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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]]==Confident readers==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Mark Walden|title=H.I.V.E.: Higher Institute of Villanous Education|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Otto Malpense is one of the newest students at the Higher Institute of Villainous Education, better known as HIVE. So is his new friend Wing. As you'd expect, neither of them are keen to stay there – although this is less to do with moral scruples than with the thought of wasting six years studying how to be evil when they consider they're rather good at it already, thank you very much. A plot to escape is hatched…|amazonuk=<amazonuk!-- Remove -->0747597219</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren St JohnMax Boucherat|title=Laura Marlin Mysteries: Kidnap in the CaribbeanThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
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|summary=ideal guardian for We meet Lori on the crimefirst 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, andthat is to log on to Voxminer, the world-detectionbuilding, critter-obsessed young girl, because his job collecting game that is swathed a hit in secrecy and involves a great deal of creeping out of the house late at night to meet mysterious strangersLori's world. But for now they can both relax: Laura first Lori has won a holiday for two in the Caribbeantiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and all then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and Calvin have her bestie and nobody else should be able to do 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 sunbathe and swim. Needless a girl to say, that isn't how things turn out.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000217</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lissa Evans|title=Small Change for Stuart|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Poor Stuart Horten is rather small for his age. Unfortunately for him, if you put his initial with his surname it becomes 'shorten', which is just asking for trouble. Still, he's happy Kieran Larwood and has lots of friends. Or, at least, he does until his parents move house and he finds himself living in a strange town (his father's hometown) in the school holidays, looking at the prospect of a long, boring and lonely summer ahead of him. He soon discovers, however, that there is a mystery surrounding his family's history in the town, and it looks as though Stuart might just be the one to uncover what really happened...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561800X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ruth EasthamJoe Todd-Stanton|title=The Memory CageDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
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|summary=Alex is worried about GrandadMeet Kit. So Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is the rest an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the family. It started with sport where a lot team of small thingswarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, things that Alex can help him magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with, like lost keys the treasure or the big bad and glassesthe points they grant you along the way. Last night though Unfortunately for Kit, Grandad set fire to his pillow. Alex the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has hidden itbeen retired, eaten, but knows that this and a new trio of questors is dangerousneeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and it canstumbled into declaring he't stay ll enter as a secret for longteam. Grandad has Alzheimers What chance does this friendless, and Mum and Dad are thinking of putting him muscle-free-zone have in an old people's home. He is also worried actually managing that 'big brother' Leonard knows what has happened , and will give them both away.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407120522</amazonuk>1839945184
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip ArdaghJames Sherwood Metts|title=Grubtown Tales: When Bunnies Turn BadPlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
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|summary=This book is Things have been a lesson in never assuming anything you shouldn'tbit sticky for the Earthlings. Just because Jilly Cheeter AI and Mango Claptrap are on the coverautomation have been proceeding apace, donoften replacing jobs they't assume it isn't about a lad called Failing Toucan instead - because if you did, you'd be wrongre paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. While on the subject Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of the noteworthy names used throughout Grubtownother, never assume new ways to know the gender of someone called Asphalt Nosegayspend time, along came an awful pandemic. And just because it's called When Bunnies Turn Bad, Life was pretty much shut down and has lots of rabbits on the cover and throughout, don't assume along with it isn't about , all the dangerous and tangled task of taking a chimp back to the old folks' home where he livesmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571272363</amazonuk>1736128426
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Moira YoungTom Percival|title=Blood Red RoadThe Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Saba Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has lived in 'the desolation surrounding wrong shoes', he has the dried-up Silverlake wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for all even the most basic of her eighteen years. The family has just one neighbour - a chaal addictthings like food, so not exactly sociable - so Sabaand his dad can's only companions are her father, her twin brother Lught work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and younger sister Emmihad an accident. Saba worships Lugh Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, resents Emmi for their motherand Will's death life seems bleak in childbirthevery direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is confused by her fatherdrawing, who believes he can read that feel like a light at the future in the stars. But it's all she knows and as end of a long as Lugh is close, she's happy enoughdark tunnel. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407124250</amazonuk>1398527122
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gill Lewis1805141872|title=Sky HawkThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Rob ''Seventeen banks and Euan want to chase Iona McNair off Callum's farma jeweller’s have been raided. She's newly returned to The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the villagetruth – his Maths teacher, staying with her grandfatherMiss Judson, her mother nowhere to be seen. It's a close community and rumours abound - and Iona is really a bit of a pariah amongst the children. But something about her draws Callum in safecracker! With police and Iona returns the favour by trusting him with her deepest secret: she's found an osprey's nest high above the loch gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and she's desperate to protect Ben go on the endangered birdsrun. And so the two of But Al needs them forge a friendship as they try to keep Iris and her mate out of harmfor one last job...''s way. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756230</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin Crossley-HollandChristopher Edge|title=Bracelet of Bones (Viking Sagas)Black Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It's 1036 Lucas and his friends are all booked in Trondheimfor a movie marathon at their local cinema, Norwaya place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Solveig lives with her father All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, stepmother and stepbrothers. Her mother died many years ago , many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and neither Solveig nor her father Halfdan have ever truly recoveredthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Before his injury But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, Halfdan was a Viking mercenary and his dearest wish can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to rejoin his old commander, Harald Hardrada in Miklagard (Constantinople). He promises Solveig that, should the call ever comecinema, he will take her with him... and to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847249396</amazonuk>1839942738
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kaye UmanskyAdam Stower|title=Tales From Witchway Wood: Crash 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'ns a bad magician' Bangs 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The Whichway Rhythm Boys Eli is a band made up of Filth (who is Witch Sludgegooey's fiend) on drumsbusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, Arthur and in the evening a helper at the Dragon on piano (he dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his mum and likes lovely gran, too – for there is a nice hot curry) and Ogeneration missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli'Brian s parents were both lost to the Leprechaun on penny whistle who is often mistaken for titular race, a Pixie, much globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to his disgustnavigate the world in the company of a magical beast. Together they play gigs in This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the woodseatery leads to a confession from gran, for Zombie balls and suchlikeEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, but with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the music they really love only thing to play is Crash 'n' Bang!possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408801884</amazonuk>0571382231
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Wolfren RiverstickHelen Cooper|title=A The Taming of the Cat Called Ian
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The lad was troubleOnce again, mice are pitched against cat. He was In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing a bullyconnection, they live in a thief cheese shop and a liartherefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. We've all known someone like him – Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the company into which you hope that your own child doesnway his habits don't fallmatch the other mice he lives with. He's cocky with They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it too. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, convinced that when he can do whatever he likes feels all alone and get away with it – and thatcast out. It's when we meet him on his way almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to climb keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the great white oak at top dog in the top of Sunrise Hillmouse community, though, despite as all the fact that his mother has told him he's not others had the chance tohalf-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. It was a difficult climb and it wasn't long before he remembered But will the old story have the successful sequel it needs when that some people climbed so far up the tree and then were never seen again.cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955431409</amazonuk>0571376010
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia LeitchLauren St John|title=Jinny at Finmory: The Summer RidersFinding Wonder
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=On the first day of the summer holidays Jinny Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was looking forward to riding her horse, a beautiful Arab mare called Shantihyoung, over the moors for the summer and life seems just about perfect when now she meets a girl finds herself awoken in the middle of her own age who's camping the night by the police banging on the beach with her family and door to tell her pony. What could spoil that? Well, Jinny's father used her dad has dropped dead on his way to be a probation officer and he's agreed to take a boy and a girl from the city corner shop to give them buy a holiday for a couple 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 weeks. The boy But she has been in trouble with the police for stealing no one else, and the girl walks so off she goes to live with a limpher unreliable aunt. Just having them around is going Things continue to be bad enoughget worse for Roo, but thereas when she and Joni leave London in Joni's worse to come.old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846471125</amazonuk>0571376169
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ali SparkesAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Unleashed : A Life and Death Job|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=A new series about what happens when BritainOscar's most important and secret assets - teenagers with paranormal abilities - get a week's holiday. In book one, Lisa gets involved with kidnapping and assassination attempts. And she only wanted to go shopping at Harvey Nicks!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756060</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michelle Magorian|title=Goodnight Mister TomLion|rating=53
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|summary=It's been 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 long time since I read 'Goodnight Mister Tom' at couple of times before he has to be ready for school. Picking it up again twenty five years later I wondered how good I would find it. I neednBut when he enters his parents't have worried. This wonderful story captured my attention from the very beginning and I became so caught up in Tom bedroom, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and Will's lives admitting that I didnhe won't want it to endbe hungry for another two days. Set during World War Two, William Beech has been evacuated from London and is placed with Tom Oakley, thanks mainly But there are benefits to his proximity having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the local churchbully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, as Willie's God-fearing mother requested so he be close can take it to school and it can get him out of a churchproblem. They seem an unlikely matchAnd it's wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the gruff old man who keeps himself to himself rules, and the thin, timid young boyso on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but there lies the joy of the story, in watching their relationship growit can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141332255</amazonuk>0008596751
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|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Bryony was orphaned when she was very young Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and since then is 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 Gam, someone Caro has lived in the Abbey at Ambletonheard her mother despises, but once she reached feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her fourteenth birthday summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her cousingymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, Unwinalong with an orphan boy, King of AthlandiaAlbie, required that she join him at courtwho is living there too. She lost the only friends But she had knownsoon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her clothes were replaced with much grander garments mum's old suitcase, and she became all across London a part of fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the inner circle of painting somehow linked to the court. gang? It wasnAnd what has happened to Caro't long before she realised that her cousin was far from benevolent – but he was fighting an uprising and perhaps what he was doing was necessary. s mother? Then Milly, her maid, is punished for stepping slightly out of line and Bryony realises how little Is she knows of other people somehow involved in Kynbury and even of the history of her own family.mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1903491797</amazonuk>0571363148
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny NimmoTania Unsworth|title=The Secret KingdomNowhere Island
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Protected by a moon cloakMeet Gil. Just twelve, a ring, and three mysteriously powerful leopards, Timoken he is so determined to escape the care system – the magician system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and his camel Gabar seek find a new home after the boy for himself. He is forced en route to flee the secret kingdomyet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him to his future. But will they ever find peace That future seems to 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 vicious viradees on two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their trail? This prequel to the Charlie Bone series contains new safety and old charactersseclusion. Them, including and a couple of brief cameos from Charlie himselfmute girl also finding a home there, but is well worth reading as albeit so much more successfully. Over a stand-alone few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or introduction to the series if you've never heard of this is one place where life as we would want it.just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405257326</amazonuk>1804540080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LawrenceHelen Peters|title=The Western Mysteries: The Case of the Deadly DesperadosFriends and Traitors|rating=4.53
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is always a little worrying when an author finishes a popular and well-loved series Nancy, destined to start something new. Will the new characters be as interesting as in service all her life it seems, like the oldfemale generations before her. The other is Sidney, familiar ones? Will the books just be a pale retelling of the plots in girl from a new context? But fans of Ms Lawrence's [[The Prophet hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from Ephesus (bomber flight-paths. The Roman Mysteries) by Caroline Lawrence|Roman Mysteries]] need not worrygirls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. What we have here But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rip-roaring tale rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of the Wild Westsecrecy, talk is made of meetings with tons of credible local colourGermans, and not only that, a bunch of villains every bit as wicked as those to be found in Ancient Romelocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and a likeable lead character.the upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444001698</amazonuk>1788004647
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|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Whisked away Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from their parents prior major wars left out in the dead of night ten years ago, Kate, Michael and Emma have seen more than their fair share of orphanagesBadlands. Nobody wants Elodie is intent on getting closer to adopt three children together - least power in one of all when the youngest has a strong penchant for using her fists whenever she can - and so when we meet themreligious districts of Arkspire, they're on their way perhaps even to become the child in line to yet another. But inherit the orphanage at Cambridge Falls is unlike any other. They're power of the only children in residenceWatcher, the housekeeper seems closest to think they are members of a ruler the French royal familydistrict has, and one of the town is five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the middle magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of a barren wasteland and is bereft the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of children. her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857530186</amazonuk>0241586143
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eva Ibbotson and Sharon Rentta024162343X|title=One Dog And His BoyStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=All Hal had ever wanted I was a dogthe bad company other people got into at school. Other presents never mattered, expensive though they were: he wanted I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a dog'god'. But – his mother wouldn't entertain Where was the ideaproof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. She was far Not too busy (shopping) and neurotic about long after the possibility end of dirtWWII, puddles or I didn't so much want to learn about the British army'hairss successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies'as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. His father Looking back, I still believe I was busy too. He worked hard right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to fund their lavish lifestyle and was away so much that he spent more time in approach 'the air than he did at home. It wasnproblem't as though Hal had many friends eitherpolitely. HeI wish I'd just been moved from a school where he had friends (because he wasnSathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History't doing well enough) to another where he'd made no friends. All he wanted was a dog.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124234</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joan LennonThiago de Moraes|title=Slightly Jones Mystery: The Case of the Glasgow GhoulOld Gods New Tricks
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There are spooks Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and ghouls aplenty in this story: readers avid for a delicious shiver or two will be pleased to know they appear right from adventures involving flooding the very first chapter. And in keeping school aircon with the wonderfully Victorian flavour fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the bookworld changes. Suddenly, it is bodypractically everything electronic stops working – a power-snatchersout, even of electric cars, digging up a corpse to sell to a local doctorhits not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, who encounter and all that powers the terrifying spectresInternet, just for our convenience's sake). This is not a horror story Trixie, howeverluckily, despite realises what has happened – the scary setting ancient Gods have taken the power of its opening pages: power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the haunted cemetery is simply one element characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the complicated case of Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the disappearing treasurestricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846471141</amazonuk>178845295X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris Van AllsburgHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=The Mysteries of Harris BurdickFinding Bear|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Thirty years ago[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, Harris Burdick walked into and finding a book publisher's office ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with samples of his worka polar bear – that she called Bear. He had fourteen stories ready Back home, things on the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for publicationher, but just brought one picture and caption so can easily be ignored when word comes through from eachthe islands Bear was last left on. Burdick was never heard of again For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. The publisher spent many years trying Desperate to track down Burdickmake sure he's OK, showing she and her father return to the pictures to people - many Arctic and hope that in a world of whom were inspired to write their own stories. (Shh about ''The rights of Chris Van Allsburg to be identified as...'')very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184939279X</amazonuk>0008582017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diana Wynne JonesSimon Fox|title=Power of ThreeDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Gair's father Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the chief of their mount. Gair's mother is famous for being incredibly wise. His brother and sisterforce, Ceri and Aynathen suddenly rings Archie, both have special giftsdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, and so it is just Gair who is left feeling ordinary and out of placejoin him on the run. HoweverThey get together, when a powerful curse begins but barely begin to affect smell the livelihoods not just whiff of his people but also their enemiesSouthern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the Doriglate express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the Giants, it is up to Gair to find bearer of a way for them all to survive..whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007113706</amazonuk>1839944420
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|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Claude Ren's family home is destroyed in a sweet fire. She, her parents, and her little dog who wears a beret and whose best friend is a sock called Sir Bobblysockbrother lose everything. They live with Mr and Mrs ShinyshoesShe doesn't have any of her clothes, and when Mr and Mrs Shinyshoes go outor any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, Claude and Sir Bobblysock go out and have their own adventures whichnow she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, in this bookor do anything, involve capturing or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a thief in an special art gallery project, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and solving show who they are as a medical mystery person. But Ren has nothing to put in the local hospitala box, and so she finds herself starting to steal things. ClaudeSmall things, who reminds me a little bit of Snoopythings 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 very endearing and it's amazing how much personality an old sock can have!doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340998997</amazonuk>1839942835
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pippa FunnellRob Keeley|title=Tilly's Pony Tails: Moonshadow the Derby WinnerThe Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We've met Tilly Redbrow before. She's of native American Indian descent but living Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with her adoptive family in the UK. To say that she is mad on horses is something of an understatement – just about everything she does revolves around them. This time she and her friends are having a sleepover at return to the Silver Shoe Stablesshort story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, where – although no one is supposed each as fun to know about it – a famous racehorse is staying incognito because read as his history as a Derby winner means that horse thieves are after himprevious offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000918</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ali SparkesLaura Noakes|title=S.W.I.T.C.H: Ant AttackCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It seems that Josh and Danny are about Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to meet their matchher friends. Despite being almost eaten The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by catsthe number they correspond to in the ledger, birds, spiders and more when they've turned into creepy crawlies before in this seriesre all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, they have uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a far worse foe this time - Tarquinsurname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the snooty first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in the outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh brat cakes from up the roadkitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. How they survive him turning them into antsBut why, and his misguided attempts what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to kill them, while all the time the next door neighbour's scientific research which is allowing all this transformation past she has to be kept a top secret, are all elements of this fourth book in the series.so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192729357</amazonuk>0008579059
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlotte HaptieAlice M Ross|title=Ice AngelThe Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Rockscar City At last there is controlled by new stock in the Scarspring family – or at leastimpoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, its water supply isbecause she has the ability to leave this world, which comes and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the same thing. And the water which the citizens receive is stale sea levels are rising dramatically and unpleasant, especially in the summer months. City authorities buildings are obliged to spend vast amounts generally empty of money looking humans and ripe for new wellsplunder. With eviction imminent, but for some reason each excavation is sabotaged as soon as it is begun. So when Zack and Clovis decide can Elsbeth nab anything to use actually generate custom at the pureshop? Well yes, sweet water from a secret spring high in is the mountains to make and sell delicious icesanswer, they run into all kinds of danger. Unless they're very careful, they will be made to disappear, just as their father did twelve years before.but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340894180</amazonuk>1839943769
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ali SparkesNatasha Farrant|title=S.W.I.T.C.H: Grasshopper GlitchThe Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=One minute Mrs Potts This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an innocent old biddy house, in the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living next door to Josh for most of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and Dannythey are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the next she's horrifying them by turning them into spiderstrees, then bluebottle fliescompletely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the place. But now they're working for herthe house is under threat, trying as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to complete her bizarre body-swapping research. Shesell the property to a developer as it's paying them back by driving them becoming more and more expensive to schoolmaintain. Luckily thereThe children find themselves worrying not only about where they's not a chance that re going to live, but if they might SWITCH while at school'll even be together, or have to suffer a bully while in the shape and form of a grasshopper. Oops..if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192729349</amazonuk>0571348785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ali SparkesRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=S.W.I.T.C.HSecret Beast Club: Fly FrenzyThe Unicorns of Silver Street
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Josh Jayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and Danny have only recently recovered from being turned into spiders by unicorns of the peculiar scientist woman next doorworld, for example. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. But however adamant The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are it'll never happen again, they don't foresee a time when theyout there're willingly taking a repeat dose of the SWITCH serumthemselves, becoming tiny flying detectives, and almost drinking up spills from exploring the toilet rim...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729330</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Peter Millett|title=The Curse outside world of the Catastrophic Cupcakes (Boy Zero Wannabe Hero)|rating=3Hackney, London.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Boy Zero Wannabe Hero has defeated General Pandemonium twice before But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, but as and with all supervillains, hea past involving Jayden's relentless. This timecousin, the General has come up with they find a wicked plan to conquer the magical world by making everyone float off into space by feeding them catastrophic cupcakesthey never knew existed. Will Boy Zero be able to save For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the world yet again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571253261</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Betty G Birney|title=My Pet Show Panic! (Humphreyone Aisha thinks she's Tiny Tales)|rating=3seen on a bit of local footage.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Humphrey is The crew of the classroom hamster of room 26 of Longfellow School. He's good friends boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with Og saving the frog, as well as rare critters – and the pupils at kids unknowingly have the school. We've met Humphrey [[Holidays According magical sight needed to Humphrey by Betty G Birney|lots]] [[Humphrey's Great-Great-Great Book of Stories by Betty G Birney|of times]] [[School According to Humphrey by Betty G Birney|before]] and thoroughly enjoyed his adventures every timejoin in. This time round Dare they side with Leila, we're treated to the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a new series of tiny tales, for newly confident readers. Our first small adventure with Humphrey sees him being entered into figure in a pet showpainting, and trying not to fall foul become saviours of Clem, the big, yappy dog.unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057124632X</amazonuk>0241573483
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09XWSXSKY|title=Ali Sparkes Maestro Orpheus and Ross Collinsthe World Clock|titleauthor=S.W.I.T.C.H: Spider StampedeRobert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Josh and Danny. Eight year old twinsFrederick (or Fred, both think they are taller than their brother, and both think the other is weird - Danny because Josh loves creepy crawlies, bugs and insectsbut never Freddy, and Josh because Danny doesnplease) couldn'tsleep. But they're about to be joined in equal amounts A tune, rather like the ticking of terror when a mad scientific experiment turns them into spiders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729322</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christopher Russell and Christine Russell|title=The Warrior Sheep Go West|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I like these Warrior Sheep, clock was playing over and the scrapes they get over in by following their ancient prophecies and in trying to save their worldhis mind. [[The Quest of the Warrior Sheep by Christopher Russell and Christine Russell|Last It happened every time]] they thought a mobile phone was itself a call from the gods, but still did have he came to save the dayvisit his grandfather. Here they misread a page on the Internet - and if you canHe hadn't accept Internet-using sheepreally wanted to come; after all, your children surely will - he's ten now and decide to go to America all those old clocks don't appeal to save their whole specieshim anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405243775</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garth Nix and Sean WilliamsNigel Baines|title=TroubletwistersA Tricky Kind of Magic
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=Jack and Jaide Shield, twins, are living perfectly normal lives until a brief visit from their elusive father sparks an unexplainable, chaotic, reality-bending storm that destroys their home and introduces them to the mysterious world of the Wardens, a group gifted with diverse powers, and their perpetual struggle against a force known only as The Evil. As young Wardens, or Troubletwisters, just growing into their Gifts, the pair struggle to make sense of the chaos that surrounds them and discover the true nature of their heritage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258578</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Adam Blade|title=The Chronicles of Avantia: Call to War|rating=4|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Our three heroes and their magical giant beasts are still trying Cooper loves to snatch the quarters of an ancient, power-giving mask from the clutches of their realm's enemyperform magic tricks. They're not doing too well in the chase, for he has two of the bitsHis father was a magician, and even his assistant they thought dead at named Cooper after the end of [[First Hero (The Chronicles Of Avantia) by Adam Blade|book one]] is still aroundgreat Tommy Cooper. Can they have any luck this third time of asking, even when their country is being ravaged, turning once-helpful villagers against their questBut sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and their enemies are getting stronger by the battle?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408307499</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dan Jerris|title=The Deathless Pirate King (Dragon Blood Pirates)|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Wellnow Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, after a six-book series, Al and Jack the 21st-Century boys found an ancient, treasured sword and scabbard, but they and their magic are incompleteor how to be. Four special diamonds are who-knows-where, but the first just might be found And when they try his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to reunite a lovelyhim, kidnapped princess with her freedom and her family jewels. Standing in the way, a near-undead pirate with sharp blades at the toes of his shoes...he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408308231</amazonuk>1444960261
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