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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Elen CaldecottRob 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=Crowns 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 Codebreakers takes up residence in.... a wardrobe!}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|summary=MinnieAround here, we're big fans of children's not too keen on sharing her already tiny room with her gran when she arrives from Nigeriaauthor Rob Keeley. HoweverHe's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, worries about floor space and how he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to open the wardrobe door are quickly replaced by more serious concernslecture or hector. Gran is upset. She picked up the wrong suitcase at the airport and she The ''s convinced itChildish Spirits's a bad omen. And it almost seems like she's right when their flat is burgled and the only thing that is taken series is the suitcaseone of his greatest achievements. The police arenIt't interested but Minnie and her friends know there must be s a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a reason behind stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the burglary. There's spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a mystery spoiled lordling and it's up to them to solve it. the first spirit Ellie encounters|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408852713</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shel SilversteinMax Boucherat|title=Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot BackLast Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Meet We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the finest shooter house to herself – no neighbour to pop in the world, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. NoWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, not she has one of those huntersmain intention, who go and that is to log on to Africa and kill off all Voxminer, the wonderful wildlife thereworld-building, but Lafcadio. Hecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a liontiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and his real name might have been then she finds something even more like ''Ruggrrg'' or ''Grummfgff'', but one day when a hunter was about spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to shoot at him (with an unloaded rifle)enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, he ate the hunter and picked her safe place in the gun up to try out game has been doctored – then carried on shooting until he was the world's best, standing on his head or with paws tied behind his back. His new life gives him a new namewell, but where is that really what he would have wanted as a young lion cubgirl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690824</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Once Upon a PlaceDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=3.54|genre=Confident Readers |summary=You know the bit Meet Kit. Like most of the blurb on every ''Artemis Fowl'' bookpeople in his world, where Eoin Colfer had it said about how you pronounce his name? That wasn't seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the intention sport where a team of an upwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and-coming author race to be recognisable; ratherthe exit, it was prideperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Pride in Unfortunately for Kit, the difference only thing he's seen of itthe latest race on the 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 Irishness token bully of ithis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. IrelandWhat chance does this 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 bit 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 seems to me, all the 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 more full than usual difficult, in a multitude of peopleways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and ideashis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and places had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are different by dint separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of their singular nationality – hope. He is good at art, and so many deserve clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1805141872|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have pride attached to thembeen raided. The places might not be the famous onespolice are baffled, but they can be only Ben knows the source of pridetruth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and of storiesBen go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job...'' Goodness me, which that Miss Judson is where this compilation of short works 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 young comes inpupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, with the authors invited son of a famous magician who has ambitions to select their chosen place be as good as his father some day, and write about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191041137X</amazonuk>who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris O'Dowd and Nick Vincent MurphyChristopher Edge|title=Moone Boy 2: The Fish DetectiveBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Christmas is coming, Lucas and Martin Moone's family his friends are on all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a strict budgetplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Placed in charge All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of finding exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the family a Christmas tree Martinmovie starts, actuallythey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, is more worried about how heand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn'll ever manage to get a Game Boyt even imagine. He decides But as they lurch from one film genre to get himself a job but of course, being Martinthe next, he can't they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get himself back to the usual paper round. Nocinema, Martin Moone becomes a butcher's boy!and to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447270975</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin Colfer and Victor AmbrusAdam Stower|title=The Seal's Fate (Colour Conker) Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers |summary=Bobby Parrish was reluctant Murray is supposed to admit that the seal was cutebe a humble, tidy and friendly cat, even one who is able to himself. That sort sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of thing was for girls and he was here to club the sealtwo. Seals were affecting his fatherBut he's livelihood as a fisherman and there was a bounty of a £1 for a sealbad magician's flipper: in those days that was good money cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and even one of the girls had collected catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the cashregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. StillThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, somehow he couldn't quite bring himself to attack the defenceless cubwhere a troll hunter is expected – well, all bigone much bigger than Murray was, blackto be honest, round eyes but he's turned up and obviously unworried by his presence. What would the other lads say though? More he'll have to the point, what would his father say?do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124310</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo Alex Bell and Catherine RaynerTim McDonagh|title=Clare and Her Captain (Colour Conker)The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Clare didn't enjoy Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the journey down to Devon. Her parents always argued wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and it was usually because Mum had lost her way or got caught in the evening a traffic jam helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and this time she'd done bothruns. It was Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a little better when they got to Aunt Dorageneration missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's houseparents were both lost to the titular race, but Aunt Dora wasn't exactly a peacemaker and tended globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to stick up for Dad against everybody elsenavigate the world in the company of a magical beast. The holiday improved This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when Clare got out for a walk on her own and discovered a stray lamb on bad incident at the road. She took it eatery leads to the nearest house and Mr Jones was delighted: Clare had just saved half a confession from gran, Eli knows his flock. Clare got on only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the old man - and with sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his horse, Captaingran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124353</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin Richards and Dan GreenHelen Cooper|title=Doctor Who: The Dangerous Book Taming of Monstersthe Cat|rating=3.5

|summary=It's imperative you keep Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up with The Doctor, in both senses against Gorgonzola the cat – meaning and in case you're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the first thing he tells you names used here seem to do be the names of cheeses. Anyway, Brie is ''Run!'' shunned, scorned and in , if you must, mous-tracised, for the sense of following all way his various adventures and maintaining knowledge of whathabits don's what and who t match the other mice he's faced, enemy-wiselives with. One great way to be enemy wise is to peruse this book, which really is a great present They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for the young fan bedding – he displays it as art and of course a lifemakes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-saving manual for telling will come in handy one night, when you yourself find sharks 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 fogmouse community, gasthough, as all the others had the chance to half-mask wearing boys ''sans'' their mothers or indeed gigantic Cyberking dreadnought spacecraftinch some cheese while the cat was distracted. Honestly, why this is classed as a fiction title I But will the story have no idea…the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405920033</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Renee RussellLauren St John|title=Puppy Love (Dork Diaries)Finding Wonder

|summary=Things have changed drastically in the world of Nikki MaxwellRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her arch nemesis has suddenly upped sticks mum died when she was young, and moved school – well, now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the posher place will only suit police banging on her door to tell her that her welldad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. Nikki now When asked what other family she has a sort of empty feeling, though – nobody is there to make she can only name her feel pesteredaunt, let downJoni, het up and stressedwho she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. Although something is about But she has no one else, and so off she goes to do just that and more – the discovery, outside the sanctuary her crush volunteers at, of an abandoned mother dog live with her seven puppiesunreliable aunt. Looking after them until the place even has space for the new arrivals is going Things continue to fill her world get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the next few days – middle of nowhere and the adventure is going to be just as readable as all the other books in this series.then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471144577</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt HaigAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=A Boy Called Christmas Oscar's Lion|rating=4.53

|summary= Have you ever wondered what Father Christmas was like 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 couple of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as boy? How he came an unspoken threat to live in the Far North surrounded by elves? Where bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the idea for giving presents came from? Why other month. And it can shapeshift, so he wears can take it to school and it can get him out of a red hat? If youproblem. And it're interested in any of these questionss wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and so on. OK, then it can'A Boy Called Christmas' is the perfect book for yout work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178211789X</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander YatesJudith Eagle|title=The Winter PlaceStolen Songbird

|summary=Axel Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and Tess live in rural New York state 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 brought to a father obsessed halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with mediaeval reconstructionsan orphan boy, Albie, who is living there too. They have But she soon finds herself caught up in a knight for mystery, as she discovers a painting of a father! This eccentricity is both entertaining bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a good thing - because Sam is fearsome gang called the only parental figure in their livesSnakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Axel and Tess Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother died when Axel was born? 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. Tess Just twelve, he is just moving into oppositional adolescence. She and Sam enjoy sparring over so determined to escape the care of Axel, who has inherited system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a rare form of muscular dystrophy from his late motherhome for himself. Axel He isen route to yet another fosterer, wellwhen he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him to his future. 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 individual childisland between the two directions of a motorway, currently haunted by a mischievous wheelchair only he can seeplace inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. The pesky thing follows him everywhere Them, and a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfully. 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471123839</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ted Hughes and Andrew DavidsonHelen Peters|title=The Iron ManFriends and Traitors|rating=53

|summary=''Where had he come from? England, WW2. Nobody knowsTwo young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook.'' But's One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it obvious ''when'' the Iron Man came from – it really does smack of the beginnings of seems, like the environmental movement in the two decades after WWIIfemale generations before her. There's the nuclear element to the storyThe other is Sidney, which is certainly a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed thereaway from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, even and if I can never be sure whether we hadn't guessed that is the title character or the then their behaviour with each other one that turns up for the second halfover their first encounters would only prove it so. But at the same timesomething is amiss, there is also and first separately and then in combination they realise the idea that such Lord Evesham must be a book doesnrum 't really need to be analysedun. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, explained away and diminished thuslynot only that, when it provides some of a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the most enjoyablegirls are wrong, clear and simple yet highly emotive writing for the young audience, that has made it a classic since its inception.upper class could never be so underhand?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571327249</amazonuk>1788004647

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna Starobinets, Andrzej Klimowski and Jane Bugaeva (translator)Jamie Littler|title=CatlantisArkspire

|summary=Meet BaguetteTwo sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Despite the nameJuniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, he's a cat living including relics from prior major wars left out in central Moscow, with a human family, on the twelfth floor of a high-riseBadlands. His place Elodie is intent on getting closer to perch is somehow between the two panes that make up a high window, half power in and half out one of the roomreligious districts of Arkspire, watching perhaps even to become the world and its birds go by. But there's a part child in line to that world he knows nothing about – inherit the whole mythology power of cats and catlife. Cats had possession of their own land, Catlantisthe Watcher, the closest to a place suitable for such sacred creatures to exist. Flowers gave them extra livesruler the district has, up to a maximum and one of nine, just by you sniffing themthe five major victors in said earlier war. But all that is Being trained in the past – and magic that's where Baguette must go, for only five people can use would definitely change the whole future status of catdom hangs in the balance of him going back to right wrongs, and find what was long forgotten about both his and everyone else's destinywhole family. And all he wants is the paw of his sweetheart But in marriage. You finding something oddly magical, Juniper might think you know the lengths just be able to which a cat will go gain some power of her own – for good, or for lovevery, but you won't have read the likes of this…very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690883</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph Garrett024162343X|title=Stampy's Lovely BookStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=35

|summary=If you still think of Stampy as I was the elephant bad company other people got into at school. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'The Simpsons''. Where was the proof? In history lessons, you need to get with itwas probably worse still. For one thingNot too long after the end of WWII, TV is I didn't so last century – now itmuch want to learn about the British army's all about Minecraft successes (and other computer game worldsoccasional failures, and often second-screening between different new media at 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 same timefirst place. So why does this book from a Youtube star of Minecraft tasksLooking back, pranks and other activities, remind me of a certain TV programme I still believe I was right - but I regret that used I lacked the maturity to invite us to turn off and do something more active instead?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281561</amazonuk>approach 'the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca SteadThiago de Moraes|title=Goodbye StrangerOld Gods New Tricks

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= The book opens Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with a prologue about an eight year old Bridget Barsamianfart powder, who woke up in hospital following she could almost be thought a horrific and life threatening traffic accident involving roller skates and New York trafficyoung goddess of nuisance. Bridget is But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a nurse that she is lucky to be alive power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that she must have survived powers the accident Internet, just for a reasonour convenience's sake). BridgetTrixie, who luckily, realises what has no real memory happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the accidentsemi-deities, giants, has to miss a year of school half-gods and so on her return, tells everyone she now wants to be known as Bridge, as, ''I don't feel like Bridget anymore''the tricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443197</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hans Christian Andersen, Lucie Arnoux Hannah Gold and Misha Hoekstra (translator)Levi Pinfold|title=The Snow QueenFinding Bear

|summary=''Listen closely! We're about to begin.'' Once upon a [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, the devil created a hellish mirrorlot further north than many people would venture, which only showed evil, ill intent and ugliness, and which was en route to Heaven to cast finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a new light on it when it shatteredpolar bear – that she called Bear. One of Back home, things on the people affected by the numerous shards was Kaidomestic and family front are a bit advanced, who abandoned his childhood friend Gerdabut not perfect for her, and went off with so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the Snow Queenislands Bear was last left on. Gerda was forlorn For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and fearing for his lifewounded. Desperate to make sure he's OK, but soon found she and her way father return to start the Arctic and hope that in a miraculous journey to world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the truth behind his disappearance and behaviour…friendship can continue.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691030</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jonathan StroudSimon Fox|title= Lockwood and Co: The Hollow BoyDeadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= The adults are baffled (as usual) Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and only Lockwoodthen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, George and Lucy can save London from join him on the murderous ghostsrun. But it won't be easy: as They get together, but barely begin to smell the smallest agency whiff of licenced psychic investigators in Southern trains when the capital no one father is willing to listen to them, and besidesarrested, they have their own problems. A new member of leaving Archie on the teamlate express to Brighton, secrets that threaten toting a tin his father was determined to destroy friendshipskeep away from his colleagues, and the sheer exhaustion that comes from trying to deal with too many hauntings – it surely can't be long before something has to give?bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552573140</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Geoff RodkeyCath Howe|title=My Life on Fire|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ren's family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to 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 a person. But Ren has nothing to put in a box, and so she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=1839942835}}{{Frontpage|author= Rob Keeley|title=The Tapper Twins Tear up New YorkBoy Who Disappeared and Other Stories|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a return to the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, each as fun to read as his previous offerings.5|isbn= B0BVW69N1G}}{{Frontpage|author=Laura Noakes|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating=4

|summary=If you didn't [[Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The Tapper Twins Go practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to War (With Each Other) just be named by Geoff Rodkey|last time]], meet the Tapper Twinsnumber they correspond to in the ledger, Claudia and Reese. Theythey're in sixth grade at a posh New York City school, and are just trying to get on with things all Unfortunates – while making no attempt whatsoever at getting on young people with each otherdisabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. This time round, Claudia was instantly sniffy at her brother's idea declared to her on But Cosima bears the tag as a school bus, just surname because it was his, but soon realised how great it could nothing else seems to be – to host a school charity treasure hunt for gangs of four fellow pupils. With a great prize on offer known about where she bows down came from organising it and takes part, against her brother as the first ever inmate, and everyone else – and that's when unique in having no known family in the problems startoutside world. It's not as frightening as During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the tabloids make outkitchen one afternoon, she assures us discovers a plan involving said outside world – but let's face ita devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, there's high drama, celebrity, greed, urgency – and those pesky adults, all making what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the smooth running of things most unlikely…past she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144401501X</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BoyneAlice M Ross|title=The Boy at the Top of the MountainNowhere Thief

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meet Pierrot. As a very young child At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in 1930s Paris he is going to have a very awkward journey through his young lifeseaside town. His father is a violent drunk, reacting badly to what he saw in WWI, and although married to a French woman, is still staunchly GermanElsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. That womanShe also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, Emilie, is going because she has the ability to dieleave this world, and leave Pierrot use an orphanunworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, which will leave him in a home where he is bullied. But from the reaches of Europe sea levels are rising dramatically and from the black corners buildings are generally empty of his family comes an aunthumans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminent, Beatrixcan Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, who will give him a homeis the answer, of but the fact a kind, at a most unusual mountaintop building. It's not her home – she just works there and had to ask special permission mysterious man knows exactly which items come from someone special. The place? The Berghof.these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Natasha Farrant|title=The Spirit Rescue of London|author=Rob KeeleyRavenwood|rating=45

|summary=Ellie, Charlie and Mum have left Inchwood Manor and are headed home to London, where Mum's latest This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''JourneybackVoyage of the Sparrowhawk'' project . Ravenwood is renovating an old 18th century house, 47 Foster Squarein the North of England, where Bea and 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 Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's not quite ''home'' becoming more and more expensive to Londonmaintain. They The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're not returning going to their old house live, but to another tinyif they'll even be together, cramped flat. When asked why, all Mum and if Ravenwood itself will say is, "Ask your fatherbe torn down."|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624055</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan MeresRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The World Unicorns of Norm: 9: May Still Be ChargedSilver Street

|summary=If you ever wondered what Harry EnfieldJayden's Kevin going ''UUH, that's SO unFAIR!!'' but stretched to the length of nose is forever in a book sounds like then wonder no longer. Norm is only twelve but , which means he already knows life is completely unfair. He has a horrid girl next door who annoyingly wants to spend time talking with him, he has two awful younger brothers, he has school, lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and he has a world unicorns of parents and adults around him all wittering on in the most weirdworld, antique phrasingfor example. They don't help him understand the world at allAisha is addicted to her new tablet, just lay all the world's problems on his shoulders and move onwhere she can see videos of anything that might be out there. This morning in concernThe problem, for instanceas their mothers see it, Norm has hardly moved at all – heis that they are never 's still in bed when heout there's been groundedthemselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. His parents have looked But when a narrowboat turns up his phone bill onlinecarrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and itwith a past involving Jayden's rather longcousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. As long as Norm's entire list For many of woesthose mythological creatures are real, perhaps – and therefore is just including the one more thing thatAisha thinks she's seen on a burdenbit of local footage. And as life is so unfairThe crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the only way out is magical sight needed to wait for his parents to decide between him paying them back or grounding him for join in. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a month – until something even worsepainting, more unwelcome and more unfair gets mentioned…become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334119</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris RiddellB09XWSXSKY|title=Goth Girl Maestro Orpheus and the Wuthering FrightWorld Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating=2.54

|summary=Goth Girl and the rest of the Attic Club are not having the best of timesFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. Ada's best friend is at schoolA tune, while that girl's father Charles Cabbage tries to build a computer – with rather like the weird help ticking of three monkeys a clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to fetch and carry visit his research volumesgrandfather. Ruby is so anxious itHe hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's left ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to Ada to care for and cater for her and not the other way round, so frightened him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is she by tell the hauntings in the gothic pile they call hometime. And others are being bulliedtime isn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. So even though there are newcomers of It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the same age to the place, things need perking upclock chimed only six times. So what better time There was nothing for Ada's father it but to hold a literary dog show – bringing go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the countryclocks stopped at twelve o's finest authors and their pooches to parade in contest for a respected audienceclock?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447277899</amazonuk>