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[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher William Hill1836285493|title= Tales from Schwartzgarten: Marius and the Band The Double Life of Blooda Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= FranklyWill 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, itStation Road, where his ability might be better extended.}}{{Frontpage|isbn= 1836282028|title=The Fighting Spirit|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary='s 'Would you like to adopt a surprise ghost?'' ''Young spirit, born 1887, seeks kind home to discover there are still people left alive 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 gloomy town shape of Schwartzgartenan arrow, pointing to your front door. In this story, the fourth ..'' Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is celebrating a decade of his wonderfully entertaining [[Rob Keeley's ''Spirits'' series in the Chronological Order|Spirits]] serieswith a new adventure that is both a reboot and a continuation. Just like Doctor Who, Edward Fitzberranger, our incorrigible Victorian ghost boy, creepy bad guys in masks roam the town after darkhas some new companions. The local kiddie catcher is determined Ruby and Jayden respond to rid this intriguing advertisement and Edward, who has broken the streets of orphans by any means he can (quite a challengerules as usual and absconded from his manor house home, considering how high the death rate among parents is) adopted by them and for some reason the chocolatiers of the town are being murdered takes up residence in inventive and frequently sticky ways.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408331829</amazonuk>... a wardrobe!

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David WalliamsRob Keeley|title= Grandpa's Great EscapeChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Most people donAround here, we're big fans of children't really get Grandpas author Rob Keeley. He's old and set in his ways (apart from the fact that recently a ball of happy positivity, he's taken to going down to the shops in his brown checked slippers, whatever the weather)understands children, and he's definitely getting more writes for their pleasure and confused by the dayenjoyment, not to lecture or hector. In fact, a lot  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of the time he thinks hehis greatest achievements. It's back in World War Twoa sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, flying his Spitfire out across a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the Channel to defeat spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the bad guys. Only his grandson Jack understands that the way to get through to him is to play along.first spirit Ellie encounters|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007494017</amazonuk>1783064617

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E R MurrayMax Boucherat|title= The Book Last Life of LearningLori Mills|rating= 4.5

|summary= An orphan with only her beloved grandpa for company, Ebony SmartWe meet Lori on the first evening she's world is turned upside down when he dies. Sent got the house to Dublin herself – no neighbour to live with pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an Aunt she didn't know existedavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, Ebony soon discovers that on her new homelonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, 23 Mercury Laneshe has one main intention, is full of secrets. Discovering and that she is part of an ancient order of people who have to log on to Voxminer, the power to reincarnateworld-building, Ebony critter-collecting game that is soon under threat from a terrible evil hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that threatens to destroy their existence. With just this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her pet rat Winstonown, and a mysterious book to help her, then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she must figure out why and her people are disappearing bestie and how nobody else should be able to save their soulsenter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her ownsafe place in the game has been doctored – well, before time runs out…where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781173621</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dr Kris J SimeKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dragon's FlightDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Simon Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and Alice have spent race to the school term living exit, perhaps bothering with their auntthe treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. 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 kindlynew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, if somewhat vaguehe has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, personmuscle-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. SimonAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's father describes Aunt Maggie re paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as bohemian they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and hippystarting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Simon Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, 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 quite dismissive difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the flowing clothes wrong shoes because his dad can't work and collections doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of gemstones things like food, and discussions of auras his dad can't work because he lost 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 being bohemian his mum and hippy entailsdad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, but both he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and Alice can agree clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that Aunt Maggie is feel like a light at the end of a nice personlong, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1512096997</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luke Pearson1805141872|title=Hilda and the TrollThe Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=Hilda''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job...'' Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a rather delightful smallplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, blue-haired girlas the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is never far from very different, and they are swept up into an adventurethey couldn't even imagine. She But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is confident supposed to be a humble, tidy and excitablefriendly cat, brave one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and creative, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and her stories are slightly madthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and verywhiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, very readable!but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909263788</amazonuk>0008561249

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeff KinneyAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Old School (Diary The Glorious Race of a Wimpy Kid book 10)Magical Beasts

|summary=AahEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, for and in the evening a helper at the modern lifedessert cafe his gran owns and runs. InternetEli lives with his lovely gran, baby wipes, ease, lemonade on taptoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. The only problem – wellA few short years ago, one of them – is that GregEli's mother is demanding parents were both lost to the town switch off for titular race, a weekend, so good oldglobe-fashioned standards can be returned trotting adventure where all entrants have tonavigate the world in the company of a magical beast. She's not This has made the race anathema to the only person with ideas of old-fashioned standards pair – Greg's grandfather has moved inbut when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, so there're both Eli knows his siblings, three adults – and a pig who thinks only hope is to dare to enter what he's a family member. Mind youmost hates, with the usual ineptitude sole aim the prize of a Wimpy Kid, probably nothing modern could prepare Greg for what's about magic at the end – the only thing to come, when a trip to a character-forming camp seems like the necessary easy way out…possibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141364726</amazonuk>0571382231

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Peter GoesHelen Cooper|title=TimelineThe Taming of the Cat

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=''Tick followed tock followed tick followed tockOnce again, mice are pitched against cat.'' OnceIn this case, that isprincipally, wehave Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you'd got over the Big Bangre seeing a connection, which of course was silent. We flash forwards they live in a few billion years cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the creation names of the earthcheeses. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, have a quick look at prehistorymous-tracised, then itfor the way his habits don's in t 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 worldvisuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. It's happenings we can be sure of and date accuratelyalmost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This book makes an attempt at conveying it Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all along one river of time – albeit with many tributaries – and with a strong visual style points us the others had the chance to all that is important about our past along half-inch some cheese while the waycat was distracted. Flick through it backwards and you can recreate a different Guinness advert to But will the story have the one I quoted – but successful sequel it's probably worth a much longer look.needs when that cheese runs out?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1776570693</amazonuk>0571376010

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz PichonLauren St John|title=Tom Gates 9: Top of the Class (Nearly)Finding Wonder

|summary=Tom Gates Roo's life has been told not to worrybecome almost impossibly difficult. Which is not a good thing. He's been told not to worryHer mum died when she was young, but and now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to try tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his best at way to the school test – so he does neithercorner shop to buy a lottery ticket. His best friend When asked what other family she has told him not to worry about having just left an incriminating portrait , she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of . But she has no one of his teachers in a library reference bookelse, even though he has and so off she goes to worry about getting it back before anyone else sees itlive with her unreliable aunt. EspeciallyThings continue to get worse for Roo, that isas when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, when the biggest bully it breaks down in the year above is also turning his hand to graffiti middle of nowhere and has the power to get other people in trouble…then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407143204</amazonuk>0571376169

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Noel StreatfeildAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=White BootsOscar's Lion|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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 an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a problem. And it's wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, and so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=0008596751}}{{Frontpage|author=Judith Eagle|title=The Stolen Songbird

|summary=Many moons agoCaro's mother, when I was a young girl obsessed world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and 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 Torvill Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and Dean confused and wishing we lived much closer worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a skating rink, I discovered Noel Streatfeildhalt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's wonderful Shoe stories including this onehouse, along with an orphan boy, Albie, ''White Boots''who is living there too. It But she soon became one of my favourite re-readsfinds herself caught up in a mystery, so it was interesting to come back to the story as she discovers a grown up painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and find that it is still funny and engaging, all these years later, across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and that it still terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the enduring power to make me wish for my own pair of white skating boots mystery too!?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007580460</amazonuk>0571363148

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lindsay Mattick and Sophie BlackallTania Unsworth|title=Finding Winnie: The Story of the Real Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-PoohNowhere Island|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=A little boy called Cole wanted 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 homes – and find a storyhome for himself. He particularly wanted a true story is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it had ride him to be about a bearhis future. It was getting late, That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but Mummy said that she would do her best. Her story began about a hundred years before Cole was born and it was about a man called Harry Colebourn who lived someone lives with his brother in Winnipeg. He was a vet and was camp on his way to Europe to look after an island between the horses two directions of the soldiers fighting in the Great War when he met a trapper with motorway, a baby bear: his head might have said that there was nothing he could do, but his heart told him place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to get hold of the bear provide for their safety and he gave the trapper $20seclusion. Winnipeg, as he named the bearThem, went on the train with Captain Coulbourn and his troopa mute girl also finding a home there, across the ocean and finally arrived in Englandalbeit 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>1408340232</amazonuk>1804540080

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate de Goldi and Gregory O'BrienHelen Peters|title=The ACB with Honora LeeFriends and Traitors

|summary=Meet PerryEngland, WW2. She's a hen-pecked sort of girl – forever having Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her grammar corrected by life it seems, like the female generations before her parents. The other is Sidney, who love nothing more than packing her off to aftera girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school classes, such as music lessons she that has no aptitude forbeen removed there away from bomber flight-paths. Her father has one dutiful extra-curricular activity, too – visiting his own mother in her care homeThe girls are chalk and cheese, and taking Perry if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with himeach other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But when one 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 the classes she secrecy, talk is involved made of meetings with packs upGermans, she decides to spend more time with and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and the old dear – after allupper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=1788004647}}{{Frontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=Arkspire|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Two sisters, she finds it hard to identify her own kith Juniper and kinElodie, has memory problemsborn fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and reverts trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer to being a teacher yet cannot power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even play I Spy correctly. Once to become the child in line to inherit the routinepower of the Watcher, Perry finds the weird happenings closest to a ruler the district has, and characters one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the home 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 ideal ingredients able to gain some power of her own – for an ABC book good, or for a school project.very, very bad…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405052</amazonuk>0241586143

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jackie Morris024162343X|title= The Wild SwansStolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= The most well known version 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 wild swans is proof? In history lessons, it was probably the one penned by Hans Andersenworse still. This extended retelling by Jackie Morris adds depthNot too long after the end of WWII, emotional resonance I didn't so much want to learn about the British army's successes (and a number of new twists 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 talefirst place. As in most versionsLooking back, Eliza and her brothers live a happy and privileged life until their fatherI still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'the problem's remarriage brings jealousy, mistrust and trouble in its wakepolitely. The brothers are magically changed into wild swans and it is up to brave Eliza to rescue themI wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805361</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nicholas GannonThiago de Moraes|title= The DoldrumsOld Gods New Tricks|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= If you are of an imaginative dispositionMeet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, you go to larks and adventures involving flooding the school in an elegant building which used to aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a button factoryyoung goddess of nuisance. But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, and your house is full of giraffesthe world changes. Suddenly, ostriches and badgers practically everything electronic stops working – a power- stuffedout, even of course - then electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but the odds are entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that youpowers the Internet, just for our convenience'll end up on some kind s sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of adventurepower from us. And if your grandparents happen so she begins her epic quest, to be famous explorers who've managed to get themselves lost on an iceberg gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in Antarctica then your particular mission is pretty well handed to youstealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, wrapped up neatly with a big bow half-gods and a label so on top saying 'quest starts here'. All you have to do is work out known as the fine details and set off. Easy-peasytricksters.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008149399</amazonuk>178845295X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elen CaldecottHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Crowns and Codebreakers Finding Bear|rating=4.5

|summary=Minnie's not too keen [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on sharing her already tiny room Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with her gran when a polar bear – that she arrives from Nigeriacalled Bear. However Back home, worries about floor space things on the domestic and how to open the wardrobe door family front are quickly replaced by more serious concerns. Gran is upset. She picked up the wrong suitcase at the airport and she's convinced it's a bad omen. And it almost seems like she's right when their flat is burgled and the only thing that is taken is the suitcase. The police aren't interested bit advanced, but Minnie not perfect for her, and her friends know there must so can easily be a reason behind ignored when word comes through from the burglaryislands Bear was last left on. There's For a mystery bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and itwounded. Desperate to make sure he's up OK, she and her father return to them to solve itthe Arctic and hope that in a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continue. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408852713</amazonuk>0008582017

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shel SilversteinSimon Fox|title=Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot BackDeadlock

|summary=Meet the finest shooter in Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the world. Noforce, not one of those hunters, who go to Africa and kill off all the wonderful wildlife therethen suddenly rings Archie, but Lafcadio. He's demanding he fetch something from a lionsecret place, and his real name might have been something more like ''Ruggrrg'' or ''Grummfgff''join him on the run. They get together, but one day when a hunter was about barely begin to shoot at him (with an unloaded rifle), he ate smell the hunter and picked whiff of Southern trains when the gun up to try out – then carried father is arrested, leaving Archie on shooting until he was the world's bestlate express to Brighton, standing on toting a tin his head or with paws tied behind father was determined to keep away from his back. His new life gives him a new namecolleagues, but is that really what he would have wanted as and the bearer of a young lion cub?whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690824</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)Cath Howe|title=Once Upon a PlaceMy Life on Fire|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=You know the bit of the blurb on every Ren''Artemis Fowl'' books family home is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, where Eoin Colfer had it said about how you pronounce his name? and her little brother lose everything. That wasnShe doesn't the intention have any of her clothes, or any of an upher special little knick-knacks from her cupboard, and-coming author to be recognisable; rathernow she is living at her grandmother's house where they can't touch anything, it was pride. Pride in the difference of itor do anything, of or even eat the Irishness of itfoods they normally eat. Ireland, it seems When she goes back to meschool she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, is more full than usual creating boxes of peopletheir lives, to display things that are important to them and ideasshow who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to put in a box, and places that are different by dint of their singular nationality – and so many deserve she finds herself starting to have pride attached to themsteal things. The places Small things, things that people might not be the famous onesreally miss, but not when they can be the source of pride, and of stories, which have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is where this compilation of short works for the young comes in, with the authors invited to select their chosen place and write about it.doing?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191041137X</amazonuk>1839942835

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris O'Dowd and Nick Vincent MurphyRob Keeley|title=Moone The Boy 2: The Fish DetectiveWho Disappeared and Other Stories

|summary=Christmas Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is coming, and Martin Moone's family are on back with a strict budget. Placed in charge of finding return to the family a Christmas tree Martin, actually, is more worried about how he'll ever manage to get a Game short story format! The Boy. He decides Who Disappeared treats us to get himself a job but of courseeleven new tales, being Martin, he can't get himself the usual paper roundeach as fun to read as his previous offerings. No, Martin Moone becomes a butcher's boy!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447270975</amazonuk>B0BVW69N1G

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin Colfer and Victor AmbrusLaura Noakes|title=The Seal's Fate (Colour Conker) Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Bobby Parrish was reluctant to admit that the seal was cuteMeet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, even just Cos to himselfher friends. That sort of thing was The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls and he was here to club just be named by the number they correspond to in the sealledger, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. Seals were affecting his father's livelihood But Cosima bears the tag as a fisherman surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and there was a bounty of a £1 for a seal's flipper: unique in having no known family in those days that was good money and even one of the girls had collected the cashoutside world. Still, somehow he couldn't quite bring himself During a daring escapade to attack steal some posh cakes from the defenceless cubkitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all big, black, round eyes and obviously unworried by the girls for his presenceInstitute. What would the other lads say thoughBut why, and what does that body entail? More And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the point, what would his father saypast she has so little link with?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124310</amazonuk>0008579059

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo and Catherine RaynerAlice M Ross|title=Clare and Her Captain (Colour Conker)The Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Clare didn't enjoy At last there is new stock in the journey down to Devon. Her parents always argued impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and it was usually because Mum had lost her way or got caught mother run in a traffic jam and seaside town. Elsbeth knows this time because she'd done bothhas stolen it. It was a little better when they got She also knows she should be free from worries about being found out, because she has the ability to Aunt Dora's houseleave this world, but Aunt Dora wasn't exactly a peacemaker and tended use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to stick up for Dad against everybody else. The holiday improved when Clare got out for a walk on her own enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically and discovered a stray lamb on the roadbuildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. She took it With eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the nearest house and Mr Jones was delighted: Clare had just saved half his flock. shop? Clare got on with Well yes, is the answer, but the old fact a mysterious man - and with his horse, Captain.knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124353</amazonuk>1839943769

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin Richards and Dan GreenNatasha Farrant|title=Doctor Who: The Dangerous Book Rescue of MonstersRavenwood

|summary=It's imperative you keep up with The Doctor, in both senses – meaning in case This story is another excellent adventure from the first thing he tells you to do is author of ''Run!Voyage of the Sparrowhawk'' and . Ravenwood is an old house, in the sense North of following all his various adventures England, where Bea and maintaining knowledge Raffy have been living for most of what's what and who he's faced, enemy-wisetheir lives. One great way to be enemy wise They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is to peruse this bookthere with her Uncle Leo, which really and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a great present for family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the young fan – house and loving every inch of course a life-saving manual for when you yourself find sharks in the fogplace. But now the house is under threat, gas-mask wearing boys as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they'sansre going to live, but if they'' their mothers or indeed gigantic Cyberking dreadnought spacecraftll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down. Honestly, why this is classed as a fiction title I have no idea…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405920033</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Renee RussellRobin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Puppy Love (Dork Diaries)Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street

|summary=Things have changed drastically Jayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world of Nikki Maxwell, for example. Her arch nemesis has suddenly upped sticks and moved school – wellAisha is addicted to her new tablet, the posher place will only suit her wellwhere she can see videos of anything that might be out there. Nikki now has a sort of empty feelingThe problem, as their mothers see it, though – nobody is that they are never 'out there to make her feel pestered' themselves, let downexploring the outside world of Hackney, het London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and stressedwith a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. Although something is about to do just that and more – the discoveryFor many of those mythological creatures are real, outside including the sanctuary her crush volunteers at, one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of an abandoned mother dog with her seven puppieslocal footage. Looking after them until The crew of the place even has space for the new arrivals is going to fill her world for boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the next few days rare critters – and the adventure is going kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to be just join in. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as readable as all a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the other books in this series.unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471144577</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt HaigB09XWSXSKY|title=A Boy Called Christmas Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating=4.5

|summary= Have you ever wondered what Father Christmas Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was like as boy? How playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to live in the Far North surrounded by elves? Where the idea for giving presents came from? Why visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he wears a red hat? If you're interested in any of these questions, then s ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. 'A Boy Called Christmas' Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the perfect book time. And time isn't good for youanything...'' |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178211789X</amazonuk>And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?