==Confident readers==
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|author=Suzanne LaFleur
|title=Eight Keys
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=On moving to middle school, eleven year old Elise's life takes a turn for the worse. She's bullied by her cool and popular locker-buddy Amanda, and embarrassed by her best friend Franklin – who's decidedly uncool and certainly not popular – she's also
struggling to cope with the new arrivals at her home, Aunt Bessie's younger sister Annie and her baby daughter Ava. Just when she doesn't know how she can cope with everything, help arrives in the form of a strange key with her name on it. As she opens a door to find out about her past, Elise starts to realise that she can take control of her future.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141336064</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=Most little girls must surely know the story of Cinderella by heart. My little girl likes nothing better than putting on her princess dress and parading around the house talking about pumpkins and lost shoes. This version of the familiar story is written specifically for early readers and manages to capture the magic of this wonderful fairy tale. I once got to be Cinderella, in my very last year at school before I left for University (surely just on the verge of being too old!) It is a wonderful, magical story and I never get tired of hearing it and it is, fortunately, my daughter's favourite too so we both sat down eagerly to try out this new retelling by Sally Gardner.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444002414</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Darren Shan
|title=Ocean of Blood (The Saga of Larten Crepsley)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=In book two of this prequel series about the beloved orange-haired vampire from Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak series, we find Larten Crepsley and his friend Wester Flack finally free of the restrictions and privations imposed upon them by their master, Seba Nile. The young vampires have joined the Cubs, and are wandering the world enjoying all the "pleasures" human life can give them - wine, women, song, and a ringside seat at as many bloody wars as they could shake a stick at (plus a good supply of fresh blood in the aftermath of battle).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007315880</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gennifer Choldenko
|title=No Passengers Beyond This Point
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=India is fourteen and, like many teenagers, doesn't see much outside her own narrow sphere of interest. She's spiky and defensive and reacts to any setbacks with anger and aggression, usually turned against her family. But inside, like many teenagers, she's rather lonely and lost. Finn is twelve and not as good at basketball as he'd like. He's not as popular as he'd like either. But he is honest and loyal, and he longs for a chance to prove it. Mouse is six and a bit of an oddity. She has an imaginary friend and a brain the size of a planet. This doesn't always make her easy to get along with.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815729</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jackie French and Bruce Whatley
|title=Queen Victoria's Knickers
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=A message from the palace has arrived! It's from Queen Victoria, and as mum reads it she cries out 'The Queen wants my knickers!' Queen Victoria, ruler of the British Empire, has riches galore, but she has no knickers, so the dressmaker's family set about making her some.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007418310</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Philip Caveney
|title=Night on Terror Island
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Kip is a real film buff, and because his dad runs the local independent cinema he gets to see all the latest films as a reward for making the popcorn and generally helping out each evening. But this happy state cannot continue for much longer: the big multiplexes on the edge of town are taking all their clients, and the Paramount Picture Palace may soon have to close for good. Things start to look up when the eccentric Mr Lazarus arrives, but Kip is suspicious: the new projectionist may have a gift for raising the quality of the films he shows to enviable standards, but he knows far more than he should about everyone who works at the cinema. And he talks about stars, films and cinemas of the past as if he had actually been there.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392706</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ellie Irving
|title=For the Record
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Luke is obsessed with records. He's so busy planning on breaking world records when he grows up, and playing world records DVD games, that he doesn't take much of an interest in what's going on around him. But that's about to change, because when the village of Port Bren is chosen to host a waste-incinerator plant his house will be demolished and the graveyard where his dad's buried will be destroyed – unless the village is too historically important for this to happen. How can they put themselves on the map in one week? Luke comes up with the idea to break 50 world records… but why won't his mum let him take part?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0370331982</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Wolfren Riverstick
|title=While We Sleep... the Dream Snatchers Cometh!
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that the Jackson family was unimaginative. Jack Jackson, the head of the household was generally known as Pa, even before he had any children to call him by that name. His wife, Jacqueline, was known as Ma. You could put all this down to accident but naming their first child Jackie (after a comic which Ma had enjoyed in her youth) and their second child Jacques might confirm your fears. It was a few years before they acquired a pet, but the cat was to be called Jackson and the Dutch Hamster Sjaak. Guess what their house was called? Yup – it was Jacksonville.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955431433</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sabbithry Persad
|title=Garbology Kids: Where Do Recyclable Materials Go?
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=I was once told that a lot of children think that milk comes out of a bottle or a carton and are disconcerted to find that it actually comes out of a cow. The thinking has been reversed in Sabbithry Persad's book 'Where Do Recyclable Materials Go?' It's all very well dividing up your waste but it doesn't make a lot of sense unless you actually know what happens to it after you put it out at the kerb. And it all started when Tiana and Peter went looking for their dog Bubbles who ''loved'' to go running after the recycle truck.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0981243908</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mark Walden
|title=H.I.V.E.: Higher Institute of Villanous Education
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Otto Malpense is one of the newest students at the Higher Institute of Villainous Education, better known as HIVE. So is his new friend Wing. As you'd expect, neither of them are keen to stay there – although this is less to do with moral scruples than with the thought of wasting six years studying how to be evil when they consider they're rather good at it already, thank you very much. A plot to escape is hatched…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597219</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lauren St John
|title=Laura Marlin Mysteries: Kidnap in the Caribbean
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=ideal guardian for the crime-and-detection-obsessed young girl, because his job is swathed in secrecy and involves a great deal of creeping out of the house late at night to meet mysterious strangers. But for now they can both relax: Laura has won a holiday for two in the Caribbean, and all she and Calvin have to do is sunbathe and swim. Needless to say, that isn't how things turn out.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000217</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lissa Evans
|title=Small Change for Stuart
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Poor Stuart Horten is rather small for his age. Unfortunately for him, if you put his initial with his surname it becomes 'shorten', which is just asking for trouble. Still, he's happy and has lots of friends. Or, at least, he does until his parents move house and he finds himself living in a strange town (his father's hometown) in the school holidays, looking at the prospect of a long, boring and lonely summer ahead of him. He soon discovers, however, that there is a mystery surrounding his family's history in the town, and it looks as though Stuart might just be the one to uncover what really happened...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561800X</amazonuk>
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