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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Jonathan MeresRob Keeley|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of all, he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.}}{{Frontpage|isbn= 1836282028|title=The World of Norm: 9: May Still Be ChargedFighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=If you ever wondered what Harry Enfield's Kevin going 'Would you like to adopt a ghost?'UUH, that's SO unFAIR!! '' but stretched Young spirit, born 1887, seeks kind home to the length of a book sounds like then wonder no longerhaunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Norm is only twelve but he already knows life is completely unfairGets on well with other children. He has Jokes and shocks a horrid girl next door who annoyingly wants to spend time talking with him, he has two awful younger brothersspeciality.'' ''If interested, he has schoolplace outside your home three twigs, and he has a world of parents and adults around him all wittering on in the most weirdshape of an arrow, antique phrasingpointing to your front door... They don't help him understand the world at all, just lay all the world' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a decade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's problems on his shoulders ''Spirits'' series in Chronological Order|Spirits]] series with a new adventure that is both a reboot and move ona continuation. This morning in concernJust like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, for instanceour incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, Norm has hardly moved at all – he's still in bed when he's been groundedsome new companions. His parents have looked up his phone bill onlineRuby and Jayden respond to this intriguing advertisement and Edward, and it's rather long. As long who has broken the rules as Norm's entire list of woes, perhaps – usual and therefore is just one more thing that's a burden. And as life is so unfairabsconded from his manor house home, the only way out is to wait for his parents to decide between him paying adopted by them back or grounding him for and takes up residence in.... a month – until something even worse, more unwelcome and more unfair gets mentioned…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334119</amazonuk>wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris RiddellRob Keeley|title=Goth Girl and the Wuthering FrightChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=2.54

|summary=Goth Girl and the rest Around here, we're big fans of the Attic Club are not having the best of times. Adachildren's best friend is at school, while that girlauthor Rob Keeley. He's father Charles Cabbage tries to build a computer – with the weird help ball of three monkeys to fetch happy positivity, he understands children, and carry his research volumes. Ruby is so anxious it's left to Ada to care he writes for their pleasure and cater for her and enjoyment, not the other way round, so frightened to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is she by the hauntings in the gothic pile they call home. And others are being bullied. So even though there are newcomers one of the same age to the place, things need perking uphis greatest achievements. So what better time for AdaIt's father to hold a literary dog show – bringing sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the country's finest authors spirit world throws at her, and their pooches to parade in contest for Edward, a respected audience?spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447277899</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Long and Nicholas StevensonMax Boucherat|title=Diary The Last Life of a Time TravellerLori Mills|rating=34.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=With We meet Lori on the usual complaint that 'History is Boring!first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, Augustus slumps over his school desk – until his teacherjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a certain Professor Tempoblanket fort, comes she has one main intention, and that is to his aidlog on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. She gives him But first Lori has a notebook tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and yellow pencil her bestie and says he nobody else should imagine himself be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a place girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the past sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to see how interesting it actually could bethe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. And lo and behold Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's there, seeing the world seen of the past's effect latest race on the world inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the present for token bully of his very own eyesworld and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. He ends up doing What chance does this more than friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, 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 couple dozen timesbit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, filling all the notebook with amazing sights many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=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', hehas the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn's seen t have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and people his dad can't work because helost 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 stood alongsidelife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, from Mozart and clings to Einsteinthe moments of joy when he is drawing, from Chaucer to Lincolnthat feel like a light at the end of a long, and what we read is what he comes up with in this brisk and colourful volumedark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847806368</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jeff Norton1805141872|title= Memoirs of a Neurotic ZombieThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Adam is twelve''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. He has a crush on Corina who's in The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his class at schoolMaths teacher, he likes collecting thingsMiss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and he has early onset Obsessive Compulsive Disorderher gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, which means he would rather wear purple spandex Miss Judson and dance Ben go on the Macarena right down Main Street than go within five miles of a germrun. But Al needs them for one last job... He frets about a lot of things, actually: if worrying was an Olympic event, he'd get the gold' Goodness me, every time. Other than that, things are pretty okayMiss 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. He has normalLuckily for Miss Judson, loving parents (apart from the fact they still insist on going to SMOOCH concerts)pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of a small group of friends famous magician who share has ambitions to be as good as his interest in comics and video gamesfather some day, and a standard-issue irritating sister. Nothing weird there, then. Nothing but the fact that he's been dead for three months.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571327044</amazonuk>who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ulrich Hub, Jorg Muhle and Helena Ragg-Kirkby (translator)Christopher Edge|title=Meet at the Ark at Eight!Black Hole Cinema Club

|genre= Confident Readers|summary=An educated penguin, an agnostic penguin Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a violent, smallermovie marathon at their local cinema, young penguin walk into a snowdrift… You might not be able to make a full joke out place that has the nickname of that opening line, but this book practically does continue on from there'The Black Hole'. Three penguins – each a little different from the otherAll big movie fans, even if they generally look and definitely smell the same're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and God, a subject of their conversation when a butterfly comes alongmany, of all things. many snacks! The youngHowever, hot-headed one (well, in as the pictures he wears a woolly hatmovie starts, he's bound to be hot-headed) leaves in umbrage, leaving just two – which they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is perfectly timed if you're a dovevery different, and come along telling all the animals to get they are swept up into Noahan adventure they couldn's Ark in pairst even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, as an almighty flood can they figure out what on earth is about going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to happen…their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690875</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe SuggAdam Stower|title=Username: EvieMurray and Bun

|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers |summary=Meet Evie. She's surprisingly unwelcome and alienated at school – for Murray is supposed to be a trendy humble, tidy and attractive girlfriendly cat, nobody at all seems one who is able to have any time for hersleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, apart from the geeky card-collecting boy with whatever takes his fancy next of the milk-bottle glasses on the bustwo. Perhaps it has something to do with her fatherBut he's thatched house – after all, she must be a witch to live there. Itbad magician's not that she would wish to live there, with nobody else aroundcat, and the memory of her deceased mother. But luckily someone is choosing a place for her –her father is able to put all so his work favourite bun has been turned into a cyber-world for herhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the E-Scapecatflap they both use can chuck them out, which is close to not into the perfect regular back garden, but into a worldof frightening adventure and whiffs. All that remains This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is to programme the humans to be her friendsexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, and make the connection Evie has with them and them with her in return to be of mutual, confirming, happy benefit. But someone else has entered the E-Scapehonest, but he's turned up and their influence seems all that much more powerful than Eviehe's tentative happiness…ll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lewis Carroll, Mark Burstein (editor) Alex Bell and Salvador DaliTim McDonagh|title=Alice's Adventures in WonderlandThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=If you don't know Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the story nowwondrous library we start by visiting with him, then where have you been for a hundred and fifty years? A young girl sees in the evening a hurrying white rabbit, follows it, falls down a hole, fails to recognise helper at the 'stranger danger' in partaking of random foods dessert cafe his gran owns and drinks just because of a label on them, nearly drowns a whole menagerie of animals in a lake of her own tears, takes advice from someone on drugs, plays cards, or croquet, or both or neither, and wakes up to find it all a dreamruns. Someone else tried out such gibberish on Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a young girl, wrote it down generation missing in a flurry, made a hugely successful name for himself, and woke up to find even at this remove that most people (unlike me) adore the thingfamily. But itA few short years ago, Eli's not just for now, its 150th birthday, that the work gets reprinted. In parents were both lost to the 1960stitular race, someone came up with the idea a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to put navigate the esoteric, surreal and daft mind of Salvador Dali world in cahoots with the esoteric, surreal and daft world company of Carroll's Alice, and a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the result was a very rare and valuable edition pair – but when a box set of illustrated booklets, perfectly suited bad incident at the eatery leads to the very surrealistic 105th birthday. Since getting sight of one is like seeing a flat clock in Dali's picturesconfession from gran, this decent hardback replication Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the nearest you'll get to owning one prize of magic at the end – the most special of Alice editionsonly thing to possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0691170029</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cressida CowellHelen Cooper|title=How to Train Your Dragon 12: How to Fight a Dragon's FuryThe Taming of the Cat|rating=3.5

|summary=A relentless battle. Human Once again, mice are pitched against dragoncat. On In this case, principally, we have Brie the Doomsday of Yulemouse, up against Gorgonzola the battle will end cat – and only one side can be victorious. If the dragons winin case you're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the human race will names used here seem to be annihilatedthe names of cheeses. If the humans win Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, they will unlock for the secret of way his habits don't match the dragon jewel, other mice he lives with . They nibble up paper wrapping from the potential to destroy all of cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the dragonsvisuals on it. The only hope is a human boy called Hiccup And that story-telling will come in handy one night, an unlikely hero who has a wish to unite human when he feels all alone and dragon once morecast out. Unfortunately, Hiccup is lying unconscious on a beach at Hero It's End, lost and alone with no boat. What is more, Hiccup has no memory; no idea almost as if there were another character from fable who he is and why he is so importanthad had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. He also has two poisonous fangs embedded This makes Brie the top dog in his arm; the ticking teeth of a Vampire Spydragon which serve mouse community, though, as a tracking device for all the others had the vicious beast, who is closing in as we speak. Suffice chance to say, things aren't going well for Hiccup and they can only get worse..half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444916580</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanLauren St John|title=Zom-B Fugitive (Zom B 11)Finding Wonder|rating= 4|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you havenRoo't read 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 [[Zom-B 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 Helen Peters|title=Friends and Sarah McIntyreTraitors|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|titlesummary=Pugs England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like the female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the Frozen North girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=1788004647}}{{Frontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=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 Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the other continentstag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in the outside world. York has 500 spectres During a daring escapade to itself allegedlysteal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, all corners of all civilisations claim to know of spirit she discovers a plan involving said outside world entities – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, and people even go as far as being what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so undignified they see them 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 Auschwitza seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. The lesson She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the ability to leave this excellently put-together book is that ghosts world, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the buildings are worldwidegenerally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, and any one from just about anywhere can have Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, is the answer, but the fact a very interesting story to tell.mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847804357</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anna Claybourne and TillyNatasha Farrant|title= Where's Will?The Rescue of Ravenwood|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Taking 10 This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the best known storiesSparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, this book neatly summarises in the plots North of England, where Bea and highlights the must-know elements Raffy have been living for most of eachtheir lives. That's just the start They are part of a complex, thoughextended family arrangement, because after you've read what's going on, you get to see it in another form. Each story as Bea is followed by an illustrated two page spreadthere with her Uncle Leo, highly detailed and bursting Raffy is there with activity his mum, and charactersthey are living together as a family. Your mission They have grown up swimming in the cove, should you choose to accept itroaming through the trees, is to find completely at one with all of the nature around the stars house and loving every inch of the play among place. But now the many house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other people on two brothers to sell the pageproperty to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. They The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're hiddengoing to live, but can you find them?if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402284</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben DavisRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Danny DreadSecret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=3.54

|summary=Meet Danny Dread. HeJayden's nose is forever in a pupil at Demento's Academy for Young Evil Geniusesbook, where classes range from bank robbery and 'applied superhero torture' to creating flying craft and machines with which to do means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the most dastardly deeds, phoenixes and where unicorns of the head mistress world, for example. Aisha is only too pleased addicted to her new tablet, where she can see bullying happening in the corridorsvideos of anything that might be out there. Now meet Mynah Boy – freshly costumedThe problem, and talented inasmuch as he can mimic lots their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of people Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and thingswith a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. He might not be For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the worldone Aisha thinks she's best superheroseen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, but neither is Danny Dread are tasked with saving the world's best villain rare critters – and the Dread family kids unknowingly have slowly been getting worse at being evil, and Danny is so hopeless he can't even kill a flythe magical sight needed to join in. You might think Dare they'll be set up for side with Leila, the most clumsywoman on board, calamitous adventure against each otherand her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, until you learn that actually they're one and same lad – but things will still get clumsy and calamitous enough…become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192742639</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=B09XWSXSKY|title=Thunderbirds are Go Official GuideMaestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski

|summary=ItFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn's time to admit that I am oldt sleep. I remember A tune, rather like the first series ticking of ''Thunderbirds'' from Saturday morning kids' cinema – an episode of that, then a second-run film, both for a quidclock was playing over and over in his mind. They were only ten years old or so then, but at least that proved the franchise was durableIt happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. Nothing did that quite as much, however, as the news a couple of years ago that the Anderson estate was He hadn't really wanted to allow a CG updatingcome; after all, bringing a new generation of people he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to the massed audiencehim anymore.  ''Who needs old clocks anyway? Amid All they do is tell the usual worries about it losing everything that made it special, it actually did pretty well when it aired in 2015 – even with a breakfast time transmission slot. This small(ish) format hardback is, bar And time isn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the annual, clock beside the very first chance to look bed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at an official book concerning midnight the series, and inasmuch as clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it inspired me but to research the return, go and certainly accept it as looking a worthy addition to find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the canon, it succeeds on all fronts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124991</amazonuk>clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?