==Confident readers==
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{{newreview
|author=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross
|title=Horrid Henry Rocks
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''Horrid Henry Rocks'' brings us four more stories from the delightfully horrid little boy, Henry. Here we see him battle with his sappy little brother Peter, sabotage his neighbour, Moody Margaret's, sleepover, write his autobiography and finally he's evicted by security from the Dancing Daisies children's stage show where he stands on stage singing songs by The Killer Boy Rats!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842551345</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=Consider cats. Normally they like to leave you things like poop, and dead animals, generally in the middle of the kitchen floor. Topher's cat leaves himself a stone statue version of himself when he decides to time travel to some past time of history. I know - odd. I can also introduce you to a very different Topher, one just escaped from the workhouse in Victorian London - if only he could escape the stench of the open sewers in London, and the hunger in his stomach just as easily. Well, I could - but actually they are the same person, just with a completely different mind. When our Topher travels through time as well - on the back of a bird - he finds himself in the person of the second, historical lad. Will that homework project about Victorian history be enough to help him out, and perhaps prevent a nasty crime or two?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390193</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Candy Gourlay
|title=Tall Story
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Andi is a young teenager in the UK. She's not very tall, but she is brilliant at basketball. And she has finally been chosen to play for her school team.
Bernardo is an extremely tall teenager in the Philippines. He lives with his aunt and uncle, and keeps on growing. He is surrounded by superstition, since his name is the same as that of a legendary giant who supposedly protected his village during a major earthquake. Oddly enough, there have not been any earthquakes for some years... ever since Bernardo had his first dramatic growth spurt.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618948</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Pippa Funnell
|title=Tilly's Pony Tails: Neptune the Heroic Horse
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Tilly has recently been reunited with her brother – they know nothing of their birth mother and were adopted by different families – and she's just been invited to go on holiday to Cornwall with him and his family. It will mean leaving the horses and ponies at the local stables but she's sure that they'll all manage without her for a week. Once in Cornwall she's delighted to find that there's a riding stable nearby and she soon makes friends, particularly with a horse called Neptune. She also meets a girl called Megan who loves swimming, but can't understand why Megan is frightened of horses and doesn't want to learn to ride, despite the encouragement she gets from her parents.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000829</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ceci Jenkinson
|title=Doctor Doom: Oli and Skipjack's Tales of Trouble
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Eleven-year-old Skipjack is in serious trouble: his team lost a cricket match because he fell asleep, and now Slugger Stubbins is after him. Slugger has two things in mind: to bash Skipjack, and to squeeze out of him the ten pounds he lost betting on the match. Skipjack, therefore, spends a large part of this wonderfully silly book hiding from his nemesis using a variety of fancy dress costumes from his friend Doctor Hamish Levity's shop. Oli, on the other hand, has weightier matters to deal with: he has discovered an International Criminal Mastermind. And because he has always dreamed of being a secret agent, this promises to be the perfect opportunity to try out the practical tips on espionage contained in ''The Good Spy's Handbook'', which he has recently been given.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571249701</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stephanie Burgis
|title=A Most Improper Magick
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The very first sentence of this charming and funny book sets the tone. Twelve-year-old Kat is setting off, dressed as a boy, to earn her fortune, pay back her brother's gambling debts, and save her two sisters from having to marry rich old men. Fortunately for Kat, she is stopped before she gets to the end of the front garden. All the trappings of Regency romance are here: fainting heroines, evil stepmothers, handsome young men with no prospects, and even a highwayman. But in this, the first book of a trilogy, there is something extra: Kat's late mother was a witch.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848770073</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Eoin Colfer
|title=Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Artemis Fowl is trying to save the world. No wonder Holly Short and Foaly think he's not himself. He might stand to make another huge fortune, but he's thinking about global warming, and technological cures for it. But he's also thinking about a lot of other things - in particular, the patterns of the number five. His mind seems stuck making him tap things in multiples of five times, and use sentences with five words in. But when his demonstration in Iceland goes wrong with a four-engined fairy space probe crashing, he certainly becomes something other than himself.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141328029</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Adam Blade
|title=First Hero (The Chronicles Of Avantia)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There's a land under threat from an evil man leading a well-drilled, lethal army. And there's a boy, and his companion, and his destiny is to save the land from the evil man, who will only get more evil if he gets what he wants, which is currently in four pieces. If this sounds like a well-worn template, don't blame me. [[:Category:Adam Blade|Adam Blade]] writes as if by committee, and that's because he is one - it's a pseudonym for a cabal of pre-teen fantasy churners. But enough of him - we should be talking of Tanner, the lad in this book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408307472</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Margaret Mahy
|title=Organ Music
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=David and Harley are out later than they should be. David is getting anxious: he knows his mother will be worrying already, and he's not the type to break rules or get into trouble of any kind. But Harley's feeling rebellious; he's having a tough time at home at the moment, and he's up for pushing at some boundaries. So they wander along Forbes Street, in a down-at-heel area of town, looking for a bit of adventure. And surely enough, they find it in a car left with its keys temptingly in the ignition.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877467472</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rachel Renee Russell
|title=Dork Diaries: Party Time
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This is the second in the series of [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney|'Wimpy Kid' for girls]] books, full as usual of comic cutaways to cartoon strips, illustrations, OMGs, BTWs, BFFs, smileys and over-used exclamation marks!!!!! It's October, and Nikki is stuck between a rock and a hard place. The place is the school's Halloween Ball, ideally with Brandon, the crush of her life for this term at middle school. The rock is as usual the evil Mackenzie, the Cruella de Vil of snobbish, bullyish school bitches. Can Nikki resolve her dilemma - just for the fortnight this diary spans, and get her beau to the ball - especially when she double-books herself?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738742X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nick Garlick and Nick Maland
|title=Aunt Severe and the Dragons
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Daniel is a little boy whose parents have gone away exploring. They telephone him every day, but then one day the phone calls stop and so Daniel has to go to live with his Aunt Severe. She takes his toys away, feeds him spinach sandwiches, wakes him every day at four-thirty and gets him helping with her rather strange rubbish-collecting activities. Things get more interesting for Daniel when he discovers four little lost dragons hiding in Aunt Severe's garden. He tries to help them, but before he can do anything three of the dragons are captured and locked up in a zoo. Daniel is left to rescue them with only the fourth dragon, Dud's, help and, as you can imagine, he's called 'Dud' for a reason!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184939055X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Garen Ewing
|title=The Rainbow Orchid: Adventures of Julius Chancer 2
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Oh to be popular - and the rainbow orchid certainly is. If, in fact, it exists at all. A collecting challenge for rare plants might hinge on its recovery, imperial British explorers would like to know the truth about it - and its presence on some mysterious ancient carved tablets hints at some mystical part it may once have played in a superweapon. Hence, where this book starts, everyone - from a film starlet, to a dashing explorer's assistant, to a plucky aviator, to an evil henchwoman of an overweight industrialist - is after it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140525047X</amazonuk>
}}
