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[[image:DOLDF.jpg|center|link=https://dogonalogbooks.com/]] <br> {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- James -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1800901232| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole[[image:1781128952.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781128952/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Dyslexia Friendly| stylesummary="verticalTwelve-align: top; textyear-align: left;"|===[[The Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren James]]=== [[image:4starold Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] This is a dyslexiaso when the smartly-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells dressed man and woman came to the tale of Hugo, village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an unwanted opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and rather lonely androidHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, who makes Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a living for himself mending time-travel watchesshop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. When one of his clients demands You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved, felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and is only too ready to helpher co-workers made them. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into }}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions young Scottish lad full of the planet never before known frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to exist. [[The Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren James|Full Review]] <!-- Jonathan Meres -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1781128693do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie.jpg|link=http://wwwThey were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781128693/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbagIs this connected with one of her eco-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Special Delivery by Jonathan Meres]]==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}}[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia FriendlyFrontpage|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Confident Readersauthor=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy|Confident title=The Mermaid in the Millpond|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers]] How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when |summary=There is no mermaid in the problem millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the brain which isn't functioning quite as it other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to it isn't as easy to graspcall home. Frank was Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a normal nine year old kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and like many nine year olds what he wanted was despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a new bikeglimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. He'd had his for about seventy-eight years and he didnBut surely that doesn't want to raise mean there is any truth in the existence of the seat any more. Mum pointed out that it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a lot of money, which didn't grow on treesmermaid?|isbn=180090049X}}{{Frontpage|author=Keith Gray|title=The Climbers|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Sully is the best tree climber in the village. He has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach'. His sister Lottie had But what happens when a solution: Frank could help her new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with her paper round. Frank agreed despite thinking ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, and not only that, that it would take him a thousand years his chance to save up name the final, unnamed big tree in the money for a bike AND he had park by being the first to get up at six o'clock in the morningconquer it, might be snatched from his hands. [[Special Delivery by Jonathan MeresHow can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?|Full Review]]isbn=1781129991}}<!-- Vivian French -->{{Frontpage|author=Lisa Thompson|-title=The Small Things| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"5|genre=Confident Readers[[image:1781128707.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwAlthough Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in.amazonHer family don't have enough money to let her do after school activities, and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs.coWhen a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school in person.uk/dp/1781128707/ref=nosimInstead, she joins in with the class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through a robot, and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?tag|isbn=thebookbag-21]]1781129649}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|=title==[[The Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims by Vivian French]]===Ghost Garden[[image:5star.jpg|linkrating=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly4.5|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:genre=Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Suzi Simms loved running and it was summary=Fran, the gardener's daughter at a posh country house, is worried. She's just cracked her ambition to win the 100 metres race on sports day at garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a large bone, buried under the end of term - and that was next weekpotatoes. WeBut she're going to read about what happened in her diary, although there's a warning s even more worried when she learns that that we really shouldn't be reading itevent coincided with Leo, particularly as it's about Barbie Meekthe older child of the house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. To say She is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the two girls dongrounds in his bathchair, she might have reason to be out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. But surely that won't get on at all well is act as a bit of an understatement. Suzi wouldn't actually do premonition to anything about it- not here in the sultry, but Barbie is a troublemaker and she wants to win the 100 metres race too - by fair means or foul. [[summery days of 1914?|isbn=1781129002}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Wheatle|title=The Spectacular Revenge Humiliations of Suzi Sims by Vivian FrenchWelton Blake|Full Review]]rating=2.5|genre=Confident Readers<!-- Pamela Brookes |summary=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 a cinema date, 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->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1949471004bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway.jpg|link=http://www.amazon On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinner.co.uk/dp/1949471004/ref=nosim I know, right?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Dog on But surely this is just a blip, a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 by Pamela Brookes]]=== [[image:4star.jpgday at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|linkisbn=Category:1781129495}}{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:CategoryFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Survival in Space:Dyslexia FriendlyThe Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Emerging Readers|Emerging Readers]] What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve summary=It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readersKennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the sounds in story of that journey remains one of the book might not be the ones yougreatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission''ve been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more is a brilliant retelling of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problemwhat happened. You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1781129312|title=Sequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Sequin loved her mum to bits, without anything else being thrown into the mixbut sometimes she got very cross with her. You need It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed to get credit for what she did. Mum is a story which engages seamstress and she makes the young mind and sort of clothes that you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumpssee on red carpets or at important weddings. Some online support and games wouldnShe's not the designer - they't go amiss, eitherre the people who make a lot of money from the clothes. Reading - and Mum is the person who actually ''learningmakes'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun'the garments and she's really talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned. [[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 by Pamela Brookes|Full Review]]}}<!-- Landman -->{{Frontpage|-author=Tanya Landman| styletitle="widthJane Eyre: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"a Retelling|rating=5[[image:1781128510.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781128510/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Dyslexia Friendly| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[One Shot by Tanya Landman]]=== [[image:4A 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 like the life she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] When he does turn up he seems to be dark, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''Pa brooding and I understood each other. Our souls were cut from troubled – but that's nothing compared to the darker, more broody and even more troubling secret in the same clothhouse.'' But Pa has since died Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, leaving Maggie very much alone in her familythis is a wonderful book to turn to. She was the only one of three children who looked like him, and none of the others acted like him, and certainly his wife didn't seem to fully understand him|isbn=1781129126}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1781128952|title=The Starlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=This is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. Maggie might as well be reliving It tells the Cinderella storytale of Hugo, stuck with two siblings an unwanted and mother that are fully against herrather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. But at least she can sneak out at nightWhen one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved and shoot some game is only too ready to stop them from starving? Wellhelp. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, no, not where her mother is concerned – the very idea which takes Hugo out of a female shooting thingshis drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, when they could be preparing for a life exploring regions of unhappy married drudgery, is just scandalousthe planet never before known to exist. [[One Shot by Tanya Landman|Full Review]]}}<!-- McGowan -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1781128693| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Special Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres[[image:178112843X.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178112843X/ref4|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Dyslexia Friendly| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Lark by Anthony McGowan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when the problem is the brain which isn't functioning quite as it used to 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'd had his for about seventy-eight years and he didn't want to raise the seat any more. Mum pointed out that it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a lot of money, which didn't grow on trees. His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her with her paper round. Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a thousand years to save up the money for a bike AND he had to get up at six o'clock in the morning.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1781128707|title=The Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Vivian French|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|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's a warning that we really shouldn't be reading it, particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. To say that the two girls don't get on at all well is a bit of an understatement. Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, but Barbie is a troublemaker and she wants to win the 100 metres race too - by fair means or foul.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1949471004|title=Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but 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 a child without that problem. You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. You need a 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 games wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - and ''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1781128510|title=One Shot|author=Tanya Landman|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=''Pa and I understood each other. Our souls were cut from the same cloth.'' But Pa has 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 others acted like him, and certainly, his wife didn't seem to fully understand him. Maggie might as well be reliving the Cinderella story, stuck with two siblings and mother that are fully against her. But at least she can sneak out at night, and shoot some game to stop 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178112843X|title=Lark|author=Anthony McGowan|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=I'll warn you first.

Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a long time ago. They haven't seen her for years and the impending visit is stirring up a lot of uncomfortable feelings. And Nicky's girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, Nicky and Kenny plan a day out, trekking across the moors. But it doesn't go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, in terrible danger. [[Lark by Anthony McGowan|Full Review]]<!-- Gardner -->}}|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|{{Frontpage[[image:1786697173.jpg|linkisbn=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786697173/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | styletitle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by |author=Sally Gardner]]=|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]  Betsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, Alonso, makes the most wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Her mother, Myrtle, is a mermaid and comes to visit regularly, although she still lives in the sea. Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, about the circus owned by a tiger and whether it would ever come to her island and secondly, about a magical ice cream made from the berries of the Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true.

[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner|Full Review]]}} <!-- Lewis -->{{Frontpage|-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1781128286[[image:1781128286.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781128286/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Run Wild| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|=author==[[Run Wild by Gill Lewis]]=|rating==5[[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] summary=Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from the local attempt at a skatepark, they find a huge waste ground in the shadow of a derelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, even though they have to drag Izzy's younger brother with them. The following day they all want to return, as does the brother's schoolfriend, despite – and of course because of – there being is a huge wolf living in the site. Can the children survive living in the urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers? [[Run Wild by Gill Lewis|Full Review]]}}<!-- Jennings -->{{Frontpage|-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jennings Different.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1910646423/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | styletitle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Different Dog by |author=Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly]]==|rating= [[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] summary=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 two of them warm, he wants the prize offered by a down-a-mountain-and-back-up-and-down-again foot race. Winning the race and the large purse would also give him more status in the eyes of those kids that bully him, and it might even give him a voice – for he is almost mute. We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the motivation, and can only speak aloud to himself – and, so it turns out, to a dog he rescues from a bad road accident he finds on his way up the hill to the start line… [[A Different Dog by Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly|Full Review]]}}<!-- Dawson -->|-{{Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Dawson_Grave[[image:Dawson_Grave.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781126046?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1781126046]] Grave Matter| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith]]|rating=== [[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] summary=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 loves, feeling as though a part of him died that night too. But he is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be 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. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for. [[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith|Full Review]] <!-- Pitcher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Pitcher_Last.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178112728X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=178112728X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Last Days of Archie Maxwell by Annabel Pitcher]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Archie Maxwell was shocked when his parents told him that they were getting divorced. It wasn't that Dads leaving was that unusual: Leon's Dad had left and so had Mo's. It was why he was leaving and Archie was embarrassed that his sister had suspected that their father was gay some time ago. Both of his sisters are sad to see their father leave, but they don't seem to have any problem with the why and they tell their friends. But Archie daren't tell the lads at school: the bullying is bad enough as it is. And then there's the problem of Tia, whom he really fancies but he can't say anything about it. What Tia really needs is a friend: it's just about the first anniversary of the day on which her brother committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a train on the line which runs at the back of Archie's house. [[The Last Days of Archie Maxwell by Annabel Pitcher|Full Review]] <!-- Bradman -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Bradman Secret.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781127549?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1781127549]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Secret of the Stones by Tony Bradman]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Twelve year old Maglos has a fulfilling and happy life with his father, the High Priest of Stonehenge. However, everything changes when his Uncle Tigran murders Maglos's father at the mid-summer festival before turning to do the same to Maglos. As the axe is about to fall, two strangers intervene warning Tigran that the Gods will be angry if he spills the blood of a child. Tigran allows the strangers to take Maglos away as their slave. What Tigran doesn't realise is that these two men carry the secret of the stones – a secret that they pass onto Maglos and which he will ultimately use against his uncle. [[Secret of the Stones by Tony Bradman|Full Review]] <!-- Cole -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Cole_Senseless.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781127336/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Senseless by Steve Cole]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] 16 year old Kenzie Mitchell, otherwise known as K-Boy, thinks his every dream has come true when he's wins the chance to attend a top gaming tournament at Sensia HQ on a remote tropical island. The contestants are flown in on their own private jet and transferred by limo to the swankiest of hotels. It all seems too good to be true – which of course it is. Within hours, events start to take a sinister turn. Kenzie wakes in the night unable to see and one by one his other senses – touch, hearing, smell and taste – flicker in and out. And he's not on his own. It's happening to the other contestants too, sometimes with fatal consequences. Kenzie wants to believe it isn't really happening. He wants to believe it's just a really good virtual reality game. But with Sensia in control, the line between realities has almost entirely disappeared. [[Senseless by Steve Cole|Full Review]] <!-- Stewart -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stewart_Free.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781127158/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Free Lance and the Field of Blood (Free Lance Trilogy 2) by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] The world of jousting is a fierce one – survive the minor battles with the lance, either as a bonded employed Knight or as a Free Lance, and you might try your hands at the major league. There the men are stronger, the horses faster, and the ground hurts more when you hit it. But the big time also offers more that can put a humble Knight at risk – such as evil hosts, beautiful princess-types in pickles, and mysteriously successful strangers. Our nameless hero and his loyal horse, Jed, are going to be up against a lot more than they expected here… [[Free Lance and the Field of Blood (Free Lance Trilogy 2) by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell|Full Review]] <!-- Ray -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Brahmachari_Worry.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178112695X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Worry Angels by Sita Brahmachari and Jane Ray]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Amy-May was devastated when her parents split up: she and her mother left the delightful seaside cottage where the waves had sung her to sleep and moved into a 'garden flat'. That didn't mean that it had a garden, just that it was on the ground floor. They didn't have a lot of possessions as the bailiffs had taken most of them. Her father was living in another old cottage now and hopefully he'd be able to set up his kiln, but he wouldn't be able to home-school Amy-May. The alternative was Sandcastles Secondary School but the rather nervous Amy was considered to be too anxious to start at the school full time. As a gentle introduction to schooling she went to Grace's art school instead. [[Worry Angels by Sita Brahmachari and Jane Ray|Full Review]] <!-- Strong -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Strong_Nellie.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781127212/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Nellie Choc-Ice, Penguin Explorer (Little Gems) by Jeremy Strong and Jamie Smith]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging Readers|Emerging Readers]] Meet Nellie Choc-Ice. Thus named by her grandparents (and grandparents have a habit in this book of making unusual names for their grandchildren, whichever species they belong to), she is a pretty little Macaroni penguin, complete with pink feet, bright yellow eyebrows and a woolly hat with the world's biggest pompom on the end. She has a habit of going exploring and finding out what's over the next ridge in the ice, and the next, and the next. But when disaster happens and the ice she is on is knocked off Antarctica by a submarine, even she can have no idea as to where she will end up… [[Nellie Choc-Ice, Penguin Explorer (Little Gems) by Jeremy Strong and Jamie Smith|Full Review]] <!-- Papp -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Papp_Finn.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1910646326/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Madeleine Finn and the Library Dog by Lisa Papp]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]], [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Madeleine Finn doesn't like to read - not anything. It's not really her fault, you know. Her teacher tries to encourage her, but some of the other kids giggle when she makes mistakes. And they pull faces of the type which would have given me my head in my hands to play with when I was a child. The words just don't seem to come out right for her. The other children are getting gold stars (I've never liked that system) but all Madeleine gets is a heart sticker which tells her to keep trying. She's got plenty of those. All week she tries her best but doesn't get the star she longs for. [[Madeleine Finn and the Library Dog by Lisa Papp|Full Review]] <!-- Oldfield -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Oldfield_Storm.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781126895/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Storm Cloud by Jenny Oldfield]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Kami Miller was invited to stay at Wolf Ridge Farm, the home of her best friend Macy Lucas, for the summer. They were both going to be working as real cowgirls and there was a herd of 300 cows to be brought back from the mountains to the ranch. It wasn't going to be easy work, particularly as Macy's father was recovering from an accident and couldn't ride. All the pressure of running the ranch has fallen on Macy's brother, Wes - and he's not coping well. Kami's upset that he's taking it out on one of the young colts, Storm Cloud, but what can she do about it? [[Storm Cloud by Jenny Oldfield|Full Review]] <!-- Pearce -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Pearce_Ghost.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781126852/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Ghost in Annie's Room (Little Gems) by Philippa Pearce and Cate James]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging Readers|Emerging Readers]], [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Emma is on a family holiday in an older relative's seaside cottage, where she is to sleep in the room in the attic. Her brother has passed on what he says he has overheard – that it is haunted. But even with the mementos of the person that once lived there all around her, and with a strange feeling of being watched, even with the stormy winds knocking tree limbs on to the window – Emma can sleep through it all. But that's not to say things will forever be that way… [[The Ghost in Annie's Room (Little Gems) by Philippa Pearce and Cate James|Full Review]] <!-- Hopkins -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hopkins_Kitten.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178112678X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Valentine's Day Kitten by Cathy Hopkins]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Marcie is distraught. On Valentine's Day last year she'd didn't receive a single card and her parents could see that she was upset, so when she came home from school there was a box on the kitchen table and in it was the most gorgeous fluffy silver kitten. Misty and Marcie were soon inseparable until the day that Misty went out without a collar on - and didn't come home. Marcie blamed herself: Misty's collar had broken and she'd never got round to buying a new one. Mum has put notices up everywhere she can think of and rung the local vets and animal rescue centres, but there's no sign of Misty. Then Marcie starts having dreams, about a boy, a hotel, a painting - and Misty. Will there be a happy ending? [[The Valentine's Day Kitten by Cathy Hopkins|Full Review]]