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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=ZOMThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-B Clansbreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Darren ShanKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=WARNING! If Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you havenalong the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he't read s seen of the latest race on the [[Zominn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-B by Darren Shan|first book]] free-zone have in this seriesactually managing that, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy! Go on. Run along.and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077805</amazonuk>1839945184

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dragon ShieldJames Sherwood Metts|authortitle=Charlie FletcherPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=''"Dragons don't exist,"whispered Jo. But even those three short words sounded more like Things have been a wish than a statement of fact.'' Something dark and sinister is going on at bit sticky for the British MuseumEarthlings. An ancient power has awoken AI and it has stopped time. People are frozen like statues. Only Will and his sister Jo are still moving. The only humans still movingautomation have been proceeding apace, that is. The dragons are moving. Theyoften replacing jobs they're spitting real fire, toopaid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. And Just as they're attacking Will were beginning to get used to all this technological change and Jo. A glorious golden girl comes starting to think of other, new ways to their rescuespend time, followed by along came an angel and a museawful pandemic. And Will Life was pretty much shut down and Joe are plunged into a world where statues are alive and where good battles evil. Why are they still moving? Who is behind , along with it, all the stopping of time? And will many daily social interactions on which they ever get Mum back?depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444917323</amazonuk>1736128426

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Boy In The TowerTom Percival|authortitle=Polly Ho-YenThe Wrong Shoes

|summary=WonderfulWill's life is difficult, wonderful story about in a lonely boymultitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his agoraphobic mother dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building-eating plantssite and had an accident. That could never work Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, right? Wrong! Itand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a must read tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and you won't ever have read anything quite clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like it beforea light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857533037</amazonuk>1398527122

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1805141872|title=Secrets of the Tombs: The Phoenix CodeTeacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Helen MossRob Keeley|rating=4.5

|summary=Egypt – ''Seventeen banks and a land of mystery and beauty, where history surrounds you and death is always presentjeweller’s have been raided. There The police are treasures to uncoverbaffled, riddles to solve and a colourful and exotic world to explore. A perfect setting for thisbut only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, the first in a new series of thrillers which combines intriguing landscapesMiss Judson, archaeology and adventure. Much of the architecture and scenery in this book is really exists a safecracker! With police and can be visitedher gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, including some of Miss Judson and Ben go on the tombs and museums, and many readers will feel inspired to seek further information about this most exciting and dramatic of locationsrun. But Al needs them for one last job...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010395</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=Borgon the Axeboy and the Dangerous Breakfast|author=Kjartan Poskitt and Philip Reeve|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=A real Barbarian breakfast has Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to have two elements – fun, and danger. So when Borgon wakes get mixed up wanting to prove himself to be the last of the really crazy and brave savages in Golgarth Basin, it's not enough to just give his parents with a batch of crocodile tails – especially when his mum Fulma canbad 't eat them as itun like Al? We's ll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her teeth-sharpening day. So off he goes in search terrible secret is Ben, the son of a ridiculously dangerous breakfast, such famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as a Barbarian might only eat once or twice. The mysterious food source certainly provides a lot of dangerhis father some day, and the book itself provides a lot of fun too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571307337</amazonuk>who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Wendy Quill is Full Up of WrongChristopher Edge|authortitle=Wendy Meddour and Mina MayBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Meet Wendy Quill. She's a big-hearted Lucas and big-haired primary schoolgirl, and not everything goes right his friends are all booked in her world. When she is allowed to use her brand-new, second-hand bike to go to the shops for the first time on her owna movie marathon at their local cinema, she slightly squishes an old lady, and a place that has to worry about the police presence at school the following daynickname of 'The Black Hole'. She feels anxious when sheAll big movie fans, they's compromised herself with flapjacks re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and not being in the right gang at school. many, many snacks! The only good bits of her life are However, as the best friend she hasmovie starts, how loyal her invisible dog they very quickly realise that something about this new film format isvery different, and the fact that when she wants to read her older sisterthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's diary a ghost gets it down from a too-high shelf for hert even imagine. NoBut as they lurch from one film genre to the next, honestly it does. can they figure out what on earth is going on? HeyWill they ever get back to the cinema, I've read this book and I know what happens if you lie – so it has to be the truth.their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192794671</amazonuk>1839942738

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean UreAdam Stower|title=Star for a DayMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers |summary=Lucy French (Luce Murray is supposed to her grandad) is thirteen be a humble, tidy and she lives with said Grandadfriendly cat, Mum - and eleven-year-old Lola. Lola's the one who gets all the attention, is able to loosen Mumsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's purse strings with a pout of her lip and who was upset when she only got Highly Commended in last yearbad magician's Talent Show. This year she willcat, of courseso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, require a ''completely'' new outfit and the undivided attention catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of the family - frightening adventure and that not long after she's had whiffs. This time round it drops them into a new outfit to go to Viking land, where a party. Lola troll hunter is gorgeousexpected – well, bubbly and brims over with confidence. Lucy isnone much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he't - s turned up and doesnhe't.ll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123586</amazonuk>0008561249

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=BluebirdAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|authortitle=Bob StaarkeThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54

|summary=Comic strips are supposed to be excitingEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, action packed adventuresand in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Full of bright colours Eli lives with his lovely gran, buzzing characters and onomatopoeia. This book too – for there is different a generation missing in every waythe family. For a start A few short years ago, there are no words. Not one single Eli''bang'' or ''crash'' or ''wallop''. Then there’s s parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the colour scheme. I think muted describes it bestcompany of a magical beast. This is has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a book of blacksconfession from gran, whites and greys and just a subtle touch of blue. WowEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, does that blue pop though. And then there’s with the sole aim the theme, prize of magic at which point things get really interestingthe end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783441852</amazonuk>0571382231

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Tornado ChasersHelen Cooper|authortitle=Ross MontgomeryThe Taming of the Cat|rating=3.5

|summary=There Once again, mice are a lot of violent storms in pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the valley where Owen livesmouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and almost as bad are the bears that roam the countryside. Naturallyin case you're seeing a connection, his parents decide there's only one thing to do: they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the family must move names used here seem to be the small village names of Barrowcheeses. Here Anyway, everything Brie is planned to keep children safe from harmshunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. They're only allowed out of nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the house visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in pairshandy one night, curfew is at four o'clock when he feels all alone and lights cast out is at six. And for children who don It't follow orders, s almost as if there's always were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the County Detention Centremouse community, though, a grim prisonas all the others had the chance to half-like structure presided over by inch some cheese while the mysterious – and terrifying - Wardencat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571298427</amazonuk>0571376010

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Eye SpyLauren St John|authortitle=Tessa BuckleyFinding Wonder

|summary=Twins Alex and Donna live in a somewhat unusual householdRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Their Her mum died when they were tiny so they live with their father she was young, and grandmother. Nan does all now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the heavy lifting in police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the household - corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. When asked what other family she cookshas, cleansshe can only name her aunt, worksJoni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But she has no one else, and so off she goes to parents evenings at schoollive with her unreliable aunt. Dad spends most of his time Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in his workshop - a converted railway carriage at the end middle of the garden. Dad, you see, is an inventor - and a rather eccentric nowhere and preoccupied inventor at that.then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00L3PI0YY</amazonuk>0571376169

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=War GirlsAdam Baron and Benji Davies|authortitle=Adele Geras, Melvin Burgess, Berlie Doherty, Mary Hooper, Anne Fine, Matt Whyman, Theresa Breslin, Sally Nicholls and Rowena HouseOscar's Lion|rating=53|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=This collection 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 couple of short stories written by some of the leading writers times before he has to be ready for young adults today school. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is a moving mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and engaging account of 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 aspect unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a problem. And it's wonderful to have around the First World War house – not often covered in teen fictionlimiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and so on. Each story explores how the war changed the lives of young women of that OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time forever as they learned to cope with loss and grief.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440600</amazonuk>0008596751

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Goblin QuestJudith Eagle|authortitle=Philip ReeveThe Stolen Songbird|rating=54

|summary=ThatCaro's the trouble with heroesmother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. They get it into their heads (and let's face it Her other mother, Ronnie, there's usually plenty of space in there for the occasional idea) that they absolutely must do something big and valiant is having to go up North to win a place in the Hall take care of Heroesher sister who is unwell. I shall go down in history So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, they announcesomeone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and future generations will sing of my bravery confused and my exploitsworried. Trouble All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she isstuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of coursea bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, once they've fixed on and all across London a quest, nothing on earth can stop them – not even fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the fact that itgang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the most brain-freezingly, pants-wettingly STUPID thing they could possibly have decided on.mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407138324</amazonuk>0571363148

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Cat Who Came in off the RoofTania Unsworth|authortitle=Annie M G Schmidt and David Colmer (translator)Nowhere Island

|summary=Meet TibbleGil. Despite the feline-sounding nameJust twelve, he's a human man, is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a journalist at thathome for himself. But his boss at the town newspaper isn't too pleased with what product Tibble delivers – for all He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he seems jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him to write about is catshis future. The night That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his impending dismissal brother in a cat walks in through camp on an island between the window two directions of Tibble's attic flat – or it would have been a catmotorway, a ginger called Minou, but something has turned her into a human. Enough cattish behaviour and intelligence remains however, place inaccessible and she soon helps Tibble out by telling him all the real news that the town's cats are privy definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and have never been able to convey beforeseclusion. But can the very feline Minou survive in human formThem, and what happens when the grapevine of gossip from the cats leads to something a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so vital to reportmuch more successfully. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, but so impossible to prove?or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690360</amazonuk>1804540080

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dork Diaries: TV StarHelen Peters|authortitle=Rachel Renee RussellFriends and Traitors|rating=3.5

|summary=Oh dear – Nikki Maxwell is on TVEngland, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. It could One is Nancy, destined to be worse – her younger sister or her embarrassing parents could be on TV with in service all herlife it seems, but for now it's just like the female generations before her. And The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school thathas been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn's a problemt guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. Several books after surprisingly winning the school pop talent contestBut something is amiss, Nikki and her friends get first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a contact with a top entertainment supremo called inrum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, and Nikki talk is thrust into the limelight made of reality TVmeetings with Germans, and pop boot campnot only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But how can she possibly juggle thatsurely the girls are wrong, and learning martial arts at school, and keeping all her friends and boyfriend happy, and avoiding the evil Mackenzieupper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471117677</amazonuk>1788004647

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny Oldfield|title=Bright Star|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Morgan was just thirteen when she was sent to her aunt's ranch in the Rockies for the summer. It was all a bit alien to her - I mean she was a city girl from Chicago and she was going to have to get on with ''horses''. It's not long though before she realises that she has a real affinity with horses and ponies and develops a special bond with a terrified wild mustang. It's Morgan who rescues the animal when it's trapped in barbed wire and calms it sufficiently to bring it into shelter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123756</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewJamie Littler|title=Really and Truly: A Story About Dementia|author=Emilie Rivard and Anne-Claire DeslisleArkspire

|summary=Every child who is lucky enough Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to have grandparents loves spending time with thembe chalk and cheese. After all Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, no including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one can tell a story better than a grandparent. Charlie and Grandpa have a relationship like thatof the religious districts of Arkspire, and no matter whether it’s a pirate who lives perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the atticpower of the Watcher, or the closest to a gnome who lives ruler the district has, and one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the cellarmagic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Grandpa can keep him entertained Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for days with his stories.very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445119404</amazonuk>0241586143

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Greek Myths: Stories of Sun, Stone and SeaStolen History|author=Sally Pomme ClaytonSathnam Sanghera

|genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=University Challenge questions frequently have me stumpedI was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but it’s ones we didn't dwell on Greek mythology that highlight a gap those) in my knowledge and make me yearn for what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the classical education that I never army hadto be there in the first place. Who or what is Erato? Should Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I be concerned if regret that I meet Kerberos? And why did a delivery company decide lacked the maturity to call itself Hermes? Consequently, approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I 'd had high hopes for Sathnam Sanghera's 'Greek Myths: Stories of Sun, Stone and Sea'Stolen History'', a collection of ten myths retold for children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805086</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Chicken Mission: Danger in the Deep Dark WoodsThiago de Moraes|authortitle=Jennifer GrayOld Gods New Tricks|rating=34.5

|summary=Dudley ManorMeet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, Dudley Estatelarks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, Dudley is having she could almost be thought a problemyoung goddess of nuisance. The country pile is losing all its chickens to But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the evil members world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the Most Wanted Clubschool's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and something has to be done. So they hire a sensei emu all that can do headstands, in powers the remotest corner of TibetInternet, to train three unlikely but plucky – pun intended – birds to be secret agentsjust for our convenience's sake). AmyTrixie, Boo and Ruth are not luckily, realises what you or I would choose as secret agents, but in training they can even defeat has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the dread Yeti – however clumsilypower of power from us. But how And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can they fare against realsteal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, murderous villainsgiants, in half-gods and so on known as the grown-up world of high crime?tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571298273</amazonuk>178845295X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Princess Hannah Gold and the FoalLevi Pinfold|authortitle=Stacy GreggFinding Bear|rating=4.5

|summary=''[[The Princess Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and the Foal'' is finding a modern-day Arabian fairytale based on the true story of Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein of Jordan. The story focuses on her relationship ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with an orphaned foal a polar bear – that she receives as a birthday gift shortly after losing her mother in a tragic accidentcalled Bear. She successfully hand-rears Back home, things on the foal domestic and as family front are a resultbit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the two form islands Bear was last left on. For a close bondbear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Haya grows up Desperate to make sure he's OK, she and her father return to become an accomplished young equestrienne with the goal Arctic and hope that in a world of becoming very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the first ever female contestant in the prestigious King's Cupfriendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007469047</amazonuk>0008582017

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rilla of InglesideSimon Fox|authortitle=L M MontgomeryDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Rilla of Ingleside Late one night Graham Blake is an interesting novel for many reasons. Being late back from his shift on the only fictional book written by force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a Canadian woman just after the warsecret place, about and join him on the war, it is an incredibly important workrun. It tells of what happened to the women who stayed at homeThey get together, the limited aspects of war work that they were able but barely begin to do, smell the endless fear and dread they felt for their loved ones far away, and all whiff of Southern trains when the emotional highs and lows they experienced during such a heightened time. The novel begins as Europe father is arrested, leaving Archie on the brink of war, and Rilla is only 15 years old and, stilllate express to Brighton, toting a rather silly young girl. I have tin his father was determined to say, I never much cared for Rilla. In ''Rainbow Valley' the book that precedes this onekeep away from his colleagues, she's just a spoilt baby and at the start bearer of this story it seems that nothing much has changed. However, just as the world goes through a dramatic change during this period whole heap of time, Rilla herself grows from a child to a womanquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034900451X</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cath Howe|title=Murder Most Unladylike (Wells & Wong Mystery 1)My Life on Fire|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ren's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to put in a box, and so she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=1839942835}}{{Frontpage|author=Robin StevensRob Keeley|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=4.5

|summary=How do you solve a murder Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with no body when nobody even realises that a murder has taken place? Such is return to the task facing the Wells & Wong Detective Society - Deepdean School's most secret society. Society Secretary Hazel Wong found mistress Miss Bell's dead body in the gym. But by the time she returned with President Daisy Wellsshort story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, Miss Bell's body had disappeared. It's the first decent case the Society has had - who really cared about Lavinia's Missing Tie? - and Daisy has at it with gusto. Hazel follows along at a slower pace but with, it must be said, a great deal more attention each as fun to detail. Of course, school life continues unhindered and Daisy and Hazel must conduct their investigation while avoiding Latin prep and lacrosse practice, and enjoying midnight feasts and buntime biscuitsread as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552570729</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Jim's LionLaura Noakes|authortitle=Russell Hoban and Alexis DeaconCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating=54

|summary=''You must find your finder for yourselfMeet Number One.'' So says a nurse to JimOr rather, who is lying in hospitalCosima Unfortunate. Or rather, plagued by some unnamed disease and bad dreamsjust Cos to her friends. The finder practice in the home she lives in question will is for the girls to just be an animal totemnamed by the number they correspond to in the ledger, a frequenter of a nice, safe and loved place in Jimthey's mindre all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that will Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be able to keep him optimisticknown about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, hopeful and perhaps even alive throughout unique in having no known family in the procedures to comeoutside world. The title gives During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the name away as kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to what adopt all the lad sees approach him in girls for his fantasiesInstitute. But why, but there is no clue there as and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to what ''we'' see approach ''us'' in the fantastic that follows.past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406346020</amazonuk>0008579059

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Sword of KuromoriAlice M Ross|authortitle=Jason RohanThe Nowhere Thief

|summary=Greek legends seems to have been done to death At last there is new stock in YA the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and MG recentlyher 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, there’s been a fair amount influenced by Norse mythology over because she has the yearsability to leave this world, and Rick Riordan’s Kane Chronicles use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are probably rising dramatically and the most popular buildings are generally empty of several books humans and series which have brought us stories based on that of Egyptripe for plunder. Japanese culture doesn’t seem With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to have played as big a part (although we’re huge fans of actually generate custom at the shop? [[Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff]] and [[Kinslayer (Lotus War Trilogy 2) by Jay Kristoff|Kinslayer]] at The Bookbag) so it’s refreshing to see an adventure here featuring ''kappas''Well yes, ''nure-onnas''is the answer, and ''oni'', amongst other fearsome creatures.but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405270608</amazonuk>1839943769

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Horrid Henry's Krazy KetchupNatasha Farrant|authortitle=Francesca Simon and Tony RossThe Rescue of Ravenwood

|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Horrid Henry’s Krazy KetchupVoyage of the Sparrowhawk'' . Ravenwood is the 23rd book an old house, in the ever popular series North of England, where Bea and has Raffy have been released to coincide living 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 they are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the Horrid Henry 20 year anniversary celebrations. The book contains four stories: Horrid Henry’s Ketchupcove, Horrid Henry’s Chickenroaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the Revenge nature around the house and loving every inch of the Bogey Babysitter place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's becoming more and Horrid Henry Tells it Like it ismore expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000179</amazonuk>0571348785

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Horrid HenryRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|authortitle=Francesca Simon and Tony RossSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=54

|summary=I was talking Jayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. Aisha is addicted to my son’s teacher recently and her new tablet, where she was telling me about a class trip to the librarycan see videos of anything that might be out there. Apparently The problem, as soon as the children got through the doortheir mothers see it, is that they all rushedare never 'out there' themselves, enexploring the outside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-masseminded, educational purpose, to the ''Horrid Henry'' 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 one Aisha thinks she'Captain Underpants'' bookss seen on a bit of local footage. Squabbles ensued when there were not enough Horrid Henry books The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to meet demandjoin in. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144401384X</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreview''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the time. And time isn't good for anything...''|author=Sally Nicholls|title=Shadow Girl|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=One of And that was why he was looking at the disadvantages of clock beside the foster care system is that some children get moved around rather a lot and usually it's not down to thembed. But because of this it's easy to see making friends as being a wasted effort and this It was certainly Clarenearly twelve o's opinionclock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times. By the age of fourteen she There was at her third secondary school - and after being there nothing for two months she hated it. but to go and find grandad - but where was he? Everyone else And why had been there for years and they all had friends: Clare had no one. A very bad day saw her being evicted from the school bus and then getting lost as she tried to find her way home. The good thing was that she met Maddy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123136</amazonuk>clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Diary Of Dorkius Maximus In PompeiiNigel Baines|authortitle=Tim CollinsA Tricky Kind of Magic

|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=Dorkius has moved Cooper loves to Pompeii for the summerperform magic tricks. YesHis father was a magician, and named Cooper after the heady highlights of Rome are far behind as he and his family have gone south, to what looks and smells like a ''guffy little backwater'', while dad is involved in some tax negotiationsgreat Tommy Cooper. OhBut sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and the sacred chickens are now sleeping with Dorkius in his roomCooper doesn't quite know who to be, making his time in the town full of idiots even less welcomeor how to be. But still – surely foolish people leftAnd when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, right and centre are not a problem, when you consider the angry mountain demon up yonder he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on Vesuvius…anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780552688</amazonuk>1444960261