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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long and Nicholas Stevenson1836285493|title=Diary The Double Life of a Time TravellerWheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=With the usual complaint that 'History Will is Boring!', Augustus slumps over his school desk – until his teachera keen player of video games, a certain Professor Tempoconscientious student, comes to his aid. She gives him a notebook and yellow pencil slightly annoying brother and says he should imagine himself in a place in the past to see how interesting it actually could besupportive friend. And lo and behold But most of all, he's thereis an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, seeing the world of the past's effect on the world of the present for his very own eyes. He ends up doing this more than a couple dozen timesMarlowe Park, filling the notebook with amazing sights he's seen and people one at which heexcels. This hasn's stood alongsidet gone unnoticed by his headteacher, from Mozart to EinsteinMrs Howarth, from Chaucer and she has suggested to Lincoln, Will and what we read is what his mum that he comes up with in this brisk and colourful volumespends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806368</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jeff Norton1836282028|title= Memoirs of a Neurotic ZombieThe Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Adam is twelve. He has ''Would you like to adopt a crush on Corina whoghost?'' ''s in his class at schoolYoung spirit, he likes collecting thingsborn 1887, seeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on well with other children. Jokes and he has early onset Obsessive Compulsive Disordershocks a speciality.'' ''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, which means he would rather wear purple spandex and dance in the Macarena right down Main Street than go within five miles shape of a german arrow, pointing to your front door... He frets about '' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a lot decade of thingshis wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's ''Spirits'' series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that is both a reboot and a continuation. Just like Doctor Who, actually: if worrying was an Olympic eventEdward Fitzberranger, he'd get the goldour incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, every timehas some new companions. Other than thatRuby and Jayden respond to this intriguing advertisement and Edward, things are pretty okay. He who has normal, loving parents (apart broken the rules as usual and absconded from the fact they still insist on going to SMOOCH concerts), a small group of friends who share his interest in comics and video gamesmanor house home, is adopted by them and a standard-issue irritating sistertakes up residence in.. Nothing weird there, then. Nothing but the fact that he's been dead for three months.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571327044</amazonuk>a wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ulrich Hub, Jorg Muhle and Helena Ragg-Kirkby (translator)Rob Keeley|title=Meet at the Ark at Eight!Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre= Confident Readers|summary=An educated penguinAround here, an agnostic penguin and a violent, smaller, young penguin walk into a snowdrift… You might not be able to make a full joke out we're big fans of that opening line, but this book practically does continue on from therechildren's author Rob Keeley. Three penguins – each He's a little different from the otherball of happy positivity, even if they generally look and definitely smell the samehe understands children, and God, a subject of he writes for their conversation when a butterfly comes alongpleasure and enjoyment, of all thingsnot to lecture or hector.  The young, hot-headed ''Childish Spirits'' series is one (wellof his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, in a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the pictures he wears a woolly hatspirit world throws at her, he's bound to be hot-headed) leaves in umbrageand Edward, leaving just two – which is perfectly timed if you're a dove, spoiled lordling and come along telling all the animals to get into Noah's Ark in pairs, as an almighty flood is about to happen…first spirit Ellie encounters|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690875</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe SuggMax Boucherat|title=Username: EvieThe 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 Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is going through so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a tough time right nowhome for himself. Even though her mum He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and dad split up two years ago, she'd always hoped that they would eventually get back togetherlets it ride him to his future. But That future seems to be in jeopardy when dad introduced someone steals his new girlfriend and her daughter and announced one bag of belongings – but that they would be moving someone lives with his brother ina camp on an island between the two directions of a motorway, everything changeda place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. School isn't any better Them, and a mute girl also finding a home there, eitheralbeit so much more successfully. She's always getting told off in class Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Peters|title=Friends and Traitors|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is jealous of Nancy, destined to be in service all her best friend Lucylife it seems, who seems to have like the perfect familyfemale generations before her. The other is Sidney, but doesna girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't appreciate guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove itso. When mum sees how withdrawn Alice has become But something is amiss, she takes her to and first separately and then in combination they realise the pet shop to buy Lord Evesham must be a hamster to take her mind off thingsrum 'un. However Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, it's talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not a hamster only that catches Alice's eye, but a sweet little mouse, with fur like cocoa powderlocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. The trouble is But surely the girls are wrong, mum is terrified of mice!and the upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407144863</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreJamie Littler|title=Pugs of the Frozen North Arkspire

|genre=Confident Readers |summary= When Shen finds himself stranded in the middle of a frozen seaTwo sisters, with 66 shivering pugs for company Juniper and no foodElodie, born fifteen minutes apart, he’s desperate are growing to find helpbe chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Little does he suspect that this Elodie is just intent on getting closer to power in one of the start religious districts of their adventure Arkspire, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the frozen north: with his new friend Sikapower of the Watcher, and the pugs pulling their sled, he’s suddenly part of closest to a race to ruler the top district has, and one of the worldfive major victors in said earlier war. Will they make it Being trained in time to meet the Snowfather or will one magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the other contestants beat them whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to it?gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143}}{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>0192734571</amazonuk>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 proof? In history lessons, it was probably worse still. Not too long after the end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first place. Looking back, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura WoodThiago de Moraes|title=Poppy Pym and the Pharaoh's Curse Old Gods New Tricks|rating=4.5

|summary= Poppy Pym is leaving Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the only home school aircon with fart powder, she's ever known (in Madame Pym's Spectacular Travelling Circus) to become could almost be thought a boarding school student at Saint Smithenyoung goddess of nuisance. But just when she's School. Andbeing told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, if starting school for the first time at age 11 isn't enoughworld changes. Suddenly, Poppy and her new friends practically everything electronic stops working – Kip and Ingrid – find themselves in the middle a power-out, even of a mystery. Dangerous accidents start to occur at Saint Smithen's electric cars, hits not just the moment a temporary exhibition of Egyptian artefacts enter town the school. While everyone else attributes these to the Pharaoh's cursein but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, Poppy and her friends are determined to discover who is really causing all that powers the accidentsInternet, just for our convenience's sake). Then Trixie, when luckily, realises what has happened – the priceless ruby at ancient Gods have taken the heart power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the collection is stolencharacters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, their investigation broadens ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as they try to uncover the thieftricksters. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407158546</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kevin SandsHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title= The Blackthorn KeyFinding Bear|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Seventeenth century England isn't always [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a comfortable place to live. Apart from the obvious differences from the modern day – no National Health Service, no laws to protect orphans like Christopher from cruelty and exploitationlot further north than many people would venture, and finding a constant foul smell from poor sanitation - fear and suspicion are ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a daily fact of lifepolar bear – that she called Bear. In 1665 Charles II has been back Back home, things on the throne for several yearsdomestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not everyone is happy about his extravagant perfect for her, and luxurious lifeso can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-style, even among those who found the Puritan rules of Cromwelly things has been shot and wounded. Desperate to make sure he's time excessively strict. There are spies everywhereOK, she and rumours of conspiracies fill her father return to the streets. It's Arctic and hope that in a time to keep your head down world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and avoid attention from that the authoritiesfriendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014136064X</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen McCombieSimon Fox|title=Honey and MeDeadlock

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Most girls starting out Brook City School are hoping for Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something new from a secret place, and differentjoin him on the run. They get together, but Kirsten just wants things to be ''normal''. Even good things seem barely begin to come with a sting in smell the tail and worst whiff of allSouthern trains when the father is arrested, Mum and Dad are really not getting leaving Archie on. In fact Kirsten is happiest at school and does all the after-school activities she can manage just 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 for as long as she canis destroyed in a fire. Her elder She, her parents, and her little brotherlose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, Finnor any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, whoand now she is living at her grandmother's at sixth form collegehouse where they can't touch anything, or do anything, is struggling too: what used or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to be thought school she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as ''cheeky'' at school a person. But Ren has turned into ''disruptive''nothing to put in a box, and so she finds herself starting to steal things. When Small things, things get that people might not really bad Kirsten is suddenly reminded of miss, not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her old friend Honey and wonders if someone finds out what she can get in touch with her.is doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124752</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip K DickRob Keeley|title=Nick The Boy Who Disappeared and the GlimmungOther Stories

|summary=Meet Nick. He lives on Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a future Earth, where multiple large classrooms are taught by just one holographic teacher, which might sound impractical but can actually help with advice when you declare return to the class that you are breaking the law. Nick, you see, has a pet catshort story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, and in this massively over-populated and under-resourced world, pets are illegal. There's a simple solution – wait for the ''anti-pet man'' each as fun to turn up with read as his weaponry and armour and dispose of it, but the family have decided to take the other way out – emigrate to an entirely different worldprevious offerings. Hence they embark on the trip to be pioneer farmers on Plowman's Planet, even when they're forewarned of a host of different and most unusual animals already resident there. That advice still doesn't really prepare them for the battle whose crossfire in which they immediately get caught…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057513299X</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Saviour Pirotta and Paul HessLaura Noakes|title=The Ghosts Who Danced and other spooky storiesCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=Ghosts are all over the worldMeet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, don't you knowjust Cos to her friends. I don't know of any as of yet but I dare say that people have fixed ghost stories The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be set on Antarctica; named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, and they're certainly common on all the other continentsUnfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. York has 500 spectres But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to itself allegedlybe known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, all corners of all civilisations claim to know of spirit world entities – and people even go as far as being so undignified they see them unique in having no known family in Auschwitzthe outside world. The lesson During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from this excellently put-together book is that ghosts are worldwidethe kitchen one afternoon, and any one from just about anywhere can have she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a very interesting story devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to tellwant to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847804357</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna Claybourne and TillyAlice M Ross|title= Where's Will?The Nowhere Thief|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Taking 10 of At last there is new stock in the best known stories, impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this book neatly summarises the plots and highlights the must-know elements of eachbecause she has stolen it. That's just the start, though She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because after you've read what's going onshe has the ability to leave this world, you get and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to see it in another form. Each story is followed by an illustrated two page spreadenter other worlds, highly detailed where the sea levels are rising dramatically and bursting with activity the buildings are generally empty of humans and charactersripe for plunder. Your mission With eviction imminent, should you choose can Elsbeth nab anything to accept itactually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, is to find the stars of the play among the many other people on the page. They're hiddenanswer, but can you find them?the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402284</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben DavisNatasha Farrant|title=Danny DreadThe Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=3.5

|summary=Meet Danny DreadThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. He's a pupil at Demento's Academy for Young Evil GeniusesRavenwood is an old house, in the North of England, where classes range from bank robbery Bea and 'applied superhero torture' to creating flying craft Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and machines Raffy is there with which to do the most dastardly deedshis mum, and where they are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the head mistress is only too pleased to see bullying happening in cove, roaming through the corridors. Now meet Mynah Boy – freshly costumedtrees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and talented inasmuch as he can mimic lots loving every inch of people and thingsthe place. He might not be But now the world's best superherohouse is under threat, but neither as Leo is Danny Dread under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the worldproperty to a developer as it's best villain – the Dread family have slowly been getting worse at being evil, becoming more and Danny is so hopeless he can't even kill a flymore expensive to maintain. You might think The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be set up for the most clumsy, calamitous adventure against each othertogether, until you learn that actually they're one and same lad – but things if Ravenwood itself will still get clumsy and calamitous enough…be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192742639</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|author=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Thunderbirds are Go Official GuideSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street

|summary=ItJayden's time to admit that I am old. I remember nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the first series phoenixes and unicorns of ''Thunderbirds'' from Saturday morning kids' cinema – an episode of thatthe world, then a second-run film, both for a quidexample. They were only ten years old or so thenAisha is addicted to her new tablet, but at least where she can see videos of anything that proved the franchise was durablemight be out there. Nothing did that quite The problem, as muchtheir mothers see it, howeveris that they are never 'out there' themselves, as exploring the news outside world of Hackney, London. But when a couple of years ago that the Anderson estate was to allow narrowboat turns up carrying a CG updatingscience-minded, bringing educational purpose, and with a new generation past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of people to those mythological creatures are real, including the massed audienceone Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. Amid The crew of the usual worries about it losing everything that made it specialboat, it actually did pretty well when it aired in 2015 – even with including a breakfast time transmission slot. This small(ish) format hardback isliving gargoyle, bar are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the annual, kids unknowingly have the very first chance magical sight needed to look at an official book concerning join in. Dare they side with Leila, the serieswoman on board, and inasmuch her relative who lives as it inspired me to research the returna figure in a painting, and certainly accept it as looking a worthy addition to become saviours of the canon, it succeeds on all fronts.unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124991</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roland Chambers and Ella OkstadB09XWSXSKY|title=Nelly Maestro Orpheus and the Quest for Captain PeabodyWorld Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating=54

|summary=Nelly's fatherFrederick (or Fred, Captain Peabodybut never Freddy, sailed away when she was a babyplease) couldn't sleep. He remembered her birthday once or twice sending her A tune, rather like the ticking of a gift of painted snails clock was playing over and an egg which hatched into a visionary turtleover in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. This turtle He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, Columbus, has grown to become Nellyhe's closest friend ten now and companion as her mother sits silently knitting and nothing more has been heard from her father. There may be a lesson about parental inadequacy and unreliability here but if so itall those old clocks don's understated. I have rarely met a less angst-ridden heroine than Nelly though she can give a firm lecture about keeping one's promisest appeal to him anymore.|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 'Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the braintime. We all have oneAnd time isn't good for anything... We all use it (and by 'it' I mean a heck of a lot more of it than  And that was why he was looking at the 10% of urban myth) every second of clock beside the day. We engage with different parts of it for balance, catching a ball, memorising a list of moves in controlling a video game character, or understanding things ranging from written instruction to body languagebed. Itwas nearly twelve o's such a vital part of clock but at midnight the body, taking up 20% of our glucose fuel intake as well as of oxygen, that understanding of it cannot come at too young an ageclock chimed only six times. But in this varied There was nothing for it but to go and complex book, looking at a varied and complex subject, I do wonder if find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the right approach has been taken clocks stopped at all times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402047</amazonuk>twelve o'clock?