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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]]==Confident readers==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David BenedictusMax Boucherat|title=Return to the Hundred Acre WoodThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
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|summary=Christopher Robin is back! At least thatWe meet Lori on the first evening she's what got the Rumour spreading like wild fire through the Hundred Acre Wood sayshouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. He's returning for more adventures with Pooh and Piglet and Rabbit and Owl and Kanga and Roo and Tigger and Eeyore and What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, as I'm sure you'll agreeshe has one main intention, and that is a Very Good Thing. From exciting new friends (Lottie the Otter giving Kanga some welcome female company) to adventures and competitions, with water slides to locate, bees to relocate, books log on to write and schools to foundVoxminer, this book picks up where the previous one left offworld-building, and really does read like an organic 3rd part of critter-collecting game that is a trilogy (poetry books excepted) rather than hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tag tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on that comes some 80-plus years after her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the original server she and from the pen her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of anothertampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405251603</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackie MartinKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Burglar BoyDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=3.54
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|summary=''Burglar Boy'' opens with a big scene - Dean is halfway though robbing a house when Meet Kit. Like most of the owner returns. Chased by an irate man with a good aim and a golf clubpeople in his world, he barely makes it out in one piece. But seems, he dutifully returns home and divvies up is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a pile team of illwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-gotten goods old, magical mazes, and race to Callumthe exit, his older brother, who rewards him for perhaps bothering with the treasure or the risk big bad and the bruises with a paltry fiverpoints they grant you along the way. Still Unfortunately for Kit, itthe only thing he's more pocket money than Dean seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is likely needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to see the goading from the token bully of his mother, who has lapsed further world and further stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a bottle of vodka since her most recent boyfriend leftteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907552146</amazonuk>1839945184
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma KennedyJames Sherwood Metts|title=Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Rascal's RevengePlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Wilma TenderfootThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, assistant often replacing jobs they're paid to the great Detective Theodore Pdo and other tasks that took time to accomplish. GoodmanJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, is off new ways to solve another case with the help of her loving dogspend time, Picklealong came an awful pandemic. The future of Copper Island hangs in the balanceLife was pretty much shut down and, and Wilma thinks along with it's possible that she may just yet discover who her parents really are., all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily..make sure you're sitting comfortably, you won't want to put this one down!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330535234</amazonuk>1736128426
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kay WoodwardTom Percival|title=Wuthering HeartsThe Wrong Shoes|rating=3.5
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|summary=book Will's life is difficult, in a real painmultitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', she still wants to be Cathy in he has the school production - who wouldnwrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn'thave enough money for even the most basic of things like food, especially with and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the utterly gorgeous new boy Robert as leading man? Robertcollege, thoughwas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, resembles Wuthering Heightsand Will' moody Heathcliff s life seems bleak in more ways than just being every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good-lookingat art, and Emily finds it very hard clings to get to know him properlythe moments of joy when he is drawing, even after that feel like a light at the end of a development which means they're spending much more time togetherlong, dark tunnel. Can two people find romance on the Yorkshire moors?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849392994</amazonuk>1398527122
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne-Marie Conway1805141872|title=Star Makers Club: Polly Plays Her PartThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Polly Conway is having to deal with rather ''Seventeen banks and a lot at jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the moment. Her mum has got a fabulous new job truth – but it’s in Spain! That leaves Polly to live with her dadhis Maths teacher, her new stepmother who she can’t standMiss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and her baby brother who’s just annoying. Depressed by the problems in her lifegangster boyfriend Al on their trail, she ignores her dad’s rules Miss Judson and turns to Ben go on the friend2friend website to find comfortrun. But Al needs them for one last job.. As she gets increasingly addicted to thesite, she starts to lose focus on the important things in her life – including her family and the Star Makers’ new production.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409520919</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diana Wynne JonesChristopher Edge|title=Earwig and the WitchBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
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|summary=Earwig lives Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at St Morwaldtheir local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 's childrenThe Black Hole's home. Unlike some orphans in literature sheAll big movie fans, they's perfectly happy there since she seems re looking forward to have everyone answering her every whimlots of exciting films, and she loves spending time with her best friend Custardmany, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Things are soon to change though But as they lurch from one day a rather strange couplefilm genre to the next, Bella Yaga and can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the Mandrakecinema, come and to look for a child to foster and the one they pick is Earwig!their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007416857</amazonuk>1839942738
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francesca Simon and Pete WilliamsonAdam Stower|title=The Parent Swap ShopMurray and Bun
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Ava's parents like Murray is supposed to nag. They nag her about her spellingbe a humble, about eating with her knife tidy and forkfriendly cat, or sitting straight on her chair, or going one who is able to bed on time...nagsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, nagwell, nag! whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But then one day she finds he's a card advertising 'The Parent Swap Shopbad 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 when her parents nag her one more whiffs. This time she packs round it drops them off 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 sets out he'll have to find herself a new set of parents!do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444002678</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip ArdaghAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Eddie Dickens TrilogyGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5
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|summary=Meet Eddie Dickens. Aged eleven years oldEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, he's only been allowed to be away from home twice and in his life - once for about eight years on the evening a boat, when a crate of luggage went to school in helper at the dessert cafe his place, gran owns and once for about three yearsruns. Now though he Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is being forced to move a generation missing in with Mad Uncle Jack and Even Madder Aunt Maud, as his parents are very illthe family. But they're so deliriously bonkersA few short years ago, thereEli's very little chance of him getting parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to actually move navigate the world in with themthe company of a magical beast. Who This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows - his only hope is to dare to enter what he might even most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end up stuck in an orphanage instead?– the only thing to possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571274692</amazonuk>0571382231
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithHelen Cooper|title=Precious and The Taming of the MonkeysCat|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Someone has been stealing food at Precious' school. There are suspicions about who it might be, but no one is sure so Precious sets out to try and discover the truth as to just where all those snacks are disappearing off to..3. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972043</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Suzanne LaFleur|title=Eight Keys|rating=5
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|summary=On moving to middle schoolOnce again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, eleven year old Elise's life takes a turn for we have Brie the worse. She's bullied by her cool and popular locker-buddy Amandamouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and embarrassed by her best friend Franklin – whoin case you's decidedly uncool re seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and certainly not popular – she's alsostruggling therefore all the names used here seem to cope with be the new arrivals at her homenames of cheeses. Anyway, Aunt Bessie's younger sister Annie Brie is shunned, scorned and her baby daughter Ava. Just when she doesn, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't know how she can cope match the other mice he lives with everything, help arrives in . They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the form of a strange key with her name visuals on it. As she opens a door And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to find out about her pastkeep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, Elise starts as all the others had the chance to realise half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that she can take control of her future.cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141336064</amazonuk>0571376010
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Morris GleitzmanLauren St John|title=Too Small to FailFinding Wonder
|rating=4
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|summary=OliverRoo's parents own an investment banklife has become almost impossibly difficult. They are very rich and also very busy Her mum died when she was young, and they need to be now she finds herself awoken in the city for their work. This means middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that Oliver lives in a penthouse flat, largely in her dad has dropped dead on his way to the company of corner shop to buy a succession of housekeeperslottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, and he she canonly name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't have a petthink very highly of. Of late But she has no one else, Oliver has been spending a lot of time and so off she goes to live with his nose pressed up against a pet shop windowher unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, falling it breaks down in love with a black-the middle of nowhere and-white dog that he knows he'll never be able to take home.then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241955203</amazonuk>0571376169
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James RollinsAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Jake Ransom and the Howling SphinxOscar's Lion|rating=53
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|summary=James Rollins has hit upon 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 truly brilliant premise in this series. People and creatures from our world have been transported at various couple of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is a savagemahoosive male lion on their bed, prehistoric place called Calypsoslooking sheepish, and in 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 first volumebully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, [[Jake Ransom so he can take it to school and the Skull Kingit can get him out of a problem. And it's Shadow by James Rollins|Jake Ransom and wonderful to have around the Skull King's Shadow]] Jake and house – not limiting his sister find themselves suddenly whisked to a city where Romansbiscuit intake, Mayans, Neanderthals and groups from many other societiesbeing much more lax about the rules, places and eras live more or less peaceably side by sideso on. Their archaeologist parents disappeared three years before OK, and the two young peopleit can's struggles to survive, and to defeat Kalverum Rex, the Skull King, go side by side with their hope of finding t work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a trace there of their mother and fatherwonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000853</amazonuk>0008596751
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Geraldine McCaughreanJudith Eagle|title=King Arthur and a World of Other StoriesThe Stolen Songbird
|rating=4
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|summary=The prolificCaro's mother, a world-famous whistler, award winning author Geraldine McCaughrean has collected together twenty four stories failed to return home from around the world in this highly impressive collectionher recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, garnered from four earlier collectionsis having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. It includes the familiar from the Western tradition (Wilhelm Tell So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, Pygmalionsomeone Caro has heard her mother despises, King Arthur) she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to those that practise her gymnastics are completely new brought to mea halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, from Boliviaalong with an orphan boy, Albie, Togowho is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, Japanas she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Middle EastSnakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. The stories are no more than five pages long, making them ideal for bedtime reading (or hometime reading Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in a school).the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444002376</amazonuk>0571363148
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Jones and Claudia MyattTania Unsworth|title=Strong Winds Trilogy: The Salt-Stained BookNowhere Island|rating=4.5
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|summary=Donny and his mother left their bungalow on Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the care system – the outskirts of Leeds system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and headed off to Suffolk to meet Donny's great auntfind a home for himself. It was never going He is en route to be easy as Skyeyet another fosterer, Donny's motherwhen he jumps into an anonymous car, was deaf and just about mutelets it ride him to his future. She and Donny communicated by signing and usually they managed quite well, That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but when Skye had that someone lives with his brother in a breakdown in camp on an island between the two directions of a car park in Colchestermotorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their camper van was towed away safety and fourteen-year-old Donny was taken into careseclusion. He couldn't understand why none of the officials would believe him – in factThem, and a mute girl also finding a home there, were they all that they seemed? albeit so much more successfully. And why will no Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one let him see his mother?place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1899262040</amazonuk>1804540080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kallie George and Abigail HalpinHelen Peters|title=The Melancholic MermaidFriends and Traitors|rating=4.53
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|summary=Maude is a mermaid who was born with two tailsEngland, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. Her parents tell One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it makes her specialseems, stronger and faster, but amongst like the other mermaid children it makes female generations before her an outcast. She The other is lonelySidney, and she longs for a friendgirl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. Feeling sorry for herself one day she isnThe girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't paying attention and she is captured by a fisherman who sells her to a circusguessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. On the same day that Maude was bornBut something is amiss, Tony was born and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a cottage by the searum 'un. He has webbed hands andMidnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, like Maudetalk is made of meetings with Germans, is teased at school and left lonely and sadnot only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. His parents send him to live with But surely the circusgirls are wrong, believing he will be accepted and happy there but Tony is still lonely and he misses the sea. But then one day he is put in charge of a new attraction for the circus. A mermaid with two tails...upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1897476531</amazonuk>1788004647
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanna PhilbinJamie Littler|title=Celebriteens: In the SpotlightArkspire
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Girls usually get together because they've got something in common Two sisters, Juniper and for LizzieElodie, born fifteen minutes apart, Carina are growing to be chalk and Hudson it's their famous parentscheese. Lizzie's mother Juniper is a supermodel an eager hunter and even trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in her thirties she's still one of the most beautiful women religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of the world. Lizzie's – not. WellWatcher, she's not exactly ugly but compared the closest to her mother (a ruler the district has, and she always is) she just doesn't come up to scratchone of the five major victors in said earlier war. Carina's dad is a rich (''very'' rich) businessman and he's determined Being trained in the magic that C (as she's known) is going to join only five people can use would definitely change the status of the company and eventually take overwhole family. Carina has other ideas. Hudson wants But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to make music and you might think that having a pop diva gain some power of her own – for a mother is a good start, but Hudson's style is different and her mother can't accept that.or for very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407121200</amazonuk>0241586143
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Grant024162343X|title=Wish Me DeadStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=4.5|genre=TeensChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Rural Germany, in modern timesI was the bad company other people got into at school. Steffi and her five friends lark about I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a deserted building to summon a witch and get her to kill a local celebrity - who does indeed die'god'. When a repeat attempt gifts a decent amount of cash to Steffi Where was the proof? In history lessons, it becomes clear she is alone in having her wishes grantedwas probably worse still. So what will happen when she wishes for Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the town hunk - hasnBritish army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't Steffi heard dwell on those) in what came to be careful called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what you wish for? right the army had to be there in the first place. But how on earth can things get so bad she feels her story deserves *Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that* title?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141337702</amazonuk>I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caro KingThiago de Moraes|title=Kill Fish JonesOld Gods New Tricks
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There are plenty of books around where Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the main character has to escape the murderous clutches of school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a magical or supernatural being. There are even a few which look at things from the demon's point young goddess of viewnuisance. But itjust when she's rare to find being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a book which power-out, even of electric cars, hits not only recounts just the adventures of town the intended victim, school's in but also presents the demon as a complex entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and sympathetic personality in his own rightall that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake). And which Trixie, as a bonusluckily, allows realises what has happened – the demon to grow as a character during ancient Gods have taken the course power of the storypower from us. A difficult challenge for any writer And so she begins her epic quest, but 'Kill Fish Jones' by Caro King manages to pull gather all the people that can steal it off with panache back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and humourso on known as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857381466</amazonuk>178845295X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean UreHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Skinny Melon and MeFinding Bear|rating=4.5
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|summary=After Mrs James at school suggests writing [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a diary is lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a healthy polar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, things on the domestic and cathartic activityfamily front are a bit advanced, Cherry decides to chronicle but not perfect for her own life, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. She For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Desperate to make sure he's of OK, she and her father return to the view Arctic and hope that her mental cupboard is in definite need a world of a good clear out. This is not an entirely surprising view: Cherry's parents went through an acrimonious divorce very white and very dangerous things were just getting back to normal when Slimey Roland appeared. Can you believe it, but Cherry's mother only went she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and married this chinless wonder! And then she moved him inthat the friendship can continue. And then she reneged on her promise to buy Cherry a dog because Roly had ''allergies''! |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000742485X</amazonuk>0008582017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate CostelloeSimon Fox|title=The Breakfast ClubDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Billie Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and her three best friends have grown to love then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the breakfast club they've formedrun. They get together, meeting every Saturday morning but barely begin to pass smell the time and discuss whiff of Southern trains when the week they've had. Mario's father is the perfect venue for it - so it's a huge shock when they find it's closing down! In additionarrested, Billie's mother is adamant that she shouldn't pursue leaving Archie on the career in music she wants more than anythinglate express to Brighton, and Billie can't understand why. Can the girls find somewhere else toting a tin his father was determined to spend Saturday morningskeep away from his colleagues, and can they persuade Billie's mum that music is what really matters to her?the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444902857</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula LeydenCath Howe|title=The Butterfly HeartMy Life on Fire
|rating=5
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|summary=Ren'The Butterfly Heart' takes place s family home is destroyed in Zambiaa fire. She, the beautiful 'butterfly hearther parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn' t have any of her clothes, or any of Africa. The story is told through two voices: Bulher special little knick-Booknacks from her cupboard, a young girl who lives with and now she is living at her family and twin sister Madillograndmother's house where they can't touch anything, and Ifwafwaor do anything, or even eat the Snake Manfoods they normally eat. He is old and wise and has When she goes back to school she discovers that the unique ability class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to communicate with snakes. The twins' lovely them and gentle friend Winifred is in troubleshow who they are as a person. Her father But Ren has diednothing to put in a box, and his brother has arranged for her so she finds herself starting to marry his friendsteal things. Small things, a man old enough to be Winifred's grandfatherthings that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. Winifred seems resigned But what will happen to her fate, but Bul-Boo if someone finds out what she is determined to do something, and in desperation, the twins turn to Ifwafwa.doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406327921</amazonuk>1839942835
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|rating=4
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|summary=Agatha Parrot lives on Odd Street, which is appropriate since her story is rather an odd one. Part school drama, part slapstick farce this Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a funny, ridiculous romp of a return to the short storyformat!The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, each as fun to read as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140525596X</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Salman RushdieLaura Noakes|title=Luka and the Fire of LifeCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star
|rating=4
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|summary=Back 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 number they correspond to in 1990the ledger, Salman Rushdie followed up his controversial 'Satanic Versesand they' re all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a book dedicated surname because nothing else seems to his then nine year old sonbe known about where she came from, Zafaras the first ever inmate, called 'Haroun and unique in having no known family in the Sea of Stories'outside world. Now During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, his second son, Milan, finally gets she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a book of his own, although he had devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to wait until he was 13 adopt all the girls for his father to get around to itInstitute. 'Luka But why, and the Fire of Life' is very much a follow up what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to 'Haroun' and it is certainly helpful, although not necessary, if you have read that book as many of the events in the first book are referred to here.past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555328</amazonuk>0008579059
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine BrutonAlice M Ross|title=We Can Be HeroesThe Nowhere Thief
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Ben At last there is spending new stock in the summer with his grandparents impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because his mother is ill againshe has stolen it. She won't stop going also knows she should be free from worries about being found out for runs , because she has the ability to leave this world, and is not eating properly. She's gone back use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to stressing out about having enter other worlds, where the "right" cutlery sea levels are rising dramatically and worrying about technology the buildings are generally empty of humans and health hazardsripe for plunder. And her beautiful hair has started falling out. Ben's father was killed in With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the 9/11 terrorist attack on shop? Well yes, is the World Trade Center and with his mother incommunicadoanswer, he's feeling very lonely indeed. but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405256524</amazonuk>1839943769
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|summary=Follyfoot Home of Rest for Horses This story is owned by another excellent adventure from the Colonel, but heauthor of 's been very ill in hospital and now he has to go away to a warm climate to recuperate. It's not Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''quite '' certain who . Ravenwood is an old house, in charge the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of the farm in his absencetheir lives. It might be Dora or it might be Steve – but They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there's one thing that with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is quite clear: there with his mum, and they're both under strict instructions not to buy any horsesare living together as a family. What's Dora to do thoughThey have grown up swimming in the cove, when she realises that unless she buys roaming through the cream-colouredtrees, lame horse, Amigo, it will end its days pulling a log cart? Well, obviously she ''has'' to buy completely at one with all of the nature around the horse with money she borrows from house and loving every inch of the shady Ron Strykerplace. How's she to pay it back though?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849393265</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Candle Man: Society of Dread|author=Glenn Dakin|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We left Theo after he had discovered his true identity as But now the Candle Man and defeated his evil ex-guardianhouse is under threat, Dr Saint. The young boy as Leo is still ambivalent about under pressure from his superhero status and conflicted over his ability other two brothers to use tripudon energy sell the property to melt his - and Londona developer as it's - enemies. But the fight against evil pays no attention to inexperience or moral ambiguity becoming more and Theo is about more expensive to find himself down in the Network againmaintain. This time, his attempts to return The Society of Good Works children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to its original benevolence are thwarted by the renaissance of an oldlive, and but if they'll even more terrifyingbe together, villain - Dr Pyre. With his friends abducted and enslaved, Theo must use his Candle Man abilities once again..if Ravenwood itself will be torn down. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405246774</amazonuk>0571348785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=My Name is RoseRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|authortitle=Sally GrindleySecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street
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|summary=Rosa comes from Jayden's nose is forever in a Romany gypsy communitybook, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. She travels around Eastern Europe But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with her familya past involving Jayden's cousin, only stopping occasionally for schoolthey find a magical world they never knew existed. Her father says her education comes from her family For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's connection seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the land rare critters – and the Roma traditionskids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. And Rose agrees. She is happy Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and never happier than when her parents are playing music relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and there is noise and laughter and gaiety. become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408814021</amazonuk>0241573483
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09XWSXSKY|title=AsylumMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Rachel AndersonRobert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski
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|summary=Sunday arrived in the UK at Lowestoft. He'd have preferred IcelandFrederick (or Fred, ''whichbut never Freddy, so heplease) couldn'd heardt sleep. A tune, was cold and treeless but democratic and respectful rather like the ticking of human life''. Sent from a refugee camp by his Auntie Pru, Sunday is very religious clock was playing over and very respectful of human life, unlike the militia who destroyed over in his village. So it's difficult for Sunday to become a Muslimmind. But that's what It happened every time he has came to dovisit his grandfather. His papers confiscated by a shady people trafficker, Sunday finds himself the unpaid caretaker at Hawk Rise, a condemned London tower block. And his name isn He hadn't Sunday any morereally wanted to come; itafter all, he's Piet Aliten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340997680</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick NessNigel Baines|title=A Monster CallsTricky Kind of Magic
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Conor wakes up from his nightmare at 12Cooper loves to perform magic tricks.07am. To. The yew tree from the churchyard has uprooted itself His father was a magician, transformed into a huge monster and is waiting at his window, full of threat. Conor, though, is unimpressed. Nothing could be as frightening as his nightmare. Nothing could be as frightening as his waking life, for that matter. So he snorts in contemptnamed Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But the monster shrugs off this reaction and tells Conor he must listen to three stories and then tell one of his own. And that fourth story must be The Truth. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406311529</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Fiona Dunbar|title=Divine Freaks|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Unless you really love science, Mr Wesleysadly Cooper's Biology lessons can occasionally seem a little dull. Stillfather died suddenly, a spot of boredom might have been better, in Kitty Sladeand now Cooper doesn's opinion, than the mean grey-faced man t quite know who turned upto be, began or how to dissect a rat, then just as suddenly disappeared againbe. Leaving her, of course, And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to explain to her mystified teacher just why she had leapt from her seathim, shoved him aside and lunged at thin air. The rest of the class didnhe ''really'' doesn't mind: watching Kitty dash about the room screaming was way more fun than anything Mr Wesley could do. Things got a little heated after that, however, and Kitty stormed out of school, convinced she was losing her mind.know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408309289</amazonuk>1444960261
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