==Confident readers==
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{{newreview
|author=Karen McCombie
|title=You Me and Thing: The Dreaded Noodle-doodles
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We first met Thing in [[You, Me and Thing: The Curse of the Jelly Babies by Karen McCombie|You, Me and Thing: The Curse of the Jelly Babies]] where he caused rather a lot of chaos with a large number of jelly babies. He's back again, and this time he really, really wants to go to school with Ruby and Jackson... it can only end in disaster!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571272592</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Francesca Simon
|summary=Ruby Rocksparkle and her thirteen - yes! thirteen! - siblings are all named after gemstones. Ruby's father is a peasant farmer in the happy little kingdom of Felicitania. Felicitania is ruled by the kingly King Flavian and his beautiful second wife, Queen Morgana. His son, Prince Alano, is busily preparing for the day when he must rule, and the time for him to find a wife is fast approaching. Ruby, a vivid, read-headed beauty, dreams of marrying Prince Alano. If only he could ever marry a commoner - but even Ruby knows that could never be.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452059780</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marcus Sedgwick
|title=The Raven Mysteries: Diamonds and Doom
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Edgar is on holiday. Well, according to him, it's a conference where ravens meet to discuss all manner of important things, and where they occasionally have a bit too much to eat and drink. Whatever. The point is, he's not there when the last gold piece is taken from the treasury and spent, and Castle Otherhand is put up for sale. The adults don't seem to be doing anything constructive about the situation, so with Edgar away enjoying his birdly junketings, our favourite Goth Solstice and her ever-hungry brother Cudweed decide to sort things out by themselves. And if you've ever read a Raven Mysteries book before, you will know right away that that means by the time Edgar flutters home, chaos, mayhem and disaster will be the order of the day.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842556983</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Holly Webb
|title=Lily
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Magic has been banned by the Queen since a magician called Marius Grange killed the King thirty years before. All the old magical families have been exiled, Lily's father has been sent to prison on the mainland for protesting against the decree, and their servants have to be paid extra wages to stay on the island where Lily, her sister Georgie and their mother now live.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408313499</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sam Gayton
|title=The Snow Merchant
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Imagine if you had never seen snow. What would you feel as it whirled and floated across the air, and landed on your outstretched hand for the very first time? Look out of the window and see how it has transformed the cold, muddy streets, how it has made the ordinary beautiful and the mundane astonishing. This is the delight which is presented to twelve-year-old Lettie at the beginning of this charming, whimsical tale. But just as snow can disrupt or even kill, danger and death seek Lettie.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849393710</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mackenzie Crook
|title=The Windvale Sprites
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The 'hurricane' of 1987, that Michael Fish famously dismissed while it was en route, brought a lot of destruction, that we know. But what hasn't been known before now is that it also brought a dead body to Asa Brown's attention - the dead body of a fairy. Looking into things at the local library the lad finds more and more clues that a local eccentric, two hundred years previously, had been the only other person to know of the sprites' existence. But what the clue trail leads to, Asa would never possibly suspect...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571240712</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lois Lowry
|title=Number the Stars
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Copenhagen, 1943, and everyone from schoolgirls like Annemarie up are suffering from shortages, fear and loathing - all caused by Nazi occupiers. But it's always been an open country, has Denmark, and no less than the King takes a daily horse ride, protected in plain view by every single loyal subject. But when, on the Jewish New Year, word gets out that Jews will have to be hidden more discretely, things kick into action. Annemarie and her family take her best friend, Ellen, to the country for safety. But it seems death will even follow them there...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007395205</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross
|title=Horrid Henry and the Zombie Vampire
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=He's the leader of the Purple Hand gang, the eternal tormentor of his sickeningly goody two shoes brother, and the master of get-rick-quick schemes. He's met the queen, tricked the tooth fairy and fought off the bogey babysitter. He's eternally misunderstood and always in trouble. He's Horrid Henry and he is as charismatic and as hilarious as ever.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842551353</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sophie McKenzie
|title=Sister, Missing
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lauren has spent a tumultuous couple of years, finding her birth mother and working out ways to stay in the lives of both of her families. To make things unbearably harder, her father Sam has died suddenly, nine months before the beginning of this story, and the constant hostility of her older sister shows no sign of abating. Shelby, understandably, resents the constant attention paid to this sister who turned up out of the blue one day, and feels she is being ignored in consequence.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857072889</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=T H White
|title=Mistress Masham's Repose
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Ten year old Maria is an orphan. With a venal Vicar as her Guardian and a horrible governess, Maria lives in a corner of her practically ruined stately home, with only the cook, Mrs Noakes, and an absent minded Professor as her friends. One summer's day she takes a leaking punt out on the ornamental lake in the grounds of the house, and on an artificial island, in a Folly (the Mistress Masham's Repose of the title), she discovers a community of Lilliputians, the People. At first she treats them like playthings, desperate to own them as she owns nothing else, but the Professor helps her to see them as people worthy of respect.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849414823</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rachel Renee Russell
|title=Dork Diaries: How to Dork Your Diary
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=#
The clue is in the title. This is volume 3 and a half in the ongoing series of adventures for Nikki Maxwell. Here she gets her knickers into a right twist because her diary, which of course contains three books of adventures lusting after the school hunk, hating the school bitch and copious amounts of embarrassment, seems to have got lost at school. Her search for it takes her into places you wouldn't expect, closer to her BFFs, and into a major discussion about the merits and style of creating your own diary.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857073524</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
|title=Muddle Earth Too
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It takes courage, and a lot of skill, to write a book which parodies not one but dozens of popular stories, and it is fortunate that Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell are just the guys for the job. They take on wizards, handsome vampires, fairies, princesses, dragons and flying carpets, and jumble the whole lot up together. The result is one hilarious, silly and thoroughly satisfying story.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230747671</amazonuk>
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