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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim SlaterMax Boucherat|title=A Seven-Letter WordThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Finlay has We meet Lori on the first evening she's got more than one PROBLEMthe house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. He lives alone with his fatherWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, who chain-smokes in between trips out to do odd jobs for peopleshe has one main intention, and seems that is to have reduced his worth log on to just one recipe since his wifeVoxminer, the world-building, Finlaycritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's motherworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, vanished two years agoand then she finds something even more spooky. Things are still bitter with him – he says For the server she might as well and her bestie and nobody else should be dead – but the issue manifests itself badly with Finlay, and he has grown into suffering quite a severe STUTTER, which leads able to no end enter shows signs of TEASING at schooltampering. His one way outWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, it seems, is for a change an eight-letter word, SCRABBLE – he can hide away from and her safe place in the mismanagement of words that his speaking implies he game has over a set of tiles and can play a decent game. But what happens when he is contacted online by a mysterious Alex been doctored – well, where is this possibly a way girl to combine his love of the word game with his quest for the truth about his mother's ABSENCEturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980112X</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luis Sepulveda, Satoshi Kitamura Kieran Larwood and Margaret Sayers Peden (translator)Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to FlyDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=In Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world , it seems, he is an avid fan of this bookDungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, danger brings people togethermagical mazes, but adversity brings them together even more firmly. On and race to the one hand we have Zorbaexit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big fat black catbad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, who was once swallowed by a pelican as a kitten, and now the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been abandoned – wellretired, temporarilyeaten, as his human child owner and a new trio of questors is away for a long timeneeded. But we also have a seagullPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, busy fishing when he has taken to the goading from the alarm rings out token bully of his world and therefore left alone to be swamped by an oil slickstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Trying to take her last flightWhat chance does this friendless, she crashlands on Zorba's balconymuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and promptly delivers an egg – and with her dying breath procures the promise of the cat to look after the hatchling until Zorba can teach it how could he possibly hope to fly. But surely a lesson in flight from a cat is beyond even the binds of adversitysucceed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846884004</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A A Milne and E H ShepardJames Sherwood Metts|title=Eeyore Loses a Tail (Winnie the Pooh Classics)Planet Storyland

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=EeyoreThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the Old Grey Donkey stood 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. He is bullied because he has 'the thistly corner 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 forest fact that his mum and thought about thingsdad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He was quite 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 philosopher in his own wayjeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his most profound thought occured when Winnie-Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the-Pooh came along and enquired as to how he wasrun. 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'Not very howll 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|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole', he said. All big movie fans, they''I donre looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't seem 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 cinema, and to have felt at all how for a long time.''their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281359</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julia LeeAdam Stower|title= Nancy Parker's Diary of DetectionMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nancy Murray is supposed to be a bit humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a dreamer. At fourteen years old shebad magician's happy to leave school (although she never quite mastered cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the fine art regular back garden, but into a world of spelling) frightening adventure and finds herself as whiffs. This time round it drops them into a lowly housemaid to the very modern Mrs Bryce– Viking land, where a far cry from her plan to star in the moviestroll hunter is expected – well, solve mysteries or evenone much bigger than Murray was, if the worst comes to the worstbe honest, work in a shop that sells interesting things.but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192739387</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katrina Charman Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Home-Made Cat Cafe (Poppy's Place) Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary= Eleven year old Isla Eli is cat crazy. She longs for a pet cat but her mum works as busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a veterinary nurse helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and has no desire to bring her work home runs. Eli lives with herhis lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. Luck A few short years ago, however, is on IslaEli's side when they find parents were both lost to the cat sanctuary is full and Mum reluctantly agrees that unwanted cat – Poppy – can stay with them on titular race, a ''temporary'' basis. Only it turns out globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to be a little less than temporary and Poppy is soon joined by Roo, Benny and navigate the world in the company of a litter of kittensmagical beast. Isla's thrilled This has made the race anathema to the pair – but she's going when a bad incident at the eatery leads to have to do some quick thinking if she's going a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to persuade mum dare to let enter what he most hates, with the cats staysole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184715672X</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ross Montgomery Helen Cooper|title=Perijee & Me The Taming of the Cat|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary= Forced to live on Middle Island with just her parents for companyOnce again, Caitlin is lonelymice are pitched against cat. The closest she In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you's got re seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to a friend be the names of cheeses. Anyway, Brie is the grumpy fishermanshunned, scorned and, if you must, Frankmous-tracised, who takes her to school each day in for the way his boathabits don't match the other mice he lives with. But everything changes when Catlin finds a wriggling prawn They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the beach and decides to keep visuals on it as a pet. Only it's not a prawn And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. It's soon 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 size and shape of a frogcat was distracted. By But will the next day story have the successful sequel itneeds when that cheese runs out?|isbn=0571376010}}{{Frontpage|author=Lauren St John|title=Finding Wonder|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the size and shape middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a person and it keeps growinglottery ticket. And growing. What is it? Caitlin doesn When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't care – hethink very highly of. But she has no one else, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the friend she's always wanted.middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571317952</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo Adam Baron and Michael ForemanBenji Davies|title=KensukeOscar's KingdomLion|rating=53

|summary=It was on September 10We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, 1987 that Michael's life changed greatlybut mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be ready for school. It had once before then, But when he enters his parents get ' bedroom, all he sees is a lettermahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and will definitely change at least once after thenadmitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it is can be shown as an unspoken threat to the middle change bully that perhaps most takes Michael ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and it can get him out of his comfort zone – the lad keen a problem. And it's wonderful to play football, even on have around the boggiest of pitcheshouse – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the lad with his loving parents and with his love for Stella Artois (worry notrules, that's the dog) is suddenly taken and turned so on his head. OK, becoming it can't work a different child in dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a much different lifewonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281790</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tina NolanJudith Eagle|title=Animal Rescue: The Unwanted PuppyStolen Songbird

|summary=Caro''Animal Magic'' 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 one having to go up North to take care of those places which just shouldn't be neededher sister who is unwell. It's an animal rescue centre and they take in abandonedSo who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, lost she feels frustrated and neglected animals, nurse them back to health confused and then find good homes for themworried. ItAll 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 run by Mark and Heidi Harrison (Heidi's a vet) house, along with their two childrenan orphan boy, Karl and EvaAlbie, who live at the rescue centre along with their parentsis living there too. The centre has two rules - they never put any animal to sleep who has But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a chance painting of regaining health - a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and Karl all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and Eva are ''not'' terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to get the idea that they can keep any of the animals on a permanent basis. gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? If they did Is she somehow involved in the house would be overrun!mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156797</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreview|title=The Secret Life of Daisy FitzjohnFrontpage

|summary=Daisy Fitzjohn lives with her mother in the crumbling but grand Brightwood HallMeet Gil. The house Just twelve, he is full of antiques and treasures and hoardings - because Daisy's mother does like so determined to hoard - escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and Daisy is rarely at find a loss home for something to look at or investigatehimself. Which He is just as wellen route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, because Daisy has never gone outside the house and its groundslets it ride him to his future. We understand why Daisy's mother keeps her secluded - she's terrified That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of loss because belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the two directions of a family tragedy in her own childhoodmotorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. Despite this Them, and a mute girl also finding a home there, Daisy has albeit so much more successfully. Over a loving relationship with her mum 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…|isbn=1804540080}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Peters|title=Friends and makes up for Traitors|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the isolation by developing friendships: with country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her pet ratlife it seems, with like the peacocks 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 rabbits in the gardenscheese, and also if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with paintings each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amiss, and topiary first separately and other creatures of her imagination, all then in combination they realise the knowledge that sheLord Evesham must be a rum 's being kept safe from The Crazy un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that once ran in her family, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444010263</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave Rudden Jamie Littler|title=Knights of the Borrowed Dark Arkspire

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Denizen Hardwick Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. 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 inherit the power of the Watcher, the closest to a ruler the district has spent , and one of the last eleven years five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – since he for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143}}{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I was two – the bad company other people got into at Crosscaper orphanageschool. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. He knows nothing about his family and is Where was the proof? In history lessons, thereforeit was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, surprised when heI didn't so much want to learn about the British army's suddenly summoned to visit an Aunt he successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't know he dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army hadto be there in the first place. This is Looking back, howeverI still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Thiago de Moraes|title=Old Gods New Tricks|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, only larks and adventures involving flooding the first school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of many surprisesnuisance. Before he even arrives at his Aunt But just when she's housebeing told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, Denizen's the world is abruptly turned upside down as hechanges. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's introduced to a hidden world of shadows and an unseen enemy in but the form of entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the TenebraeInternet, just for our convenience's sake). He soon discovers he Trixie, luckily, realises what has hidden powers but is he prepared for happened – the ancient Gods have taken the cost power of using them? Is he prepared power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to join gather all the Knights of people that can steal it back – namely the Borrowed Dark? Does he really characters from myth that have a choice?past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014135660X</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amber Lee DoddHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=We Are Giants Finding Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Nine year old Sydney Goodrow is small for her age [[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 wants to stay that waycalled Bear. Her mum is only 124cm tall Back home, things on the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her dad, and so can easily be ignored when he word comes through from the islands Bear was alive, wasn't much tallerlast left on. Despite the challenges it can cause, Sydney knows that being little is special For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and thatwounded. Desperate to make sure he's why OK, she tries hard with and her regular 'shrinking exercises'. However, despite her best effortsfather return to the Arctic and hope that in a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can't help growing taller find one specific white and dangerous thing – and growing upthat the friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784294217</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Eliza RoseSimon Fox|authortitle=Lucy WorsleyDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Eliza's family isn't as wealthy as it once was. And she Late one night Graham Blake is well aware that her duty is to marry well in order to repair late back from his shift on the Camperdowne fortunes. To this endforce, and then suddenly rings Archie, Eliza is sent demanding he fetch something from her family home at Stoneton Castle to Trumpton Halla secret place, and join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to be educated in smell the ways whiff of noble ladies. HereSouthern trains when the father is arrested, she meets leaving Archie on the infamous Katherine Howard while she too is still late express to Brighton, toting a young girl. And tin his father was determined to keep away from therehis colleagues, it's on to and the Tudor court bearer of Henry VIII, who is currently married to Anne a whole heap of Clevesquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408869438</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Peter Jay BlackCath Howe|title= Urban Outlaws CounterstrikeMy Life on Fire|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Thought the previous three books Ren's family home is destroyed in this excellent series were hearta fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-stopping? Reckon thereknacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother's no way house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the tension could be ratcheted up any higher? Well hang on tightclass are doing a special art project, brave readercreating boxes of their lives, because this book's going to make you forget display things that are important to them and show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to eatput in a box, sleep, do your homework and (unless you're veryso she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, very careful) breathethings that people might not really miss, evennot when they have so much already. It's epic! But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408851490</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan MacDonald and David RobertsRob Keeley|title=Fame! (Dirty Bertie)The Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Book eleventy-thump in this series, and there Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is still no let-up in back with a return to the situations that Dirty Bertie can be clumsy in, have a naughty approach about, or be accident-prone throughout. And while these three short stories may not be everyday circumstances, they have a universal recognition for the very young target audience – probably the seven-to-tens. So we have Bertie successfully apply for a part in a TV presentation – only story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to find it crosses a line; we see him get taken fishingeleven new tales, only for him each as fun to be bored and therefore naughty (and therefore successful, of course); and we have him and read as 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…previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156665</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom HuddlestoneLaura Noakes|title=The Nest (Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space)

|summary=The risk continuesMeet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. Having faced great danger The practice in their search the home she lives in is for knowledge about their kidnappedthe girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, explorer parentsand they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, Milo and Lina are tracking a rebellious radio broadcastuncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But once again you can probably bet your life on their quest taking them into great dangerCosima 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 mysterious plan involving said outside world of bizarrely crashed spacecraft – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, and wild life, danger is certainly around…what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140527994X</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cavan ScottAlice M Ross|title=The Snare (Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space)Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5

|summary=Milo At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and Lina are used to haring around the universeher 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, but never quite like this… They have seen their parents kidnapped by because she has the Empireability to leave this world, in need and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the adults' knowledge from exploring as scientists in sea levels are rising dramatically and the Wild Space areabuildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. They are hastening With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, is the watery planet Thune to seek helpanswer, but unknown to them, they may be heading not so much away from the fire but towards fact a right frying-pan…mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405279931</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M G LeonardNatasha Farrant|title=Beetle BoyThe Rescue of Ravenwood

|summary= When DarkusThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of 's dad disappears from a locked room 'Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, in the Natural History MuseumNorth of England, everyone's desperate to discover what happenedwhere Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. However They are part of a complex, when no clues extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are foundliving together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the police trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the newspapers rapidly lose interest and Darkus place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is left under pressure from his other two brothers to solve sell the mysteryproperty to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. Luckily The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, he has some very special friends to help himand if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002704</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rachel DelahayeRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title= Jim Reaper Son Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of GrimSilver Street|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= ItJayden's the age-old story. Boy (Jim) fancies older girlnose is forever in a book, in which means he knows a distantlot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, can't-talk-for example. Aisha is addicted to-her-without-dribbling sort new tablet, where she can see videos of wayanything that might be out there. Naturally The problem, as their mothers see it, Jim wonis that they are never 't discuss this with his best friend Will Maggot because by some evil twist out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of fateHackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, the girl is Willeducational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's sistercousin, and everybody knows sisters they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are definitely off limits. Not that Fiona's given him any encouragement: in fact real, including the only time she speaks to either of them is when one Aisha thinks she's pointing out what losers they areseen on a bit of local footage.|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 crew of the book comes from the first storyboat, in which Winnie and Piglet build including a house at Pooh corner for Eeyoreliving gargoyle, but perhaps are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the most famous story kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in this second book is at chapter six, when the game of Pooh Sticks is invented. We also meet Tigger for Dare they side with Leila, the first time woman on board, and her relative who lives 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 figure in its own righta painting, except for chapters eight and nine which have a degree become saviours 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!unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405280840</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09XWSXSKY|title=Neil Griffiths Maestro Orpheus and Janette Loudenthe World Clock|titleauthor=The Dog with No NameRobert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|summary=Ella and Harry had been nagging their parents ''forever'' about getting a dogFrederick (or Fred, but it wasnnever Freddy, please) couldn't until after sleep. A tune, rather like the death ticking of the goldfish a clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's ten now andall those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ' the Russian hamster, which they'd only seen five times because it was nocturnal, that their parents relented. Who needs old clocks anyway? Off All they went to do is tell the dog rescue centre and after what seemed like time. And time isn't good for anything...'ages'' and lots of red tape they had their very own dog And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. HeIt was nearly twelve o'd not been in clock but at midnight the centre long clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had no name but all the whole family fell for him and brought him home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908702249</amazonuk>clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny ColganNigel Baines|title=Polly and the PuffinA Tricky Kind of Magic

|summary=Polly was in bed when there was LOUD bang from downstairsCooper loves to perform magic tricks. It wasn't the storm which His father was raging outside. It wasn't a monster or an alien from outer space. It was a puffin who had crashed through magician, and named Cooper after the front door and he had a broken winggreat Tommy Cooper. PollyBut sadly Cooper's mummy got the first aid kit out whilst Polly went to get the puffin some food father died suddenly, and the next day they went now Cooper doesn't quite know who to see the vet. By then Polly had decided that the puffin would be called Neil and the vet asked her if she would be able to look after Neil until his wing was better, on the strict understanding that he would then have or how to return to the wild.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349131902</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Betty G Birney|title=Spring According to Humphrey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Spring, of all things, is a dead end. The class, given the homework task of finding signs of spring, are just failing and failing, what with the bad weatherbe. And nobody can come up with any useful ideas for the class theme at the schoolwhen his dad's Family Fun Dayprop rabbit starts talking to him, as being clowns has been nicked by someone else. How can a humble classroom pet hamster help everyone and everything – especially when he has been gazumped himself? For the very child tasked with looking after Humphrey for the weekend has been sent a package containing ''really'' doesn't know what is alleged to be a sign of spring – although to our hero the two tiny tadpoles in a tank look like two specks in gunk…'s going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571284183</amazonuk>1444960261