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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Mitchell1836285493|title= A Dangerous CrossingThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Award winning author Jane Mitchell passionately believes in using literature as Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a conduit to highlight Human Rights' issues that children need to understand slightly annoying brother and talk abouta supportive friend. She explainsBut most of all, ''Children hear the political rhetoric on the right side and the left side – that we should open our doors and let everybody inhe is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, versus we should build barriersMarlowe Park, we should build wallsand one at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, we should ban people. And children are struggling to make sense of itMrs Howarth, adults are struggling and she has suggested to make sense Will and his mum that he spends a couple of itafternoons a week at a different school, we don't know what approach to take and what our views are because this is newStation Road, this is completely different to all of uswhere his ability might be better extended.'' 'A Dangerous Crossing' gets to the heart of the matter. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910411582</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Kerr1836282028|title=The Elephant ThiefFighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley|rating=54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In 1872 Maharajah the elephant was sold at auction in Edinburgh ''Would you like to adopt a ghost?'' ''Young spirit, born 1887, seeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on well with other children. Jokes and shocks a zoo ownerspeciality. Shortly after boarding '' ''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, in the train shape of an arrow, pointing to your front door...'' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a decade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's ''Spirits'' series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new home he destroyed the train carriage adventure that is both a reboot and his a continuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new owner then decided that they would walk companions. Ruby and Jayden respond to this intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the rules as usual and absconded from his new manor house home , is adopted by them and takes up residence in Manchester. The journey was to take them ten days. Jane Kerr has used this event as the inspiration for her debut novel for children that tells .. a story that is exciting, compelling and ultimately very moving. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655759</amazonuk>wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Joshua KhanRob Keeley|title= Dream MagicChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= ItAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's great to welcome our old friends back in thisa ball of happy positivity, he understands children, the second of and he writes for their adventurespleasure and enjoyment, even though we know it means theynot to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits''ll be going through all sorts series is one of terrors and dangers once more as they battle not one but two enemies bent on destroying Gehennahis greatest achievements. Lady Lilith Shadow may be the sole heir to her country, but sheIt's still just a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl and therefore expected to do nothing more useful than marry some feeble-witted prince to forge an alliance who can cope with a stronger kingdom. Her friend Thornanything the spirit world throws at her, on the other handand Edward, is a peasant boy from a neighbouring country with a talent for getting into scrapes spoiled lordling and an absolutely wonderful giant bat he uses to travel round on (when the bat's in the mood to be helpful, that is). Together they make a great team. first spirit Ellie encounters|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407172093</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elena Favilli and Francesca CavalloMax Boucherat|title=Good Night Stories for Rebel GirlsThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=ItWe meet Lori on the first evening she's been said very often that 'history is told by got the winners'. Wellhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, too often historymother at work, the news and even destinies are written by menjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and the proof is between these coverson her lonesome. I didn't know anything about this before reading itWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, even if it she has become the most richly-backed crowd-funded book ever. I'd never heard of the Hollow Flashlightone main intention, powered purely by body warmth – which and that is rich if you're old enough to remember log on to Voxminer, the brouworld-habuilding, critter-ha when collecting game that is a maverick British bloke did a wind-up radiohit in Lori's world. I'd never read about the Niger female who But first Lori has successfully made a stand against forcedtiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, arranged marriage, rejecting a cousin for a fate and then she wishes to write for herselffinds something even more spooky. My ignorance may, perhaps, show me up to be a chauvinist of sorts, but I think it is further evidence that 'For the gaze is male' server she and her bestie and that the media are phallocentric. I hope too that this book doesn't turn any nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of its readers into a feminist, for that would be as bad as the chauvinist charge against metampering. If anything it is designed to create equalsWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and that is as it should beher safe place in the game has been doctored – well, even if there where is still a long way girl to go…turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014198600X</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Evie's GhostKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|authortitle=Helen PetersDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Evie Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is not happyan 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. Not Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has her mother disrupted their hitherto happy duo by getting marriedbeen retired, eaten, she and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has flown off on honeymoon with taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and 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 husband Marcus ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and sent Evie off to stay , along with it, 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 godmother she hasnmultitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't seen work and doesn't have enough money for years even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can barely remember. And if that weren't bad enoughwork because he lost his job at the college, godmother Anna lives was working a cash-in -hand job on a creaky old mansion miles from anywherebuilding site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, without such necessities as internet access and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a mobile phone signaltiny amount of hope. Anna doesn't even own He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a televisionlong, for heavens sakedark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857638424</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sarah Driver1805141872|title= The Huntress: SeaTeacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Feisty heroines who refuse to accept ''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the limitations set on them by men abound in literature at the moment truth – which his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is all to the good – really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and thirteen-year-old Mouse is no exception. She lives a precarious but happy life Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job...''Huntress 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' with her one-eyed grandmall find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is the ship's captainBen, and her little brother Sparrow. Their tribe worships the whales son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as godshis father some day, protecting and working together with them to defeat the vicious and bloodthirsty terrodyls, and despite her young age Mouse who thinks Miss Judson is already a gifted diver for the pearls which they trade for food. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405284676</amazonuk>worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Stargazing for BeginnersChristopher Edge|authortitle=Jenny McLachlanBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meg loves spaceLucas 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'. And when we say Meg loves space All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this doesnnew film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't quite explain how much Meg loves spaceeven imagine. Meg loves all things space 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 exclusion of almost everything elsecinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4. She has a space mural in her bedroom. She belongs 5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a stargazing club with her grandfather. She humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is determined able to become an astronaut one daysleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. And she dreams But he's a bad magician's 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 regular back garden, but into a world of winning frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a competition that will earn her Viking land, where a place on a trip troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to NASA in Houston. do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408879751</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan Tubridy Alex Bell and P J LynchTim McDonagh|title=Patrick and the PresidentThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers |summary=Meet PatrickEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Such a direction Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a little facetious heregeneration missing in the family. A few short years ago, because itEli's who ''he's'' going parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to meet that's navigate the world in the keycompany of a magical beast. He lives in New Ross, County Wexford, and his school This has been chosen made the race anathema to perform as the pair – but when a choir for bad incident at the much-anticipated arrival of President J F Kennedyeatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, as with the man traces sole aim the path prize of his Irish ancestry, in what (in addition to stop-overs in England and Italy on magic at the end – the same trip) was only thing to be possibly save his last state visit abroadgran. But surely just being one among three hundred on such an auspicious, yet brief, occasion is not enough for such an enterprising lad? Well, no, for his connected parents have got another trick up their sleeve for him…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406366927</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt ForbeckHelen Cooper|title=Star Wars: Rogue One: Junior NovelThe Taming of the Cat

|summary=The bad thing about bad people is they keep on getting worseOnce again, mice are pitched against cat. The Empire has done so much evilIn this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, but theyup against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're finding new depths – seeing a connection, they've managed to get enough of live in a special kind of crystal cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to power a new planet-shattering weapon, be the Death Starnames of cheeses. The Rebel AllianceAnyway, such as it Brie isshunned, scorned and, if you must, have found out this is no mere rumourmous-tracised, courtesy of word from for the horseway his habits don's mouth in t match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the shape of an escaped Imperial pilot, cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and news has followed makes stories based on the visuals on it . And that could inspire them to fight backstory-telling will come in handy one night, of a potential set of plans showing a flaw in the weaponwhen he feels all alone and cast out. It's constructionalmost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. But with This makes Brie the search for top dog in the plans going to be so dangerousmouse community, though, and with anything that might result from them going as all the others had the chance to be such a harehalf-brained response, how dare they possibly commit any of their limited resources on even getting theminch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285680</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meurig BowenLauren 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 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 lottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But she has no one else, Rachel Bowen and Daniel Frostso 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 middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Baron and Benji Davies|title=The School of MusicOscar's Lion

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=I 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 love/hate relationship with musiccouple of times before he has to be ready for school. I love it in that I own several large bookshelves full of CDsBut when he enters his parents' bedroom, and have seen and met quite all he sees is a few noted performersmahoosive male lion on their bed, from Radiohead to Philip Glasslooking sheepish, but I hate it in and admitting that as regards making he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it I can only hit things (and be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that only with my hands, never with my feet at ruined a birthday party for Oscar the same time)other month. Only in the last few years have people been at all appreciative of my singing, for want of a better wordAnd it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and one it can get him out of those suggested closing my eyes to sound better (I think she also may have plugged her ears when I wasn't looking). That from a kid who was lumbered with something big and brass to lumber about on the school bus with, dammitproblem. But hey, whatAnd it's wonderful to have around the use of my own example being so off-puttinghouse – not limiting his biscuit intake, when there is a world of pleasure, mental and physical exercise and fun to be had from being active in music? This book, dressed as much more lax about the lesson programme of a full-on, proper musical collegerules, is only designed to encourage and informso on. But does OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it?can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847808603</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul GallicoJudith Eagle|title= Thomasina|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A father and his six year old daughter, Mary MacDhui, are struggling to cope with the death of Mary’s mother. They move from Glasgow so that Mr MacDhui can take up a new job as Vet in a small Scottish seaside resort. Burying his head in a job he does not wholly love, Mr MacDhui spares his young daughter little time or attention, and she finds solace in her new friends and her beloved pet cat. Thomasina, a remarkable cat, drives the plot in this story, which Paul Gallico tells with heart breaking and emotional twists and turns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007395183</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Hilda Offen|title=Message from the MoonThe Stolen Songbird

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseConfident Readers|summary=YesCaro's mother, that is really a 'Message world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from the Moon' you receive courtesy her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this bookstaid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. You also get the point But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of view of the sea itselfa bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, as well as children seeing and all across London a fearsome gang called the city night from their bedroom window Snakes are thieving artworks and other terrorising people witnessing geese flying over, and you even get a message from a snail. The range of verses Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in this book is however but one of its many qualities…the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909991430</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M G Leonard Tania Unsworth|title=Beetle Queen Nowhere Island

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=A modern Cruella De Vil Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the care system – only with beetles rather than Dalmatians the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – Lucretia Cutter has and find a plan: a plan that will dramatically (home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and theatrically) unleash her latest batch of genetically modified and highly intelligent beetleslets it ride him to his future. The consequences will That future seems to be devastating for mankind in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but few realise that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the dangertwo directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. Luckily firm friends Darkus Them, Virginia and Bertolt have figured out that Lucretia Cutter 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 up to something one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Peters|title=Friends and Traitors|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=England, WW2. Two young girls are determined new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to do whatever be in service all her life it seems, like the female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it takes to stop so. But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the evil beetle divaLord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002771</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=W S MarkendaleJamie Littler|title=Owen PendragonArkspire|rating=3.54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Monsters Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are slipping through somehow from somewhere growing to kidnap children in Cornwall be chalk and the army seems powerless to do anything about itcheese. 12-year-olds Owen Juniper is an eager hunter and Mary assume they too are therefore powerless as they watch friends and neighbours disappeartrader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Imagine their surprise when they realise that thanks 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 an ancient relativea ruler the district has, they have more influence on what happens than they think and not just on what happens on Earthone of the five major victors in said earlier war. And their distant relative? Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. The former monarch and head But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of the round tableher own – for good, or for very, no less: King Arthur.very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524667579</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer024162343X|title=The Street Beneath My FeetStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=It's one thing for a non-fiction book for I was the young to show them something they themselves can explore – the pattern of the stars, perhaps, or the life in their back yardbad company other people got into at school. But when it gets to things that are equally important to know about but are impossible to see I was disruptive in real life, why, then religious education classes because I disputed the game is changedexistence of a 'god'. The artistic imagination has to be key, in portraying Where was the invisibleproof? In history lessons, and presenting what can only come from the pages of a bookit was probably worse still. And this example does it at its best, as it delves into Not too long after the layers end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the soil below said back yard, down British army's successes (and downoccasional failures, through all but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the different kinds of rock, until we reach colonies' as want to dispute what right the unattainable centre of army had to be there in the planetfirst place. And there's only one way to go from there – Looking back out , I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the other side, with yet more for us maturity to be shownapproach 'the problem' politely. ItI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's a fantastic journey, then – and a quite fantastic volume''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784937312</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matilda WoodsThiago de Moraes|title=The Boy, the Bird and the Coffin MakerOld Gods New Tricks

|summary=Alberto is a carpenterMeet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the very best in the town school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of Alloranuisance. But after just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the plague sweeps through world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town, taking many of the citizens and Albertoschool's wife and children, he turns his skills away in but the entire planet (apart from furniture and toys to making coffins. Wrapped in sadnessmobile phones, and waiting only for all that powers the plague to come and claim his life tooInternet, Alberto lives alone, keeping company with the dead who are delivered to his house to await their coffinjust for our convenience's sake). One dayTrixie, howeverluckily, he realises that he must what has happened – the ancient Gods have a living visitor, as food starts to go missingtaken the power of power from us. He And so she begins her epic quest, to leave scraps of foodgather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, to try half-gods and discover who his mystery thief is…so on known as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407178695</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian MosesHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Lost Magic: The Very Best of Brian MosesFinding Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseConfident Readers|summary=For a poet with the very memorable name of [[:Category:Brian MosesThe Last Bear by Hannah Gold|MosesLast time]], I have to admit never having come across it beforeApril had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, nor having knowingly read any of his worksand finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. This collection was Back home, things on the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect place for me her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Desperate to come late make sure he's OK, she and her father return to the partyArctic and hope that in a world of very white and very dangerous things, as it takes she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.|isbn=0008582017}}{{Frontpage|author's own favourites =Simon Fox|title=Deadlock|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from several previous anthologies of hisshift on the force, and adds new versesthen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. I read them with very little clue as They get together, but barely begin to which was which – and certainly couldn't tell having finished smell the whiff of Southern trains when the book. There father is a lot here that will grab the young schoolchildarrested, but leaving Archie on the topics cover so much there really will be a universal appeallate express to Brighton, meaning that toting a lot of people will have a definite favourite tin his father was determined to keep away from these pageshis colleagues, even if and the author himself cannot decide…bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509838767</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Bill Nye and Gregory MoneCath Howe|title= Jack and the Geniuses 1: At the Bottom of the WorldMy Life on Fire|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=ItRen's tough being family home is destroyed in a geniusfire. There are few She, her parents, if and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have anyof her clothes, people you can talk about your interests toor any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and words like ''nerdnow she is living at her grandmother's 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 special art project, creating boxes of their lives, ''geek'' to display things that are important to them and ''boffin'' get bandied around by folk show who somehow think it's your fault your cleverness makes them feel they are as a bit dimperson. But how does it feel Ren has nothing to be the one surrounded by such geniuses all day every day? Fortunately, Jack is put in a resilient sortbox, and his common sense approach so she finds herself starting to life is going steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what will happen to be essential her if he, Ava and Matt are going to survive their trip to Antarctica. someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419723030</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yuval ZommerRob Keeley|title=The Big Book of Beasts (Big Books)Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=One of the many issues people have Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a return to the TV nature programmeshort story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, such each as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]], is the obvious one of all the blood and guts it features – yes, in amongst all the cutesy, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally the cutesy, comical ones, what's worse). You'll be pleased fun to know, however, that this book is very light on death and destruction. Yes, here are lions sharing some chunks of meat (while the females that caught and killed it sit and wait their turn), here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bears, and here is a red fox stashing a dead mouse while in a time of plenty, but there is so little to make this even a PG book – it will be perfect for the home shelf or that in a primary schoolread as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ulf Nilsson and Gitte SpeeLaura Noakes|title=A Case in Any CaseCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The [[Detective Gordon: The First Case practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by Ulf Nilsson and Gitte Spee|last time]] we saw the toad called Detective Gordon at work he had a mouse colleague number they correspond to in the forest police with himledger, and in fact the two were so close they often shared a bed in the old prison cells together're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But now Gordon has practically retiredCosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, and as the mousefirst ever inmate, Police Chief Buffy, is doing all and unique in having no known family in the work herselfoutside world. It's quite scary workDuring a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, too, when something horrid, nasty and slightly smelling of toad is rootling around she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the police station at nightgirls for his Institute. But when the two are together there's no stopping themwhy, and any crime can be solved – which is probably a very good thing when not one but two of what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the forest babies go missing…past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1776571096</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth Oppel and Jon KlassenAlice M Ross|title=The NestNowhere Thief|rating=4.5

|summary=Steven can narrate this book to us, but he can hardly ever mention the name of his newborn baby brother. That's not down to a fault with Steven, although At last there are many of those – obsessive hand-washing, nightmares, anxiety attacks. It's because there's something wrong with the new addition to the family. His parents mutter behind closed bedroom doors of regretting trying for a is new child so late stock in life, but whatever the reason there is something demanding a lot of medical care impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and attention, even if the child can more or less live her mother run in the family homea seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. But hope seems to She also knows she should be shining a light into Steven free from worries about being found out, because she has the most unlikely source – angels that come ability to visit him in his dreamsleave this world, from within a pleasant, light-filled havenand use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, with full knowledge of where the family's troubles sea levels are rising dramatically and an offer the buildings are generally empty of a way outhumans and ripe for plunder. ObviouslyWith eviction imminent, worried for can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the happiness of his familyshop? Well yes, and knowing this is just the answer, but the fact a dream, Steven will mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only say yes to the offer of help…raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200875</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the WorldNatasha Farrant|authortitle=Rachel IgnotofskyThe Rescue of Ravenwood

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Women in ScienceVoyage of the Sparrowhawk'' takes fifty prominent women . Ravenwood is an old house, in STEM fields the North of England, where Bea and celebrates Raffy have been living for most of their achievementslives. There They are women from the ancient world and women working today. Each part of them a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait there with her Uncle Leo, and infoboxes Raffy is there with factoids on one side his mum, and they are living together as a page family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of text with a brief biography the nature around the house and outline loving every inch of her achievementsthe place. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's becoming more and their discoveries more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but also for the barriers if they overcame - barred from classes or employment because they were women or 'll even barred from employment because they were black in racially segregated Americabe together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Heather Alexander Robin Birch and Andres LozanoJobe Anderson|title=Life on EarthSecret Beast Club: Farm: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!The Unicorns of Silver Street

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=IJayden'm sure I was full of questions when I was s nose is forever in a nipper – book, which means I was too full he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of questionsthe world, for example. Parents just don't need Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be deflecting questions all the timeout there. The problem, do they? Living on the edge of a village in the middle of nowhere as I didtheir mothers see it, I knew quite a lot about farms and farming – is that different animals gave different resultsthey are never 'out there' themselves, that different vehicles meant different things and that exploring the crops behind our house changedoutside world of Hackney, London. But for the inner city childwhen a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's cousin, there is they find a chance magical world they have never met a cow or knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a silobit of local footage. This colourful book, bright in both senses The crew of the wordboat, including a living gargoyle, will allow are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the very young reader magical sight needed to join in. Dare they side with Leila, the opportunity woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of their own fantasy trip to the working countryside.unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847808999</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09XWSXSKY|title=Heather Alexander Maestro Orpheus and Andres Lozanothe World Clock|titleauthor=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions Robert Penee and 70 Lift-flaps!Joanne Grodzinski|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=I wonder how much time I've saved in not being a parent – and therefore not having had to answer such pesky questions as why is the sky blueFrederick (or Fred, where did I come frombut never Freddy, where does my wee come from, what is earwax, and why do I have a spleen? please) couldn't sleep. StillA tune, apart from rather like the first two, those questions ticking of a clock was playing over and the answers over in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to them and more are in this book, which is a lovely primer for biologycome; after all, he's ten now and a great source of quick facts for the very young, all presented with an addictive lift-the-flap approachthose old clocks don't appeal to him anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847809006</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Siobhan Dowd and Emma Shoard|title= The Pavee and ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the Buffer Girl|rating= 5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=When Jimtime. And time isn's family halt at Dundray, his heart grows heavyt good for anything.. A new Buffer school for this Pavee boy to attend. Jim doesn't like school. He doesn't like Buffers And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. And you know, you couldn It was nearly twelve o't really blame him because clock but at midnight the distrust and suspicion is mutualclock chimed only six times. Prejudice against the Traveller community is strong and when Jim and his cousins turn up on their first day, There was nothing for it's but to stares and muttered insults from the pupils and condescension from the teachers. Within days, Moss Cunningham go and his gang have accused Jim of stealing a CD find grandad - but where was he did no such thing - and have begun a campaign of threats, bullying and worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370049</amazonuk>? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?