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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Dougherty and David Tazzyman (illustrator)Max Boucherat|title=Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Evilness The Last Life of PizzaLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There are a few important things We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to know about the Island Kingdom of Great Kerfufflepop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. One is that it is pestered by What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a criminal gang of badgersblanket fort, who find it impossible to just sit around in prisonshe has one main intention, but always have to escape and cause danger and nastiness that is to other people, even if they are log on the whole incredibly stupid. You also need to knowVoxminer, howeverthe world-building, critter-collecting game that brother and sister Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face are great at solving the problems the badgers cause, and getting through the adventures is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a very self-knowing waytiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even discussing more spooky. For the lengths of the chapters server she and her bestie and the style nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of story as they go about their businesstampering. Here the problem is revealed quite late When malevolent eyes spark up onher phone screen, so and her safe place in an effort not to spoil the plot I'll just point out that in game has been doctored – well, where is a book this stupidly, deliriously daft you hardly need bother about the plot in the first place, and can just relax and have the sheer joy of entertainment for an hour or so.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192738259</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The New Enemy: Liam Scott Book 3Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|authortitle=Andy McNabDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Liam Scott has joined Recce PlatoonMeet Kit. The recruitment process was more gruelling than Liam had even imagined. But if you're going to be Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an inavid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-theatre intelligence gatherer for old, magical mazes, and race to the British Armyexit, then perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you need to be ready along the way. Unfortunately for anything. And despite his trainingKit, Liam the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new to this gametrio of questors is needed. He still Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has a lot taken to learn the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's going to ll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have to do it the hard way - in Kenyaactually managing that, where the border with Somalia is subject and how could he possibly hope to incursions from the al-Shabaab militant group.succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857533428</amazonuk>1839945184
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=There Will Be LiesPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Nick LakeTom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Shelby Will's life is seventeen. She dreams difficult, in a multitude of going to college but her mother would never allow itways. Shaylene He is more than over-protective. She homeschools Shelby and rarely lets her daughter out on her own. She is obsessed with bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the danger that men present. Shelby loves her mother but wrong shoes because his dad can't help work and doesn't have enough money for even the odd twinge most basic of resentment things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the level of control she exerts college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and more than had an accident. Throw into that mix the odd twinge of embarrassment when she looks at they overweightfact that his mum and dad are separated, unfit, pyjama jeans-wearing Shayleneand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And then Shelby is knocked down by yet, he still has a cartiny amount of hope. And everything unravels. Shaylene turns up He is good at the hospital with bags packed. She's running from somethingart, but what is it? And why can't she see and clings to the coyote that moments of joy when he is watching Shelbydrawing, talking to her, warning her that feel like a light at the end of lies and asking her to save a Child from a Crone?long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1619634406</amazonuk>1398527122
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julie Berry1805141872|title=The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When the seven schoolgirls at St Etheldreda's School for Young Ladies in Victorian Ely see their headmistress 'Seventeen banks and her brother drop dead at dinnera jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, they're more concerned about their future than but only Ben knows the loss of the two adults. Knowing that if anyone discovers what's happened they'll be sent home to families who don't want themtruth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, they launch is really a daring plan to cover up the sad newssafecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the run the school themselves. When the deaths turn out to be caused by poison, though, theyBut Al needs them for one last job...'re left not just trying to run a school and convince an alarming number of visitors that nothing's wrong - but also to solve the murders before there's another killing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848124376</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Betty G BirneyChristopher Edge|title=Imagination According to HumphreyBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=3.54
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|summary=If you haven't alreadyLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, meet Humphrey – a place that has the most squeakily vocal inhabitant nickname of Classroom 26'The Black Hole'. The charming and inventive hamster is here with yet another All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of his main novels – as opposed to early readersexciting films, quiz and joke books, anthologiesmany, [[Humphrey's World of Pets by Betty G Birney|guides to having pets]] – there are so many around that my edition didn't try to put them all on one inventory pagesnacks! However, but chose to leave a few out. Here the series continues with Humphrey and the same children as he's befriended over the last few volumesmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and itthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's storytimet even imagine. The class is being read a novel about a boy and But as they lurch from one film genre to the dragons doing evil to his village's weathernext, and everyone can they figure out what on earth is trying to write creatively about flying as a response. going on? But when someone threatens Will they ever get back to bring a real-life dragon to class, how could the little class pet be safecinema, especially when he hasn't the imagination and to see what the result could betheir real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571282512</amazonuk>1839942738
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen PastisAdam Stower|title=Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were MadeMurray and Bun
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Timmy Failure Murray is the CEO supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of Total Failure, the best detective agency in towntwo. This book is nothing short of But he's a historical record of bad magician's cat, so his life as an investigatorfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, helped (or perhaps hindered) by his polar bear partner Total and grade-obsessed friend Rollothe catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and always wary of his rival Corrina Corrinawhiffs. Can Timmy come out ahead of his evil nemesis? This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406339814</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rick RiordanAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Percy Jackson always thought he was Eli is a normalbusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, if rather naughty, kidand in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Then he vaporised Eli lives with his maths teacher and ended up in Camp Half-Bloodlovely gran, too – for there is a special place for children of generation missing in the Greek Godsfamily. With Zeus A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, king a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the Godseatery leads to a confession from gran, convinced Percy has stolen Eli knows his magical lightning boltonly hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, war could be about with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to break out - can Percy find the lightning thief and possibly save the day?his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141346809</amazonuk>0571382231
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francesca SimonHelen Cooper|title=Horrid Henry's Tricky TricksThe Taming of the Cat
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Horrid Henry is Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to his usual antics in this latest compilation be the names of trickiest tricks evercheeses. The book features ten stories Anyway, Brie is shunned, which include some outrageous pranksscorned and, like Henry trying to wake the deadif you must, win a pet talent contest and spend a hairmous-raising weekend tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with his awful cousin, Stuck-. They nibble up Stevepaper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. But none of this compares to his scariest challenge ever; braving a girls' sleepover at his neighbour And that story-telling will come in handy one night, Moody Margaretwhen he feels all alone and cast out. It's housealmost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444012088</amazonuk>0571376010
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{{Frontpage|author=Lauren St John|title=Finding Wonder|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, 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 dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But she has no one else, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Walter de la MareAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Peacock Pie: A Book of RhymesOscar's Lion
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|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseConfident Readers|summary=It was a surprise for me We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read online that Walter de la Mare spent so much him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his life in parents' bedroom, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around London – born at least in what is now it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the borough of Greenwichother month. And it can shapeshift, passing away in Twickenham. The reason I say this is that so he can take it to school and it can get him out of the copious poems collected here, a problem. And it's as if cities don't exist. Hardly anything of wonderful to have around the subjects is manmade. The concentration is fully on house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the idyllic and pastoralrules, and in following so on so closely in the footsteps of his debut collection. OK, it can'Songs of Childhood' from 1902, still very, very much Victoriant work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571313892</amazonuk>0008596751
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris O'Dowd and Nick Vincent MurphyJudith Eagle|title=Moone Boy: the Blunder YearsThe Stolen Songbird
|rating=4
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|summary=Poor Martin MooneCaro's mother, surrounded by his sisters who drive him crazya world-famous whistler, he decides has failed to get himself an imaginary friendreturn home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. He enlists the help Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of his friend her sister who is unwell. So who already is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has an imaginary friendheard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and thus begins worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a wild adventure because what happens when the imaginary friend you imagine isnhalt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady't any good at being your imaginary friends house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, and who youis living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum'd really like s old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to be your imaginary friend is the customer services representative who comes gang? And what has happened to try and help you outCaro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447270940</amazonuk>0571363148
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tohby RiddleTania Unsworth|title=UnforgottenNowhere Island|rating=34.5|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=Think of fallen angelsMeet 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 Lucifer find a home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and the like come lets it ride him to mindhis future. But they don't have That future seems to have fallen be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with such speedhis brother in a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for such a distance or with such effecttheir safety and seclusion. This book concerns one such creatureThem, and while it's not named as an angel as such, and it's identified only by nobody knowing from where it comes yet everyone silently gets to appreciate its presence, it certainly looks like a Westernmute girl also finding a home there, Christian, angel formalbeit so much more successfully. And so the plot of Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this gentle, poetic picture book looks at the chance of such a bad thing is one place where life as the fall of an angel being followed by anything more positive.we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1742379729</amazonuk>1804540080
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy Griffiths and Terry DentonHelen Peters|title=The 13-Storey TreehouseFriends and Traitors
|rating=3
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Andy and Terry live England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like the female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a tree house so fantastic it caters for every whim – as long as you're girl from a primary hoity-toity Sussex boarding schoolthat has been removed there away from bomber flight-aged boypaths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that isthen their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. There's swimming on one levelBut something is amiss, bowling on another, as much marshmallow as you could eat and all first separately and then in combination they realise the gadgets and gizmos their brilliant imaginations could come up withLord Evesham must be a rum 'un. But this idyllic life also comes Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with responsibilities – one moment you're painting a cat yellow to see if it becomes a canary Germans, and flies away (no spoiler – it does)not only that, the next you get reminded of an overdue deadline to write a booklocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. What on earth But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could possibly happen to inspire such a book overnightnever be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447279786</amazonuk>1788004647
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frank Cottrell BoyceJamie Littler|title=DesirableArkspire|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Poor GeorgeTwo sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. He knows that he Elodie is not popular but when intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even his own Grandad doesn't want to stay around for his birthday party he realises that things are even worse than he thought. However this was before he discovered become the child in line to inherit the contents power of the present from his Grandad Watcher, the closest to a ruler the district has, and experienced one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the dramatic impact on his life an aged bottle status of aftershave would bringthe whole family. Although George tries to think himself invisible But in order finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to cope today he is not invisible. In fact he is not only visible but desirable too!gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124248</amazonuk>0241586143
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Priestley024162343X|title=The Last of the SpiritsStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I 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 we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Thiago de Moraes
|title=Old Gods New Tricks
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Teenage Sam Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and his little sister Lizzie are starving on adventures involving flooding the streets school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of Londonnuisance. But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, which is gripped by terrible coldthe world changes. Asking an old businessman for money Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a man who looks at them with such sheer contempt power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that Sampowers the Internet, just for our convenience's heart fills with hatesake). He swears that he will seek vengeance and rob Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the old man, not caring whether his victim will live or diepower of power from us. But before he can do And soshe begins her epic quest, a strange spirit appears to him, and warns him about gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the terrible path he will put himself on with this violent act. Can Sam resist characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the temptation to gain revenge? Several more spirits show him Gods, ie the possible consequences of his actionsemi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as we see Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol from a new viewpointthe tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408854139</amazonuk>178845295X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dylan Thomas Hannah Gold and Peter BaileyLevi Pinfold|title=A Child’s Christmas in WalesFinding Bear
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Christmas [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time growing up in ]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, things on the domestic and family front are a Welsh seaside town was magical bit advanced, but not perfect for Dylan Thomasher, always snowy and full of adventureso can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. From attempting Desperate to extinguish house fires with snowballs make sure he's OK, she and her father return to hippo footprints in the snow his childhood Arctic and hope that in the snow was a time world of wonder very white and pure joyvery dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444013467</amazonuk>0008582017
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer GraySimon Fox|title=Atticus Claw Learns to DrawDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Who knew how much trouble a rainy day could bring? When nothing else inspires themLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, children Michael and Callie and police cat sergeant Atticus all enter a draw-some-pickles competitionthen suddenly rings Archie, for the chance to win demanding he fetch something from a trip to, ersecret place, and join him on the pickle factoryrun. Atticus has been around a bit – he used They get together, but barely begin to be smell the world's best cat burglar – and he seems to recognise one whiff of Southern trains when the faces father is arrested, leaving Archie on the pickle jars as an old enemylate express to Brighton, but at least the main baddies of the series – the Russian spy mistress and her cattoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the town magpies – are miles away and tucked up safely inside bearer of a giant shark. So lo and behold when Atticus's entry wins, and the whole family gets taken to the factoryheap of questions. And lo and behold when the factory owner seems rather suspicious, and lo and behold when a certain shark gets captured…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571305334</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael MorpurgoCath Howe|title=Listen to the MoonMy Life on Fire
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=ItRen's Mayfamily home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, 1915. World War I is underway and the Scillionians have already seen lossesher little brother lose everything. Like the rest of Britain, they are beginning to realise that this war won She doesn't be over have any time soon. When Alfie and his father are out fishing one dayof her clothes, they hear a child's cries. On one or any of the archipelago's uninhabited islands, they find a halfher special little knick-starved little girlknacks from her cupboard, abandoned and in a terrible state. She can only speak one word: Lucy. Who is this foundling? Is she a ghost? A mermaid? Or, more worryingly, could now she be a German spy? The name Wilhelm is on the label of her blanket, after all. And why does she gaze living at the moon with such longing in her eyes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007339631</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Evangeline Lilly and Johnny Fraser-Allen|title=The Squickerwonkers|rating=4|genre=Childrengrandmother's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Selma is a young girl who finds a strange attraction on the edge of a fair – a large gypsy caravan-styled contraptionhouse where they can't touch anything, which she entersor do anything, alone but for her shiny red balloonor even eat the foods they normally eat. She appears When she goes back to be aloneschool she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, until nine marionette puppets suddenly appear on the stage withincreating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a disembodied voice introduces them all to herperson. They are the SquickerwonkersBut Ren has nothing to put in a box, and as we are about so she finds herself starting to seesteal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they can reveal have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone's entire character with the simplest of actions…finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783295457</amazonuk>1839942835
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally Gardner and David RobertsRob Keeley|title=The Matchbox Mysteries (Wings Boy Who Disappeared and Co 4)Other Stories
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This was my first introduction Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a return to the Wings & Co fairy detective agency. It's certainly the sort of book I really should have come across sooner since it's wonderfully oddshort story format! With Emily working alongside of Fidget, the talking catThe Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, each as well as a lot of keys and an overly talkative, egotistic magic lamp this isn't the sort of book you fun to read as a bedtime story and drift off half way through! In this book there is trouble in Podgy Bottom. Someone is stealing cars, shrinking them down into a matchbox, and there is also a crazy purple bunny and a troublesome broomstickhis previous offerings. Will the detective agency be able to figure out what on earth is going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144401014X</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=K A S QuinnLaura Noakes|title=The Queen Alone (Chronicles of the Tempus)Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Katie is backMeet Number One. Or rather, and once more she's back in Victorian EnglandCosima Unfortunate. This time, howeverOr rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she isn't quite sure who called her back lives in time or is for what purpose the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, andthey're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, unfortunately, something went wrong uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and she brought someone else along with her! unique in having no known family in the outside world. In During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the final episode of the Chronicles of the Tempus we see Katie trying kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to save Prince Albert's life, trying want to prevent Britain messing up adopt all the outcome of the American Civil Wargirls for his Institute. But why, and rescuing Queen Victoria from an asylum!what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848870566</amazonuk>0008579059
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angie Sage|title=PathFinder (TodHunter Moon Book One) |rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Twelve year old Alice TodHunter Moon, who prefers to be known as Tod, is a Pathfinder, a member of a fishing tribe with a mythical history of travelling across the stars. She lives a nice life in her Pathfinder community until her father, her only surviving parent, doesn’t come back from a fishing trip and Tod is left alone with her horrid step-aunt Mitza.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858150</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Linda NewberyM Ross|title=The BrockenspectreNowhere Thief
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Tommi lives up At last there is new stock in the mountains with his parents impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and his baby sisterher mother run in a seaside town. Mamma is artistic and paints beautiful designs on chairs and stools and planters for tourists Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the ability to buy. Pappi is a mountain guide leave this world, and Tommi's hero - brave and fearless and a lover use an unworldly portal of his wild mountain home. Tommi wants nothing more than kaleidoscope colours to be like Pappi. But things aren't peaceful at home. Pappi is only truly happy by himselfenter other worlds, out amongst where the peaks. After just a day or two at home without guiding work, he becomes irritable sea levels are rising dramatically and critical the buildings are generally empty of Mammi humans and his childrenripe for plunder. After an argument one day With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, Pappi strides out of is the house and onto answer, but the mountain. And he doesn't return.fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857551566</amazonuk>1839943769
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emer StampNatasha Farrant|title=The Super Amazing Adventures Rescue of Me, PigRavenwood
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=HelloThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. I Ravenwood is Pig an old house, in the North of England, where Bea and I has one book out alreadyRaffy have been living for most of their lives. In it I tells you in diary form about how I ends up on They are part of a spaceship that EVIL CHICKENS make out of 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 tractorfamily. I cannot speak human but I knows They have grown up swimming in the bookbag really likes my first book. So now I has a second. In cove, roaming through the past I has problems trees, completely at one with an evil farmer who wants to put me in a pie but now all I has is happiness of the nature around the house and peace. I even has a new best friend called Kitty loving every inch of the Catplace. But my old best friend Duck now the house is telling me Kitty under threat, as Leo is not under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the best new best friend I can haveproperty to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. How is Duck right The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, and how is I wrong?if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407136380</amazonuk>0571348785
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Map to EverywhereRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|authortitle=Carrie Ryan and John Parke DavisSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The upside to being forgotten by everybody Jayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the minute they lose sight phoenixes and unicorns of you the world, for example. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that it makes stealing things pretty easymight be out there. The down side problem, as their mothers see it, is that you they are never have 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a friendscience-minded, educational purpose, you and with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never have someone to turn to if you knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are sad or sickreal, and maybe worst including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of all you neverthe boat, everincluding a living gargoyle, see a face light up are tasked with recognition as you approachsaving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. Of course it means you can say and do absolutely anything you like Dare they side with Leila, because it will be forgotten immediatelythe woman on board, but thenand her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, why bother? In five seconds from now, who's going to careand become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444010549</amazonuk>0241573483
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|title=Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock
|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Nonsense Limericks (Faber Children's Classics)Nigel Baines|authortitle=Edward Lear and Arthur Robins (illustrator)A Tricky Kind of Magic
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseEmerging Readers|summary=There Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a young man whose critique<br>Of this book was submitted one week<br>When they asked magician, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to be. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he 'Was it fine?'<br>He said really'No denyin' –<br>doesn'Theret know what's very little here they could tweakgoing on anymore!'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571302262</amazonuk>1444960261
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