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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan MacDonald Max Boucherat|title=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 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|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, 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 trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet 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 David Robertsother 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=Tom Percival|title=FameThe Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He 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 building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1805141872|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! (Dirty Bertie)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}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Book eleventy-thump in this seriesMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and there friendly cat, one who is still no let-up in the situations that Dirty Bertie can be clumsy inable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, have a naughty approach aboutwell, or be accident-prone throughoutwhatever takes his fancy next of the two. And while these three short stories may not be everyday circumstancesBut he's a bad magician's cat, they have so his favourite bun has been turned into a universal recognition for hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the very young target audience – probably catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the seven-to-tensregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. So we have Bertie successfully apply for This time round it drops them into a part in Viking land, where a TV presentation troll hunter is expected – only to find it crosses a line; we see him get taken fishingwell, one much bigger than Murray was, only for him to be bored and therefore naughty (and therefore successfulhonest, of course); but he's turned up and we he'll have him and his friends trying to play as Robin Hood, only to find the sharing-out bit that normally follows the robbing just that bit too hard…do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156665</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom HuddlestoneAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Nest (Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space)Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=The risk continuesEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Having faced great danger Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in their search for knowledge about their kidnappedthe family. A few short years ago, explorer Eli's parentswere both lost to the titular race, Milo and Lina are tracking a rebellious radio broadcastglobe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. But once This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Cooper|title=The Taming of the Cat|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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 can probably bet your life on their quest taking them into great danger're seeing a connection, and they live in a mysterious world cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of bizarrely crashed spacecraft cheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and wild life, danger is certainly around…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 makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to 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>140527994X</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cavan ScottLauren St John|title=The Snare (Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space)Finding Wonder

|summary=Milo Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and Lina are used 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 haring around the universecorner 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, but never quite like this… and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. They have seen their parents kidnapped by the EmpireThings continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in need of the adultsJoni' knowledge from exploring as scientists s old campervan, it breaks down in the Wild Space areamiddle 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 couple of times before he has to be ready for school. They But when he enters his 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 hastening benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the watery planet Thune bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to seek help, but unknown school and it can get him out of a problem. And it's wonderful to themhave around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, they may be heading not so being much away from more lax about the fire rules, and so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but towards it can give Oscar a right frying-pan…wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405279931</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M G LeonardJudith Eagle|title=Beetle BoyThe Stolen Songbird|rating=54

|summary= When DarkusCaro's dad disappears 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? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a locked room halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in the Natural History Museuma mystery, everyoneas she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's desperate to discover what happened. Howeverold suitcase, when no clues and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are found, the police thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the newspapers rapidly lose interest and Darkus is left painting somehow linked to solve the mystery. Luckily, he gang? And what has some very special friends happened to help him.Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002704</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rachel DelahayeTania Unsworth|title= Jim Reaper Son of GrimNowhere Island|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= It's the age-old storyMeet Gil. Boy (Jim) fancies older girl 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 find a distanthome for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, can't-talk-and lets it ride him to his future. That future seems to-her-without-dribbling sort be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of way. Naturally, Jim won't discuss this belongings – but that someone lives with his best friend Will Maggot because by some evil twist brother in a camp on an island between the two directions of fatea motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. Them, the and a mute girl is Will's sisteralso finding a home there, and everybody knows sisters are definitely off limitsalbeit so much more successfully. Not that Fiona's given him any encouragement: in fact the only time she speaks to either of them Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is when she's pointing out what losers they are.one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848124872</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A A Milne and E H ShepardHelen Peters|title=The House at Pooh CornerFriends and Traitors|rating=53|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=The title of England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the book comes from the first storycountry pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in which Winnie and Piglet build a house at Pooh corner for Eeyoreservice all her life it seems, but perhaps like the most famous story in this second book female generations before her. The other is at chapter sixSidney, when the game of Pooh Sticks is inventeda girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. We also meet Tigger for the first time The girls are chalk and cheese, and as if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with the each other over their first book [[Winnie-the-Pooh by A A Milne and E H Shepard|Winnie-the-Pooh]] each chapter encounters would only prove it so. But something is a short story in its own rightamiss, except for chapters eight and nine which have first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a degree rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of continuity as Owl's house secrecy, talk is blown down in chapter eight made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a new one is found for him at the Wolery in chapter ninelocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. It's still not overly long even if you end up reading both as a bedtime story!But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405280840</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neil Griffiths and Janette LoudenJamie Littler|title=The Dog with No NameArkspire

|summary=Ella Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and Harry had been nagging their parents ''forever'' about trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting a dogcloser to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, but it wasn't until after perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the death power of the goldfish ''and'' Watcher, the Russian hamster, which they'd only seen five times because it was nocturnal, that their parents relented. Off they went closest to a ruler the dog rescue centre and after what seemed like ''ages'' district has, and lots one of red tape they had their very own dogthe five major victors in said earlier war. He'd not been Being trained in the centre long and had no name but magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family fell . But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for him and brought him home.good, or for very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908702249</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Colgan024162343X|title=Polly and the PuffinStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Polly I was in bed when there was LOUD bang from downstairsthe bad company other people got into at school. It wasnI was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 't the storm which was raging outside. It wasngod't a monster or an alien from outer space. It Where was a puffin who had crashed through the front door and he had a broken wingproof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. PollyNot too long after the end of WWII, I didn's mummy got the first aid kit out whilst Polly went t so much want to get learn about the puffin some food British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the next day they went colonies' as want to see dispute what right the vet. By then Polly army had decided that the puffin would to be called Neil and there in the vet asked her if she would be able to look after Neil until his wing first place. Looking back, I still believe I was better, on right - but I regret that I lacked the strict understanding that he would then have to return maturity to approach 'the wildproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349131902</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Betty G BirneyThiago de Moraes|title=Spring According to HumphreyOld Gods New Tricks

|summary=SpringMeet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, of all thingslarks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, is she could almost be thought a dead endyoung goddess of nuisance. The classBut just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, given the homework task world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of finding signs of springelectric cars, are hits not just failing and failing, what with the bad weather. And nobody can come up with any useful ideas for the class theme at town the school's Family Fun Dayin but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, as being clowns has been nicked by someone elseand all that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake). How can a humble classroom pet hamster help everyone and everything Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – especially when he has been gazumped himself? For the very child tasked with looking after Humphrey for ancient Gods have taken the weekend has been sent a package containing what is alleged power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to be a sign of spring gather all the people that can steal it back – although to our hero namely the two tiny tadpoles characters from myth that have past form in a tank look like two specks in gunk…stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571284183</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emer StampHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=The Seriously Extraordinary Diary of PigFinding Bear

|summary=Hello. I is very happy to be giving a positive verdict on a third adventure for Pig, who speaks Pig, his best friend Duck, who speaks Pig but in a Duck font, and their best friend Cow who speaks bad. This time the Chickens who was the evil ones is not hardly even mentioned, and the Cat that scared Pig and everyone else in [[The Super Amazing Adventures of Me, Pig Last Bear by Emer StampHannah Gold|his second bookLast time]] is barely thought of, April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but there is another bad character to make up for itdelightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. But first I is having to report that Pig Back home, things on the domestic and Cow and Duck family front are making a big trouble bit advanced, but not perfect for themselvesher, which is causing them to try and save so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the day islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and by mistake making the bad character notice Cowwounded. And when I tells you the big trouble happens because Cow tries Desperate to hide Cow on the Farmermake sure he's roof you will knows just what OK, she and her father return to the Arctic and hope that in a silly diary this series isworld of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407153226</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil Earle and Sara OgilvieSimon Fox|title=Superhero StreetDeadlock

|summary=Having really enjoyed Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the first book about the children on Storey streetforce, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, [[Demolition Dad by Phil Earle and Sara Ogilvie]] I was looking forward to this follow upjoin him on the run. This time They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the focus father is arrested, leaving Archie on Mouse who lives in the late express to Brighton, toting a rather manic household since after having Mouse his mother had twin boys, and then triplets! Whilst tin his father is exhausted was determined to keep away from trying to earn a living as a magician, his mother iscolleagues, as you can imagine, run ragged with all and the children, and Mouse feels rather neglected. Mouse has bearer of a secret means whole heap of escape, however, because he leads an imaginary double life and his secret identity is Mouse the Mighty! But what happens when he is forced to become a hero in real life?questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444013882</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Abi ElphinstoneCath Howe|title=The Shadow KeeperMy Life on Fire|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Moll Ren's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and the rest her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her tribe have been forced to move special little knick-knacks from the ancient forest her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they are now hidden in a secret cave by can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the seafoods they normally eat. They must find When she goes back to school she discovers that the secret amulet class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of truth their lives, to display things that are important to overcome the evil Shadowmasks them and show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to achieve this they must slip past fierce smugglersput in a box, defeat horrific creatures and solve challenging cluesso she finds herself starting to steal things. The threats mount and their courage is tested as Moll and her loyal wildcat Gryff Small things, things that people might not really miss, together with not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her friends Alfie and Sid battle to find the amulet before it if someone finds out what she is too late. doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122700</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny OldfieldRob Keeley|title=Blue MoonThe Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Anna thought that life was just about perfect. She was home-schooled for much of the time, but spent quite a lot of time riding her horse, Blue Moon, Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with her friend Lee and his horse, Stormy. There was even a secret meadow which return to the two twelve-year olds used short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to visit. Then one eveningeleven new tales, Anna dashed in late for supper at the ranch and realised that something was wrong - badly wrong. Anna's mother had a tumour in her stomach which would require surgery. As if that wasn't bad enough, her father was going each as fun to have to sell some of the horses to pay for the surgery. Worried read as she was about her mother there was one thought uppermost in Anna's mind: the best-trained horse on the ranch - and the one that was worth the most money - was Blue Moon. Anna could not bear the thought of losing the animal who had known her since she was two years old. She and Lee came up with a planhis previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125082</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny OldfieldLaura Noakes|title=Blue MoonCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Anna thought that life was Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just about perfectCos to her friends. She was The practice in the home-schooled she lives in is for much of the time, but spent quite a lot of time riding her horse, Blue Moongirls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with her friend Lee and his horsedisabilities, Stormyuncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. There was even But Cosima bears the tag as a secret meadow which surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the two twelve-year olds used to visit. Then one eveningfirst ever inmate, Anna dashed and unique in having no known family in late for supper at the ranch and realised that something was wrong - badly wrongoutside world. Anna's mother had During a tumour in her stomach which would require surgery. As if that wasn't bad enoughdaring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, her father was going she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to have want to sell some of adopt all the horses to pay girls for the surgeryhis Institute. Worried as she was about her mother there was one thought uppermost in Anna's mind: the best-trained horse on the ranch - But why, and the one what does that was worth the most money - was Blue Moon. body entail? Anna And could not bear it possibly bring Cos closer to the thought of losing the animal who had known her since past she was two years old. She and Lee came up has so little link with a plan.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125082</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean UreAlice M Ross|title=Strawberry CrushThe Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5

|summary=Mattie has sometimes felt that 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 her work cut out with her cousin Mayastolen it. Maya's mum and Mattie's mum are twins and they live around the corner She also knows she should be free from each otherworries about being found out, but Maya's mum isbecause she has the ability to leave this world, welland use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, just a bit fragile where the sea levels are rising dramatically and Uncle Kevin, her dad, is absent at the moment buildings are generally empty of humans and no one knows where he isripe for plunder. All that would be enough to cope withWith eviction imminent, but Maya has ''crushes''. Well, ''crushes'' doesn't do what happens justice: it really amounts can Elsbeth nab anything to obsession and a new one starts when Maya falls off her bike (not unusual) and is 'rescued' by Jake Harper, actually generate custom at the school heart throb. shop? What deeply worries Mattie is that Maya is twelve and Jake is eighteen and there are occasionsWell yes, as Mattie listens to Maya, when she wonders if something really ''is'' going on. Or is it all in Maya's over-active imagination? What should Mattie do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000755396X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cas Lester|title= Wilfred the (Un)Wise|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Back in Ye Olden Days young Wilfred lands himself a dream apprenticeship training – learning how to be a wizard under the instruction of Wincewart the Witheringanswer, Castle Mage and Soothsayer of Wallop in but the Wold. But learning ''magik'' isn't easy and things can go drastically and hilariously wrong – like accidentally transporting himself one thousand years into the future, where he meets fact a girl called Bel who loves doing magic tricks herself.mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848124643</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah RubinNatasha Farrant|title= Alice Jones: The Impossible Clue|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= She's a bit of a loner, and she'd definitely prefer to work on proving an obscure theorem or two than spend time with the rest of her class. Still, the fact remains that Alice is rocket-science brainy, she's as determined as a hungry chimp in a banana shop, and she has the dry droll wit of the old fedora-wearing gumshoes of yesteryear. Look out bad guys, there's a new detective in town, and she won't give up till you're sporting a shiny pair Rescue of regulation handcuffs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910002860</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=A A Milne and E H Shepard|title=Winnie-the-PoohRavenwood

|summary=Is there anyone who doesnThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''t know about Winnie-Voyage of the-Pooh? Sparrowhawk''. You might know him as Pooh Bear Ravenwood is an old house, in the North of England, where Bea and even if you haven't read the stories you'll know about playing Pooh Sticks or The Bear Raffy have been living for most of Very Little Braintheir lives. This first book about the bearThey are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, originally published and they are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in 1926the cove, has been translated into numerous languageroaming through the trees, including Latin - completely at one with all of the nature around the house and that edition featured on loving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it''New York Times'' bestseller lists becoming more and more expensive to maintain. ItThe children find themselves worrying not only about where they's difficult re going to believe that Pooh will live, but if they'll even be ninety in October 2016together, not least because he's ageless and the books which feature him are not in the least datedif Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405280832</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Hamish Robin Birch and the NeverpeopleJobe Anderson|authortitle=Danny WallaceSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=4.5

|summary=Ok. You may know this already but Hamish recently [[Hamish Jayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and the Worldstoppers by Danny Wallace|saved unicorns of the world]], for example. And now he Aisha is about addicted to meet the Prime Ministerher new tablet, who wants to say thank you. Very much. But things don't quite go to planwhere she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The Prime Minister appears to have gone quite mad. Something about pants. And one by oneproblem, people start following him. Before he knows as their mothers see it, Hamish is pulled right into that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the thick outside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a second threat to humanityscience-minded, educational purpose, this time and with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the Neverpeopleone Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The same Neverpeople he's been told his father was helping during his personal battle against evilcrew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are 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>147112391X</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09XWSXSKY|title=Simon Thorn Maestro Orpheus and the Wolf's DenWorld Clock|author=Aimee CarterRobert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|summary=Simon Thorn doesnFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't see sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in his mother oftenmind. Instead, It happened every time he lives with came to visit his Uncle Darrell in his small New York apartmentgrandfather. But He hadn't really wanted to be honestcome; after all, an unusual family structure is the least of Simonhe's worries. Simon has a secret: he can talk to animals. You might think this to be a singular talent ten now and something all those old clocks don't appeal to be happy abouthim anymore. But Simon ''s ability makes him relate to animals differently to other children and, as we all know, any kind of difference Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is like a red rag to bulliestell the time. And time isn't good for anything... '' And Simon is firmly on that was why he was looking at the clock beside the radar of bed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the school bulliesclock chimed only six times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858010</amazonuk> There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo Cotterill and Cathy BrettNigel Baines|title= ElectrigirlA Tricky Kind of Magic|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Emerging Readers|summary= Holly Sparkes is an ordinary 11-year-old schoolgirlCooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, until she is struck by a mysterious bolt of lightning and then everything changes and she becomes extraordinary! Just like one of named Cooper after the characters in her brothergreat Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's much loved comics Holly has developed superpowers. Holly can generate a massive amount of electricity in secondsfather died suddenly, a skill that can, as Holly discoversand now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, cause mayhem unless she can learn or how to control itbe. Her brother Joe, an expert in these things, decides to become her mentor and together they resolve to use Holly And when his dad's new powers prop rabbit starts talking to good effect. They get the opportunity sooner than they expect with the arrival in their town of the company CyberSky and the sinister Professor Macavity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192743554</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Whelan|title=The Box of Demons|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Ben Robson. He is haunted by owning a Box of Demonshim, which like those TV-advertised DIY liquids, does exactly he ''really'' doesn't know what it says 's going on the tin. It contains three demons, of different kinds, that have hampered his concentration at school, caused no end of mischief he has had to take the blame for, and may even have had something to do with his mother being incarcerated in a special hospital. But is that all it contains? The demons, as naughty as they might be – where do they sit in the grand scheme of things, and where as a result might Ben end up, if the forces of good and evil choose now (a wet and stormy February), and here (North Wales) to have it out once and for all?anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447273737</amazonuk>1444960261