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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Antony WoottenRob 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=The Grubby Feather Gang (Bigshorts)Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=Life is confusing for George Sanders: his father, the local vet, has refused ''Would you like to adopt a ghost?'' 'do his bit' and volunteer Young spirit, born 1887, seeks kind home to fight in Francehaunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. There's bad feeling in the village - Gets on well with the women giving Dad white feathers - other children. Jokes and even Georgeshocks a speciality.'' ''s mum believes that he should go and fight. To top it all George is currently being suspendedIf interested, upside downplace outside your home three twigs, from the rafters in the hayloft by the local bully who is determined that George is going shape of an arrow, pointing to do his maths homeworkyour front door... You'd think that it couldn't get much worse, but the next day he Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a decade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's caned at school when he doesn't feel 'Spirits'' series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that he was in 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 wrong. There's no wonder George is confusedrules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is there?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0953712389</amazonuk>adopted by them and takes up residence in.... a wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly WebbRob 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=Max Boucherat|title=The Truffle MouseLast Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Alice is going through a tough time right now. Even though her mum and dad split up two years ago, We meet Lori on the first evening she'd always hoped that they would eventually get back together. But when dad introduced his new girlfriend and her daughter and announced that they would be moving s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, everything changed. School isn't any betterbabysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, eitheron her lonesome. She's always getting told off What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in class a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is jealous of her best friend Lucyto log on to Voxminer, who seems to have the perfect familyworld-building, but critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't appreciate itfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. When mum sees how withdrawn Alice has become, For the server she takes and her bestie and nobody else should be able to the pet shop to buy a hamster to take enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her mind off things. Howeverphone screen, it's not a hamster that catches Alice's eyeand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, but where is a sweet little mouse, with fur like cocoa powder. The trouble is, mum is terrified of mice!girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407144863</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Reeve Kieran Larwood and Sarah McIntyreJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Pugs of the Frozen North Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Confident Readers |summary= When Shen finds himself stranded Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the middle sport where a team of a frozen seawarrior, with 66 shivering pugs for company mage and no foodhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, he’s desperate magical mazes, and race to find helpthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Little does Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he suspect that this is just 's seen of the start of their adventure in latest race on the frozen north: with his new friend Sikainn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and the pugs pulling their sleda new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he’s suddenly part of a race he has taken to the top goading from the token bully of the his worldand stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Will they make it What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in time to meet the Snowfather or will one of the other contestants beat them actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to itsucceed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192734571</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura WoodJames Sherwood Metts|title=Poppy Pym and the Pharaoh's Curse Planet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary= Poppy Pym is leaving Things have been a bit sticky for the only home she's ever known (in Madame Pym's Spectacular Travelling Circus) to become a boarding school student at Saint Smithen's SchoolEarthlings. AndAI and automation have been proceeding apace, if starting school for the first time at age 11 isnoften replacing jobs they't enough, Poppy re paid to do and her new friends – Kip other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and Ingrid – find themselves in the middle of a mystery. Dangerous accidents start starting to occur at Saint Smithen's the moment a temporary exhibition think of Egyptian artefacts enter the school. While everyone else attributes these other, new ways to the Pharaoh's cursespend time, Poppy along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and her friends are determined to discover who is really causing the accidents. Then, when the priceless ruby at the heart of along with it, all the collection is stolen, their investigation broadens as many daily social interactions on which they try to uncover the thiefdepend so heavily. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407158546</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kevin SandsTom Percival|title= The Blackthorn KeyWrong Shoes|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Seventeenth century England isnWill't always s life is difficult, in a comfortable place to livemultitude of ways. Apart from He is bullied because he has 'the obvious differences from wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the modern day – no National Health Servicemost basic of things like food, no laws to protect orphans like Christopher from cruelty and exploitationhis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, and was working a constant foul smell from poor sanitation cash- fear in-hand job on a building site and suspicion are a daily fact of lifehad an accident. In 1665 Charles II has been back on Throw into that mix the throne for several yearsfact that his mum and dad are separated, but not everyone is happy about his extravagant and luxurious Will's life-styleseems bleak in every direction. And yet, even among those who found the Puritan rules he still has a tiny amount of Cromwell's time excessively stricthope. There are spies everywhere He is good at art, and rumours clings to the moments of conspiracies fill joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the streets. It's end of a time to keep your head down and avoid attention from the authoritieslong, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014136064X</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen McCombie1805141872|title=Honey and MeThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Most girls starting out Brook City School ''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are hoping for something new and differentbaffled, but Kirsten just wants things to be ''normal''. Even good things seem to come with only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a sting in the tail safecracker! With police and worst of allher gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Mum Miss Judson and Dad are really not getting Ben go onthe run. In fact Kirsten is happiest at school and does all the after-school activities she can manage just to keep away from home But Al needs them for as long as she canone last job... Her elder brother, Finn, who's at sixth form college' Goodness me, that Miss Judson is struggling too: what used a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to be thought of as ''cheeky'' at school has turned into ''disruptiveget mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. When things get really bad Kirsten Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is suddenly reminded Ben, the son of her old friend Honey a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and wonders if she can get in touch with her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124752</amazonuk>who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip K DickChristopher Edge|title=Nick and the GlimmungBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Meet Nick. He lives on Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a future Earthmovie marathon at their local cinema, where multiple large classrooms are taught by just one holographic teacher, which might sound impractical but can actually help with advice when you declare to the class a place that you are breaking has the lawnickname of 'The Black Hole'. NickAll big movie fans, you seethey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, has a pet catas the movie starts, and in they very quickly realise that something about this massively over-populated new film format is very different, and under-resourced world, pets they are illegal. There's a simple solution – wait for the ''anti-pet man'' to turn swept up with his weaponry and armour and dispose of it, but the family have decided to take the other way out – emigrate to into an entirely different worldadventure they couldn't even imagine. Hence But as they embark on lurch from one film genre to the trip to be pioneer farmers on Plowman's Planetnext, even when can they're forewarned of a host of different and most unusual animals already resident there. figure out what on earth is going on? That advice still doesn't really prepare them for the battle whose crossfire in which Will they immediately ever get caught…back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057513299X</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Saviour Pirotta 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=Alex Bell and Paul HessTim McDonagh|title=The Ghosts Who Danced and other spooky storiesGlorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=Ghosts are all over Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the worlddessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, don't you knowtoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. I donA few short years ago, Eli't know of any as of yet but I dare say that people s parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have fixed ghost stories to be set on Antarctica; they're certainly common on all navigate the world in the other continentscompany of a magical beast. York This has 500 spectres 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 itself allegedlyenter what he most hates, all corners with the sole aim the prize of all civilisations claim magic at the end – the only thing to know possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Cooper|title=The Taming of spirit world entities the Cat|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and people even go as far as being so undignified in case you're seeing a connection, they see them live in Auschwitza cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. The lesson They nibble up paper wrapping from this excellently putthe cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-together book is that ghosts are worldwidetelling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and any one cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from just about anywhere can have a very interesting story fable who had had to tellstories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847804357</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna Claybourne and TillyLauren St John|title= Where's Will?Finding Wonder|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Taking 10 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 best known stories, this book neatly summarises night by the plots and highlights police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the must-know elements of eachcorner shop to buy a lottery ticket. That's just the start When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, thoughJoni, because after youwho she knows her dad didn've read what's going ont think very highly of. But she has no one else, you get and so off she goes to see it in another formlive with her unreliable aunt. Each story is followed by an illustrated two page spread Things continue to get worse for Roo, highly detailed as when she and bursting with activity and characters. Your missionJoni leave London in Joni's old campervan, should you choose to accept it, is to find breaks down in the stars middle of the play among the many other people on the page. They're hidden, but can you find them?nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402284</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben DavisAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Danny DreadOscar's Lion|rating=3.5

|summary=Meet Danny DreadWe 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. HeBut when he enters his parents's bedroom, all he sees is a pupil at Demento's Academy for Young Evil Geniusesmahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, where classes range from bank robbery and admitting that he won'applied superhero torture' t be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to creating flying craft and machines with which having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to do the most dastardly deeds, and where bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the head mistress is only too pleased to see bullying happening in the corridorsother month. Now meet Mynah Boy – freshly costumedAnd it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and talented inasmuch as he it can mimic lots get him out of people and thingsa problem. He might not be the worldAnd it's best superhero, but neither is Danny Dread wonderful to have around the world's best villain house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the Dread family have slowly been getting worse at being evilrules, and Danny is so hopeless he on. OK, it can't even kill work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a flywonderful time. You might think they'll be set up for the most clumsy, calamitous adventure against each other, until you learn that actually they're one and same lad – but things will still get clumsy and calamitous enough…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192742639</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|author=Judith Eagle|title=Thunderbirds are Go Official GuideThe Stolen Songbird

|summary=ItCaro's time mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to admit that I am oldreturn home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. I remember the first series Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of ''Thunderbirds'' from Saturday morning kids' cinema – an episode of thather sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, then a second-run filmsomeone Caro has heard her mother despises, both for a quidshe feels frustrated and confused and worried. They were only ten years 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 staid old or so thenVictorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, but at least that proved the franchise was durableAlbie, who is living there too. Nothing did that quite as much, howeverBut she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as the news she discovers a couple painting of years ago that the Anderson estate was to allow a CG updatingbird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, bringing and all across London a new generation of fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people to the massed audience. Amid Is the usual worries about it losing everything that made it special, it actually did pretty well when it aired in 2015 – even with a breakfast time transmission slot. This small(ish) format hardback is, bar the annual, the very first chance painting somehow linked to look at an official book concerning the series, and inasmuch as it inspired me to research the return, and certainly accept it as looking a worthy addition gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the canon, it succeeds on all fronts.mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124991</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roland Chambers and Ella OkstadTania Unsworth|title=Nelly and the Quest for Captain PeabodyNowhere Island|rating=4.5

|summary=Nelly's fatherMeet Gil. Just twelve, Captain Peabodyhe is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, sailed away when she was a babyhe jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him to his future. He remembered her birthday once or twice sending her That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in a gift camp on an island between the two directions of painted snails and an egg which hatched into a visionary turtle. This turtlemotorway, Columbus, has grown a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to become Nelly's closest friend provide for their safety and companion as her mother sits silently knitting seclusion. Them, and nothing a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more has been heard from her fathersuccessfully. There may be Over a lesson about parental inadequacy and unreliability here but few weeks we see if so it's understated. I have rarely met a less angst-ridden heroine than Nelly though she their oddball destinies can give a firm lecture about keeping combine, or if this is one's promises.place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192742698</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clive Gifford and Professor Anil SethHelen Peters|title=Brain Twisters: The Science of Thinking Friends and FeelingTraitors|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Meet England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the braincountry pile called Stanbrook. We One is Nancy, destined to be in service all have oneher life it seems, like the female generations before her. We all use it (and by 'it' I mean The other is Sidney, a heck of girl from a lot more of it than the 10% of urban myth) every second of the dayhoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. We engage The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with different parts of each other over their first encounters would only prove it for balanceso. But something is amiss, catching a ball, memorising a list of moves and first separately and then in controlling combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a video game character, or understanding things ranging from written instruction to body languagerum 'un. It's such a vital part Midnight deliveries are received under cover of the bodysecrecy, taking up 20% talk is made of our glucose fuel intake as well as of oxygenmeetings with Germans, and not only that understanding of it cannot come at too young an age, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But in this varied and complex booksurely the girls are wrong, looking at a varied and complex subject, I do wonder if the right approach has been taken at all times.upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402047</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny Broom and Kristjana S WilliamsJamie Littler|title=The Wonder Garden: Wander through the world's wildest habitats and discover more than 80 amazing animalsArkspire

|summary=Is it any wonder that this book calls I was the bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'. Where was the outside world The Wonder Gardenproof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I know things in fiction booksdidn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on TV and those) in games can what came to be fabulous, but can they compete – really – with called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what nature has presented? right the army had to be there in the first place. You only need a gate through which to goLooking back, and a willingness I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to exploreapproach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Thiago de Moraes|title=Old Gods New Tricks|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Trixie. This book provides those gates – there they areForever getting into scrapes, shining luxuriously on larks and adventures involving flooding the cover school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of this jumbo-sized hardbacknuisance. And in five easyBut just when she's being told that by her one-last-tochance-take stepsgiving headteacher, the rest world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the book provides for that exploration, taking us down south town the school's in Amazonia, down below the waters of but the Great Barrier Reefentire planet (apart from mobile phones, and up – to deserts and mountainsall that powers the Internet, via Germanyjust for our convenience's own Black Forestsake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the trip is nothing if not spectacular to look atsemi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847806473</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Haake Hannah Gold and Georgia CherryLevi Pinfold|title=City Atlas: Discover the world with 30 city mapsFinding Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=It's not every [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time I mention the feel of the book I'm reviewing]], but this time it's worth a mention. This volume has April had been lavishly presented in on Bear Island, a roughened card cover, as opposed to the gloss of others in this format from this publisherlot further north than many people would venture, and so looks and feels like an old stamp cataloguefinding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. The title image is indeed a stampBack home, stuck things on the centre of the cover. And just as all stamps the world over domestic and family front are practically the same yet completely different in designa bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so are can easily be ignored when word comes through from the world's citiesislands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. The point of this book is Desperate to bring the common elements as well as the unique features of all the worldmake sure he's capitals OK, she and her father return to the fore, to show Arctic and hope that while in a city may be a city is a cityworld of very white and very dangerous things, their constant variety is what makes each she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and every one worth a visit. With that being on the costly side, this is a decent enough substitutefriendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847806481</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shannon Hale, Dean Hale and LeUyen PhamSimon Fox|title=The Princess in BlackDeadlock

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Princess Magnolia has 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 double lifesecret place, and join him on the run. On one hand she has a perfectly primThey get together, proper and pink castle turret but barely begin to live insmell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the other she has late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=1839944420}}{{Frontpage|author=Cath Howe|title=My Life on Fire|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ren's family home is destroyed in a secret escape tunnelfire. On She, her head she has a tiaraparents, on and her finger a monster alarmlittle brother lose everything. Her life is also full She doesn't have any of threats – on one side a horridher clothes, blueor any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, goat-eating beastieand now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, on or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the other class are doing a prim special art project, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and proper visitor intent on finding out if the perfect Princess show who they are as a person. But Ren has any secretsnothing to put in a box, and so she finds herself starting to steal things. Well we know she hasSmall things, things that people might not really miss, but not when they have so much already. But what will they be discovered – and which happen to her if someone finds out what she is the greater threatdoing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763678880</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jacqueline WilsonRob Keeley|title=KatyThe Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories

|summary= Eleven year-old Katy Carr Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a tomboy who, despite her best intentions, is always getting into trouble. Lively and adventurous, Katy is very much return to the leader of her five younger brothers and sisters until an accident damages her spine and she finds herself confined short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to a wheelchair. Suddenly Katy's life is turned upside down and she has to learn the most basic things all over againeleven new tales, each as fun to redefine her role in the family, and find a new meaning in liferead as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141353961</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ursula DubosarskyLaura Noakes|title=The Red ShoeCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating=54

|summary=They may be quite far apartMeet Number One. Or rather, but three houses in a row in the rural suburbs of 1950s Sydney contain some incredibly unusual peopleCosima Unfortunate. In one, a solitary old man of very few wordsOr rather, shuffling just Cos to her friends. The practice in the end of his days, but brandishing a Japanese sword he's purloined after WWII, and with a gun home she lives in is for the corner of his lounge. In girls to just be named by the middle, a family of five, with a father figure suffering from PTSD due number they correspond to the same war, a mother feeling friendless and alone in the isolated time and locationledger, and their three daughters they're all Unfortunates – one of whom has given up on school after an alleged nervous breakdownyoung people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the middle one who barely speaks more than the neighbour, and Matildatag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, our key interest, who likes as the idea of spiesfirst ever inmate, and has an imaginary friend who came out of unique in having no known family in the radiooutside world. The third house however might be where During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the most interesting people live kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – after a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt allthe girls for his Institute. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it had been empty, but now the luxurious building is home possibly bring Cos closer to several shady men in suits, who turned up out of the blue in luxury cars, and past she has so little link with at least one gun of their own…?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406358746</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris ColferAlice M Ross|title=The Land of Stories: Beyond the KingdomsNowhere Thief

|summary=The At last [[The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning by Chris Colfer|Land of Stories]] book left readers on there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a cliffhanger with a shock revelation 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 identity 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 antagonistbuildings 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 villainous Sparrowhawk'Masked Man'. Since then Ravenwood is an old house, fans, myself includedin the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been waiting desperately living 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 grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the next book in trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the series in order to see how our twin heroes Alex house and Conner deal with this surprising twist in loving every inch of the taleplace. The waiting But now the house is under threat, as Leo is over; under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the new book is here property to a developer as it's becoming more and ready more expensive to transport us once again maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to the magical Land of Stories..live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316339385</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Catherine StorrRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title= Clever Polly and the Stupid WolfSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating= 54|genre= Emerging Confident Readers|summary= Polly opens the door one day to find Jayden's nose is forever in a large black wolf standing on the doorstep. With no preamble whatsoeverbook, not even which means he knows a cursory hellolot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, the wolf informs Polly that he intends for example. Aisha is addicted to eat her upnew tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. Incredibly Polly invites the wolf into her home and even into The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the kitchen! What can she be thinking outside world of? WellHackney, young Polly is cleverLondon. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, resourcefuleducational purpose, independent and charmingwith a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. The wolf is For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a wolf bit of very little brainlocal footage. Therefore it is not long before she is able to outwit The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the wolf rare critters – and send him packingthe kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. This first story is very short but sets Dare they side with Leila, the scene for the ongoing battle of wits between Polly woman on board, and the wolf that will continue for the remaining twelve short stories her relative who lives as a figure in this charming a painting, and entertaining book.become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141360232</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rupert WallisB09XWSXSKY|title=All Sorts of PossibleMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn''When t sleep. A tune, rather like the sinkhole opened, there ticking of a clock was no playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to break or turn the wheelvisit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's ten now and the all those old green Land Rover was snatched off the dirt road over the smoking rimclocks don't appeal to him anymore.''

Somehow, Daniel makes it out of ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the sinkhole and emerges to safety with just a few scratches and bruisestime. But his father And time isn't so luckygood for anything.. While he lies in hospital in an induced coma due to a severe brain injury, Daniel is released into the care 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 baby, and since then it's just been Daniel and his dad. Although his aunt seems nice enough, Daniel finds it difficult to trust her or open up to her...

And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times.. There was nothing for it but to go and therefind grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o's a lot to open up about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114366X</amazonuk>clock?