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|summary=They may be quite far apartWill is a keen player of video games, but three houses in a row in the rural suburbs of 1950s Sydney contain some incredibly unusual people. In oneconscientious student, a solitary old man slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of very few wordsall, shuffling to the end of he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his daysschool, but brandishing a Japanese sword Marlowe Park, and one at which heexcels. This hasn's purloined after WWIIt gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and with a gun in the corner of she has suggested to Will and his lounge. In the middle, mum that he spends a family couple of five, with afternoons a father figure suffering from PTSD due to the same war, week at a mother feeling friendless and alone in the isolated time and location, and their three daughters – one of whom has given up on different school after an alleged nervous breakdown, the middle one who barely speaks more than the neighbourStation Road, and Matilda, our key interest, who likes the idea of spies, and has an imaginary friend who came out of the radio. The third house however where his ability might be where the most interesting people live – after all, it had been empty, but now the luxurious building is home to several shady men in suits, who turned up out of the blue in luxury cars, and with at least one gun of their own…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406358746</amazonuk>better extended.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Colfer1836282028|title=The Land of Stories: Beyond the KingdomsFighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5

|summary=The last [[The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning by Chris Colfer|Land of Stories]] book left readers on ''Would you like to adopt a cliffhanger with a shock revelation about the identity of the antagonist, the villainous ghost?'' 'Masked Man'. Since thenYoung spirit, fansborn 1887, myself included, have been waiting desperately for the next book in the series in order seeks kind home to see how our twin heroes Alex and Conner deal with this surprising twist in the talehaunt. The waiting is over; the new book is here and ready to transport us once again to the magical Land of StoriesGentleman by birth.Good company..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316339385</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Catherine Storr|title= Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary= Polly opens the door one day to find a large black wolf standing Gets on the doorstepwell with other children. With no preamble whatsoever, not even a cursory hello, the wolf informs Polly that he intends to eat her up. Incredibly Polly invites the wolf into her home Jokes and even into the kitchen! What can she be thinking of? Well, young Polly is clever, resourceful, independent and charming. The wolf is shocks a wolf of very little brain. Therefore it is not long before she is able to outwit the wolf and send him packing. This first story is very short but sets the scene for the ongoing battle of wits between Polly and the wolf that will continue for the remaining twelve short stories in this charming and entertaining book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141360232</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rupert Wallis|title=All Sorts of Possible|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''When the sinkhole opened, there was no time to break or turn the wheel, and the old green Land Rover was snatched off the dirt road over the smoking rimspeciality.''

Somehow''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, Daniel makes it out of the sinkhole and emerges to safety with just a few scratches and bruises. But his father isn't so lucky. While he lies in hospital in an induced coma due to a severe brain injury, Daniel is released into the care shape of his aunt, a woman he has never met. There had been a family falling out after Daniel's mother died when he was just a babyan arrow, and since then it's just been Daniel and his dad. Although his aunt seems nice enough, Daniel finds it difficult pointing to trust her or open up to heryour front door...''

Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a decade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's ''Spirits'' series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that is both a reboot and a continuation.Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions.. Ruby and there's a lot Jayden respond to open this intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the rules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is adopted by them and takes up aboutresidence in....|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114366X</amazonuk>a wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fuzzy MudRob Keeley|authortitle=Louis SacharChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|summary=Tamaya isnAround here, we't allowed to walk home from school on her ownre big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. And Tamaya doesnHe't like to break any rules. So when walking partner Marshall insists on taking s a "shortcut" through the woods one dayball of happy positivity, she goes with himhe understands children, even though she isn't really supposed to walk through the woods. Unbeknownst to Tamayaand he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, Marshall has chosen the route in order not to avoid school bully Chad, who has threatened him with a reckoning. A reckoning for nothing at all - but you know, that's how school bullies worklecture or hector.

But lying in the woods The ''Childish Spirits'' series is an even greater threat than Chad..one of his greatest achievements.It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408864746</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul Stewart and Chris RiddellMax Boucherat|title=Scavenger 2: Chaos ZoneThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=York is a lad We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on a missionher lonesome. So would you beWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, if your space station habitation was constantly attacked by evolvedshe has one main intention, mutated and evil robots. Trying that is to get log on to Voxminer, the core of things – both the situation and the centre of the giant biosphere carrying the last humans to world-building, critter-collecting game that is a future planet to reside on – hehit in Lori's just starting to enter the second level, alongside some surprising companions (surprising, world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that is, if you haventhis stormy night doesn't read [[Scavenger 1: Zoid by Paul Stewart find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and Chris Riddell|book one]]) her bestie and a lot nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of gung ho spirittampering. The next stage is a 'mid deck' levelWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, where all of Earth's habitation zones have and her safe place in the game has been recreated doctored – but nothingwell, either animal or human, has stayed the same since the ship's launch…where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447234421</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katherine WoodfineKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= The Mystery of the Clockwork SparrowDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This entrancing Edwardian mystery Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is set in an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the exoticsport where a team of warrior, sensuous mage and opulent world of a Department store which draws healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the reader in exit, perhaps bothering with enticing sights, sounds the treasure or the big bad and smells from the startpoints they grant you along the way. When Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the heroine Sophie first steps latest race on to the shop floor she feels like she inn TV equivalent is "stepping inside a chocolate box". Furthermore there is also something sacred about the experience- "Nowthat one team has been retired, a reverent hush hung in the aireaten, and she found herself almost tiptoeing…gazing around her at the immense chandeliersa new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the glittering looking-glasses, goading from the glossy walnut panelling. It smelled luscious: no sawdust now, but a glorious fragrance token bully of cocoa his world and candied violets and some other spicy scentstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, like the cigars muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that Papa used , and how could he possibly hope to smoke after dinner." succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405276177</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David O'Doherty and Chris JudgeJames Sherwood Metts|title=Danger is Still Everywhere: Beware of the Dog!Planet Storyland

|summary=Meet GordonThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. HeAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's a very safe betre 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 shut down and, now you have met himalong with it, as heall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a source multitude of highly intelligent and descriptive warnings about dangerways. He and is bullied because he alone can voice warnings about has 'the Puddle Shark you might get eaten bywrong shoes', he has the Parp Donkey that might evict you by farting through your letter box, wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the Headphones Crab that – wellmost basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the illustration here says it all. Nowcollege, I know what you're thinkingwas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Advice this intelligent Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and salient could only really come from Docter Noel Zonedad are separated, the worldand Will's only Level Five Dangerologistlife seems bleak in every direction. And you'd be rightyet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. Gordon He is good at art, and clings to the name Noel gives to his wardrobe. And Noel moments of joy when he is currently living in Gordon the wardrobedrawing, as his house has been taken over by a messy, noisy, and incredibly dangerous puppy. Add into the mix that feel like a pet contest hosted by light at the world's most dangerous man and you have a recipe for disaster (when all you wanted was end of a completely safe recipe for cabbage souplong, as well…)dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014135920X</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gillian Cross1805141872|title= Shadow CatThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley

|genre= Confident Readers|summary= When Nolan's effervescent mother suddenly takes him on 'Seventeen banks and a surprise journey he jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is in as much fear really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and doubt as Ben go on the reader about what will happen nextrun. Meanwhile music sensation Midir's daughter Feather is tired of being controlled and dreading the next photo opportunity But Al needs them for the pressone last job... Then'' Goodness me, one night, as that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her father prepares for manage to get mixed up with a shocking, spectacular event, everything changes. Cross keeps us guessing as Nolanbad 'un like Al? We's world is turned upside down and he has to make difficult choicesll find out. Why Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is his mother in the clouds on an exultant high one minute and greyBen, stressed and in the doldrums son of despair the next? Does Feather really want a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his friend or do they just have the serval they have sworn to protect in common?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736736</amazonuk>father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julian Clary and David RobertsChristopher Edge|title= The BoldsBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= The Bolds, Mr and Mrs Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their two small childrenlocal cinema, live in an ordinary semi-detached house in suburban Teddingtona place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. They have jobs; Mrs Bold designs All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and sells flamboyant hats many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and Mr Bold writes jokes for Christmas crackers. But they are most definitely not swept up into an ordinary familyadventure they couldn't even imagine. Oh no! They are in fact hyenas. So far But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they have managed ever get back to the cinema, and to successfully pretend their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be human beings. Although very hairy a humble, tidy and prone friendly cat, one who is able to laughing sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a lot bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they have kept both use can chuck them out, not into the truth (regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and their tails!) a secret from everyonewhiffs. But their grumpy next door neighbourThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, Mr McNumptyto be honest, is growing suspicious but he's turned up and then a trip he'll have to the local safari park has repercussions. Will the Bolds' carefully long kept secret be revealed?do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443057</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Maudie SmithAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= The Cake, the Wolf and the WitchGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Max doesn't believe in happy endings. How could he, when lovely, brave, caring Mum got killed climbing Eli is a mountain? He doesn't like heights or small dark spaces and he doesn't like silly fairy stories. He absolutely hates being dressed busy lad – by day an apprentice in knickerbockers, silk slippers and a cape for Dad and Ilona's weddingthe wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in fact, the only thing that's worse, in his opinion, is evening a helper at the fact that once it's over he'll have to share dessert cafe his home with a horrible new brother gran owns and sisterruns. I mean Eli lives with his lovely gran, come on, people! Nettle too – for there is a total grouch whogeneration missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's clearly never cracked parents were both lost to the titular race, a smile globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in her whole life, and little Wild is just the company of a magical beast. . . well, This has made the race anathema to tell the truth, he's plain daft. He prances about pair – but when a bad incident at the place like eatery leads to a demented butterflyconfession from gran, and Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he never takes his baseball cap offmost hates, even with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to go to bedpossibly save his gran. How's Max supposed to get along with that pair?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444015605</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rose Lagercrantz and Eva ErikssonHelen Cooper|title=When I Am HappiestThe Taming of the Cat|rating=3.5|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=If Dani leaves her school for Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the summer holidays with one souvenirmouse, it will either be up against Gorgonzola the memories of the fabulous friendship she formed with Ellacat – and in case you're seeing a connection, who struck a chord they live in [[My Happy Life by Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|book one]] then moved away, or it will be a book she has written cheese shop and compiled to remind her of therefore all the happiness she has encountered along names used here seem to be the waynames of cheeses. That Anyway, Brie is not quite finishedshunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the following day is to be way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the great end of year party, cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and her classroom decorations are complete and her dress has been bought new speciallymakes stories based on the visuals on it. But not And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all of life is happiness alone and jollity – and Dani is removed cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from the classroom fable who had had to tell stories to face very bad newskeep themselves alive. What ending is This makes Brie the top dog in storethe mouse community, for her book and for oursthough, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1927271894</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Noel Streatfeild Lauren St John|title=Ballet Shoes Finding Wonder

|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and 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 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'Ballet Shoest think very highly of. But she has no one else, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni'' tells s old campervan, it breaks down in the story middle of three adopted orphans nowhere 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, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – Paulineread him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, Petrova and Posy Fossiladmitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. Brought But there are benefits to 1930s London having a lion around – it can be shown as babies by an eccentric explorer (Great Uncle Matthew, otherwise known as Gum), unspoken threat to the girls have bully that ruined a comfortable life until birthday party for Oscar the family begin other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to run school and it can get him out of moneya problem. Luckily they are all given places at the Children And it's Academy of Dancing and Stage Training wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and soon start to earn their own way as child performers so on the stage. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141359803</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth P JonesJudith Eagle|title=Clash of the Rival Robots (Adventures of the Steampunk Pirates)The Stolen Songbird

|summary=We learn Caro's mother, a lot about the 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 the Steampunk Pirates in this volume of their adventuresher sister who is unwell. While having had references So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to Britain fighting France before nowstay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, we find the location matters more than [[Attack she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of the Giant Sea Spiders (Adventures of the Steampunk Pirates) by Gareth P Jones|last time]]building 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, as we head back to Englandwho is living there too. The Pirates have been told But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of a way bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to get into the Tower of London gang? And what has happened to steal Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the Crown Jewelsmystery too?|isbn=0571363148}}{{Frontpage|author=Tania Unsworth|title=Nowhere Island|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Gil. We also learn Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a lot about their upbringinghome for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, if you can call 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 – certainly more than last time, as we see what made them piratical someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the first placetwo directions of a motorway, which was a surprise place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their inventor when it happenedsafety and seclusion. But you never knowThem, they may be about to face and a mute girl also finding a showdown against said scientist – andhome there, worse, his next generation of robotsalbeit so much more successfully. If only they perhaps had been programmed to avoid temptation…Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156061</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Karen McCombieHelen Peters|title= Catching Falling StarsFriends and Traitors|rating= 4.53|genre= Confident Readers|summary= It is 1940 and after a year of England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the ''phoney war'' London country pile called Stanbrook. One is suffering Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like the Blitzfemale generations before her. Glory and her younger brother Rich have now The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been evacuated to a country village far removed there away from everything they know and lovebomber flight-paths. When the arrangements made by their mother fall through the children The girls are sent to live with Miss Saunderschalk and cheese, a cold and unwelcoming woman who is not popular in the village and Glory wonders if they we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would have been better off remaining in London despite the danger of falling bombsonly prove it so. The local children appear unfriendly But something is amiss, and first separately and even then in the countryside combination they are not completely safe from realise the enemyLord Evesham must be a rum 'un. All Glory wants Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is to return home to her parents but she will soon discover made of meetings with Germans, and not only that her life is to change in unexpected ways , a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and she will learn that her first impressions should not always the upper class could never be trusted.so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407138898</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithJamie Littler|title=Precious Arkspire|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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 the Badlands. 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 power of the Watcher, the closest to a ruler the district has, and one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the Zebra Necklacemagic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143}}{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=There is a new girl at Precious Ramotswe's schoolMeet Trixie. Her name is NancyForever getting into scrapes, larks and Precious is asked to look after 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 and make sure she settles into schoolone-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. PreciousSuddenly, already practically everything electronic stops working – a budding detective at such a young agepower-out, soon sniffs out that there is a little bit even of a mystery surrounding Nancy electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and on discovering all that all Nancy powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has left happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. And so she begins her parents is a fading photograph 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 a zebra necklace she decides that she must try to help Nancy discover so on known as the truth about what happened to themtricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780273274</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary McKayHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Binny in SecretFinding Bear

|summary=Reading Binny in Secret was rather like that moment when[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, as a childlot further north than many people would venture, I discovered and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that Noel Streatfield had written a LOT of other shoe books orshe called Bear. Back home, just things on the domestic and family front are a few years agobit advanced, when I suddenly discovered Jeanne Birdsall and but not perfect for her Penderwick stories, and I gorged so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on them, utterly delighting in their humour . For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and kindnesswounded. I don't quite know how I havenDesperate to make sure he't come across Hilary McKay befores OK, but of course now she and her father return to the Arctic and hope that in a long list world of her books have gone onto my 'to read' pile because I thoroughly enjoyed this story very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and I immediately wanted more!that the friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444913409</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kate PankhurstSimon Fox|title= The Disappearing Dinner Lady (Mariella Mystery)Deadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Mariella has to admit it: 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 school dinners have been much better latelyrun. When Big G was in charge They get together, vegetable mush was but barely begin to smell the order whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the daylate express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, but since and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=1839944420}}{{Frontpage|author=Cath Howe|title=My Life on Fire|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ren'Ladies Who Lunchs family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn' agency t have been supplying the mealsany of her clothes, they have been serving up heavenly dishes like 'Monday Munchie Madness'or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, 'Princess Pie' and now she is living at her grandmother'Pirate Pasta Bakes house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. The mystery girls love When she goes back to school she discovers that the new menuclass are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, but even more than to display things that, are important to them and show who they love the new dinner lady, Diana Dumplingare as a person. When Diana goes missing But Ren has nothing to put in mysterious circumstancesa box, Mariella and her friends are on the case so she finds herself starting to discover steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what really happened will happen to their favourite dinner lady.her if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444012347</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tomiko Inui and Ginny Tapley Takemori (translator)Rob Keeley|title=The Secret of the Blue GlassBoy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|summary=One problem with being four inches or so tall, as any [[The Borrowers: The Borrowers and The Borrowers Afield by Mary Norton|Borrower]]-type creature I'm sure will tell you, Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is getting around. There're the impracticalities of being so small, encounters with cats, and a whole lot more. But back with this modern world things can happen – such as an English governess-type taking a married couple of Little People return to Japan with her. There they have kids, and she leaves them with her favourite pupil – alongside the most necessary equipmentshort story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, a small blue glass goblet, that helps the human bond with the Little People by using it each as fun to donate milk to them on a daily basis. We're now into the second generation of Japanese people looking after them, but something much more threatening, all-enveloping and worrying than a cat is around the corner – World War Tworead as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690344</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|author=Laura Noakes|title=In Their Shoes: Fairy Tales and FolktalesCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=Lots of books haveMeet Number One. Or rather, in their own wayCosima Unfortunate. Or rather, shown fairy tales just Cos to have relied on certain tropesher friends. You certainly don't have The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to read them all, or indeed many, just be named by the number they correspond to see in the wily child outsmart the adult again ledger, and again, they're all Unfortunates – young people tricked into changing ownership of magical thingswith disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the power of being tag as a stepmothersurname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, or as the power of doing things first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in threesthe outside world. Still, I think this must be one of During a very rare few collections daring escapade to look at footwear as steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a theme, with plan involving said outside world – a tidydevilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, small selection of fairy and folk-tales what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to entertain, all the past she has so little link with that subject.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691014</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ulrich HubAlice M Ross|title=The Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows 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…|isbn=1839943769}}{{Frontpage|author=Natasha Farrant|title=The Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, in the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, Jorg Muhle and Helena RaggRaffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|isbn=0571348785}}{{Frontpage|author=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. 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 outside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-Kirkby (translator)minded, educational purpose, and 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 one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=0241573483}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09XWSXSKY|title=Meet at Maestro Orpheus and the Ark at Eight!World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|genre= Confident Readers|summary=An educated penguinFrederick (or Fred, an agnostic penguin and a violentbut never Freddy, smaller, young penguin walk into a snowdrift… You might not be able to make a full joke out of that opening line, but this book practically does continue on from thereplease) couldn't sleep. Three penguins – each a little different from the otherA tune, even if they generally look and definitely smell rather like the same, and God, a subject ticking of their conversation when a butterfly comes along, of all thingsclock was playing over and over in his mind. The young, hot-headed one (well, in the pictures It happened every time he wears a woolly hatcame to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's bound ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to be hot-headed) leaves in umbrage, leaving just two – which him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is perfectly timed if youtell the time. And time isn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. It was nearly twelve o're a dove, clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to go and come along telling find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the animals to get into Noahclocks stopped at twelve o's Ark in pairs, as an almighty flood is about to happen…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782690875</amazonuk>clock?