==Confident readers==
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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
|summary=The Halibuts are an extraordinary family. Almost two centuries ago the Captain used his immense wealth to buy up land and surround it by a high wall. He took a wife, and employed families of servants to serve his every need. Money was no object, and subsequent generations of Halibuts had anything they desired on one condition: if they ever left the grounds of the House, they could never return.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387446</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Diana Wynne Jones
|title=Earwig and the Witch
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Earwig lives at St Morwald's children's home. Unlike some orphans in literature she's perfectly happy there since she seems to have everyone answering her every whim, and she loves spending time with her best friend Custard. Things are soon to change though as one day a rather strange couple, Bella Yaga and the Mandrake, come to look for a child to foster and the one they pick is Earwig!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007416857</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Francesca Simon and Pete Williamson
|title=The Parent Swap Shop
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Ava's parents like to nag. They nag her about her spelling, about eating with her knife and fork, or sitting straight on her chair, or going to bed on time...nag, nag, nag! But then one day she finds a card advertising 'The Parent Swap Shop' and when her parents nag her one more time she packs them off and sets out to find herself a new set of parents!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444002678</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Philip Ardagh
|title=The Eddie Dickens Trilogy
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Eddie Dickens. Aged eleven years old, he's only been allowed to be away from home twice in his life - once for about eight years on a boat, when a crate of luggage went to school in his place, and once for about three years. Now though he is being forced to move in with Mad Uncle Jack and Even Madder Aunt Maud, as his parents are very ill. But they're so deliriously bonkers, there's very little chance of him getting to actually move in with them. Who knows - he might even end up stuck in an orphanage instead?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571274692</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alexander McCall Smith
|title=Precious and the Monkeys
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Someone has been stealing food at Precious' school. There are suspicions about who it might be, but no one is sure so Precious sets out to try and discover the truth as to just where all those snacks are disappearing off to...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972043</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Suzanne LaFleur
|title=Eight Keys
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=On moving to middle school, eleven year old Elise's life takes a turn for the worse. She's bullied by her cool and popular locker-buddy Amanda, and embarrassed by her best friend Franklin – who's decidedly uncool and certainly not popular – she's also
struggling to cope with the new arrivals at her home, Aunt Bessie's younger sister Annie and her baby daughter Ava. Just when she doesn't know how she can cope with everything, help arrives in the form of a strange key with her name on it. As she opens a door to find out about her past, Elise starts to realise that she can take control of her future.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141336064</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Morris Gleitzman
|title=Too Small to Fail
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Oliver's parents own an investment bank. They are very rich and also very busy and they need to be in the city for their work. This means that Oliver lives in a penthouse flat, largely in the company of a succession of housekeepers, and he can't have a pet. Of late, Oliver has been spending a lot of time with his nose pressed up against a pet shop window, falling in love with a black-and-white dog that he knows he'll never be able to take home.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241955203</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=James Rollins
|title=Jake Ransom and the Howling Sphinx
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=James Rollins has hit upon a truly brilliant premise in this series. People and creatures from our world have been transported at various times to a savage, prehistoric place called Calypsos, and in the first volume, [[Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow by James Rollins|Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow]] Jake and his sister find themselves suddenly whisked to a city where Romans, Mayans, Neanderthals and groups from many other societies, places and eras live more or less peaceably side by side. Their archaeologist parents disappeared three years before, and the two young people's struggles to survive, and to defeat Kalverum Rex, the Skull King, go side by side with their hope of finding a trace there of their mother and father.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000853</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Geraldine McCaughrean
|title=King Arthur and a World of Other Stories
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The prolific, award winning author Geraldine McCaughrean has collected together twenty four stories from around the world in this highly impressive collection, garnered from four earlier collections. It includes the familiar from the Western tradition (Wilhelm Tell, Pygmalion, King Arthur) to those that are completely new to me, from Bolivia, Togo, Japan, the Middle East. The stories are no more than five pages long, making them ideal for bedtime reading (or hometime reading in a school).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444002376</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julia Jones and Claudia Myatt
|title=Strong Winds Trilogy: The Salt-Stained Book
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Donny and his mother left their bungalow on the outskirts of Leeds and headed off to Suffolk to meet Donny's great aunt. It was never going to be easy as Skye, Donny's mother, was deaf and just about mute. She and Donny communicated by signing and usually they managed quite well, but when Skye had a breakdown in a car park in Colchester, their camper van was towed away and fourteen-year-old Donny was taken into care. He couldn't understand why none of the officials would believe him – in fact, were they all that they seemed? And why will no one let him see his mother?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262040</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kallie George and Abigail Halpin
|title=The Melancholic Mermaid
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Maude is a mermaid who was born with two tails. Her parents tell her it makes her special, stronger and faster, but amongst the other mermaid children it makes her an outcast. She is lonely, and she longs for a friend. Feeling sorry for herself one day she isn't paying attention and she is captured by a fisherman who sells her to a circus. On the same day that Maude was born, Tony was born in a cottage by the sea. He has webbed hands and, like Maude, is teased at school and left lonely and sad. His parents send him to live with the circus, believing he will be accepted and happy there but Tony is still lonely and he misses the sea. But then one day he is put in charge of a new attraction for the circus. A mermaid with two tails...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1897476531</amazonuk>
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