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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Jacqueline WilsonRob 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=KatyThe Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley

|summary= Eleven year-old Katy Carr ''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 shape of an arrow, pointing to your front door...'' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a decade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's ''Spirits'' series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that is both a reboot and a tomboy 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 Edward, whohas broken the rules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, despite her best intentionsis adopted by them and takes up residence in.... a wardrobe!}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Around here, is always getting into troublewe're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. Lively He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and adventuroushe writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, Katy not to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is very much 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 leader of spirit world throws at her five younger brothers , and Edward, a spoiled lordling and sisters until the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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 accident damages avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her spine lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and she finds herself confined that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a wheelchairhit in Lori's world. Suddenly Katy But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's life is turned upside down t find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she has and her bestie and nobody else should be able to learn the most basic things all over againenter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, to redefine and her role safe place in the familygame has been doctored – well, and find where is a new meaning in life.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141353961</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ursula DubosarskyKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Red ShoeDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54

|summary=They may be quite far apart, but three houses in a row in the rural suburbs of 1950s Sydney contain some incredibly unusual peopleMeet Kit. In one, a solitary old man Like most of very few words, shuffling to the end of people in his daysworld, it seems, but brandishing a Japanese sword he's purloined after WWII, and with a gun in the corner is an avid fan of his lounge. In Dungeon Running – the middle, sport where a family team of fivewarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, with a father figure suffering from PTSD due century-old, magical mazes, and race to the same warexit, a mother feeling friendless perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and alone in the isolated time and locationpoints they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, and their three daughters – one the only thing he's seen of whom has given up the latest race on school after an alleged nervous breakdown, the middle inn TV equivalent is that one who barely speaks more than the neighbourteam has been retired, eaten, and Matildaa new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, our key interest, who likes he has taken to the goading from the idea token bully of spies, his world and has an imaginary friend who came out of the radiostumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. The third house however 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 suitsWhat chance does this friendless, who turned up out of the blue muscle-free-zone have in luxury carsactually managing that, and with at least one gun of their own…how could he possibly hope to succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406358746</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris ColferJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Land of Stories: Beyond the KingdomsPlanet Storyland

|summary=The last [[The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning by Chris Colfer|Land of Stories]] book left readers on Things have been a cliffhanger with a shock revelation about the identity of bit sticky for the antagonist, the villainous 'Masked Man'Earthlings. Since then, fans, myself included, AI and automation have been waiting desperately for the next book in the series in order proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to see how our twin heroes Alex do and Conner deal with other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this surprising twist in the tale. The waiting is over; the new book is here technological change and ready starting to transport us once again think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the magical Land of Stories..many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316339385</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Catherine StorrTom Percival|title= Clever Polly and the Stupid WolfThe Wrong Shoes|rating= 5|genre= Emerging Confident Readers|summary= Polly opens the door one day to find Will's life is difficult, in a large black wolf standing on multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the doorstep. With no preamble whatsoeverwrong shoes', not even a cursory hello, the wolf informs Polly that he intends to eat her up. Incredibly Polly invites has the wolf into her home wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even into the kitchen! What can she be thinking most basic of? Wellthings like food, young Polly is cleverand his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, resourcefulwas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, independent and charmingWill's life seems bleak in every direction. The wolf is And yet, he still has a wolf tiny amount of very little brainhope. Therefore it He is not long before she is able good at art, and clings to outwit the wolf and send him packing. This first story moments of joy when he is very short but sets drawing, that feel like a light at the scene for the ongoing battle end of wits between Polly and the wolf that will continue for the remaining twelve short stories in this charming and entertaining booka long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141360232</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rupert Wallis1805141872|title=All Sorts of PossibleThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''When Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the sinkhole openedtruth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, there was no time to break or turn the wheelis really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the old green Land Rover was snatched off the dirt road over the smoking rimrun. But Al needs them for one last job...''

SomehowGoodness me, Daniel makes it out of the sinkhole and emerges that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to safety get mixed up with just a few scratches and bruises. But his father isnbad 'un like Al? We't so luckyll find out. While he lies in hospital in an induced coma due to a severe brain injuryLuckily for Miss Judson, Daniel the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is released into Ben, the care son of his aunt, a woman he famous magician who has never met. There had been a family falling out after Daniel's mother died when he was just a baby, and since then it's just been Daniel and ambitions to be as good as his dad. Although his aunt seems nice enoughfather some day, Daniel finds it difficult to trust her or open up to her... ... and there's a lot to open up about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114366X</amazonuk>who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fuzzy MudChristopher Edge|authortitle=Louis SacharBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Tamaya isnLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole't allowed to walk home from school on her own. And Tamaya doesn All big movie fans, they't like re looking forward to break any rules. So when walking partner Marshall insists on taking a "shortcut" through the woods one daylots of exciting films, she goes with himand many, even though she isn't really supposed to walk through the woods. Unbeknownst to Tamayamany snacks! However, Marshall has chosen as the route in order to avoid school bully Chadmovie starts, who has threatened him with a reckoning. A reckoning for nothing at all - but you knowthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, thatand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn's how school bullies workt even imagine.  But lying in as they lurch from one film genre to the woods next, can they figure out what on earth is an even greater threat than Chad...going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408864746</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul Stewart and Chris RiddellAdam Stower|title=Scavenger 2: Chaos ZoneMurray and Bun

|summary=York is a lad on a missionOnce again, mice are pitched against cat. So would you beIn this case, principally, if your space station habitation was constantly attacked by evolvedwe have Brie the mouse, mutated and evil robots. Trying to get to up against Gorgonzola the core of things cat – both the situation and in case you're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the centre of the giant biosphere carrying the last humans names used here seem to a future planet to reside on – he's just starting to enter be the second levelnames of cheeses. Anyway, alongside some surprising companions (surprisingBrie is shunned, that isscorned and, if you havenmust, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't read [[Scavenger 1: Zoid by Paul Stewart match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and Chris Riddell|book makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one]]) night, when he feels all alone and a lot of gung ho spiritcast out. The next stage is a 'mid deck' level, where all of EarthIt's habitation zones have been recreated – but nothingalmost 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, either animal or humanthough, has stayed as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the same since story have the ship's launch…successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447234421</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katherine WoodfineLauren St John|title= The Mystery of the Clockwork SparrowFinding Wonder|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This entrancing Edwardian mystery is set Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the exotic, sensuous and opulent world middle of a Department store which draws the reader in with enticing sights, sounds and smells from night by the start. When the heroine Sophie first steps police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop floor she feels like she is "stepping inside to buy a chocolate box"lottery ticket. Furthermore there is also something sacred about the experience- "Now When asked what other family she has, a reverent hush hung in the air, and she found herself almost tiptoeing…gazing around can only name her at the immense chandeliersaunt, the glittering looking-glassesJoni, the glossy walnut panellingwho she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. It smelled luscious: But she has no sawdust nowone else, but a glorious fragrance of cocoa and candied violets so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and some other spicy scentJoni leave London in Joni's old campervan, like it breaks down in the cigars that Papa used to smoke after dinner." middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405276177</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David O'Doherty Adam Baron and Chris JudgeBenji Davies|title=Danger 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 – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is Still Everywhere: Beware a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a problem. And it's wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the Dog!rules, and so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=0008596751}}{{Frontpage|author=Judith Eagle|title=The Stolen Songbird|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Gordon. HeCaro's mother, a very safe betworld-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now you have met himmissing. Her other mother, Ronnie, as he's a source is having to go up North to take care of highly intelligent and descriptive warnings about dangerher sister who is unwell. He and he alone can voice warnings about the Puddle Shark you might get eaten bySo who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, the Parp Donkey that might evict you by farting through your letter boxsomeone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and the Headphones Crab that – well, the illustration here says it allworried. Now, I know what you're thinking. Advice All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this intelligent and salient could only really come from Docter Noel Zone, the worldstaid old Victorian lady's only Level Five Dangerologist. And you'd be right. Gordon house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is the name Noel gives to his wardrobeliving there too. And Noel is currently living But she soon finds herself caught up in Gordon the wardrobea mystery, as his house has been taken over by she discovers a painting of a messy, noisybird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and incredibly dangerous puppyall across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Add into Is the mix a pet contest hosted by painting somehow linked to the worldgang? And what has happened to Caro'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…)mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014135920X</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gillian CrossTania Unsworth|title= Shadow CatNowhere Island

|genre= Confident Readers|summary= When Nolan's effervescent mother suddenly takes him on a surprise journey Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in as much fear futureless places that are not homes – and doubt as the reader about what will happen nextfind a home for himself. Meanwhile music sensation Midir's daughter Feather He is tired of being controlled and dreading the next photo opportunity for the press. Thenen route to yet another fosterer, one nightwhen he jumps into an anonymous car, as her father prepares for a shocking, spectacular event, everything changes. Cross keeps us guessing as Nolan's world is turned upside down and he has lets it ride him to make difficult choiceshis future. Why is That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his mother brother in the clouds a camp on an exultant high one minute island between the two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and greyseclusion. Them, stressed and in the doldrums of despair the next? Does Feather really 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 one place where life as we would want to be his friend or do they it just have the serval they have sworn to protect in common?would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192736736</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julian Clary and David RobertsHelen Peters|title= The BoldsFriends and Traitors|rating= 53|genre= Confident Readers|summary= The BoldsEngland, Mr and Mrs and their two small childrenWW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, live destined to be in an ordinary semiservice all her life it seems, like the female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-detached house in suburban Teddingtontoity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. They have jobs; Mrs Bold designs The girls are chalk and sells flamboyant hats cheese, and Mr Bold writes jokes for Christmas crackersif we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But they are most definitely not an ordinary family. Oh no! They are something is amiss, and first separately and then in fact hyenas. So far combination they have managed to successfully pretend to realise the Lord Evesham must be human beings. Although very hairy and prone to laughing a lot they have kept the truth (and their tails!) a secret from everyonerum 'un. But their grumpy next door neighbourMidnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, Mr McNumptytalk is made of meetings with Germans, is growing suspicious and then not only that, a trip to the local safari park Spitfire factory has repercussionsbeen attacked. Will But surely the Bolds' carefully long kept secret girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be revealedso underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443057</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Maudie SmithJamie Littler|title= The Cake, the Wolf and the WitchArkspire|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Max doesn't believe in happy endings. How could heTwo sisters, when lovelyJuniper and Elodie, braveborn fifteen minutes apart, caring Mum got killed climbing a mountain? He doesn't like heights or small dark spaces are growing to be chalk and he doesn't like silly fairy storiescheese. He absolutely hates being dressed Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in knickerbockersillicit magic, silk slippers and a cape for Dad and Ilona's wedding, and including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in factone of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become the only thing that's worse, child in his opinionline to inherit the power of the Watcher, is the fact that once it's over he'll have closest to share his home with a horrible new brother ruler the district has, and sisterone of the five major victors in said earlier war. I mean, come on, Being trained in the magic that only five people! Nettle is a total grouch who's clearly never cracked a smile can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. But in her whole lifefinding something oddly magical, and little Wild is Juniper might just . . . well, be able to tell the truthgain some power of her own – for good, he's plain daft. He prances about the place like a demented butterflyor for very, and he never takes his baseball cap off, even to go to bed. How's Max supposed to get along with that pair?very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444015605</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson024162343X|title=When I Am HappiestStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|genre=Emerging ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=If Dani leaves her I was the bad company other people got into at school for . I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the summer holidays with one souvenirexistence of a 'god'. Where was the proof? In history lessons, it will either be was probably worse still. Not too long after the memories end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the fabulous friendship she formed with EllaBritish army's successes (and occasional failures, who struck a chord but we didn't dwell on those) in [[My Happy Life by Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|book one]] then moved away, or it will what came to be a book she has written and compiled called 'the colonies' as want to remind her of all dispute what right the happiness she has encountered along army had to be there in the wayfirst place. That is not quite finishedLooking back, for I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the following day is maturity to be approach 'the great end of year party, and her classroom decorations are complete and her dress has been bought new speciallyproblem' politely. But not all of life is happiness and jollity – and Dani is removed from the classroom to face very bad newsI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''. What ending is in store, for her book and for ours?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271894</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Noel Streatfeild Thiago de Moraes|title=Ballet Shoes Old Gods New Tricks|rating=4.5

|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'Ballet Shoes'' tells s in but the story of three adopted orphans – Paulineentire planet (apart from mobile phones, Petrova and Posy Fossilall that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake). Brought to 1930s London as babies by an eccentric explorer (Great Uncle Matthew Trixie, otherwise known as Gum)luckily, realises what has happened – the girls ancient Gods have a comfortable life until taken the family begin to run out power of moneypower from us. Luckily they are And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all given places at the Children's Academy of Dancing 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 Stage Training and soon start to earn their own way so on known as child performers on the stagetricksters. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141359803</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth P JonesHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Clash of the Rival Robots (Adventures of the Steampunk Pirates)Finding Bear|rating=4.5

|summary=We learn a lot about the world of the Steampunk Pirates in this volume of their adventures. While having had references to Britain fighting France before now, we find the location matters more than [[Attack of the Giant Sea Spiders (Adventures of the Steampunk Pirates) The Last Bear by Gareth P JonesHannah Gold|last Last time]], as we head back to England. The Pirates have April had been told of on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a way to get into the Tower of London to steal the Crown Jewelspolar bear – that she called Bear. We also learn Back home, things on the domestic and family front are a lot about their upbringingbit advanced, but not perfect for her, if you and so can call it that – certainly more than last time, as we see what made them piratical in easily be ignored when word comes through from the first place, which islands Bear was last left on. For a surprise to their inventor when it happenedbear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. But you never knowDesperate to make sure he's OK, they may be about she and her father return to face the Arctic and hope that in a showdown against said scientist world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and, worse, his next generation of robotsthat the friendship can continue. If only they perhaps had been programmed to avoid temptation…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156061</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Karen McCombieSimon Fox|title= Catching Falling StarsDeadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= It Late one night Graham Blake is 1940 late back from his shift on the force, and after then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a year secret place, and join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the ''phoney war'' London father is suffering in arrested, leaving Archie on the Blitz. Glory and her younger brother Rich have now been evacuated late express to Brighton, toting a country village far tin his father was determined to keep away from everything they know his colleagues, and love. When the arrangements made by their mother fall through the children are sent to live with Miss Saunders, bearer of a cold and unwelcoming woman who is not popular in the village and Glory wonders if they would have been better off remaining in London despite the danger whole heap of falling bombs. The local children appear unfriendly and even in the countryside they are not completely safe from the enemy. All Glory wants is to return home to her parents 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 trustedquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407138898</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander McCall SmithCath Howe|title=Precious and the Zebra NecklaceMy Life on Fire

|summary=There Ren's family home is destroyed in a new girl fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at Precious Ramotsweher grandmother's schoolhouse where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. Her name is NancyWhen she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and Precious is asked show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to look after her put in a box, and make sure so she settles into schoolfinds herself starting to steal things. PreciousSmall things, things that people 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?|isbn=1839942835}}{{Frontpage|author= Rob Keeley|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a budding detective at such return to the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, each as fun to read as his previous offerings.|isbn= B0BVW69N1G}}{{Frontpage|author=Laura Noakes|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a young ageStar|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, soon sniffs out that there just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is a little bit of a mystery surrounding Nancy for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, and on discovering they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that all Nancy has left of her parents is Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a fading photograph surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in the outside world. During a zebra necklace daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, she decides that she must try discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to help Nancy discover adopt all the truth about girls for his Institute. But why, and what happened does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to them.the past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780273274</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary McKayAlice M Ross|title=Binny in SecretThe Nowhere Thief

|summary=Reading Binny At last there is new stock in Secret was rather like that moment whenthe 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, as a childbecause she has the ability to leave this world, I discovered that Noel Streatfield had written a LOT and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other shoe books or, just a few years agoworlds, when I suddenly discovered Jeanne Birdsall where the sea levels are rising dramatically and her Penderwick stories, the buildings are generally empty of humans and I gorged on themripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, utterly delighting in their humour and kindness. can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? I don't quite know how I haven't come across Hilary McKay beforeWell yes, is the answer, but of course now the fact a long list of her books have gone onto my 'to read' pile because I thoroughly enjoyed this story and I immediately wanted mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more!questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444913409</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kate PankhurstNatasha Farrant|title= The Disappearing Dinner Lady (Mariella Mystery)Rescue of Ravenwood|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Mariella has to admit it: This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the school dinners have been much better latelySparrowhawk''. When Big G was Ravenwood is an old house, in charge, vegetable mush was the order North of the dayEngland, but since the 'Ladies Who Lunch' agency where Bea and Raffy have been supplying the mealsliving for most of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a family. They have been serving grown up heavenly dishes like 'Monday Munchie Madness'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'Princess Pie' s becoming more and 'Pirate Pasta Bake'more expensive to maintain. The mystery girls love the new menuchildren find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even more than that, they love the new dinner ladybe together, 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 ladyif Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444012347</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tomiko Inui Robin Birch and Ginny Tapley Takemori (translator)Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Secret Unicorns of the Blue GlassSilver Street

|summary=One problem with being four inches or so tallJayden's nose is forever in a book, as any [[The Borrowers: The Borrowers which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and The Borrowers Afield by Mary Norton|Borrower]]-type creature I'm sure will tell youunicorns of the world, for example. Aisha is getting aroundaddicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. ThereThe problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there're themselves, exploring the impracticalities outside world of being so smallHackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, encounters educational purpose, and with catsa past involving Jayden's cousin, and they find a whole lot moremagical world they never knew existed. But with this modern world things can happen – such as an English governess-type taking For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a married couple bit of Little People to Japan with herlocal footage. There they have kids, and she leaves them with her favourite pupil – alongside The crew of the most necessary equipmentboat, including a small blue glass gobletliving gargoyle, that helps are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the human bond with kids unknowingly have the Little People by using it to donate milk magical sight needed to them on a daily basisjoin in. We're now into Dare they side with Leila, the second generation of Japanese people looking after themwoman on board, but something much more threateningand her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, all-enveloping and worrying than a cat is around become saviours of the corner – World War Two.unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690344</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=B09XWSXSKY|title=In Their Shoes: Fairy Tales Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and FolktalesJoanne Grodzinski

|summary=Lots Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of books have, a clock was playing over and over in their own way, shown fairy tales his mind. It happened every time he came to have relied on certain tropesvisit his grandfather. You certainly donHe hadn't have really wanted to read them come; after all, or indeed many, he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to see him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the wily child outsmart time. And time isn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the adult again and again, people tricked into changing ownership of magical things, clock beside the power of being a stepmother, or bed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the power of doing things in threesclock chimed only six times. Still, I think this must be one of a very rare few collections There was nothing for it but to look at footwear as a theme, with a tidy, small selection of fairy go and folkfind grandad -tales to entertain, but where was he? And why had all with that subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691014</amazonuk>the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?