|summary=Cosmo thought he had enough problems, with his absent mother, ridiculous name, and status as 'loser kid' at school. But his Grandfather isn't the man he used to be - the man that Cosmo idolised. Sometimes, he can't remember what day it is, or where certain things go in the kitchen. And then other times, he can't remember who Cosmo is, or that Brian, Cosmo's brother, died. Cosmo does all he can to help him, but post-its on the cupboards and omega-3 oils aren't enough to keep doctors from coming to assess Grandfather and deciding he needs to be taken into full time care.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444006592</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Niel Bushnell
|title=Sorrowline
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Jack's mother was killed when he was a young boy and now, just before his thirteenth birthday, he learns that his father is leaving him too — for a spell in prison. And then things get seriously weird, because his long-dead grandfather appears to warn him that his life in in danger. The old man is closely followed by a bunch of murderous creatures called the Dustmen, and in order to escape them Jack is forced to flee back to 1940, using a sorrowline.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395233</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sally Rippin
|title=Angel Creek
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It is Christmas Eve and Jelly's family are gathered together to celebrate. It should have been a perfect night but for Jelly it is not because her family have recently moved to the other side of the city, far from all her friends, just as she is about to start at senior school. She is feeling so alone and miserable that nothing will brighten her mood and to avoid the festivities Jelly and her two cousins slip away in the darkness to the nearby creek.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405262087</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini
|title=House of Secrets
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=
The Walker family used to have a big house in San Francisco, but after their father lost his job in mysterious circumstances, they were forced to move into the spooky Kristoff House, a strange place once occupied by a disturbed fantasy author. Soon after they move in, they realise that their arrival has set terrible events in motion, and children Cordelia, Brendan and Eleanor are forced to try and rescue their parents from a terrible fate.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007490143</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Maudie Smith
|title=About Zooming Time, Opal Moonbaby!
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Martha feels lonely without her Best and Only Friend, Opal Moonbaby. That's obviously a rather unusual name but it's not the only thing about Opal which is unusual. She's an alien from Carnelia and she originally came to earth as part of a challenge. She had to make a human friend and despite the fact that Martha was determined that she would ''never'' have another friend, the relationship somehow worked. When we [[Opal Moonbaby by Maudie Smith|last saw her]] she was on her way back to Carnelia and Uncle Bixie. Martha was heartbroken to see her go - and I'll confess to being just a little bit upset myself. But don't worry - she's back!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444004794</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=A B Saddlewick
|title=Monstrous Maud: Scary Show
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=If you have a [[:Category:A B Saddlewick|series of books]] set in a school, all to feature a different aspect of school life, you are duty bound it seems to feature a talent contest for the pupils. This series is no different, although of course the school is. It's where Maud goes, and she's the only human. So her fellow pupils can do formation vampire bat flying, or a wicked spell casting, and even the invisible girl will join in, ''showing off'' her gymnastics. What hope the poor human girl Maud, who has pretended to be an evil nasty 'Tutu' all year just to try and fit in?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780551738</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Sarah Lean
|title=A Horse For Angel
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Eleven year old Nell feels as though her life is a list of pointless activities that she didn't choose and that she doesn't enjoy; the drama club, the maths tutor, the swimming lessons and the endless waiting for her busy, single mum between them all. Nell is looking forward to spending two restful weeks with her Grandma over the Easter holiday but at the last minute she discovers that she is to stay with relations that she doesn't know. Nell has a secret and when she travels to her Aunt's home she takes a suitcase containing her secret with her and on the first day of her stay she has a chance encounter with a local girl, Angel, who has secrets of her own. Despite the initial hostility between the two girls they gradually realise that they must learn to trust each other if they are to care for the things they love.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007455054</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=A B Saddlewick
|title=Monstrous Maud: Horror Holiday
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=And you think you have it tough… Maud is the only human at a school entirely populated by monsters – vampires, zombies, invisible people and so on. So just put yourself in her shoes when it's parents' evening, trying to divert her family from realising the truth about everyone and everything around them. Worse than that, try and put yourself in her shoes when it's revealed that she has to get an impossibly high score on an essay to not be kept back a year and lose contact with all her best friends. Worse than that, empathise with Maud as her folks meet another pupil's family at the parents' evening, and they therefore agree to go on holiday with a family of werewolves… at full moon…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178055172X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=K A S Quinn
|title=The Queen at War (Chronicles of the Tempus)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Katie Berger-Jones-Burg is puzzled. Living with her former pop-star mother in a New York apartment she is having strange visions. It seems she has forgotten all about her previous time travelling adventures (in The Queen Must Die) although someone appears to be trying to send her some clues to prompt her memory. Her friends from Victorian England, Princess Alice and James, are facing difficulties of their own, with a very sick friend and also the threat of war. They need Katie's help, but how can they get her to travel back in time to them?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848870558</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Siobhan Rowden
|title=The Revenge of the Ballybogs
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Not much has changed in Barnaby's world since the [[The Curse of the Bogle's Beard by Siobhan Rowden|first book in this series]]. His grandmother is still smelly, burpy, purple and a pickler on an industrial scale. Barnaby is at last working alongside her as opposed to hating her, but not everything is running completely smoothly, and Barnaby still doesn't know everything there is to know about his heritage – either the pickle factory he is supposed to inherit, or the bogle blood his unusual background has left him with. These short, dirty, hairy, stinking critters live in a world of their own underneath an unusual nearby bog – when they're not invading people's homes and causing mischief. Once again, however much Barnaby is reluctant to, he is forced to enter their world in an effort to solve a major calamity in his family, but this time without the help of his mother – for someone or something has kidnapped her…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124900</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver
|title=How To Scare The Pants Off Your Pets (Ghost Buddy)
|rating=3
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Billy is the only person who can see the ghost of Hoover Porterhouse the Third that he shares a bedroom with. While nobody else knows about the phantom's existence, Billy certainly knows about his character – his arrant braggadocio and the many self-serving rules he demands he lives his afterlife by. The problem is that that same lack of respect and responsibility is what is keeping Hoover in Billy's life and not moving on, and his attitude is so bad he's been grounded by the Higher-Ups in charge of such things. Billy's not one to live with an annoyance like that, though, and decides to prove the Hoove can be responsible – and caring for a pet should be the obvious proof with which to start…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140713230X</amazonuk>
}}
