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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Manton, Phyllis Bray and David Buckman1836285493|title=Titania and OberonThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5

|summary=''Equus''Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, ''Waiting for Godot'' a slightly annoying brother and ''A Mid-summer Night's Dream'' – three very distinctive playsa supportive friend. But most of all, and my he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite threelesson at his school, Marlowe Park, out of and one at which you wonhe excels. This hasn't often get me choosing just one. But were I to do sogone unnoticed by his headteacher, it might actually be the lastMrs Howarth, for the simple reason I would delight in playing any and all characters from it. Yes, I know Hermia she has suggested to Will and Helena look his mum that he spends a bit implausible now – but I put it to you stranger things happen on stage… Some couple of the strangest things involve afternoons a week at a player himselfdifferent school, Station Road, a lowly actor who gets given an ass's head and is forced to where his ability might be the enamoured of a fairy queen. It's this section of the play that this book concentrates on, in quite stunning formbetter extended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184365329X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Briony May Smith1836282028|title=The Giant's NecklaceFighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5

|summary=On holiday in Cornwall Cherry found a length of fishing line and decided that she was going ''Would you like to make adopt a giantghost?'' 's necklace 'Young spirit, born 1887, seeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on well with cowrie shellsother children. Jokes and shocks a speciality. She's patient and painstaking - it takes her weeks to gather the shells' ''If interested, cleanplace outside your home three twigs, polish and string them together. On in the final day shape of the holiday she knows how many more she needs and shean arrow, pointing to your front door...'s determined that she's not going to be beaten. The family head off for  Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a day on their beach and Cherry begs to stay on for a little longer so that she can get the shells she needs. Only shedecade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's not ''quiteSpirits'' careful enough series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that is both a reboot and a continuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. Ruby and allows herself Jayden respond to be cut off this intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the rules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is adopted by the tide when the weather them and takes up residence in.... a turn for the worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406373494</amazonuk>wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek LandyRob Keeley|title=ResurrectionChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|summary=Skulduggery Pleasant – the sharply dressed and wise-cracking skeleton – is back Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he needs help. A small group of disgruntled sorcerers have banded together writes for their pleasure and have plans enjoyment, not to use their unique set lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of skills to wage war on the mortal worldhis greatest achievements. Others have tried this in the past but this particular group have a scheme that should guarantee their success: theyIt're going to resurrect s a terrifying evil. Despite his powerssequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, Skulduggery a stalwart young girl who can't defeat them alone. He successfully persuades his former partner – Valkyrie Cain – to join him for just twenty-four hours. But will she stay when cope with anything the time runs out? Will they be able to save spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the world?first spirit Ellie encounters|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008169020</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barry HutchisonMax Boucherat|title= Super Creepy Camp (Beaky Malone)The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=First of all, IWe meet Lori on the first evening she'd like s got the house to start off by making a complaint herself – no neighbour to Barry Hutchisonpop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. His latest book What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, ''Super Creepy Camp'' she has been giving me sleepless nights. I've been kept awake by one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the raucous laughter emanating from my sonworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's bedroom as he reads it before bedworld. I But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn'd just be settling down t find herself entirely on her own, and then it would start again, bouncing off she finds something even more spooky. For the walls in the dead server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of night and probably keeping the neighbours awake tootampering. I'd stomp angrily across the landing When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, open his door, to find him helplessly rolling around on and her safe place in the bed in fits of giggles. So thanksgame has been doctored – well, Barry. Thanks where is a lot.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847158129</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Renee RussellKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Misadventures of Max Crumbly 2Dungeon Runners: Middle School MayhemHero Trial|rating=2.54

|summary=Max is in the middle of a situation, and no mistakeMeet Kit. [[The Misadventures Like most of Max Crumbly: Locker Hero by Rachel Renee Russell|Last time]] the people in his world, it seems, he had to bust himself out is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of his own school lockerwarrior, mage and found himself caught up in a right scrape suitable only for his own superhero aspirationshealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, involving burglars at and race to the school, retrieving valuable comicsexit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and so much morethe points they grant you along the way. Joining right back into Unfortunately for Kit, the action with a literal only thing he''splat'' this time we face s seen of the latest race on the thieves up front inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and personala new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, and at the same see Max trying to save what little friendship he has with taken to the goading from the hot computertoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-loving girl at schoolfree-zone have in actually managing that, who can easily rank as his only friend there – and whose clothes how could he happens possibly hope to be wearing. Oh woe is he…succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147114464X</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rosemary SutcliffJames Sherwood Metts|title= Black Ships Before TroyPlanet Storyland|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This is the perfect book Things have been a bit sticky for those that want a taste of Homer's Iliad before attempting the full workEarthlings. Although aimed at a younger reading audienceAI and automation have been proceeding apace, Sutcliffoften replacing jobs they's writing is concise re paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and gripping; thusstarting to think of other, this will be as equally beneficial new ways to adultsspend time, along came an awful pandemic. ThisLife was pretty much shut down and, when brought together along with the excellent artistic skills of Allan leeit, makes for a lavish retelling of all the Iliadmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809952</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Judith KerrTom Percival|title=When Hitler Stole Pink RabbitThe Wrong Shoes

|summary=ItWill's Germanylife is difficult, 1933 and nine year old Anna has in a dream – she wants to be famous when she grows upmultitude of ways. Unfortunately nearly all He is bullied because he has 'the famous people she's heard of have suffered from a ''difficult childhoodwrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can' t work and Anna knows thatdoesn's not her. She has a loving family with t have enough money. Her life isfor even the most basic of things like food, however, turned upside down by Adolf Hitler's rise to power. Anna's told that she's Jewish (her parents arenand his dad can't particularly religious so she work because he lost his job at the college, was only dimly aware of this) and her dad is likely to be working a target under cash-in-hand job on a Nazi governmentbuilding site and had an accident. Anna Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and her family dad are forced to flee Germany and build a new life as refugees in Switzerlandseparated, then France and ultimately England. ItWill's a hard life, especially when money worries settle seems bleak inevery direction. And yet, but for Anna and her brother it's also an adventurehe still has a tiny amount of hope. It's He is good at art, thereforeand clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long time before Anna realises that her experiences might actually count as a ''difficult childhood'', dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007274777</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1805141872|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! 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...'' Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving}}{{Frontpage|author=Geraldo ValerioChristopher Edge|title=My Book of BirdsBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=I never really caught the bird-watching habitLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, even with the opportunity of growing up on the edge of a village in place that has the middle nickname of nowhere'The Black Hole'. It was in All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the family, toomovie starts, but I resigned myself to never seeing much they very quickly realise that was spectacularsomething about this new film format is very different, and once youthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn've seen one blackbird you've seen them all, was my thinkingt even imagine. If I'd had this book But as a youngsterthey lurch from one film genre to the next, who knows – I may have come can they figure out of it differently, having been shown the diversity of what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the bird world in snippets of textcinema, and some quite unusual illustrations…to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1526360004</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danna Smith and Bagram IbatoullineAdam Stower|title= The Hawk of the Castle: A Story of Medieval FalconryMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse Confident Readers |summary=I don't know why I was surprised by this book – I've read enough volumes for the young audiences Murray is supposed to know that as far as subject matter be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is concernedable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, pretty much anything goeswell, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But this is about falconryhe's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, of all things – 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 once-wild and still pretty troll hunter is expected – well, one much free-spirited bird of prey bigger than Murray was, to hunt down animalsbe honest, either for the heck 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 it or for Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the pot. An attractive girl and her father get their hawk readywondrous library we start by visiting with him, and leave in the castle evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with all the equipment his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in tow – bells to hear the landed bird and what itfamily. A few short years ago, Eli's capturedparents were both lost to the titular race, the hood a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to act as blinkers for it on navigate the way there, world in the lure if necessarycompany of a magical beast. The story concerns just one trip outThis has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, girlEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, father, hound with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – and hawkthe only thing to possibly save his gran. But while that may surprise you as a subject matter of choice, it was the whole artistic approach that won me over here…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406376698</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon Mayle and Nikalas CatlowHelen Cooper|title=How Harry Riddles Made a Mega Amount The Taming of Money (Shoutykid, Book 5)the Cat

|summary=There Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. Anyway, Brie is a child who likes shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his schoolhabits don't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. It just takes him 's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to be fictional for that comment tell stories to be truekeep themselves alive. YesThis makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the building is way above his older sister in Harrycat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=0571376010}}{{Frontpage|author=Lauren St John|title=Finding Wonder|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Roo's estimationlife has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and while school is now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way below his enjoyment 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 playing zombie games. But she has no one else, he likes itand so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. He likes it enough Things continue to worry about it being forced to close get worse for Roo, as when thereshe and Joni leave London in Joni's a heinous sum old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of £7nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Oscar's Lion|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start incredibly bluntly,000 with Oscar hoping to be made up have his mother – or father, but does 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 like anything profitable enough 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 make sure 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 place saved?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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008158924</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony HorowitzJudith Eagle|title=Never Say Die The Stolen Songbird|rating=54

|summary=Set just five weeks after the events of ''Scorpia Rising'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, Alex Rider is living in San Francisco and attempting having to adjust go up North to life as a normal high school studenttake care of her sister who is unwell. Normal So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, howeversomeone 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 not a word that we associate with stuck inside this particular fifteen year staid old. After allVictorian lady's house, this is the along with an orphan boy , Albie, whois 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 completed nine successful missions for M16: old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the teenager who has saved Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the world (more than once) and effectively brought down painting somehow linked to the international criminal organisation, Scorpia. gang? And things aren't about to change. Given everything that what has happened in Alexto Caro's young life, it's not surprising that mother? Is she somehow involved in the past is about to catch up with him…mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406377058</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Running on the Roof of the WorldTania Unsworth|authortitle=Jess ButterworthNowhere Island

|summary=Rule Number One: Don't run in front of a soldierMeet Gil.<br>Rule Number Two: Never look at a soldier. <br>Rule Number Three: Say as little as possible.<br> There are two words banned in Tibet: Dalai Lama. Tash lives in a Tibet under Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the care system – the Chinese occupation system that began constantly puts him in 1950. Chinese soldiers futureless places that are not homes – and find a constant home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and oppressive feature of her lifelets it ride him to his future. Most That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of Tibet's cultural and religious traditions are severely suppressed and any act of rebellion can result belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in you taken away by a camp on an island between the soldierstwo directions of a motorway, never a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to be seen againprovide for their safety and seclusion. But Them, and a mute girl also finding a home there is resistance, albeit so much more successfully. Tash's father belongs to Over a secret cell that tries to get information out to the wider world. But it's dangerous. And whenfew weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one day, a man self-immolates in her village place where life as an act of protest, the Chinese authorities crack down hard.we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510102086</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mark Huckerby and Nick OstlerHelen Peters|title= Defender of the Realm: Dark AgeFriends and Traitors|rating= 4.53|genre= Confident Readers|summary=King Alfred England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the Second country pile called Stanbrook. One is still growing into his roles as King and Defender of the Realm. Just having defeated the Black Dragon at his coronationNancy, Alfie is trying destined to focus on making less of a fool of himself be in his day jobservice all her life it seems, something like the Prime Minister female generations before her. The other is keen to encourage as much as possibleSidney, when a new threat hits the Kingdomgirl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The UK 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 being savaged by amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a hoard rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of undead Vikingsmeetings with Germans, intent on causing as much trouble as possibleand not only that, who have all a local Spitfire factory has been stirred up by Alfie's old History teacher, Professor Lockattacked. But how do you kill something that's already dead? Alfie is trying to save surely the Kingdom by nightgirls are wrong, rule it by day and keep his family together, all the while knowing if he fails, we upper class could never be thrown into another dark age. Well, no one said being King would be easy. so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407164244</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth P JonesJamie Littler|title=Beards From Outer SpaceArkspire

|summary=Hannah lives with her parents Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in a flat above the nursing home where her mother is matronBadlands. Hannah Elodie is an only intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child and so she enjoys making friends with some in line to inherit the power of the home's residents. So when Mrs Oberto moves inWatcher, Hannah is keen the closest to make her acquaintance - Hannah a ruler the district has never met anyone Italian before, and one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Mrs Oberto is quite standoffish at first but Hannah persists and soon they are Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the best status 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 childhoodthe whole family. But she remains tight-lipped about the mysterious wooden chestin finding something oddly magical, the key Juniper might just be able to which she keeps around gain some power of her neck...own – for good, or for very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788032535</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Gibbons024162343X|title=The Beautiful GameStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=45|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Football is all about its coloursI was the bad company other people got into at school. And even if I write was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from the throne existence of English football, ita 'god's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour to wear. But is that flame redWhere was the proof? Blood red? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. The red Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – British army's successes (and that it had been one of their own making? And while occasional failures, but wedidn're t dwell on about colour, where were those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the people of colour in football army had to be there in the olden days? first place. There are so many darker sides Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to footballapproach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's history it's enough to make a young lad question the whole game…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>'Stolen History''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernard AshleyThiago de Moraes|title=Lena Lenik S.O.S.Old Gods New Tricks|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Lena's mother seems very illMeet Trixie. Scary noises are coming from Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the bathroomschool aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when she's off food and completely listlessbeing told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, complaining of the effort involved in sewing a patch onto a cub scout uniformworld changes. It might be Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a surprise to power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the young reader of this book when we learn what school's in but the reason is – certainly it was obvious entire planet (apart from page two mobile phones, and all that powers the Internet, just for me our convenience's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – but there are definitely more surprises to comethe ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. Mother makes a slightly unusual decision about And so she begins her condition epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – leaving Lena with a lot namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on her plate when fate sets in with a surprise of its own…known as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125716</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria McArdleHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Dancing Paws of MagicFinding Bear|rating=34.5

|summary=''Dancing Paws of Magic'' offers us almost two related stories in one[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. Part One focuses Back home, things on the problems that arise domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the dancing cats of the Pusska Mogginsky Ballet Company go islands Bear was last left on strike. There is only one feline who can put things right but sadly the lepremog (the cat equivalent of For a leprechaun) Galway Obear doing very Bear-Toot is dead, crushed by a falling wally things has been shot and wounded. If the animal ballet is Desperate to be savedmake sure he's OK, she and her father return to the remaining members Arctic and hope that in a world of the ballet company must work together to very white and very dangerous things, she can find his bones one specific white and restore his life even if this means taking on dangerous thing – and that the Black Treacle Farm Gang. In Part Two, we move on to the long-awaited performance of ''The Sleeping Beauty''. Here everything seems to be going just purr-fectly until the Black Treacle Farm Gang – including Gang Leader Bruiser Bumfluff – appear to get their revengefriendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036875</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Harder They FallSimon Fox|authortitle=Bali RaiDeadlock

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Cal loves comic books. He also dreams of being 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 superhero secret place, and saving join him on the day while simultaneously winning run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the heart whiff of Southern trains when the girl (Freya being father is arrested, leaving Archie on the girllate express to Brighton, hopefully). Batman is toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his favourite superherocolleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions. But Cal|isbn=1839944420}}{{Frontpage|author=Cath Howe|title=My Life on Fire|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ren's world outside his daydreams family home is not particularly superherodestroyed in a 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-likeknacks 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. Because Cal is When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a bit special art project, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to put in a geek box, and he is being bullied by mean girl Anu, who makes him complete homework assignments which so she then sells on finds herself starting to lazy classmatessteal things. Still Small things, things that people might not really miss, it's not all badwhen they have so much already. Cal's parents are lovely and the gorgeous Freya But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is making friendly overtures...doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz PichonRob Keeley|title=Family, Friends The Boy Who Disappeared and Furry Creatures (Tom Gates)Other Stories

|summary=Tom Gates has got a problem: his shoes are making a noise. They sort of rasp when he walks, only he can't recreate the sound at home. At school it's a different matter: not only Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is the noise very loud, there are those of his classmates who suggest that it has originated from somewhere a little more, well, ''intimate''. All in all it's not back with a good start return to the day for Tomshort story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, particularly when he realises that he's also forgotten each as fun to read as his baby photo for the latest school project. Class 5F are building their family trees and they've got to interview family members to get stories of their lives for the projectprevious offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407168118</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cheeky Charlie: Bugs and Bananas (My Crazy Brother Book 2)Laura Noakes|authortitle=Mat WaughCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=Cheeky Charlie has already had [[Cheeky Charlie Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by Mat Waugh|one book]] written the number they correspond to in the ledger, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about him where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and now he has anotherunique in having no known family in the outside world. His slapstick adventures are related once more by During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his sister HarryInstitute. I love Harry But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059}}{{Frontpage|author=Alice M Ross|title=The Nowhere Thief|rating=4. Harry 5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=At last there is by turn infuriated new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and amused by her brother Charliemother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. And Harry She also brims over with enthusiasmknows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the ability to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, is the answer, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B072F58644</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire FayersNatasha Farrant|title= Journey to Dragon Island (The Accidental Pirates)Rescue of Ravenwood|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Two quests. Can This story is another excellent adventure from the crew author of ''Voyage of the good ship Onion (donSparrowhawk't ask) help '. Ravenwood is an old house, in the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their young friend Brine to find lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her home? And does Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the legendary island of dragons really exist or – a rather important pointcove, this – if roaming through the ship keeps sailing westtrees, will it just topple off completely at one with all of the nature around the edge house and loving every inch of the world? Of courseplace. But now the house is under threat, if you think as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a little thing like terrible peril developer as it's becoming more and near-certain death should stop Captain Cassie and her shipmates from more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going wherever to live, but if they fancy'll even be together, then you're reading the wrong seriesand if Ravenwood itself will be torn down. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447290623</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Bear GryllsRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title= New Jungle Book AdventuresSecret Beast Club: Spirit The Unicorns of the JungleSilver Street|rating= 34|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This book Jayden's nose is technically excellent but unfortunately it falls flat forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the actual executionphoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. Grylls uses trusted storytelling techniques such Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the herooutside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's journey and Chekovcousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's Gun to produce seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boat, including a frame that should be engaging living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the target audience but unfortunately it does not quite hit kids unknowingly have the markmagical sight needed to join in. What we ultimately have is Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a great idea with some wonderful moments that never really recovers from figure in a slow beginning.painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509828486</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B09XWSXSKY|title=Spudboy Maestro Orpheus and Chipthe World Clock|author=David WindleRobert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|summary=Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn'Sticky Toffee Trifle flavour mashed potato. This onet really wanted to come; after all, he's a winner!'ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore.

Er''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the time. And time isn't good for anything.. ok then. Not.''

Colin Sludge's parents run a fish and chip shop and it isn't doing so well. So Colin's mum is trying out new recipes to tempt in more customers and Colin's dad is using Colin as a guinea pig. The only problem is that Colin has eaten quite enough exotic mashed potato, thankyouverymuch. He's practically bursting with it. And the house is practically bursting with potato peelings, so it's no wonder that Colin slips and falls when was why he's taking them out to was looking at the clock beside 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 size, if not any other waybed. Bill and Jane have already had to get used to their father being away to fight, ''andIt was nearly twelve o'' they've tried the evacuee experience, clock but are back in London – just in time for at midnight 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 capitalclock chimed only six times. One night after a bombing raid they settle outside the neighbourhood's token empty, boarded up and deserted home – only There was nothing for Bill it but to convince himself go and find grandad - but where was 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 BillAnd why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o's resent-filled wish for a brother to replace Janeclock?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126887</amazonuk>