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[[Category:New Reviews|Dyslexia Friendly]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Sam Usher1800901232|title=We Are Not FROGS!Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45
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|summary=After Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the storm rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the frogs smartly-dressed man and the toads all woman came out onto to the lawn village to play long jumpoffer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. This Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the frogs' choice as they could jump further and the toads just wanted an easy lifemini-bus to Hanoi. But - through a series of unfortunate incidents involving lorries, dogs, children, a cart and an ice cream containerOnly, first the toads ended up in the ice cream container Hanh and after they sold the frogs down the river other girls were not going to work in exchange for being put into a muddy ditchshop, the frogs - all twenty two of them - they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the same prison ones with intricate embroidery and it was only thanks to Mutt beading on the legs? The ones with the dog artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that they escapedfelt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125120</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LawrenceMarcus Sedgwick|title=Queen of the Silver ArrowWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=King Metabus had not been Meet Fitz, a good king and his escape from his kingdom was hurried young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and pursued. When he reached the river should be free to do what he had wants, to make a decision go where he wants and with whom he thought first of the safety of the baby daughter wants, but he carried cannot stop himself from putting his foot in his arms and tied her it when he talks to his javelinbest friend, which he threw across the torrent, pledging as he did so that he would serve the Goddess DianaCassie. Camilla should have grown up as They were half of a Princess desultory school band, but instead Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she lived in could hear a cave subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her father eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done 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...|isbn=1800900899}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Strange and ran wild Pam Smy|title=The Mermaid in the Millpond|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=There is no mermaid in the forestmillpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. In nearby LaurentumNeither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, Acca who have had grown up hearing their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the story 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 how Camilla giggled as she swung on the javelin embedded existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the ground slight little Dot, and dreamed of meeting despite everything that life has taught herabout betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, but this didnthere might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't happen until after mean there is any truth in the death existence of Camilla's father, when the girls became firm friends.mermaid?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>180090049X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperKeith Gray|title=A Dark TradeThe Climbers
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Georgina Friday, Sully is the best tree climber in the village. He has what's known to everyone amongst the kids as Gina, grew up in an orphanage and 'reach'. But what happens when she was sixteen went to be a servant is a big house new kid shows up in central London. There were seven members town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the family hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, and twelve servants - and Gina was the one at the bottom who had not only that, that his chance to run about after everyone and who was name the butt of practical jokes. She could cope with thatfinal, but what she couldn't cope with was unnamed big tree in the attentions of one of park by being the young men of the familyfirst to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. She'd already heard the stories How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of what had happened to another young maid who'd caught his eye - thrown out on the streets friends, to fend for herself and her baby - and could see no way of escape from ''him'' other than to run away.do so?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125163</amazonuk>1781129991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry DearyLisa Thompson|title=Ghost for SaleThe Small Things|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=When Mr and Mrs Rundle see an advert Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in the paper for a wardrobe for sale, complete with ghost, Mrs Rundle decides that they absolutely ''must'. Her family don' t have it! They own The Dog and Duck Inn enough money to let her do after school activities, and Mrs Rundle so she feels that addition of like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. When a ghost will add interest new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to their Inn partner her, but things are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and bring them customso can't attend school in person. The arrival of Instead, she joins in with the wardrobe certainly shakes things up for class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the Rundleschallenge of making friends with someone through a robot, though perhaps not in the way they'd imagined!and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112518X</amazonuk>1781129649
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julian Gough Emma Carroll and Jim FieldKaja Kajfez|title=Rabbit and Bear: Rabbit's Bad HabbitsThe Ghost Garden
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=When Bear wakes up early from her hibernationFran, she decides that if she canthe gardener't sleep then she might as well do something which shes daughter at a posh country house, is worried. She's always wanted to do just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - build a snowmanlarge bone, buried under the potatoes. ItBut she's whilst even more worried when she's doing this learns that that event coincided with Leo, the older child of the house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. She is due to get even more worried when she meets Rabbit, who tells her finds something else that he's an Expert in Gravityalso seems to foretell a surprise. Whatever he isTasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, it doesn't seem she might have reason to make him particularly happy as be out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he never smiles and isn't exactly big on funis seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. But there are avalanches around as well as hungry wolves and Rabbit soon comes to the conclusion surely that itwon's good t act as a premonition to have a friend on your side anything - even if you have just stolen their food.not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444929313</amazonuk>1781129002
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean UreAlex Wheatle|title=My Dog DaisyThe Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating=42.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Lily did ''not'' want a goldfishWe meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. Nor did she want He should be getting a hamster or a cat. She wanted text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night'DOG'' s meal and whilst she understood what Mum said about not being able to have a dog his breakfast over another girl in the 5th floor flat without a garden she still thought it was unfair. After allclass, when they lived at Granwho's house there was a garden and she could have had a dogduffed him up in response, but then Mum and Gran had a row and they moved outthe wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. She hadnOn a bigger scale he't even seen Gran for three months s living with his mother and she ''missed'' her. And not much income now that the dad has left the dog which she couldnpicture – yes, things are so bad they't havere resorting to having cabbage for dinner. Even KeriI know, her best friendright? But surely this is just a blip, though that she was going on a bit about day at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can't be the whole thing.start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124965</amazonuk>1781129495
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eoin Colfer and Victor Ambrus178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Seal's Fate Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (Colour Conkerillustrator) |rating=45
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Bobby Parrish It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was reluctant to admit that launched from the seal was cuteKennedy Space Centre in Florida, even to himself. That sort of thing was for girls and he was here to club but the seal. Seals were affecting his father's livelihood as a fisherman and there was a bounty story of a £1 for a seal's flipper: in those days that was good money and even journey remains one of the girls had collected the cashgreatest survival stories of all time. Still, somehow he couldn't quite bring himself to attack the defenceless cub, all big, black, round eyes and obviously unworried by his presence'Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of what happened. What would the other lads say though? More to the point, what would his father say?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124310</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1781129312|title=Michael Morpurgo Sequin and Catherine RaynerStitch|titleauthor=Clare Laura Dockrill and Her Captain Sara Ogilvie (Colour Conkerillustrator)|rating=45
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Clare didn't enjoy the journey down Sequin loved her mum to Devon. Her parents always argued and it was usually because Mum had lost bits, but sometimes she got very cross with her way or got caught in a traffic jam and this time she'd done both. It was a little better when they got to Aunt Dorawasn's house, but Aunt Dora wasnt that mum wouldn't exactly a peacemaker and tended go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed to stick up get credit for Dad against everybody elsewhat she did. The holiday improved when Clare got out for Mum is a walk on her own seamstress and discovered a stray lamb she makes the sort of clothes that you see on the roadred carpets or at important weddings. She took it to 's not the designer - they're the people who make a lot of money from the nearest house and Mr Jones was delighted: Clare had just saved half his flockclothes. Clare got on with Mum is the person who actually ''makes'' the old man - garments and with his horseshe's really talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, Captainthey talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124353</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Rosen and Richard WatsonTanya Landman|title=Mad in the Back|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Mum is setting off on a long car journey with two kids in the back - did I hear you groan? Mum groaned too because she ''knew'' what was going to happen. She told the kids before she set off that they had to behave because she couldn't drive properly if the kids were going ''mad in the back''. The kids told her not to worry - and off they went. Then the kids started ''The Moaning''. Every parent will know exactly what this means: requests for drink, food, windows open... Then the squabbling starts: accusations that ''HE'' has got my book, ears are bitten by ''HER''. Mum tries diversionary tacticsJane Eyre: ''look out of the window - there's a lamp-post''. (Yes MUm - we know desperation when we hear it.) And it gets worse. And worse. Then Mum snaps.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125090</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Karen McCombie|title=Honey and MeRetelling|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Most girls starting out Brook City School are hoping for A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something new like the life she wants – and differentwith only one job, but Kirsten just wants things to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but that''normal''. Even good things seem s nothing compared to come with a sting in the tail and worst of alldarker, Mum more broody and Dad are really not getting on. In fact Kirsten is happiest at school and does all even more troubling secret in the after-school activities she can manage just to keep away from home for as long as she canhouse. Her elder brotherYes, Finnif you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, who's at sixth form collegefor whatever reason, this is struggling too: what used a wonderful book to turn to be thought of as ''cheeky'' at school has turned into ''disruptive''. When things get really bad Kirsten is suddenly reminded of her old friend Honey and wonders if she can get in touch with her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124752</amazonuk>1781129126
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michelle Magorian and Sam Usher1781128952|title= Smile|rating= 5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Josh is tired, fed up and feeling put out and ignored. No, he isn't having a tantrum – something big has happened (well, two things actually) and his world has turned upside down. You see ''The Howler'' has arrived and everything has changed and not, so far, for the better. Baby brother Charlie is just seventeen days old and is not only taking up all of his parents' time, but also stopping everyone in the house from getting enough sleep with his constant howling. Will the crying 'ever' stop? And there's worse because the really terrible thing is the baby's arrival meant a very special event had to be cancelled. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125007</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStarlight Watchmaker|author=Tom Palmer|title=Rugby Academy: DeadlockedLauren James|rating=54
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=This is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It's tells the third story in the ''Rugby Academy'' series tale of Hugo, an unwanted and so far we've heard from Woody in [[Rugby Academy: Combat Zone by Tom Palmer|Combat Zone]] and Rory in [[Rugby Academy: Surface to Air by Tom Palmer|Surface to Air]]. In thisrather lonely android, the final book in this brilliant series, we hear from Owenwho makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. We left the team at the end When one of ''Surface his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to Air'' when Borderlands had got through be solved and is only too ready to the World Championship in New Zealandhelp. Despite the elation An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of doing so Owen isn't entirely comfortable his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with Jessesome amazing new friends, exploring regions of the team captain. He has no doubts that he was a brilliant player - the best on the team - but he can't respect him as a personplanet never before known to exist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123993</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy Hopkins1781128693|title=Mum Never Did Learn to KnockSpecial Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=#People How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are worrying about Emily: her Dad and obvious, but when the problem is the staff at school are all worried that shebrain which isn't functioning quite as it used to it isn's spending a lot of time talking t as easy to her Mumgrasp. You might think that there's nothing wrong with that Frank was a normal nine-year- in fact that it's entirely commendable old and young people ought to spend more time talking to their parents like many nine-year- but Emily's Mum died olds what he wanted was a few months agonew bike. Emily has reached the stage of ''hidingHe'd had his for about seventy-eight years and he didn' t want to raise the fact seat any more. Mum pointed out that Mum appears to her in very real form, perhaps just it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a little bit ''ghostly''lot of money, but then you wouldnwhich didn't expect grow on trees. His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her to look just like she was when she was alive, now with her paper round. Frank agreed despite thinking that it would you? At school she's sent take him a thousand years to see save up the money for a counsellor, but it doesnbike AND he had to get up at six o't go quite the way that clock in the counsellor was expecting..morning. particularly when Emily asked where people go when they die and the ultimate 'what comes after space?'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124957</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melvin Burgess1781128707|title=PersistThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Vivian French
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=When we first meet Marianne she's confusedSuzi 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. People keep coming and looking at her, but they donWe't seem re going to see ''read about what happened in herdiary, although there's a warning that we really shouldn'. She wonders if shet be reading it, particularly as it's something shiny, such as a mirrorabout Barbie Meek. Her family are desperate: Marianne has been in a coma for so long To say that even her mother is beginning to doubt that she can surface from wherever she the two girls don't get on at all well isa bit of an understatement. The doctors are sure that thereSuzi wouldn's no hope for the girl and they're talking t actually do anything about switching off the machines which are keeping her aliveit, allowing her but Barbie is a troublemaker and she wants to fade away painlessly... It all comes to a head on Marianne's fifteenth birthdaywin the 100 metres race too - by fair means or foul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124949</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Priestley and Vladimir Stankovic 1949471004|title=The Wickford Doom|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Following Harry’s father’s death in the war, he and his mother learn that they’ve inherited a bequest from a relative. When they arrive to claim it, though, they find that they’ve been the victims of a dying man’s last cruel prank. But there are local tales of missing children and a strange painting called the Doom, and Harry quickly learns that there may be something far more evil than Dog on a nasty joke to worry about. Can he fight back against it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124094</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLog Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Malorie Blackman|title=Robot GirlPamela Brookes|rating=54
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Claire is excited What do you do when your child has dyslexia and she's ''nagging'' her mother you need books which will help them to tell her what her father has been doing in his laboratoryachieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but her mother is no wiser the sounds in the book might not be the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than she is and tells Claire a child without that she will simply have problem. You need to wait until her father is ready be able to show her buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what heyou's ve been doingworking on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. He's You need a famous inventor story which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and Claire knows that whatever it is will be excitinggames wouldn't go amiss, either. For now all she can do is Reading - and ''learning'' to tell her pen friend read - and should be a pleasure. It should be patient''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124590</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer1781128510|title=Rugby Academy: Surface to AirOne Shot|author=Tanya Landman|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=We first met Rory in [[Rugby Academy: Combat Zone by Tom Palmer|Combat Zone]] when circumstances forced him to go to Broadlands Boarding School when both his parents ''Pa and I understood each other. Our souls were posted abroad by cut from the RAFsame cloth. It wasn't his choice - I mean they played ''rugby'' rather than his beloved football - but it wasn't long before he discovered that not only did he enjoy rugbyBut Pa has since died, he was rather good at itleaving Maggie very much alone in her family. It She was also something the only one of three children who looked like him, and none of a relief the others acted like him, and certainly, his wife didn't seem to fully understand him. Maggie might as well be at a school where there were other boys in a similar situation to himself. By reliving the time Cinderella story, stuck with two siblings and mother that we meet Rory again time has moved on are fully against her. But at least she can sneak out at night, and he's on his way shoot some game to Toulon to play in an international schools rugby tournamentstop them from starving? Well, no, not where her mother is concerned – the very idea of a female shooting things, when they could be preparing for a life of unhappy married drudgery, is just scandalous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123985</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbro Lindgren and Eva Eriksson178112843X|title=Max's WagonLark|author=Anthony McGowan
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Max had a wagon and he began putting his treasures into it. First it was his bear, then the dog, who was asleep on the chair and looking decidedly disinterested in what was going on, but he played his part. Then it was Max's ball and the contents begin to seem just a little ''precarious'' and were even more so when Max's car was added to the pile, but bear sat astride Dog and Max pushed the wagon whilst holding the car on top of the ball with the other. Then he added his cookie and Dog began to look just the tiniest bit ''distracted'' and bear fell out. Dog got bear and brought him back and he did the same when the car and the ball fell off the wagon (in the literal sense of the phrase). Then the cookie fell out...
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{{newreview
|author=Frank Cottrell Boyce
|title=Desirable
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Poor GeorgeI'll warn you first. He knows that he  This is the fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. Try not popular but when to cry before you've even read the first page. Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his own Grandad doesnlearning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a long time ago. They haven't want to stay around seen her for his birthday party he realises that years and the impending visit is stirring up a lot of uncomfortable feelings. And Nicky's girlfriend has ended things are even worse than he thought. However this was before he discovered the contents of the present from his Grandad To take their minds off it all, Nicky and experienced Kenny plan a day out, trekking across the dramatic impact on his life an aged bottle of aftershave would bringmoors. Although George tries But it doesn't go to think himself invisible plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, in order to cope today he is not invisibleterrible danger. In fact he is not only visible but desirable too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124248</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786697173|title=Good Dog Lion (Little Gems)Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Alexander McCall SmithSally Gardner
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Being Betsy K Glory lives a firm fan of Alexander McCall Smith's novels for adults, I wasn't surprised to find that I thoroughly enjoyed this children's storyrather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Written with the same gentle understanding of human natureHer father, and so very deftly toldAlonso, I read this story with a great deal of pleasuremakes the most wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Although the story behind Timo's life is rather sadHer mother, Myrtle, with his father leaving him and his mother when Timo is only young, a mermaid and his mother then struggling to find enough money comes to raise both of themvisit regularly, it never descends into tragedy but remains positive and upbeatalthough she still lives in the sea. It's a story Betsy dreams of strengthtwo things: firstly, about the circus owned by a tiger and whether it would ever come to her island and braverysecondly, and I'm not just talking about Timo a magical ice cream made from the berries of the Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true. And then Mr Tiger and his mothercircus arrive. And a journey is planned...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123721</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer1781128286|title=Rugby Academy: Combat ZoneRun Wild|author=Gill Lewis
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Woody's dreams were about football: he wanted to play for his country one day, but there was a snagMeet Izzy and Asha. His father was Bullied away from the local attempt at a fighter pilot - and his squadron was going to war - but as Dad was skatepark, they find a single parent Woody had to go to a boarding school for armed forces kids. That's enough huge waste ground in the shadow of a change for any boyderelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, but thereeven though they have to drag Izzy's an even bigger one which Woody has to contend younger brother withthem. At Borderlands The following day they don't play football. They're ''mad'' about rugby. Itall want to return, as does the brother's almost schoolfriend, despite – and of course because of – there is a religionhuge wolf living in the site. How will Woody cope with boarding schools ''and'' rugby? How will he manage Can the constant knowledge that his father is children survive living in a combat zonethe urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123977</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen McCombieJennings Different|title=The Girl With The Sunshine SmileA Different Dog|author=Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Everyone knew Meg as Our hero is a boy, whose name we never learn. We know what he wants in life – with his mother exceedingly poor, and even his bed burnt to keep the girl with two of them warm, he wants the sunshine smile. She always looked ''pretty'' prize offered by a down-a-mountain-and ''happy'' -back-up-and her mother used her in her business to model bridesmaid's dresses-down-again foot race. They had a lovely little flat which was always neat as a new pin Winning the race and Meg thought the large purse would also give him more status in the eyes of those kids that life was perfect. Then her mother met Danny - bully him, and everything changedit might even give him a voice – for he is almost mute. Danny was We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the single father motivation, and can only speak aloud to four boys himself – and they all lived on , so it turns out, to a dog he rescues from a houseboat. A messy houseboat. With no lock bad road accident he finds on his way up the bathroom door. And when there was a flood at Mum's flat they had hill to move in with Danny and the four boys. That was when Meg stopped smiling.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124035</amazonuk>start line…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dawson_Grave|title=WolfmanGrave Matter|author=Michael Rosen Juno Dawson and Chris MouldAlex T Smith
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingDyslexia Friendly|summary=People are panickingSince Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took her life, Sam is a broken soul. The police are afraidHe is lost without the girl he loves, feeling as though a part of him died that night too. The army have run awayBut he is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza. Who or what could possibly He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be so scary? It’s Wolf able to help him. However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a pact with forces he doesn't understand. And he’s on the looseThings soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123748</amazonuk>
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