Skull King's ShadowThe Rescue of Ravenwood
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The prologue to this splendid book recounts a terrifying chaseThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, in the discovery North of fabulous Mayan artifactsEngland, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a shadowy enemycomplex, 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. And that gripping scene sets They have grown up swimming in the tone for cove, roaming through the rest trees, completely at one with all of the book. After nature around the strange disappearance house and loving every inch of their parents, who were on an archeological dig on the Mountain of Bonesplace. But now the house is under threat, Jake Ransom and as Leo is under pressure from his sister Kady are sent a parcel containing other two halves of brothers to sell the property to a Mayan coin, their motherdeveloper as it's sketchbook becoming more and their fathermore expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they's notebook. There is no indication what these things mean or what re going to do with themlive, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000616</amazonuk>0571348785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy StantonRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Mr Gum and the Cherry TreeSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary="Woe, woe, woeJayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and a bottle unicorns of glum" declares a character in this storythe world, and you would for example. Aisha is addicted to if you shared the sensibilities of Polly, her friend Alan Taylor (the ridiculously named gingerbread man who serves as electrified schoolmaster to some ex-goblins)new tablet, or any right minded personwhere she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem , as their mothers see it, is that all they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the right minded people have switched to being wrong outside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the old granny they call Old Granny has declared one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the Old Times backboat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and taken the entire village population (except for a magician who vanishes from kids unknowingly have the story) magical sight needed to join in. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a sacred glade figure in a nearby woodpainting, where a tree spirit and become saviours of Old is trying to enslave them.the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405252189</amazonuk>0241573483
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B09XWSXSKY
|title=Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock
|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore.
''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=Gregory HughesNigel Baines|title=Unhooking the MoonA Tricky Kind of Magic
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensEmerging Readers|summary=The Rat Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and Bob are prairie childrennamed Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. Winnipeg is a land But sadly Cooper''so flat you can watch your dog run away for three days''. When their s father dies died suddenly, and theynow Cooper doesn're orphanedt quite know who to be, they are determined or how to avoid a childrenbe. And when his dad's home at all costs and embark upon a road trip prop rabbit starts talking to New York Cityhim, in search of their long-lost uncle. Bob is pretty much the hanger-he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on - he knows that the Rat is a special kid who would never make it in an institution and so he puts his fears aside to follow his singular sister. anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849162956</amazonuk>1444960261
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