==Confident readers==
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{{newreview
|author=Katherine Rundell
|title=The Girl Savage
|rating=3
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In Zimbabwe, Nice Will Silver has lived all her life with her father Nice William Silver, his employer Nice Captain Browne, and her friend Nice Simon. But when Nice Captain Browne falls in love with Nasty Cynthia Vincy, Nice Will is uprooted from her roots and sent to an English boarding school, run by Nice Miss Blake and her assistant Nasty Mrs Robinson. How will she cope?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571254314</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elizabeth Beresford
|summary=Always a sucker for a good poetry anthology here at Bookbag, we've enjoyed two previous collections from John Foster. ''See You Later, Escalator'' continues in the same vein, with poems from the likes of Tony Mitton, Michael Rosen, Michelle Magorian and Brian Patten.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192731831</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elizabeth Beresford
|title=The Wombles
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=A scruffy, shaggy, slightly overweight, furry creature is riding around part of South London, barely in control of his bicycle. No, not the political memoirs of the incumbent Mayor of London. Better. Far better. It's Orinoco Womble and the gang are back!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808374</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emily Bearn
|title=Tumtum and Nutmeg: A Circus Adventure
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=I'm a big fan of the Tumtum and Nutmeg stories. They always remind me of Mary Norton's ''The Borrowers'', with the two little mice scurrying secretly around the human's house, helping the children when possible and trying to avoid being seen. So I was excited to read their latest adventure.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405254440</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tony DiTerlizzi
|title=The Search for WondLa
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Tony DiTerlizzi's name will be familiar to many readers as the co-creator of the [[A Giant Problem (Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles) by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi|Spiderwick Chronicles]], and it is entirely possible that this new trilogy will become just as popular. It is a charming tale of a young girl who has never seen another human being and who has been brought up by a kindly robot in an underground home. Right from the very first pages we suspect things are not going well: lights flicker and malfunction, machinery and furniture is chipped and scratched, and even the wheel Eva's robot mother moves around on is tread-worn. Eva is being trained to go up into the outside world to meet other humans, but there has been no contact from other Sanctuaries, as the underground homes are called, for a long time. Eva will very soon need to go out and discover for herself if there are any other humans on this strange and colourful planet.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738966X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alan James Brown
|title=The Tolpuddle Boy: Transported to Hell and Back
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In 1834, six men from the Dorset village of Tolpuddle were deported to Australia for their trade union activities. This book, written in a very simple style for children, tells the true story of what happened to them, the politics of their arrest and deportation and the campaign by trade unionists and other supporters of trade union rights to overturn their convictions.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905512775</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marcus Sedgwick
|title=Raven Mysteries: Vampires and Volts
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It's October at Castle Otherhand. That can only mean one thing - a return to the traditional annual pumpkin hunt. Shame they're so damned elusive. But when, courtesy of a bit of unsubtle arson, a Hallowe'en Ball is redirected to be held at the Castle, and things that do more than go bump in the night gatecrash - why, they're even harder to catch. Unless, of course, you're a wry, arch, droll, antiquated old raven called Edgar.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842556967</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marcus Sedgwick
|title=Raven Mysteries: Flood and Fang
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Otherhand Castle, and all in it, is under threat, and only Edgar can save the day. Pity, perhaps, then, that Edgar is only a raven. But he's not your typical raven, for not only is he centuries old, and our narrator, but he is the only one who can see the connections between, and the danger involved in, a cellar full of rising floodwater, a horrific tail glimpsed in the vegetable garden, and some missing maids.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842556932</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Maryon
|title=Glitter
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=You'd think, seeing Liberty Parfitt's life from the outside, that she'd be blissfully happy. She has everything money can buy, she loves life at her expensive boarding school and she has a wonderfully close friend. But she is not content. Her academic grades are not good, and her father clearly prefers her hard-working and successful older brother Sebastian, who is at the same school. He wins all manner of prizes, but the only area in which she shows any talent is music, a subject her father will not allow her to study. Her mother died when she was only nine months old, and Liberty imagines her life would be very different if she had a loving mother to balance her father's criticisms. And then utter disaster: the family loses every penny they own, she is whisked away from school without warning and taken to a dreary little flat where she has to cope not only with her own sadness and sense of loss but also with a father sinking deeper and deeper into depression.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007326289</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kenneth Steven and Jane Ray
|title=Stories for a Fragile Planet: Traditional Tales About Caring for the Earth
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Stories for a Fragile Planet is a wonderful anthology of stories from long ago and also from the present. The stories come from far and wide – from China to Alaska. They all seem to involve brave characters that care greatly about their environment and who are prepared to do things differently whether it is looking after a blackbird's nest for days until the eggs hatch or caring for a young lion cub who would otherwise die. There are ten stories in total and each one is short but self contained with a very satisfying conclusion. Each one can easily be read in a single sitting and would make ideal bedtime stories for slightly older children.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0745961576</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jonathan Stroud
|title=The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Barty is back!
Well, he isn't actually back. But we do get to revisit him. Which is good.
I'm sure you know who I'm talking about. But just in case you don't, Bartimaeus is a sarcastic, wisecracking djinni and the star of a wonderful and best-selling series by Jonathan Stroud. Whilst tied to various enslaving magicians, Bartimaeus has had a finger in many pies of world history, particularly that of London. In fact, he's saved the day almost as many times as Doctor Who has. But Bartimaeus is no Doctor Who. He's a rude, sarcastic egomaniac and unselfish behaviour isn't his byword. But he cracks an irresistible one liner. And he usually comes through in the end.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385619154</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Martin Waddell and Emma Chichester Clark
|title=The Orchard Book Of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
|rating=5
|genre=Anthologies
|summary=With ''The Princess and the Pea'', ''The Ugly Duckling'', ''The Tinderbox'', ''The Little Match Girl'', ''The Emperor's New Clothes'', ''The Tin Soldier'', ''The Swineherd'', ''The Nightingale'' and ''The Little Mermaid'', this is a must-have compendium of classic fairy tales. You can't really go wrong with Hans Christian Andersen's best, can you? Martin Waddell and Emma Chichester Clark have not just churned out the old classics, but they've given them an amazing freshness and vibrancy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846169380</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Carl Hiaasen
|title=Scat
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Nick and his friend Marta are ordinary kids. They don't look for trouble, and they don't cause it. But when an unpopular teacher punishes a difficult classmate by making him write an essay about his pimples, then trouble can't be far away. The teacher goes missing during a wildfire, and Duane (nicknamed Smoke, because he has a reputation for setting fires) gets the blame. But the evidence doesn't add up, and our young heroes decide it's up to them to discover the truth.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000594</amazonuk>
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