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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=Mary WebbRob Keeley|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Would you like to adopt a ghost?'' ''Young spirit, born 1887, Daniel Swift seeks kind home to haunt. Gentleman by birth. Good company. Gets on well with other children. Jokes and Lauren Oshocks a speciality.'Neill' ''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=Rob Keeley|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=GulliverThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Be careful what you wish forWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Gulliver wants adventure – What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and boy that is he going to get itlog on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. His very But first voyage ends in an almighty storm, which ends in him being washed onto Lori has a shore alone – but the shores of an island where he himself is almightytiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, compared to the inhabitantsand then she finds something even more spooky. After being shot at with For the smallest server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of arrows, chained tampering. When malevolent eyes spark upon her phone screen, made a spectacle of – and sorted out a problem of etiquette most diplomatically her safe place in the game has been doctored – he tries againwell, only to be stranded on where is a second island, completely in contrast girl to the first… Whether or not you recognise the story from this summary, be relieved that this most perfectly conveys big ideas (and those of one big book in particular) for small people…turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847176763</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthea Bell Kieran Larwood and Anna MorgunovaJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Vasilisa the Beautiful (Russian Folktales)Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=When I say to you Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the first response I had on picking up this book was 'Oohsport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, someone knows their Klimt'magical mazes, and that I thought I had seen Kandinsky in race to the art insideexit, it tells perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the aesthetic is definitely to the fore hereway. (That latter claim was a bit false – but thereUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's definitely seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a touch new trio of Picassoquestors is needed.) Of course there is a storyPossibly 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 moreteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-than decent story it is toozone have in actually managing that, but with the intriguing, detailed and unusual artwork of Anna Morgunova, this picture book with many words really does come how could he possibly hope to life.succeed?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>9888342517</amazonuk>1839945184

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Christopher William HillJames Sherwood Metts|title= Tales from Schwartzgarten: Marius and the Band of BloodPlanet Storyland|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= FranklyThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, itoften replacing jobs they's a surprise re paid to do and other tasks that took time to discover there are still people left alive in the gloomy town of Schwartzgartenaccomplish. In Just as they were beginning to get used to all this storytechnological change and starting to think of other, the fourth in the seriesnew ways to spend time, creepy bad guys in masks roam the town after darkalong came an awful pandemic. The local kiddie catcher is determined to rid the streets of orphans by any means he can (quite a challengeLife was pretty much shut down and, along with it, considering how high the death rate among parents is) and for some reason the chocolatiers of all the town are being murdered in inventive and frequently sticky waysmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408331829</amazonuk>1736128426

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David WalliamsTom Percival|title= Grandpa's Great EscapeThe Wrong Shoes|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Most people donWill't really get Grandpas life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Heis bullied because he has 's old and set in his ways (apart from the fact that recently wrong shoes', hehas the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn's taken to going down to t have enough money for even the shops in most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his brown checked slippersjob at the college, whatever was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the weather)fact that his mum and dad are separated, and heWill's definitely getting more and confused by the daylife seems bleak in every direction. In fact And yet, he still has a lot tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the time moments of joy when he thinks he's back in World War Twois drawing, flying his Spitfire out across the Channel to defeat the bad guys. Only his grandson Jack understands that feel like a light at the way to get through to him is to play alongend of a long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007494017</amazonuk>1398527122

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E R Murray1805141872|title= The Book of LearningTeacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4.5

|summary= An orphan with only her beloved grandpa for company, Ebony Smart's world is turned upside down when he dies'Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. Sent to Dublin to live with an Aunt she didn't know existedThe police are baffled, Ebony soon discovers that her new homebut only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, 23 Mercury LaneMiss Judson, is full of secretsreally 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... Discovering '' Goodness me, that she Miss Judson is part of an ancient order of people who have the power a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to reincarnate, Ebony is soon under threat from get mixed up with a terrible evil that threatens to destroy their existencebad 'un like Al? We'll find out. With just Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her pet rat Winstonterrible secret is Ben, and the son of a mysterious book to help her, she must figure out why her people are disappearing and how famous magician who has ambitions to save their soulsbe as good as his father some day, and her own, before time runs out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781173621</amazonuk>who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dr Kris J SimeChristopher Edge|title=Dragon's FlightBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Simon Lucas and Alice have spent the school term living with his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their auntlocal cinema, a kindlyplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, if somewhat vaguethey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, person. Simon's father describes Aunt Maggie as bohemian the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and hippythey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Simon But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is quite dismissive of going on? Will they ever get back to the flowing clothes and collections of gemstones and discussions of auras that being bohemian and hippy entailscinema, but both he and Alice can agree that Aunt Maggie is a nice person.to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1512096997</amazonuk>1839942738

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luke PearsonAdam Stower|title=Hilda Murray and the TrollBun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=HildaMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a rather delightful smallbad magician's cat, blue-haired girlso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, is never far from an and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventureand whiffs. She This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is confident and excitableexpected – well, brave and creativeone much bigger than Murray was, and her stories are slightly madto be honest, but he's turned up and very, very readable!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 become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to worrybuy a lottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly of. Which is not a good thingBut she has no one else, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. HeThings continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's been told not old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Oscar's Lion|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to worryhave his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to try be ready for school. But when he enters his best at the school test – so parents' bedroom, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that he does neitherwon't be hungry for another two days. His best friend has told him not But there are benefits to worry about having just left a lion around – it can be shown as an incriminating portrait of one of his teachers in unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a library reference bookbirthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, even though so he has can take it to worry about getting it back before anyone else sees school and itcan get him out of a problem. EspeciallyAnd it's wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, that isbeing much more lax about the rules, when the biggest bully in the year above is also turning his hand to graffiti and has the power to get other people in trouble…so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407143204</amazonuk>0008596751

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Noel StreatfeildJudith Eagle|title=White BootsThe 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 sealnumber they correspond to in the ledger, 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 unique in having no known family in the outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a bounty of plan involving said outside world – a £1 devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059}}{{Frontpage|author=Alice M Ross|title=The Nowhere Thief|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seal's flipper: in those days that was good money 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 ability to leave this world, and even one use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worlds, where the girls had collected sea levels are rising dramatically and the cashbuildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. StillWith eviction imminent, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yes, somehow he couldnis the answer, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769}}{{Frontpage|author=Natasha Farrant|title=The Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of 't quite bring himself to attack 'Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, in the defenceless cubNorth of England, all bigwhere Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, blackas Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, round eyes and obviously unworried by Raffy is there with his presencemum, and they are living together as a family. What would 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 lads say though? two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. More The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to the pointlive, but if they'll even be together, what would his father say?and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124310</amazonuk>0571348785

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo Robin Birch and Catherine RaynerJobe Anderson|title=Clare and Her Captain (Colour Conker)Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Clare didnJayden't enjoy s nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the journey down world, for example. Aisha is addicted to Devonher new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. Her parents always argued and The problem, as their mothers see it was usually because Mum had lost her way or got caught in a traffic jam and this time she, is that they are never 'out there'd done boththemselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. It was But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a little better when they got to Aunt Dorapast involving Jayden's housecousin, but Aunt Dora wasnthey find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks she't exactly s seen on a peacemaker and tended to stick up for Dad against everybody elsebit of local footage. The holiday improved when Clare got out for crew of the boat, including a walk on her own living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and discovered a stray lamb on the road. She took it kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to the nearest house and Mr Jones was delighted: Clare had just saved half his flockjoin in. Clare got on Dare they side with Leila, the old man - woman on board, and with his horseher relative who lives as a figure in a painting, Captain.and become saviours of the unseen?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124353</amazonuk>0241573483

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B09XWSXSKY|title=Justin Richards Maestro Orpheus and Dan Greenthe World Clock|titleauthor=Doctor Who: The Dangerous Book of MonstersRobert Penee and Joanne Grodzinski|rating=54

|summary=ItFrederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldn's imperative you keep up with The Doctort sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in both senses – meaning in case the first thing his mind. It happened every time he tells you came to do is visit his grandfather. He hadn''Run!'' and in the sense of following t really wanted to come; after all his various adventures and maintaining knowledge of what, he's what ten now and who heall those old clocks don's faced, enemy-wiset appeal to him anymore.  ''Who needs old clocks anyway? One great way to be enemy wise All they do is to peruse this book, which really is a great present for tell the young fan – and of course a life-saving manual time. And time isn't good for when you yourself find sharks in the fog, gas-mask wearing boys anything...''sans And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. It was nearly twelve o'' their mothers or indeed gigantic Cyberking dreadnought spacecraftclock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times. Honestly, There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why this is classed as a fiction title I have no idea…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405920033</amazonuk>had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?