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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=Cakes The 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-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in Spacethe game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve Kieran Larwood and Sarah McIntyreJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|summary=Meet AstraKit. She's Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a young girl who doesn't like the idea team of being 209 years warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old. Well, who would? Technically she will be ageingmagical mazes, but not in realityand race to the exit, for she is to spend two whole centuries asleep on a spaceship as her family travel perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the massive distance to Nova Mundiway. Given Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the chance to explore latest race on the ship inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a little before everyone new trio of questors is shut down needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the journey she finds a food replicator in goading from the dining hall, token bully of his world and helps herself to stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a sneaky chocolate biscuit supperteam. She then realises the machine could make her the ultimate cakeWhat chance does this friendless, but is unsuccessful when the small food factory seems to break downmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and she is forced how could he possibly hope to be frozen in her pod. Unfortunately, the machine itself is far from frozen…succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192734563</amazonuk>1839945184
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Daisy Saves the DayJames Sherwood Metts|authortitle=Shirley HughesPlanet Storyland
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|summary=I don’t know anybody that didn’t grow up with some Shirley Hughes books in their livesThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and for me it was always 'My Naughty Little Sister'other tasks that took time to accomplish. I was very excited Just as they were beginning to get used to receive all this copy technological change and starting to think of her latest book, 'Daisy Saves the Day'. It’s about a young girlother, Daisy Dobbs, who is sent off new ways to be scullery maid for a couple of sisters, the Misses Simmsspend time, far away from her homealong came an awful pandemic. It is difficult being away from her brothers Life was pretty much shut down and her Mum, and Daisy is not terribly good at housework. One day thoughalong with it, Daisy is put in a position where she has to save all the day or else everything might be lost forevermany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. Will she manage it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406348996</amazonuk>1736128426
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Anne of Green GablesTom Percival|authortitle=L M MontgomeryThe Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
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|summary=Everyone has Will's life is difficult, in a favourite book, I thinkmultitude of ways. A defining book that sometimes they read as a child He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', or sometimes as an adulthe has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, but it moved themand his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, or spoke to them was working a cash-in -hand job on a particular way building site and perhaps it changed their lives foreverhad an accident. For me, Throw into that book is Anne of Green Gables. It has shaped so much of my life mix the fact that I canhis mum and dad are separated, and Will't imagine ever not having read its life seems bleak in every direction. Indeed And yet, I have read it so many times that I lost count just how many years agohe still has a tiny amount of hope. Anne became a true heroine for me as a young girl He is good at art, and she remains one still now clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that I have feel like a little girl light at the end of my owna long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192737473</amazonuk>1398527122
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{{Frontpage
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|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too Much
|author=Rob Keeley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job...''
Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving}}{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Tiger TaleChristopher Edge|authortitle=Holly WebbBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
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|summary=Kate is missing GranddadLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Things just haven All big movie fans, they't been the same since he died. No more walks re looking forward to school togetherlots of exciting films, and many, no more long chats in many snacks! However, as the potting shedmovie starts, no more stories. The worst thing they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is that nobody else seems botheredvery different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Mum keeps laughing and joking But as if nothing they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever happened get back to the cinema, and big sister Molly is holed away in her bedroom.to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407138634</amazonuk>1839942738
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Violet and the Pearl of the OrientAdam Stower|authortitle=Harriet WhitehornMurray and Bun
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|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This Murray is supposed to be a story about Violet Remy-Robinson. Violet is about ten years oldhumble, her favourite activity is climbingtidy and friendly cat, she one who is an only child able to sleep and has learned useful skills from her parents such as how to read a menu in French eat and mix a perfect cocktail. She lives in a stylish eat and incredibly tidy flat sleep and when we first meet our heroine she is hanging upside down in a tree, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. One could safely say that Violet is not But he's a typical ten year old. When her eccentric neighbour, Dee Dee Derotabad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has her precious jewelbeen turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, The Pearl of and the Orientcatflap they both use can chuck them out, stolen not into the clues lead Violet to think that her strange new neighbours are responsibleregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. However no This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one will listen much bigger than Murray was, to her so the intrepid Violet decides be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to discover the truth herself.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122611</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Odyssey (The Classics)Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|authortitle=Rosemary Sutcliff and Alan Lee (illustrator)The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
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|summary=It took ten years but Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the drama contained within [[The Iliad (The Classics) wondrous library we start by Rosemary Sutcliff and Alan Lee (illustrator)|The Iliad]] finally concludedvisiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the few people to survive were able to go back homedessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Many packed up their black ships and sailed from whence they arrivedEli lives with his lovely gran, although one was not to find too – for there is a generation missing in the journey so directfamily. Odysseus, and his command of twelve shipsA few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to be battered and tornthe titular race, tried and tested in a globe-trotting adventure where all manner of ways, before they had any hope of finishing their circuitous loops of entrants have to navigate the classical worldin the company of a magical beast. But for all This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the threat they enduredeatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, something equally base and nasty was happening with the sole aim the prize of magic at the home they so actively sought…end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847805299</amazonuk>0571382231
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Quest for the Magic PorcupineHelen Cooper|authortitle=John Dougherty and David Tazzyman (illustrator)The Taming of the Cat|rating=43.5
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|summary=Here's an abject lesson for you Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – when and in case you've got re seeing a connection, they live in a large collection cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of evil badgers in your prisoncheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't let them play match the other mice he lives with a Monopoly set. For one thing one of them will eat all They nibble up paper wrapping from the fake banknotes, cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and for another makes stories based on the visuals on it . And that story-telling will come with a 'get in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out of jail free. It' cards almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. Then This makes Brie the top dog in the rain will be mucky and smell of bananasmouse community, though, and as all the King will come knocking on others had the door and asking for help and suggesting chance to half-inch some cheese while the butcher in cat was distracted. But will the post office is story have the best person to tell you about stories and might give a clue as to how best to go about living through this one. And successful sequel it'll still only be chapter four.needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192734970</amazonuk>0571376010
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Brotherly Bother (Pip Street)Lauren St John|authortitle=Jo SimmonsFinding Wonder
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This is a tale of two elderly men, neither of whom can get around very well without helpRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. One is Richard KeithsHer mum died when she was young, who and now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has lived dropped dead on Pip Street, and taught electric guitar lessons, for as long as anyone can remember. He needs his mobility scooter, but it's gone and broken downway to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. The When asked what other is a mysterious rich manfamily she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who swoops into town on the back she knows her dad didn't think very highly of a crazy sleigh towed by five huge malamute dogs. For some reason he seems to have an eye on the Keiths houseBut she has no one else, number 8, and is talking of demolishing it – and possibly even the whole street – so he can go fracking for oil underneath everyone's happinessoff she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. OhThings continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and heJoni leave London in Joni's also Richard Keiths' brother. Can our heroic children friends raise enough money to keep old campervan, it breaks down in the scooter on the road middle of nowhere and the road intact from the baddy's evil intentions?then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407132849</amazonuk>0571376169
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Paddington Marches OnAdam Baron and Benji Davies|authortitle=Michael BondOscar's Lion|rating=4.53
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|summary=We all remember Paddingtonstart incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, I’m surebut mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be ready for school. The Brown family and But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their housekeeperbed, the formidable Mrs Birdlooking sheepish, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the nice/nasty/nosy next door neighbour Mr Curry bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and the rest it can get him out of a problem. And it's wonderful to have around the gang. This book of seven classic Paddington stories has everything I knew and loved house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the bearrules, reissued for the next generationand so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0006753620</amazonuk>0008596751
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Iliad (The Classics)Judith Eagle|authortitle=Rosemary Sutcliff and Alan Lee (illustrator)The Stolen Songbird|rating=34
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|summary=How do you retell the Iliad for the modern young readerCaro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Do youSent to stay with Gam, for examplesomeone Caro has heard her mother despises, have Helen she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of Troy but only implybuilding herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, not stateAlbie, that hers was the face that launched who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a thousand ships? Should youmystery, as Rosemary Sutcliff does hereshe discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, ignore and all across London a fearsome gang called the important background detail Snakes are thieving artworks and just let terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the story tell itselfgang? How do you convey And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the masses the mythical talent of a story that has lasted millennia, yet when it all comes down to it is just a lot of detail of people fighting, and fighting, and fightingmystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847805280</amazonuk>0571363148
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Eye of the Falcon (Gods and Warriors Book 3) Tania Unsworth|authortitle=Michelle PaverNowhere Island
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It's been seven long months since Hylas Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and Pirra were separated find a home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him to his future. That future seems to be in the wake jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the devastating eruption two directions of Thalakreaa motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. The eruption was followed by tsunami Them, and the coldest winter anyone a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfully. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can remember. There combine, or if this is no spring. No sun.one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339314</amazonuk>1804540080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Paddington Takes the TestHelen Peters|authortitle=Michael Bond Friends and Peggy Fortnum (illustrator)Traitors|rating=43
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|summary=In England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the eyes of those who write proverbs, giving is as good as receivingcountry pile called Stanbrook. Similarly One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like the eyes of Paddington Bearfemale generations before her. The other is Sidney, taking a test is as good as giving girl from a testhoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, for he and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is without equal amiss, and first separately and then in giving tests – to combination they realise the patience of the Brown family who adopted him many years ago, principallyLord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Other people he meets on a temporary basis in the course Midnight deliveries are received under cover of his adventures – pantomime magicianssecrecy, art school bosses, country house owners – have varying degrees talk is made of luck and ability in dealing meetings with himGermans, but it's the family he returns to each night and not only that is put through , a worrying mill so often, and still comes out loving himlocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. But when he himself takes a test – wellsurely the girls are wrong, and the kind it actually is is best for you to discover yourself…upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0006753787</amazonuk>1788004647
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Paddington at WorkJamie Littler|authortitle=Michael Bond and Peggy Fortnum (illustrator)Arkspire
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=You remember the stories of a bear called Paddington coming to London from darkest Peru – leaving his aunt Lucy behind in a retirement home in Lima? Once on these shores he met up with the Brown familyTwo sisters, Juniper and then all hell broke loose. He blundered into one misfortuneElodie, made mistake after error after miscomprehensionborn fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and only barely got away with his marmalade sandwiches intactcheese. WellJuniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, these are these same stories – but with a slight twistincluding relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. This Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the second coming religious districts of PaddingtonArkspire, as he is once again on perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of the Watcher, the closest to a trans-Atlantic linerruler the district has, returning this time from a holiday back homeand one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Only, this time he will not quite reach London when Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the disturbing adventures status of the bear and the Brown whole family are resumed…. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0006753671</amazonuk>0241586143
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=The Diary of Dennis the Menace: Rollercoaster RiotStolen History|author=Steven ButlerSathnam Sanghera|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Beanoland, Beanotown, is going to be I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the home existence of a 'god'. Where was the world's most extreme rollercoasterproof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the Vomit Cometend of WWII, and as heI didn't so much want to learn about the British army's a fan of all things extreme, scary successes (and menacingoccasional failures, Dennis but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the Menace is determined army had to brighten up his current school term with an early ride on itbe there in the first place. By an act of subterfuge during his latest detention he finds out Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the school is holding a competition maturity to win approach 'the prize of being first in line at its grand openingproblem' politely. Surely this has DennisI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's name all over it? Well, he thinks so – but then he doesn't yet know what he has to do to win the contest…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141355743</amazonuk>'Stolen History''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Girl Who Wasn't ThereThiago de Moraes|authortitle=Karen McCombieOld Gods New Tricks
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Maisie doesn’t believe in ghostsMeet Trixie. At least she didn’t until she started at her new school. Her dad has a new job working as Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the school caretaker and as Maisie stands at her new bedroom window one night aircon with fart powder, she thinks could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when she sees something or someone at 's being told that by her one of the windows of -last-chance-giving headteacher, the closed and empty schoolworld changes. On her first day the other girls tell her of rumours of Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a ghost power-out, even of a long-gone girl who wanders electric cars, hits not just the town the school corridors. Could this be 's in but the answer to entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the mysterious shape at Internet, just for our convenience's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the window? With ancient Gods have taken the help power of power from us. And so she begins her new friend Katepic quest, Maisie decides to find out more about gather all the school ghost and solve people that can steal it back – namely the mystery. However her investigations unearth surprises characters from myth that she could never have expectedpast form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407138901</amazonuk>178845295X
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{{newreview|title=Apple and RainFrontpage|author=Sarah Crossan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''A story about sad endings.''<br>''A story about happy beginnings.''<br>''A story to make you realise who is special.''<br> This is the blurb on the back jacket of ''Apple and Rain'' Hannah Gold and it sums up the book just perfectly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140885306X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewLevi Pinfold|title=Has Anyone Seen Jessica Jenkins?|author=Liz KesslerFinding Bear
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Who doesn't dream at times of having a super-power? Suddenly being able to creep around without anyone knowing you're there[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], or to soar above the tree-tops with the birds? When you're an ordinary thirteen year old girlApril had been on Bear Island, going to an ordinary schoola lot further north than many people would venture, and finding out that bits of you have started disappearing and reappearing must come as a bit of ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a shockpolar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, especially as it happens things on the first time right in the middle of domestic and family front are a rather boring double geography lesson. Luckily Jessica has Izzybit advanced, who willingly helps but not perfect for her recover , and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the news islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and start wounded. Desperate to control the way make sure he's OK, she uses this new and exciting aspect of her life. And Izzy isn't even jealous, which, let's face it, is definitely father return to the sign Arctic and hope that in a world of a realvery white and very dangerous things, true friendshe can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144401398X</amazonuk>0008582017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Danger Is Everywhere: A Handbook for Avoiding DangerSimon Fox|authortitle=David O'Doherty and Chris JudgeDeadlock|rating=4.5
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|summary=Meet Docter Noel Zone. YesLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, it's his spelling – safely making sure people don't think demanding he is fetch something from a real doctor. And safety is his first secret place, and foremost interestjoin him on the run. After having They get together, but barely begin to rescue too many people in his job as a swimming pool lifeguard – he banned all movement in and around smell the whiff of Southern trains when the water as it was just too dangerousfather is arrested, after which however the people in leaving Archie on the water started late express to drown – he made it safer for all concerned by removing the water. I'm sure he'd barricaded the diving board off long before – even in his own home he's removed the stairs as Brighton, toting a safety risk. This book is tin his illustrated guide father was determined to playing it safekeep away from his colleagues, in all aspects and the bearer of life – from the hazmat suit needed to make toast to illustrating what you need to do when attacked by a polar bear or a toothbrush snakewhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141354151</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mr Gum and the Biscuit BillionaireCath Howe|authortitle=Andy Stanton and David TazzymanMy Life on Fire|rating=4.5
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|summary=Meet Alan TaylorRen's family home is destroyed in a fire. NoShe, sorry – you'll have to look down if you want toher parents, and her little brother lose everything. HeShe doesn's only 15.24 centimetres tallt have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, but and now youshe is living at her grandmother're looking down you s house where they can see 't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the blue sparks that come off him when his electric muscles move himfoods they normally eat. Alan's When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a true gentleman born and (ginger)breadspecial art project, but he's been tainted by money – a massive fortune the little gingerbread man carries around in a biscuit tin. He's creating boxes of the impression their lives, to display things that he needs are important to scatter his dosh around in order to make friendsthem and show who they are as a person. Nobody else But Ren has nothing to put in their right mind in the town of Lamonic Bibber is of the same opiniona box, but two people who are certainly keen to be on the receiving end of the cash include the nasty Mr Gum – and he wants so she finds herself starting to receive it all through some evil robberysteal things. What's moreSmall things, he'll do it in the middle of Alan's impromptu partythings that people might not really miss, complete with helicopter rides, a full fairground and the world's nastiest hot dog stand…not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140527493X</amazonuk>1839942835
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Aesop's Fables (The Classics)Rob Keeley|authortitle=Beverley Naidoo The Boy Who Disappeared and Piet GroblerOther Stories|rating=34
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|summary=They're not Aesop's fables. They're ours. The stories have lasted for so many thousands of years, and have been told and retold both verbally and in print that they are of this earth and all upon it. So that when we realise we don't really know much about Aesop himself, it hardly matters. Basing this collection on the idea that he was of African ancestry, Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a return to the creators give us a dozen or so short snappy tales, peopled with southern African nature and sensibility. story format! The result is a vivid and bright guide Boy Who Disappeared treats us to the moralistic little eleven new tales – that always felt African and not European in style, according each as fun to the introductionread as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847805302</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Tiger MothLaura Noakes|authortitle=Suzi MooreCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating=34
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|summary=Both Alice and Zack have had idyllic childhoods with wonderful homes and loving parentsMeet Number One. However Or rather, out of the blue, they find their lives turned upside downCosima Unfortunate. When Zack's dad dies Or rather, he is forced just Cos to leave his luxurious her friends. The practice in the home and all his friends she lives in is for a tiny cottage the girls to just be named by the sea with his mum. With number they correspond to in the grief at his loss still very much rawledger, he struggles to deal and they're all Unfortunates – young people with the added difficulties disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that this move bringsVictorian society frowns greatly upon. Meanwhile, for Alice it is But Cosima bears the arrival of tag as a new lifesurname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, namely a new baby sisteras the first ever inmate, which has left her reelingand unique in having no known family in the outside world. Fearing rejection During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from her adoptive parents in favour of a child of their ownthe kitchen one afternoon, she finds herself overwhelmed by discovers a plan involving said outside world – a whirl of emotions too complicated devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for her to express in wordshis Institute. But why, words and what does that abandon her altogether as she loses her ability body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to speak. When the two tweens meet at a beautiful, secret beach, they not only find a place where they can get away from their angst, but also a friend past she has so little link with whom they can share their troubles and talk about the things that their parents simply don't get.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857075101</amazonuk>0008579059
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dangerous Discoveries of Gully PotchardAlice M Ross|authortitle=Julia LeeThe Nowhere Thief
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Gully never intended to get into trouble. At last there is new stock in the beginning of our story he has a good job as a delivery boy impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a safeseaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, secure home with a loving family. But a single action can have a multitude because she has the ability to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal of effectskaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and being forced by Nathan Boldree the buildings are generally empty of humans and his gang ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to take part in their latest scam soon has Gully fleeing his home. He takes refuge from actually generate custom at the villains with his uncle on shop? Well yes, is the Isle of Wightanswer, but even there danger and menace pursue him.the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192733699</amazonuk>1839943769
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Girl Who Walked on AirNatasha Farrant|authortitle=Emma CarrollThe Rescue of Ravenwood
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=I This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, in the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been looking forward to reading this book living for some timemost 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. [[:Category:Emma Carroll|Emma Carroll’s]] debut novel They have grown up swimming in the cove, [[Frost Hollow Hall by Emma Carroll|Frost Hollow Hall]]roaming through the trees, was completely at one with all of my favourite children’s books the nature around the house and loving every inch of last year and I was delighted to discover that this the place. But now the house is just under threat, as good. This Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the exciting story of Louie and her hopes property to become a circus star. Ever since she was abandoned developer as a baby at Chipchaseit's Travelling Circus, Louie has dreamed of becoming a 'Showstopper’ but Mr Chipchase only ever lets her sell tickets. However Louie has a talent as a tightrope walker more and every morning she practises her act in secret watched by her little dog Pipmore expensive to maintain. Can Louie The children find the courage themselves worrying not only about where they're going to overcome the challenges that face herlive, but if they'll even be together, defy Mr Chipchase and achieve her dream?if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571297161</amazonuk>0571348785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Jedi Academy 2Secret Beast Club: Return The Unicorns of the Padawan|author=Jeffrey BrownSilver Street|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=A long time ago Jayden's nose is forever in a galaxy farbook, far away... There lived which means he knows a boy called Roan Novachez who always dreamed of being a pilot like his big brother. Fate works in mysterious ways lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and poor Roan ended up at Jedi academy instead. His first year was full unicorns of drama and tween angst; trying to make friendsthe world, fit in, impress girls and avoid lightsaber-wielding bulliesfor example. Roan thinks this year Aisha is going addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be different: out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there'themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden'This school year will definitely be s cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the BEST YEAR EVER!one Aisha thinks she''' Of courses seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boat, nobody told Roan that when you make statements like thatincluding a living gargoyle, you are just asking for trouble..tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join 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>1407144715</amazonuk>0241573483
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09XWSXSKY|title=Hattie B, Magical Vet: The Dragon's Song (Book 1)Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Claire Taylor-SmithRobert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=HattieFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn's birthday is not going as well as she plannedt sleep. Mum A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and Dad are busy at workover in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, her teenage brother is ignoring her he's ten now and her best friend has decided all those old clocks don't appeal to go away him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the time. And time isn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the weekendbed. Hattie is resigned to a morning of watching DVD It was nearly twelve o's in her bedroom until a surprise knock clock but at midnight the door heralds clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the delivery of a very special gift that will change her life forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141344628</amazonuk>clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean UreNigel Baines|title=Jelly BabyA Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Emerging Readers|summary=FloraCooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, who is generally called 'Bitsy' and sometimes 'Jelly Baby' because shenamed Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's well roundedfather died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't really quite know what it's like who to be, or how to have a motherbe. Mum died And when she was two and only her elder sister, Emily, whohis dad's thirteenprop rabbit starts talking to him, has any real memory of her. Since then the girls have lived happily with Dad - the rather absent-minded Professor - and Aunt Cass. Theyhe ''ve not really bothered about keeping the house tidy and things do get rather scruffy but it '' doesn't seem important until theyknow what're told that their father is bringing a girlfriend home. The girls are delighted. They want their father to be happy.s going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007518692</amazonuk>1444960261
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