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|summary=''Dancing Paws of Magic'' offers us almost two related stories in one. Part One focuses on the problems that arise when the dancing cats of the Pusska Mogginsky Ballet Company go on strike. There Will is only one feline who can put things right but sadly the lepremog (the cat equivalent a keen player of video games, a leprechaun) Galway O-Toot is deadconscientious student, crushed by a falling wallslightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. If the animal ballet But most of all, he is to be savedan aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, the remaining members of the ballet company must work together to find his bones and restore one at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his life even if this means taking on the Black Treacle Farm Gang. In Part Twoheadteacher, Mrs Howarth, we move on and she has suggested to the long-awaited performance Will and his mum that he spends a couple of ''The Sleeping Beauty''. Here everything seems to afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be going just purr-fectly until the Black Treacle Farm Gang – including Gang Leader Bruiser Bumfluff – appear to get their revengebetter extended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036875</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836282028|title=The Harder They FallFighting Spirit|author=Bali RaiRob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Cal loves comic books''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. He also dreams of being Jokes and shocks a superhero and saving speciality.'' ''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, in the day while simultaneously winning the heart shape of the girl (Freya being the girlan arrow, hopefully)pointing to your front door. Batman ..'' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a decade of his favourite superhero. But Calwonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superhero-like. Because Cal ''Spirits'' series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that is both a bit of reboot and a geek and he is being bullied by mean girl Anucontinuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on to lazy classmates. Stillour incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, it's not all badhas some new companions. Cal's parents are lovely Ruby and Jayden respond to this intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the gorgeous Freya rules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is making friendly overturesadopted by them and takes up residence in...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>. a wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz PichonRob Keeley|title=Family, Friends and Furry Creatures (Tom Gates)Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|summary=Tom Gates has got Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a problem: ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his shoes are making greatest achievements. It's a noise. They sort sequence of rasp when he walksghost stories centring on Ellie, only he a stalwart young girl who can't recreate cope with anything the sound spirit world throws at homeher, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4. At school it5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's a different matter: not only is got the noise very loudhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, there are those of his classmates who suggest that it has originated from somewhere a little moremother at work, welljust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, ''intimate''on her lonesome. All What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in all it's not a good start blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the day for Tomworld-building, particularly when he realises critter-collecting game that heis a hit in Lori's also forgotten his baby photo for the latest school projectworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Class 5F are building their family trees For the server she and her bestie and they've got nobody else should be able to interview family members to get stories enter shows signs of their lives for tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the project.game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407168118</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cheeky Charlie: Bugs Kieran Larwood and Bananas (My Crazy Brother Book 2)Joe Todd-Stanton|authortitle=Mat WaughDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Cheeky Charlie Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has already had [[Cheeky Charlie by Mat Waugh|one book]] written about him been retired, eaten, and now a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has another. His slapstick adventures are related once more by taken to the goading from the token bully of his sister Harry. I love Harryworld and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Harry is by turn infuriated What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and amused by her brother Charlie. And Harry also brims over with enthusiasm. how could he possibly hope to succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B072F58644</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire FayersJames Sherwood Metts|title= Journey to Dragon Island (The Accidental Pirates)Planet Storyland|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Two questsThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. Can the crew of the good ship Onion (donAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they't ask) help their young friend Brine re paid to find her home? And does the legendary island 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 dragons really exist or – a rather important pointother, new ways to spend time, this – if the ship keeps sailing westalong came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, will along with it just topple off the edge of , all the world? Of course, if you think a little thing like terrible peril and near-certain death should stop Captain Cassie and her shipmates from going wherever many daily social interactions on which they fancy, then you're reading the wrong seriesdepend so heavily. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447290623</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Bear GryllsTom Percival|title= New Jungle Book Adventures: Spirit of the JungleThe Wrong Shoes|rating= 35|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This book Will's life is technically excellent but unfortunately it falls flat difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the actual execution. Grylls uses trusted storytelling techniques such as wrong shoes', he has the herowrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn's journey t have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and Chekovhis dad can's Gun to produce t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a frame building site and had an accident. Throw into that should be engaging with mix the target audience but unfortunately it does not quite hit the markfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. What we ultimately have He is a great idea with some wonderful good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that never really recovers from feel like a light at the end of a slow beginninglong, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509828486</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1805141872|title=Spudboy and ChipThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=David WindleRob Keeley|rating=4.5

|summary=''Sticky Toffee Trifle flavour mashed potatoSeventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. This one's The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a winnersafecracker!'' ErWith police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the run.But Al needs them for one last job.. ok then. Not.''

Colin Sludge's parents run Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a fish and chip shop and it isnbad 't doing so well. So Colinun like Al? We's mum is trying ll find out new recipes to tempt in more customers and Colin's dad is using Colin as a guinea pig. The only problem Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is that Colin has eaten quite enough exotic mashed potatoBen, thankyouverymuch. He's practically bursting with it. And the house is practically bursting with potato peelingsson of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, so it's no wonder that Colin slips and falls when he's taking them out to the garbage bins.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>154314702X</amazonuk>who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyChristopher Edge|title=Flesh and BloodBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Families change Lucas and his friends are all booked in wartime – in sizefor a movie marathon at their local cinema, if not any other waya place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Bill and Jane have already had to get used to their father being away to fightAll big movie fans, ''and'' they've tried the evacuee experiencere looking forward to lots of exciting films, but are back in London – just in time for the Battle of Britainand many, which is a circumstance Bill hates Jane formany snacks! However, as he quickly grew to love the countrysidemovie starts, while Jane resisted the idea of them settling therethey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, so and they were returned to are swept up into an allegedly safe capitaladventure they couldn't even imagine. One night after a bombing raid But as they settle outside lurch from one film genre to the neighbourhood's token emptynext, boarded up and deserted home – only for Bill can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to convince himself he hears someone inside. The unidentifiable the cinema, and severely burnt child that gets rescued becomes a kind of new family member – but does this have anything to do with Bill's resent-filled wish for a brother to replace Janetheir real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126887</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matilda WoodsAdam Stower|title=The Boy, the Bird Murray and the Coffin MakerBun

|summary=Alberto Eli is a carpenterbusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the very best 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 town of Allorafamily. But after the plague sweeps through the townA few short years ago, taking many of the citizens and AlbertoEli's wife and childrenparents were both lost to the titular race, he turns his skills away from furniture and toys a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to making coffinsnavigate the world in the company of a magical beast. Wrapped in sadness, and waiting only for This has made the plague race anathema to come and claim his life too, Alberto lives alone, keeping company with the dead who are delivered pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his house only hope is to dare to await their coffin. One day, however, enter what he realises that he must have a living visitormost hates, as food starts to go missing. He begins to leave scraps with the sole aim the prize of food, magic at the end – the only thing to try and discover who possibly save his mystery thief is…gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407178695</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gill Lewis and Jo WeaverHelen Cooper|title= A Story Like The Taming of the WindCat|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A small group of people huddle together 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 tiny boat connection, they live in a large seacheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. Strangers to each Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other but united by a common experiencemice he lives with. They have each lost everything nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and yet each has a dream of seeking makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and finding refugecast out. They each have hope It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. A small hope This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192758950</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryder WindhamLauren St John|title=Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 3)Finding Wonder

|summary=We open here with the Rebellion in disarray, and our heroes separatedRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Obviously they need to rescue the ones imprisonedHer mum died when she was young, liaise with and now she finds herself awoken in the ones acting as secret agents, and get back to what they do best. For middle of the Empire are doing night by the same – they are building another Death Star – a new, bigger, quicker one without a piddly little hole in it police banging on her door to tell her that just happens her dad has dropped dead on his way to allow the goodies the chance corner shop to destroy it at the first attemptbuy a lottery ticket. OhWhen asked what other family she has, and our main heroshe can only name her aunt, LukeJoni, still who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But she has the matter of who he should count as a family member no one else, and so off she goes to settle… live with her unreliable aunt. YesThings continue to get worse for Roo, this is the third film made as when she and Joni leave London in the 'Joni'Star Wars'' universes old campervan, it breaks down in a handy form for the eager junior novelisation reader.middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285443</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julia GoldingAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title= The Diamond of Drury LaneOscar's Lion|rating= 43|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Set in 18th Century LondonWe start incredibly bluntly, this historical thriller captures all the rawness with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of life in the grimy citytimes before he has to be ready for school. A young girl But when he enters his parents' bedroom, Catall he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, who was orphaned at birthlooking sheepish, is taken under and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the wing of bully that ruined a kind benefactor, Mr Sheridan, who found her abandoned on birthday party for Oscar the steps of his theatreother month. The Theatre Royal And it can shapeshift, Drury Lane, is an exciting place so he can take it to grow up, school and Cat becomes it can get him out of a well-loved member of the staff behind the scenesproblem. While running errands in And it's wonderful to have around the theatrehouse – not limiting his biscuit intake, she dreams of being a famous writer herself one daymuch more lax about the rules, and so on. Before her dream is realised though OK, Cat has an important role to play in solving it can't work a mystery - the mystery of dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a diamond hidden in the Theatre Royal itselfwonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285303</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryder WindhamJudith Eagle|title=Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 2)Stolen Songbird|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and 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 staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=0571363148}}{{Frontpage|author=Tania Unsworth|title=Nowhere Island|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him to his future. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. Them, and a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfully. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Peters|title=Friends and Traitors|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=England, WW2.5 Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to 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 so. But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord 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?|isbn=1788004647}}{{Frontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=Arkspire|rating=4

|summary=I've never actually held by the theory that ''The Empire Strikes Back'' Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is the best film an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the seriesBadlands. To meElodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, as a youngster, I got perhaps even to become the willies suitably with what happens child in line to one characterinherit the power of the Watcher, and it was great the closest to meet a ruler the Emperor at lastdistrict has, but beyond and one of the assault on Hoth there was too much that didn't work for mefive major victors in said earlier war. I certainly wasn't impressed by Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the kissy-kissy nonsense interrupting status of the great space-faring actionwhole family. But I have always been eager enough in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to revisit it, as the film I've seen the least gain some power of the sevenher own – for good, and these YA variants of the films – adaptations of the canonical 2004 DVD editionsor for very, and first published at that time – are about the best way to do that.very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285435</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bobbie Peers024162343X|title= William Wenton and the Luridium ThiefStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating= 45|genre= Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Bobbie Peers is 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 pretty talented guy'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not only did he win a too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army'Palme ds successes (and occasional failures, but we didn'Ort dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' award for a film he wrote and directed as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in 2006the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but with this, his first book, heI regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem's turned his hand to writing for young peoplepolitely. And the list of awards he I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's collecting in his native Norway are testament to his vivid and entertaining imagination''Stolen History''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140637170X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Frances CastleThiago de Moraes|title=Spot the Mistake: Lands of Long AgoOld Gods New Tricks

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=You'll like as not have seen a children's book before and harangued it for containing errorsMeet Trixie. This book has at least two hundredForever getting into scrapes, larks and thatadventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when she's not a problembeing told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. YesSuddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in personifying but the idea of learning through your mistakes, we get ten large dioramas of historical activityentire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all containing twenty things that shouldnpowers the Internet, just for our convenience't be theres sake). Your taskTrixie, should you choose to accept itluckily, is to try and find them allrealises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the learning is also herepeople that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as we get text to tell us what the goofs were designed to show ustricksters. Make no mistake, this is a clever and absorbing read…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryder WindhamHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Star Wars: A New Hope Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 1)Finding Bear|rating=4.5

|summary=It takes [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a greater mind lot further north than mine to keep track of all the different versions of ''Star Wars many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – A New Hope'' that there have beenshe called Bear. That was never Back home, things on the name it was known under at the startdomestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for one thingher, but beyond the exuberant cinema classic known to and so many, you get can easily be ignored when word comes through from the digitally retouched version, then the DVD version, which both added to and took away some of those changesislands Bear was last left on. And as it is with the film, so it is with the novelsFor a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. This new presentation of the YA trilogy, while bearing the 2017 Copyright mark, is the 2004 childrenDesperate to make sure he's novelisationsOK, as far as I can make out, minus she and her father return to the pictures. You do get, on this first one, Arctic and hope that in a '40 years world of Star Wars' stickervery white and very dangerous things, which is proof this is a classic we're looking at, but more than she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that, just goes to make me feel old…the friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285427</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt TavaresSimon Fox|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman PilotDeadlock

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=We're in ParisLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and – not to be too rude about things – we seem surrounded by idiots. For onethen suddenly rings Archie, it seems they think the perfect demanding he fetch something from a secret place to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights is in the middle of the biggest city in the world. For another, they think only men could suffer the slightly colder and slightly thinner air experienced join him on such an adventure – women would never be able to copethe run. MeanwhileThey get together, a young girl is dreaming of flight, as so many are wont but barely begin to do, completely unaware that she will soon marry one smell the whiff of Southern trains when the most famed balloonists. They will have joint journeys skywardfather is arrested, before his early demise – leaving Archie on the young womanlate express to Brighton, Sophie Blanchardtoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, to go it alone and become the first female pilotbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lorraine Gregory Cath Howe|title=Mold and the Poison Plot My Life on Fire

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=MoldRen's mum abandoned him family home is destroyed in a dustbin when he was a baby but the binmen didnfire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't want him. Luckily old Aggy gave him a home andhave any of her clothes, with a crusty oneor any of her special little knick-legged sailor as a friendknacks from her cupboard, Mold and now she is happy. Happy until Aggy is accused of poisoning living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the Kingfoods they normally eat. Suddenly Mold finds himself alone and thrust into When she goes back to school she discovers that the unlikely role class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of hero. He sets off their lives, to rescue Aggy and along the way finds himself trying display things that are important to save the King them and prevent show who they are as a war with the Boggersperson. It's But Ren has nothing to put in a lot for one small boy with an enormous nose but luckily he box, and so she finds he's uniquely fashioned herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what will happen to sniff her if someone finds out danger. what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192745824</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Danny WallaceRob Keeley|title= Hamish The Boy Who Disappeared and the Gravity BurpOther Stories|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary=BUUUUUURRRRRRRRPPPPPHooray! A terrifying noise Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is rumbling through the sleepy town of Starkley (the fourth most boring town in Britain) and having back with a peculiar effect on the residents. Gravity has gone into reverse and the poor townsfolk are floating skyward, helplessly trying to grab onto whatever they can in order to slow their ascent. Hamish Ellerby has just arrived home to find his family stuck return to the ceiling, along with a bowl of fruit, six batteries and a wind-up meerkat. What could be causing this strange phenomenon? Could it be leading up short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to something bigger? A ''gravity-belch''eleven new tales, or heaven forbid, a ''gravity-FART''? It's up each as fun to Hamish and read as his gang, the PDF, to solve the mystery and restore order to Starkley in time for the official visit from the Public Office of Pride, or POP (shouldn't it be POOP?)previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471147126</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah CarrollLaura Noakes|title=The Girl In BetweenCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=After a family argumentMeet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, a girl and just Cos to her mother are stuck out on the streets of Ireland, finding shelter finally in an old, abandoned millfriends. The mill becomes practice in the girl's castle, where home she finally feels safe from lives in is for the girls to just be named by the lurking threat of 'number they correspond to in the authorities' ledger, and some of the strange men in her motherthey's lifere all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. Her mother, however, But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be tumbling deeper into depressionknown about where she came from, keeping her daughter locked up, out of sight insideas the first ever inmate, and now there are strange men unique in hard hats coming around having no known family in the outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the mill kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to measure and make notesadopt all the girls for his Institute. Can the two of them move onBut why, or will they be too late and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to escapethe past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471160629</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan Litton and Thomas HegbrookAlice M Ross|title=The Earth Book: A World of Exploration and WonderNowhere Thief

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=The EarthAt last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. I kind of quite like Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it, you know – it seems to serve my purpose. I don't think I've taken too much She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out of it, all toldbecause she has the ability to leave this world, and if it's divided up into 200 countries I'm getting close to having visited a quarter use an unworldly portal of them. But way back when I just didn't get on with studying it. I didn't like geography – what with having kaleidoscope colours to draw mapsenter other worlds, oxbow lakes where the sea levels are rising dramatically and whatnot I think it was one the buildings are generally empty of those subjects I was put off through the pictorial element – humans and dropped it as soon as I couldripe for plunder. But thenWith eviction imminent, I didn't have can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the likes of this book to inspire me…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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848575246</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg RosoffNatasha Farrant|title=Good Dog McTavishThe Rescue of Ravenwood

|summary=McTavish did wonder whether he was making a mistake in adopting the Peachey family: it was a decision which came This story is another excellent adventure from the heart rather than author of ''Voyage of the headSparrowhawk''. You see Ravenwood is an old house, in the Peacheys were dysfunctional: Ma PeacheyNorth of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a complex, an accountant by professionextended family arrangement, decided that she was fed up as Bea is there with chasing around after an ungrateful familyher Uncle Leo, so she resigned and dedicated herself to her yoga Raffy is there with half his mum, and they are living together as a hint that she might also dedicate herself to her yoga teacherfamily. She gave They have grown up cookingswimming in the cove, cleaningroaming through the trees, baking, washing completely at one with all of the nature around the house and all loving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other things which kept two brothers to sell the family going, such property to a developer as finding lost keys it's becoming more and getting people out of bed so that they got more expensive to wherever maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they were 're going on time. And the family? Wellto live, but if they had no idea of how to cope'll even be together, with one exceptionand if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126836</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom AnglebergerRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Marvel Rocket and GrootSecret Beast Club: Keep on Truckin'The Unicorns of Silver Street

|summary=Last time our favourite space-gun toting small, furry woodland creature and his humanoid yet woody friend GrootJayden's nose is forever in a book, escaped which means he knows a [[Marvel Rocket lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and Groot: Stranded on Planet Shopping Mall by Tom Angleberger|planet-sized shopping mall unicorns of death]]the world, complete with their for example. Aisha is addicted to her new companion in the form of a tape dispensertablet, and an old friend (for I'm sure Rocket would think of any old space ship where she can see videos of his as a friend, much as I'm sure anything that if the reverse were technically possible, the ship would never do the same back)might be out there. But when they run out of fuelThe problem, as we were led to expecttheir mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there is only one option' themselves, and that is to land on exploring the nightmarish outside world – nightmarish to Rocketof Hackney, at least – of HappyHappyFunFunLondon. But whatwhen a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's this? cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. The whole worldFor many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's inhabitants are now stuck hiding in caves for fear seen on a bit of the dangers local footage. The crew of the roadboat, as every vehicle is seemingly on including a collision course living gargoyle, are tasked with them, saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in a planet-wide instance of road rage. Surely even RocketDare they side with Leila, who laughs in the face of dangerwoman on board, and Groot, her relative who says ''I am Groot'' lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the face of danger, cannot hope to helpunseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285478</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom AnglebergerB09XWSXSKY|title=Marvel Rocket Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Groot: Stranded on Planet Shopping MallJoanne Grodzinski

|summary=Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn''I am Groot''t sleep. I know what you're saying thereA tune, it ''is'' good to see rather like the japery ticking of our favourite small woodland creature a clock was playing over and tree-man-thing over in book form, even if here it is a particularly unusual formhis mind. Everything here is unusual, on Planet Shopping Mall, where our heroes have arrived – and not by choiceIt happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. Take the first place they go He hadn't really wanted tocome; after all, a dry-cleaners, so that Rocket can clean his clothes of space piranha blood – the toilet in back just tries he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to eat himanymore.  ''Who needs old clocks anyway? The sickly-sweet sweet shop All they do is manned by angry robot tooth fairies, with a battle mode, and they too have tell the consumption of peculiar life-forms in mindtime. Can the stranded duo battle every evil thing around, and survive to find a way off-world? And can they cope with being forced to enter partnership with a purple tape dispenser?time isn't good for anything...''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140528546X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Philip Ardagh and Tom Morgan-Jones|title=Norman And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the Norman from Normandy (Little Gems)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Meet Normanbed. Norman It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the Norman, from Normandyclock chimed only six times. Not Big Bad Norman the Norman from Normandy, and not Norma the Norman from Normandy – and not even Nora the Norman from, well There was nothing for it doesn't say, but my guess is Normandy. Norman isn't very big at all – he's just a little boy, to go and find grandad - but where was he's not bad. ? Or And why had all the clocks stopped at least he doesn't think he is. But because his father, Big Bad Norman, is buried in three parts (don't ask), and little baby Norman has inherited Big Bad Normantwelve o's big bad Norman sword, he's going to visit the three parts – but only good will happen… Rightclock?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126976</amazonuk>