|summary= They don't actually intend to have an adventure: quite the opposite, in fact. As far as fifteen-year-old Ryan and his friend Cleo are concerned, being chased by bad guys and falling down deep holes is seriously over-rated. But they're on their way to China with their parents anyway, so they can hardly refuse when Cleo's grandmother asks them to put a jade bracelet she's had for eighty years back where it belongs. Where's the harm?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010417</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kjartan Poskitt and Philip Reeve
|title=Borgon the Axeboy and the Whispering Temple (Borgon the Axeboy 3)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''The middle's nice and crunchy but the squishy bits are horrible.'' No, that's not a predator in prehistoric times discussing the eating of us humans. Instead, it's Borgon the Axeboy's mother, discussing peaches. Yes, even in a world where a lot of nasty animals are still around to potentially eat the likes of Borgon, there are still things for people to learn. Borgon for one, in this third adventure in the series, has a lot to learn about religion – he scoffs at the idea there's a god resident in a temple he and his friends have discovered, even if his friend Hunjah insists otherwise. The lesson is forced and the truth comes out, however, when some thieves turn up, having pegged the site as a location of many earthly riches…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057130737X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Dead End Kids: Heroes of the Blitz
|author=Bernard Ashley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's London in 1940. Most of the men have been conscripted and the East End is populated mainly by women and children. Josie and her friends are carrying on much as usual, though, grouping into little gangs and arguing over turf via mud fights along the Thames. But then comes a terrible night of bombing. It's the start of the Blitz and 57 consecutive nights of bombing for the East End. The fire service is stretched way beyond its capacity and the lucky ones make it out of the shelters in the morning, while the unlucky ones don't see another sunrise.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408338955</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emma Carroll
|title=In Darkling Wood
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= In the early hours of the morning Alice’s mum receives the phone call they have been waiting for. The long awaited heart transplant that may save her sick brother, Theo’s, life is now possible. Alice finds herself sent to stay with a grandmother she doesn’t know, miles away from her friends and the life she knows. There is no TV, no phone signal and no internet but Alice feels drawn to the mysterious Darkling Wood surrounding the house despite her grandmother’s wish to have it chopped down. Meanwhile back in 1918 a young girl desperately waits for news of her brother’s safe return from the front. Her mother doesn’t like her playing in the nearby wood but it is there that she discovers secrets and magic that give her hope for the future.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057131757X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Potion Diaries
|author=Amy Alward
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=
Samantha is a mixer of potions extraordinaire. Which is just as well, because someone has to save a princess who has fallen in love with herself. Yes, you heard right! You might not think this is the most enormous problem - princesses are so spoiled and pampered, is it any wonder they fall in love with themselves? But this isn't what's happened. Princess Evelyn has taken a love potion meant to make someone else fall in love with ''her''. And the resulting havoc caused by the wrong person taking the right potion leads to some very unstable magic that could threaten the very kingdom itself.
Hence the ''Wilde Hunt'', a national quest to find the ingredients for a cure.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471143562</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Thirteen Days of Midnight
|author=Leo Hunt
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Luke Manchett really isn't that upset when he gets the news that his father has died. You might think that's a tad harsh, but Luke has been estranged from his father for years. His primary concern is his mother, who is disabled by crushing cluster headaches. So, rather than worry her, Luke heads off to a lawyer's office to deal with the reading of his father's will by himself. And he gets a shock. Luke's inheritance adds up to six million dollars. SIX MILLION!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408337460</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Dougherty and David Tazzyman (illustrator)
|title=Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Bees of Stupidity
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We've been here before. The lovely children whose name is in the title of all these books – handy when they make time to try and check if they're in this one or not – are woken up in a ridiculous way by a blackbird making his usual cameo. The Army of Great Kerfuffle is asleep – all single cat of it. The King is wearing a badge that allows him to pretend to not be the King – this time he's thinking of keeping bees, although he has four animals that go 'quack' in a hive instead. Oh yeah, and the evil badgers are in prison having been naughty. But they will never follow the pattern and be evil and naughty and break out in order to be eviller and more naughty, will they?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192742736</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julian Sedgwick
|title=Ghosts of Shanghai
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Shanghai, 1926. The city is heavily divided between the natural, national areas, and the enclaves of the foreigners – Russian, French, American, British. Several of the younger international youths have formed the Ghost Society gang, after the principal character, Ruby, found another divide cleaving Shanghai in two – that between the living and the dead, the 'real world' and the Otherworld. Her brother dead, she seemed to become the conduit for a poltergeist in her apartment, and recently the gang have even managed to lock a spirit into a bottle and cast it down a well. But the gang is immediately falling apart – the lad she loves, Charlie, and his sister are diverting themselves from, or have been warned off, any further such activity. Rose knows she has to find the source of the problem – and cross any untold divides in her city to find the truth…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444923900</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus and Sean Murray
|title=Trollhunters
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=West Coast USA in the 1960s, and the city is wracked and wrecked by a slew of missing children reports. The parents with their new anguishes, and new rules against playing out after dark, have no idea of the horrors in their vicinity – literally under their feet lies a city of trolls, guilty of snatching the children. Last to go, Jack Sturgess. Cue the modern era and Jack's younger, now grown-up brother Jim, and Jim Jr live a sheltered life in the most barricaded and secure home imaginable, and Jim Jr's life is as exciting as you'd expect. Unfortunately, however, the trolls are about to make a return to their nastiest of ways – and their intentions are a lot more surprising than Jim Jr could ever predict…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405192</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Caroline Lawrence
|title= The Case of the Bogus Detective
|rating= 5
|genre= Confident Readers
|summary= Howdy folks! Welcome to Virginia City, bustling and busy home to prospectors, dancing girls, lawyers, gamblers and newspapermen. It's 1862, and our twelve-year-old pal Pinky is continuing the quest to become a successful detective and eventually join Uncle Allan in the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency in Chicago. But for the moment there's so much crime right here in Nevada, thanks to the untold wealth being found daily in the nearby silver mines, that Pinky and financial partner Ping are soon busy day and night, chasing desperados, solving crimes and righting all manner of wrongs.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010336</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ali Sparkes
|title=Car-Jacked
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=A boy genius who speaks Mandarin and Latin and a criminal who’s just robbed a bank and stolen a car: it’s an unusual pairing but, it turns out, a perfect team. ‘‘Car-Jacked’’ leads us through the twists and turns of 12-year old Jack’s adventure when his parents’ car is hi-jacked with Jack still inside.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273346X</amazonuk>
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