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|summary=Tilly often wished things would change Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the sleepy little rural village where she called homelived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, but she gets more change than she bargained for so when war breaks outthe smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. First her sweetheart joins up, then Tilly signs Some money changed hands and Hanh was on a nurse and finally her brother Georgie is called up, despite the fact that he is completely unfit for servicemini-bus to Hanoi. Georgie is different Only, big Hanh and strong but with the mind of other girls were not going to work in a child - how could he possibly survive shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the horrors of warlegs? So many promises are made, Tilly promises her sweetheart Harry she will wait The ones with the artfully- Harry assures placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her he won't be away long co- sure it will probably be over by Christmas (famous last words)workers made them.}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. When Georgie Lockdown is posted only just over, and he should be free to Harry's unitdo what he wants, Tilly extracts a somewhat reluctant promise from him to look after her brother. More promises will be made - go where he wants and with whom he wants, but promises are hard he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to keep in wartimehis best friend, Cassie. As Georgie and Harry face the harsh reality They were half of life in the trenchesa desultory school band, Tilly finds herself near but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the frontline as enigmatic – saying she could hear a nursesubhuman hum coming from the earth. Everything seems to have changed. Will even love remain the same Is this connected with one of her eco- especially in warrior parents saying the aftermath end of the world is already a broken promisedone deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth?Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122938</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Old Dog, New TricksLucy Strange and Pam Smy|authortitle=Bali RaiThe Mermaid in the Millpond|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Nick There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a miserable old sod friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by anyone's definitionthe London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. His equally mangy dogBut despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, Nelsonand despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X}}{{Frontpage|author=Keith Gray|title=The Climbers|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Sully is the only friend he best tree climber in the village. He has, what's known amongst the kids as his nasty nature puts everyone off'reach'. But while he may be unpleasant to most people, he is downright horrible what happens when the Singh family move a new kid shows up intown? A new kid, called Nottingham, bringing out the worst of his racist views - but can a man who likes Bob Marley really hate anyone clambers up some of another colourthe hardest trees with ease? Is Nick just an ignorant Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, and offensive old gitnot only that, or is there something more beneath the surface? No one seems to have really bothered that his chance to find out before a common love of dogs draws young Harvey Singh to attempt to befriend not only name the unkempt dogfinal, but unnamed big tree in the park by being the lonely old man as wellfirst to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands.How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123470</amazonuk>1781129991

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The First Third Wish (Little Gems)Lisa Thompson|authortitle=Ian BeckThe Small Things

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=This is a lovely story of a lost wish. Cobweb Although Anna has bungled her very first assignmentfriends at school, losing the third wish meant for a kindly woodcuttershe feels like she never really fits in. She managed Her family don't have enough money to replace it with a sparelet her do after school activities, but and so she feels like her job will not be complete until the missing wish life at home is found and returnedboring in comparison to theirs. It seems When a lost wish new girl joins her class, Anna is very dangerous indeed as it gives asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the finder an unlimited supply of wishes - new girl, Ellie, is unwell and not all people are careful what they wish forso can't attend school in person. As luck would have it thoughInstead, she joins in with the wish has found its way just to class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the place where it most neededchallenge of making friends with someone through a robot, where it will result in and is she even interesting enough to be a true happily ever after, not only for the young man who finds it, but for many others as well.good friend to Ellie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122458</amazonuk>1781129649

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=My Friend's a Gris-Kwok (Little Gems)Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|authortitle=Malorie Blackman and Andy RowlandThe Ghost Garden

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=When Mike discovers that his best friend Alex Fran, the gardener's daughter at a posh country house, is worried. She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a Gris Kwok or shape shifter it looks like they are in for some real fun. Not only can Alex change into any creature he wantsgrim discovery - a large bone, he can change anyone touching him as wellburied under the potatoes. There are only three hitches. The first is But she's even more worried when she learns that Alex can only change three times a day. The second is that event coincided with Leo, the older child of the house, breaking his sister has leg while playing cricket on the same powerslawn. The third She is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that Alex also seems to foretell a surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason to be out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he is babysitting and if you think babysitting ordinary siblings is difficult just wait until you see all the mischief seeking - a shape shifting toddler can get intolong-forgotten burial chamber. But surely that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112244X</amazonuk>1781129002

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Snug (Little Gems)Alex Wheatle|authortitle=Michael Morpurgo and Faye HansenThe Humiliations of Welton Blake

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Michael Morpurgo has captured what is like We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to own a catcinema date, or perhaps more accurately but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in response, and the wanna-bae seems to actually be owned by with someone else anyway. On a cat, perfectly. Snug comes into the family at almost the same time as Lisa bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now that the two grow up together and share a special bond. His exploits will be familiar to any one who dad has any experience of cats and many children will relate left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to things Snug does just like their own pethaving cabbage for dinner. The illustrations in I know, right? But surely this book are beautiful and certain is just a blip, a day at school to delight any animal loverforget, as well as giving readers and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can't be the start of a nostalgic look at childhood.most nightmarish time for young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122865</amazonuk>1781129495

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Castle in the Field (Little Gems)Apollo 13 Mission|author=Michael Morpurgo David Long and Faye HansenStefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|summary=I think all children love dens. It is almost a primal instinct for children, to find, construct and hide away 's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in hutsFlorida, dens, tents, or any other place but the story of that gives them that sense journey remains one of their own private place, away from the world. Michael Morpurgo has captured the magic greatest survival stories of a secret den perfectly in this story of three friends who find an abandoned WW2 Pillbox and make it into their own private castleall time. The children are not really meant to be ''Survival in the pillbox. It is on private property, but they donSpace: The Apollo 13 Mission''t really have any place else to go. Two of the children are not allowed to go home until their parents finish work and the third will not leave his best friend out in the weather alone. At first the pillbox is just shelter from a storm, but it soon becomes an embodiment of all the wonder of childhood as the children transform it into a wonderful private retreat. But how long will they be able to keep their special hideout a secret? This is a lovely story with a heart warming theme of friendship, a confrontation with bullies, and the inevitable pangs brilliant retelling of growing upwhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122873</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781129312|title=Ninja: First Mission (Ninja Trilogy)Sequin and Stitch|author=Chris Bradford Laura Dockrill and Sonia LeongSara Ogilvie (illustrator)

|summary=If you are looking for adventureSequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with her. It wasn't that mum wouldn' Ninja First Mission'' will certain come up trumpst go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed to get credit for what she did. This book never has Mum is a slow moment. But even as seamstress and she makes the story races along sort of clothes that you see on red carpets or at breakneck speed, there is plenty to think about as wellimportant weddings. This book has as much to offer She's not the designer - they're the deep thinker as people who make a lot of money from the adrenaline junkyclothes. Tata, a young Ninja in training, Mum is desperate to prove himself. He has failed the test for his black belt three timesperson who actually ''makes'' the garments and she's really talented, but this was just a simple test. The sacred scrolls of his clan have been stolen, and all of when people talk about the dress or the fully fledged Ninja but one are away on another mission. Tata faces another testsuit, but this time they talk about the stakes are life and death, not only for himself, but for his clandesigner. In order to succeed Tata must learn to find victory in failure. Most of all he must learn to believe in himself The seamstress is never mentioned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842999397</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Football CrazyTanya Landman|authortitle=Tony Bradman and Michael BroadJane Eyre: a Retelling

|summary=''Football Crazy'' is A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a group of friends who play on the worst team in the league. It can be difficult when your team loses every time you go on the pitchdreary school, but Danny, Jamil and Lewis love moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the sport life she wants – and they stick with it only one job, to tutor a young half- win or lose. They keep hoping the next game will be the game in which they finally winFrench girl, or at least get on the scoreboard, but it never happens - not as long as Mr Perkins whose father is coachingalmost always absent. When the coach finally packs it in - it looks like curtains for Rovers FC. But, luck he does turn up he seems to be on the childrendark, brooding and troubled – but that's side when a new coachnothing compared to the darker, Jock Ramsay, with some history more broody and even more troubling secret in the pro leagues is foundhouse. The new coach is tough Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but he quickly gets the team into shape and the Rovers start climbing the league tables. Parents are delightedif you don't, the stands are fullfor whatever reason, but the children find they no longer love the sport. Everything this is about winning. Things come a wonderful book to crisis point when Coach Ramsay orders Danny turn to take a dive.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122121</amazonuk>1781129126

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128952|title=Secret FCThe Starlight Watchmaker|author=Tom PalmerLauren James|rating=34

|summary=Unlike many childrenThis is a dyslexia-friendly, Lilyscience fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, Zack an unwanted and Khan can't wait rather lonely android, who makes a living for the school year to beginhimself mending time-travel watches. They live in an overcrowded part When one of London with no room for outdoor sports his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved and the school ground is the only place they can enjoy a friendly game of football. But their hopes for the new term are dashed when a new Head Teacher decides ball sports are too dangerous for childrenready to help. SurprisinglyAn exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with an overly safety-conscious Headsome amazing new friends, while football is prohibited there is a wooded waste ground inside exploring regions of the school grounds - which just happens planet never before known to be the perfect spot for the children to clear and create their own football pitchexist. But will they be able to keep the secret? Or will Mr Edwards blow the final whistle on all of their sports? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122415</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Samurai|author=Ian Beck and Daniel AtanasovFrontpage|ratingisbn=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=The hero of our story is nameless. He is only the Samurai, and not even quite that. He is dishonoured, a masterless Samurai, or Ronin. We do not know his master's fate but we can only assume it is death, and that Ronin has fled the field taking his injured dog to safety. The land is desolate and barren and both the text and the superbly drawn illustrations build a feeling of darkness and despair. The path he travels on is lined with skeletons of defeated warriors lashed to wagon wheels. It gives the reader the impression of the road to hell. The young Samurai takes refuge in a ruined palace, yet another sign of devastation upon the land, seeming to exist for the next few days only to care for Cho, his dog, while awaiting the punishment of the gods for his failure. He rises from despair to help others, first to defeat a demon haunting the palace, and then undertaking a journey to find and defeat another deadly demon. Soon the young warrior comes to a village suffering under the most horrific of curses. His courage will be put to the test as he must risk even his beloved Cho to save an innocent girl and lift the curse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122202</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1781128693|title=Thor and the Master of MagicSpecial Delivery|author=Kevin Crossley-Holland and SikuJonathan Meres

|summary=I grew up with tales of the heroes of Asgard, and this story was always a firm favouriteHow do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but todaywhen the problem is the brain which isn's children are more likely t functioning quite as it used to know Thor from it isn't as easy to grasp. Frank was a normal nine-year-old and like many nine-year-olds what he wanted was a new bike. He'The Avengersd had his for about seventy-eight years and he didn''. This book is sure t want to interest raise the seat any young comic book fans, and the illustrations will certainly help with this, but more. Mum pointed out that it is still faithful to the original myth, wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and in my mind would count as literaturebikes cost a lot of money, rather than just a fun read - but I wouldnwhich didn't tell the children thatgrow on trees. This is His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her with her paper round. an excellent retelling of Thor's visit Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a thousand years to Utgarda - Loki ( save up the giant king's hall) from Prose Edda money for a collection of Norse poetry thought bike AND he had to have been compiled by the Icelandic poet Snorri Sturluson get up at six o'clock in the 13th centurymorning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122210</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Under Attack1781128707|author=Jim Eldridge and Dave Shepherd|ratingtitle=3.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=My sons are army barmy as they say, and have been begging for military stories so I was delighted to see this in the Barrington Stoke range. The book reminded me a bit Spectacular Revenge of a cross between the old Commando comic books and Action Man books with heroes blazing to the rescue, but sadly I found something lacking. It is a very short story and packed with action, but there really does not seem to be any character development. The story itself is very simple but flat. The Taliban attacks a hospital repeatedly and the British Army comes to the rescue. A very small child is shot and the doctor elects to perform emergency surgery on a kitchen table rather than waiting for the helicopter to arrive, but the Taliban haven't given up. The doctor valiantly tries to operate to remove a bullet next to the child's heart under the most desperate of circumstances, without blood, anaesthetics etc.... all the while under heavy fire. Will the British Army be able to save the day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122113</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=GamerSuzi Sims|author=Chris BradfordVivian French

|summary=Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to win the 100 metres race on sports day at the end of term - and that was next week. We're going to read about what happened in her diary, although there'Gamers a warning that we really shouldn'' is written for the child who would rather t be in front of a console than reading bookit, particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. Even To say that the cover depicts action with two girls don't get on at all well is a scene that changes to depict fighting if you tilt the bookbit of an understatement. This isn Suzi wouldn't to say actually do anything about it lacks depth. This has a well developed plot, and very good characterisation, but the action never stops. It Barbie is perfect for children who are used to the high adrenaline experience of a video game, but it has plenty troublemaker and she wants to offer win the child who loves books as well100 metres race too - by fair means or foul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121389</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1949471004|title=ScrumDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Tom Palmer and Dylan GibsonPamela Brookes|rating=54

|summary=Steven What do you do when your child has a pretty good life. His parents are divorceddyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but they get the sounds in the book might not be the ones you've been working on well. He sees his Dad every day and has encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a good relationship with his Mom and her partner, Martinchild without that problem. True, he would like his parents You need to be able to get back together, as most kids would, but things arenbuy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you't too bad as they are. He has good friendsve been working on, a happy home and a real shot and breaking without anything else being thrown into the Rugby League teamsmix. His whole world is turned upside though when Mom announces she is going to marry Martin. Soon Steven finds himself in You need a new home, with a new school and new friends, but he adjusts story which engages the young mind and makes you need stages which progress steadily through the best of thingslearning process without there being any large jumps. He even has a shot at playing Rugby at county level Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, but there is one problem and it is major oneeither. The new town is in a Rugby Union area. Steven has always played Rugby League Reading - and ''learning'' to his father, switching sides will read - should be a betrayalpleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842999443</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128510|title=Heroes (Most Wanted)One Shot|author=Anne PerryTanya Landman

|summary=Trench warfare ''Pa and I understood each other. Our souls were cut from the same cloth.'' But Pa has widely been acknowledged as since died, leaving Maggie very much alone in her family. She was the only one of three children who looked like him, and none of the most soul destroying forms of combat. It broke men physically others acted like him, and mentallycertainly, his wife didn't seem to fully understand him. Death seemed inevitable for manyMaggie might as well be reliving the Cinderella story, stuck with two siblings and life was so horrible mother that are fully against her. But at least she can sneak out at times it must have come as release. So what is one more death among the multitudesnight, and shoot some game to stop them from starving? To Chaplain Joseph Reavely every death countsWell, no, but he can not let this one go. Morton was not killed by enemy fire - he was murdered and Joseph will not rest until justice where her mother is done. It sounds pretty straight forwardconcerned – the very idea of a female shooting things, when they could be preparing for a life of unhappy married drudgery, but there is far more to it than this and justice is truly poetic in this casejust scandalous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842995103</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Fox Friend|author=Michael Morpurgo and Joanna Carey|rating=3|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Clare loves animals. Her best friend is her horse, and she loves all the lambs born on her family farm as well. This natural affection for animals easily extended to the fox she saw strolling through the farm as well. Her father however despises foxes saying ''the only good fox is dead fox''. Clare's Father says the foxes had already killed ten lambs that year, fourth and it was only March with the lambing season in full swinglast story about Nicky and Kenny. (I did find these figures quite high - but then again, maybe they owned a lot of sheep). When Clare finds an injured and orphaned cub after a fox hunt, it is obvious she can Try not turn to her parents for help. But regardless of her fathercry before you's feelings, Clare is determined to save this helpless little creatureve even read the first page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781120862</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Moose Baby|author=Meg Rosoff|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Jess is a pretty average teenage mother Things have got tense at home - again - except for one thingNicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Instead of giving birth Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a normal little girl as she was expecting, she ends long time ago. They haven't seen her for years and the impending visit is stirring up delivering a 23lb moose calf by C-Sectionlot of uncomfortable feelings. It seems there And Nicky's girlfriend has been a cluster of non homo-sapien births to human mothersended things. For some unexplained reasonTo take their minds off it all, Nicky and Kenny plan a number of women have given birth day out, trekking across the moors. But it doesn't go to animals plan and an accident puts both boys - mostly moose. Jess feels confident she can cope with the trials and tribulations of teenage parenthood. She can handle the midwives' harsh lookstheir dog, Tina, her mother's disappointment and her boyfriend's parents' disapproval. But giving birth to a moose instead of a human may be more than any mother can adjust toin terrible danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121974</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786697173|title=The Wickedest Witch in Mr Tiger, Betsy and the WorldBlue Moon|author=Kaye Umansky and Gerald KelleySally Gardner

|summary=Everyone knows the story of Hansel and GretelBetsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. At least we thought we knew. But as Her father, Alonso, makes the saying goes there are always two sides to most wonderful ice cream in every story and this one is told from the perspective of Old Maggit, The Wickedest Witch in the Worldflavour you could imagine. You see Maggit really wasn't so wicked after all. It was the children who were wicked. WellHer mother, maybe they were not exactly ''wicked'', but they were most certainly obnoxiousMyrtle, is a mermaid and old Maggit's no nonsense manner and just a bit of attention may be exactly what these children need comes to turn them around. Maggit really has built a house of gingerbread to lure children into as a means of finally winning the Wickedest Witch visit regularly, although she still lives in the World titlesea. But once she has Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, about the children - she has no idea what circus owned by a tiger and whether it would ever come to do them her island and ends up teaching them manners. As to secondly, about a magical ice cream made from the whole cannibalism story - that was all made up berries of coursethe Gongalong bush. The children decide the only way for Maggit to win is to lie - and they One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come up with a whopper. It was so good people have been repeating it for centuries with the original tale thought to have originated in the 14th centurytrue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122016</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Mary's Hair|author=Eoin Colfer|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Mary hates her hair. It has black bits And then Mr Tiger and brown bits, curly bits and straight bits and Mary feels that it looks very much like a bushhis circus arrive. Her Daddy says if you don't like something, you should change it (instead of whining about it to your parents when they want to relax with And a cup of tea). Mary's Daddy, like many others, should watch what he says to children. Mary follows his advice with hilarious resultsjourney is planned. First she cuts her hair, but when that doesn't go to plan she decides to dye it. She has learned something from the whole hair cutting experience though, this time she plans to try the dye out on someone else first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122261</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128286|title=Dead BrigadeRun Wild|author=James LovegroveGill Lewis

|summary=Sergeant Jonah Hammond's career has been Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from the local attempt at a standstill in the years since he launched skatepark, they find a complaint against a reckless commanding officer whose arrogance resulted huge waste ground in the massacre shadow of British soldiers. Now that same officer is offering Hammond another chance. This time Hammond won't have a derelict gasometer to worry about some idiot getting his men all killed - because practise on, which they are already dead. Hammond has been given the task of training a crack squad of reanimated soldiersduly do, immune even though they have to pain, disease and capable of fighting drag Izzy's younger brother with massive injuriesthem. These living dead are reanimated by nanobots. They are capable of learningThe following day they all want to return, following instructionsas does the brother's schoolfriend, despite – and meant to be incapable of independent thought. However, it soon becomes apparent that things don't always go the way they are meant to. These are not mindless killing machines; a part course because of them – there is still human, still the soldier they once were, trapped within a decaying corpse, kept refrigerated until ready for huge wolf living in the next missionsite. They have no lifeCan the children survive living in the urban wilderness, nor do they have the luxury of death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842995081</amazonuk>alongside such obvious dangers?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jennings Different|title=Sweetness and LiesA Different Dog|author=Karen McCombie Paul Jennings and Jessica SecheretGeoff Kelly|rating=4.5

|summary=Starting a new school is always tough, and when Tilly Our hero is the only girl from her primary to win a place at the more exclusive Beech Cliff Schoolboy, her old friends abandon her as being too poshwhose name we never learn. She quickly makes friends We know what he wants in life – with Miahis mother exceedingly poor, but when a new girl Amber Sweet tries and even his bed burnt to join keep the group Mia definitely feels that two is company of them warm, he wants the prize offered by a down-a-mountain-and-back-up-and three is a crowd-down-again foot race. Amber is torn between loyalty to Mia Winning the race and the large purse would also give him more status in the eyes of those kids that bully him, and her own conscience as Tia it might even give him a voice – for he is openly cruel to Amberalmost mute. Tilly soon begins We quickly learn he never talks back to question Mia's jokes anyone, whatever the motivation, and put downs. There doesn't seem can only speak aloud to be any way Tilly can be friends with both girlshimself – and, Mia won't allow so it. Can she find the courage turns out, to stand a dog he rescues from a bad road accident he finds on his way up the hill to Mia and risk having no friends? And would Amber even want to be her friend any more if she did?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121990</amazonuk>the start line…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dawson_Grave|title=CheesemaresGrave Matter|author=Ross CollinsJuno Dawson and Alex T Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=Every time Hal eats cheese Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took her life, Sam is a broken soul. He is lost without the girl he has terrible nightmares. Hal's mother suggests drastic measures - no more cheese before bed. Hal loves his cheese , feeling as though so he sets off on a quest for clues to solve the Case part of the Cheesemareshim died that night too. He But he is accompanied by his canine sidekick, Rufusdesperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He stumbles upon remembers his first clue very quicklyestranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to help him. All of the cheese that has been giving However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him bad dreams has come from Contessa Von Udderstein's (not at all evil) House of Cheese in Bovina. Hal follows the trail to a spooky castle ruled by discover the evil Contessa Von UddersteinMilk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a very mad cow who looks quite a bit like a bovine version of Cruella De Villepact with forces he doesn't understand. The irate cow wants revenge on humans for stealing their milk for years (it's a good thing no one mentioned hamburgers or roast beef) Hal and Rufus must escape from the clutches of the mad cattle and make cheese safe Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to eat again. Itchange Sam's a good thing cows don't have hands to clutch withlife in more ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121915</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Cherry Green Story Queen|author=Annie Dalton and Charlie Adler|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=At first glance, I expected this Move on to be a fairly typical girl's story for tweens. I certainly was not expecting a story of such beauty or depth. This is a very enjoyable read, but is it much more than light fiction. I enjoyed it so much, I wanted to share the book with my sons, but I had to be very careful to hide the cover. Being typical boys, they are not going to want to hear a story that looks so much like a girl's story. This book has something in common with 'The Arabian Nights, Tales of 1,001 Nights'. In fact it shares a direct link with the ancient book. But this story will only give us three nights of magic. Still three nights might just be enough to change the lives of six children in foster care. This also shares the basic message of 'The Allegory of the Long Spoons' a well known parable by the Rabbi Haim which has passed into the folk lore of many cultures. The basic message is that the difference between heaven and hell is not so much a difference in physical circumstances, but rather is the result of how we treat one another.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122008</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Dystopian Fiction Reviews]]