Changes

Newest Confident Readers Reviews (view source)

Revision as of 09:14, 16 March 2015

271 bytes removed , 09:14, 16 March 2015

no edit summary

[[Category:Confident Readers|*]]

[[Category:New Reviews|Confident Readers]] __NOTOC__

{{newreview

|author=Sally Nicholls

|title=An Island of Our Own

|rating=3.5

|genre=Confident Readers

|summary=Meet Holly. She lives, with her older brother and, er, shall we say demanding younger brother, in a flat above a London chippy. That's right – no parents around, as all three are orphans. Older brother Jonathan sacrificed uni to be their legal guardian, so is ostensibly their carer as well as sibling, which means that welfare and what he earns being a grease monkey in a corner café is all they live on. Times, therefore, are hard. But twelve year old Holly does have a straw to clutch on to – their eccentric aunt may have bequeathed them her antique jewellery collection. But what is going to make that a search for one exact straw in a haystack is that nobody knows where it may be…

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124331</amazonuk>

}}

{{newreview

|author=Lincoln Peirce

|summary=After a year travelling the globe as apprentice to Verity Brown, India Bentley falls into trouble when she's accused of trying to assassinate a priest. She's rescued by Professor Moon, who needs her and Verity to help him find the mysterious Bloodstone. As the trio, plus a few companions, journey to Atlantis, India is plunged into an adventure even more dangerous and exciting than her first one was.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447236009</amazonuk>

}}

~~{{newreview~~

~~|author=John Dougherty and David Tazzyman (illustrator)~~

~~|title=Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Evilness of Pizza~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Confident Readers~~

|summary=There are a few important things to know about the Island Kingdom of Great Kerfuffle. One is that it is pestered by a criminal gang of badgers, who find it impossible to just sit around in prison, but always have to escape and cause danger and nastiness to other people, even if they are on the whole incredibly stupid. You also need to know, however, that brother and sister Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face are great at solving the problems the badgers cause, and getting through the adventures in a very self-knowing way, even discussing the lengths of the chapters and the style of story as they go about their business. Here the problem is revealed quite late on, so in an effort not to spoil the plot I'll just point out that in a book this stupidly, deliriously daft you hardly need bother about the plot in the first place, and can just relax and have the sheer joy of entertainment for an hour or so.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192738259</amazonuk>~~

}}

Sue

Bureaucrats, Administrators

132,864

edits