==Confident readers==
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{{newreview
|author=Nick Butterworth
|title=Tales From Percy's Park: After the Storm
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=One day, after a particularly wild and windy evening, Percy the Park Keeper discovers on his check around the park that an old oak tree has fallen down in the storm. All of the animals who lived in the tree ask Percy to help them find a new home. He loads them up in his wheelbarrow and, after a bit of an adventure, they finally find a new place for Percy to rebuild their homes.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007155158</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alex T Smith
|summary=Marcus's father was a centurion in the Roman legions. After the slave revolt led by Spartacus was finally put down, he retired from the army and bought a farm on a small Greek island. Marcus has spent most of his boyhood on the farm, learning to train dogs, shoot his sling accurately and dreaming of one day becoming a fighter like his father. But the farm is in debt and Marcus's life is about to crumble...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141333634</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Hazel Allan
|title=Bree McCready and the Flame of Irenus
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Bree is back! She and her best friends, Sandy and Honey, are enjoying the summer holidays until one day Mimi, Honey's little sister, goes missing. The three friends find themselves once more having to search out the old, mysterious book that fits with the heart locket in order to try to find and save Mimi. Back in the mysterious land they went to during the [[Bree McCready and the Half-heart Locket by Hazel Allan|first of Bree's adventures]] the three friends face more challenges than ever before, and this time Mimi's life hangs in the balance so they must succeed!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905537174</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jonathan Stroud
|title=The Amulet of Samarkand
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When you summon a demon the last thing you want is for you to lose power over it - for the shoe to end up on the other foot. Especially when the demon shifts shape and is currently an eight-legged spider. That's what's happened to young Nathaniel, having summoned Bartimaeus for a task of vengeance. But perhaps it's worst of all when you have to rely on the same demon's help to protect you from an even greater evil - the wicked intent of a fellow man.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552563706</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Melanie Watt
|title=Scaredy Squirrel at Night
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Scaredy Squirrel is scared to go to sleep at night. He has all sorts of tricks to keep himself awake so that he doesn't have to face his night-time fears. But his sleeplessness is having a toll on his health. Can he find a solution to his problem?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846471109</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Terry Deary
|title=Put Out The Light
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In 1940, Billy and Sally Thomas are living in Sheffield, a city which is well aware that German bombs will almost surely find their way there sooner or later. As the air raid sirens blare out, they help friendly Warden Crane to make sure the blackout is kept up - but when they find that people are having money stolen while they're in the shelters, they try to solve the crime. Meanwhile, in Germany, Manfred and Hansl are determined to do their bit for the war effort by getting into the bomb factory and writing an English soldier's name on a bomb. Then they meet Polish youngster Irena and become quickly embroiled in a frantic escape attempt. By December, the two sets of children will both have been thrust into the thick of the action, and we get a finale that's truly explosive – in more ways than one!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408130548</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sally Prue
|title=Ice Maiden
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Franz isn't popular in the village. It's 1939, and the German boy is on an extended holiday in England. Unsurprisingly, the local boys don't appreciate an enemy in their midst. Franz isn't happy at home either - he mistrusts his Nazi parents and he remembers the rounding up of the disabled, the gypsies and the Jews, and the smashing glass at night. Lonely, Franz spends a lot of time on the common, observing the natural world and the wildlife, in all its beauty and cruelty.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729659</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=M T McGuire
|title=K'Barthan Trilogy: Few Are Chosen
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=The Pan of Hamgee is a relatively inconspicuous fellow living in the world of K'Barth, the setting of the battle between the overbearing, alien Grongolian settlers and the fanatic Resistance, described aptly by The Pan as being 'The lesser, but only very slightly lesser of two evils, possibly.' Naturally, The Pan wants nothing to do with this political conflict but due to a number of unfortunate cases of wrong place, wrong time and disastrous luck, he has somehow been drafted in as the getaway driver of a group of bank robbers, and somehow come into possession of a magical thimble with the power to allow teleportation, an object greatly desired by K'Barth's despot ruler Lord Vernon.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907809007</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Philip Threadneedle
|title=The Astronaut's Apprentice
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Bradley is as normal as any boy could be. He lives on a farm with his father and grandma and loves all sorts of boy things. But it's at this point that things begin to get a little bit, well, odd. His grandpa is an alien and his mother is in the attic, but she's dead. Grandma's not your normal cuddly version, either. She's of the opinion that childbirth is much over-rated, both from the point of view of the mother and the child and she's not above calling her husband a love rat and a womaniser. Still, even the best of families have their little oddities…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1453843809</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alan Snow
|title=Ratbridge Chronicles: Worse Things Happen at Sea
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet the Nautical Laundry. A boat, crewed by piratical rats who weren't wicked enough to bring themselves to actual piracy, it's wedged under a bridge in the town of Ratbridge. They're trying to lead a humble life, doing the town's laundry - but when someone sees the scanties displayed for all around to see, they're whisked to court - and fined a pirate's treasure. Luckily, there might be help at hand - the local miracle medicine man, who's just started curing everyone of everything with the same gloop, called Black Jollop, is willing to pay a king's ransom for a boat to take him for new supplies. Or, is there something else, secret and evil behind these weird happenings?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192719653</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=P L Travers
|title=Mary Poppins: The Complete Collection
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It is coming up for eighty years since ''Mary Poppins'' was first published in Great Britain, but it is still one of those children's books you will find in every library and bookshop. Almost everyone in the country, young and old, can tell you the story and describe all the main characters, and the Poppins name, along with the carpet bag and the parrot-headed umbrella, has become a cultural reference. But to be honest, what most people actually know is the 1960s Disney film: the original nanny who blew into the life of the Banks children is a much darker, more mysterious being altogether.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007398557</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rebecca Stead
|title=When You Reach Me
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Miranda has quite a bit going on in her life. Since her best friend Sal was punched on the street for no reason, he's been distant, shutting Miranda out of his life. This loss leaves Miranda somewhat adrift, as she and Sal have been inseparable since they were at day care together. So she strikes up a friendship with Annemarie, but that involves coming between Annemarie and the stuck-up Julia. And then Colin joins the group, which adds yet more complications - Miranda likes Colin, but she's worried he might like Annemarie.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392129</amazonuk>
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