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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Lewis CarrollRob 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, Mark Burstein (editor) and Salvador Dalishe 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=Alice's Adventures in WonderlandThe Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=If you don't know the story now, then where have 'Would you been for like to adopt a hundred and fifty yearsghost? A young girl sees a hurrying white rabbit'' ''Young spirit, follows itborn 1887, falls down seeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on well with other children. Jokes and shocks a hole, fails to recognise the speciality.'' 'stranger danger' If interested, place outside your home three twigs, in partaking of random foods and drinks just because the shape of a label on theman arrow, nearly drowns pointing to your front door...'' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a whole menagerie decade of animals his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's ''Spirits'' series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a lake of her own tears, takes advice from someone on drugs, plays cards, or croquet, or new adventure that is both or neither, a reboot and wakes up to find it all a dreamcontinuation. Someone else tried out such gibberish on a young girlJust like Doctor Who, wrote it down in a flurryEdward Fitzberranger, made a hugely successful name for himselfour incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. Ruby and woke up Jayden respond to find even at this remove that most people (unlike me) adore the thing. But it's not just for now, its 150th birthday, that the work gets reprinted. In the 1960s, someone came up with the idea to put the esoteric, surreal intriguing advertisement and daft mind of Salvador Dali in cahoots with the esotericEdward, surreal and daft world of Carroll's Alice, and who has broken the result was a very rare rules as usual and valuable edition – a box set of illustrated bookletsabsconded from his manor house home, perfectly suited to the very surrealistic 105th birthday. Since getting sight of one is like seeing a flat clock adopted by them and takes up residence in Dali's pictures, this decent hardback replication is the nearest you'll get to owning one of the most special of Alice editions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0691170029</amazonuk>... a wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cressida CowellRob Keeley|title=How to Train Your Dragon 12Childish Spirits: How to Fight a Dragon's Fury10th anniversary special edition|rating=54

|summary=A relentless battle. Human against dragon. On the Doomsday of YuleAround here, the battle will end and only one side can be victorious. If the dragons win, the human race will be annihilated. If the humans win, they will unlock the secret we're big fans of the dragon jewel, with the potential to destroy all of the dragonschildren's author Rob Keeley. The only hope is a human boy called Hiccup, an unlikely hero who has a wish to unite human and dragon once more. Unfortunately, Hiccup is lying unconscious on a beach at HeroHe's Enda ball of happy positivity, lost and alone with no boat. What is morehe understands children, Hiccup has no memory; no idea who he is and why he is so important. He also has two poisonous fangs embedded in his arm; the ticking teeth of a Vampire Spydragon which serve as a tracking device writes for the vicious beasttheir pleasure and enjoyment, who is closing in as we speak. Suffice not to say, things aren't going well for Hiccup and they can only get worselecture or hector...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444916580</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=Zom-B Fugitive (Zom B 11)|rating= 4|genre=Teens|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING!

If you havenThe 't read '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 [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!spirit Ellie encounters|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077929</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeffrey BrownMax Boucherat|title=The Phantom Bully (Star Wars Jedi Academy 3)Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=DoesnWe meet Lori on the first evening she't time flys 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. What could possibly go wrong? It only seems Snuggled in a short time ago that Roan Novachez was starting his first term at Jedi Academy Middle Schoolblanket fort, yet here he isshe has one main intention, all grown up and ready that is to start his final year. As alwayslog on to Voxminer, there are plenty of twists and turns, teen troubles and relationship issues mixed in with the forceworld-wieldingbuilding, piloting and lightsaber battlescritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Bullying is still But first Lori has a real issue for Roan tiny inkling that this termstormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, as it seems that someone has made a personal mission and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of setting him tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up to fail. Everything is riding on his performance this yearher phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, as flunking out will mean being held back where is a year and his friends moving on without him.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0545621267</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antony WoottenKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Grubby Feather Gang (Bigshorts)Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Life is confusing for George Sanders: Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his fatherworld, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the local vetsport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, has refused to 'do his bit' and volunteer race to fight in France. There's bad feeling in the village - exit, perhaps bothering with the women giving Dad white feathers - treasure or the big bad and even George's mum believes that he should go and fightthe points they grant you along the way. To top it all George is currently being suspendedUnfortunately for Kit, upside down, from the rafters in only thing he's seen of the hayloft by latest race on the local bully who inn TV equivalent is determined that George one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is going to do his maths homeworkneeded. You'd think that it couldn't get much worsePossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, but he has taken to the next day he's caned at school when goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he doesn't feel that he was in the wrongll enter as a team. There's no wonder George is confusedWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, is thereand how could he possibly hope to succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0953712389</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly WebbJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Truffle MousePlanet Storyland

|summary=Alice is going through Things have been a tough time right nowbit sticky for the Earthlings. Even though her mum AI and dad split up two years agoautomation have been proceeding apace, sheoften replacing jobs they'd always hoped re paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they would eventually were beginning to get back together. But when dad introduced his new girlfriend used to all this technological change and her daughter and announced that they would be moving instarting to think of other, everything changed. School isn't any betternew ways to spend time, eitheralong came an awful pandemic. She's always getting told off in class Life was pretty much shut down and is jealous of her best friend Lucy, who seems to have the perfect family, but doesn't appreciate along with it. When mum sees how withdrawn Alice has become, she takes her to all the pet shop to buy a hamster to take her mind off thingsmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. However, it's not a hamster that catches Alice's eye, but a sweet little mouse, with fur like cocoa powder. The trouble is, mum is terrified of mice!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407144863</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Reeve Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in 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 Sarah McIntyrehis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was 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, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1805141872|title=Pugs 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 the Frozen North 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

|summary= When Shen finds himself stranded in the middle of Murray is supposed to be a frozen seahumble, with 66 shivering pugs for company tidy and no foodfriendly cat, he’s desperate one who is able to find helpsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. Little does But he suspect that this is just the start of their adventure in the frozen north: with 's a bad magician's cat, so his new friend Sikafavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the pugs pulling their sledcatflap they both use can chuck them out, he’s suddenly part of not into the regular back garden, but into a race to the top world of the worldfrightening adventure and whiffs. Will they make This time round it in time drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to meet the Snowfather or will one of the other contestants beat them be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to it?do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192734571</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura WoodAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Poppy Pym and the Pharaoh's Curse The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary= Poppy Pym Eli is leaving a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the only home she's ever known (wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in Madame Pym's Spectacular Travelling Circus) to become the evening a boarding school student helper at Saint Smithen's Schoolthe dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. And Eli lives with his lovely gran, if starting school too – for there is a generation missing in the first time at age 11 isnfamily. A few short years ago, Eli't enoughs parents were both lost to the titular race, Poppy and her new friends – Kip and Ingrid – find themselves a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the middle company of a mysterymagical beast. Dangerous accidents start This has made the race anathema to occur at Saint Smithen's the moment pair – but when a temporary exhibition of Egyptian artefacts enter bad incident at the school. While everyone else attributes these eatery leads to the Pharaoh's cursea confession from gran, Poppy and her friends are determined Eli knows his only hope is to dare to discover who is really causing enter what he most hates, with the accidents. Then, when sole aim the priceless ruby prize of magic at the heart of end – the collection is stolen, their investigation broadens as they try only thing to uncover the thiefpossibly save his gran. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407158546</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kevin SandsHelen Cooper|title= The Blackthorn KeyTaming of the Cat|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Seventeenth century England isn't always a comfortable place to liveOnce again, mice are pitched against cat. Apart from In this case, principally, we have Brie the obvious differences from mouse, up against Gorgonzola the modern day cat – no National Health Service, no laws to protect orphans like Christopher from cruelty and exploitationin case you're seeing a connection, and they live in a constant foul smell from poor sanitation - fear cheese shop and suspicion are a daily fact therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of lifecheeses. In 1665 Charles II has been back on the throne for several years Anyway, but not everyone Brie is happy about his extravagant shunned, scorned and luxurious life, if you must, mous-styletracised, even among those who found for the Puritan rules of Cromwellway his habits don's time excessively strictt match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. There are spies everywhere And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and rumours of conspiracies fill the streetscast out. It's a time almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep your head down and avoid attention from 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 authoritiescat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014136064X</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen McCombieLauren St John|title=Honey and MeFinding Wonder|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Most girls starting out Brook City School are hoping for something new and different, but Kirsten just wants things to be ''normal'Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Even good things seem to come with a sting Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the tail and worst middle of all, Mum and Dad are really not getting the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead onhis way to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. In fact Kirsten is happiest at school and does all the after-school activities When asked what other family she can manage just to keep away from home for as long as has, she can. Her elder brotheronly name her aunt, FinnJoni, whoshe knows her dad didn's at sixth form college, is struggling too: what used to be thought t think very highly of as ''cheeky'' at school has turned into ''disruptive''. When things get really bad Kirsten is suddenly reminded of her old friend Honey But she has no one else, and wonders if so off she can get in touch goes to live with herunreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124752</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip K DickAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Nick and the GlimmungOscar's Lion|rating=43

|summary=Meet Nick. He lives on a future EarthWe start incredibly bluntly, where multiple large classrooms are taught by just one holographic teacherwith Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, which might sound impractical but can actually help with advice when you declare mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to the class that you are breaking the lawbe ready for school. NickBut when he enters his parents' bedroom, you seeall he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, has a pet catlooking sheepish, and in this massively over-populated and under-resourced world, pets are illegaladmitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. There's But there are benefits to having a simple solution lion around – wait it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the ''anti-pet man'' other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to turn up with his weaponry school and armour and dispose it can get him out of a problem. And it, but the family 's wonderful to have decided to take around the other way out house – emigrate to an entirely different world. Hence they embark on not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the trip to be pioneer farmers on Plowman's Planetrules, even when they're forewarned of a host of different and most unusual animals already resident thereso on. That advice still doesnOK, it can't really prepare them for the battle whose crossfire in which they immediately get caught…work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057513299X</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Saviour Pirotta and Paul HessJudith Eagle|title=The Ghosts Who Danced and other spooky storiesStolen Songbird

|summary=Ghosts are all over the Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, don't you knowhas failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. I don't know Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of any as her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of yet but I dare say that people have fixed ghost stories building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to be set on Antarctica; theya halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady're certainly common on all the other continentss house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. York has 500 spectres to itself allegedlyBut she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, all corners as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all civilisations claim to know of spirit world entities – across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people even go as far as being so undignified they see them in Auschwitz. The lesson from this excellently put-together book is that ghosts are worldwide, and any one from just about anywhere can have a very interesting story Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to tell.Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847804357</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna Claybourne and TillyTania Unsworth|title= Where's Will?Nowhere Island|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Taking 10 of Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the best known stories, this book neatly summarises care system – the plots system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and highlights the must-know elements of eachfind a home for himself. That's just the start He is en route to yet another fosterer, thoughwhen he jumps into an anonymous car, because after you've read what's going on, you get and lets it ride him to his future. That future seems to see it be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in another form. Each story is followed by a camp on an illustrated island between the two page spreaddirections of a motorway, highly detailed a place inaccessible and bursting with activity definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and charactersseclusion. Your mission Them, should you choose to accept itand a mute girl also finding a home there, is to find the stars of the play among the many other people on the pagealbeit so much more successfully. They're hidden Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, but can you find them?or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402284</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben DavisHelen Peters|title=Danny DreadFriends and Traitors|rating=3.5

|summary=Meet Danny DreadEngland, WW2. He's a pupil Two young girls are new at Demento's Academy for Young Evil Geniuses, where classes range from bank robbery and 'applied superhero torture' to creating flying craft and machines with which to do the most dastardly deedscountry pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, and where the head mistress is only too pleased destined to see bullying happening be in service all her life it seems, like the corridorsfemale generations before her. Now meet Mynah Boy – freshly costumedThe 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 talented inasmuch as he can mimic lots of people cheese, and thingsif we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. He might not But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be the worlda rum 's best superheroun. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, but neither talk is Danny Dread the world's best villain – the Dread family have slowly been getting worse at being evilmade of meetings with Germans, and Danny is so hopeless he can't even kill not only that, a flylocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. You might think they'll be set up for But surely the most clumsygirls are wrong, 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…the upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192742639</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=Thunderbirds are Go Official GuideArkspire

|summary=It's time Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to admit that I am oldbe chalk and cheese. I remember the first series of ''Thunderbirds'' from Saturday morning kids' cinema – Juniper is an episode of thateager hunter and trader in illicit magic, then a second-run film, both for a quidincluding relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. They were only ten years old or so thenElodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, but at least that proved perhaps even to become the franchise was durable. Nothing did that quite as much, however, as child in line to inherit the news a couple power of years ago that the Anderson estate was Watcher, the closest to allow a CG updatingruler the district has, bringing a new generation and one of people to the massed audiencefive major victors in said earlier war. Amid Being trained in the usual worries about it losing everything magic that made it special, it actually did pretty well when it aired in 2015 – even with a breakfast time transmission slotonly five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. This small(ish) format hardback isBut in finding something oddly magical, bar the annualJuniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, the or for very first chance 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 to the canon, it succeeds on all fronts.very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124991</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roland Chambers and Ella Okstad024162343X|title=Nelly and the Quest for Captain PeabodyStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera

|summary=Nelly's fatherLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, Captain Peabodyand then suddenly rings Archie, sailed away when she was demanding he fetch something from a babysecret place, and join him on the run. He remembered her birthday once or twice sending her a gift They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of painted snails and an egg which hatched into a visionary turtle. This turtleSouthern trains when the father is arrested, Columbusleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, has grown toting a tin his father was determined to become Nelly's closest friend and companion as her mother sits silently knitting and nothing more has been heard keep away from her father. There may be a lesson about parental inadequacy his colleagues, and unreliability here but if so it's understated. I have rarely met the bearer of a less angst-ridden heroine than Nelly though she can give a firm lecture about keeping one's promiseswhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192742698</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clive Gifford and Professor Anil SethCath Howe|title=Brain Twisters: The Science of Thinking and FeelingMy Life on Fire|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Meet the brainRen's family home is destroyed in a fire. We all have oneShe, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. We all use it (She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and by now she is living at her grandmother'its house where they can' I mean a heck of a lot more of it than the 10% of urban myth) every second of t touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the dayfoods they normally eat. We engage with different parts of it for balance, catching When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a ballspecial art project, memorising a list creating boxes of moves in controlling a video game charactertheir lives, or understanding to display things ranging from written instruction that are important to body languagethem and show who they are as a person. It's such But Ren has nothing to put in a vital part of the bodybox, taking up 20% of our glucose fuel intake as well as of oxygenand so she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that understanding of it cannot come at too young an agepeople might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But in this varied and complex book, looking at a varied and complex subject, I do wonder what will happen to her if the right approach has been taken at all times.someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402047</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny Broom and Kristjana S WilliamsRob Keeley|title=The Wonder Garden: Wander through the world's wildest habitats Boy Who Disappeared and discover more than 80 amazing animalsOther Stories

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Is it any wonder that this book calls the outside world The Wonder Garden? I know things in fiction books, on TV and in games can be fabulous, but can they compete – really – Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with what nature has presented? You only need a gate through which to go, and a willingness return to explore. This book provides those gates – there they are, shining luxuriously on the cover of this jumbo-sized hardback. And in five easy-to-take steps, the rest of the book provides for that exploration, taking short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us down south in Amazonia, down below the waters of the Great Barrier Reef, and up – to deserts and mountainseleven new tales, via Germany's own Black Forest. And the trip is nothing if not spectacular each as fun to look atread as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847806473</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Haake and Georgia CherryLaura Noakes|title=City Atlas: Discover the world with 30 city mapsCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=It's not every time I mention the feel of the book I'm reviewingMeet Number One. Or rather, but this time it's worth a mentionCosima Unfortunate. This volume has been lavishly presented in a roughened card coverOr rather, as opposed just Cos to the gloss of others in this format from this publisher, and so looks and feels like an old stamp catalogueher friends. The title image practice in the home she lives in is indeed a stamp, stuck on for the centre of the cover. And girls to just as all stamps be named by the world over are practically number they correspond to in the same yet completely different in designledger, so are the worldand they's citiesre all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. The point of this book is to bring But Cosima bears the common elements tag as well a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and unique features of all in having no known family in the outside world's capitals . During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the forekitchen one afternoon, to show that while she discovers a city may be plan involving said outside world – a city is a citydevilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, their constant variety is and what makes each and every one worth a visit. does that body entail? With that being on And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the costly side, this is a decent enough substitute.past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847806481</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shannon Hale, Dean Hale and LeUyen PhamAlice M Ross|title=The Princess in BlackNowhere Thief

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Princess Magnolia At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has a double lifestolen it. On one hand She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has a perfectly primthe ability to leave this world, proper and pink castle turret use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to live inenter other worlds, on where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the other she has a secret escape tunnelbuildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. On her head she has a tiaraWith eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, is the answer, on her finger but the fact a monster alarmmysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769}}{{Frontpage|author=Natasha Farrant|title=The Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Her life Ravenwood is also full an old house, in the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of threats – on one side a horridcomplex, blueextended family arrangement, goat-eating beastieas 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 trees, on 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 prim developer as it's becoming more and proper visitor intent on finding out if the perfect Princess has any secretsmore expensive to maintain. Well we know she hasThe children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but will if they 'll even be discovered – together, and which is the greater threat?if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763678880</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jacqueline WilsonRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=KatySecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street

|summary= Eleven year-old Katy Carr Jayden's nose is forever in a tomboy whobook, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, despite for example. Aisha is addicted to her best intentionsnew tablet, is always getting into troublewhere she can see videos of anything that might be out there. Lively and adventurous The problem, as their mothers see it, Katy is very much that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the leader outside world of her five younger brothers Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and sisters until an accident damages her spine and she finds herself confined to with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a wheelchairmagical world they never knew existed. Suddenly Katy For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's life is turned upside down seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and she has to learn the most basic things all over again, kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to redefine her role join in . Dare they side with Leila, the familywoman on board, and find her relative who lives as a new meaning figure in life.a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141353961</amazonuk>0241573483