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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danna Smith and Bagram Ibatoulline1836285493|title= The Hawk Double Life of the Castle: A Story of Medieval Falconrya Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley

|genre=ChildrenConfident Readers|summary= Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of all, he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. This hasn's Rhymes t gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and Verse his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.}}{{Frontpage|isbn= 1836282028|title=The Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I don't know why I was surprised 'Would you like to adopt a ghost?'' ''Young spirit, born 1887, seeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by this book – Ibirth. Good company. Gets on well with other children. Jokes and shocks a speciality.'' ''ve read enough volumes for If interested, place outside your home three twigs, in the young audiences shape of an arrow, pointing to know 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 as far as subject matter is concernedboth a reboot and a continuation. Just like Doctor Who, pretty much anything goesEdward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. But Ruby and Jayden respond to this intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the rules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is about falconryadopted by them and takes up residence in.... a wardrobe!}}{{Frontpage|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 all things – the use 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 greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a once-wild stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and still pretty much free-spirited bird of prey to hunt down animalsEdward, either for a spoiled lordling and the heck first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of it or for Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the pothouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. An attractive girl What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-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 father get their hawk readyown, and leave then she finds something even more spooky. For the castle with all server 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 her safe place in the equipment in tow game has been doctored – bells well, where is a girl to hear turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the landed bird and what people in his world, it's capturedseems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the hood sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to act as blinkers for it on the way thereexit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the lure if necessarybig bad and the points they grant you along the way. The story concerns just Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one trip out, girlteam has been retired, fathereaten, hound – and hawka new trio of questors is needed. But while that may surprise you Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a subject matter of choiceteam. What chance does this friendless, it was the whole artistic approach muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that won me over here…, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406376698</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon Mayle and Nikalas CatlowJames Sherwood Metts|title=How Harry Riddles Made a Mega Amount of Money (Shoutykid, Book 5)Planet Storyland|rating=34.5

|summary=There is Things have been a child who likes his schoolbit sticky for the Earthlings. It just takes him AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to be fictional for do and other tasks that comment took time to be trueaccomplish. YesJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, while the building is way above his older sister in Harry's estimationnew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and while school is way below his enjoyment of playing zombie games, he likes it. He likes it enough to worry about along with it being forced to close when there's a heinous sum of £7,000 to be made up – but does he like anything profitable enough to make sure he can get all the place saved?many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008158924</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony HorowitzTom Percival|title=Never Say Die The Wrong Shoes

|summary=Set just five weeks after the events of ''Scorpia Rising'Will's life is difficult, Alex Rider is living in San Francisco and attempting to adjust to life as a normal high school studentmultitude of ways. Normal, however, is not a word that we associate with this particular fifteen year old. After all, this He is bullied because he has 'the boy whowrong shoes's completed nine successful missions for M16: the teenager who , he has saved the world (more than once) wrong shoes because his dad can't work and effectively brought down doesn't have enough money for even the international criminal organisationmost basic of things like food, Scorpia. And things arenand his dad can't about to changework because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Given everything Throw into that has happened in Alexmix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's young lifeseems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, it's not surprising that feel like a light at the past is about to catch up with him…end of a long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406377058</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1805141872|title=Running on the Roof of the WorldThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Jess ButterworthRob Keeley

|summary=Rule Number One: Don't run in front of 'Seventeen banks and a soldierjeweller’s have been raided.<br>Rule Number Two: Never look at The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a soldiersafecracker! With 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. <br>Rule Number Three: Say as little as possible.<br> There are two words banned in Tibet: Dalai Lama.''

Tash lives in Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a Tibet under the Chinese occupation that began in 1950. Chinese soldiers are terror! How on earth did a constant and oppressive feature of nice teacher like her life. Most of Tibetmanage to get mixed up with a bad 's cultural and religious traditions are severely suppressed and any act of rebellion can result in you taken away by the soldiers, never to be seen again. But there is resistance. Tashun like Al? We's father belongs to a secret cell that tries to get information ll find out to the wider world. But it's dangerous. And whenLuckily for Miss Judson, one daythe pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of a man self-immolates in her village famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as an act of protesthis father some day, the Chinese authorities crack down hard.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510102086</amazonuk>and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mark Huckerby and Nick OstlerChristopher Edge|title= Defender of the Realm: Dark AgeBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=King Alfred Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the Second is still growing into his roles as King and Defender nickname of the Realm'The Black Hole'. Just having defeated the Black Dragon at his coronation All big movie fans, Alfie is trying they're looking forward to focus on making less lots of a fool of himself in his day jobexciting films, and many, many snacks! However, something as the Prime Minister is keen to encourage as much as possiblemovie starts, when a they very quickly realise that something about this new threat hits the Kingdom. The UK film format is being savaged by a hoard of undead Vikingsvery different, intent on causing as much trouble as possible, who have all been stirred and they are swept up by Alfieinto an adventure they couldn's old History teacher, Professor Lockt even imagine. But how do you kill something that's already deadas they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Alfie is trying Will they ever get back to save the Kingdom by nightcinema, rule it by day and keep his family together, all the while knowing if he fails, we could be thrown into another dark age. Well, no one said being King would be easy. to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407164244</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth P JonesAdam Stower|title=Beards From Outer SpaceMurray 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. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and 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 be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary= You might not realise it but Earth Eli 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. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is under constant alien attacka generation missing in the family. Luckily we humans don A few short years ago, Eli't need s parents were both lost to worry because the Pet Defenders (titular race, a secret society globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of our domestic pets) are always on standby a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to keep us safe. The activities of the Pet Defenders are normally kept secret pair – but Stripes Publishing are kindly allowing human children when a brief glimpse into their exciting adventures. In ''Beards From Outer Space'' we are able bad incident at the eatery leads to read how a dog and cat – secret agents Biskit and Mitzy – team up confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to rid enter what he most hates, with the world sole aim the prize of an army of alien beardsmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847157858</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen Cooper|title=The Secret Taming of the Wooden Chest (Roman Magic)|author= Catherine RosevearCat

|summary=Hannah lives with her parents 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 flat above cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the nursing home where her mother is matronnames of cheeses. Hannah Anyway, Brie is an only child shunned, scorned and so she enjoys making friends , if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with some of . They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the homevisuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. It's residentsalmost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. So when Mrs Oberto moves This makes Brie the top dog inthe mouse community, Hannah is keen though, as all the others had the chance to make her acquaintance half- Hannah has never met anyone Italian before. Mrs Oberto is quite standoffish at first but Hannah persists and soon they are inch some cheese while the best of friends. Mrs Oberto is particularly keen on helping Hannah with her school project about ancient Rome and relates many interesting stories about her Sicilian childhoodcat was distracted. But she remains tight-lipped about will the mysterious wooden chest, story have the key to which she keeps around her neck...successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788032535</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan GibbonsLauren St John|title=The Beautiful GameFinding Wonder

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Football is all about its coloursRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. And even if I write in the season Her mum died when one team she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in blue knocks another team in blue from the throne middle of English football, it's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour night by the police banging on her door to wear. But is tell her that flame red? Blood red? The red of her dad has dropped dead on his way to the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in corner shop to buy a tragedy – and that it had been one of their own making? lottery ticket. And while weWhen asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn're on about colour, where were the people t think very highly of colour in football in the olden days? . There are But she has no one else, and so many darker sides off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to footballget worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's history old campervan, it's enough to make a young lad question breaks down in the whole game…middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernard AshleyAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Lena Lenik SOscar'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.O And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a problem.S And it's wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=0008596751}}{{Frontpage|author=Judith Eagle|title=The Stolen Songbird

|summary=Caro''Dancing Paws of Magic'' offers us almost two related stories in ones mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Part One focuses on the problems that arise when the dancing cats Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of the Pusska Mogginsky Ballet Company go on strike. There is only one feline her sister who can put things right but sadly the lepremog (the cat equivalent of a leprechaun) Galway O-Toot is dead, crushed by a falling wallunwell. If the animal ballet So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to be savedstay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, the remaining members she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of the ballet company must work together building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to find his bones and restore his life even if a halt whilst she is stuck inside this means taking on the Black Treacle Farm Gangstaid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. In Part Two But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, we move on to the long-awaited performance as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum''The Sleeping Beauty''s old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Here everything seems Is the painting somehow linked to be going just purr-fectly until the Black Treacle Farm Gang – including Gang Leader Bruiser Bumfluff – appear gang? And what has happened to get their revenge.Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036875</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Harder They FallTania Unsworth|authortitle=Bali RaiNowhere Island

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Cal loves comic booksMeet Gil. He also dreams of being a superhero and saving Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the day while simultaneously winning care system – the heart of the girl (Freya being the girl, hopefully)system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a home for himself. Batman He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him to his favourite superherofuture. But Cal's world outside That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his daydreams is not particularly superhero-like. Because Cal is brother in a bit camp on an island between the two directions of a geek motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. Them, and he is being bullied by mean a mute girl Anualso finding a home there, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on to lazy classmatesalbeit so much more successfully. Still 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's just would not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely and the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures...work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz PichonHelen Peters|title=Family, Friends and Furry Creatures (Tom Gates)Traitors|rating=43

|summary=Tom Gates has got a problem: his shoes England, WW2. Two young girls are making a noisenew at the country pile called Stanbrook. They sort of rasp when he walksOne is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, only he can't recreate like the sound at homefemale generations before her. At school it's a different matter: not only The other is the noise very loudSidney, there are those of his classmates who suggest a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that it has originated been removed there away from somewhere a little more, wellbomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn''intimate''t guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. All But something is amiss, and first separately and then in all itcombination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 's un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a good start to the day for Tom, particularly when he realises that he's also forgotten his baby photo for the latest school projectlocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. Class 5F But surely the girls are building their family trees wrong, and they've got to interview family members to get stories of their lives for the project.upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407168118</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cheeky Charlie: Bugs and Bananas (My Crazy Brother Book 2)Jamie Littler|authortitle=Mat WaughArkspire

|summary=Cheeky Charlie has already had [[Cheeky Charlie by Mat Waugh|one book]] written about him Two sisters, Juniper and now he has another. His slapstick adventures Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are related once more by his sister Harrygrowing to be chalk and cheese. I love Harry Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Harry Elodie is by turn infuriated 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 a ruler the district has, and amused by her brother Charlieone of the five major victors in said earlier war. And Harry also brims over with enthusiasm Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B072F58644</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Claire Fayers024162343X|title= Journey to Dragon Island (The Accidental Pirates)Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Two questsI was the bad company other people got into at school. Can I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the crew existence of a 'god'. Where was the good ship Onion proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (donand occasional failures, but we didn't askdwell on those) help their young friend Brine in what came to find her home? And does be called 'the legendary island of dragons really exist or – a rather important point, this – if colonies' as want to dispute what right the ship keeps sailing west, will it just topple off army had to be there in the edge of the world? Of coursefirst place. Looking back, if you think a little thing like terrible peril and nearI still believe I was right -certain death should stop Captain Cassie and her shipmates from going wherever they fancy, then youbut I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 're reading the wrong seriesproblem' politely. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447290623</amazonuk>I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Bear GryllsThiago de Moraes|title= Old Gods New Jungle Book Adventures: Spirit of the JungleTricks|rating= 34.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This book is technically excellent but unfortunately it falls flat in Meet 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's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the actual executionworld changes. Grylls uses trusted storytelling techniques such as Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the heroschool's journey in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and Chekovall that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's Gun sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to produce a frame gather all the people that should be engaging with the target audience but unfortunately can steal it does not quite hit back – namely the mark. What we ultimately characters from myth that have is a great idea with some wonderful moments that never really recovers past form in stealing from a slow beginningthe Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509828486</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Spudboy Hannah Gold and ChipLevi Pinfold|authortitle=David WindleFinding Bear|rating=4.5

|summary=''Sticky Toffee Trifle flavour mashed potato. This one's [[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 winner!'' Erpolar bear – that she called Bear... ok then. Not. Colin Sludge's parents run Back home, things on the domestic and family front are a fish bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and chip shop and it isn't doing so wellcan easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. So Colin's mum is trying out new recipes to tempt in more customers and Colin's dad is using Colin as For a guinea pig. The only problem is that Colin bear doing very Bear-y things has eaten quite enough exotic mashed potato, thankyouverymuchbeen shot and wounded. He Desperate to make sure he's practically bursting with it. And OK, she and her father return to the house is practically bursting with potato peelingsArctic and hope that in a world of very white and very dangerous things, so it's no wonder she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that Colin slips and falls when he's taking them out to the garbage binsfriendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>154314702X</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleySimon Fox|title=Flesh and Blood|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Families change in wartime – in size, if not any other way. 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 in London – just in time for the Battle of Britain, which is a circumstance Bill hates Jane for, as he quickly grew to love the countryside, while Jane resisted the idea of them settling there, so they were returned to an allegedly safe capital. One night after a bombing raid they settle outside the neighbourhood's token empty, boarded up and deserted home – only for Bill to convince himself he hears someone inside. The unidentifiable 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 Jane?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126887</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Matilda Woods|title=The Boy, the Bird and the Coffin MakerDeadlock

|summary=Alberto Late one night Graham Blake is a carpenter, late back from his shift on the very best in the town of Allora. But after the plague sweeps through the townforce, taking many of the citizens and Alberto's wife and childrenthen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he turns his skills away fetch something from furniture a secret place, and toys to making coffinsjoin him on the run. Wrapped in sadnessThey get together, and waiting only for but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the plague to come and claim his life too, Alberto lives alonefather is arrested, keeping company with leaving Archie on the dead who are delivered late express to Brighton, toting a tin his house father was determined to await their coffin. One daykeep away from his colleagues, however, he realises that he must have and the bearer of a living visitor, as food starts to go missingwhole heap of questions. He begins to leave scraps of food, to try and discover who his mystery thief is…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407178695</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gill Lewis and Jo WeaverCath Howe|title= A Story Like the WindMy Life on Fire|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A small group of people huddle together Ren's family home is destroyed in a tiny boat in fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a large sea. Strangers special art project, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to each other but united by them and show who they are as a common experienceperson. They have each lost everything and yet each But Ren has nothing to put in a dream of seeking box, and finding refugeso she finds herself starting to steal things. They each Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have hope. A small hopeso much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192758950</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryder WindhamRob Keeley|title=Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 3)The Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|summary=We open here Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with the Rebellion in disarray, and our heroes separated. Obviously they need a return to rescue the ones imprisoned, liaise with the ones acting as secret agents, and get back short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to what they do best. For the Empire are doing the same – they are building another Death Star – a eleven newtales, bigger, quicker one without a piddly little hole in it that just happens each as fun to allow the goodies the chance to destroy it at the first attempt. Oh, and our main hero, Luke, still has the matter of who he should count read as a family member to settle… Yes, this is the third film made in the ''Star Wars'' universe, in a handy form for the eager junior novelisation readerhis previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285443</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julia GoldingLaura Noakes|title= The Diamond of Drury LaneCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Set Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in 18th Century London, this historical thriller captures all is for the girls to just be named by the rawness of life number they correspond to in the grimy city. A ledger, and they're all Unfortunates – young girlpeople with disabilities, Cat, who was orphaned at birth, is taken under uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the wing of tag as a kind benefactor, Mr Sheridansurname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, who found her abandoned on as the steps of his theatre. The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, is an exciting place to grow upfirst ever inmate, and Cat becomes a well-loved member of the staff behind unique in having no known family in the scenesoutside world. While running errands in During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the theatrekitchen one afternoon, she dreams of being discovers a plan involving said outside world – a famous writer herself one daydevilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. Before her dream is realised though But why, Cat has an important role and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to play in solving a mystery - the mystery of a diamond hidden in the Theatre Royal itself.past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285303</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryder WindhamAlice M Ross|title=Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 2)Nowhere Thief|rating=34.5

|summary=I've never actually held by the theory that ''The Empire Strikes Back'' At last there is new stock in the best film impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in the seriesa seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. To meShe also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, as a youngster, I got because she has the willies suitably with what happens ability to one characterleave this world, and it was great use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to meet enter other worlds, where the Emperor at last, but beyond sea levels are rising dramatically and the assault on Hoth there was too much that didn't work buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for meplunder. I certainly wasn't impressed by the kissy-kissy nonsense interrupting With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the great space-faring action. shop? But I have always been eager enough to revisit itWell yes, as is the film I've seen answer, but the least of the seven, and fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these YA variants of the films – adaptations of the canonical 2004 DVD editions, and first published at that time – are about the best way to do that.different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285435</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Bobbie PeersNatasha Farrant|title= William Wenton and the Luridium ThiefThe Rescue of Ravenwood|rating= 45|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Bobbie Peers This story is a pretty talented guy. Not only did he win a another excellent adventure from the author of ''Palme dVoyage of the Sparrowhawk'Or'' award . Ravenwood is an old house, in the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a film he wrote complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and directed Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in 2006the cove, but roaming through the trees, completely at one with thisall of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his first book, heother two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's turned his hand becoming more and more expensive to writing for young peoplemaintain. And the list of awards he The children find themselves worrying not only about where they's collecting in his native Norway are testament re going to his vivid live, but if they'll even be together, and entertaining imaginationif Ravenwood itself will be torn down. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140637170X</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda Wood, Mike Jolley Robin Birch and Frances CastleJobe Anderson|title=Spot the MistakeSecret Beast Club: Lands The Unicorns of Long AgoSilver Street|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=YouJayden'll like as not have seen s nose is forever in a children's book before , which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and harangued it unicorns of the world, for containing errorsexample. This book has at least two hundredAisha is addicted to her new tablet, and where she can see videos of anything that's not a problemmight be out there. YesThe problem, in personifying the idea of learning through your mistakesas their mothers see it, we get ten large dioramas of historical activity, all containing twenty things is that shouldnthey are never 't be out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. Your taskBut when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, should you choose to accept iteducational purpose, is to try and with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find them alla magical world they never knew existed. And For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the learning is also hereone Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, as we get text to tell us what are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the goofs were designed magical sight needed to show usjoin in. Make no mistakeDare they side with Leila, the woman on board, this is and her relative who lives as a figure in a clever painting, and absorbing read…become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809634</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryder WindhamB09XWSXSKY|title=Star Wars: A New Hope Junior Novel (Star Wars Junior Novel 1)Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|summary=It takes Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a greater clock was playing over and over in his mind than mine . It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to keep track of come; after all the different versions of , he's ten now and all those old clocks don'Star Wars – A New Hopet appeal to him anymore. '' that there have beenWho needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the time. That And time isn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was never looking at the clock beside the name it bed. It was known under nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the start, clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for one thing, it but beyond the exuberant cinema classic known to so many, you get the digitally retouched version, then the DVD version, which both added to go and took away some of those changes. find grandad - but where was he? And as it is with why had all the film, so it is with the novels. This new presentation of the YA trilogy, while bearing the 2017 Copyright mark, is the 2004 children's novelisations, as far as I can make out, minus the pictures. You do get, on this first one, a '40 years of Star Wars' sticker, which is proof this is a classic weclocks stopped at twelve o're looking at, but more than that, just goes to make me feel old…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285427</amazonuk>clock?