==Confident readers==
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|author=Richard Denning
|title=Tomorrow's Guardian
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Eleven year old Tom Oakley thinks he's going mad when he seems to relive short periods of his life, and dreams about other people from different times. The reality is far stranger – he's a Walker, with the power to rescue those he dreamed about. Travelling to the battle of Isandlwana, the Great Fire of London, and a German U-Boat, guided by the mysterious Professor, Tom saves the lives of soldier Edward, servant Mary, and Able Seaman Charlie, who also have powers. There are others, however, with similar powers, who aren't as pleasant as Tom's new friends – and the four of them, allied with the Professor and his roguish helper Septimus, are pitched into a battle to save the worlds. That's intentionally plural – there are two parallel universes at stake here.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445251388</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
So, done that have you?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161267</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Neal Shusterman
|title=Everwild
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Neal Shusterman continues his part zany adventure, part philosophical enquiry, and part coming-of-age story that began with Everlost in this follow-up that is perhaps even better than its predecessor.
Everlost is a kind of limbo and home to children - Afterlights - who have died, but somehow missed the tunnel and the light - wherever and whatever the light actually is. Adults never make it there, but significant or much-loved objects and buildings sometimes do. Mary Hightower, for instance, is so-called because she took up residence in New York in the Twin Towers. Mary thinks Everlost is a wonderful place and she "saves" the Afterlights she finds by giving them repetitive but addictive tasks to fill eternity.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387322</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alex Milway
|title=Mousebeard's Revenge (Mousehunter Trilogy)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=If you started this trilogy way back when, you would probably never expect the pirate, Mousebeard, and the hero and heroine, Emiline and Scratcher, to be working together. But they are - so deep is the world of Old Town in intrigue, subterfuge and wicked plans, that they need to combine forces - and get other returning characters back on hand and on their side - to counter Mousebeard's enemies once and for all. Only, one great thing has changed. Yes, that's right. Mousebeard has had a shave...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571245102</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul
|title=Winnie's Jokes
|rating=2.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Who turns off the lights at Halloween? The lights witch. What does an Australian witch ride on? A broomerang. Yep, it's a joke book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729063</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=A G Taylor
|title=Meteorite Strike
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Sarah is not ready. She's not ready to forgive the man who is her father, for abandoning her and her young brother Robert eight years ago. She cannot yet forgive the circumstances of her mother dying, and of the promise they were forced to make, to go to Australia with the man, and start a new life. She is certainly not prepared for the meteor strike to smash into Australia just as they fly above it, which downs the plane in a horrid crash, and seems to carry with it an alien virus which forces many people to drop permanently asleep.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409508579</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cynthia Kadohata
|title=A Million Shades of Grey
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=At just twelve, Tin is the youngest elephant handler in his village. Ever since he can remember, Tin has dreamed of working with elephants and he loves his own elephant, Lady, to distraction, even spending most of his nights sleeping by her side. Tin is much less keen on school, but his parents insist that he goes. Tin really can't see the point, as his sole ambition is to become a fully-fledged elephant trainer. His parents may talk about opportunities in the world outside his village but if they don't involve elephants, he's not interested.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738823X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gigi Amateau
|title=Chancey
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Chancey's dam was Starry Night and her owner loved that horse so much that she wanted a foal who was exactly like her, but when Chancey was born she was bitterly disappointed for instead of the black Appaloosa with white marking Chancey was born albino. It was only his striped hooves which proved his breeding. The owner was not big enough to overcome her feelings and when she fell on hard times it was Chancey who was left out in the field to suffer despite the fact that he was no longer a young horse.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140632258X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dean Hale, Shannon Hale and Nathan Hale
|title=Calamity Jack
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''I was born to scheme'', declares our hero Jack. With flashbacks we see the young lad and a pixie friend, larking about for revenge or small profit. But when his mother's bakery gets more and more into the red, the size of the profit has to increase. And when you add in revenge against the local crime lord - a giant of a man - so does the size of the target of the jape.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747587426</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Laurie Halse Anderson
|title=Chains
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Isabel and her sister Ruth are slaves. But they should be free - Miss Mary Finch left a will that said so. But Miss Mary Finch is dead and her greedy nephew and heir denies all knowledge of the will. So Isabel and Ruth are sold to the Locktons and taken to New York. The Revolutionary War is underway and New York is a dangerous place. The Locktons are loyalists, but the patriots are in control of the city.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747598061</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michelle Harrison
|title=The Thirteen Curses
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Red is back, but she's trapped in the fairy realm. Having swapped places with Tanya, she is bound there, but is still desperate to get both her and her brother back into the human world. She must seek an audience with the fairy court, but the realm is full of deception and cruelty – it will be a challenge just to get there. And guess what happens when she gets there? She is set another challenge, twisted with the cruelty of the Unseelie (Boo! Hiss!) court. Whilst the journey goes on, she reflects on her past: the car crash that killed her parents and her time at the children's home. Meanwhile, Tanya has returned to Elvesden Manor for half term and let's just say that her ability to see fairies comes back into use when the new housekeeper and her pesky parrot land her and Fabian and the whole Manor crew into trouble with the little people.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384501</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nancy Farmer
|title=The Islands of the Blessed (Sea of Trolls Trilogy)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In this third adventure, Jack, a fourteen year old Saxon apprentice bard, and Thorgil, a bad-tempered shield maiden, follow the Bard Dragon Tongue on a quest to quell the draugr - the malevolent spirit of a drowned mermaid mistakenly summoned to Jack's village and who seeks revenge for her earlier ill treatment at human hands.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738630X</amazonuk>
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