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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Litton and Thomas Hegbrook1836285493|title=The Earth Book: A World Double Life of Exploration and Wonder|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The Earth. I kind of quite like it, you know – it seems to serve my purpose. I don't think I've taken too much out of it, all told, and if it's divided up into 200 countries I'm getting close to having visited a quarter of them. But way back when I just didn't get on with studying it. I didn't like geography – what with having to draw maps, oxbow lakes and whatnot I think it was one of those subjects I was put off through the pictorial element – and dropped it as soon as I could. But then, I didn't have the likes of this book to inspire me…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWheelchair User|author=Meg Rosoff|title=Good Dog McTavishRob Keeley

|summary=McTavish did wonder whether he was making Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a mistake in adopting the Peachey family: it was slightly annoying brother and a decision which came from the heart rather than the headsupportive friend. You see the Peacheys were dysfunctional: Ma PeacheyBut most of all, he is an accountant by professionaspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, decided that she was fed up with chasing around after an ungrateful familyMarlowe Park, so she resigned and dedicated herself to her yoga with half a hint that she might also dedicate herself to her yoga teacherone at which he excels. She gave up cookingThis hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, cleaningMrs Howarth, baking, washing and all the other things which kept the family going, such as finding lost keys she has suggested to Will and getting people out his mum that he spends a couple of bed so that they got to wherever they were going on time. And the family? Wellafternoons a week at a different school, they had no idea of how to copeStation Road, with one exceptionwhere his ability might be better extended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126836</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Angleberger1836282028|title=Marvel Rocket and Groot: Keep on Truckin'The Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=Last time our favourite space-gun toting small''Would you like to adopt a ghost?'' ''Young spirit, furry woodland creature and his humanoid yet woody friend Grootborn 1887, escaped a [[Marvel Rocket and Groot: Stranded seeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on Planet Shopping Mall by Tom Angleberger|planet-sized shopping mall of death]], complete well with their new companion in the form of other children. Jokes and shocks a tape dispenser, and an old friend (for Ispeciality.'' ''m sure Rocket would think of any old space ship of his as a friendIf interested, much as I'm sure that if the reverse were technically possibleplace outside your home three twigs, in the ship would never do the same back). But when they run out shape of fuelan arrow, as we were led pointing to expect, there your front door...'' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is only one option, and that is to land on the nightmarish world – nightmarish to Rocket, at least – celebrating a decade of HappyHappyFunFun. But whathis wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's this? The whole world's inhabitants are now stuck hiding 'Spirits'' series in caves for fear of the dangers of the road, as every vehicle Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that is seemingly on both a collision course with them, in reboot and a planet-wide instance of road ragecontinuation. Surely even RocketJust like Doctor Who, who laughs in the face of dangerEdward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. Ruby and GrootJayden respond to this intriguing advertisement and Edward, who says ''I am Groot'' in has broken the face of dangerrules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, cannot hope to help?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285478</amazonuk>is adopted by them and takes up residence in.... a wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom AnglebergerRob Keeley|title=Marvel Rocket and GrootChildish Spirits: Stranded on Planet Shopping Mall10th anniversary special edition

|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children'I am Groot''s author Rob Keeley. I know what youHe're saying there, it ''is'' good to see the japery s a ball of our favourite small woodland creature and tree-man-thing in book formhappy positivity, even if here it is a particularly unusual form. Everything here is unusualhe understands children, on Planet Shopping Malland he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, where our heroes have arrived – and not by choice. Take the first place they go to, a dry-cleaners, so that Rocket can clean his clothes of space piranha blood – the toilet in back just tries to eat himlecture or hector.  The sickly-sweet sweet shop ''Childish Spirits'' series is manned by angry robot tooth fairies, with one of his greatest achievements. It's a battle mode, and they too have the consumption sequence of peculiar life-forms in mind. Can the stranded duo battle every evil thing aroundghost stories centring on Ellie, and survive to find a way off-world? And stalwart young girl who can they cope with being forced to enter partnership with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a purple tape dispenser?spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140528546X</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Ardagh and Tom Morgan-JonesMax Boucherat|title=Norman the Norman from Normandy (Little Gems)The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Meet NormanWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Norman What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the Normanworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, from Normandyand then she finds something even more spooky. Not Big Bad Norman For the Norman from Normandyserver she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and not Norma her safe place in the Norman from Normandy game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and not even Nora Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the Norman frompeople in his world, well it doesn't sayseems, but my guess he is Normandyan 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. Norman isn't very big at all – Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's just a little boyseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and he's not bada new trio of questors is needed. Or at least Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he doesn't think he isll enter as a team. But because his fatherWhat chance does this friendless, Big Bad Norman, is buried muscle-free-zone have in three parts (don't ask)actually managing that, and little baby Norman has inherited Big Bad Norman's big bad Norman sword, how could he's going possibly hope to visit the three parts – but only good will happen… Rightsucceed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126976</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane MitchellJames Sherwood Metts|title= A Dangerous CrossingPlanet Storyland|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Award winning author Jane Mitchell passionately believes in using literature as Things have been a conduit to highlight Human Rights' issues that children need to understand bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and talk about. She explainsautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they''Children hear the political rhetoric on the right side re paid to do and the left side – other tasks that we should open our doors took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and let everybody in, versus we should build barriers, we should build walls, we should ban people. And children are struggling starting to make sense think of itother, adults are struggling new ways to make sense of itspend time, we don't know what approach to take along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and what our views are because this is new, this is completely different to along with it, all of us.'' 'A Dangerous Crossing' gets to the heart of the mattermany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411582</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane KerrTom Percival|title=The Elephant ThiefWrong Shoes

|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In 1872 Maharajah the elephant was sold at auction Will's life is difficult, in Edinburgh to a zoo ownermultitude of ways. Shortly after boarding He is bullied because he has 'the train to 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 new home dad can't work because he destroyed lost his job at the train carriage college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and his new owner then decided had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that they would walk to his new home mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in Manchesterevery direction. The journey was And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to take them ten days. Jane Kerr has used this event as the inspiration for her debut novel for children moments of joy when he is drawing, that tells feel like a light at the end of a story that is excitinglong, compelling and ultimately very movingdark tunnel. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655759</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Joshua Khan1805141872|title= Dream Magic|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= It's great to welcome our old friends back in this, the second of their adventures, even though we know it means they'll be going through all sorts of terrors and dangers once more as they battle not one but two enemies bent on destroying Gehenna. Lady Lilith Shadow may be the sole heir to her country, but she's still just a girl and therefore expected to do nothing more useful than marry some feeble-witted prince to forge an alliance with a stronger kingdom. Her friend Thorn, on the other hand, is a peasant boy from a neighbouring country with a talent for getting into scrapes 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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407172093</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo|title=Good Night Stories for Rebel GirlsRob Keeley

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=It's 'Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been said very often that 'history is told by raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the winners'. Welltruth – his Maths teacher, too often historyMiss Judson, the news is really a safecracker! With police and even destinies are written by menher gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the proof is between these coversrun. But Al needs them for one last job... I didn't know anything about this before reading it, even if it has become the most richly-backed crowd-funded book ever. I'd never heard of the Hollow Flashlight Goodness me, powered purely by body warmth – which that Miss Judson is rich if you're old enough to remember the brou-ha-ha when a maverick British bloke terror! How on earth did a wind-nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up radiowith a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. I'd never read about the Niger female who has successfully made a stand against forced, arranged marriage, rejecting a cousin for a fate she wishes to write Luckily for herself. My ignorance mayMiss Judson, perhaps, show me up to be a chauvinist of sorts, but I think it is further evidence that 'the gaze pupil who discovers her terrible secret is male' and that Ben, the media are phallocentric. I hope too that this book doesn't turn any son of its readers into a feminist, for that would famous magician who has ambitions to be as bad good as the chauvinist charge against me. If anything it is designed to create equalshis father some day, and that is as it should be, even if there who thinks Miss Judson is still a long way to go…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014198600X</amazonuk>worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Evie's GhostChristopher Edge|authortitle=Helen PetersBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Evie is not happy. Not only has her mother disrupted Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their hitherto happy duo by getting marriedlocal cinema, she a place that has flown off on honeymoon with new husband Marcus and sent Evie off to stay with a godmother she hasnthe nickname of 'The Black Hole't seen for years and can barely remember. And if that weren All big movie fans, they't bad enoughre looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, godmother Anna lives in a creaky old mansion miles from anywheremany snacks! However, without such necessities as internet access the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and a mobile phone signal. Anna doesnthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even own a televisionimagine. 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, for heavens sake.and to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857638424</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah DriverAdam Stower|title= The Huntress: SeaMurray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Feisty heroines who refuse to accept the limitations set on them by men abound in literature at the moment – which Murray is all supposed to the good – be a humble, tidy and thirteen-year-old Mouse is no exception. She lives a precarious but happy life on the ''Huntress'' with her friendly cat, one-eyed grandma, who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the shiptwo. But he's a bad magician's captaincat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and her little brother Sparrow. Their tribe worships the whales as godscatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, protecting but into a world of frightening adventure and working together with whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to defeat the vicious and bloodthirsty terrodylsbe honest, but he's turned up and despite her young age Mouse is already a gifted diver for the pearls which they trade for food. he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405284676</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Stargazing for BeginnersAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|authortitle=Jenny McLachlanThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meg loves spaceEli 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. And when we say Meg loves space Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, this doesnEli't quite explain how much Meg loves space. Meg loves s parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all things space entrants have to navigate the exclusion world in the company of almost everything elsea magical beast. She This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a space mural in her bedroom. She belongs bad incident at the eatery leads to a stargazing club confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with her grandfatherthe sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Cooper|title=The Taming of the Cat|rating=3. She 5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. Anyway, Brie is determined to become an astronaut one dayshunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. And she dreams of winning a competition that story-telling will earn her a place on a trip come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to NASA keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in Houstonthe mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408879751</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan Tubridy and P J LynchLauren St John|title=Patrick and the PresidentFinding Wonder

|summary=The bad thing about bad people is they keep on getting worseRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. The Empire 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 done so much evil, but they're finding new depths – they've managed dropped dead on his way to get enough of a special kind of crystal the corner shop to power buy a new planet-shattering weapon, the Death Starlottery ticket. The Rebel AllianceWhen asked what other family she has, such as it isshe can only name her aunt, have found out this is no mere rumourJoni, courtesy of word from the horsewho she knows her dad didn's mouth in the shape t think very highly of an escaped Imperial pilot. But she has no one else, and news has followed it that could inspire them so off she goes to fight back, of a potential set of plans showing a flaw in the weapon's constructionlive with her unreliable aunt. But with the search Things continue to get worse for the plans going to be so dangerousRoo, as when she and with anything that might result from them going to be such a hare-brained responseJoni leave London in Joni's old campervan, how dare they possibly commit any it breaks down in the middle of their limited resources on even getting them?nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285680</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meurig Bowen, Rachel Bowen Adam Baron and Daniel FrostBenji 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 – bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the pattern existence of a 'god'. Where was the starsproof? In history lessons, perhapsit was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, or I didn't so much want to learn about the life British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in their back yard. But when it gets what came to things that are equally important be called 'the colonies' as want to know about but are impossible dispute what right the army had to see be there in real life, why, then the game is changedfirst place. The artistic imagination has Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to be key, in portraying approach 'the invisibleproblem' 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, larks and presenting what can only come from adventures involving flooding the pages school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of a booknuisance. And this example does it at its bestBut just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, as it delves into the layers world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the soil below said back yardtown the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, down and down, through all that powers the different kinds of rockInternet, just for our convenience's sake). Trixie, luckily, until we reach realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the unattainable centre power of the planetpower from us. And there's only one way so she begins her epic quest, to go gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from there the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.|isbn=178845295X}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Finding Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=[[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 – back out that she called Bear. Back home, things on the other sidedomestic and family front are a bit advanced, with yet more but not perfect for us to her, and so can easily be shownignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. ItFor a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Desperate to make sure he's OK, she and her father return to the Arctic and hope that in a fantastic journeyworld of very white and very dangerous things, then she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and a quite fantastic volumethat the friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784937312</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matilda WoodsSimon Fox|title=The Boy, the Bird and the Coffin MakerDeadlock

|summary=Alberto Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a carpentersecret place, and join him on the very best in the town of Allorarun. But after They get together, but barely begin to smell the plague sweeps through whiff of Southern trains when the townfather is arrested, taking many of leaving Archie on the citizens late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and Albertothe bearer of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=1839944420}}{{Frontpage|author=Cath Howe|title=My Life on Fire|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ren's wife and childrenfamily home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, he turns his skills away from furniture and toys to making coffinsher little brother lose everything. Wrapped in sadnessShe doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and waiting only for now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the plague foods they normally eat. When she goes back to come and claim his life tooschool she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, Alberto creating boxes of their lives alone, keeping company with the dead to display things that are important to them and show who they are delivered as a person. But Ren has nothing to his house put in a box, and so she finds herself starting to await their coffinsteal things. One daySmall things, howeverthings that people might not really miss, he realises that he must not when they have a living visitor, as food starts to go missingso much already. He begins But what will happen to leave scraps of food, to try and discover who his mystery thief is…her if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407178695</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian MosesRob Keeley|title=Lost Magic: The Very Best of Brian MosesBoy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseConfident Readers|summary=For Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a poet with the very memorable name of [[:Category:Brian Moses|Moses]], I have return to admit never having come across it before, nor having knowingly read any of his works. This collection was the perfect place for me short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to come late to the partyeleven new tales, each as it takes the author's own favourites from several previous anthologies of his, and adds new verses. I fun to read them with very little clue as to which was which – and certainly couldn't tell having finished the bookhis previous offerings. There is a lot here that will grab the young schoolchild, but the topics cover so much there really will be a universal appeal, meaning that a lot of people will have a definite favourite from these pages, even if the author himself cannot decide…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509838767</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Bill Nye and Gregory MoneLaura Noakes|title= Jack and the Geniuses 1: At the Bottom of the WorldCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=It's tough being a geniusMeet Number One. There are few Or rather, if anyCosima Unfortunate. Or rather, people you can talk about your interests just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond toin the ledger, and words like ''nerd'they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, ''geek'' and ''boffin'' get bandied around by folk who somehow think it's your fault your cleverness makes them feel a bit dimuncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But how does it feel Cosima 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 surrounded by such geniuses all day every day? Fortunatelyafternoon, Jack is she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a resilient sort, and his common sense approach devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to life is going want to be essential if headopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, Ava and Matt are going what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to survive their trip to Antarctica. the past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419723030</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yuval ZommerAlice M Ross|title=The Big Book of Beasts (Big Books)Nowhere Thief

|genre=Children's NonConfident Readers|summary=At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-Fictionfull antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the ability to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the 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=One This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, in the many issues people North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with the TV nature programmeher Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, such and they are living together as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]]a family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, is roaming through the obvious trees, completely at one with all of all the blood nature around the house and guts it features – yes, in amongst all loving every inch of the place. But now the cutesyhouse is under threat, comical animal life are creatures eating as Leo is under pressure from his other creatures (normally two brothers to sell the cutesy, comical ones, whatproperty to a developer as it's worse)becoming more and more expensive to maintain. YouThe children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be pleased to knowtogether, howeverand if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|isbn=0571348785}}{{Frontpage|author=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jayden's nose is forever in a book, that this book is very light on death which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and destructionunicorns of the world, for example. YesAisha is addicted to her new tablet, here are lions sharing some chunks where she can see videos of meat (while the females anything that caught and killed might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it sit and wait their turn), here is that they are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bearsnever 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and here is with a red fox stashing past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a dead mouse while in magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a time bit of plentylocal footage. The crew of the boat, but there is so little to make this even including a PG book living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – it will be perfect for and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. Dare they side with Leila, the home shelf or that woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a primary school.painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>050065106X</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09XWSXSKY|title=Ulf Nilsson Maestro Orpheus and Gitte Speethe World Clock|titleauthor=A Case in Any CaseRobert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|summary=The [[Detective Gordon: The First Case by Ulf Nilsson Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and Gitte Spee|last over in his mind. It happened every time]] we saw the toad called Detective Gordon at work he had a mouse colleague in the forest police with himcame to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's ten now and in fact the two were so close all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they often shared a bed in do is tell the old prison cells togethertime. But now Gordon has practically retired, and And time isn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the mouse, Police Chief Buffy, is doing all clock beside the work herselfbed. Itwas nearly twelve o's quite scary work, too, when something horrid, nasty and slightly smelling of toad is rootling around clock but at midnight the police station at nightclock chimed only six times. But when the two are together there's no stopping them, There was nothing for it but to go and any crime can be solved – which is probably a very good thing when not one find grandad - but two of where was he? And why had all the forest babies go missing…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776571096</amazonuk>clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?