==Confident readers==
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{{newreview
|author=Barbara Mitchelhill
|title=Run Rabbit Run
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=dad in Rochdale, Lancashire. Two months ago their mum was killed by a bomb which fell on her shop. Lizzie is being bullied and taunted at school and on the way home, because her dad won't join the army. He is a conscientious objector who doesn't believe it's right to kill people. As conscription has been introduced making nearly all men aged 18-51 liable to be called up for military service (and therefore required to fight), this means he is breaking the law and may well be treated as a criminal. Dad has decided they are going to move to Whiteway, a Colony (a sort of alternative community), for people who don't believe in war, in Gloucestershire.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392498</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Annette Hart
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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{{newreview
|author=Sorrel Anderson
|title=The Clumsies Make A Mess of the Big Show
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This is the third book about The Clumsies, two small mice who live in Howard Armitage's office, and manage, whatever the situation, to make a mess! A big show is being put on at work, and Howard's boss wants Howard to sing. The Clumsies decide to intervene, in order to help out Howard, and chaos ensues...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007339364</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Petersen
|title=Mouse Guard: Legends of The Guard
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=To start with, I have never heard of Mr Petersen and his Mouse Guard franchise. But I'm often up for an introduction to a fantasy cycle, and I always relish being welcomed to an author by the most esoteric, unusual, quirky and short route. My first entry to the His Dark Materials world was [[Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman|a collector's spin-off]], and I'm just as likely to start the Twilight series, if ever, with the latest brief whimsy. And for those of a similar mind-set, this collection of tales from the pens of guest writers and illustrators, serves as an odd-shaped doorway on to this particular universe.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681427</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Francesca Simon and Tony Ross
|title=Horrid Henry's Thank You Letter
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=I'm sure most of us have, at one time or another, found ourselves being forced to write a huge pile of thank you letters to distant relatives, perhaps even for gifts that we weren't all that excited to receive in the first place! This is the predicament that Henry finds himself in, and rather than knuckle down to get them over and done with he, of course, procrastinates as much as possible before coming up with an ingenious, money-making scheme!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001051</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Richmal Crompton
|title=Just William
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Whether it's a trip to the cinema, babysitting a youngster, being a page boy at a wedding, or running away from home to take a job below stairs, the 11-year old William Brown can always be relied on to create chaos and havoc wherever he goes. This short story collection (the first of 38 books) is a wonderful introduction to a classic character.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507451</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Hans Christian Andersen, Naomi Lewis and Christian Birmingham
|title=The Snow Queen
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Kay and Gerda are dear, dear friends. However, Kay gets splinters from the Devil's shattered magic mirror in his eye and heart, changing his personality for the worse. Shortly after, he is whisked away by the Snow Queen. Everyone assumes Kay must have fallen in the river and drowned, but Gerda is sure her friend is still alive, and embarks on a magical quest to bring him home again.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406319708</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Patrick Dillon and P J Lynch
|title=The Story of Britain
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Author Patrick Dillon has put together a clear, well-written and beautifully concise story of Britain, summing up the history of Britain and Ireland in a little over 320 pages. Significant events, ranging from the Norman Conquest to the South Sea Bubble, and groups of people ranging from highwaymen to the Romantic poets, are each dealt with in between 1 and 3 pages written in Dillon's chatty, easy to read style. There are also maps, including those of the D-Day landings and the Civil War battles, a timeline for each major period (Middle Ages, Tudors, Stuarts, Georgians, Victorians and Twentieth Century) and some gorgeous illustrations by former Kate Greenaway winner PJ Lynch.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406311928</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lucy Christopher
|title=Flyaway
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Isla has a wonderful relationship with her father. He is the kind of man, she says, who would never tell her to come in out of the rain, because he would be out there too, enjoying the pleasure of jumping in puddles. But his heart is weak, and when he collapses and has to be rushed into hospital, Isla is bereft.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190529476X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Katherine Rundell
|title=The Girl Savage
|rating=3
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In Zimbabwe, Nice Will Silver has lived all her life with her father Nice William Silver, his employer Nice Captain Browne, and her friend Nice Simon. But when Nice Captain Browne falls in love with Nasty Cynthia Vincy, Nice Will is uprooted from her roots and sent to an English boarding school, run by Nice Miss Blake and her assistant Nasty Mrs Robinson. How will she cope?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571254314</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elizabeth Beresford
|title=The Wombles at Work
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Bloomsbury have re-issued another tranche of the original Womble books, following the release of the first titles in late 2010. This brings the total to six available titles for you to have a Wombling good time with. And quite frankly, what's not to love here? Any story featuring Elisabeth Beresford's environmentally-minded, charming characters is a delight, for young and old alike.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808366</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Simon Scarrow
|title=Gladiator: Fight for Freedom
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Marcus's father was a centurion in the Roman legions. After the slave revolt led by Spartacus was finally put down, he retired from the army and bought a farm on a small Greek island. Marcus has spent most of his boyhood on the farm, learning to train dogs, shoot his sling accurately and dreaming of one day becoming a fighter like his father. But the farm is in debt and Marcus's life is about to crumble...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141333634</amazonuk>
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