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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Matt GriffinMax Boucherat|title= Storm WeaverThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 34.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=In We meet Lori on the sequel to [A Cage of Roots], first evening she's got the four friends are journeying back house to the lair from which they have just escaped. Sean, Finny and Benvy think they're trying herself – no neighbour to save the Goblins and turn them back into girlspop in, but Aylababysitter poorly, who so nearly became a goblin herselfmother at work, is being drawn by a greater force. As Ayla's powers emerge and grow strongerjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, she leads on her friends on lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a dangerous questblanket fort, deeper into the heart of the fairy kingdom of Fal. Seanshe has one main intention, Benvy and Finny just want that is to go home log on to IrelandVoxminer, but with the war world-building, critter-collecting game thatis a hit in Lori's brewing and Aylaworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's part in itt find herself entirely on her own, they may never and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to go back home againenter 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847177832</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ali BenjaminKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= The Thing About Jellyfish Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Ali Benjamin describes her accomplished debut novel as a work where ''despair and wonder come together''Meet Kit. When we first meet Suzy she cannot speak after a traumatic incident. Her family Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is struggling to cope with her silence and she is averse to an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the therapy sport where a team of 'Dr Legs'. It is only through her flashback sequenceswarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, written in italicsmagical mazes, and her passion for a science report that race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the reader comes to know her big bad and sympathise with her sufferingthe points they grant you along the way. Suzy Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is experiencing a cauldron of emotions including griefthat one team has been retired, guilteaten, denial and a tumultuous desperation new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to discover what she perceives to be the truthgoading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. It is What chance does this zeal which makes her refuse to believe her mother's explanation friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that ''sometimes things just happen'' , and fanatically pursue her own ''best educated guess.''how could he possibly hope to succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447292995</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sara PennypackerJames Sherwood Metts|title= PaxPlanet Storyland|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Young readers will be well aware of Things have been a bit sticky for the horrors of warEarthlings. It kills people, destroys families AI and homesautomation have been proceeding apace, creates waves of desperate refugees often replacing jobs they're paid to do and devastates the landscapeother tasks that took time to accomplish. But there's one aspect Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of fighting whichother, apart from a few notable exceptionsnew ways to spend time, isn't often touched upon – the fate of animals caught up in conflictsalong came an awful pandemic. We know a little about horses participating in cavalry charges, Life was pretty much shut down and homing pigeons carrying messages, but what about those animals which live in the wild? And worse stillalong with it, what about all those well-loved pets the many daily social interactions on which can no longer be fed or protected by owners close to starvation themselves?they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008124094</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Harriet Whitehorn and Becka MoorTom Percival|title=Violet and the SmugglersThe Wrong Shoes|rating= 45|genre= Confident Readers|summary= VioletWill's godfather life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has inherited a sailing boat 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and invites Violet doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and her family and friends to join him his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a sailing adventure in the Mediterraneanbuilding site and had an accident. How could Violet possibly say no? This turns out not to be quite as relaxing as you may imagine. It is not long before our heroine has suspicions about Throw into that mix the captain of another boat fact that his mum and dad are separated, and VioletWill's detective skills are needed againlife seems bleak in every direction. With the help And yet, he still has a tiny amount of her friendshope. He is good at art, Rose and Art, Violet is determined clings to solve the mystery. Will she be able to put moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a stop to light at the end of a dangerous smuggling ring? long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122638</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Sedgwick1805141872|title=Shadow of the Yangtze (Ghosts of Shanghai)The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=And so we're back with Ruby '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! With police and Charlieher gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, in war-torn China in Miss Judson and Ben go on the late 1920srun. Without giving anything of [[Ghosts of Shanghai by Julian Sedgwick|the first book]] awayBut Al needs them for one last job...'' Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a rescue mission 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 neededBen, and the help Ruby son of a famous magician who has had 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 spirit world may well not appearnickname of 'The Black Hole'. Charlie knows who would help – the CommunistsAll big movie fans, but for Rubythey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, even though she was born in China she's definitely an outsiderand many, an alien. many snacks! With their quarry sailing off upstream amidst a storm of warfareHowever, the friends have to take to the Yangtze waterways in pursuit – but just as in every corner of the mysterious city movie starts, theyvery quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn're leavingt even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, things quite strange can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to them will be appearing – shadow warriorsthe cinema, weaponised trains and ghost ships amongst them…to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444924494</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frank Cottrell BoyceAdam Stower|title=Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth Murray and Bun

|summary=Sputnik Mellows set himself Eli is a mission busy lad – to discover whether Earth existsby 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. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. Now he A few short years ago, Eli's found it, he needs parents were both lost to prove it ''should'' exist andthe titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to do this, he enlists navigate the world in the help company of schoolboy Prez Mellowsa magical beast. Together they need This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to find ten things that will justify Earth's existence. If they fail a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to do this by enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the end prize of magic at the summer holidays, Earth will be shrunk by Planetary Clearance as part of end – the pan-galactic decluttering programmeonly thing to possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230771378</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Philip CaveneyHelen Cooper|title= The CallingTaming of the Cat|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Well-informed young readers will always welcome Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing a new book from the extremely gifted Philip Caveney. This timeconnection, he places his poor hero right they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the middle names of not one but two mysteriescheeses. Firstly Anyway, why has said hero (weBrie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don'll call him Ed as t match the other mice he's forgotten his real name) woken lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on a train to Edinburgh with barely any money, a bump the visuals on the head and no memory whatsoever? it. And secondlythat story-telling will come in handy one night, why does 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 whole human world freeze for a day right top dog in the middle of the Fringe? The answersmouse community, when they comethough, are as intensely thrilling as they are wildly imaginativeall 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>1905916086</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robin StevensLauren St John|title=Jolly Foul PlayFinding Wonder|rating=54

|summary= In the fourth adventure Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the Murder Most Unladylike series, we return to the setting middle of the first book – Deepdean School for Girls. But things have changed. For night by the first time a Head Girl police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has been elected and Elizabeth Hurst didn't get dropped dead on his way to the position based on popularitycorner shop to buy a lottery ticket. Instead When asked what other family she has, she manipulated and blackmailed can only name her peers andaunt, supported by her five prefectsJoni, who sheknows her dad didn's now terrorising the school. Responsible for so much misery, its little wonder everyone wishes Elizabeth deadt think very highly of. But someone she has gone no one step further – committing a murder else, and presenting it so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as an accident. None of the adults even suspect 'foul play' so itwhen she and Joni leave London in Joni's up to Daisyold campervan, Hazel it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and their Detective Society to uncover the truth.then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141369698</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=S E DurrantAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Little Bits of SkyOscar's Lion|rating=53

|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. 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'I've put this story together from the diaries I kept when Zac and I were childrent be hungry for another two days. I wrote them in But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the hope bully that life would get better ruined a birthday party for Oscar the small unloved girl that was meother month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and my even smaller unloved brotherit can get him out of a problem. And if life didnit't get better or at least s wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more interesting I was going to make it up - to put witches and castles lax about the rules, and rides in fast carsso on. But I didn OK, it can't need to. Life got exciting all by itselfwork a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time...''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857633996</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth Schaefer and Brian RoodJudith Eagle|title=Star Wars The Force Awakens Illustrated Storybook|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Well, ours, last year, really… A film came along that seriously impressed lots of mature audience members who had very valid reasons to doubt it, and that made goggle-eyed popcorn munchers of a lot of youngsters. It had rollicking spacecraft dog-fights, it had emotional revisits for well-loved characters, and had a sting in its tail that lasted at least a couple of days before being leaked to the wider world. I know there is a DVD and Blu-Ray of it coming within days of me writing this, but I can only assume the reason the junior books about the film are being released now and not in time with its cinematic release is down to the chatter of the young and their rampant ability to say what they shouldn't – which includes what happens about eighteen pages before the end of the story here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405284021</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael Kogge|title=Star Wars The Force Awakens NovelStolen Songbird

|summary=A long time ago in Caro's mother, a galaxy farworld-famous whistler, far away… has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. ActuallyHer other mother, it was any place on this planet you Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. So who is going to mentionlook after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. Adults took their children along All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to see a proper time machine – one that would take the parents back practise her gymnastics are brought to a future-seeming science fantasy action filmhalt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, and would transport children to along with an ideal place where derring-do didorphan boy, Albie, where spacecraft never bothered with taking fourteen parsecs to do the Kessel Run when they could do it who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in twelvea mystery, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and where high-octane action was to be had. The time machine was all across London a fearsome gang called The Force Awakens, the seventh film in the enduring seriesSnakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. But when they got home there were no books suitable for Is the young readers painting somehow linked to use the gang? And what has happened to engage with what theyCaro'd just seen. s mother? The Alan Dean Foster adaptation of Is she somehow involved in the script was for adults – it was a lot longer and more wordy than they were used to. They had to wait months for a book telling the story their way. But now it’s arrived.mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405283939</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tony Bradman and Tom Morgan-JonesTania Unsworth|title= The Boy and the Globe|rating= 4|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= This lively and enjoyable story is set in early seventeenth century London where young orphan Toby Cuffe is living on the streets where life is hard. In order to survive, the resourceful Toby joins the gang of boys who work for Moll Cut-Purse as thieves. Moll sends Toby to the Globe Theatre to do some pickpocketing where Toby becomes so engrossed in the play being performed that he forgets about his own safety. Caught by the theatre's owners Toby meets the writer of the play he has just seen performed, the famous playwright William Shakespeare. Then our young hero is given an opportunity that he had not expected. Toby is full of enthusiasm for the theatre and rekindles the Bard's enthusiasm too so that together they team up to save the threatened theatre.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125031</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paul Tobin|title=The Genius Factor: How to Capture an Invisible Cat Nowhere Island

|summary=Delphine is quite a normal 6th grader, if with a few eccentric traitsMeet Gil. She has dozens of friends Just twelve, argues with her siblings, misbehaves he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in class but futureless places that are not too muchhomes – and find a home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, disobeys her parents but not too seriouslywhen he jumps into an anonymous car, and earns extra pocket money by dog-walkinglets it ride him to his future. She spends this money 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 cake. Mostly. Nate is not like Delphine. He has no friends and mostly goes under an island between the radar two directions of 6th grade societya motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. But Delphine has noticed him Them, and for good reason: Nate is a genius. He's mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so clever that he's even been studied by foreign academicsmuch more successfully. Not that Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this gains him much currency with his peers.is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408869977</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim SlaterHelen Peters|title=A Seven-Letter WordFriends and Traitors|rating=4.53

|summary=Finlay has got more than one PROBLEMEngland, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. He lives alone with his fatherOne is Nancy, who chain-smokes destined to be in between trips out to do odd jobs for people, and service all her life it seems to have reduced his worth to just one recipe since his wife, Finlay's mother, vanished two years agolike the female generations before her. Things are still bitter with him – he says she might as well be dead – but the issue manifests itself badly with FinlayThe other is Sidney, and he has grown into suffering quite a severe STUTTER, which leads to no end of TEASING at girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding schoolthat has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. His one way outThe girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it seems, so. But something is for a change an eight-letter wordamiss, SCRABBLE – he can hide away from and first separately and then in combination they realise the mismanagement Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of words that his speaking implies he has over a set secrecy, talk is made of tiles meetings with Germans, and can play not only that, a decent gamelocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. But what happens when he is contacted online by a mysterious Alex – is this possibly a way to combine his love of surely the word game with his quest for girls are wrong, and the truth about his mother's ABSENCEupper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980112X</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luis Sepulveda, Satoshi Kitamura and Margaret Sayers Peden (translator)Jamie Littler|title=The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to FlyArkspire

|summary=In the world of this bookTwo sisters, Juniper and Elodie, danger brings people togetherborn fifteen minutes apart, but adversity brings them together even more firmlyare growing to be chalk and cheese. On 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 hand we have Zorbaof the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of the big fat black catWatcher, who was once swallowed by the closest to a pelican as a kittenruler the district has, and now has been abandoned one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – wellfor good, temporarilyor for very, as his human child owner is away for very bad…|isbn=0241586143}}{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a long time'god'. But we also have a seagullWhere was the proof? In history lessons, busy fishing when the alarm rings out and therefore left alone to be swamped by an oil slickit was probably worse still. Trying Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to take her last flightlearn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, she crashlands but we didn't dwell on Zorbathose) in what came to be called 's balcony, and promptly delivers an egg – and with her dying breath procures the promise of colonies' as want to dispute what right the cat army had to look after be there in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the hatchling until Zorba can teach it maturity to flyapproach 'the problem' politely. But surely a lesson in flight from a cat is beyond even the binds of adversity?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846884004</amazonuk>I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A A Milne and E H ShepardThiago de Moraes|title=Eeyore Loses a Tail (Winnie the Pooh Classics)Old Gods New Tricks

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=EeyoreMeet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the Old Grey Donkey stood in the thistly corner school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the forest and thought about thingsworld changes. He was quite Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a philosopher power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in his own way, but his most profound thought occured when Winnie-the-Pooh came along entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and enquired as to how he wasall that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake). ''Not very how'' Trixie, luckily, he saidrealises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. ''I don't seem And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have felt at all how for a long timepast form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281359</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julia LeeHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title= Nancy Parker's Diary of DetectionFinding Bear|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nancy is [[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 bit of ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a dreamerpolar bear – that she called Bear. At fourteen years old she's happy to leave school (although she never quite mastered Back home, things on the fine art of spelling) domestic and finds herself as family front are a lowly housemaid to bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very modern Mrs Bryce– a far cry from her plan Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Desperate to star in the moviesmake sure he's OK, solve mysteries or even, if the worst comes she and her father return to the worst, work Arctic and hope that in a shop world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that sells interesting thingsthe friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192739387</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katrina Charman Simon Fox|title=The Home-Made Cat Cafe (Poppy's Place) Deadlock|rating=4.5

|summary= Eleven year old Isla Late one night Graham Blake is cat crazy. She longs for late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a pet cat but her mum works as a veterinary nurse secret place, and has no desire to bring her work home with herjoin him on the run. Luck They get together, however, is on Isla's side but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when they find the cat sanctuary father is full and Mum reluctantly agrees that unwanted cat – Poppy – can stay with them arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a ''temporary'' basis. Only it turns out tin his father was determined to be a little less than temporary and Poppy is soon joined by Rookeep away from his colleagues, Benny and the bearer of a litter whole heap of kittens. Isla's thrilled but she's going to have to do some quick thinking if she's going to persuade mum to let the cats stayquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184715672X</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ross Montgomery Cath Howe|title=Perijee & Me My Life on Fire

|genre=Confident Readers |summary= Forced to live on Middle Island with just Ren's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents for company, Caitlin is lonelyand her little brother lose everything. The closest She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and now sheis living at her grandmother's got 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 class are doing a friend is the grumpy fishermanspecial art project, Frankcreating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and show who takes her they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to school each day put in his boat. But everything changes when Catlin finds a wriggling prawn on the beach box, and decides so she finds herself starting to keep it as a petsteal things. Only it's Small things, things that people might not really miss, not a prawnwhen they have so much already. It's soon the size and shape of a frog. By the next day it's the size and shape of a person and it keeps growing. And growing. What But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is itdoing? Caitlin doesn't care – he's the friend she's always wanted.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571317952</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo and Michael ForemanRob Keeley|title=Kensuke's KingdomThe Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=54

|summary=It was on September 10, 1987 that Michael's life changed greatly. It had once before then, when his parents get Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a letter, and will definitely change at least once after then. But it is the middle change that perhaps most takes Michael out of his comfort zone – return to the lad keen short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to play footballeleven new tales, even on the boggiest of pitches, the lad with each as fun to read as his loving parents and with his love for Stella Artois (worry not, that's the dog) is suddenly taken and turned on his head, becoming a different child in a much different lifeprevious offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281790</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tina NolanLaura Noakes|title=Animal Rescue: The Unwanted PuppyCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=''Animal Magic'' Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is one of those places which for the girls to just shouldn't be needed. It's an animal rescue centre and named by the number they take correspond to in abandonedthe ledger, lost and neglected animalsthey're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, nurse them back to health and then find good homes for themuncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. It's run by Mark and Heidi Harrison (Heidi's But Cosima bears the tag as a vet) along with their two childrensurname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, Karl and Eva, who live at unique in having no known family in the rescue centre along with their parentsoutside world. The centre has two rules - they never put any animal During a daring escapade to sleep who has steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a chance of regaining health - and Karl and Eva are ''not'' devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to get adopt all the idea girls for his Institute. But why, and what does that they can keep any of the animals on a permanent basis. body entail? If they did And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the house would be overrun!past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156797</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Secret Life of Daisy FitzjohnAlice M Ross|authortitle=Tania UnsworthThe Nowhere Thief

|summary=Daisy Fitzjohn lives with her mother At last there is new stock in the crumbling but grand Brightwood Hall. The house is impoverished yet over-full of antiques shop Elsbeth and treasures her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the ability to leave this world, and hoardings - because Daisy's mother does like use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to hoard - enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and Daisy is rarely at a loss ripe for something plunder. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to look actually generate custom at or investigatethe shop? Well yes, is the answer, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769}}{{Frontpage|author=Natasha Farrant|title=The Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Which Ravenwood is just as wellan old house, because Daisy has never gone outside in the house North of England, where Bea and its groundsRaffy have been living for most of their lives. We understand why Daisy's mother keeps her secluded - she's terrified of loss because They are part of a complex, extended family tragedy in arrangement, as Bea is there with her own childhood. Despite thisUncle Leo, Daisy has a loving relationship and Raffy is there with her his mum , and makes they are living together as a family. They have grown up for swimming in the cove, roaming through the isolation by developing friendships: with her pet rattrees, completely at one with all of the peacocks nature around the house and rabbits in loving every inch of the place. But now the gardenshouse is under threat, and also with paintings and topiary and as Leo is under pressure from his other creatures of her imagination, all in two brothers to sell the knowledge that sheproperty to a developer as it's being kept safe from becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The Crazy that once ran in her familychildren find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444010263</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave Rudden Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Knights Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of the Borrowed Dark Silver Street

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Denizen Hardwick has spent the last eleven years – since Jayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he was two – at Crosscaper orphanage. He knows nothing a lot about his family mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. Aisha isaddicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, thereforeas their mothers see it, surprised when heis that they are never 's suddenly summoned to visit an Aunt he didnout there't know he had. This is, howeverthemselves, only exploring the first outside world of many surprisesHackney, London. Before he even arrives at his Aunt But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's housecousin, Denizen's they find a magical world is abruptly turned upside down as hethey never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's introduced to seen on a hidden world bit of local footage. The crew of shadows the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and an unseen enemy in the form of kids unknowingly have the Tenebrae. He soon discovers he has hidden powers but is he prepared for the cost of using them? Is he prepared magical sight needed to join in. Dare they side with Leila, the Knights woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the Borrowed Dark? Does he really have a choiceunseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014135660X</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Amber Lee DoddB09XWSXSKY|title=We Are Giants Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Nine year Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's ten now and all those old Sydney Goodrow clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is small tell the time. And time isn't good for her age and she wants to stay anything...'' And that waywas why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. Her mum is It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only 124cm tall six times. There was nothing for it but to go and her dad, when find grandad - but where was he ? 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 to perform magic tricks. His father was alivea magician, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, wasnand now Cooper doesn't much tallerquite know who to be, or how to be. Despite the challenges it can cause And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, Sydney knows that being little is special and thathe ''s why she tries hard with her regular really'shrinking exercises'. However, despite her best efforts, she candoesn't help growing taller and growing up.know what's going on anymore!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784294217</amazonuk>1444960261