==Confident readers==
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{{newreview
|author=Caro King
|title=Kill Fish Jones
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There are plenty of books around where the main character has to escape the murderous clutches of a magical or supernatural being. There are even a few which look at things from the demon's point of view. But it's rare to find a book which not only recounts the adventures of the intended victim, but also presents the demon as a complex and sympathetic personality in his own right. And which, as a bonus, allows the demon to grow as a character during the course of the story. A difficult challenge for any writer, but 'Kill Fish Jones' by Caro King manages to pull it off with panache and humour.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857381466</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=Poor Stuart Horten is rather small for his age. Unfortunately for him, if you put his initial with his surname it becomes 'shorten', which is just asking for trouble. Still, he's happy and has lots of friends. Or, at least, he does until his parents move house and he finds himself living in a strange town (his father's hometown) in the school holidays, looking at the prospect of a long, boring and lonely summer ahead of him. He soon discovers, however, that there is a mystery surrounding his family's history in the town, and it looks as though Stuart might just be the one to uncover what really happened...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561800X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ruth Eastham
|title=The Memory Cage
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Alex is worried about Grandad. So is the rest of the family. It started with a lot of small things, things that Alex can help him with, like lost keys and glasses. Last night though, Grandad set fire to his pillow. Alex has hidden it, but knows that this is dangerous, and it can't stay a secret for long. Grandad has Alzheimers, and Mum and Dad are thinking of putting him in an old people's home. He is also worried that 'big brother' Leonard knows what has happened and will give them both away.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407120522</amazonuk>
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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
|author=Moira Young
|title=Blood Red Road
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=
Saba has lived in the desolation surrounding the dried-up Silverlake for all of her eighteen years. The family has just one neighbour - a chaal addict, so not exactly sociable - so Saba's only companions are her father, her twin brother Lugh, and younger sister Emmi. Saba worships Lugh, resents Emmi for their mother's death in childbirth, and is confused by her father, who believes he can read the future in the stars. But it's all she knows and as long as Lugh is close, she's happy enough.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124250</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gill Lewis
|title=Sky Hawk
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Rob and Euan want to chase Iona McNair off Callum's farm. She's newly returned to the village, staying with her grandfather, her mother nowhere to be seen. It's a close community and rumours abound - and Iona is a bit of a pariah amongst the children. But something about her draws Callum in and Iona returns the favour by trusting him with her deepest secret: she's found an osprey's nest high above the loch and she's desperate to protect the endangered birds. And so the two of them forge a friendship as they try to keep Iris and her mate out of harm's way.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756230</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Brennan and Harry Harrison
|title=Chinese Calendar Tales: The Tale of Rhonda Rabbit
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Here in this tale we find ourselves back in the year 221BC, and the Emperor Qin Shi Huang is having some rodent issues. As this is from a series of books called ''The Chinese Calendar Tales'' I think I was expecting the story to relate more to the Chinese zodiac and the rabbit's place within it. However, this is really just a story about a very naughty rabbit who keeps eating the Emperor's vegetables, his mission to capture and kill her, and the unfortunate conclusion to this romp of a tale...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9881888255</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kevin Crossley-Holland
|title=Bracelet of Bones (Viking Sagas)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It's 1036 in Trondheim, Norway. Solveig lives with her father, stepmother and stepbrothers. Her mother died many years ago and neither Solveig nor her father Halfdan have ever truly recovered. Before his injury, Halfdan was a Viking mercenary and his dearest wish is to rejoin his old commander, Harald Hardrada in Miklagard (Constantinople). He promises Solveig that, should the call ever come, he will take her with him...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249396</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kaye Umansky
|title=Tales From Witchway Wood: Crash 'n' Bang
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The Whichway Rhythm Boys is a band made up of Filth (who is Witch Sludgegooey's fiend) on drums, Arthur the Dragon on piano (he lives with his mum and likes a nice hot curry) and O'Brian the Leprechaun on penny whistle who is often mistaken for a Pixie, much to his disgust. Together they play gigs in the woods, for Zombie balls and suchlike, but the music they really love to play is Crash 'n' Bang!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408801884</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Wolfren Riverstick
|title=A Cat Called Ian
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The lad was trouble. He was a bully, a thief and a liar. We've all known someone like him – the company into which you hope that your own child doesn't fall. He's cocky with it too, convinced that he can do whatever he likes and get away with it – and that's when we meet him on his way to climb the great white oak at the top of Sunrise Hill, despite the fact that his mother has told him he's not to. It was a difficult climb and it wasn't long before he remembered the old story that some people climbed so far up the tree and then were never seen again.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955431409</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Patricia Leitch
|title=Jinny at Finmory: The Summer Riders
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=On the first day of the summer holidays Jinny was looking forward to riding her horse, a beautiful Arab mare called Shantih, over the moors for the summer and life seems just about perfect when she meets a girl of her own age who's camping on the beach with her family and her pony. What could spoil that? Well, Jinny's father used to be a probation officer and he's agreed to take a boy and a girl from the city to give them a holiday for a couple of weeks. The boy has been in trouble with the police for stealing and the girl walks with a limp. Just having them around is going to be bad enough, but there's worse to come.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846471125</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ali Sparkes
|title=Unleashed : A Life and Death Job
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=A new series about what happens when Britain's most important and secret assets - teenagers with paranormal abilities - get a week's holiday. In book one, Lisa gets involved with kidnapping and assassination attempts. And she only wanted to go shopping at Harvey Nicks!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756060</amazonuk>
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