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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Ulrich HubRob Keeley|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, Jorg Muhle a slightly annoying brother and Helena Ragg-Kirkby (translator)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=Meet at the Ark at Eight!The Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley

|genre= Confident Readers|summary=An educated penguin, an agnostic penguin and ''Would you like to adopt a violentghost?'' ''Young spirit, smallerborn 1887, young penguin walk into a snowdrift… You might not be able seeks kind home to make a full joke out of that opening line, but this book practically does continue haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on from therewell with other children. Three penguins – each a little different from the other, even if they generally look and definitely smell the same, Jokes and God, a subject of their conversation when shocks a butterfly comes along, of all thingsspeciality. The young'' ''If interested, hot-headed one (wellplace outside your home three twigs, in the pictures he wears shape of an arrow, pointing to your front door...'' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a woolly hat, hedecade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's bound to be hot-headed) leaves ''Spirits'' series in umbrage, leaving just two – which Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that is perfectly timed if you're both a reboot and a dovecontinuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. Ruby and come along telling all the animals Jayden respond to get into Noah's Ark in pairsthis intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the rules as an almighty flood usual and absconded from his manor house home, is about to happen…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782690875</amazonuk>adopted by them and takes up residence in.... a wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe SuggRob Keeley|title=UsernameChildish Spirits: Evie10th 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 Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=Meet Evie. SheWe meet Lori on the first evening she's surprisingly unwelcome and alienated at school got the house to herself – for a trendy and attractive girlno neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, nobody mother at all seems to have any time for herwork, apart from the geeky cardjust an avidly rule-collecting boy with the milk-bottle glasses breaking eleven year old, on the busher lonesome. Perhaps it has something to do with her father's thatched house – after allWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she must be a witch to live there. It's not that she would wish to live there, with nobody else aroundhas one main intention, and the memory of her deceased mother. But luckily someone that is choosing a place for her –her father is able to put all his work into a cyber-world for herlog on to Voxminer, the Eworld-Scapebuilding, which critter-collecting game that is close to the perfect a hit in Lori's world. All But first Lori has a tiny inkling that remains is to programme the humans to be this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her friendsown, and make then she finds something even more spooky. For the connection Evie has with them server she and them with her in return bestie and nobody else should be able to be enter shows signs of mutual, confirming, happy benefittampering. But someone else When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has entered the E-Scapebeen doctored – well, and their influence seems all that much more powerful than Evie's tentative happiness…where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lewis Carroll, Mark Burstein (editor) Kieran Larwood and Salvador DaliJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Alice's Adventures in WonderlandDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=If you don't know Meet Kit. Like most of the story nowpeople in his world, it seems, then he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where have you been for a hundred team of warrior, mage and fifty years? A young girl sees a hurrying white rabbithealer enter specially prepared, follows itcentury-old, falls down a holemagical mazes, fails and race to recognise the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he'stranger danger' in partaking s seen of random foods and drinks just because of a label the latest race on themthe inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, nearly drowns eaten, and a whole menagerie new trio of animals in a lake of her own tearsquestors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, takes advice he has taken to the goading from someone on drugs, plays cards, or croquet, or both or neither, the token bully of his world and wakes up to find it all stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a dreamteam. Someone else tried out such gibberish on a young girlWhat chance does this friendless, wrote it down muscle-free-zone have in a flurryactually managing that, made and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a hugely successful name bit sticky for himself, and woke up to find even at this remove that most people (unlike me) adore the thingEarthlings. But itAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's not just for now, its 150th birthday, re paid to do and other tasks that the work gets reprintedtook time to accomplish. In the 1960s, someone came up with the idea Just as they were beginning to get used to put the esoteric, surreal all this technological change and daft mind starting to think of Salvador Dali in cahoots with the esotericother, surreal and daft world of Carroll's Alicenew ways to spend time, and the result along came an awful pandemic. Life was a very rare pretty much shut down and valuable edition – a box set of illustrated booklets, perfectly suited to the very surrealistic 105th birthday. Since getting sight of one is like seeing a flat clock in Dali's picturesalong with it, this decent hardback replication is all the nearest you'll get to owning one of the most special of Alice editionsmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0691170029</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cressida CowellTom Percival|title=How to Train Your Dragon 12: How to Fight a Dragon's FuryThe Wrong Shoes

|summary=A relentless battleWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Human against dragon. On He is bullied because he has 'the Doomsday of Yulewrong shoes', he has the battle will end wrong shoes because his dad can't work and only one side can be victorious. If doesn't have enough money for even the dragons winmost basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the human race will be annihilated. If the humans wincollege, they will unlock the secret of the dragon jewel, with the potential to destroy all of the dragons. The only hope is was working a human boy called Hiccup, an unlikely hero who has cash-in-hand job on a wish to unite human building site and dragon once morehad an accident. Unfortunately Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, Hiccup is lying unconscious on a beach at Heroand Will's Endlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, lost and alone with no boathe still has a tiny amount of hope. What He is moregood at art, Hiccup has no memory; no idea who he is and why clings to the moments of joy when he is so important. He also has two poisonous fangs embedded in his arm; drawing, that feel like a light at the ticking teeth end of a Vampire Spydragon which serve as a tracking device for the vicious beastlong, who is closing in as we speak. Suffice to say, things aren't going well for Hiccup and they can only get worse..dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444916580</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darren Shan1805141872|title=Zom-B Fugitive (Zom B 11)The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING''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...''

If 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=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of 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 in 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|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 in case you're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you havenmust, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't read 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 [[Zomvisuals on it. And that story-B telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, 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?|isbn=0571376010}}{{Frontpage|author=Lauren St John|title=Finding Wonder|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by Darren Shan|first book]] the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. But she has no one else, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in this seriesJoni's old campervan, STOP READING NOW! NOWit breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Spoilers ahoy Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077929</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeffrey BrownAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=The Phantom Bully (Star Wars Jedi Academy 3)Oscar's Lion|rating=53

|summary=Doesn't time fly? It only seems We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a short time ago that Roan Novachez was starting couple of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his first term at Jedi Academy Middle Schoolparents' bedroom, yet here all he sees isa mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, all grown up and ready to start his final yearadmitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. As always, But there are plenty of twists and turns, teen troubles and relationship issues mixed in with benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the force-wielding, piloting and lightsaber battles. Bullying is still bully that ruined a real issue birthday party for Roan this termOscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, as so he can take it to school and it seems that someone has made can get him out of a personal mission of setting him up problem. And it's wonderful to fail. Everything is riding on have around the house – not limiting his performance this yearbiscuit intake, as flunking out will mean being held back a year much more lax about the rules, and his friends moving so on without him. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0545621267</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antony WoottenJudith Eagle|title=The Grubby Feather Gang (Bigshorts)Stolen Songbird

|summary=Life is confusing for George Sanders: his fatherCaro's mother, the local veta world-famous whistler, has refused failed to 'do his bit' return home from her recent work trip abroad and volunteer is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to fight in Francetake care of her sister who is unwell. There's bad feeling in the village - So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with the women giving Dad white feathers - Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and even George's mum believes that he should go confused and fightworried. To top it all George All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is currently being suspendedstuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, upside downalong with an orphan boy, Albie, from the rafters in the hayloft by the local bully who is determined that George is going to do his maths homeworkliving there too. You'd think that it couldn't get much worseBut she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, but the next day heas she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's caned at school when he doesn't feel that he was in old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the wrongSnakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. ThereIs the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's no wonder George is confused, is theremother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0953712389</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly WebbTania Unsworth|title=The Truffle MouseNowhere Island

|summary=Alice is going through a tough time right nowMeet Gil. Even though her mum and dad split up two years ago Just twelve, she'd always hoped he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that they would eventually get back together. But when dad introduced his new girlfriend are not homes – and her daughter and announced that they would be moving in, everything changedfind a home for himself. School isn't any better, either. She's always getting told off in class and He is jealous of her best friend Lucyen route to yet another fosterer, who seems to have the perfect familywhen he jumps into an anonymous car, but doesn't appreciate and lets itride him to his future. When mum sees how withdrawn Alice has become, she takes 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 camp on an island between the pet shop to buy two directions of a motorway, a hamster place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to take her mind off thingsprovide for their safety and seclusion. However Them, it's not and a hamster that catches Alice's eye, but mute girl also finding a sweet little mousehome there, with fur like cocoa powderalbeit so much more successfully. The trouble is Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, mum or if this is terrified of mice!one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407144863</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreHelen Peters|title=Pugs of the Frozen North Friends and Traitors|rating=43|genre=Confident Readers |summary= When Shen finds himself stranded 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 middle of female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a girl from a frozen seahoity-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 66 shivering pugs for company each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amiss, and no foodfirst separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, he’s desperate to find help. Little does he suspect that this talk is just the start made of their adventure in the frozen north: meetings with his new friend SikaGermans, and the pugs pulling their slednot only that, he’s suddenly part of a race to the top of the worldlocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. Will they make it in time to meet But surely the Snowfather or will one of girls are wrong, and the other contestants beat them to itupper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192734571</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura WoodJamie Littler|title=Poppy Pym and the Pharaoh's Curse Arkspire

|summary= Poppy Pym Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is leaving an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the only home she's ever known (Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in Madame Pym's Spectacular Travelling Circus) one of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become a boarding school student at Saint Smithen's School. And, if starting school for the first time at age 11 isn't enough, Poppy and her new friends – Kip and Ingrid – find themselves child in line to inherit the middle power of a mystery. Dangerous accidents start to occur at Saint Smithen's the moment a temporary exhibition of Egyptian artefacts enter Watcher, the school. While everyone else attributes these closest to a ruler the Pharaoh's cursedistrict has, Poppy and her friends are determined to discover who is really causing one of the accidentsfive major victors in said earlier war. Then, when Being trained in the priceless ruby at magic that only five people can use would definitely change the heart status of the collection is stolenwhole family. But in finding something oddly magical, their investigation broadens as they try Juniper might just be able to uncover the thief. gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407158546</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kevin Sands024162343X|title= The Blackthorn KeyStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Seventeenth century England isnI 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't always a comfortable place to live. Apart from Where was the obvious differences from the modern day – no National Health Serviceproof? In history lessons, no laws to protect orphans like Christopher from cruelty and exploitation, and a constant foul smell from poor sanitation - fear and suspicion are a daily fact of lifeit was probably worse still. In 1665 Charles II has been back on Not too long after the throne for several yearsend of WWII, but not everyone is happy I didn't so much want to learn about his extravagant the British army's successes (and luxurious life-styleoccasional failures, even among but we didn't dwell on those who found ) in what came to be called 'the Puritan rules of Cromwellcolonies's time excessively strictas want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. There are spies everywhere Looking back, and rumours of conspiracies fill I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the streetsproblem' politely. It I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's a time to keep your head down and avoid attention from the authorities''Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014136064X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen McCombieThiago de Moraes|title=Honey and MeOld Gods New Tricks

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Most girls starting out Brook City School are hoping for something new Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and differentadventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, but Kirsten she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just wants things to be ''normal'when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Even good things seem to come with Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a sting in the tail and worst power-out, even of allelectric cars, Mum and Dad are really hits not getting on. In fact Kirsten is happiest at just the town the school 's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and does all that powers the after-school activities she can manage Internet, just to keep away from home for as long as she canour convenience's sake). Her elder brotherTrixie, Finnluckily, who's at sixth form college, is struggling too: realises what used to be thought has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of as ''cheeky'' at school has turned into ''disruptive''power from us. When things get really bad Kirsten is suddenly reminded of And so she begins her old friend Honey and wonders if she epic quest, to gather all the people that can get steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in touch with herstealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124752</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip K DickHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Nick and the GlimmungFinding Bear|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Nick. He lives [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a future Earthlot further north than many people would venture, where multiple large classrooms are taught by just one holographic teacher, which might sound impractical and finding a ridiculously unexpected but can actually help delightful friendship with advice when you declare to the class a polar bear – that you are breaking the lawshe called Bear. NickBack home, you seethings on the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, has a pet catbut not perfect for her, and in this massively over-populated and under-resourced world, pets are illegalso can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. There's For a simple solution – wait for the ''antibear doing very Bear-pet man'' to turn up with his weaponry y things has been shot and armour and dispose of it, but the family have decided to take the other way out – emigrate to an entirely different worldwounded. Hence they embark on the trip Desperate to be pioneer farmers on Plowmanmake sure he's PlanetOK, even when they're forewarned of she and her father return to the Arctic and hope that in a host world of different very white and most unusual animals already resident therevery dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue. That advice still doesn't really prepare them for the battle whose crossfire in which they immediately get caught…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057513299X</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Saviour Pirotta and Paul HessSimon Fox|title=The Ghosts Who Danced and other spooky storiesDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=Ghosts are all over Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the worldforce, and then suddenly rings Archie, don't you knowdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. I don't know of any as of yet They get together, but I dare say that people have fixed ghost stories barely begin to be set smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on Antarctica; they're certainly common on all the other continents. York has 500 spectres late express to itself allegedlyBrighton, all corners of all civilisations claim toting a tin his father was determined to know of spirit world entities – and people even go as far as being so undignified they see them in Auschwitz. The lesson keep away from this excellently put-together book is that ghosts are worldwidehis colleagues, and any one from just about anywhere can have the bearer of a very interesting story to tellwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847804357</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna Claybourne and TillyCath Howe|title= Where's Will?My Life on Fire|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Taking 10 of the best known storiesRen's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, this book neatly summarises the plots and highlights the must-know elements of eachher little brother lose everything. That She doesn's just the startt have any of her clothes, thoughor any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, because after youand now she is living at her grandmother've read whats house where they can's going ont touch anything, or do anything, you get or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to see it in another form. Each story is followed by an illustrated two page spreadschool she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, highly detailed and bursting with activity to display things that are important to them and charactersshow who they are as a person. Your mission But Ren has nothing to put in a box, should you choose and so she finds herself starting to accept itsteal things. Small things, is to find the stars of the play among the many other things that people on the pagemight not really miss, not when they have so much already. They're hidden, but can you find them But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402284</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben DavisRob Keeley|title=Danny DreadThe Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=3.54

|summary=Meet Danny Dread. He's Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a pupil at Demento's Academy for Young Evil Geniuses, where classes range from bank robbery and 'applied superhero torture' return to creating flying craft and machines with which the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to do the most dastardly deedseleven new tales, and where the head mistress is only too pleased each as fun to see bullying happening in the corridors. Now meet Mynah Boy – freshly costumed, and talented inasmuch read as he can mimic lots of people and things. He might not be 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, and Danny is so hopeless he can't even kill a flyhis previous offerings. 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>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|author=Laura Noakes|title=Thunderbirds are Go Official GuideCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=It's time Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to admit that I am oldher friends. I remember The practice in the first series of home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, and they''Thunderbirds'' from Saturday morning kids' cinema re all Unfortunates – an episode of that, then a second-run filmyoung people with disabilities, both for a quid. They were only ten years old uncommon mentalities or so then, but at least suchlike that proved the franchise was durableVictorian society frowns greatly upon. Nothing did that quite But Cosima bears the tag as mucha surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, howeveras the first ever inmate, as and unique in having no known family in the news outside world. During a couple of years ago that daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the Anderson estate was to allow kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a CG updating, bringing plan involving said outside world – a new generation of people devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the massed audiencegirls for his Institute. Amid the usual worries about it losing everything But why, and what does that made body entail? And could it special, it actually did pretty well when it aired possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059}}{{Frontpage|author=Alice M Ross|title=The Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in 2015 – even with a breakfast time transmission slotseaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. This small(ish) format hardback isShe also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, bar because she has the annualability to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the very first chance sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to look actually generate custom at an official book concerning the seriesshop? Well yes, and inasmuch as it inspired me to research is the returnanswer, and certainly accept it as looking but the fact a worthy addition to the canon, it succeeds on all fronts.mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124991</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roland Chambers and Ella OkstadNatasha Farrant|title=Nelly and the Quest for Captain PeabodyThe Rescue of Ravenwood

|summary=NellyThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''s father. Ravenwood is an old house, Captain Peabodyin the North of England, sailed away when she was a babywhere Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. He remembered her birthday once or twice sending her a gift They are part of painted snails and an egg which hatched into a visionary turtle. This turtlecomplex, Columbusextended family arrangement, has grown to become Nelly's closest friend and companion as Bea is there with her mother sits silently knitting Uncle Leo, and nothing more has been heard from her father. There may be a lesson about parental inadequacy Raffy is there with his mum, and unreliability here but if so it's understated. I have rarely met a less angst-ridden heroine than Nelly though she can give they are living together as a firm lecture about keeping one's promises.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192742698</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Clive Gifford and Professor Anil Seth|title=Brain Twisters: The Science of Thinking and Feeling|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Meet the brainfamily. We all They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one. We with all use it (and by 'it' I mean a heck of a lot more of it than the 10% of urban myth) nature around the house and loving every second inch of the dayplace. We engage with different parts of it for balanceBut now the house is under threat, catching a ball, memorising a list of moves in controlling a video game character, or understanding things ranging as Leo is under pressure from written instruction his other two brothers to sell the property to body language. It's such a vital part of the body, taking up 20% of our glucose fuel intake as well developer as of oxygen, that understanding of it cannot come at too young an age's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. But in this varied and complex bookThe children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, looking at a varied and complex subject, I do wonder if the right approach has been taken at all timesRavenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402047</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny Broom Robin Birch and Kristjana S WilliamsJobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Wonder Garden: Wander through the world's wildest habitats and discover more than 80 amazing animalsUnicorns of Silver Street

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Is it any wonder that this Jayden's nose is forever in a book calls , which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the outside world The Wonder Garden? , for example. I know things in fiction booksAisha is addicted to her new tablet, on TV and in games where she can see videos of anything that might be fabulousout there. The problem, as their mothers see it, but can is that they compete – really – with what nature has presented? are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. You only need But when a gate through which to gonarrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a willingness to explorepast involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. This book provides For many of those gates – there they mythological creatures arereal, shining luxuriously including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on the cover a bit of this jumbo-sized hardbacklocal footage. And in five easy-to-take stepsThe crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the rest of kids unknowingly have the book provides for that exploration, taking us down south magical sight needed to join in Amazonia. Dare they side with Leila, down below the waters of the Great Barrier Reefwoman on board, and up – to deserts her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and mountains, via Germany's own Black Forest. And become saviours of the trip is nothing if not spectacular to look at.unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847806473</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Haake and Georgia CherryB09XWSXSKY|title=City Atlas: Discover Maestro Orpheus and the world with 30 city mapsWorld Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=It's not every time I mention the feel of the book I'm reviewingFrederick (or Fred, but this time itnever Freddy, please) couldn's worth a mentiont sleep. This volume has been lavishly presented in a roughened card coverA tune, as opposed to rather like the gloss ticking of others a clock was playing over and over in this format from this publisherhis mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's ten now and so looks and feels like an all those old stamp catalogueclocks don't appeal to him anymore.  ''Who needs old clocks anyway? The title image All they do is indeed a stamp, stuck on tell the centre of the covertime. And just as all stamps time isn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the world over are practically clock beside the same yet completely different in design, so are the world's citiesbed. The point of this book is to bring the common elements as well as the unique features of all the worldIt was nearly twelve o's capitals to clock but at midnight the fore, clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to show that while a city may be a city is a city, their constant variety is what makes each go and every one worth a visit. find grandad - but where was he? With that being on And why had all the costly side, this is a decent enough substitute.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806481</amazonuk>clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?