It's France at the 1938 Paris Motor Show. A wonderful new car has been unveiled: the ''Deux Chevaux'' or 2CV for short. It looks a bit odd and is nicknamed ''Tin Snail'' but this is a car for the people: functional, reliable, affordable. And its inventor is just 13 years old! But WWII is about to break out and France is about to be occupied by the Germans. The Tin Snail must face a perilous journey - ''to carry a farmer and his wife, a flagon of wine and a tray of eggs, across a bumpy field in a sleepy French village without spilling a drop or cracking a shell'' - and then go into hiding...
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{{newreview
|title=Mutant City
|author=Steve Feasey
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=After a devastating chemical war, the world is slowly rebuilding itself. A select group had hidden away in underground bunkers and, when they re-emerged, built six cities in which the genetically pure live in luxury and comfort. But outside the city walls, everything is very different. The survivors there are mutants, fighting for survival in degrading, impoverished circumstances.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Hairy Horror
|author=Sandra Glover
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In many ways, Anna’s life changed for the better when her mum married Steve. She now has a real dad for the first time in her life, as well as a beautiful home in the countryside and a gorgeous new baby brother, Jamie. In fact, you could describe her new life as almost perfect, apart from one rather major detail: her teenage brother Hal has a Top-Secret lab in the basement and he has been working on a BIG project involving a hairy tarantula called Tula. If there is one thing that Anna can’t stand, it’s spiders and Tula is anything but an ordinary spider...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440333</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Case of the Secret Tunnel (Maisie Hitchins)
|author=Holly Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary='Maisie Hitchins' is a detective series set in Victorian London centred on the adventures of our titular heroine who lives and works in her grandmother’s boarding house. In 'The Case of the Secret Tunnel', Maisie has to solve a mystery involving art smugglers, stolen washing and the London Underground. Sleuthing is hard work, but Gran won’t be pleased if Maisie neglects her chores, especially as the boarding house has a new guest, one who seems to be acting very suspiciously indeed...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847154360</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Seventeen Coffins
|author=Philip Caveney
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Poor Tom! He's barely recovered from his time-slip journey to plague-ridden seventeenth century Edinburgh when he's off again, this time to the nineteenth century. Just like on his first journey he's lost and friendless, and in deadly peril – but somehow, he ends up once again employed to feed the pigs. It seems some things never change.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905916744</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Charlie Merrick's Misfits in Fouls, Friends, and Football
|author=Dave Cousins
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The world, we are told, loves a trier, and Charlie Merrick is one of the world's biggest. His only hobby and only skill is in football, but his intent is never matched by his actual talent – a statement that stretches to most of his team-mates. With several under-12s league games under their belt and with no points to their name, Charlie must try his hardest to get the squad working as a team, which is hard considering what he has to put up with, and even harder when he makes some very unfortunate decisions…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736590</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Glass Bird Girl
|author=Esme Kerr
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Edie is a new student at Knight’s Haddon boarding school – but not just any new student. Planted there by her uncle, who can fix anything, she’s been given a mission – to investigate the problems his client’s daughter, Russian princess Anastasia is having. But what seems like it’ll be a straightforward case of schoolgirl bullying is actually much more complicated, and dangerous.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908435992</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul Dowswell
|title=Red Shadow
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's Moscow in 1940. Misha's life transformed when his father was offered a job in the Kremlin by his old revolutionary comrade, Stalin. Misha's life is easier in many ways than those of his peers - he lives in a spacious and comfortable flat, and he has plenty of good food to eat.
But Russia is at war - currently allied to Hitler's Germany but about to be betrayed by them. And Stalin is both paranoid and unstable - this is the time of the purges and nobody is safe from denunciation.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408826240</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Marooned in Manhattan
|author=Sheila Agnew
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=After her mother's death, Evie has to move to Manhattan to live with her uncle Scott, who she doesn't know too well. Initially she's convinced that she'll take him up on his offer to let her return to Ireland and move in with her godmother at the end of the summer. Between helping him out in his veterinary practice, making new friends, and getting to know the city, though, Evie starts to wonder whether she should stay in New York - but one person wants to take the decision out of her hands. Will she be able to make the choice for herself, and if so, where will she end up living?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847175589</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Ash Road
|author=Ivan Southall
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The North Wind is blowing. It's churned its way across two thousand miles of Australia, and it brings with it ferocity, and an endless dryness. Above, below, to either side of it, and in front of and behind it, is heat. This is a summer in the early 1960s and the land is suffering ''above-century heat''. Unfortunately, through pure accident, three young lads out camping in the bush have started a fire, and it's getting worse and worse under the conditions that are ideal for it. Although in the leeward side of a large reservoir, the small community of Ash Road would surely suffer if the conflagration were to become big enough to threaten them – and it is, it is…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922147494</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tom Palmer
|title=Over The Line
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Jack Cock made his debut as a professional footballer for Huddersfield Town and that fragile dream of playing for his country came just a little bit closer, but this was just before the beginning of the First World War, when there was immense pressure on young men to do the honourable thing and join the war to fight in France. ''Over the Line'' is the story of Jack's war, of joining the Footballers' Battalion, playing in the Flanders Cup, fighting in the trenches and not just surviving but being decorated for bravery. After the war he scored England's first international goal and was one of the first of the modern generation of 'professional footballers'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123934</amazonuk>
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