==Confident readers==
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{{newreview
|author=Fiona Dunbar
|title=Kitty Slade: Fire and Roses
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In the second in the Kitty Slade series, Kitty lives with her Greek grandmother (Maro) who home educates Kitty, her brother Sam and sister Flossie. Kitty has a rare condition: she can see ghosts. On a trip to Oxenden to stay with Maro's friends, Kitty experiences some strange Poltergeist-type phenomena, and discovers that the family of Sir Ambrose Vyner (Maro's friends Dinky, Charlie and their children Louis and Emily) are under a curse.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408309297</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ian Beck
|summary=Ben is spending the summer with his grandparents because his mother is ill again. She won't stop going out for runs and is not eating properly. She's gone back to stressing out about having the "right" cutlery and worrying about technology and health hazards. And her beautiful hair has started falling out. Ben's father was killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and with his mother incommunicado, he's feeling very lonely indeed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405256524</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rachel Renee Russell
|title=Dork Diaries: Pop Star
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When I saw that both the [[Dork Diaries by Rachel Renee Russell|first]] and [[Dork Diaries: Party Time by Rachel Renee Russell|second]] books in this series had already been put into [[Double Dork Diaries: Two Tales from a Not-so-fabulous Life by Rachel Renee Russell|one compendium]], I wondered quite why. Were they not selling quite as I expected they would, despite their breeziness and simple charms for the beginner reader? Would the third book prove to be a major change in format, hence an early wrapping-up? Well, the answers are in here - as are all those assets, and no real surprises or alterations.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071181</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andy Briggs
|title=Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Robbie Canler is on the run. From what, it takes us a while to find out, but it's clear that it's something bad when the alternative is working for an illegal logging team in the jungle of the Congo. The work is tough at the best of times, and when things start going wrong for the team, it's definitely not the best of times. And then Jane Porter, his boss's daughter, disappears... Can she be found? And why do all these strange things keep happening to the loggers? It's almost as if there was a weird presence in the jungle.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057127238X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=E D Baker
|title=The Wide-Awake Princess
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Princess Annie is Sleeping Beauty's younger sister. Her sister, Gwendolyn, was given various magical gifts at her birth making her graceful and beautiful, but then a bad fairy created the spell that Gwendolyn would prick her finger on a spinning wheel before she turned 16 and sleep for one hundred years. So far, so familiar. All of the upset over Gwendolyn's christening led to the King and Queen being very scared when their second daughter, Annabelle, was born. They invited only one fairy along and asked her advice. She cast a spell on Princess Annie that made her impervious to all magic. Although this seemed like a good idea it means that none of her family like to be too near her because her spell tends to affect their own magical enchantments, making them less beautiful, more wrinkled and aged. Annie does her best to please her parents and to try and protect her sister, but in the end the wicked fairy's magic spell comes true and Gwendolyn and everyone in the castle falls asleep. Everyone, that is, except for Annie...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807572</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Almond
|title=My Name Is Mina
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=We first Mina in Skellig. A homeschooled, William Blake-loving, slightly precious child, she arrived in Michael's life with not a little whiff of the culture shock about her. Now, we can find out what really makes Mina tick as we read through her journal. Mina is full of contradictions. She likes to be different, individual, but she doesn't like being a misfit. She wants friends but she doesn't know how to make them or to keep them. She is both reflective and impulsive.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340997265</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elen Caldecott
|title=Operation Eiffel Tower
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Jack, Ruby, Lauren and Billy live in a seaside town. Jack helps out at the crazy golf course and he's got a mean shot or two up his sleeve. Lauren likes boys, ''Teen Thing'' magazine and looking down her nose at her younger siblings. Ruby's world revolves around winning a teddy on the grab-a-bear machine in the amusement arcade. Billy is just a baby so he doesn't do very much if it doesn't involve cuddling Teddy Volvo.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408805731</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Maryon
|title=A Million Angels
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Mima's father is the light of her life. She loves him more than anything. But he's also an army officer and this story opens with him leaving for a six month tour of Afghanistan. Her mother is heavily pregnant and her grandmother is spending all her time thinking about her childhood sweetheart. Her friend Jess is busily trying to make friends at school - army brats are forever having to make new friends. So nobody really has time to pay attention to Mima, who can't get her fears about her father being killed and injured out of her mind...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007326297</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Helen Moss
|title=Adventure Island: The Mystery of the Whistling Caves
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There must be many a parent around who grew up devouring Famous Five adventure stories. I certainly did, so I was excited to read the first in a new series of stories by Helen Moss which bring a flavour of Blyton's famous books into the present day.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444003283</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Neal Shusterman
|title=Everfound
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=We rejoin the limbo world of ''Everlost'' for this final volume in Neal Shusterman's ''Skinjacker'' trilogy with Mary Hightower asleep and encased in a glass coffin, Allie tied to the front of a train, and Nick still amnesiac and still puddling chocolate wherever he goes. Milos is trying to continue with Mary's demonic plan to end the living world, but he lacks her charisma and the vapour of Afterlights is getting smaller as a steady trickle decamps.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071823</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joy Cowley and Gavin Bishop
|title=Just One More
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=What happened when a dragon moved into the town's library? Or when Cowgirl Katie's horse went shopping and rode on the escalator? This fun collection of short stories is unusual, odd and very entertaining!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1877467677</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chris Van Allsburg
|title=Queen of the Falls
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Annie Edson Taylor was sixty-two years old and a widow. She didn't have very much money saved and she was worried about her future - until she had an inspiration. She would have a barrel made - a very stout and water-tight barrel - and she would be the first person to brave the thundering waters of Niagra Falls in this barrel. Chris Van Allsburgh tells us her story from the moment of inspiration right through to the times after the epic trip, but in truth the words are simpy there to eleborate on his wonderful drawings. They're so good that you could be forgiven for thinking that they're black and white photographs on occasions.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392722</amazonuk>
}}
