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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz PichonMax Boucherat|title=Tom Gates 9: Top 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 the Class (Nearly)game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Tom Gates has been told not to worryMeet Kit. Which Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is not an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a good thingteam 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 along the way. HeUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been told not to worryretired, eaten, but to try his best at the school test – so he does neitherand a new trio of questors is needed. His best friend Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has told him not taken to worry about having just left an incriminating portrait of one the goading from the token bully of his teachers in world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a library reference book, even though he has to worry about getting it back before anyone else sees itteam. EspeciallyWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that is, when the biggest bully in the year above is also turning his hand to graffiti and has the power how could he possibly hope to get other people in trouble…succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407143204</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Noel StreatfeildJames Sherwood Metts|title=White BootsPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=Many moons ago, when I was Things have been a young girl obsessed with Torvill bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and Dean and wishing we lived much closer to a skating rink, I discovered Noel Streatfeild's wonderful Shoe stories including this oneautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they''White Boots''. It soon became one of my favourite re-reads, so it was interesting paid to come back do and other tasks that took time to the story accomplish. Just as a grown up they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and find that it is still funny and engagingstarting to think of other, all these years laternew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and that , along with it still has , all the enduring power to make me wish for my own pair of white skating boots too!many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007580460</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lindsay Mattick and Sophie BlackallTom Percival|title=Finding Winnie: The Story of the Real Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-PoohWrong Shoes

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=A little boy called Cole wanted Will's life is difficult, in a storymultitude of ways. He particularly wanted is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he 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, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a true story building site and it had to be about a bearan accident. It was getting lateThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, but Mummy said that she would do her bestand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. Her story began about And yet, he still has a hundred years before Cole was born and it was about a man called Harry Colebourn who lived in Winnipegtiny amount of hope. He was a vet is good at art, and was on his way clings to Europe to look after the horses moments of the soldiers fighting in the Great War joy when he met is drawing, that feel like a trapper with light at the end of a baby bear: his head might have said that there was nothing he could dolong, but his heart told him to get hold of the bear and he gave the trapper $20. Winnipeg, as he named the bear, went on the train with Captain Coulbourn and his troop, across the ocean and finally arrived in Englanddark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408340232</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate de Goldi and Gregory O'Brien1805141872|title=The ACB with Honora LeeTeacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=34.5

|summary=Meet Perry. She's 'Seventeen banks and a hen-pecked sort of girl – forever having her grammar corrected by her parents, who love nothing more than packing her off to after-school classes, such as music lessons she has no aptitude forjeweller’s have been raided. Her father has one dutiful extra-curricular activityThe police are baffled, too but only Ben knows the truth – visiting his own mother in her care home, and taking Perry with him. But when one of the classes she is involved with packs up, she decides to spend more time with the old dear – after all, she finds it hard to identify her own kith and kin, has memory problemsMaths teacher, and reverts to being a teacher yet cannot even play I Spy correctly. Once in the routineMiss Judson, Perry finds the weird happenings and characters in the home would be ideal ingredients for an ABC book for a school project.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405052</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jackie Morris|title= The Wild Swans|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= The most well known version of the wild swans is probably the one penned by Hans Andersen. This extended retelling by Jackie Morris adds depth, emotional resonance and really a number of new twists to the tale. As in most versions, Eliza safecracker! With police and her brothers live a happy and privileged life until gangster boyfriend Al on their father's remarriage brings jealousytrail, mistrust Miss Judson and trouble in its wakeBen go on the run. The brothers are magically changed into wild swans and it is up to brave Eliza to rescue But Al needs themfor one last job. ..''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805361</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nicholas Gannon|title= The Doldrums|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= If you are of an imaginative dispositionGoodness me, you go that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to school in an elegant building which used to be get mixed up with a button factorybad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, and your house the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is full of giraffes, ostriches and badgers - stuffedBen, of course - then the odds are that you'll end up on some kind son of adventure. And if your grandparents happen to be a famous explorers magician who've managed has ambitions to get themselves lost on an iceberg in Antarctica then your particular mission is pretty well handed to yoube as good as his father some day, wrapped up neatly with a big bow and a label on top saying 'quest starts here'. All you have to do who thinks Miss Judson is work out the fine details and set off. Easy-peasy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008149399</amazonuk>worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elen CaldecottChristopher Edge|title=Crowns and Codebreakers Black Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Minnie's not too keen on sharing her already tiny room with her gran when she arrives from Nigeria. However, worries about floor space Lucas and how to open the wardrobe door his friends are quickly replaced by more serious concerns. Gran is upset. She picked up the wrong suitcase all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the airport and shenickname of 's convinced itThe Black Hole's a bad omen. And it almost seems like she All big movie fans, they's right when their flat is burgled re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the only thing movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is taken is the suitcase. The police arenvery different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't interested but Minnie and her friends know there must be a reason behind even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the burglary. There's a mystery cinema, and it's up to them to solve it. their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408852713</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shel SilversteinAdam Stower|title=Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot BackMurray and Bun

|summary=Meet Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the finest shooter wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the worldevening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. NoEli lives with his lovely gran, not one of those hunterstoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, who go Eli's parents were both lost to Africa and kill off all the wonderful wildlife theretitular race, but Lafcadio. He's a lion, and his real name might globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have been something more like ''Ruggrrg'' or ''Grummfgff'', to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but one day when a hunter was about bad incident at the eatery leads to shoot at him (with an unloaded rifle)a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he ate most hates, with the sole aim the hunter and picked prize of magic at the gun up to try out end – then carried on shooting until he was the world's best, standing on only thing to possibly save his head or with paws tied behind his backgran. His new life gives him a new name, but is that really what he would have wanted as a young lion cub?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690824</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)Helen Cooper|title=Once Upon a PlaceThe Taming of the Cat

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=You know the bit of the blurb on every ''Artemis Fowl'' bookOnce again, where Eoin Colfer had it said about how you pronounce his name? mice are pitched against cat. That wasn't In this case, principally, we have Brie the intention of an mouse, up-against Gorgonzola the cat – and-coming author to be recognisable; ratherin case you're seeing a connection, it was pride. Pride they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the difference of it, of names used here seem to be the Irishness names of itcheeses. Ireland, it seems to meAnyway, Brie is more full than usual of peopleshunned, things scorned and ideas, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and places makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that are different by dint of their singular nationality – story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and so many deserve cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to have pride attached tell stories to themkeep themselves alive. The places might not be This makes Brie the famous ones, but they can be top dog in the source of pridemouse community, and of storiesthough, which is where this compilation of short works for as all the young comes in, with others had the authors invited chance to select their chosen place and write about 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>191041137X</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris O'Dowd and Nick Vincent MurphyLauren St John|title=Moone Boy 2: The Fish DetectiveFinding Wonder

|summary=Christmas is coming, and Martin MooneRoo's family are on a strict budgetlife has become almost impossibly difficult. Placed Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in charge the middle of finding 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 a Christmas tree Martinshe has, she can only name her aunt, actuallyJoni, is more worried about how hewho she knows her dad didn'll ever manage t think very highly of. But she has no one else, and so off she goes to get a Game Boylive with her unreliable aunt. He decides Things continue to get himself 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Oscar's Lion|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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 job but couple of coursetimes before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, being Martinall he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that he canwon't get himself 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 bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the usual paper roundother month. NoAnd it can shapeshift, Martin Moone becomes so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a butcherproblem. And it's boy!wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447270975</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin Colfer and Victor AmbrusJudith Eagle|title=The Seal's Fate (Colour Conker) Stolen Songbird

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Bobby Parrish was reluctant Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to admit that the seal was cutereturn home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, even is having to himselfgo up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. That sort of thing was for girls So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and he was here to club the sealworried. Seals were affecting his fatherAll her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's livelihood 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 fisherman and there was a bounty painting of a £1 for bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a sealfearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's flipper: mother? Is she somehow involved in those days that was good money and even one of the girls had collected the cashmystery too?|isbn=0571363148}}{{Frontpage|author=Tania Unsworth|title=Nowhere Island|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Gil. StillJust twelve, somehow he couldn't quite bring is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a home for himself . He is en route to attack the defenceless cubyet another fosterer, all bigwhen he jumps into an anonymous car, black, round eyes and obviously unworried by lets it ride him to his presencefuture. What would That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the other lads say though? two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. Them, and a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfully. More to the pointOver a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, what or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would his father say?not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124310</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo Helen Peters|title=Friends and Catherine RaynerTraitors|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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 girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=1788004647}}{{Frontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=Clare and Her Captain (Colour Conker)Arkspire

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Clare didn't enjoy the journey down Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to Devonbe chalk and cheese. Her parents always argued Juniper is an eager hunter and it was usually because Mum had lost her way or got caught trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in a traffic jam and this time she'd done boththe Badlands. It was a little better when they got Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child in line to Aunt Dora's houseinherit the power of the Watcher, but Aunt Dora wasn't exactly a peacemaker and tended the closest to stick up for Dad against everybody else. The holiday improved when Clare got out for a walk on her own ruler the district has, and discovered a stray lamb on one of the roadfive major victors in said earlier war. She took it to Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the nearest house and Mr Jones was delighted: Clare had just saved half his flockwhole family. Clare got on with the old man - and with his horseBut in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, Captain.very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124353</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Richards and Dan Green024162343X|title=Doctor Who: The Dangerous Book of MonstersStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=ItMeet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when she's imperative you keep up with The Doctorbeing told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Suddenly, in both senses practically everything electronic stops working – meaning in case a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the first thing he tells you to do is school''Run!'' and s in but the sense of following entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all his various adventures and maintaining knowledge of whatthat powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what and who he's faced, enemy-wisehas happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. One great way And so she begins her epic quest, to be enemy wise is to peruse this book, which really is a great present for gather all the young fan people that can steal it back – and of course a life-saving manual for when you yourself find sharks namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the fogGods, gasie the semi-mask wearing boys ''sans'' their mothers or indeed gigantic Cyberking dreadnought spacecraft. Honestlydeities, giants, why this is classed half-gods and so on known as a fiction title I have no idea…the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405920033</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Renee RussellHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Puppy Love (Dork Diaries)Finding Bear|rating=4.5

|summary=Things have changed drastically in the world of Nikki Maxwell[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], 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. Her arch nemesis has suddenly upped sticks and moved school – wellBack home, things on the posher place will only suit her well. Nikki now has domestic and family front are a sort of empty feelingbit advanced, though – nobody is there to make but not perfect for her feel pestered, let down, het up and stressedso can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. Although something is about to do just that For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and more – the discovery, outside the sanctuary her crush volunteers at, of an abandoned mother dog with her seven puppieswounded. Looking after them until the place even has space for the new arrivals is going Desperate to fill make sure he's OK, she and her father return to the Arctic and hope that in a world for the next few days of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the adventure is going to be just as readable as all the other books in this seriesfriendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471144577</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt HaigSimon Fox|title=A Boy Called Christmas Deadlock

|summary= Have you ever wondered what Father Christmas was like as boy? How Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he came fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to live in smell the whiff of Southern trains when the Far North surrounded by elves? Where father is arrested, leaving Archie on the idea for giving presents came late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from? Why he wears his colleagues, and the bearer of a red hat? If youwhole heap of questions.|isbn=1839944420}}{{Frontpage|author=Cath Howe|title=My Life on Fire|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ren're interested 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 these questionsher special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, then and now she is living at her grandmother'A Boy Called Christmass house where they can' is t touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the perfect book for youclass 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178211789X</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander YatesRob Keeley|title=The Winter PlaceBoy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|summary=Axel and Tess live in rural New York state with a father obsessed with mediaeval reconstructions. They have a knight for a fatherHooray! This eccentricity Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is both entertaining and back with a good thing - because Sam is return to the only parental figure in their lives. Axel and Tess's mother died when Axel was born. Tess is just moving into oppositional adolescence. She and Sam enjoy sparring over the care of Axelshort story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, who has inherited a rare form of muscular dystrophy from each as fun to read as his late mother. Axel is, well, an individual child, currently haunted by a mischievous wheelchair only he can see. The pesky thing follows him everywhereprevious offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471123839</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ted Hughes Laura Noakes|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in the outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059}}{{Frontpage|author=Alice M Ross|title=The Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the ability to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and Andrew Davidsonthe buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, is the answer, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769}}{{Frontpage|author=Natasha Farrant|title=The Iron ManRescue of Ravenwood

|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Where had he come from? Nobody knows.Voyage of the Sparrowhawk'' . But's it obvious ''when'' Ravenwood is an old house, in the Iron Man came from – it really does smack North of the beginnings England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of the environmental movement in the two decades after WWIItheir lives. There's the nuclear element to the storyThey are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, which as Bea is certainly therewith her Uncle Leo, even if I can never be sure whether that and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the title character or cove, roaming through the other trees, completely at one that turns up for with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the second halfplace. But at now the same timehouse is under threat, there as Leo is also under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the idea that such property to a book doesndeveloper as it't really need s becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be analysedtogether, explained away and diminished thusly, when it provides some of the most enjoyable, clear and simple yet highly emotive writing for the young audience, that has made it a classic since its inceptionif Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571327249</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna Starobinets, Andrzej Klimowski Robin Birch and Jane Bugaeva (translator)Jobe Anderson|title=CatlantisSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street

|summary=Meet Baguette. Despite the name, heJayden's nose is forever in a cat living in central Moscowbook, with which means he knows a human family, on lot about mythological creatures – the twelfth floor phoenixes and unicorns of a high-risethe world, for example. His place Aisha is addicted to perch her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is somehow between the two panes that make up a high window, half in and half they are never 'out of the roomthere' themselves, watching exploring the outside world and its birds go byof Hackney, London. But therewhen a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a part to that magical world he knows nothing about – the whole mythology of cats and catlifethey never knew existed. Cats had possession For many of their own land, Catlantisthose mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a place suitable for such sacred creatures to existbit of local footage. Flowers gave them extra livesThe crew of the boat, up to including a maximum of nineliving gargoyle, just by you sniffing them. But all that is in are tasked with saving the past rare critters – and that's where Baguette must go, for the whole future of catdom hangs in kids unknowingly have the balance of him going back magical sight needed to right wrongs, and find what was long forgotten about both his and everyone else's destinyjoin in. And all he wants is Dare they side with Leila, the paw of his sweetheart woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in marriage. You might think you know the lengths to which a cat will go for lovepainting, but you won't have read and become saviours of the likes of this…unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690883</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph GarrettB09XWSXSKY|title=Stampy's Lovely BookMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating=34|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=If you still think Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of Stampy as the elephant 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'The Simpsons's ten now and all those old clocks don', you need t appeal to get with ithim anymore.  ''Who needs old clocks anyway? For one thing, TV All they do is so last century – now ittell the time. And time isn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. It was nearly twelve o's all about Minecraft and other computer game worlds, and often second-screening between different new media clock but at midnight the same timeclock chimed only six times. So why does this book from a Youtube star of Minecraft tasks, pranks and other activities, remind me of a certain TV programme that used to invite us There was nothing for it but to turn off go and do something more active insteadfind grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281561</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca SteadNigel Baines|title=Goodbye StrangerA Tricky Kind of Magic

|genre=TeensEmerging Readers|summary= The book opens with a prologue about an eight year old Bridget Barsamian, who woke up in hospital following a horrific and life threatening traffic accident involving roller skates and New York trafficCooper loves to perform magic tricks. Bridget is told by His father was a nurse that she is lucky to be alive magician, and that she must have survived named Cooper after the accident for a reasongreat Tommy Cooper. BridgetBut sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who has no real memory of the accident, has to miss a year of school and on her returnbe, tells everyone she now wants or how to be known as Bridge, as. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''I donreally't feel like Bridget anymore'doesn'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443197</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Hans Christian Andersen, Lucie Arnoux and Misha Hoekstra (translator)|title=The Snow Queen|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=t know what''Listen closelys going on anymore! We're about to begin.'' Once upon a time, the devil created a hellish mirror, which only showed evil, ill intent and ugliness, and which was en route to Heaven to cast a new light on it when it shattered. One of the people affected by the numerous shards was Kai, who abandoned his childhood friend Gerda, and went off with the Snow Queen. Gerda was forlorn and fearing for his life, but soon found her way to start a miraculous journey to find the truth behind his disappearance and behaviour…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691030</amazonuk>1444960261