==Confident readers==
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{{newreview
|author=Linda Newbery
|title=Lob
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lob is a Green Man – an ancient nature spirit and garden helper. Can you spot him hiding on the front cover of the book? Lucy believes in Lob, though her Mum and Dad tell her 'it's just Grandpa's story'. When Lucy finally manages to catch a fleeting glimpse of Lob, she is entranced and delighted to share Grandpa's secret. But when Grandpa dies and his home is sold Lucy is heartbroken. She wonders if she will ever see Lob again. What follows is a journey through the seasons tracing Lucy's life after Grandpa's death and Lob's search to find a new garden home.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385610815</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emma Thompson
|summary=In this third adventure, Jack, a fourteen year old Saxon apprentice bard, and Thorgil, a bad-tempered shield maiden, follow the Bard Dragon Tongue on a quest to quell the draugr - the malevolent spirit of a drowned mermaid mistakenly summoned to Jack's village and who seeks revenge for her earlier ill treatment at human hands.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738630X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Garth Nix
|title=Into Battle (The Seventh Tower)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=We've made it to book five in Garth Nix's Seventh Tower series, so a quick recap:
The Dark World is blocked from the Sun by an enchanted Veil created by Tal's forebears to protect it from the creatures who inhabit Aenir - a spirit land full of magic and magical beasts.Aenir is lit and warmed by the Sun, but the Dark World uses sunstones - crystals grown and charged with light and heat in Aenir. Some inhabitants of the Dark World - the Chosen - also bind some of Aenir's creatures to themselves as spiritshadows or spiritguards.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007261233</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alan Skinner
|title=Furnaces of Forge
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In this [[Blue Fire and Ice (The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequel]], it's almost as you were, except here the mysterious powers of the blue flame are not being used by some outlander arsonist, but have been usurped by two inept young scientists from the Myrmidots, to fuel their industry. We can predict this will prove a bad thing, but the breadth of the journey to capture the flame, and the efforts of all our returning characters to put things right might still be a surprise.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tom Palmer
|title=Captain Fantastic (Football Academy)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Ryan is a changed boy. Since he got into hot water with manager Steve for bullying several books ago, and his captaincy of the United U12s was threatened, he's been determined to get his socks firmly pulled up. He's worked really hard at redeeming himself too - both on and off the pitch. He's more than halfway towards becoming the best captain the team's ever had. So when Craig's attitude suddenly nosedives and he starts playing dirty during games and being insolent during training, Ryan feels a big responsibility to help sort it out.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141324724</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Christopher Russell and Christine Russell
|title=The Quest of the Warrior Sheep
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Take five rare breed sheep, put them in a field, and wait for something to fall out the sky on to one of them. You'll find the result is that they gather, confer among themselves, work out their sacred God Aries is in trouble as he's lost the only thing to confer his power over the sacred Demon of sheep, Lambad, and decide to take the fallen object up North to return it. A journey that will take them into London in a market truck, down the Underground, and so much more on their epic journey.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405243767</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Dugald Steer
|title=The Dragon Diary: Dragonology Chronicles Volume 2
|rating=3
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Daniel and Beatrice Cook are studying Dragonology with Dr Ernest Drake, and are awaiting the hatching of their very own dragon egg. But suddenly their parents have gone missing, an illness is killing dragons and it all smells of evil dragonologist, Alexandra Gorynytchka. Before they know it, the brother, sister and new dragon chick have to deliver Liber Draconis, the dragon diary, and St Petroc's chalice to Dr Drake in Hong Wei, which may hold the secret to the cure. As the back cover reads: ''The future of dragon kind hangs in the balance!''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763634255</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Ward
|title=The Comet's Child
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Teenage Fin is rescued from his remote forest home by Ragg, the first man he has ever encountered. Having such a sheltered childhood has equipped Fin with the speech and education of a nobleman's son but little idea about the real world. Other than relying on his instincts and resourcefulness, Fin has no way of knowing who to trust, or where he is bound as he leaves home with Ragg.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905537123</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rachel Renee Russell
|title=Dork Diaries
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=I do like a blurb to be accurate. So when I saw the back cover of this book state the obvious to me, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid for girls!", I could rest assured. I didn't relax fully, however, for I'd read [[Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) by Jeff Kinney|the blue one]] of those and found it a bit feeble, and [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney|the yellow one]] and found it a bit fabulous, so I couldn't guarantee any feminine, pink variant would be worth my time.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387411</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ceci Jenkinson
|title=Mirror Mischief (Oli and Skipjack's Tales of Trouble)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Sid from the pizza shop is on holiday in Africa and she's sent presents to her two best customers, Oli Biggles and Skipjack Haynes. Oli's present is a mirror and it's not just any mirror as it seems to have magical powers. It was perhaps unfortunate that Vernon Surd, the mean maths teacher who punishes anyone who can't do fractions and Slugger Stubbins, the school bully should be the ones at the wrong end of the magical powers but it seemed quite appropriate that the first should be transformed into a vulture and the second into a blue-faced baboon.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571249698</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anthony Horowitz
|title=Crocodile Tears (Alex Rider)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Fans of Anthony Horowitz' Alex Rider series have had a two-year wait for this installment of our young hero's escapades and they are not going to be disappointed. He's fourteen year old now and not only is he being targeted by a hitman, he's also being pursued by a journalist who wants to tell the nation all about the fact that MI6 are using one of his tender years to do their dirty work. The trouble is that he can't be positive that it was a sniper that caused the car he was in to skid off a Scottish road and land at the bottom of a Loch. And MI6 don't seem all that bothered about the journalist, unless, that is, Alex might be willing to find some simple information from a GM crop research centre, in which case they might be able to have a quiet word with the gentleman.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406310484</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Suzy Brownlee
|title=The Littlest Detective in London
|rating=3
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''The Littlest Detective in London'' is the first in this series of children's books by Suzy Brownlee and will soon be followed by the continuing story of Clementine Cordelia Bird's exploits in Paris. The books are aimed at young girls, aged between around eight and fourteen.
Clemmy (as she is known) is nine years old, but looks younger, due to her being rather small. However, she makes up for this by being brave and inventive. We learn early on that her mother disappeared in mysterious circumstances and the books have the underlying theme of Clemmy trying to find her mum again.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956122205</amazonuk>
}}
