|summary=Kat's sister Angeline is about to be married, and the twelve-year-old witch is off to the wedding. But where Kat goes, chaos quite often follows, and this is no exception - can she fight off smugglers, make sure the wedding goes off smoothly despite Angeline's fiance's mother's objections, deal with the person following her, prepare for her Guardian initiation ceremony and find out the truth about her mother? I genuinely wasn't sure when reading this - as wonderful as Kat is, there are rather a lot of challenges there! It was a tense read which had me desperately hoping Kat would make it through.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848774850</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rebecca Stead
|title=Liar and Spy
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Georges is named after Seurat, who created his paintings by using thousands and thousands of tiny dots of colour, and in this delightful book his style becomes a leit-motif for Georges' movement from fear to bravery. His mum always tells him not to fret about the little niggles and miseries of life: they're just tiny coloured dots which help to make up the big picture. His dad sees things differently, though. To him, you mustn't turn your back on bad things. They may not seem important when looked at from the future, but they matter right now and shouldn't be ignored. Georges will need a little wisdom from each of his parents to navigate the many challenges he experiences.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395071</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Laura Amy Schlitz
|title=Fire Spell
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There is a lot of magic in this wonderful book, but for the most part it is not the children who wield it. They are, at least to begin with, mere pawns in a deadly struggle between the puppeteer Grisini and a dying witch, quite unaware of the battles being raged between the two immensely powerful magicians. But as they come to understand the full horror of their situation, they find themselves having to work together to survive.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408826216</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mike Davies
|title=Lousy Thinking: Hitching a Ride on a Schoolboy's Mind
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Jake is a nice boy, navigating the later years of primary school with varied success. He has a secure home, a nice mum and dad, and plenty of friends with whom he enjoys energetic playtimes. But Jake isn't realising his full potential in lessons. He tries to listen, really he does, but his attention keeps wandering. And his performance in tests is more than a little disappointing. With SATs looming, Jake really should buckle down to some work. But, try as he might, buckling down isn't Jake's strong point.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906954534</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Christopher William Hill
|title=Tales from Schwartzgarten: Osbert the Avenger
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Schwartzgarten is an odd place. Oh, it has all the usual stuff, like banks and libraries and palaces and glue factories, but it also has a somewhat excessive fascination with the gruesome and gory. This is due in large part to the fact that the city was embroiled in civil unrest, assassinations and battles for over two hundred years, and in consequence the cemetery where Nanny takes Osbert for his daily walk is a quarter the size of Schwartzgarten itself. Roads have names like Bone-Orchard Street, and the Old Town is rife with cut-throats.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408326353</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=A B Saddlewick
|title=Monstrous Maud:Big Fright
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Monstrous Maud. Fed up with her pink and perfect sister, and the boring, do-goody types she suffers at school, she is not too disappointed when she – and her pet rat – are expelled, and forced to attend a very different institution. Rotwood School is a veritable hell-hole for anyone else, with maggoty food, and all the stereotypes of horror fiction as the pupils. Maud – being so monstrous – fits in perfectly – or at least she would if she is allowed to stay…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780550723</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Christine Nostlinger
|title=The Factory Made Boy
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Mrs Bartolotti has a rather bad habit of ordering things...things that she usually doesn't need. One day a large parcel arrives in the post. Mrs Bartolotti can't think what it can be. What has she ordered recently? She thought she'd been very good! When she opens it she finds, inside, a perfect factory-made little boy - she definitely never ordered a little boy! Conrad and Mrs Bartolotti soon grow to love each other, but what will they do when the factory realises the mistake they've made and attempt to reclaim their goods?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849394830</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rose Lagercrantz and Eva Eriksson
|title=My Happy Life
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=When Dani can't sleep she doesn't count sheep, she counts all the times that she's been happy! And Dani has been happy a lot of times. She's happy because she's about to start school, though she's nervous about making new friends. But then she meets Ella, and Ella becomes the very best friend she could ever have wished for. They have so much fun together, but then one day Ella tells Dani that she is moving house, and suddenly Dani isn't happy any more.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877467804</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lucy Hawking and Stephen Hawking
|title=George and the Big Bang
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=John Lloyd's First Rule of the Universe is that it must contain three things – entropy, trouble, and mis-sold PPI claim adverts. However this book only contains one of those – trouble. Eric is using the Large Hadron Collider to delve into the secrets of the universe and the first micro-seconds of its existence, but he has trouble in the shape of Luddite people who think his experiment will cause the end of our solar system. He has his super-computer, Cosmos, which is able to transport him and his daughter Annie and the kid next door, our hero George, anywhere they desire throughout the universe, but there's only trouble when two of them are discovered larking about on the moon. And, as we've come to expect – this being the closing book of a trilogy – there is an evil scientist somewhere who is just intending to cause a different kind of trouble – making the big bang in the title something you might not have initially expected.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552559628</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul Dowswell
|title=Eleven Eleven
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's 2am in Paris on Tuesday 11th November 1918. Negotiations for ending World War I are almost complete and both sides will announce the Armistice at 11am. But the people actually fighting the war don't know that yet...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408826232</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dougal Trump
|title=I'm Dougal Trump... and it's not my fault!
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Dougal Trump is worried about dying. You might be surprised that a young boy is already writing (and rewriting) his will, but that's because you haven't met his sister Sibble (it's Sybil! - sorry Sibble), the mysterious creature in the shed, or the even more mysterious person who left the creature there with a note saying 'If it dies so will you.' If you were in his circumstances, wouldn't you be worried about your life expectancy?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447219961</amazonuk>
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