|summary=This book really should be required reading for anyone charged with bringing up children with magical powers — especially if they've already saved the world a time or two. In a nutshell, it shows what happens when you answer all the said young people's questions with some vague promise to explain everything when the time is right. As if that's going to satisfy them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258632</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Morpurgo
|title=Sparrow: The Story of Joan of Arc
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Joan of Arc knows she's special. She knows that she has been chosen to save France - the voices tell her so. But she also knows that she has a lot to do to convince the Dauphin and the noblemen who protect him that it's time to make a stand for their country. Can she become a heroine?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007465955</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Wiesner
|title=The Three Pigs
|rating=3
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Everyone knows the story of the Three Little Pigs, but in this version, when the wolf comes along and huffs and puffs, he actually blows the little pigs right out of the story. In fact, they float across a number of pages before eventually ending up in the middle of ''Hey diddle diddle!'' However, they don't find this nursery rhyme to their liking so they move on to a story about a prince who kills a dragon. Having just escaped from their own dangerous enemy, the three pigs realise that they can't possibly leave the dragon to be slain, so they take him with them right the way back to their own story where, with the help of their new friend, they definitely don't allow the wolf in.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849394059</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julia Green
|title=Tilly's Moonlight Fox
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=
It's a difficult time for Tilly. She's just moved house, losing contact with her best friend as a result, and now her mother, who is expecting a baby, is too ill to leave her bed or even spend much time with her. Tilly is a sensitive, generous girl who tries hard not to get in the way or be a nuisance because she understands that her father needs to give all his time to his wife, and to sorting out their new home. Lonely, unhappy and frightened by all the bewildering things that are happening, she finds herself thrown back on her own company, unable to share her worries.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192757911</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Melissa Wareham
|title=Winston Windsor and the Diamond Jubilee
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The Queen has quite a few corgis (and one dorgi) but her best-loved dog is Winston Windsor. Winston Windsor is devoted to the Queen, obviously, but his heart has been stolen by Wilma the poodle who is owned by the man who supplies fruit and vegetables to the Palace. When the Queen decides to change supplier (please step up the organic farmer based at Highgrove...) Winston realises that he will never see Wilma again. An unwise escape from the Palace in pursuit of his lady love leaves him in the dog pound with Flossy the Rottweiler (a difficult name for a boy, don't you think, particularly when you've been beaten up by a Chihuahua?) and Harry. When the dogs unearth a plot to kidnap the Queen on her Diamond Jubilee day they know that they have to get back to the Palace and warn the Queen - but how?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0081LEK9M</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams
|title=Goddess Girls: Athena the Brain
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Turns out Mount Olympus isn't so very different from our world after all. Lots of young gods and goddesses all together, making friends, discovering how to use their abilities properly, and having the occasional argument. It has eccentric teachers, handsome boys, and mean girls — in other words, it's middle school!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>141698271X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Helen Moss
|title=Adventure Island: the Mystery of the Drowning Man
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The great thing about adventure stories, as opposed to fantasies, tales of superheroes and even the more dramatic end of the teen-spy spectrum is that young readers can easily imagine themselves joining in the action. Pulling a drowning man from the sea, saving a film star, finding a treasure map and discovering dinosaur bones are all ''possible'' — even if, to be honest, they're not very likely.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444005340</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Carol Midgley
|title=My Family and Other Freaks
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Danielle has an embarrassing family, a dog who's in love with an Ugg boot, and a love rival who she can't possibly live up to – or can she? Determined not to be beaten in her efforts to secure Damien's affections, Danni hits on a plan – only for it to go horribly wrong, landing her with the nickname of 'Dench The Stench'. Surely things can only get better – can't they?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857388940</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rachel Renee Russell
|title=Skating Sensation (Dork Diaries)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=OMG!! Niki's gym class is doing ice-skating this term, and anyone who presents a display at a public charity event will get a straight A. Also, if she can perform well she will keep an endangered animal charity working for some months. It's just a shame then that Niki suits ice-skating as well as chocolate suits building barbecues. What's worse, is that the shelter has a deep meaning for her hunky friend Brandon...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085707119X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Lawrence
|title=Murder and Chips (Jiggy McCue)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Poor Jiggy. It seems everything he touches is doomed. In previous books he's been squeezed almost to death by a pair of demonic underpants, attacked by the ghost of a bad-tempered goose and pursued by a spiteful genie—though all of that, frankly, is nothing compared to what happened with that toilet (don't ask). And now, to cap it all, exams are looming—you know, the ones everyone tells your whole future depends on? Jiggy and his two friends Angie and Pete are stressed, and in dire need of bit of rest and relaxation.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408313960</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Philip Caveney
|title=Spy Another Day
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=That Mr Lazarus is an odd man. He works at the local cinema, which is owned by Kip's dad, and unknown to anyone but Kip he's actually set up home in the projection room. He claims to be about 120 years old, and he makes money by selling film memorabilia. But he doesn't acquire his loot by hanging round movie plots, or rummaging around on stalls at car boot sales. No, he does it by persuading (well, that's a polite way of putting it: blackmail's such an ugly word) Kip and Beth to go into films and steal it. Yup. Into actual films, while they're playing. Downside? If they don't get out by the closing credits, they're stuck there. No pressure, then.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849394172</amazonuk>
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