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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tina NolanMax Boucherat|title=Animal RescueThe 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: The Unwanted PuppyHero Trial

|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''Animal Magic'' s seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of those places which just shouldn't be questors is needed. ItPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's an animal rescue centre and they take ll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in abandonedactually managing that, lost and neglected animalshow 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, nurse them back often replacing jobs they're paid to health do and then find good homes for themother tasks that took time to accomplish. It's run by Mark Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and Heidi Harrison (Heidi's a vet) starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along with their two children, Karl came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and Eva, who live at the rescue centre along with their parentsit, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. The centre He is bullied because he has two rules - they never put any animal to sleep who '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 chance of regaining health cash-in- hand job on a building site and Karl had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and Eva dad are separated, and Will''not'' 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 get the idea moments of joy when he is drawing, that they can keep any feel like a light at the end of the animals on a permanent basislong, dark tunnel. If they did the house would be overrun!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156797</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1805141872|title=The Secret Life of Daisy FitzjohnTeacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Tania UnsworthRob Keeley

|summary=Daisy Fitzjohn lives with her mother in the crumbling but grand Brightwood Hall''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The house police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is full of antiques really a safecracker! With police and treasures her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and hoardings - because Daisy's mother does like to hoard - and Daisy is rarely at a loss Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for something to look at or investigateone last job.. Which is just as well, because Daisy has never gone outside the house and its grounds. We understand why Daisy's mother keeps her secluded - she's terrified of loss because of  Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a family tragedy in her own childhood. Despite this, Daisy has terror! How on earth did a loving relationship with nice teacher like her mum and makes manage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the isolation by developing friendships: with pupil who discovers her pet ratterrible secret is Ben, with the peacocks and rabbits in the gardensson of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and also with paintings and topiary and other creatures of her imagination, all in the knowledge that she's being kept safe from The Crazy that once ran in her family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010263</amazonuk>who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave Rudden Christopher Edge|title=Knights of the Borrowed Dark Black Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Denizen Hardwick has spent the last eleven years – since he was two – at Crosscaper orphanage. He knows nothing about his family and Murray issupposed to be a humble, thereforetidy and friendly cat, surprised when he's suddenly summoned one who is able to visit an Aunt he didn't know he had. This issleep and eat and eat and sleep and, howeverwell, only whatever takes his fancy next of the first of many surprisestwo. Before But he even arrives at his Aunt's house, Denizena bad magician's world is abruptly cat, so his favourite bun has been turned upside down as he's introduced to into a hidden world of shadows hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and an unseen enemy in the form of catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the Tenebrae. He soon discovers he has hidden powers regular back garden, but is he prepared for the cost into a world of using frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them? Is into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he prepared to join the Knights of the Borrowed Dark? Does 's turned up and he really 'll have a choice?to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014135660X</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amber Lee DoddAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=We Are Giants The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Nine year old Sydney Goodrow Eli is small for her age 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 she wants to stay that wayruns. Her mum Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is only 124cm tall and her dada generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, when he was aliveEli's parents were both lost to the titular race, wasn't much tallera globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. Despite This has made the challenges it can causerace anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Sydney Eli knows that being little his only hope is special and that's why she tries hard to dare to enter what he most hates, with her regular 'shrinking exercises'. However, despite her best efforts, she can't help growing taller and growing upthe sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784294217</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Eliza RoseHelen Cooper|authortitle=Lucy WorsleyThe Taming of the Cat|rating=43.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=ElizaOnce again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you's family isn't as wealthy as it once was. And she is well aware that her duty is to marry well re seeing a connection, they live in order a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to repair be the Camperdowne fortunesnames of cheeses. To this end Anyway, Eliza Brie is sent from her family home at Stoneton Castle to Trumpton Hallshunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, to be educated in for the way his habits don't match the ways of noble ladiesother mice he lives with. Here, she meets They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the infamous Katherine Howard while she too is still a young girlvisuals on it. And from therethat story-telling will come in handy one night, itwhen he feels all alone and cast out. It's on almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the Tudor court of Henry VIIItop dog in the mouse community, though, who is currently married as all the others had the chance to Anne of Cleveshalf-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>1408869438</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Peter Jay BlackLauren St John|title= Urban Outlaws Counterstrike|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Thought the previous three books in this excellent series were heart-stopping? Reckon there's no way the tension could be ratcheted up any higher? Well hang on tight, brave reader, because this book's going to make you forget to eat, sleep, do your homework and (unless you're very, very careful) breathe, even. It's epic!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408851490</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alan MacDonald and David Roberts|title=Fame! (Dirty Bertie)Finding Wonder

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Book eleventy-thump in this seriesRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and there is still no let-up now she finds herself awoken in the situations middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that Dirty Bertie 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 be clumsy inonly name her aunt, have a naughty approach aboutJoni, or be accident-prone throughoutwho she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. And while these three short stories may not be everyday circumstancesBut she has no one else, they have a universal recognition for the very young target audience – probably the seven-and so off she goes to-tenslive with her unreliable aunt. So we have Bertie successfully apply for a part in a TV presentation – only Things continue to find it crosses a line; we see him get taken fishingworse for Roo, only for him to be bored as when she and therefore naughty (and therefore successfulJoni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of course); nowhere and we 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…then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156665</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom HuddlestoneAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=The Nest (Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space)Oscar's Lion|rating=43

|summary=The risk continuesWe 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. Having faced great danger in their search for knowledge about But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their kidnappedbed, explorer parentslooking sheepish, Milo and Lina admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are tracking benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a rebellious radio broadcastbirthday party for Oscar the other month. But once again you And it can probably bet your life on their quest taking them into great dangershapeshift, so he can take it to school and in it can get him out of a mysterious world of bizarrely crashed spacecraft problem. And it's wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and wild lifeso on. OK, danger is certainly around…it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140527994X</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cavan ScottJudith Eagle|title=The Snare (Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space)Stolen Songbird

|summary=Milo Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and Lina worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are used brought to haring around the universea halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, but never quite like this… who is living there too. They have seen their parents kidnapped by the EmpireBut she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, in need as she discovers a painting of the adultsa bird hidden away inside her mum' knowledge from exploring as scientists in s old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Wild Space areaSnakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. They are hastening Is the painting somehow linked to the watery planet Thune gang? And what has happened to seek help, but unknown to them, they may be heading not so much away from Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the fire but towards a right frying-pan…mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405279931</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M G LeonardTania Unsworth|title=Beetle BoyNowhere Island|rating=4.5

|summary= When Darkus's dad disappears from a locked room in the Natural History MuseumMeet Gil. Just twelve, everyone's desperate he is so determined to discover what happenedescape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a home for himself. However He is en route to yet another fosterer, when no clues are foundhe jumps into an anonymous car, the police and lets it ride him to his future. 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 newspapers rapidly lose interest two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and Darkus is left definitely ignored enough to solve the mysteryprovide for their safety and seclusion. Luckily Them, he has some very special friends to help himand a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfully. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002704</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rachel DelahayeHelen Peters|title= Jim Reaper Son of GrimFriends and Traitors|rating= 43|genre= Confident Readers|summary= It's England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the age-old storycountry pile called Stanbrook. Boy (Jim) fancies older girl One is Nancy, destined to be in a distantservice all her life it seems, can't-talk-to-like the female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-withouttoity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-dribbling sort of waypaths. Naturally The girls are chalk and cheese, Jim wonand if we hadn't discuss this guessed that then their behaviour with his best friend Will Maggot because by some evil twist of fate, the girl each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is Will's sisteramiss, and everybody knows sisters are definitely off limits. Not that Fiona's given him any encouragement: first separately and then in fact combination they realise the only time she speaks to either Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of them secrecy, talk is when she's pointing out what losers they are.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848124872</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=A A Milne and E H Shepard|title=The House at Pooh Corner|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=The title made of the book comes from the first storymeetings with Germans, in which Winnie and Piglet build not only that, a house at Pooh corner for Eeyore, but perhaps the most famous story in this second book is at chapter six, when the game of Pooh Sticks is inventedlocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. We also meet Tigger for But surely the first time and as with the first book [[Winnie-the-Pooh by A A Milne and E H Shepard|Winnie-the-Pooh]] each chapter is a short story in its own rightgirls are wrong, except for chapters eight and nine which have a degree of continuity as Owl's house is blown down in chapter eight and a new one is found for him at the Wolery in chapter nine. It's still not overly long even if you end up reading both as a bedtime story!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 But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she was about her mother 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 was one thought uppermost is new stock in Anna's mind: the bestimpoverished yet over-trained horse on 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 ranch - ability to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the one that was worth sea levels are rising dramatically and the most money - was Blue Moonbuildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. Anna could not bear With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, is the thought of losing answer, but the animal who had known her since she was two years old. She and Lee came up with fact a plan.mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125082</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean UreNatasha Farrant|title=Strawberry CrushThe Rescue of Ravenwood

|summary=Mattie has sometimes felt that she has her work cut out with her cousin Maya. MayaThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of 's mum and Mattie's mum are twins and they live around Voyage of the corner from each other, but MayaSparrowhawk''s mum . Ravenwood isan old house, wellin the North of England, just where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a bit fragile and Uncle Kevincomplex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her dadUncle Leo, is absent at the moment and no one knows where he Raffy is. All that would be enough to cope there withhis mum, but Maya has ''crushes''and they are living together as a family. WellThey have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, ''crushes'' doesn't do what happens justice: it really amounts to obsession and a new completely at one starts when Maya falls off her bike (not unusual) with all of the nature around the house and is 'rescued' by Jake Harper, loving every inch of the school heart throbplace. What deeply worries Mattie But now the house is that Maya under threat, as Leo is twelve under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's becoming more and Jake is eighteen and there are occasions, as Mattie listens more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to Mayalive, when she wonders but if something really they''is'' going onll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down. Or is it all in Maya's over-active imagination? What should Mattie do?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000755396X</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cas LesterRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title= Wilfred the (Un)WiseSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Back Jayden's nose is forever in Ye Olden Days young Wilfred lands himself a dream apprenticeship training book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – learning how the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a wizard under past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the instruction one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of Wincewart local footage. The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. Dare they side with Leila, the Witheringwoman on board, Castle Mage and Soothsayer her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of Wallop the unseen?|isbn=0241573483}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09XWSXSKY|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 the Woldhis mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. But learning He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's ten now and all those old clocks don'magikt appeal to him anymore. '' Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the time. And time isn't easy and things can good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to go drastically and hilariously wrong – like accidentally transporting himself one thousand years into the future, find grandad - but where was he meets a girl called Bel who ? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?}}{{Frontpage|author=Nigel Baines|title=A Tricky Kind of Magic|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Cooper loves doing to perform magic tricks herself. His father was a 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 ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848124643</amazonuk>1444960261