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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anna Claybourne and Tilly1836285493|title= Where's Will?The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Taking 10 Will is a keen player of the best known storiesvideo games, this book neatly summarises the plots a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and highlights the must-know elements a supportive friend. But most of eachall, he is an aspiring writer. That's just the startEnglish is his favourite lesson at his school, thoughMarlowe Park, because after youand one at which he excels. This hasn've read what's going ont gone unnoticed by his headteacher, you get to see it in another form. Each story is followed by an illustrated two page spreadMrs Howarth, highly detailed and bursting with activity she has suggested to Will and characters. Your missionhis mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, should you choose to accept itStation Road, is to find the stars of the play among the many other people on the pagewhere his ability might be better extended. They're hidden, but can you find them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402284</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|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 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 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, who has broken the rules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is 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, 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'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|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Ben DavisMax Boucherat|title=Danny DreadThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=34.5

|summary=Meet Danny DreadWe 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 her lonesome. He's What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a pupil at Demento's Academy for Young Evil Geniusesblanket fort, she has one main intention, where classes range from bank robbery and 'applied superhero torture' that is to creating flying craft and machines with which log on to do Voxminer, the most dastardly deedsworld-building, and where the head mistress critter-collecting game that is only too pleased to see bullying happening a hit in the corridorsLori's world. Now meet Mynah Boy – freshly costumedBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and talented inasmuch as he can mimic lots of people and thingsthen she finds something even more spooky. He might not be For the world's best superhero, but neither is Danny Dread the world's best villain – the Dread family have slowly been getting worse at being evil, server she and her bestie and Danny is so hopeless he can't even kill a flynobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. You might think they'll be set When malevolent eyes spark up for the most clumsyon her phone screen, calamitous adventure against each other, until you learn that actually they're one and same lad her safe place in the game has been doctored – but things will still get clumsy and calamitous enough…well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192742639</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Thunderbirds are Go Official GuideDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=It's time to admit that I am oldMeet Kit. I remember Like most of the first series people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of ''Thunderbirds'' from Saturday morning kids' cinema Dungeon Running – an episode the sport where a team of thatwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, then a secondcentury-run filmold, both for a quid. They were only ten years old magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or so then, but at least that proved the franchise was durablebig bad and the points they grant you along the way. Nothing did that quite as muchUnfortunately for Kit, however, as the news a couple only thing he's seen of years ago the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that the Anderson estate was to allow a CG updatingone team has been retired, eaten, bringing and a new generation trio of people questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the massed audience. Amid goading from the usual worries about it losing everything that made it special, it actually did pretty well when it aired in 2015 – even with token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a breakfast time transmission slotteam. This small(ish) format hardback isWhat chance does this friendless, bar the annualmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, the very first chance and how could he possibly hope to look at an official book concerning succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a bit sticky for the seriesEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and inasmuch other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as it inspired me they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to research the returnspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and certainly accept , along with it as looking a worthy addition to , all the canon, it succeeds many daily social interactions on all frontswhich they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124991</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roland Chambers and Ella OkstadTom Percival|title=Nelly and the Quest for Captain PeabodyThe Wrong Shoes

|summary=NellyWill's fatherlife is difficult, Captain Peabodyin a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, sailed away when she was working a baby. He remembered her birthday once or twice sending her cash-in-hand job on a gift of painted snails building site and had an egg which hatched accident. Throw into a visionary turtle. This turtlethat mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, Columbus, has grown to become Nellyand Will's closest friend and companion as her mother sits silently knitting and nothing more life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has been heard from her fathera tiny amount of hope. There may be a lesson about parental inadequacy He is good at art, and unreliability here but if so it's understated. I have rarely met clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a less angst-ridden heroine than Nelly though she can give light at the end of a firm lecture about keeping one's promiseslong, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192742698</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1805141872|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job...'' Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas 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'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|author=Clive Gifford Alex Bell and Professor Anil SethTim McDonagh|title=Brain Twisters: The Science Glorious Race of Thinking Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and Feelingin the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Cooper|title=The Taming of the Cat

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Meet the brainOnce again, mice are pitched against cat. We all In this case, principally, we have one. We all use it (Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and by in case you'it' I mean re seeing a heck of connection, they live in a lot more cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of it than cheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the 10% of urban myth) every second of way his habits don't match the dayother mice he lives with. We engage with different parts of They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it for balance, catching a ball, memorising a list of moves . And that story-telling will come in controlling a video game characterhandy one night, or understanding things ranging from written instruction to body languagewhen he feels all alone and cast out. It's such a vital part of the body, taking up 20% of our glucose fuel intake almost as well as of oxygen, that understanding of it cannot come at too young an ageif there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. But This makes Brie the top dog in this varied and complex bookthe mouse community, looking at a varied and complex subjectthough, I do wonder if as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the right approach has been taken at all timescat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402047</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny Broom and Kristjana S WilliamsLauren St John|title=The Finding Wonder Garden: Wander through the world's wildest habitats and discover more than 80 amazing animals

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Is it any wonder 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 this book calls her dad has dropped dead on his way to the outside world The Wonder Garden? corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. I know things in fiction booksWhen asked what other family she has, on TV and in games she can be fabulousonly name her aunt, Joni, but can they compete – really – with what nature who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But she has presented? You only need a gate through which to gono one else, and a willingness so off she goes to explorelive with her unreliable aunt. This book provides those gates – there they areThings continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, shining luxuriously on it breaks down in the cover middle of this jumbo-sized hardback. nowhere and then bursts into flames! And in five easy-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-take stepshave his mother – or father, the rest but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of the book provides times before he has to be ready for that explorationschool. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, taking us down south in Amazonialooking sheepish, down below 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 waters of bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the Great Barrier Reefother month. And it can shapeshift, and up – so he can take it to deserts school and mountains, via Germany's own Black Forestit can get him out of a problem. And it's wonderful to have around the trip is nothing if house – not spectacular to look atlimiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847806473</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Haake and Georgia CherryJudith Eagle|title=City Atlas: Discover the world with 30 city mapsThe Stolen Songbird

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=ItCaro's not every time I mention the feel of the book I'm reviewingmother, but this time it's worth a mention. This volume world-famous whistler, has been lavishly presented in a roughened card cover, as opposed failed to the gloss of others in this format return home from this publisher, her recent work trip abroad and so looks and feels like an old stamp catalogueis now missing. The title image Her other mother, Ronnie, is indeed a stamp, stuck on the centre having to go up North to take care of the coverher sister who is unwell. And just as all stamps the world over are practically the same yet completely different in designSo who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, so are the world's citiesshe feels frustrated and confused and worried. The point 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 book is to bring the common elements as well as the unique features of all the worldstaid old Victorian lady's capitals to the forehouse, along with an orphan boy, Albie, to show that while who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a city may be mystery, as she discovers a city is painting of a citybird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, their constant variety is what makes each and every one worth all across London a visitfearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. With that being on Is the costly side, this is a decent enough substitute.painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847806481</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shannon Hale, Dean Hale and LeUyen PhamTania Unsworth|title=The Princess in BlackNowhere Island

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Princess Magnolia has a double lifeMeet Gil. On one hand she has a perfectly primJust twelve, proper and pink castle turret he is so determined to live escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in, on the other she has futureless places that are not homes – and find a secret escape tunnelhome for himself. On her head she has a tiaraHe is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, on her finger a monster alarmand lets it ride him to his future. Her life is also full That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of threats belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on one side an island between the two directions of a horridmotorway, bluea place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. Them, goat-eating beastie, on the other and a prim and proper visitor intent on mute girl also finding out if the perfect Princess has any secretsa home there, albeit so much more successfully. Well Over a few weeks we know she hassee if their oddball destinies can combine, but will they be discovered – and which or if this is the greater threat?one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763678880</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jacqueline WilsonHelen Peters|title=KatyFriends and Traitors|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like the female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=1788004647}}{{Frontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=Arkspire

|summary= Eleven year-old Katy Carr is a tomboy whoTwo sisters, Juniper and Elodie, despite her best intentionsborn fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is always getting into trouble. Lively an eager hunter and adventuroustrader in illicit magic, Katy including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie is very much intent on getting closer to power in one of the leader religious districts of her five younger brothers and sisters until an accident damages her spine and she finds herself confined Arkspire, perhaps even to a wheelchair. Suddenly Katy's life is turned upside down and she has become the child in line to learn inherit the power of the most basic things all over againWatcher, the closest to redefine her role in a ruler the familydistrict has, and find a new meaning one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in lifethe magic 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141353961</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ursula Dubosarsky024162343X|title=The Red ShoeStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|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 Trixie. In oneForever getting into scrapes, a solitary old man of very few words, shuffling to larks and adventures involving flooding the end of his daysschool aircon with fart powder, but brandishing she could almost be thought a Japanese sword heyoung goddess of nuisance. But just when she's purloined after WWIIbeing told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, and with a gun in the corner of his loungeworld changes. In the middleSuddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a family power-out, even of fiveelectric cars, with a father figure suffering from PTSD due to hits not just the town the same war, a mother feeling friendless and alone school's in but the isolated time and locationentire planet (apart from mobile phones, and their three daughters – one of whom has given up on school after an alleged nervous breakdown, the middle one who barely speaks more than all that powers the neighbour, and MatildaInternet, just for our key interestconvenience's sake). Trixie, who likes the idea of spiesluckily, and realises what has an imaginary friend who came out happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of the radiopower from us. The third house however might be where And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the most interesting people live that can steal it back – after all, it had been empty, but now namely the luxurious building is home to several shady men characters from myth that have past form in suitsstealing from the Gods, who turned up out of ie the blue in luxury carssemi-deities, giants, half-gods and with at least one gun of their own…so on known as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406358746</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris ColferHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=The Land of Stories: Beyond the KingdomsFinding Bear

|summary=The last [[The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning Last Bear by Chris ColferHannah Gold|Land of StoriesLast time]] book left readers , April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a cliffhanger ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a shock revelation about the identity of the antagonistpolar bear – that she called Bear. Back home, things on the villainous 'Masked Man'. Since thendomestic and family front are a bit advanced, fansbut not perfect for her, myself included, have been waiting desperately for the next book in the series in order to see how our twin heroes Alex and Conner deal with this surprising twist in so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the taleislands Bear was last left on. The waiting is over; the new book is here For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and ready wounded. Desperate to transport us once again make sure he's OK, she and her father return to the magical Land Arctic and hope that in a world of Stories..very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316339385</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Catherine StorrSimon Fox|title= Clever Polly and the Stupid WolfDeadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Confident Readers|summary= Polly opens the door Late one day to find a large black wolf standing night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the doorstep. With no preamble whatsoeverforce, and then suddenly rings Archie, not even demanding he fetch something from a cursory hellosecret place, and join him on the wolf informs Polly that he intends run. They get together, but barely begin to eat her up. Incredibly Polly invites smell the wolf into her home and even into whiff of Southern trains when the kitchen! What can she be thinking of? Well, young Polly father is cleverarrested, resourcefulleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, independent and charming. The wolf is toting a wolf of very little brain. Therefore it is not long before she is able tin his father was determined to outwit the wolf keep away from his colleagues, and send him packing. This first story is very short but sets the scene for the ongoing battle bearer of a whole heap of wits between Polly and the wolf that will continue for the remaining twelve short stories in this charming and entertaining bookquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141360232</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rupert WallisCath Howe|title=All Sorts of PossibleMy Life on Fire|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Ren''When the sinkhole openeds family home is destroyed in a fire. She, there was no time to break or turn the wheelher parents, and the old green Land Rover was snatched off the dirt road over the smoking rimher little brother lose everything. She doesn'' Somehowt have any of her clothes, Daniel makes it out or any of the sinkhole her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and emerges to safety with just a few scratches and bruises. But his father isnnow she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't so luckytouch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. While he lies in hospital in an induced coma due When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a severe brain injuryspecial art project, Daniel is released into the care creating boxes of his aunttheir lives, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a woman he person. But Ren has never met. There had been a family falling out after Daniel's mother died when he was just nothing to put in a babybox, and since then it's just been Daniel and his dad. Although his aunt seems nice enough, Daniel so she finds it difficult to trust her or open up herself starting to hersteal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already.. ... and there's a lot But what will happen to open up about.her if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147114366X</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fuzzy MudRob Keeley|authortitle=Louis SacharThe Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|summary=Tamaya isn't allowed to walk home from school on her own. And Tamaya doesn't like to break any rules. So when walking partner Marshall insists on taking Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a "shortcut" through the woods one day, she goes with him, even though she isn't really supposed return to walk through the woods. Unbeknownst short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to Tamayaeleven new tales, Marshall has chosen the route in order each as fun 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 work. But lying in the woods is an even greater threat than Chad..read as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408864746</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul Stewart and Chris RiddellLaura Noakes|title=Scavenger 2: Chaos ZoneCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating=4.5

|summary=York is a lad on a missionMeet Number One. So would you beOr rather, if your space station habitation was constantly attacked by evolvedCosima Unfortunate. Or rather, mutated and evil robotsjust Cos to her friends. Trying to get to The practice in the core of things – both home she lives in is for the situation and the centre of the giant biosphere carrying the last humans girls to a future planet to reside on – he's just starting be named by the number they correspond to enter in the second levelledger, alongside some surprising companions (surprisingand they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that is, if you haven't read [[Scavenger 1: Zoid by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell|book one]]) and a lot of gung ho spiritVictorian society frowns greatly upon. The next stage is But Cosima bears the tag as a 'mid deck' level, surname because nothing else seems to be known about where all of Earth's habitation zones have been recreated – but nothing, either animal or humanshe came from, has stayed as the same since the ship's launch…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447234421</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Katherine Woodfine|title= The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This entrancing Edwardian mystery is set in the exoticfirst ever inmate, sensuous and opulent world of a Department store which draws the reader unique in having no known family in with enticing sights, sounds and smells from the startoutside world. When the heroine Sophie first steps on During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the shop floor kitchen one afternoon, she feels like she is "stepping inside discovers a chocolate box". Furthermore there is also something sacred about the experience- "Now, plan involving said outside world – a reverent hush hung in devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the air, and she found herself almost tiptoeing…gazing around her at the immense chandeliers, the glittering looking-glasses, the glossy walnut panellinggirls for his Institute. It smelled luscious: no sawdust now But why, but a glorious fragrance of cocoa and candied violets and some other spicy scent, like the cigars what does that Papa used body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to smoke after dinner." the past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405276177</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David O'Doherty and Chris JudgeAlice M Ross|title=Danger is Still Everywhere: Beware of the Dog!The Nowhere Thief

|summary=Meet GordonAt last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. He's a very safe bet, now you have met him, as he's a source of highly intelligent and descriptive warnings about dangerElsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. He and he alone can voice warnings She also knows she should be free from worries about the Puddle Shark you might get eaten bybeing found out, because she has the Parp Donkey that might evict you by farting through your letter boxability to leave this world, and the Headphones Crab that – welluse an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the illustration here says it all. Now, I know what you're thinking. Advice this intelligent sea levels are rising dramatically and salient could only really come from Docter Noel Zone, the world's only Level Five Dangerologistbuildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. And you'd be right. Gordon is With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the name Noel gives to his wardrobe. shop? And Noel Well yes, is currently living in Gordon the wardrobeanswer, as his house has been taken over by a messy, noisy, and incredibly dangerous puppy. Add into but the mix fact a pet contest hosted by the world's most dangerous mysterious man and you have a recipe for disaster (when all you wanted was a completely safe recipe for cabbage soup, as well…)knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014135920X</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gillian CrossNatasha Farrant|title= Shadow CatThe Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= When Nolan's effervescent mother suddenly takes him on a surprise journey he This story is in as much fear and doubt as another excellent adventure from the reader about what will happen next. Meanwhile music sensation Midirauthor of ''s daughter Feather is tired Voyage of being controlled and dreading the next photo opportunity for the pressSparrowhawk''. Then Ravenwood is an old house, one nightin the North of England, as her father prepares where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a shockingcomplex, spectacular eventextended family arrangement, everything changes. Cross keeps us guessing as Nolan's world Bea is turned upside down there with her Uncle Leo, and he has to make difficult choices. Why Raffy is there with his mother mum, and they are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the clouds on an exultant high cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one minute with all of the nature around the house and grey, stressed and in loving every inch of the doldrums of despair place. But now the next? Does Feather really want house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to be his friend or do they just have sell the serval property to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they have sworn 're going to protect in common?live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192736736</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julian Clary Robin Birch and David RobertsJobe Anderson|title= Secret Beast Club: The BoldsUnicorns of Silver Street|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= The BoldsJayden's nose is forever in a book, Mr which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and Mrs and their two small childrenunicorns of the world, live in an ordinary semi-detached house in suburban Teddingtonfor example. They have jobs; Mrs Bold designs and sells flamboyant hats and Mr Bold writes jokes for Christmas crackers Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. But The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are most definitely not an ordinary familynever 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. Oh no! They are in fact hyenas. So far But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they have managed to successfully pretend to be human beings. Although very hairy and prone to laughing find a lot magical world they have kept never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the truth (and their tails!) one Aisha thinks she's seen on a secret from everyonebit of local footage. But their grumpy next door neighbourThe crew of the boat, Mr McNumptyincluding a living gargoyle, is growing suspicious are tasked with saving the rare critters – and then a trip the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. Dare they side with Leila, the local safari park has repercussions. Will woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the Bolds' carefully long kept secret be revealedunseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443057</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Maudie SmithB09XWSXSKY|title= The Cake, Maestro Orpheus and the Wolf World Clock|author=Robert Penee and the WitchJoanne Grodzinski|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Max doesn't believe in happy endings. How could heFrederick (or Fred, when lovely, bravebut never Freddy, caring Mum got killed climbing a mountain? He doesn't like heights or small dark spaces and he doesnplease) couldn't like silly fairy storiessleep. He absolutely hates being dressed in knickerbockers A tune, silk slippers and rather like the ticking of a cape for Dad clock was playing over and Ilona's wedding, and in fact, the only thing that's worse, over in his opinion, is the fact that once it's over mind. It happened every time he'll have came to share visit his home with a horrible new brother and sistergrandfather. I mean, He hadn't really wanted to come on; after all, people! Nettle is a total grouch whohe's clearly never cracked a smile in her whole life, ten now and little Wild all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is just . . . well, to tell the truth, hetime. And time isn's plain daftt good for anything.. He prances about the place like a demented butterfly, and he never takes his baseball cap off, even to go to bed. How's Max supposed to get along with that pair?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015605</amazonuk>'}}{{newreview|author=Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|title=When I Am Happiest|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=If Dani leaves her school for And that was why he was looking at the summer holidays with one souvenir, it will either be clock beside the memories of bed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the fabulous friendship she formed with Ella, who struck a chord in [[My Happy Life by Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson|book one]] then moved away, or it will be a book she has written and compiled to remind her of all the happiness she has encountered along the wayclock chimed only six times. That is not quite finished, There was nothing for the following day is it but to be the great end of year party, go and her classroom decorations are complete and her dress has been bought new specially. find grandad - but where was he? But not And why had all of life is happiness and jollity – and Dani is removed from the classroom to face very bad news. What ending is in store, for her book and for oursclocks stopped at twelve o'clock?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1927271894</amazonuk>