|summary=I shall start with a word of advice. When you're being hounded by a circus master, and a magician, for the soul of a tiger that's contained in a tiger's egg that's contained in the brain of your teddy bear, and your best friend - a fallen angel - is trying her best to make sure the other angels do not turn on you in a big way - then you're probably living the third book in a fantasy trilogy. Still - never mind, the angel's efforts will involve you entering a dream world of flight and cloud cities, the chase after your enemies will take you across the world to desert oases and back, and friends new and old will be on board to help.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384447</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andy Stanton
|title=What's For Dinner, Mr Gum?
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=As soon as heroine Polly turns her back, and leaves the town of Lamonic Bibber for a day at the seaside, Mr Gum falls out with his best friend, causing carnivorous carnage all over the place. Meat is getting thrown around like it's going out of fashion, and we have to doubt whether Polly and her companions can ever utilise the power of love and put things to rights. Especially as this book does not contain a magic unicorn called Elizabeth.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248246</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jean Ure
|title=Fortune Cookie
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Fudge Cassidy and the Cupcake kid are best friends. If the names remind you of a certain film then you'd be spot on as that's where Fudge's father got the idea from. They're actually chalk and cheese – Fudge is loud mouthed and opinionated and Cupcake is quiet and thoughtful – but the combination works. They've just started at secondary school and Cupcake has rather a lot on her plate. Her brother Joey has muscular dystrophy and his problems are becoming more obvious. Add to this that her father couldn't cope with the problems and he now has another family. It's just Cupcake, Joey and her mother – and not a lot of money.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007224621</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dave Eggers
|title=The Wild Things
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet Max. When I say he sometimes gets the wrong end of the stick about adults, or dislikes his mother's new boyfriend, or gets a bit feisty when he feels the need for revenge, I am certainly understating the facts. He is a bit of a rascal to say the least. But all that might change when he finds himself travelling to a strange land of roisterous animals, and ends up installed as their king.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144221</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jeremy Strong
|title=Christmas Chaos for the Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Trevor's troublesome dog, Streaker, has had three puppies. They were fathered, according to local bully Charlie Smugg, by one of his Alsatians. Trevor would ideally like to keep them, at least until Christmas, but his parents have other ideas and put them up for sale. Charlie Smugg declares that he's entitled to half of the money from the sale of the puppies, but before they can be sold the three puppies go missing in the park and it's up to Trevor and his best friend Tina to try and track them down before Charlie demands his cash!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141327243</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Annie Taylor
|title=Violet
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Violet is a very special hippo. She is extremely small but that does not make her adoptive parents Albert and Mavis love her any the less. However, they are slightly worried that Violet has a very unusual habit of turning pink without warning and for no explicable reason.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906847371</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=A J Healy
|title=Tommy Storm and the Galactic Knights
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Tommy Storm. He's one of five teenagers snapped up from around the universe to be a gang of heroic detectives charged with rescuing EVERYTHING from destruction. Not just the planet, or the solar system, or even the galaxy, but EVERYTHING. Nobody seems to know what's going to cause this destruction, or when, but he and his friends and their ship seem to be the only people proactively going about saving the day. So it's a pity that they start this book strung up by a nasty loony who's about to kill them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847247555</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jeanette Winterson
|title=The Battle of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=London 1601. Elizabeth I is getting on in years. Her capital city is a busy, bustling place. Boats fill the river and people fill the streets. Jack is happy because it's his birthday and his present is his heart's desire: an excitable black puppy named Max, who's a ''licking and a running and a leaping and a jumping and a tummy in the air and a tail wagging and a barking, racing, braking, spinning energy dog of delight''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880042X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jean Ure
|title=Love and Kisses
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Tamsin and Katie were just thirteen and worried that they were boring. They'd been best friends since forever and were the good girls. Neither missed school, skipped her homework nor had boyfriends. Well, that is, not so far. Up until then Tamsin had been the boffin head – consistently strong academically and looking forward to going on to university. All that seemed to change when she met Alex. Well, when I say 'met' I should perhaps clarify and say that Alex pushed his wheelbarrow into her, from the building site where he worked. Oh, and did I mention that he was seventeen, Polish and spoke very little English?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007281722</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Neal Layton
|title=Surf's Up (Mammoth Academy)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Having successfully seen off the rather unpleasant humans in earlier volumes, our favourite junior mammoths Oscar and Arabella have nothing much else to do apart from return to Mammoth Academy for lots more double periods of Difficult Sums. They're supposed to be making presentations about what they did during the holidays too, but Oscar hasn't done any preparation and, frankly, he can't really remember what he actually did do with all that free time other than no Difficult Sums.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034098967X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ursula Jones and Sarah Gibb
|title=The Princess Who Had No Kingdom
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The princess who has no kingdom wanders around in a cart pulled by her horse Pretty. She's very polite, friendly, and kind-hearted, but she feels like something is lacking because she doesn't have a kingdom of her own. The other royals she meets treat her nicely enough, but there's always a feeling that she's not quite as good as them because she isn't the princess of anywhere.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846160421</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tim Pigott-Smith
|title=Shadow of Evil (Baker Street Mysteries)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=If ever Victorian England needed the Baker Street Irregulars, it's now. The great Sherlock Holmes is dead - drowned at sea whilst attempting to foil one of Professor Moriarty's evil plans. More ships are likely to be sabotaged and the shipping owners are up in arms. To make matters worse, Queen Victoria's granddaughter has been kidnapped. Would-be clients are queuing up at 221b Baker Street, but Dr Watson is having to turn them away. And the more Sam Wiggins sees, the more he's convinced that all the various shenanigans are related to one another. If only Holmes were there to tell him exactly how. But he isn't, and the only people who are around are children.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034096006X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jean Ure
|title=Star Crazy Me
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This book is about Carmen, but to understand her you first need to know about her family. There's her mother, who is quite laid back when it comes to all things school, but rather obsessed with looks (despite being the kind of person to drive everywhere, and get winded walking up a flight of stairs). There's her Nan, who used to live with them and always encouraged Carmen's talent, perhaps to an embarrassing extent. Still, it's good to have support. And there's her father, who we don't know much about. But then, neither does Carmen.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007224613</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marcus Sedgwick
|title=Ghosts and Gadgets (Raven Mysteries)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Edgar, raven and self-appointed guardian of Otherhand Castle, has reason to be worried. The second-eldest of the Otherhand offspring, Cudweed, ran into something in the forbidden south wing of the castle and was in shock for days. Upon recovery, he reports the culprit was a ghost. When more victims begin popping-up - maids, stable-boys and shoe-polishers, all quite literally scared-to-death – Edgar takes it upon himself to save the day.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842556940</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Margaret Mayo, Geraldine McCaughrean, Rose Impey, Andrew Matthews, Jane Ray, Ian Beck, Angela Barrett, Emma Chichester Clark and Alan Snow
|title=Magical Princess Stories
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Most little girls would love a pretty pink book all about princesses, wouldn't they? This one has seven retellings of traditional fairy tales accompanied by beautiful illustrations and would make a lovely gift for a birthday or Christmas.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140830516X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate DiCamillo
|title=The Magician's Elephant
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Peter Augustus Duchene hovered outside the fortune-teller's tent in the market square. To go in and get an answer to the only question he had would cost all the money that he had – and he'd been given it to go out and buy the cheapest, poorest food that was available. But he had to have an answer to the question and when he asked he was told that, yes, his sister ''was'' alive and that the elephant would take him to her. But where in this chilly, northern clime would he find an elephant?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406324477</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chris Priestley
|title=Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Young Robert is put on a train back to school by his stepmother. It's the first journey he's made on his own. It turns out to be more of a challenge than he could ever have imagined. The train stalls at the mouth of a tunnel and while the other passengers sleep through the wait, a mysterious woman in white tells him a series of stories - stories with a difference.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800144</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul Fleischman and David Roberts
|title=The Dunderheads
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The vile Miss Breakbone hates kids and is forever shouting at her class. When the teacher confiscates the one-eared cat that Theodore (better known as Junkyard) is giving to his mum for her birthday, the Dunderheads hatch a plan to get it back, and teach Miss Breakbone a valuable lesson. What follows is an elaborate plot, weaving elements of the ''Bash Street Kids'' with ''Mission Impossible''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406322555</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Morris Gleitzman
|title=Toad Surprise
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=I was going to mention, at some time in this review, that you would be hard pushed to confuse this book with the same author's [[Once by Morris Gleitzman|Holocaust stories]], but as it begins with an apocalyptic massacre in a hit and run road crash, perhaps you might. Such is the lot of the humble cane toad. Always having to take the warty with the smooth. Or so you'd think, until Limpy identifies the next driver to pull up near their swamp as Santa. At last - his chance to improve human-cane toad relationships, by getting his species recognised as Santa's new little helpers. And so he hops on the truck with his best friend, the macho Goliath, and drives off with Santa. ...Or does he?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326948</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Andrew Klavan
|title=The Last Thing I Remember (Homelander)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Charlie West - US Air Force hopeful and karate expert - remembers when his main concern was whether schoolmate Beth would go out with him. So why is he strapped to a chair in a windowless cell?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755352998</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Hazel Allan
|title=Bree McCready and the Half-heart Locket
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=If you want to keep your children quiet and busy for a while then this would be a good book to give them. Twelve year old Bree and her two friends, Sandy and Honey, find themselves running for their lives when a message on a heart locket necklace leads them to an old, magical book that has enormous powers. A monstrous enemy, Thalofedril, is trying to get his claws on this book so that he can continue to reek death and destruction in the world, and it is up to Bree, and her friends, to save us all...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905537115</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Helen Stringer
|title=The Last Ghost: A Belladonna Johnson Adventure
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Belladonna Johnson can see and talk to ghosts and no one else can. In fact she lives with two; her dead parents. But something is happening – the ghosts are disappearing. Her mother vanishes and her father tells her he doesn't have much time either. The doors are closing, the doors to the Other Side and there is only one left, but just as he says this, he is gone too. Not wanting to lose her parents again, Belladonna sets out on a journey with the help of Steve, a boy from school. They need to find the entrance to the Land of the Dead, the door to where the last ghost, Elsie, waits, before it's too late…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230715044</amazonuk>
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