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[[Category:New Reviews|Dyslexia Friendly]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Non Pratt1800901232|title=UnboxedStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5
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|summary=When they were thirteen there had been five of them: AlixTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, Benif not prosperous, Dean, Millie so when the smartly-dressed man and Zara, and they had made woman came to the village to offer Hahn a promise job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to return be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the school where other girls were not going to work in a shop, they had hidden a memory box five years laterwere to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Only five years later there are only four of themYou know those jeans you really wanted: Millie had died of stomach cancer. the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The remaining four are nervous about what they might find in ones with the box, worried about what their thirteenartfully-yearplaced rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-old selves might reveal about who they are now, but most of all they're missing Millieworkers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125856</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Steve ColeMarcus Sedgwick|title= Mind WriterWrath|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary= Everyone knows what Meet Fitz, a mind reader can young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do and Luke Mellows has this amazing talentwhat he wants, or maybe it is a gift. He uses this to great effect go where he wants and for with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his own entertainment. Knowing what the teacher is thinking can be incredibly useful and can be used for amusing classroom antics. Luke thought foot in it was only him who had this gift, however when he meets Samira he soon realises that there is one skill that can be even more powerful than talks to his – a mind writerbest friend, Cassie. Being able to change what They were half of a person will think can be desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a powerful and dangerous skillsubhuman hum coming from the earth. When Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the mind reader and mind writer come together Luke soon learns that there end of the world is already a much darker and sinister situation occurring than 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 could ever have imaginedcan't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112583X</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean UreLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=The Snow GlobeMermaid in the Millpond
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Abi's family's circumstances changed very suddenlyThere is no mermaid in the millpond. She had been a pupil That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a very good girl's school (with a stylish uniform) and went horse riding and to dance classes at friend for her in amongst all the weekend. The family homeother kids, was spacious and in a pleasant neighbourhood. When the family business went under they who have had their entire childhoods sold to sell the house and move mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to something smallercall home. The horse riding and dance classes went and school was Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a big comprehensive hand-to- with boys and a dullmouth, grey uniformevery man for himself kind of existence. Worst But despite herself Bess does find a bit of all she was moving away from a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her best friendabout betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, Jennythere 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125945</amazonuk>180090049X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom PalmerKeith Gray|title= Wings: SpitfireThe Climbers|rating= 4|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary= Greg Sully is fed up with playing the best tree climber in goalthe village. He reckons things only happen to you there. The other players get to make them happen. The summer school isnhas what's known amongst the kids as 't turning out how hereach'd hoped at all. The old airfield next to the school freaks Greg out … but But what happens when he starts on a model new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of an old Spitfirethe hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, and not only that, he's propelled into an adventure that his chance to name the final, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will really show it cost him what it means his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to take control …do so?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125368</amazonuk>1781129991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul DowswellLisa Thompson|title= WaveThe Small Things|rating= 5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary= WaveAlthough Anna has friends at school, set she feels like she never really fits in WW1, tells the story of the battle of the Somme. Although the story spans 100 yearsHer family don't have enough money to let her do after school activities, 1st July 1916 and 1st July 2016, the majority of the action takes place during 30minutes between 7am and 7so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs.30am on 1st July 1916. It follows two brothersWhen a new girl joins her class, Charlie and EddieAnna is asked to partner her, as they prepare for the moment when they but things are to go over complicated because the topnew girl, as the first waveEllie, into No Man’s Land. The story is a poignant, reflective unwell and brutally honest account of the events which lead to the biggest casualty rate so can't attend school in one day person. Instead, she joins in with the history of the British Armyclass by using a robot.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125627</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Karen McCombie|title=The OMG Blog|rating=4|genre= Dyslexia Friendly |summary= In Can Anna overcome the first weeks challenge of term at making friends with someone through a new secondary school four ''good'' girls find themselves thrown together in detention. From this inauspicious beginning a firm friendship develops as the girlsrobot, encouraged by their teacher and is she even interesting enough to enter be a blogging competition, find that they do have one very important thing in common…their embarrassing mums. The ''Our Mums Grrr'' blog is born!good friend to Ellie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125430</amazonuk>1781129649
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malorie BlackmanEmma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=Peace MakerThe Ghost Garden
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Michela Corbin Fran, the gardener's daughter at a posh country house, is something of worried. She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a rebellarge bone, but buried under the potatoes. But she's even more worried when she understands learns that everyone must wear a Peace Maker Device all the time and that it must never be tampered event coincided withLeo, as non-aggression the older child of the house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. She is their society's founding principledue to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surprise. The Peace Maker is Tasked with shoving Leo around the means by which this is enforcedgrounds in his bathchair, but Michela wants she might have reason to experience the full range be out of human emotions and the Peace Maker stops thather mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. When her mother captains their ship into enemy airspace and they come under attack it seems But surely that Michelawon's freedom from t act as a premonition to anything - not here in the constraints sultry, summery days of the Peace Maker might be the only thing that can save them.1914?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125619</amazonuk>1781129002
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tony Bradman and Tom Morgan-JonesAlex Wheatle|title= The Boy and the GlobeHumiliations of Welton Blake|rating= 42.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary= This lively and enjoyable story is set in early seventeenth century London where young orphan Toby Cuffe is living on We meet Welton Blake at the streets where life is hard. In order to survive, worst of times – only they should be the resourceful Toby joins the gang best of boys who work for Moll Cut-Purse as thievestimes. Moll sends Toby to He should be getting a text from the Globe Theatre most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to do some pickpocketing where Toby becomes so engrossed in the play being performed that a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he forgets about 's chundered last night's meal and his own safety. Caught by the theatrebreakfast over another girl in class, who's owners Toby meets the writer of the play he has just seen performedduffed him up in response, and the famous playwright William Shakespearewanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. Then our young hero is given an opportunity that On a bigger scale he had 's living with his mother and not expectedmuch income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinner. Toby I know, right? But surely this is full of enthusiasm for the theatre just a blip, a day at school to forget, and rekindles everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the Bardwash? This can's enthusiasm too so that together they team up to save t be the threatened theatre.start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125031</amazonuk>1781129495
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Beck178112938X|title=Grey Island Red BoatSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Princess Opal lived with her fatherIt's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the king, on story of that journey remains one of the Island greatest survival stories of Ashesall time. It was a grey island, set ''Survival in a grey sea and Opal lived in a grey castle surrounded by a cold grey moat. Space: The gardens were grey and so were the trees and flowers. Princess Opal even sat on Apollo 13 Mission'' is a grey granite throne in a grey granite room - and she wished that her life could be different. She couldn't help but think that something was missingbrilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112521X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1781129312|title=Michael Morpurgo Sequin and Sam UsherStitch|titleauthor=We Are Not FROGS!Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)|rating=45
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=After the storm the frogs and the toads all came out onto the lawn Sequin loved her mum to play long jumpbits, but sometimes she got very cross with her. This It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was the frogs' choice as they could jump further because she never pushed to get credit for what she did. Mum is a seamstress and she makes the toads just wanted an easy lifesort of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. But She's not the designer - through they're the people who make a series lot of unfortunate incidents involving lorries, dogs, children, a cart and an ice cream container, first money from the clothes. Mum is the toads ended up in person who actually ''makes'' the ice cream container garments and after they sold she's really talented, but when people talk about the frogs down dress or the river in exchange for being put into a muddy ditchsuit, they talk about the frogs - all twenty two of them - were in the same prison and it was only thanks to Mutt the dog that they escapeddesigner. The seamstress is never mentioned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125120</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LawrenceTanya Landman|title=Queen of the Silver ArrowJane Eyre: a Retelling|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=King Metabus had not been A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a good king dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – and his escape from his kingdom was hurried and pursuedwith only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. When he reached the river does turn up he had seems to make a decision be dark, brooding and he thought first of the safety of the baby daughter he carried in his arms and tied her troubled – but that's nothing compared to his javelin, which he threw across the torrentdarker, pledging as he did so that he would serve the Goddess Diana. Camilla should have grown up as a Princess but instead she lived in a cave with her father more broody and ran wild even more troubling secret in the foresthouse. In nearby LaurentumYes, Acca had grown up hearing the story of how Camilla giggled as she swung on if you know Jane Eyre then you know the javelin embedded in the ground and dreamed of meeting her, rest – but this didnif you don't happen until after the death of Camilla's father, when the girls became firm friendsfor whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn to.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>1781129126
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Hooper1781128952|title=A Dark TradeThe Starlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Georgina FridayThis is a dyslexia-friendly, known to everyone as Ginascience fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, grew up in an orphanage unwanted and when she was sixteen went to rather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be a servant mended, Hugo realises there is a big house in central London. There were seven members of the family mystery to be solved and twelve servants - and Gina was the one at the bottom who had is only too ready to run about after everyone and who was the butt help. An exciting journey of practical jokes. She could cope with thatdiscovery unfolds, but what she couldn't cope with was the attentions which takes Hugo out of one of the young men of the family. She'd already heard the stories of what had happened to another young maid who'd caught his eye - thrown out on the streets to fend for herself drab attic workroom and her baby - and could see no way into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of escape from ''him'' other than the planet never before known to run awayexist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125163</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1781128693|title=Ghost for SaleSpecial Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=When Mr and Mrs Rundle see an advert in How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when the problem is the paper for a wardrobe for sale, complete with ghost, Mrs Rundle decides that they absolutely brain which isn't functioning quite as it used to it isn'mustt 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' have t want to raise the seat any more. Mum pointed out that it! They own The Dog wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and Duck Inn and Mrs Rundle feels that addition bikes cost a lot of money, which didn't grow on trees. His sister Lottie had a ghost will add interest to their Inn and bring them customsolution: Frank could help her with her paper round. The arrival of Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a thousand years to save up the wardrobe certainly shakes things money for a bike AND he had to get up for the Rundles, though perhaps not at six o'clock in the way they'd imagined!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112518X</amazonuk>morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Gough and Jim Field1781128707|title=Rabbit and Bear: Rabbit's Bad HabbitsThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Vivian French|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingDyslexia Friendly|summary=When Bear wakes up early from Suzi Simms loved running and it was her hibernation, she decides that if she can't sleep then she might as well do something which she's always wanted ambition to do win the 100 metres race on sports day at the end of term - build a snowmanand that was next week. ItWe's whilst shere going to read about what happened in her diary, although there's doing this a warning that she meets Rabbitwe really shouldn't be reading it, who tells her that heparticularly as it's an Expert in Gravityabout Barbie Meek. Whatever he is, it doesnTo say that the two girls don't seem to make him particularly happy as he never smiles and isn't exactly big get on funat all well is a bit of an understatement. But there are avalanches around as well as hungry wolves Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, but Barbie is a troublemaker and Rabbit soon comes she wants to win the conclusion that it's good to have a friend on your side 100 metres race too - even if you have just stolen their foodby fair means or foul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444929313</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Ure1949471004|title=My Dog Daisyon a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Lily did ''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 notbe the ones you'' want 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 goldfishchild without that problem. Nor did she want You need to be able to buy books at a hamster or a catreasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. She wanted You need a ''DOG'' story which engages the young mind and whilst she understood what Mum said about not being able to have a dog in you need stages which progress steadily through the 5th floor flat learning process without a garden she still thought it was unfairthere being any large jumps. After all, when they lived at GranSome online support and games wouldn's house there was a garden and she could have had a dogt go amiss, but then Mum and Gran had a row and they moved outeither. She hadn't even seen Gran for three months Reading - and she ''missedlearning'' herto read - should be a pleasure. And the dog which she couldnIt should be ''fun''t have. Even Keri, her best friend, though that she was going on a bit about the whole thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124965</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eoin Colfer and Victor Ambrus1781128510|title=The Seal's Fate (Colour Conker) One Shot|author=Tanya Landman|rating=4.5
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|summary=Bobby Parrish was reluctant to admit that the seal was cute, even to himself''Pa and I understood each other. That sort of thing was for girls and he was here to club Our souls were cut from the sealsame cloth. Seals were affecting his father's livelihood as a fisherman and there was a bounty of a £1 for a seal's flipper: But Pa has since died, leaving Maggie very much alone in those days that her family. She was good money the only one of three children who looked like him, and even one none of the girls had collected the cash. Stillothers acted like him, and certainly, somehow he couldnhis wife didn't quite bring himself seem to attack fully understand him. Maggie might as well be reliving the defenceless cubCinderella story, all big, blackstuck with two siblings and mother that are fully against her. But at least she can sneak out at night, round eyes and obviously unworried by his presence. What would the other lads say thoughshoot some game to stop them from starving? More to Well, no, not where her mother is concerned – the pointvery idea of a female shooting things, when they could be preparing for a life of unhappy married drudgery, what would his father say?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124310</amazonuk>is just scandalous.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Catherine Rayner178112843X|title=Clare and Her Captain (Colour Conker)Lark|author=Anthony McGowan|rating=45
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Clare didnI't enjoy ll warn you first. This is the journey down fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. Try not to Devoncry before you've even read the first page. Her parents always argued  Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and it was usually because Mum had lost her way or got caught in his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a traffic jam and this long time she'd done bothago. It was a little better when they got to Aunt Dora's house, but Aunt Dora wasnThey haven't exactly a peacemaker seen her for years and tended to stick the impending visit is stirring up for Dad against everybody elsea lot of uncomfortable feelings. And Nicky's girlfriend has ended things. The holiday improved when Clare got out for a walk on her own To take their minds off it all, Nicky and discovered Kenny plan a stray lamb on day out, trekking across the roadmoors. She took But it doesn't go to the nearest house plan and Mr Jones was delighted: Clare had just saved half his flock. Clare got on with the old man an accident puts both boys - and with his horsetheir dog, Tina, Captainin terrible danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124353</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Rosen and Richard Watson1786697173|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 - Mr Tiger, Betsy 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 tactics: ''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>}}{{newreviewBlue Moon|author=Karen McCombie|title=Honey and MeSally Gardner|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Most girls starting out Brook City School are hoping for something new and different, but Kirsten just wants things to be ''normal''. Even good things seem to come with Betsy K Glory lives a sting in the tail and worst of all, Mum and Dad are really not getting rather wonderful life ona peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. In fact Kirsten is happiest at school and does all Her father, Alonso, makes the after-school activities she can manage just to keep away from home for as long as she canmost wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Her elder brother, Finnmother, who's at sixth form collegeMyrtle, is struggling too: what used a mermaid and comes 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 visit regularly, although she can get still lives in touch with herthe sea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124752</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michelle Magorian and Sam Usher|title= Smile|rating= 5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Josh is tiredBetsy dreams of two things: firstly, fed up about the circus owned by a tiger and feeling put out whether it would ever come to her island and ignored. Nosecondly, he isn't having about a tantrum – something big has happened (well, two things actually) and his world has turned upside downmagical ice cream made from the berries of the Gongalong bush. You see ''The Howler'' has arrived and everything has changed and not, so far, for the betterOne scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true. Baby brother Charlie is just seventeen days old  And then Mr Tiger 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 howlingcircus arrive. Will the crying 'ever' stop? And there's worse because the really terrible thing a journey is the baby's arrival meant a very special event had to be cancelledplanned... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125007</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer1781128286|title=Rugby Academy: DeadlockedRun Wild|author=Gill Lewis
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=It's the third story in the ''Rugby Academy'' series Meet Izzy 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]]Asha. In this, the final book in this brilliant series, we hear Bullied away from Owen. We left the team local attempt at a skatepark, they find a huge waste ground in the end shadow of ''Surface a derelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, even though they have to Airdrag Izzy'' when Borderlands had got through s younger brother with them. The following day they all want to return, as does the World Championship in New Zealand. Despite the elation of doing so Owen isnbrother't entirely comfortable with Jesses schoolfriend, despite – and of course because of – there is a huge wolf living in the team captainsite. He has no doubts that he was a brilliant player - Can the best on children survive living in the team - but he can't respect him as a person.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123993</amazonuk>urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy HopkinsJennings Different|title=Mum Never Did Learn to KnockA Different Dog|author=Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=#People are worrying about Emily: her Dad and the staff at school are all worried that she's spending Our hero is a lot of time talking to her Mumboy, whose name we never learn. You might think that there's nothing wrong We know what he wants in life – with that - in fact that it's entirely commendable his mother exceedingly poor, and young people ought even his bed burnt to spend more time talking to their parents keep the two of them warm, he wants the prize offered by a down- but Emily's Mum died a few months ago-mountain-and-back-up-and-down-again foot race. Emily has reached Winning the race and the large purse would also give him more status in the stage eyes of ''hiding'' the fact those kids that Mum appears bully him, and it might even give him a voice – for he is almost mute. We quickly learn he never talks back to her in very real formanyone, perhaps just a little bit ''ghostly''whatever the motivation, but then you wouldn't expect her and can only speak aloud to look just like she was when she was alivehimself – and, so it turns out, now would you? At school she's sent to see a counsellor, but it doesn't go quite the dog he rescues from a bad road accident he finds on his way that up the counsellor was expecting... particularly when Emily asked where people go when they die and hill to the ultimate 'what comes after space?'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124957</amazonuk>start line…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melvin BurgessDawson_Grave|title=PersistGrave Matter|author=Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=When we first meet Marianne she's confused. People keep coming and looking at Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took herlife, but they don't seem to see ''her''Sam is a broken soul. She wonders if she's something shinyHe is lost without the girl he loves, such feeling as though a mirrorpart of him died that night too. Her family are But he is desperate: Marianne has been in a coma for so long that even and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her mother is beginning peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to doubt that she can surface from wherever she ishelp him. The doctors are sure that there's no hope for However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the girl and they're talking about switching off the machines Milk Man, which are keeping her alive, allowing her causes Sam in his grieving state to fade away painlesslymake a pact with forces he doesn't understand... It all comes Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to a head on Mariannechange Sam's fifteenth birthdaylife in more ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124949</amazonuk>
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