==Confident readers==
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{{newreview
|author=Ruth Thomson and Chloe Thomson
|title=Have You Started Yet?: You and your period: getting the facts straight
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Every young girl will face her periods starting but it’s the preparation which goes on beforehand which will determine whether or not this is seen as the body developing naturally or a problem. Both are attitudes which are likely to stay through life and it’s obviously better that it’s the firmer rather than the latter. ‘’Have You Started Yet’’ gives factual information in an informative and reassuring manner and in a form which is easily readable to girls of about nine years old and above.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230744907</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=Fifteen years after the events of Knife, the Queen of the Oakenwyld is dying of old age. She charges Knife's daughter, Linden, with the task of finding other faeries out in the world. Knife is now living in the human world with her husband Paul, and her mission to protect the Oak is put in jeopardy by the arrival of Paul's teenage cousin, Timothy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408307375</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Justin Richards
|title=The Chamber of Shadows
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It's London, 1886. A company building those new underground train tunnels finds a hidden vault at impossible depth - and seems to release into the world The Lord of Flies. A mysterious masked stage magician does the obviously impossible. A robotic killer stalks the streets, and a street gang of ruffians-on-the-up decides to solve the mystery. A man in charge of Fortean artefacts at the British Museum has a new employer, asking something much more evil from him. Surely all of that cannot be connected in some way? Surely one book can not have all those dark and mysterious elements we can probably all recognise, and put them into one period thriller without coming over as a horrendous porridge of parody?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571237991</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Yelland
|title=The Truth About Leo
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Leo lives inside his own head for much of the time. You can't really blame him. He's always tired for a start. That's because he's often up early, tidying up the house after one of his father's rampages. His father drinks too much, you see, and sometimes he smashes up the house. Leo can't risk this being discovered because his father's the only person he's got since his mother died of cancer. He misses her like crazy, and he's afraid he'll be taken into care if anyone finds out about his dad's drinking.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141330031</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|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
|author=Steve Voake
|title=Hooey Higgins and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=A shark has been spotted in Shrimpton-on-Sea's bay. The local chocolate shop has a mahousive egg for sale for £65. Hooey Higgins decides to capture the former so he can charge admission and buy the latter. He's helped out on his adventures by Twig and Will, whilst they all hope they won't fall foul of the big bully Basbo.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406322342</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Maryon
|title=Shine
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''You and me, Mum, you and me.''
Twelve-year-old Tiff and her mother are a double act. They're so close that they're almost more like sisters than mother and daughter. They both like shiny, girly, things, and Tiff's mum seemingly has an endless supply of new, ever more glamorous baubles for them to share. There's only one problem: how she comes by them. Because Tiff's mum has rather sticky fingers. She shoplifts. She defrauds credit cards. She's very naughty and sometimes it makes Tiff feel rather uncomfortable. She knows deep down that it can't last.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007326270</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anthony McGowan
|title=Einstein's Underpants - And How They Saved The World
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=A delightfully silly school cum sci-fi romp for confident readers, with plenty of pants-based humour, but never at the expense of a rollicking good read.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0440869242</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alec Sillifant
|title=Jake Highfield: Chaos Unleashed
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=What's this that Jake is doing - breaking into a building? Vandalising it with graffiti, having ruined someone's privacy and infiltrated something he shouldn't have done? Three years ago he would have been doing this as a yobbish kick, but now he's a teenage agent of a shadowy organisation called the Academy, and people want him to succeed in his mission. But do they all want that? Who are his taskmasters after all? And what does the Void have in store for his future?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845393481</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Garth Edwards
|title=Shipwrecked (The Adventures of Titch and Mitch)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Titch and Mitch are two little pixies who have run away from home. Through a series of misadventures they find themselves shipwrecked on an island, and the story revolves around them making new friends there. They come to the rescue of a strange coloured seagull, they save a trapped fairy, they play dentist for a little dragon mouse and they aid and abet an intelligent turkey who is trying to escape from the turkey farm.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956231500</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Steve Voake
|title=Fightback
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Kier. A smart, yet lonely, young teen, he's been farmed off to a private school by his dad since mother died. Among his achievements are several successes on the karate mat, but all this is about to change. When his father is rammed off a motorway and murdered, Kier finds he's even more alone, and duty-bound to fight even more, when he gets clues to just who his father might have been, and how to go about responding to his death.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571230032</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Gordon
|title=Fen Runners
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Years ago, a boy fell through the ice under Cottle's Bridge. He said afterwards that something pulled him, a sleek silvery creature dragging him down into the blackness. Now, decades later, two boys go swimming in the very same spot and find one of his ice skates, a so-called fen runner, buried in the mud at the bottom of the channel. But when they take it home, dark secrets begin to resurface around them and they become aware that an ancient evil is stirring out in the fens.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842556843</amazonuk>
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