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• Tumtum and Nutmeg: A Circus Adventure by Emily Bearn
  |genre=Confident Readers ...tful birthday celebration with their friend, General Marchmouse, and canny readers will sense impending adventure as the General arrives at Rose Cottage and d
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• The Girl With The Sunshine Smile by Karen McCombie
  ...ople with dyslexia which benefit from these ingenious changes - most young readers will find the books easier to read and more enjoyable. I'm just about into [[Category:Confident Readers]]
  4 KB (648 words) - 12:21, 17 August 2021
• Honey and Me by Karen McCombie
  ...ople with dyslexia which benefit from these ingenious changes - most young readers will find the books easier to read and more enjoyable. I'm just about into [[Category:Confident Readers]]
  4 KB (623 words) - 11:21, 17 April 2018
• Cleocatra's Kushion (Spartapuss Tales) by Robin Price
  |genre=Confident Readers ...t for many years, I probably didn't get all the allusions and puns. But a confident reader of about eight or older, studying the Egyptians in school, would pro
  3 KB (481 words) - 11:29, 19 April 2018
• The Toymaker by Jeremy de Quidt
  |genre=Confident Readers ...is aimed at, may become a little bored, although more confident or teenage readers will be more inclined to battle through it. Those that do, especially thos
  5 KB (830 words) - 10:10, 17 April 2018
• A Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle
  |genre=Confident Readers ...d, the loss of her beloved gran is one adjustment too many. Slightly older readers, who face countless small milestones during adolescence both in their physi
  4 KB (643 words) - 10:58, 3 March 2018
• Happenings at Hookwood by Michael Roll
  |genre=Confident Readers ...The storyline and characters are suitable for emerging and newly confident readers of, say, seven and up. But the length, sentence construction and vocabulary
  4 KB (632 words) - 09:39, 5 October 2020
• The Treasure Keepers (Something Wickedly Weird) by Chris Mould
  |genre=Confident Readers The fast pace makes it an ideal read for reluctant readers, who've had a taste of what books can offer. As an adventure series, they'v
  2 KB (401 words) - 15:22, 16 April 2018
• Hero by Sarah Lean
  |genre=Confident Readers ...The lovely illustrations by Gary Blythe add to the appeal. I think that a confident reader of 8 would be able to manage this but would like to think that the s
  3 KB (527 words) - 14:52, 2 September 2020
• Grubtown Tales: When Bunnies Turn Bad by Philip Ardagh
  |genre=Confident Readers ...ng whimsy of Beardy Ardagh will not be picked up on so easily by the young readers for whom he writes this series, and so it just gets to be an even fuller, e
  3 KB (427 words) - 12:40, 21 April 2018
• Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky
  ...women somewhat, particularly in terms of recent and living scientists, but readers will find a wide variety of nationalities, ethnic backgrounds, orientations ...use today. How cool is that?! I'll leave the other forty-eight entries for readers to discover brand new but there are physicists, engineers, mathematicians,
  3 KB (508 words) - 13:06, 31 August 2020
• The Sands of Shark Island by Alexander McCall Smith and Iain McIntosh
  |genre=Confident Readers ...n's dismay. Still, at the end of this story there is a little joy for the readers involving some quicksand, so the bullies don't entirely get off scot-free!
  5 KB (891 words) - 08:38, 25 April 2018
• The River Singers by Tom Moorhouse
  |genre=Confident Readers ...thing that we can all identify with. The writing style would stretch young readers without deterring them and I think that this book would work beautifully re
  5 KB (777 words) - 10:29, 23 September 2020
• War Girls by Adele Geras, Melvin Burgess, Berlie Doherty, Mary Hooper, Anne Fine, Matt Whyman, Theresa Breslin, Sally Nicholls and Rowena House
  ...lection of very different young women will provoke questions and encourage readers to find out more. Highly recommended. Although this book would undoubtedly have a special appeal to female readers I do hope that boys will be encouraged to read this too. ''War Girls'' prov
  4 KB (590 words) - 08:57, 30 September 2020
• My Name Is Mina by David Almond
  ...and the nature of religion. Perhaps these things make it a book mostly for readers already attuned to Almond - I certainly wouldn't recommend reading ''My Nam [[Category:Confident Readers]]
  3 KB (414 words) - 12:12, 4 March 2018
• The Smug Pug by Anna Wilson
  |genre=Confident Readers ...can feel a little daunting, but this is a book which doesn't patronise its readers and rewards them handsomely for their efforts. I'm sorry that there won't
  2 KB (409 words) - 10:18, 23 April 2018
• Beyond the Barricade by Deborah Ellis
  |genre=Confident Readers ...nd HIV in Malawi. I am all for this kind of issue-based fiction for middle readers, exploring as they do the stories behind the news headlines, and the very d
  3 KB (560 words) - 13:33, 1 March 2018
• The Dead are Rising (MetaWars) by Jeff Norton
  ...action sequences but there are also moments of reflection, which will give readers pause for thought. Recommended. ...ld]] also has a wonderful blend of action and high tech. Slightly-younger readers interested in Manhattan might enjoy [[Marooned in Manhattan by Sheila Agnew
  3 KB (507 words) - 16:16, 7 September 2020
• The Stolen Songbird by Judith Eagle
  |genre=Confident Readers It's a chapter book, so good for confident readers probably over 8 or so. Some chapters are longer than others, so require a
  4 KB (671 words) - 08:46, 3 April 2024
• Two Terrible Vikings by Francesca Simon and Steve May
  |genre=Emerging Readers ...a great twist in the final story, this is an enjoyable story for emerging readers.
  3 KB (532 words) - 11:06, 29 March 2024

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