|summary=Things are quiet in Littleton-on-Sea, now that Atticus is no longer the world's greatest cat burglar. All he has to contend with is a mischievous bunch of kittens that might cause trouble for the male in the human family he lives with, him being a policeman and all. But nothing breaks the quiet like an old noise, and when people learn that the previous owner of the local mansion discovered the remains of the ancient city of the Cat Pharaoh and left his secrets locally, many ears are pricked, both for good and bad. But what does buried treasure protected by curses have to do with a spate of guerrilla knitting?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571284477</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Phenomenals: A Game of Ghouls
|author=F E Higgins
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Once again, I’ve jumped right in here – going straight to the second book in a series. As it happens, A Game of Ghouls is not a bad one to do that with. You’re never left confused because you haven’t read the first one (A Tangle of Traitors) because they keep you up to date enough for it to be a fairly good stand alone. You want to find the first one though, because if it’s going to be anywhere near as good as this one it’s a book you want to read.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507567</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Scrum
|author=Tom Palmer and Dylan Gibson
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Steven has a pretty good life. His parents are divorced, but they get on well. He sees his Dad every day and has a good relationship with his Mom and her partner, Martin. True, he would like his parents to get back together, as most kids would, but things aren't too bad as they are. He has good friends, a happy home and a real shot and breaking into the Rugby League teams. His whole world is turned upside though when Mom announces she is going to marry Martin. Soon Steven finds himself in a new home, with a new school and new friends, but he adjusts and makes the best of things. He even has a shot at playing Rugby at county level, but there is one problem and it is major one. The new town is in a Rugby Union area. Steven has always played Rugby League and to his father, switching sides will be a betrayal.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842999443</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|title=Fox Friend
|author=Michael Morpurgo and Joanna Carey
|rating=3
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Clare loves animals. Her best friend is her horse, and she loves all the lambs born on her family farm as well. This natural affection for animals easily extended to the fox she saw strolling through the farm as well. Her father however despises foxes saying ''the only good fox is dead fox''. Clare's Father says the foxes had already killed ten lambs that year, and it was only March with the lambing season in full swing. (I did find these figures quite high - but then again, maybe they owned a lot of sheep). When Clare finds an injured and orphaned cub after a fox hunt, it is obvious she can not turn to her parents for help. But regardless of her father's feelings, Clare is determined to save this helpless little creature.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781120862</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|title=Space Pirates: Stowaway
|author=Jim Ladd
|rating=3
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It's a weird place where Sam lives. The planet P-Sezov 8 is just a nothingness in the middle of nowhere, and is home only to his scientist parents and a whole spaceport full of bickering, nasty pirates. Both groups only use the place as a departure point for more interesting things elsewhere, his exploring parents leaving Sam with his computerised tutor. But when he gets word they are stranded on a fully gold world the pirates would be interested in, Sam must muscle in with the worst of them and try and help.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857631543</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|title=A Crumpet Calamity (Pip Street)
|author=Jo Simmons
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This is not Dip Street, nor Chip Street, this is Pip Street, and it's where Bobby and his best friend Imelda live – but how long Bobby stays depends on his father getting more income at his crumpet factory so they can afford living there. Bobby's idea is to have an open improve-the-crumpet competition, which is immediately popular around town. Also immediately popular, especially with Imelda, is the new boy on Pip Street, who claims to have no interest in cooking crumpets. But is he as perfect as he seems…?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407132822</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Chris Higgins
|title=My Funny Family Gets Bigger
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We've met Mattie Butterfield before in [[My Funny Family by Chris Higgins and Lee Wildish|My Funny Family]] and [[My Funny Family on Holiday by Chris Higgins and Lee Wildish|My Funny Family on Holiday]]. Mattie is the worrier of the family although she is doing her best to get out of the habit and only makes her worry lists when she feels under pressure. Mattie worries ''about'' people - not because there's anything bad going on. You see the Butterfield are a lovely family: they don't have a lot of money but they do their best to be happy and to look after their extended family. They don't have a lot of expensive toys or go on foreign holidays - but they're the sort of people you'd like to live next door to - only you can't, because that's where Uncle Vesuvius lives. He was Mum's foster dad when she was young.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340989866</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|title=The Wickedest Witch in the World
|author=Kaye Umansky and Gerald Kelley
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Everyone knows the story of Hansel and Gretel. At least we thought we knew. But as the saying goes there are always two sides to every story and this one is told from the perspective of Old Maggit, The Wickedest Witch in the World. You see Maggit really wasn't so wicked after all. It was the children who were wicked. Well, maybe they were not exactly ''wicked'', but they were most certainly obnoxious, and old Maggit's no nonsense manner and just a bit of attention may be exactly what these children need to turn them around. Maggit really has built a house of gingerbread to lure children into as a means of finally winning the Wickedest Witch in the World title. But once she has the children - she has no idea what to do them and ends up teaching them manners. As to the whole cannibalism story - that was all made up of course. The children decide the only way for Maggit to win is to lie - and they come up with a whopper. It was so good people have been repeating it for centuries with the original tale thought to have originated in the 14th century.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122016</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|title=The Boy on the Wooden Box
|author=Leon Leyson
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=This is the memoir of one of the youngest people on Oskar Schindler's famous list of Jews saved from the Nazis during World War II. It opens between the wars, with Leon's family living in the small Polish town of Narewka. There wasn't much money but everyone was happy. Leon's father moved to Krakow in the hopes of making a better life and when Leon and his siblings eventually join him, you can feel the wonder of a little boy new to the big city.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00CWEHR2G</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|title=The Burning Shadow (Gods and Warriors Book 2)
|author=Michelle Paver
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=A year after the [[Gods and Warriors (1) by Michelle Paver|first book]] in this series finished, we rejoin Hylas who has been captured, enslaved, and forced to work in the copper mines on Thalakrea, a volcanic island. The Crows still have the dagger of prophecy, so this evil clan is still in control. Hylas is determined to escape and find his missing sister, but the mines are dangerous and run by ruthless slavers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141339284</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|title=Gregor the Overlander
|author=Suzanne Collins
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Gregor is in the laundrette, daydreaming about his problems since his father vanished a couple of years ago, and not being too mindful of where his youngest sister is playing. The next thing he knows is that she has found the portal to an incredible underground world, and they are both entering it. The Underland is a home to gigantic, talking animals, and a parlous state of play between them and the human inhabitants – who have a very important prophecy about a certain boy entering their domain and becoming an instant warrior. Is Gregor up to it, so far down as he is?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407137034</amazonuk>
}}
