==Confident readers==
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|author=Steve Cole
|title=Astrosaurs 22: The Castle of Frankensaur
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=I bought my first Astrosaurs book as a read aloud book for my dinosaur-mad four year old. He loved it, but not quite as much as his eight year old brother and we've been collecting the books ever since. It's a large collection with a total of thirty books in print so far (including Astrosaurs Academy). Many parents have credited this series with massive improvements in their children's reading level, and I'd have to agree with this. It isn't that the book has some magical formula to develop literacy, but simply that these books are so good, the children can not get enough of them. By the time a child works their way through thirty books, their reading level is bound to improve.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849414041</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Steve Cole
|summary=Shortly after her eleventh birthday Fleur receives a mysterious box from her father who died five years earlier. The box contains a strange collection of items that provide Scarlett with clues to her father’s life. For years she has accepted the story that her father had been a notorious jewel thief but as she attempts to make sense of the clues it becomes apparent that maybe things were not quite as they had seemed. With the help of her friend Ellie, Scarlett sets off on an exciting and at times dangerous mission to discover the truth.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857631500</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Piers Torday
|title=The Last Wild
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The animals and the plants have all died, killed by the red-eye: only insects are immune. And the humans have all retreated to the Island, terrified that they too will catch the horrible disease. As there is nothing else to eat they live on formula, a sort of bright pink gruel which, no matter what they call it, always tastes of prawn cocktail crisps. The gloop is made by Factorium, the world's biggest food company, which has gradually taken over the running of the whole Island, including schools, hospitals and eventually the government itself.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780878281</amazonuk>
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