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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mark Huckerby and Nick Ostler1836285493|title= Defender The Double Life of the Realm: Dark Agea Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=King Alfred the Second Will is still growing into his roles as King and Defender a keen player of the Realm. Just having defeated the Black Dragon at his coronationvideo games, a conscientious student, Alfie is trying to focus on making less of a fool slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of himself in his day joball, something the Prime Minister he is keen to encourage as much as possible, when a new threat hits the Kingdoman aspiring writer. The UK English is being savaged by a hoard of undead Vikingshis favourite lesson at his school, intent on causing as much trouble as possibleMarlowe Park, who have all been stirred up by Alfie's old History teacher, Professor Lockand one at which he excels. But how do you kill something thatThis hasn's already dead? Alfie is trying to save the Kingdom t gone unnoticed by nighthis headteacher, Mrs Howarth, rule it by day and keep she has suggested to Will and his family together, all the while knowing if mum that he failsspends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, we could be thrown into another dark age. WellStation Road, no one said being King would where his ability might be easybetter extended. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407164244</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gareth P Jones1836282028|title=Beards From Outer SpaceThe Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary= You might not realise it but Earth is under constant alien attack. Luckily we humans don't need 'Would you like to worry because the Pet Defenders (adopt a secret society of our domestic pets) are always on standby ghost?'' ''Young spirit, born 1887, seeks kind home to keep us safehaunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. The activities of the Pet Defenders are normally kept secret but Stripes Publishing are kindly allowing human Gets on well with other children . Jokes and shocks a brief glimpse into their exciting adventuresspeciality. In ''Beards From Outer Space '' we are able If interested, place outside your home three twigs, in the shape of an arrow, pointing to read how 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 adventure that is both a dog reboot and cat – secret agents Biskit a continuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. Ruby and Mitzy – team up Jayden respond to rid this intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the world of an army of alien beardsrules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is adopted by them and takes up residence in....|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847157858</amazonuk>a wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The Secret ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the Wooden Chest (Roman Magic)first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author= Catherine RosevearMax Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=34.5

|summary=Hannah lives with her parents in a flat above We meet Lori on the nursing home where her mother is matron. Hannah is an only child and so first evening she enjoys making friends with some of the home's residentsgot 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. So when Mrs Oberto moves What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled ina blanket fort, Hannah she has one main intention, and that is keen to make her acquaintance log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter- Hannah has never met anyone Italian beforecollecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Mrs Oberto is quite standoffish at But first but Hannah persists Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and soon they are then she finds something even more spooky. For the best server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of friendstampering. Mrs Oberto is particularly keen When malevolent eyes spark up on helping Hannah with her school project about ancient Rome phone screen, and relates many interesting stories about her Sicilian childhood. But she remains tight-lipped about safe place in the mysterious wooden chestgame has been doctored – well, the key where is a girl to which she keeps around her neck...turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788032535</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan GibbonsKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Beautiful GameDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Football is all about its coloursMeet Kit. And even if I write in Like most of the season when one team in blue knocks another team people in blue from the throne of English footballhis world, it's common knowledge that red seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the more successful colour sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to wearthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. But is that flame red? Blood red? The red Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – and latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that it had one team has been one retired, eaten, and a new trio of their own making? questors is needed. And while we're on about colourPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, where were he has taken to the goading from the people token bully of colour his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in football in the olden daysactually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed? There are so many darker sides to football's history it's enough to make a young lad question the whole game…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernard AshleyJames Sherwood Metts|title=Lena Lenik S.O.S.Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Lena's mother seems very illThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. Scary noises are coming from the bathroomAI and automation have been proceeding apace, sheoften replacing jobs they's off food re paid to do and completely listless, complaining of the effort involved in sewing a patch onto a cub scout uniformother tasks that took time to accomplish. It might be a surprise Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to the young reader think of this book when we learn what the reason is – certainly it was obvious from page two for me – but there are definitely more surprises other, new ways to comespend time, along came an awful pandemic. Mother makes a slightly unusual decision about her condition – leaving Lena Life was pretty much shut down and, along with a lot it, all the many daily social interactions on her plate when fate sets in with a surprise of its own…which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125716</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria McArdleTom Percival|title=Dancing Paws of MagicThe Wrong Shoes|rating=35

|summary=Will''Dancing Paws s life is difficult, in a multitude of Magicways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes' offers us almost two related stories in one. Part One focuses on , he has the problems that arise when wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the dancing cats most basic of the Pusska Mogginsky Ballet Company go on strike. There is only one feline who things like food, and his dad can put things right but sadly 't work because he lost his job at the lepremog (the cat equivalent of college, was working a leprechaun) Galway Ocash-in-Toot is dead, crushed by hand job on a falling wallbuilding site and had an accident. If Throw into that mix the animal ballet is to be savedfact that his mum and dad are separated, the remaining members of the ballet company must work together to find his bones and restore his Will's life even if this means taking on the Black Treacle Farm Gangseems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. In Part Two He is good at art, we move on and clings to the long-awaited performance moments of ''The Sleeping Beauty''. Here everything seems to be going just purr-fectly until joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the Black Treacle Farm Gang – including Gang Leader Bruiser Bumfluff – appear to get their revengeend of a long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036875</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1805141872|title=The Harder They FallTeacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Bali RaiRob Keeley

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Cal loves comic books''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. He also dreams of being The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a superhero safecracker! With police and saving her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the day while simultaneously winning the heart of the girl (Freya being the girl, hopefully)run. But Al needs them for one last job.. Batman is his favourite superhero. But Cal's world outside his daydreams ' Goodness me, that Miss Judson is not particularly superhero-a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher likeher manage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Because Cal Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is a bit Ben, the son of a geek and he is being bullied by mean girl Anu, famous magician who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on has ambitions to lazy classmates. Stillbe as good as his father some day, it's not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely and the gorgeous Freya who thinks Miss Judson is making friendly overtures...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz PichonChristopher Edge|title=Family, Friends and Furry Creatures (Tom Gates)Black Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Tom Gates has got a problem: Lucas and his shoes friends are making all booked in for a noisemovie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. They sort All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of rasp when he walksexciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, only he canand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't recreate even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the sound at homenext, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. At school itBut he's a different matter: not only is the noise very loudbad magician's cat, there are those of so his classmates who suggest that it favourite bun has originated from somewhere been turned into a little morehyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, wellnot into the regular back garden, ''intimate''but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. All in all This time round it's not drops them into a Viking land, where a good start troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to the day for Tombe honest, particularly when he realises that but he's also forgotten his baby photo for the latest school project. Class 5F are building their family trees turned up and theyhe've got ll have to interview family members to get stories of their lives for the project.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407168118</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cheeky Charlie: Bugs Alex Bell and Bananas (My Crazy Brother Book 2)Tim McDonagh|authortitle=Mat WaughThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=Cheeky Charlie has already had [[Cheeky Charlie Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by Mat Waugh|one book]] written about visiting with him , and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and now he has anotherruns. His slapstick adventures are related once more by Eli lives with his sister Harrylovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. I love Harry A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. Harry This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is by turn infuriated and amused by her brother Charlie. And Harry also brims over to dare to enter what he most hates, with enthusiasmthe sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B072F58644</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire FayersHelen Cooper|title= Journey to Dragon Island (The Accidental Pirates)Taming of the Cat|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Two questsOnce again, mice are pitched against cat. Can In this case, principally, we have Brie the crew of mouse, up against Gorgonzola the good ship Onion (doncat – and in case you't ask) help their young friend Brine re seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to find her home? And does be the legendary island names of dragons really exist or – a rather important pointcheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, this – if you must, mous-tracised, for the ship keeps sailing west, will it just topple off way his habits don't match the edge of other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the world? Of course, if you think a little thing like terrible peril cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and nearmakes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-certain death should stop Captain Cassie telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and her shipmates cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from going wherever they fancyfable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, then you're reading as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the wrong seriescat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447290623</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Bear GryllsLauren St John|title= New Jungle Book Adventures: Spirit of the JungleFinding Wonder|rating= 34|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This book is technically excellent but unfortunately it falls flat Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the actual executionmiddle 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, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Grylls uses trusted storytelling techniques such Things continue to get worse for Roo, as the hero's journey when she and ChekovJoni leave London in Joni's Gun to produce a frame that should be engaging with the target audience but unfortunately old campervan, it does not quite hit breaks down in the mark. What we ultimately have is a great idea with some wonderful moments that never really recovers from a slow beginning.middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509828486</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Spudboy Oscar's Lion|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that he won'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 bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a problem. And it's wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and Chipso on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=0008596751}}{{Frontpage|author=David WindleJudith Eagle|title=The Stolen Songbird

|summary=''Sticky Toffee Trifle flavour mashed potato. This oneCaro's mother, a winner!'' Er... ok then. Not. Colin Sludge's parents run a fish world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and chip shop and it isn't doing so wellis now missing. So Colin's mum Her other mother, Ronnie, is trying out new recipes having to tempt in more customers and Colin's dad go up North to take care of her sister who is using Colin as a guinea pigunwell. The only problem So who is that Colin going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has eaten quite enough exotic mashed potatoheard her mother despises, thankyouverymuchshe feels frustrated and confused and worried. He 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 practically bursting with it. And the house is practically bursting , along with potato peelingsan orphan boy, so it's no wonder that Colin slips and falls when he's taking them out to the garbage bins.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>154314702X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chris Priestley|title=Flesh and Blood|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Families change in wartime – in sizeAlbie, if not any other waywho is living there too. Bill and Jane have already had to get used to their father being away to fight, ''and'' they've tried the evacuee experience, but are back But she soon finds herself caught up in London – just in time for the Battle of Britain, which is a circumstance Bill hates Jane formystery, as he quickly grew to love the countryside, while Jane resisted the idea she discovers a painting of them settling there, so they were returned to an allegedly safe capital. One night after a bombing raid they settle outside the neighbourhoodbird hidden away inside her mum's token emptyold suitcase, boarded up and deserted home – only for Bill all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to convince himself he hears someone inside. the gang? The unidentifiable and severely burnt child that gets rescued becomes a kind of new family member – but does this have anything And what has happened to do with BillCaro's resent-filled wish for a brother to replace Janemother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126887</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matilda WoodsTania Unsworth|title=The Boy, the Bird and the Coffin MakerNowhere Island

|summary=Alberto Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is a carpenter, so determined to escape the care system – the very best system that constantly puts him in the town of Allorafutureless places that are not homes – and find a home for himself. But after the plague sweeps through the townHe is en route to yet another fosterer, taking many of the citizens and Alberto's wife and childrenwhen he jumps into an anonymous car, he turns his skills away from furniture and toys lets it ride him to making coffinshis future. Wrapped That future seems to be in sadness, and waiting only for the plague to come and claim jeopardy when someone steals his life too, Alberto one bag of belongings – but that someone lives alone, keeping company with his brother in a camp on an island between the dead who are delivered two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to his house to await provide for their coffinsafety and seclusion. One dayThem, howeverand a mute girl also finding a home there, he realises that he must have albeit so much more successfully. Over a living visitorfew weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as food starts to go missing. He begins to leave scraps of food, to try and discover who his mystery thief is…we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407178695</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gill Lewis and Jo WeaverHelen Peters|title= A Story Like the WindFriends and Traitors|rating= 53|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A small group of people huddle together England, WW2. 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 tiny boat in girl from a large seahoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. Strangers to The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other but united by a common experienceover their first encounters would only prove it so. They have each lost everything But something is amiss, and first separately and yet each has then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a dream rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of seeking meetings with Germans, and finding refuge. They each have hope. A small hopenot 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>0192758950</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryder WindhamJamie Littler|title=Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 3)Arkspire

|summary=We open here with the Rebellion in disarrayTwo sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and our heroes separatedcheese. Obviously they need to rescue the ones imprisonedJuniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, liaise with including relics from prior major wars left out in the ones acting as secret agents, and get back to what they do bestBadlands. For Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the Empire are doing religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the same – they are building another Death Star – a new, bigger, quicker one without a piddly little hole child in it that just happens line to allow inherit the goodies power of the chance Watcher, the closest to destroy it at a ruler the district has, and one of the first attemptfive major victors in said earlier war. Oh, and our main hero, Luke, still has Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the matter status of who he should count as a the whole family member to settle… . YesBut in finding something oddly magical, this is the third film made in the ''Star Wars'' universeJuniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, in a handy form or for the eager junior novelisation reader.very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285443</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Julia Golding024162343X|title= The Diamond of Drury LaneStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating= 45|genre= Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Set I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in 18th Century London, this historical thriller captures all religious education classes because I disputed the rawness existence of life in a 'god'. Where was the grimy city. A young girlproof? In history lessons, Cat, who it was orphaned at birth, is taken under probably worse still. Not too long after the wing end of a kind benefactorWWII, Mr SheridanI didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, who found her abandoned but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the steps of his theatre. The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, is an exciting place colonies' as want to grow up, and Cat becomes a well-loved member of dispute what right the staff behind the scenes. While running errands army had to be there in the theatre, she dreams of being a famous writer herself one dayfirst place. Before her dream is realised though Looking back, Cat has an important role to play in solving a mystery I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the mystery of a diamond hidden in maturity to approach 'the Theatre Royal itselfproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285303</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryder WindhamThiago de Moraes|title=Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 2)Old Gods New Tricks|rating=34.5

|summary=IMeet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when she've never actually held s being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the theory that ''The Empire Strikes Back'' is the best film in the seriesworld changes. To meSuddenly, as practically everything electronic stops working – a youngsterpower-out, I got even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but the willies suitably with what happens to one characterentire planet (apart from mobile phones, and it was great to meet all that powers the Emperor at lastInternet, but beyond the assault on Hoth there was too much that didnjust for our convenience't work for mes sake). I certainly wasn't impressed by Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the kissy-kissy nonsense interrupting ancient Gods have taken the great space-faring actionpower of power from us. But I have always been eager enough And so she begins her epic quest, to revisit gather all the people that can steal it, as back – namely the film I've seen characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the least of Gods, ie the sevensemi-deities, and these YA variants of the films – adaptations of the canonical 2004 DVD editionsgiants, half-gods and first published at that time – are about so on known as the best way to do thattricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285435</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Bobbie PeersHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title= William Wenton and the Luridium ThiefFinding Bear|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Bobbie Peers is [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a pretty talented guy. Not only did he win lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ''Palme d'Or'' award for ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a film he wrote polar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, things on the domestic and directed in 2006family front are a bit advanced, but with this, his first booknot perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Desperate to make sure he's turned his hand OK, she and her father return to writing for young people. And the list Arctic and hope that in a world of awards he's collecting in his native Norway are testament to his vivid very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and entertaining imaginationthat the friendship can continue. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140637170X</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley and Frances CastleSimon Fox|title=Spot the Mistake: Lands of Long AgoDeadlock

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=You'll like as not have seen 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 children's book before secret place, and harangued it for containing errorsjoin him on the run. This book has at least two hundredThey get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and thatthe 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 not family home is destroyed in a problemfire. YesShe, in personifying the idea her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of learning through your mistakesher clothes, we get ten large dioramas or any of historical activityher special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, all containing twenty things that shouldnand now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't be theretouch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. Your taskWhen she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, should you choose to accept it, is display things that are important to try them and find them allshow who they are as a person. And the learning is also hereBut Ren has nothing to put in a box, as we get text and so she finds herself starting to tell us what the goofs were designed to show ussteal things. Make no mistakeSmall things, this things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=1839942835}}{{Frontpage|author= Rob Keeley|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a clever and absorbing read…return to the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, each as fun to read as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryder WindhamLaura Noakes|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star Wars: A New Hope Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 1)

|summary=It takes a greater mind than mine Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to keep track of all the different versions of ''Star Wars – A New Hope'' that there have beenher friends. That was never The practice in the name it was known under at the start, home she lives in is for one thing, but beyond the exuberant cinema classic known girls to so many, you get just be named by the digitally retouched version, then number they correspond to in the DVD versionledger, which both added to and took away some of those changes. And as it is they're all Unfortunates – young people with the filmdisabilities, so it is with the novelsuncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. This new presentation of But Cosima bears the YA trilogytag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, while bearing as the 2017 Copyright markfirst ever inmate, is and unique in having no known family in the 2004 children's novelisations, as far as I can make out, minus the picturesoutside world. You do get, on this first During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen oneafternoon, she discovers a '40 years of Star Wars' sticker, which is proof this is plan involving said outside world – a classic we're looking atdevilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, but more than and what does that, just goes body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to make me feel old…the past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285427</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matthew Clark Smith and Matt TavaresAlice M Ross|title=Lighter than Air: Sophie Blanchard, the First Woman PilotThe Nowhere Thief

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=We're At last there is new stock in Paris, the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and – not to her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be too rude free from worries about things – we seem surrounded by idiots. For onebeing found out, it seems they think because she has the perfect place ability to experiment with manned hot air balloon flights is in the middle of the biggest city in the leave this world. For another, they think only men could suffer the slightly colder and slightly thinner air experienced on such use an adventure – women would never be able unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to copeenter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. Meanwhile, a young girl is dreaming of flightWith eviction imminent, as so many are wont can Elsbeth nab anything to do, completely unaware that she will soon marry one of actually generate custom at the most famed balloonists. shop? They will have joint journeys skywardWell yes, before his early demise – leaving is the young woman, Sophie Blanchardanswer, to go it alone and become but the first female pilot.fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763677329</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lorraine Gregory Natasha Farrant|title=Mold and the Poison Plot The Rescue of Ravenwood

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=MoldThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of 's mum abandoned him in a dustbin when he was a baby but 'Voyage of the binmen didnSparrowhawk''t want him. Luckily Ravenwood is an old Aggy gave him house, in the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a home complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, andRaffy is there with his mum, with a crusty one-legged sailor and they are living together as a friendfamily. They have grown up swimming in the cove, Mold is happy. Happy until Aggy is accused roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of poisoning the King. Suddenly Mold finds himself alone nature around the house and thrust into loving every inch of the unlikely role of heroplace. He sets off But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to rescue Aggy and along sell the way finds himself trying property to save the King a developer as it's becoming more and prevent a war with the Boggersmore expensive to maintain. It The children find themselves worrying not only about where they's a lot for one small boy with an enormous nose re going to live, but luckily he finds heif they's uniquely fashioned to sniff out dangerll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192745824</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Danny WallaceRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title= Hamish and the Gravity BurpSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary=BUUUUUURRRRRRRRPPPPP! A terrifying noise Jayden's nose is rumbling through the sleepy town of Starkley (the fourth most boring town forever in Britain) and having a peculiar effect on book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the residents. Gravity has gone into reverse phoenixes and unicorns of the poor townsfolk are floating skywardworld, helplessly trying for example. Aisha is addicted to grab onto whatever they her new tablet, where she can in order to slow see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their ascent. Hamish Ellerby has just arrived home to find his family stuck to mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the ceiling, along with a bowl outside world of fruitHackney, six batteries and London. But when a wind-narrowboat turns up meerkat. What could be causing this strange phenomenon? Could it be leading up to something bigger? A ''gravitycarrying a science-belch''minded, or heaven forbideducational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden''gravity-FART''? Its cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's up to Hamish and his gangseen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boat, the PDFincluding a living gargoyle, to solve are tasked with saving the mystery rare critters – and restore order the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to Starkley join in time for . Dare they side with Leila, the official visit from woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the Public Office of Pride, or POP (shouldn't it be POOPunseen?).|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471147126</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah CarrollB09XWSXSKY|title=The Girl In BetweenMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|summary=After a family argumentFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a girl clock was playing over and her mother are stuck out on the streets of Irelandover in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, finding shelter finally in an he's ten now and all those old, abandoned millclocks don't appeal to him anymore.  ''Who needs old clocks anyway? The mill becomes All they do is tell the girltime. And time isn't good for anything...'s castle, where she finally feels safe from ' And that was why he was looking at the lurking threat of 'clock beside the authoritiesbed. It was nearly twelve o' and some of clock but at midnight the strange men in her mother's lifeclock chimed only six times. Her mother, however, seems There was nothing for it but to be tumbling deeper into depression, keeping her daughter locked up, out of sight inside, go and now there are strange men in hard hats coming around the mill to measure and make notes. find grandad - but where was he? Can And why had all the two of them move on, or will they be too late to escapeclocks stopped at twelve o'clock?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160629</amazonuk>