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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Katherine Woodfine1836285493|title= The Mystery Double Life of the Clockwork Sparrowa Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This entrancing Edwardian mystery Will is set in the exotica keen player of video games, sensuous and opulent world of a Department store which draws the reader in with enticing sightsconscientious student, sounds a slightly annoying brother and smells from the starta supportive friend. When the heroine Sophie first steps on to the shop floor she feels like she But most of all, he is "stepping inside a chocolate box"an aspiring writer. Furthermore there English is also something sacred about the experience- "Nowhis favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, a reverent hush hung in the airMrs Howarth, and she found herself almost tiptoeing…gazing around her has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at the immense chandeliersa 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=''Would you like to adopt a ghost?'' ''Young spirit, born 1887, seeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on well with other children. Jokes and shocks a speciality.'' ''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, in the glittering looking-glassesshape of an arrow, the glossy walnut panellingpointing to your front door... It smelled luscious: no sawdust now, but '' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a glorious fragrance decade of cocoa his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's ''Spirits'' series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that is both a reboot and candied violets a continuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. Ruby and Jayden respond to this intriguing advertisement and some other spicy scentEdward, like who has broken the cigars that Papa used to smoke after dinnerrules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is adopted by them and takes up residence in...." |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405276177</amazonuk>a wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David ORob Keeley|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It'Doherty 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 Chris Judgethe first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=Danger is Still Everywhere: Beware The Last Life of the Dog!Lori Mills

|summary=Meet Gordon. HeWe meet Lori on the first evening she's a very safe betgot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, now you have met himjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, as he's a source of highly intelligent and descriptive warnings about dangeron her lonesome. He and he alone can voice warnings about the Puddle Shark you might get eaten byWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, the Parp Donkey that might evict you by farting through your letter boxshe has one main intention, and the Headphones Crab that – wellis to log on to Voxminer, the illustration here says it all. Nowworld-building, I know what youcritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori're thinkings world. Advice But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this intelligent stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and salient could only really come from Docter Noel Zone, the world's only Level Five Dangerologistthen she finds something even more spooky. And you'd For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be right. Gordon is the name Noel gives able to his wardrobeenter shows signs of tampering. And Noel is currently living When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in Gordon the wardrobe, as his house game has been taken over by a messydoctored – well, noisy, and incredibly dangerous puppy. Add into the mix where is a pet contest hosted by the world's most dangerous man and you have a recipe for disaster (when all you wanted was a completely safe recipe for cabbage soup, as well…)girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014135920X</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gillian CrossKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= Shadow CatDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. 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 team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland

|genre= Confident Readers|summary= When NolanThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's effervescent mother suddenly takes him on a surprise journey he is in 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 starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much fear shut down and doubt as , along with it, all the reader about what will happen nextmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. Meanwhile music sensation Midir|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's daughter Feather life is tired difficult, in a multitude of being controlled ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and dreading the next photo opportunity doesn't have enough money for even the press. Thenmost basic of things like food, one nightand his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, as her father prepares for was working a cash-in-hand job on a shockingbuilding site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, spectacular event, everything changes. Cross keeps us guessing as Nolanand Will's world is turned upside down and life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has to make difficult choicesa tiny amount of hope. Why He is his mother in the clouds on an exultant high one minute and greygood at art, stressed and in clings to the doldrums moments of despair joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the next? Does Feather really want to be his friend or do they just have the serval they have sworn to protect in common?end of a long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192736736</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Julian Clary and David Roberts1805141872|title= The BoldsTeacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= ''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The Boldspolice are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Mr and Mrs Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their two small childrentrail, live in an ordinary semi-detached house in suburban Teddington. They have jobs; Mrs Bold designs Miss Judson and sells flamboyant hats and Mr Bold writes jokes for Christmas crackersBen go on the run. But they are most definitely not an ordinary familyAl needs them for one last job. Oh no! They are in fact hyenas. So far they have managed to successfully pretend to be human beings. Although very hairy and prone to laughing '' Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a lot they have kept the truth (and their tailsterror!) How on earth did a secret from everyonenice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. But their grumpy next door neighbourLuckily for Miss Judson, Mr McNumptythe pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, is growing suspicious and then the son of a trip famous magician who has ambitions to the local safari park has repercussions. Will the Bolds' carefully long kept secret be revealed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443057</amazonuk>as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Maudie SmithChristopher Edge|title= The Cake, the Wolf and the WitchBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Max doesn't believe Lucas and his friends are all booked in happy endings. How could hefor a movie marathon at their local cinema, when lovely, brave, caring Mum got killed climbing a mountain? He doesnplace that has the nickname of 't like heights or small dark spaces and he doesnThe Black Hole't like silly fairy stories. He absolutely hates being dressed in knickerbockers All big movie fans, silk slippers and a cape for Dad and Ilonathey's weddingre looking forward to lots of exciting films, and in factmany, many snacks! However, as the only thing that's worse, in his opinionmovie starts, is the fact they very quickly realise that once it's over he'll have to share his home with a horrible something about this new brother and sister. I mean, come on, people! Nettle film format is a total grouch who's clearly never cracked a smile in her whole lifevery different, and little Wild is just they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. . . well, But as they lurch from one film genre to tell the truthnext, he's plain daft. He prances about can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the place like a demented butterflycinema, and he never takes his baseball cap off, even to go to bed. How's Max supposed to get along with that pairtheir real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444015605</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rose Lagercrantz and Eva ErikssonAdam Stower|title=When I Am HappiestMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=If Dani leaves her school for the summer holidays with one souvenirMurray is supposed to be a humble, it will either be the memories of the fabulous friendship she formed with Ellatidy and friendly cat, one who struck a chord in [[My Happy Life by Rose Lagercrantz is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and Eva Eriksson|book one]] then moved away, or it will be a book she has written and compiled to remind her well, whatever takes his fancy next of all the happiness she has encountered along the waytwo. That is not quite finishedBut he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, for and the following day is to be catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the great end regular back garden, but into a world of year party, frightening adventure and her classroom decorations are complete and her dress has been bought new speciallywhiffs. But not all of life This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is happiness and jollity expected – and Dani is removed from the classroom well, one much bigger than Murray was, to face very bad news. What ending is in storebe honest, for her book but he's turned up and for ours?he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1927271894</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Noel Streatfeild Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Ballet Shoes The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=''Ballet Shoes'' tells Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the story of three adopted orphans – Paulinewondrous library we start by visiting with him, Petrova and Posy Fossilin the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Brought to 1930s London as babies by an eccentric explorer (Great Uncle Matthew Eli lives with his lovely gran, otherwise known as Gum)too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the girls titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a comfortable life until magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the family begin eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to run out enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of moneymagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran. Luckily |isbn=0571382231}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Cooper|title=The Taming of the Cat|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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 are live in a cheese shop and therefore all given places at the Childrennames used here seem to be the names of cheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don's Academy of Dancing t match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and Stage Training makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and soon start cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to earn their own way keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as child performers on all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the stagecat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141359803</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth P JonesLauren St John|title=Clash of the Rival Robots (Adventures of the Steampunk Pirates)Finding Wonder

|summary=We learn a lot about the world of the Steampunk Pirates in this volume of their adventuresRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. While having had references to Britain fighting France before Her mum died when she was young, and now, we find she finds herself awoken in the location matters more than [[Attack middle of the Giant Sea Spiders (Adventures of night by the Steampunk Pirates) by Gareth P Jones|last time]], as we head back police banging on her door to England. The Pirates have been told of a tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to get into the Tower of London corner shop to steal the Crown Jewelsbuy a lottery ticket. We also learn a lot about their upbringingWhen asked what other family she has, if you she can call it that – certainly more than last timeonly name her aunt, as we see what made them piratical in the first placeJoni, which was a surprise to their inventor when it happenedwho she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But you never knowshe has no one else, they may be about and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to face a showdown against said scientist – get worse for Roo, as when she andJoni leave London in Joni's old campervan, worse, his next generation it breaks down in the middle of robots. nowhere and then bursts into flames! If only they perhaps had been programmed to avoid temptation…Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156061</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Karen McCombieAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title= Catching Falling StarsOscar's Lion|rating= 4.53|genre= Confident Readers|summary= It We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is 1940 and after more likely – read him his very favourite book a year couple of the times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents''phoney war'' London bedroom, all he sees is suffering in the Blitz. Glory and her younger brother Rich have now been evacuated to a country village far from everything they know mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and loveadmitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. When the arrangements made by their mother fall through the children But there are sent benefits to live with Miss Saunders, having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a cold and unwelcoming woman who is not popular in birthday party for Oscar the village other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and Glory wonders if they would have been better off remaining in London despite the danger it can get him out of falling bombsa problem. The local children appear unfriendly and even in And it's wonderful to have around the countryside they are house – not completely safe from limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the enemyrules, and so on. All Glory wants is to return home to her parents OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but she will soon discover that her life is to change in unexpected ways and she will learn that her first impressions should not always be trustedit can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407138898</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithJudith Eagle|title=Precious and the Zebra NecklaceThe Stolen Songbird|rating=54

|summary=There is a new girl at Precious RamotsweCaro's schoolmother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her name other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is Nancy, and Precious unwell. So who is asked going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and make sure confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she settles into schoolis stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. Precious, already But she soon finds herself caught up in a budding detective at such a young agemystery, soon sniffs out that there is as she discovers a little bit painting of a mystery surrounding Nancy bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and on discovering that all Nancy has left of her parents is across London a fading photograph fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and a zebra necklace she decides that she must try terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to help Nancy discover the truth about gang? And what has happened to them.Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780273274</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary McKayTania Unsworth|title=Binny in SecretNowhere Island

|summary=Reading Binny Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in Secret was rather like futureless places that moment are not homes – and find a home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, whenhe jumps into an anonymous car, as a child, I discovered and lets it ride him to his future. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that Noel Streatfield had written someone lives with his brother in a LOT camp on an island between the two directions of other shoe books ora motorway, just a few years ago, when I suddenly discovered Jeanne Birdsall place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and her Penderwick storiesseclusion. Them, and I gorged on thema mute girl also finding a home there, utterly delighting in their humour and kindnessalbeit so much more successfully. I don't quite know how I haven't come across Hilary McKay beforeOver a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, but of course now a long list of her books have gone onto my 'to read' pile because I thoroughly enjoyed or if this story and I immediately wanted more!is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444913409</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kate PankhurstHelen Peters|title= The Disappearing Dinner Lady (Mariella Mystery)Friends and Traitors|rating= 4.53|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Mariella has to admit it: England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the school dinners have been much better latelycountry pile called Stanbrook. When Big G was One is Nancy, destined to be in chargeservice all her life it seems, vegetable mush was like the order of the dayfemale generations before her. The other is Sidney, but since the 'Ladies Who Lunch' agency have a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been supplying the mealsremoved there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, they have been serving up heavenly dishes like 'Monday Munchie Madnessand if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amiss, 'Princess Pie' and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'Pirate Pasta Bake'un. The mystery girls love the new menu Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, but even more than and not only that, they love a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the new dinner ladygirls are wrong, Diana Dumpling. When Diana goes missing in mysterious circumstances, Mariella and her friends are on the case to discover what really happened to their favourite dinner lady.upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444012347</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tomiko Inui and Ginny Tapley Takemori (translator)Jamie Littler|title=The Secret of the Blue GlassArkspire

|summary=One problem with being four inches or so tallTwo sisters, as any [[The Borrowers: The Borrowers Juniper and The Borrowers Afield by Mary Norton|Borrower]]-type creature I'm sure will tell youElodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is getting aroundan eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. There're Elodie is 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 impracticalities power of being so smallthe Watcher, encounters with catsthe closest to a ruler the district has, and a whole lot moreone of the five major victors in said earlier war. But with this modern world things Being trained in the magic that only five people can happen – such as an English governess-type taking a married couple use would definitely change the status of Little People to Japan with herthe whole family. There they have kidsBut in finding something oddly magical, and she leaves them with Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her favourite pupil own – alongside the most necessary equipmentfor good, a small blue glass gobletor for very, that helps very bad…|isbn=0241586143}}{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the human bond with existence of a 'god'. Where was the Little People by using proof? In history lessons, it to donate milk to them on a daily basiswas probably worse still. WeNot too long after the end of WWII, I didn're now into t so much want to learn about the second generation of Japanese people looking after themBritish army's successes (and occasional failures, but something much more threateningwe didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. Looking back, allI still believe I was right -enveloping and worrying than a cat is around but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the corner – World War Twoproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782690344</amazonuk>

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|author=Thiago de Moraes|title=In Their Shoes: Fairy Tales Old Gods New Tricks|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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 world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's 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 gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.|isbn=178845295X}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Gold and FolktalesLevi Pinfold|title=Finding Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=[[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. Back home, things on the 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 islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Desperate to make sure he's OK, she and her father return to the Arctic and hope that in a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.|isbn=0008582017}}{{Frontpage|author=Simon Fox|title=Deadlock|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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 secret place, and join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=1839944420}}{{Frontpage|author=Cath Howe|title=My Life on Fire|rating=5

|summary=Lots of books haveRen's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, in their own wayher parents, shown fairy tales to have relied on certain tropesand her little brother lose everything. You certainly donShe doesn't have to read them allany of her clothes, or indeed manyany of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, to see the wily child outsmart the adult again and againnow she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, people tricked into changing ownership of magical things, the power of being a stepmotheror do anything, or even eat the power of doing things in threesfoods they normally eat. StillWhen she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, I think this must be one creating boxes of a very rare few collections their lives, to display things that are important to look at footwear them and show who they are as a theme, with person. But Ren has nothing to put in a tidybox, small selection of fairy and folk-tales so she finds herself starting to entertainsteal things. Small things, all with things that subjectpeople might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691014</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ulrich Hub, Jorg Muhle and Helena Ragg-Kirkby (translator)Rob Keeley|title=Meet at the Ark at Eight!The Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|genre= Confident Readers|summary=An educated penguin, an agnostic penguin and Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a violent, smaller, young penguin walk into a snowdrift… You might not be able return to make a full joke out of that opening line, but this book practically does continue on from there. Three penguins – each a little different from the other, even if they generally look and definitely smell the same, and God, a subject of their conversation when a butterfly comes along, of all things. short story format! The young, hot-headed one (well, in the pictures he wears a woolly hat, he's bound Boy Who Disappeared treats us to be hot-headed) leaves in umbrageeleven new tales, leaving just two – which is perfectly timed if you're a dove, and come along telling all the animals each as fun to get into Noah's Ark in pairs, read as an almighty flood is about to happen…his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690875</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven ButlerLaura Noakes|title=The Diary of Dennis the Menace: Canine Carnage (book 5)Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary= I'm sure Dennis the Menace has a hate-hate relationship with schoolMeet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, but the nature of it is relevant when considering these booksjust Cos to her friends. The fact he goes at all practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the cause for them number they correspond to in the first place ledger, and they're all Unfortunates – he [[The Diary of Dennis the Menace by Steven Butler|originally]] was tasked young people with writing a journal as homeworkdisabilities, and turned it into a menacing manual for us, his readersuncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But if he paid attention there he might realise £1,000 is not quite enough Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to build his ownbe known about where she came from, self-aggrandising theme park, even if he manages to employ as the bummyfirst ever inmate, booky, wimpy types behind and unique in having no known family in the scenesoutside world. The grand sum is what Dennis intends During a daring escapade to win when The Fame Factor TV talent show hits town. Thatsteal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, as we can easily foretell, is going she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to be very menacingly interesting, but that's not the site of adopt all the titular carnage – girls for his Institute. But why, and what does that we have body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to rely on an unusual sleep-over…the past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141355840</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cheeky CharlieAlice M Ross|authortitle=Mat WaughThe Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5

|summary=''My book At last there is about all new stock in the naughty things that my brother Charlie impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has done. Some of it is funny, some of it is a bit sad, and lots of stolen it is disgusting, because that's what Charlie can be. It might even make you She also knows she should be sick, so get ready.'' You know what? That's free from worries about the size of it. After Harry has introduced herself - she's almost seven years oldbeing found out, because she doesn't like her freckleshas the ability to leave this world, she's used and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to people thinking that someone called Harry ought to be a boyenter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and she has a younger brother, who is three the buildings are generally empty of humans and called Charlieripe for plunder. This is Harry's book about Charlie. Charlie is a cheeky chappie. He never shuts up. He likes With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to push his luck. Andactually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, having pushed his luck once, he likes to push it again. And again. And again. This is much to Harry's exasperationthe answer, as she explains by dint of but the fact a book full of anecdotes... mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1508910510</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Renee RussellNatasha Farrant|title=Dork Diaries: Once Upon a Dork (Book 8)The Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=3.5

|summary=There This story is wishing you had a fairytale relationshipanother excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, and/or having in the chance to change your life drastically – North of England, where Bea and then there is being able to see what would actually happen if either wish came trueRaffy have been living for most of their lives. Nikki wakes up on They are part of a typical school day with a hellish start – no alarm clockcomplex, due to her younger sisterextended family arrangement, sandwich all over as Bea is there with her jumperUncle Leo, again due to her younger sisterand Raffy is there with his mum, and so onthey are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, and so she can only wish for something to take her out completely at one with all of it the nature around the house and give her a dollop loving every inch of fantasythe place. That something But now the house is dodgeballunder threat, which bangs her on as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the head so much she wakes up in property to a sheer fantasy world, developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where her BFFs are Goldilocks and Red Riding Hood, the world is peopled by other folk from schoolthey're going to live, but her hunky friend Brandon is still Prince Charmingif they'll even be together, and her enemy Mackenzie Hollister is still able to make her life hell…if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147114383X</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lincoln PeirceRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Big Nate Lives It Up (Big Nate, Book 7)Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=4.5

|summary=Life at school might actually be interesting for Big NateJayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for onceexample. Even if the building Aisha is so old 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 's falling downout there' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, an ancient student's journal much like his has been discoverededucational purpose, peppered and with a girlpast involving Jayden's cartoons from a longcousin, long time ago – proving even he can have a connection with something they find a century oldmagical world they never knew existed. (And I donFor many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she't mean the connection made when bits s seen on a bit of the place actually fall onto his headlocal footage.) Unfortunately for NateThe crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, another connection has been forced on him are tasked with saving the rare critters – he has had and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to buddy up with the new boy join in class. ''He's newDare they side with Leila, dorkythe woman on board, and has her relative who lives as a name that sounds like figure in a British boarding school''painting, we're told. But what exactly is it about Breckenridge Puffington III that gives Nate a strong sense and become saviours of déjà vu…the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007581270</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= StrefB09XWSXSKY|title=J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan: The Graphic NovelMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=HereFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn's a quiz question for you – despite the uniform seventy year copyright rulet sleep. A tune, which work has been rather like the sole recipient ticking of an endless extension of ita 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, courtesy of an ex-Prime Ministerhe's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? The answer All they do is obvious now tell the time. And time isn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at least, as this is one such volumethe clock beside the bed. Itwas nearly twelve o's a very readable and pleasant variant on J M Barrie's original stage version and novel regarding Peter Pan, which of course helps and always will now help clock but at midnight the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospitalclock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And for a boy who never grows up, why had all the clocks stopped at 111 years old hetwelve o's in spritely good health.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780272901</amazonuk>clock?