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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob 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 Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Would you like to adopt a ghost?'' ''Young spirit, born 1887, seeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on well with other children. Jokes and shocks a speciality.'' ''If interested, place outside your home three twigs, in the shape of an arrow, pointing to your front door...'' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a decade of his 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, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, has some new companions. Ruby and Jayden respond to this intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the rules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, is adopted by them and takes up residence in.... a wardrobe!}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Renee RussellRob Keeley|title=Puppy Love (Dork Diaries)Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|summary=Things have changed drastically in the world Around here, we're big fans of Nikki Maxwellchildren's author Rob Keeley. Her arch nemesis has suddenly upped sticks and moved school – well, the posher place will only suit her well. Nikki now has He's a sort ball of empty feelinghappy positivity, though – nobody is there to make her feel pesteredhe understands children, let downand he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, het up and stressednot to lecture or hector. Although something  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is about to do just that and more – the discoveryone of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, outside a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the sanctuary spirit world throws at her crush volunteers at, of an abandoned mother dog with her seven puppies. Looking after them until the place even has space for the new arrivals is going to fill her world for the next few days – and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the adventure is going to be just as readable as all the other books in this series.first spirit Ellie encounters|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471144577</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt HaigMax Boucherat|title=A Boy Called Christmas The Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary= Have you ever wondered what Father Christmas was like as boy? How he came We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to live pop in the Far North surrounded by elves, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Where Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the idea for giving presents came from? Why he wears world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a red hat? If youtiny inkling that this stormy night doesn're interested in any of these questionst find herself entirely on her own, and then 'A Boy Called Christmas' is she finds something even more spooky. For the perfect book for youserver she and her bestie and nobody else should 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 girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178211789X</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander YatesKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Winter PlaceDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Axel and Tess live Meet Kit. Like most of the people in rural New York state with his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a father obsessed team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with mediaeval reconstructionsthe treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. They have a knight Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a father! This eccentricity new trio of questors is both entertaining needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a good thing team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free- because Sam is 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 bit sticky for the only parental figure in their livesEarthlings. Axel AI and Tessautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's mother died when Axel was bornre paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Tess is just moving into oppositional adolescence. She Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and Sam enjoy sparring over the care starting to think of Axelother, who has inherited a rare form of muscular dystrophy from his late mothernew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Axel isLife was pretty much shut down and, wellalong with it, an individual child, currently haunted by a mischievous wheelchair only he can see. The pesky thing follows him everywhereall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471123839</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ted Hughes and Andrew DavidsonTom Percival|title=The Iron ManWrong Shoes

|summary=Will''Where had he come from? Nobody knowss life is difficult, in a multitude of ways.'' ButHe is bullied because he has 's it obvious the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can'when't work and doesn' t have enough money for even the Iron Man came from – it really does smack most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the beginnings of the environmental movement college, was working a cash-in the two decades after WWII-hand job on a building site and had an accident. ThereThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's the nuclear element life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the story, which moments of joy when he is certainly theredrawing, even if I can never be sure whether that is feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1805141872|title character or =The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the other truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job...'' Goodness me, that turns 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 second half. But at the same timepupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, there is also the idea that such son of a book doesn't really need famous magician who has ambitions to be analysed, explained away and diminished thusly, when it provides as good as his father some of the most enjoyableday, clear and simple yet highly emotive writing for the young audience, that has made it a classic since its inception.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571327249</amazonuk>who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna Starobinets, Andrzej Klimowski and Jane Bugaeva (translator)Christopher Edge|title=CatlantisBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Meet Baguette. Despite the name, he's a cat living Lucas and his friends are all booked in central Moscow, with for a human familymovie marathon at their local cinema, on the twelfth floor of a high-rise. His place to perch is somehow between that has the two panes that make up a high window, half in and half out nickname of the room, watching the world and its birds go by'The Black Hole'. But thereAll big movie fans, they's a part re looking forward to that world he knows nothing about – the whole mythology lots of cats exciting films, and catlife. Cats had possession of their own landmany, Catlantis, a place suitable for such sacred creatures to exist. many snacks! Flowers gave them extra livesHowever, up to a maximum of nineas the movie starts, just by you sniffing them. But all they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is in the past – and that's where Baguette must go, for the whole future of catdom hangs in the balance of him going back to right wrongsvery different, and find what was long forgotten about both his and everyone elsethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's destinyt even imagine. And all he wants is the paw of his sweetheart in marriage. You might think you know the lengths But as they lurch from one film genre to which a cat will go for love, but you won't have read the likes of this…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782690883</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joseph Garrett|title=Stampy's Lovely Book|rating=3|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=If you still think of Stampy as the elephant in ''The Simpsons''next, you need can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to get with it. For one thing, TV is so last century – now it's all about Minecraft and other computer game worlds, and often second-screening between different new media at the same time. So why does this book from a Youtube star of Minecraft taskscinema, pranks and other activities, remind me of a certain TV programme that used to invite us to turn off and do something more active insteadtheir real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281561</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca SteadAdam Stower|title=Goodbye StrangerMurray and Bun

|genre=TeensConfident Readers |summary= The book opens with Murray is supposed to be a prologue about an eight year old Bridget Barsamianhumble, tidy and friendly cat, one who woke up in hospital following a horrific is able to sleep and eat and eat and life threatening traffic accident involving roller skates sleep and New York traffic, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. Bridget is told by But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a nurse that she is lucky to be alive hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and that she must have survived the accident for a reason. Bridgetcatflap they both use can chuck them out, who has no real memory of not into the accidentregular back garden, has to miss but into a year world of school frightening adventure and on her returnwhiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, tells everyone she now wants to be known as Bridge, ashonest, but he's turned up and he'I don't feel like Bridget anymore''.ll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443197</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hans Christian Andersen, Lucie Arnoux Alex Bell and Misha Hoekstra (translator)Tim McDonagh|title=The Snow QueenGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5

|summary=''Listen closely! We're about to begin.'' Once upon Eli is a timebusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the devil created evening a hellish mirrorhelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, which only showed eviltoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, ill intent and uglinessEli's parents were both lost to the titular race, and which was en route a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to Heaven to cast navigate the world in the company of a new light on it when it shatteredmagical beast. One of This has made the race anathema to the people affected by pair – but when a bad incident at the numerous shards was Kaieatery leads to a confession from gran, who abandoned Eli knows his childhood friend Gerdaonly hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, and went off with the Snow Queen. Gerda was forlorn and fearing for his life, but soon found her way to start a miraculous journey sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to find the truth behind possibly save his disappearance and behaviour…gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691030</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jonathan StroudHelen Cooper|title= Lockwood and Co: The Hollow BoyTaming of the Cat|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= The adults Once again, mice are baffled (as usual) pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and only Lockwoodin case you're seeing a connection, George they live in a cheese shop and Lucy can save London from therefore all the names used here seem to be the murderous ghostsnames of cheeses. But it won Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't be easy: 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 smallest agency of licenced psychic investigators visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in the capital no handy one is willing night, when he feels all alone and cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to listen tell stories to them, and besides, they have their own problemskeep themselves alive. A new member of This makes Brie the top dog in the teammouse community, secrets that threaten to destroy friendshipsthough, and as all the others had the sheer exhaustion that comes from trying chance to deal with too many hauntings – half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it surely can't be long before something has to giveneeds when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552573140</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Geoff RodkeyLauren St John|title=The Tapper Twins Tear up New YorkFinding Wonder|rating=4.5

|summary=If you didnRoo't [[The Tapper Twins Go to War (With Each Other) by Geoff Rodkey|last time]], meet the Tapper Twins, Claudia and Reeses life has become almost impossibly difficult. They're in sixth grade at a posh New York City schoolHer mum died when she was young, and are just trying to get on with things – while making no attempt whatsoever at getting now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on with each other. This time round, Claudia was instantly sniffy at her brother's idea declared door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on a school bus, just because it was his, but soon realised how great it could be – way to the corner shop to host buy a school charity treasure hunt for gangs of four fellow pupilslottery ticket. With a great prize on offer When asked what other family she has, she bows down from organising it and takes partcan only name her aunt, Joni, against who she knows her brother and everyone dad didn't think very highly of. But she has no one else – , and that's when the problems startso off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. It's not Things continue to get worse for Roo, as frightening as the tabloids make out, when she assures us – but letand Joni leave London in Joni's face old campervan, it, there's high drama, celebrity, greed, urgency – and those pesky adults, all making breaks down in the smooth running middle of things most unlikely…nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144401501X</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BoyneAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=The Boy at the Top of the MountainOscar's Lion|rating=4.53|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meet Pierrot. As a very young child in 1930s Paris he is going We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have a very awkward journey through his young life. His mother – or father , but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a violent drunk, reacting badly to what couple of times before he saw in WWI, and although married has to a French woman, is still staunchly Germanbe ready for school. That womanBut when he enters his parents' bedroom, Emilieall he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, is going to dielooking sheepish, and leave Pierrot an orphan, which will leave him in a home where admitting that he is bulliedwon't be hungry for another two days. But from there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the reaches of Europe and from bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the black corners of his family comes an auntother month. And it can shapeshift, Beatrix, who will give so he can take it to school and it can get him a home, out of a kind, at a most unusual mountaintop buildingproblem. ItAnd it's wonderful to have around the house – not her home – she just works there limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and had to ask special permission from someone specialso on. The place? The BerghofOK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Spirit of LondonJudith Eagle|authortitle=Rob KeeleyThe Stolen Songbird

|summary=EllieCaro's mother, a world-famous whistler, Charlie has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and Mum have left Inchwood Manor is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are headed home brought to Londona halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, where Mumas she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's latest ''Journeyback'' project is renovating an old 18th century housesuitcase, 47 Foster Squareand all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. But it Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=0571363148}}{{Frontpage|author=Tania Unsworth|title=Nowhere Island|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not quite ''homes – and find a home'' for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him to Londonhis future. They're not returning That future seems to their old house 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 two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to another tinyprovide for their safety and seclusion. Them, and a mute girl also finding a home there, cramped flatalbeit so much more successfully. When asked why Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, all Mum will say or if this is, "Ask your father."one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624055</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan MeresHelen Peters|title=The World of Norm: 9: May Still Be ChargedFriends and Traitors|rating=43

|summary=If you ever wondered what Harry Enfield's Kevin going ''UUHEngland, that's SO unFAIR!!'' but stretched to WW2. Two young girls are new at the length of a book sounds like then wonder no longercountry pile called Stanbrook. Norm One is only twelve but he already knows Nancy, destined to be in service all her life is completely unfairit seems, like the female generations before her. He has The other is Sidney, a horrid girl next door who annoyingly wants to spend time talking with him, he has two awful younger brothers, he has from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school, and he that has a world of parents been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and adults around him all wittering on in the most weirdcheese, antique phrasing. They donand if we hadn't help him understand the world at all, just lay all the world's problems on his shoulders and move onguessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. This morning in concernBut something is amiss, for instance, Norm has hardly moved at all – he's still and first separately and then in bed when hecombination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 's been groundedun. His parents have looked up his phone bill onlineMidnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, and it's rather long. As long as Norm's entire list talk is made of woesmeetings with Germans, perhaps – and therefore is just one more thing not only that's , a burdenlocal Spitfire factory has been attacked. And as life is so unfair, But surely the only way out is to wait for his parents to decide between him paying them back or grounding him for a month – until something even worsegirls are wrong, more unwelcome and more unfair gets mentioned…the upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334119</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris RiddellJamie Littler|title=Goth Girl and the Wuthering FrightArkspire|rating=2.54

|summary=Goth Girl Two sisters, Juniper and the rest of the Attic Club Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are not having the best of timesgrowing to be chalk and cheese. Ada's best friend Juniper is at schoolan eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, while that girl's father Charles Cabbage tries to build a computer – with including relics from prior major wars left out in the weird help of three monkeys to fetch and carry his research volumesBadlands. Ruby Elodie is so anxious it's left intent on getting closer to Ada to care for and cater for her and not power in one of the other way roundreligious districts of Arkspire, so frightened is she by perhaps even to become the hauntings child in line to inherit the gothic pile they call home. And others are being bullied. So even though there are newcomers power of the same age Watcher, the closest to a ruler the placedistrict has, things need perking upand one of the five major victors in said earlier war. So what better time for Ada's father Being trained in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to hold a literary dog show gain some power of her own – bringing the country's finest authors and their pooches to parade in contest for a respected audience?good, or for very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447277899</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long and Nicholas Stevenson024162343X|title=Diary of a Time TravellerStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=3.5

|summary=With I was the usual complaint that 'History is Boring!', Augustus slumps over his bad company other people got into at school desk – until his teacher, a certain Professor Tempo, comes to his aid. She gives him a notebook and yellow pencil and says he should imagine himself I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a place in 'god'. Where was the past to see how interesting proof? In history lessons, it actually could bewas probably worse still. And lo and behold he's there, seeing Not too long after the world end of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the pastBritish army's effect 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 world of army had to be there in the present for his very own eyesfirst place. He ends up doing this more than a couple dozen timesLooking back, filling I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the notebook with amazing sights heproblem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's seen and people he's stood alongside, from Mozart to Einstein, from Chaucer to Lincoln, and what we read is what he comes up with in this brisk and colourful volume'Stolen History''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806368</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jeff NortonThiago de Moraes|title= Memoirs of a Neurotic ZombieOld Gods New Tricks|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Adam is twelveMeet Trixie. He has Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a crush on Corina whoyoung goddess of nuisance. But just when she's in his class at schoolbeing told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, he likes collecting things, and he has early onset Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, which means he would rather wear purple spandex and dance the Macarena right down Main Street than go within five miles of a germworld changes. He frets about Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a lot power-out, even of thingselectric cars, actually: if worrying was an Olympic event, hehits not just the town the school'd get s in but the goldentire planet (apart from mobile phones, every time. Other than and all thatpowers the Internet, things are pretty okayjust for our convenience's sake). He Trixie, luckily, realises what has normalhappened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, loving parents (apart to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the fact they still insist on going to SMOOCH concerts)Gods, ie the semi-deities, a small group of friends who share his interest in comics and video gamesgiants, half-gods and a standard-issue irritating sister. Nothing weird there, then. Nothing but so on known as the fact that he's been dead for three monthstricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571327044</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ulrich Hub, Jorg Muhle Hannah Gold and Helena Ragg-Kirkby (translator)Levi Pinfold|title=Meet at the Ark at Eight!Finding Bear|rating=4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=An educated penguin[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, an agnostic penguin and a violentlot further north than many people would venture, smaller, young penguin walk into and finding a snowdrift… You might not be able to make ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a full joke out of polar bear – that opening lineshe called Bear. Back home, but this book practically does continue things on from there. Three penguins – each the domestic and family front are a little different from the otherbit advanced, even if they generally look and definitely smell the samebut not perfect for her, and God, a subject of their conversation so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For a butterfly comes along, of all bear doing very Bear-y thingshas been shot and wounded. The young, hot-headed one (well, in the pictures he wears a woolly hat, Desperate to make sure he's bound OK, she and her father return to be hot-headed) leaves the Arctic and hope that in umbragea world of very white and very dangerous things, leaving just two she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – which is perfectly timed if you're a dove, and come along telling all that the animals to get into Noah's Ark in pairs, as an almighty flood is about to happen…friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690875</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe SuggSimon Fox|title=Username: EvieDeadlock

|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=Meet Evie. She's surprisingly unwelcome Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and alienated at school – for then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a trendy secret place, and attractive girljoin him on the run. They get together, nobody at all seems but barely begin to have any time for her, apart from smell the geeky card-collecting boy with whiff of Southern trains when the milk-bottle glasses father is arrested, leaving Archie on the bus. Perhaps it has something late express to do with her Brighton, toting a tin his fatherwas 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 thatched house – after all, she must be family home is destroyed in a witch to live therefire. It's not that she would wish to live thereShe, with nobody else aroundher parents, and the memory of her deceased motherlittle brother lose everything. But luckily someone is choosing a place for She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her –her father cupboard, and now she is able to put all his work into a cyber-world for living at hergrandmother's house where they can't touch anything, the E-Scapeor do anything, which is close to or even eat the perfect worldfoods they normally eat. All When she goes back to school she discovers that remains is the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, to programme the humans display things that are important to be her friends, them and make the connection Evie show who they are as a person. But Ren has with them nothing to put in a box, and them with her in return so she finds herself starting to be of mutualsteal things. Small things, confirmingthings that people might not really miss, happy benefitnot when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone else has entered finds out what she is doing?|isbn=1839942835}}{{Frontpage|author= Rob Keeley|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a return to the E-Scapeshort story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, and their influence seems all that much more powerful than Evie's tentative happiness…each as fun to read as his previous offerings.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lewis Carroll, Mark Burstein (editor) and Salvador DaliLaura Noakes|title=Alice's Adventures in WonderlandCosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|summary=If you don't know the story nowMeet Number One. Or rather, then where have you been for a hundred and fifty years? Cosima Unfortunate. A young girl sees a hurrying white rabbitOr rather, follows it, falls down a hole, fails just Cos to recognise her friends. The practice in the 'stranger danger' home she lives in partaking of random foods and drinks is for the girls to just because of a label on them, nearly drowns a whole menagerie of animals be named by the number they correspond to in a lake of her own tearsthe ledger, takes advice from someone on drugs, plays cardsand they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or croquetsuchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, or both or neitheras the first ever inmate, and wakes up to find it all a dreamunique in having no known family in the outside world. Someone else tried out such gibberish on During a young girldaring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, wrote it down in she discovers a flurry, made plan involving said outside world – a hugely successful name for himself, and woke up devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to find even at this remove that most people (unlike me) adore adopt all the thinggirls for his Institute. But it's not just for now, its 150th birthdaywhy, and what does that the work gets reprinted. body entail? In And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the 1960s, someone came up 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 idea to put the esoteric, surreal impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and daft mind of Salvador Dali her mother run in cahoots with a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the esotericability to leave this world, surreal and daft world use an unworldly portal of Carroll's Alicekaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and the result was a very rare buildings are generally empty of humans and valuable edition – a box set of illustrated bookletsripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, perfectly suited can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the very surrealistic 105th birthday. shop? Since getting sight of one is like seeing a flat clock in Dali's picturesWell yes, this decent hardback replication is the nearest you'll get to owning one of answer, but the most special of Alice editions.fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0691170029</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cressida CowellNatasha Farrant|title=How to Train Your Dragon 12: How to Fight a Dragon's FuryThe Rescue of Ravenwood

|summary=A relentless battleThis story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Human against dragon. On Ravenwood is an old house, in the Doomsday North of YuleEngland, the battle will end where Bea and only one side can be victoriousRaffy have been living for most of their lives. If the dragons win They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, the human race will be annihilatedand they are living together as a family. If They have grown up swimming in the humans wincove, they will unlock roaming through the secret trees, completely at one with all of the dragon jewel, with nature around the potential to destroy all house and loving every inch of the dragonsplace. The only hope But now the house is a human boy called Hiccupunder threat, an unlikely hero who has as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a wish to unite human developer as it's becoming more and dragon once moreexpensive to maintain. Unfortunately The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, Hiccup is lying unconscious on a beach at Herobut if they's Endll even be together, lost and alone with no boatif Ravenwood itself will be torn down. What |isbn=0571348785}}{{Frontpage|author=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jayden's nose is moreforever in a book, Hiccup has no memory; no idea who which means he is knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and why he unicorns of the world, for example. Aisha is so importantaddicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. He also has two poisonous fangs embedded in his arm; The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the ticking teeth outside world of Hackney, London. But when a Vampire Spydragon which serve as narrowboat turns up carrying a tracking device for the vicious beastscience-minded, who is closing in as we speak. Suffice to sayeducational purpose, things arenand with a past involving Jayden't going well for Hiccup and s cousin, they find a magical world they can only get worsenever knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444916580</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darren ShanB09XWSXSKY|title=Zom-B Fugitive (Zom B 11)Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating= 4|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING!Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in his 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 all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the time. And time isn't good for anything...''

If you havenAnd that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. It was nearly twelve o't read clock but at midnight the [[Zomclock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad -B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077929</amazonuk>but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?