==Confident readers==
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{{newreview
|author=Philip Ardagh
|title=Grubtown Tales: When Bunnies Turn Bad
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This book is a lesson in never assuming anything you shouldn't. Just because Jilly Cheeter and Mango Claptrap are on the cover, don't assume it isn't about a lad called Failing Toucan instead - because if you did, you'd be wrong. While on the subject of the noteworthy names used throughout Grubtown, never assume to know the gender of someone called Asphalt Nosegay. And just because it's called When Bunnies Turn Bad, and has lots of rabbits on the cover and throughout, don't assume it isn't about the dangerous and tangled task of taking a chimp back to the old folks' home where he lives.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571272363</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=Meet the new cat. A vicious thing, it's fond of having a go at any passing human feet, and is even able to stand its ground against the neighbourhood dogs. It also has a great habit of making a mess with its kills, which comes to a head (literally) when the front end of what was the vicar's prize carp ends up on Tom's pillow. After that the cat vanishes. Has it finally met a match? Has it been catnapped - and if so, who is seeking revenge by doing so?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385974</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Judith Viorst and Lane Smith
|title=Lulu and the Brontosaurus
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lulu is every parent's worst nightmare. She always, ''always'' gets what she wants, quite often by rolling around on the floor screaming until the light bulbs pop. She is, quite simply, a child in desperate need of Supernanny! For her birthday Lulu decides she would like a Brontosaurus. Her parents, for once, say no, and no amount of screaming makes them change their mind. So Lulu sets off into the forest to find a brontosaurus by herself. The trouble is, when she finally does find one he isn't too keen on the idea of being her pet and actually would much prefer that she became his pet!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071475</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alan Silberberg
|title=Milo and the Restart Button
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary='Starting over is like pressing the reset button on a game that makes you lose all your points and wipes out any of the good stuff you've spent hundreds of hours learning...'
Milo's restart button was pressed by the death of his mother. Since that awful day, life has not been good. His father has retreated inwards, his sister is always angry, and they've moved house several times.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071904</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sharon King and Rose King
|title=The Daily Journal of Arabella Crumblestone
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Arabella Crumblestone was making her way along a dry-stone wall in Northumbria, courtesy of a sheep named Leroy, when she met the two human children, Faith and George. George gave her a piece of chocolate (although she didn't know that's what it was) and she was grateful. The boy had no words, but he hummed. The next day he returned to the wall with his sister who never seemed to stop talking. Arabella was lonely – but could she trust Faith and George? Hunger, cold and loneliness made her decision for her and before long she had a bed in Faith's warm pocket.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956741304</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Derek Keilty
|title=Will Gallows and the Snake-bellied Troll
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Will Gallows is not your average boy. Finding out the name of the baddie who gunned down his policeman father, he takes it upon himself to get revenge, by bringing him in - even though he's the nastiest gunslinger around. Oh, and a troll with snakes coming from his belly. Will, being not your average boy, is half-elf, however, and can talk to his flying horse to help him on his way. But is there more to the story of his father's death than he thinks, and just what is it with all the earthquakes his town is suffering?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392366</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elliot Skell
|title=Neversuch House
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Omnia is a girl who likes to know things, and when she sees something unusual she sets out to find out what is happening. It is a decision which almost kills her. Something is not right at the heart of Neversuch House, and at least one person is determined to stop her finding out what it is.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387438</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ruthie Knapp and Jill McElmurry
|title=Who Stole Mona Lisa?
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Taking in a history of its production, as well as its theft, ''Who Stole Mona Lisa?'' is an intriguing look at La Gioconda. The story is told from the point of view of Leonardo da Vinci's painting herself, and will strike a chord with any intelligent and curious youngsters.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408811588</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chris Mould
|title=Spindlewood: Pip and the Wood Witch Curse
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Pip doesn't want to be sold to Captain Snarks as a pirate's cabin boy. He is sure he'll get sea-sick, and he would far rather continue to work at the stable yard. But the foul-breathed drunkard who runs the orphanage refuses to listen: he will receive more money for the lad if he sends him to sea. On the way to the docks Pip manages to escape, and he stows away in the rear carriage of the Stage Fright Theatre Company, charmingly described as 'dancing masters of the macabre'. Our hero remains there for many days, hidden from everyone and only occasionally sneaking out to find a bone to gnaw, until the travelling troupe arrives at its destination, Hangman's Hollow. And then Pip's troubles begin in earnest.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970693</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Melissa Wareham
|title=Take Me Home: Tales of Battersea Dogs
|rating=4
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Melissa Wareham always wanted a dog but her parents would never allow it and she didn't get good enough exam results for her next option – becoming a vet. Not one to be deterred she joined the staff at Battersea Dogs Home, first as a kennel maid and eventually as the head of rehoming. 'Take Me Home' is the story of some of the highlights of her life at the home and some of the dogs which she met whilst she was there.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849413924</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Betty G Birney
|title=School According to Humphrey
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=After six near-perfect books' worth of adventures in Room 26, the class pet Humphrey the hamster faces a nightmare at the start of term. The entire pupil population has changed, and all his friends he's got to know and love (and be loved by) have been replaced by a new intake. Here are the absurdly tall and the unfortunately short, both with the same first name; here is the girl in a wheelchair pestered by an over-attentive helper. Can Humphrey solve all their problems - as he usually does - and, is the biggest problem of all the fact that his old friends no longer have a classroom pet?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571255418</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Morris Gleitzman
|title=Grace
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary='In the beginning there was me and Mum and Dad and the twins. And talk about happy families, we were bountiful. But it came to pass that I started doing sins. And lo, that's when all our problems began.'
This is exactly how Grace talks because she lives with her family as part of a separatist fundamental Christian sect. She goes to a church school. The school bus driver is a church Elder because she mustn't talk to or touch an outsider as outsiders are unclean. She can't eat outsider food without purifying it first - even ice cream must be microwaved. She wears her unruly, curly hair in a bun and woe is upon her when wisps free themselves from her hairpins.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014133603X</amazonuk>
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