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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Julian SedgwickRob Keeley|rating=5|genre=Confident 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't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and 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=Ghosts of ShanghaiThe Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=Shanghai''Would you like to adopt a ghost?'' ''Young spirit, 1926born 1887, seeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on well with other children. The city is heavily divided between the natural, national areas, Jokes and the enclaves of the foreigners – Russian, French, American, Britishshocks a speciality. Several of the younger international youths have formed the Ghost Society gang, after the principal character'' ''If interested, Rubyplace outside your home three twigs, found another divide cleaving Shanghai in two – that between the living and the deadshape of an arrow, the pointing to your front door...'real world' and the Otherworld. Her brother dead, she seemed to become the conduit for  Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a poltergeist decade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's ''Spirits'' series in her apartment, and recently the gang have even managed to lock Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a spirit into new adventure that is both a bottle reboot and cast it down a wellcontinuation. But the gang is immediately falling apart – the lad she lovesJust like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, Charlieour incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. Ruby and his sister are diverting themselves fromJayden respond to this intriguing advertisement and Edward, or have been warned off, any further such activity. Rose knows she who has to find broken the source of the problem – rules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is adopted by them and cross any untold divides takes up residence in her city to find the truth…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444923900</amazonuk>.... a wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guillermo del ToroRob 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, Daniel Kraus 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 stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and Sean Murraythe first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=TrollhuntersThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=West Coast USA We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in the 1960s, and the city is wracked and wrecked by a slew of missing children reportsbabysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. The parents with their new anguishesWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and new rules against playing out after darkthat is to log on to Voxminer, have no idea of the horrors world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in their vicinity – literally under their feet lies Lori's world. But first Lori has a city of trollstiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, guilty of snatching the childrenand then she finds something even more spooky. Last For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to go, Jack Sturgessenter shows signs of tampering. Cue the modern era and Jack's younger, now grown-When malevolent eyes spark up brother Jimon her phone screen, and Jim Jr live a sheltered life her safe place in the most barricaded and secure home imaginablegame has been doctored – well, and Jim Jr's life where is as exciting as you'd expect. Unfortunately, however, the trolls are about to make a return girl to their nastiest of ways – and their intentions are a lot more surprising than Jim Jr could ever predict…turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405192</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Caroline LawrenceKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= The Case of the Bogus DetectiveDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Howdy folks! Welcome to Virginia CityMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, bustling mage and busy home to prospectorshealer enter specially prepared, dancing girlscentury-old, lawyersmagical mazes, gamblers and newspapermenrace to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. It Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's 1862seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and our twelve-year-old pal Pinky a new trio of questors is continuing the quest needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to become a successful detective and eventually join Uncle Allan in the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency in Chicago. But for goading from the moment theretoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's so much crime right here ll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in Nevadaactually managing that, thanks and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a bit sticky for the untold wealth being found daily in the nearby silver minesEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that Pinky took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and financial partner Ping are soon busy day starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and night, chasing desperadosalong with it, solving crimes and righting all manner of wrongsthe many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444010336</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ali SparkesTom Percival|title=Car-JackedThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=A boy genius who speaks Mandarin Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and Latin doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a criminal who’s just robbed cash-in-hand job on a bank building site and stolen a car: it’s had an unusual pairing butaccident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, it turns outand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a perfect teamtiny amount of hope. ‘‘Car-Jacked’’ leads us through He is good at art, and clings to the twists and turns moments of 12-year old Jack’s adventure joy when his parents’ car he is hi-jacked with Jack still insidedrawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273346X</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joan Aiken and Quentin Blake1805141872|title=Arabel’s RavenThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=It’s ''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been many, many years since I first met Arabel and her pet raven, Mortimer, whilst watching Jackanory on children’s televisionraided. Bernard Cribbins used to read the storiesThe police are baffled, and they became firm favourites of mine. Here I am returning to but only Ben knows the first book in the seriestruth – his Maths teacher, wellMiss Judson, just is really a handful of years latersafecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the story has lost none of its charmrun. But Al needs them for one last job...''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806910</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Philip Caveney|title= One For Sorrow|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= You'd think, wouldn't youGoodness me, that Tom Afflick would move heaven and Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to avoid leaving Manchester to go to Edinburgh: on his last two visits there he ended get mixed up tumbling into with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the pastpupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, where he met all manner the son of scary folk. But parents tend a famous magician who has ambitions to be pretty determined to get their own way about such things, and no way are they going to swallow as good as his father some mad tale about him being chased by plague doctors and other assorted murderers. So, off he has to go, and yes – he's barely set foot in ''Auld Reekie'' when he's time travelling again, in a wondrous mix of dramaday, real live people and deadly peril.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905916957</amazonuk>who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave CousinsChristopher Edge|title=Charlie Merrick's Misfits in I'm a Nobody, Get Me Out of Here!Black Hole Cinema Club

|summary=What is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that sayinghas the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, about the best laid plans they're looking forward to lots of mice exciting films, and misfits gang aft agley? many, many snacks! Charlie and his fondly thought of friends in However, as the soccer squad we met [[Charlie Merrick's Misfits in Foulsmovie starts, Friendsthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and Football by Dave Cousins|last time]] they are hoping for a simple trip to a summer camp for a weekswept up into an adventure they couldn's educative trainingt even imagine. But noas they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their dopey manager has booked them in 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 survival camp by mistake. Instead 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 hitting the back of the net they're building tarpaulin shelterstwo. They canBut he's a bad magician't set any watching footie-heads ablazes cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, for and the catflap they have to spark their own fires at nightboth use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. They can still scoreThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, howeverone much bigger than Murray was, as there's a points-based competition to handbe honest, but now that Charlie has dropped his team in the proverbial, theyhe're once more really s turned up against it…and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192738232</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John McNallyAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Forbidden City (Infinity Drake, Book 2)Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Finn may be only 9mm tall and still Eli is a teenager, but he's already saved busy lad – by day an apprentice in the world once. Accidentally shrunk wondrous library we start by his mad scientist Uncle Alvisiting with him, he joined a crack military team and helped foil in the threat of evening a lethal bio-weaponhelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the Scarlatti waspfamily. But there A few short years ago, Eli's no letparents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-up for Finntrotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. Before Al can restore him 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 to dare to normal sizeenter what he most hates, a new threat emergeswith the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007521650</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom PalmerHelen Cooper|title=Rugby Academy: Deadlocked|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=It's the third story in the ''Rugby Academy'' series and so far we've heard from Woody in [[Rugby Academy: Combat Zone by Tom Palmer|Combat Zone]] and Rory in [[Rugby Academy: Surface to Air by Tom Palmer|Surface to Air]]. In this, the final book in this brilliant series, we hear from Owen. We left the team at the end The Taming of ''Surface to Air'' when Borderlands had got through to the World Championship in New Zealand. Despite the elation of doing so Owen isn't entirely comfortable with Jesse, the team captain. He has no doubts that he was a brilliant player - the best on the team - but he can't respect him as a person.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123993</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=E L Konigsburg|title=From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E FrankweilerCat|rating=43.5

|summary=Eleven-year-old Claudia Kincaid is tired of being taken for grantedOnce again, mice are pitched against cat. As In this case, principally, we have Brie the oldest of four children, she suffers many an injusticemouse, and up against Gorgonzola the interplay of school cat – and home life is becoming monotonous. She decides to run away from her home in Greenwichcase you're seeing a connection, Connecticut to they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the New York City Metropolitan Museum names of Artcheeses. Middle brother Jamie Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, 9if you must, is her chosen companionmous-tracised, not least because for the way his habits don't match the other mice he can fund their venturelives with. By cheating his friend Bruce at card games, Jamie has accumulated more than $24 They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – whichhe displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, in 1967 when this classic childrenhe feels all alone and cast out. It's novel first appearedalmost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was not an insignificant amountdistracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690719</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Renee RussellLauren St John|title=Dork Diaries: Drama Queen (Dork Diaries 9)Finding Wonder

|summary=Meet Mackenzie HollisterRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. She's a typical American tweenager – concerned Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in popularity, looks, the hot guys like Brandon, and getting one over middle of the night by the police banging on all those around her. That's made a lot more easy by door to tell her parents being spoilingly rich – if Mackenzie, say, wants a new cover for that her diary she will just rip up dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a new $220 leopard print designer blouse and use thatlottery ticket. But the problem is, When asked what other family she's reading back overhas, and what she's writing incan only name her aunt, Joni, isnwho she knows her dad didn't ''exactly'' her diary – it's the diary belonging to our beloved heroine, Nikkithink very highly of. But she has no one else, and Mackenzie has managed so off she goes to purloin it for evil deedslive with her unreliable aunt. Can Nikki Things continue to get it back – or live at all without her beloved journal? And could there actually be something worse than her biggest enemy offor Roo, likeas when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, all time, being it breaks down in the person reading it?middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471117707</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lewis Carroll Adam Baron and Sir John TennielBenji Davies|title=AliceOscar's Adventures in Wonderland Lion|rating=53

|summary=It can hardly We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have escaped anyonehis 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's attention bedroom, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that 2015 is 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 150th anniversary of bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the publication other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and it can get him out of Lewis Carrolla problem. And it's ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and weso on. OK, it can've seen numerous anniversary editionst work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447287118</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy Bass and Pete WilliamsonJudith Eagle|title=The Beast of Grubbers Nubbin (Stitch Head)Stolen Songbird

|summary=ItCaro's all wrong in Castle Grotteskewmother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. The very walls should be terrified by the monsters the Mad Professor in the basement So who is creatinggoing to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, out she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of various body parts and different animalsbuilding herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. But noshe soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, the clamour as she discovers a painting of noisea bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the unlikely activities Snakes are thieving artworks and horrendous appetite for food come from something else entirely – a hundred rescued human orphansterrorising people. That appetite needs feeding – so it’s perfect timing for Is the village below painting somehow linked to the castle, Grubbers Nubbin, to have their annual podge-a-thon feast. gang? But when Stitch Head and his human friend Arabella go And what has happened to purloin some human food – there being no decent alternative – theyCaro're horrified to find something even worse than the monsters trapped s mother? Is she somehow involved in the castle above…mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156096</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cassie BeasleyTania Unsworth|title=Circus MirandusNowhere Island|rating=4.5

|summary=Micah is an orphan who has been raised by his grandfatherMeet Gil. Just twelve, but now Micah’s grandfather he is dying. And if that wasn’t bad enough, his horrible great aunt has arrived so determined to take escape the care of system – the system that constantly puts him, cutting their limited time together further. But don’t worry all hope is in futureless places that are not lost. When grandpa Ephraim was homes – and find a child he visited the mysterious Circus Mirandus, where he was promised a miracle by the miraculous Man Who Bends Lighthome for himself. All Micah has to do He is get a message en route to the Light Bender yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him to his grandfather can have future. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his miracle. With the help one bag of Jenny Mendoza (the smartest girl belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in the class), Micah sets his sights a camp on an island between the circustwo directions of a motorway, a task that requires unconditional love place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and faithseclusion. Aunt Gertrudis Them, and a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfully. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is wrong, Ephraim’s stories aren’t one place where life as we would want it just stories ... are they?would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1101892315</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Owen DaveyHelen Peters|title=Mad About MonkeysFriends and Traitors|rating= 43|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Of all the many millions of animals on our planet that deserve a large format hardback non-fiction bookEngland, I guess monkeys WW2. Two young girls are one of new at the ideal places to startcountry pile called Stanbrook. They areOne is Nancy, of coursedestined to be in service all her life it seems, our distant cousins, with like the ancestor we have in common with them walking around our world within the past thirty million yearsfemale generations before her. They have The other is Sidney, a girl from a large range across the planethoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, they have and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over 250 variant speciestheir first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they have realise the Lord Evesham must be a lot rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of interesting facts meetings with Germans, and details regarding their social lifenot only that, their dieta local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, their diversity and their potential future – all of which makes this an interesting read whatever your species bias may the upper class could never be.so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263575</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Josh LaceyJamie Littler|title=Dragonsitter TroubleArkspire

|summary=You don't need me Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to tell you what it's like when your uncle owns two dragonsbe chalk and cheese. He's the pig-headed type who has a mummy Juniper is an eager hunter and baby dragon living with himtrader in illicit magic, and he must live including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie is intent on a remote island off Scotlandgetting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, and he must spend half perhaps even to become the time hunting child in line to inherit the world power of dragons in Outer Mongolia, or searching for the yetiWatcher, so that trouble starts from the very moment you arrive with your mother and sister closest to housesit for him – there's no fooda ruler the district has, and one of the dragons are pooing everywhere and you five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the magic that only five people can't even use would definitely change the front door properly because he didn't leave status of the key in an obvious placewhole family. StillBut in finding something oddly magical, that's nothing compared Juniper might just be able to when the neighbouring farmer gets his guns trained on the dragons when he accuses them gain some power of stealing his sheep… Or how about when your big birthday party is here, and the magician is booked her own – and the two dragons come to stayfor good, because somebody else with the talent to care or for them has the hots for your mother…very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783442972</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Simmons024162343X|title=Super-Loud SamStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=EgyptI was the bad company other people got into at school. It's up there with dinosaurs, space travel and not much else that can hold a young child throughout I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the length existence of their school careera 'god'. Considering a lot of them will grow up declaring they have no interest in, or even a hatred for, Where was the proof? In historylessons, it all was relevant a probably worse still. Not too longafter the end of WWII, long time ago – and with CarterI didn't so much want to learn about the British army's finding of King Tutsuccesses (and occasional failures, but we didn's tomb closing t dwell on those) in on its centenary it wonwhat came to be called 'the colonies't go away yetas want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. There are indeed books Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that solely concern themselves with I lacked the maturity to approach 'the history of our love affair with Egyptproblem' politely. But I guess it does boil down to it being introduced by a fine teacher. Whether this latest book will supplant the human in giving us all the lessons we need remains to be seenwish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402373</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan MeresThiago de Moraes|title=The World of Norm: 8: May Contain ButsOld Gods New Tricks|rating=4.5

|summary=Why is it Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the only person in Normschool 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 world able to think straight is Norm? changes. His best mate Mikey is clamming up on certain subjectsSuddenly, and blaming mood swings on his hormones (wellpractically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, he is all even of thirteenelectric cars, after all). His dad seems to be mourning hits not just the town the loss of an antique bottle of aftershave, his mother thinks sorting school's in but the recycling is a cure for boredomentire planet (apart from mobile phones, and his grandfather is all full of weird expressions and euphemism thingiesthat powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake). That's not to mention his younger brothersTrixie, luckily, who realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have it in mind to use mum's hair straightener on taken the dogpower of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that's certainly not to mention have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the girl next doorsemi-deities, who evidently has been incapable of thinking straight since birthgiants, but at least is doing half-gods and so on known as the good thing by moving house. It's a flipping miracle that Norm can get through a weekend like this without anything disastrous happeningtricksters. Or can he?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334062</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Piers TordayHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title= The Wild BeyondFinding Bear|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers |summary= Stories for younger readers about the effects of climate change[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], known as cli-fiApril had been on Bear Island, are growing massively in popularity right nowa lot further north than many people would venture, as environmental disasters and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, things on the disappearance of many of the planet's animals domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and plants hit so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the news islands Bear was last left on . For a depressingly regular basisbear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Shrinking glaciers mean rising water levels Desperate to make sure he's OK, she and her father return to the slow extinction of polar bears, Arctic and hope that in many cities pollution and smog are so dire at times that governments are forced to ban cars and urge their citizens to stay indoors. But far from frightening children with tales a world of ever-increasing destruction very white and death, Piers Torday offers them a way to hope. No matter how bad very dangerous things are, this trilogy tells us, all it takes is determination, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and together we'll save our beautiful worldthat the friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848668481</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caleb Krisp and John KellySimon Fox|title=Anyone But Ivy PocketDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=12-year-old maid Ivy Pocket Late one night Graham Blake is at late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a loose end after her employer secret place, and join him on the Countess Carbunkle leaves her for South America "for no other reason than it is far enough away from Paris run. They get together, but barely begin to ensure that I never see you again." Charitably deciding that smell the old woman is 'bonkers' on whiff of Southern trains when the basis that anyone who doesn't see how wonderful she father is couldn't possibly be in their right mindarrested, Ivy thinks she'll stroll into another job but finds it more difficult than she'd expect - until leaving Archie on the Duchess of Trinity gives her an important mission; late express to deliver Brighton, toting a priceless diamond necklace tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the granddaughter bearer of an estranged friend. But what should be a simple task becomes fraught with danger as Ivy faces obnoxious aristocrats, strange creatures, and betrayalwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858630</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Esme KerrCath Howe|title=Mischief at MidnightMy Life on Fire|rating=35

|summary= At the slightly strange school of KnightRen's Haddonfamily home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, thereand her little brother lose everything. She doesn's always something intriguing going on. New girl Janett have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, cool and confident even when arguing with the teachernow she is living at her grandmother'shouse where they can't touch anything, is or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the big surprise for Edie this termclass are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and show who they become friends - but Anastasia feels forced out by the newer student's presenceare as a person. But Ren has nothing to put in a box, and so she finds herself starting to steal things. Then some Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what will happen which make Edie start to wonder her if Janet someone finds out what she is hiding something - can she solve another mysterydoing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190948900X</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth P JonesRob Keeley|title=Attack of the Giant Sea Spiders (Adventures of the Steampunk Pirates)The Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|summary=It's Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a three-way battle in return to the Slurring Mariner pub. On the one hand, four Steampunk Pirates – a fine mix of viciousshort story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, nefarious and metallic mariners who would make any passing human gulp (which is more than you could ever say of the beer). On another, the Dread Captain Inkybeard, who is married each as fun to a squid who lives on read as his head and keeps his facial hair darkprevious offerings. On the third, a ridiculously rich, ridiculously French and ridiculously successful recruiter – but to just what is he taking so many seamen? Whatever it is, it's enough to get the Pirates and Inkybeard working together (ish) to solve the problem – but someone else might just be controlling the whole farrago…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847155995</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz PichonLaura Noakes|title=Yes! No (Maybe...) (Tom Gates)Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating=3.54

|summary= WorkMeet Number One. ItOr 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 the number they correspond to in the ledger, and they's not something Tom Gates has been guilty of much before now re all Unfortunates – unless it's to work out how and where to hide his favourite caramel wafersyoung people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or how to deflect the evil grin of his slightly goth older sistersuchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But it's on Cosima bears the cards this time round – not only does his mother have tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the inspired idea of clearing first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in the house out for outside world. During a car boot sale (which causes disasters) daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the school is having an enterprise competitionkitchen one afternoon, where groups of students have to create something to sell on to their peers at she discovers a profit. But it's not like Tom wants much plan involving said outside world – of course, he's a simple lad, with no real desires as such – he's never going devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to go hell adopt all the girls for leather his Institute. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to get anything, is hethe past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407143190</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda Chapman and Kate HindleyAlice M Ross|title=Best Friends’ Bakery: Birthdays and BiscuitsThe Nowhere Thief

|summary=In this, At last there is new stock in the fourth story impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in the Best Friends’ Bakery series, Hannah is recovering a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from her sadness at worries about being thrown off found out, because she has the Junior Baker show on TV. Fortunately there’s plenty going on in her town ability to leave this world, and at her mum’s bakery use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to keep her busyenter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. There’s a new beauty With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop opening to bake for? Well yes, a doggy rescue centre in troubleis the answer, and but the fact a new girl who seems intent on stopping anyone mysterious man knows exactly which items come from befriending her. How will Hannah get on with these new challenges in her life?different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444011944</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances HardingeNatasha Farrant|title=Cuckoo SongThe Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=4.5

|summary=Marketed as a twisted fairy tale, ''Cuckoo Song'' This story is so much more. Hardinge’s lyrical style sets it apart another excellent adventure from other fantasy reads. Such phrases as the author of ''she was weeping spider silkVoyage of the Sparrowhawk'' lend it a melody all of its own. At the story’s heart Ravenwood is an old house, in the sense North of wanting to belong England, where Bea and connect Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with others. It revolves around Piers Crescent’s daughter Triss who wakes up after an accident to find that her world has changed. She doesn’t feel that she is herself Uncle Leo, and starts to exhibit extremely peculiar behaviour. She Raffy is ravenous there with his mum, and inexplicably binge eatsthey are living together as a family. For some reason her little sister Pen appears to hate her They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, scissors act strangely completely at one with all of the nature around her the house and her parents are anxious for her loving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to remain ill a developer as it's becoming more and cossetedmore expensive to maintain. She has memories from the time before she nearly drowned The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but she can’t visualise the actual incidentif they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330519735</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil Earle Robin Birch and Sara OgilvieJobe Anderson|title=Demolition DadSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=4.5

|summary=JakeJayden's dad nose is forever in a wrestlerbook, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. Nobody knows howeverAisha is addicted to her new tablet, because Jake's dad also insists where she can see videos of anything that Jake keeps might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it a secret, so is that no one realises that come they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the weekend he leaves behind the demolition sites that he works onoutside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, puts on his spandex suit and enters with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the ring as one Aisha thinks she'Demolition Man'! s seen on a bit of local footage. But Jake is so proud The crew of his dad that his alter ego can't remain the boat, including a secret for longliving gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and he sets about trying the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to change his dad's life through join in. Dare they side with Leila, the world woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of wrestling.the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444013866</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meg CabotB09XWSXSKY|title=Notebooks of a Middle-School PrincessMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|summary=The author Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of the hugely successful a clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. 'Princess Diaries'Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the time. And time isn' has written a brand-new series t good for younger girls, telling the story of awkward middle-school student Olivia Graceanything... She discovers '' And that her father is actually was why he was looking at the clock beside the Prince of Genovia, making herbed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times..a princess! Not everyone responds well There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the news, however, and poor Olivia is soon thrown into a world of jealous bullies, intrusive paparazzi, disgruntled relatives and a whole new family she never knew existed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447280652</amazonuk>clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?