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|author= Peter Jay Black
|title= Lockdown (Urban Outlaws)
|genre= Confident Readers
|summary= High-tech gadgets and gizmos, feats of daring that will have you chewing your nails down to the elbow, villains who just love to gloat, and then (because this isn't any old kids-beat-the-baddies saga) the well-established tradition of Random Acts of Kindness – New York style. This may be the third sortie for Jack and his rag-tag team, but somehow the author still manages to surprise and delight his readers by giving the characters even more complex back stories, and by ratcheting up the tension so high you'll need to nip outside and have a quick scream from time to time.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk> 1408851474 </amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jane Ray
|summary=Lily did ''not'' want a goldfish. Nor did she want a hamster or a cat. She wanted a ''DOG'' and whilst she understood what Mum said about not being able to have a dog in the 5th floor flat without a garden she still thought it was unfair. After all, when they lived at Gran's house there was a garden and she could have had a dog, but then Mum and Gran had a row and they moved out. She hadn't even seen Gran for three months and she ''missed'' her. And the dog which she couldn't have. Even Keri, her best friend, though that she was going on a bit about the whole thing.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124965</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mary Webb, Daniel Swift and Lauren O'Neill
|title=Gulliver
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Be careful what you wish for. Gulliver wants adventure – and boy is he going to get it. His very first voyage ends in an almighty storm, which ends in him being washed onto a shore alone – but the shores of an island where he himself is almighty, compared to the inhabitants. After being shot at with the smallest of arrows, chained up, made a spectacle of – and sorted out a problem of etiquette most diplomatically – he tries again, only to be stranded on a second island, completely in contrast to the first… Whether or not you recognise the story from this summary, be relieved that this most perfectly conveys big ideas (and those of one big book in particular) for small people…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847176763</amazonuk>
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