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|summary=Meet NormanTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Norman Life in the Normanrural village where she lived with her family was happy, from Normandy. Not Big Bad Norman the Norman from Normandyif not prosperous, and not Norma so when the Norman from Normandy – smartly-dressed man and not even Nora woman came to the Norman from, well village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it doesn't say, but my guess is Normandywas an opportunity not to be missed. Norman isn't very big at all – he's just a little boy, Some money changed hands and he's not badHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Or at least he doesn't think he is. But because his fatherOnly, Big Bad NormanHanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, is buried they were to work in virtual slavery in three parts (don't ask), an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and little baby Norman has inherited Big Bad Norman's big bad Norman sword, he's going to visit beading on the three parts – but only good will happen… legs? RightThe ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126976</amazonuk> It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Vivian French and Nigel BainesMarcus Sedgwick|title= The Covers of My Book Are Too Far Apart (and other grumbles)Wrath|rating= 4.5|genre= For Sharing Teens|summary=''I'm too old for bedtime stories''Meet Fitz, ''That's a girl's book!''young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, '' I hate this book but I've got he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to finish it''his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, ''I can't find but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a book that I likesubhuman hum coming from the earth.'' You've probably heard at least Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the grumbles in this book before but have you known how to respond to itworld is already a done deal? This brilliant picture book will do Is it for you and is a joyful celebration some spooky new kind of all thatmusic she's wonderful about books and readingdreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112602X</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil EarleLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title= SuperDad's Day OffThe Mermaid in the Millpond|rating= 4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary= Stanley's dad There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is tiredtelling herself. It can Neither will there be exhausting work being a Superhero. For six days of friend for her in amongst all the week he saves other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the world from disasters and defeats mill-owners by the baddies as Dynamo DanLondon workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. Stanley decides his poor dad needs But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a day off kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and is determined despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to make sure that he gets harm, there might be a proper rest. So they head off to glimmer of companionship in the park for some much needed Dad and Son bonding timetired-out mill workers. However people donBut surely that doesn't seem to understand that even Superheroes need time to recuperate. The requests for help keep on coming so what can poor Stanley do other than step mean there is any truth in to save the day. existence of the mermaid?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126844</amazonuk>180090049X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Quentin BlakeKeith Gray|title= The Story of the Dancing FrogClimbers|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly Confident Readers|summary= When Jo's Great Aunt Gertrude's sea captain husband Sully is drowned at sea she is grief-stricken and, the best tree climber in despair, she goes for a walk alonethe village. During this walk she notices a small frog on a lily-pad. But he is no ordinary frog - heHe has what's a dancing frog and known amongst the two quickly become good friendskids as 'reach'. Soon But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the duo are touring the world hardest trees with their routineease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, spreading joy and fun - and carrying out not only that, that his chance to name the final, unnamed big tree in the park by being the occasional rescue - wherever they gofirst to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands.How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125910</amazonuk>1781129991

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert SwindellsLisa Thompson|title=Knife EdgeThe Small Things|rating=45|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=I'm just not interestedAlthough Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. IHer family don'm not interested t have enough money to let her do after school activities, and so she feels like her life at home is boring in there ever being comparison to theirs. When a knife in junior fictionnew girl joins her class, unless it comes with a lesson. And I'm just not interested unless that lesson tells you one thing – that they're quick. Knives can be quick Anna is asked to findpartner her, but things are quick to whip outcomplicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and quick to get so can't attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with the bearer into trouble, whether they actually meet flesh or notclass by using a robot. Sam is Can Anna overcome the student challenge of that lesson here – his school has making friends with someone through a Citizenship campaign whereby the pupils do odd jobs for local elderlyrobot, and he finds a perfect knife he thinks will defend him from the local gang – is she even interesting enough to be a gang whose leader he constantly rattled in primary school. As for the rest – I'll leave his personable first-person narrative good friend to teach you…Ellie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126860</amazonuk>1781129649

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Palmer Emma Carroll and Garry ParsonsKaja Kajfez|title=Secret FCThe Ghost Garden|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Meet LilyFran, Maddiethe gardener's daughter at a posh country house, Zack, Khal, and James and Battsis worried. They all go to She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a school together – and they do it eagerlylarge bone, as their inner city life is so devoid of nature and buried under the open space that the playground is the only room large enough for footballpotatoes. But lo and behold she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, the older child of the new head teacher has banned all ball gameshouse, breaking his leg while playing cricket on health and safety groundsthe lawn. How do these friends She is due to get over their disappointment? even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surprise. WhyTasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason to be out of her mind with imaginationfear, hard work and when she learns what he is seeking - a firm belief long-forgotten burial chamber. But surely that what theywon're doing is right, is how – they convert t act as a rotting tennis court handily hidden premonition to anything - not here in the school's woods into a pitchsultry, where after a lot summery days of labours they can play to their heart's content. Or so they think…1914?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126879</amazonuk>1781129002

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg RosoffAlex Wheatle|title=Good Dog McTavishThe Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating=2.5

|summary=McTavish did wonder whether he was making a mistake in adopting We meet Welton Blake at the Peachey family: it was a decision which came from worst of times – only they should be the heart rather than the headbest of times. You see He should be getting a text from the Peacheys were dysfunctional: Ma Peacheymost bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, an accountant by professionhe's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, decided that she was fed who's duffed him up with chasing around after an ungrateful familyin response, so she resigned and dedicated herself the wanna-bae seems to her yoga actually be with half someone else anyway. On a hint bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now that she might also dedicate herself the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to her yoga teacherhaving cabbage for dinner. She gave up cookingI know, cleaningright? But surely this is just a blip, bakinga day at school to forget, washing and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the other things which kept wash? This can't be the family going, such as finding lost keys and getting people out start of bed so that they got to wherever they were going on a most nightmarish time. And the familyfor young Welton? Well, they had no idea of how to cope, with one exception.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126836</amazonuk>1781129495

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Hoffman178112938X|title=TiltSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=To make an author, you first show someone books. To make a reader, you first show them the books they want to, and/or can, read. To make a builder, you first show someone buildings. I use those platitudes to introduce Simonetta, or Netta, who lives in Pisa late in the thirteenth century. She is surrounded by fabulous buildings – itIt's not for nothing fifty years since the area will become known as Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Field of MiraclesKennedy Space Centre in Florida, for but the Cathedral, Baptistry and bell tower look gorgeous. But something is wrong with the latter story of that journey remains one – it's definitely leaning, cracks are showing, and over of the hundred-plus years it's taken to get this far people have built the floors at odd angles to correct the problemgreatest survival stories of all time. Netta is intent on being the person who can solve it, alongside her father who's employed to finish it off. But therein lies the problem – it's all well and good showing someone buildings, and making them want to be an architect, but if theySurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission''re the wrong gender then all hope is lost… or is it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125651</amazonuk>a brilliant retelling of what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Newbery1781129312|title=Until We WinSequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)

|genre=Dyslexia Friendly |summary=The best journeys are made with little steps. Lizzy is slowly leaving Sequin loved her boring village behind – by being cheeky yet clever at her lessons, and getting a job in an office in the nearest proper town – and by saving mum to buybits, and teaching herself to ride, a bicyclebut sometimes she got very cross with her. All It wasn't thatmum wouldn's under the watchful eye of a mother insistent t go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she learns never pushed to knuckle down with the housework on behalf of the men, and an older brother working at the village hunt. At the office, however, further steps are suggested to her – shorthand and typing classes, but get credit for what she gets diverteddid. A chance encounter in Mum is a tea rooms puts more stepping stones in her way – en route to becoming a fully committed Suffragette, concerned only with making demands for votes for women.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125791</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Julian Gough seamstress and Jim Field|title=Rabbit and Bear: The Pest in she makes the Nest|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Rabbit was strugglingsort of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. There he was having a nice, peaceful sleep in his friend BearShe's cave when not the designer - they're the people who make a terrible noise woke himlot of money from the clothes. Was it thunder? No, it was Bear snoring. Very loudly. Rabbit tried putting his paws over his ears although that's not very successful when you have small paws and very big ears. But there was something good: when Rabbit went outside Mum is the cave he realised that spring had sprung. Suddenly he felt person who actually ''strongmakes''. After a winter spent in his friend Bearthe garments and she's cave it was time to go home to his burrowreally talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. Only there was a surprise lurking there - and it looked suspiciously like a snakeThe seamstress is never mentioned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934260</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil Earle Tanya Landman|title=Mind The Gap |rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary= When Mikey's dad dies, he stops caring about anything. Indeed, he becomes so desperate to feel something that he deliberately provokes the one person on the estate who no one messes with. Not surprisingly it ends badly and not just for him. Mikey's best mate also ends up in a pool of blood. But that doesn't matter because his friend has already lost something more important. He lost Mikey when his dad died and he's determined to find a way to bring his best friend back. That's why he sets off on a one boy crusade to find a way to help Mikey remember his dad. He just needs to find a movie, a radio extract, or Jane Eyre: a YouTube clip – something that will allow his friend to remember his dad's voice. Mikey's dad was an actor, so how difficult can it be? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125899</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Keren David |title=The Liar's Handbook Retelling

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Everyone tells River that he's A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a liar but he doesn't see it that way dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – as far as River and with only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is concerned almost always absent. When he just thinks does turn up interesting stuff he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but that's nothing compared to fill the darker, more broody and even more troubling secret in the gaps in what he knowshouse. His lies are harmless: unlike Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the lies that his mumrest – but if you don's new boyfriendt, Jasonfor whatever reason, tells. Jason this is a total fake and River is on a crusade wonderful book to turn to expose him. However, River's investigation doesn't work out as planned. He does uncover a serious deception (involving his biological father and the police) but will anyone believe him?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126801</amazonuk>1781129126

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilary McKay1781128952|title=The Sticky WitchStarlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James|rating=54

|summary=Tom This is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, an unwanted and Ellie's parents have set sail around the world on rather lonely android, who makes a raft made living for himself mending time-travel watches. When one of rubbish! They tell the children his clients demands that they will his broken watch be gone for three yearsmended, but it will go by very quickly and they'll Hugo realises there is a mystery to be safe solved and happy in the company is only too ready to help. An exciting journey of Aunt Tab. But who is this strange lady who applied for the job discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of caring for two wonderful children his drab attic workroom and their catinto a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, Whiskers? She doesn't seem exploring regions of the planet never before known to be the kind guardian that the children need, and why is everything in her house so very, very sticky?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125996</amazonuk>exist.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Swindells1781128693|title=The First HunterSpecial Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres

|summary=Tan and his family How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are scavengers - stone age scavengersobvious, but when the problem is the brain which isn't functioning quite as it used to it isn't as easy to grasp. When Frank was a big cat makes a kill one of the family normal nine- the brand man year- dashes in old and frightens the big cat off its kill with like many nine-year-olds what he wanted was a firy brand and one of the others snatches some of the meat for the familynew bike. If they donHe'd had his for about seventy-eight years and he didn't get want to raise the meat then seat any more. Mum pointed out that itwasn's down to roots, insects t his birthday or lizards. Some Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a lot of the family are concerned about Wid, who grewmoney, but his brain which didn't and they don't see why they should hunt for meat to keep the boy alivegrow on trees. His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her with her paper round. They're all for leaving Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a thousand years to save up the wolves. Tan wonmoney for a bike AND he had to get up at six o't have it and for clock in the moment Wid is safemorning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126011</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jackie Morris1781128707|title=The White FoxSpectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Vivian French

|summary=Sol had never been happy in Seattle. It wasn't just that he Suzi Simms loved running and it was bullied her ambition to win the 100 metres race on sports day at school: being Inuit he looked ''different'' the end of term - and that always makes you a targetwas next week. SolWe's heart was somewhere else - re going to read about what happened in the Arcticher diary, where he felt he belonged and where he had grandparents whom healthough there'd not seen for such s a long timewarning that we really shouldn't be reading it, particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. Everything changed when his father told him about To say that the white Arctic fox which had been seen two girls don't get on the docks at all well is a bit of an understatement. Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, but Barbie is a troublemaker and Sol set about finding she wants to win the fox 100 metres race too - and then feeding itby fair means or foul. But what would happen to the fox when it was trapped? And how would Sol handle the situation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125228</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Non Pratt1949471004|title=UnboxedDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=4.5

|summary=When they were thirteen there had been five of What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them: Alixto achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, Ben, Dean, Millie but the sounds in the book might not be the ones you've been working on and Zara, and they had made encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a promise child without that problem. You need to return 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 school where they had hidden a memory box five years latermix. Only five years later You need a story which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there are only four of them: Millie had died of stomach cancerbeing any large jumps. The remaining four are nervous about what they might find in the boxSome online support and games wouldn't go amiss, worried about what their thirteeneither. Reading -yearand ''learning'' to read -old selves might reveal about who they are now, but most of all theyshould be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''re missing Millie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125856</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steve Cole1781128510|title= Mind Writer|rating= 4|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Everyone knows what a mind reader can do and Luke Mellows has this amazing talent, or maybe it is a gift. He uses this to great effect and for his own entertainment. Knowing what the teacher is thinking can be incredibly useful and can be used for amusing classroom antics. Luke thought 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 his – a mind writer. Being able to change what a person will think can be a powerful and dangerous skill. When the mind reader and mind writer come together Luke soon learns that there is a much darker and sinister situation occurring than he could ever have imagined.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112583X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewOne Shot|author=Jean Ure|title=The Snow GlobeTanya Landman

|summary=Abi's family's circumstances changed very suddenlyPa and I understood each other. She had been a pupil at a very good girl's school (with a stylish uniform) and went horse riding and to dance classes at Our souls were cut from the weekendsame cloth. The family home'' But Pa has since died, was spacious and leaving Maggie very much alone in a pleasant neighbourhoodher family. When She was the family business went under they had to sell only one of three children who looked like him, and none of the house others acted like him, and move certainly, his wife didn't seem to something smallerfully understand him. The horse riding and dance classes went and school was a big comprehensive - Maggie might as well be reliving the Cinderella story, stuck with boys two siblings and a dull, grey uniformmother that are fully against her. Worst of all But at least she was moving away can sneak out at night, and shoot some game to stop them from starving? Well, no, not where her best friendmother is concerned – the very idea of a female shooting things, when they could be preparing for a life of unhappy married drudgery, Jennyis just scandalous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125945</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tom Palmer178112843X|title= Wings: SpitfireLark|author=Anthony McGowan|rating= 45

|summary= Greg I'll warn you first. This is fed up with playing in goalthe fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. He reckons things only happen Try not to cry before you there've even read the first page. Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny. The other players get Their mum is coming to make visit - the mum who abandoned them happena long time ago. The summer school isnThey haven't turning out how he'd hoped at all. The old airfield next to seen her for years and the school freaks Greg out … but when he starts on impending visit is stirring up a model lot of an old Spitfire, heuncomfortable feelings. And Nicky's propelled into an adventure that will really show him what girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, Nicky and Kenny plan a day out, trekking across the moors. But it means doesn't go to take control …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125368</amazonuk>plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, in terrible danger.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul Dowswell1786697173|title= WaveMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Sally Gardner|rating= 5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= WaveBetsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, set in WW1Alonso, tells makes the story of the battle of the Sommemost wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Although the story spans 100 yearsHer mother, Myrtle, 1st July 1916 is a mermaid and 1st July 2016comes to visit regularly, although she still lives in the majority sea. Betsy dreams of the action takes place during 30minutes between 7am and 7.30am on 1st July 1916. It follows two brothersthings: firstly, Charlie about the circus owned by a tiger and Eddie, as they prepare for the moment when they are whether it would ever come to go over the topher island and secondly, as about a magical ice cream made from the first wave, into No Man’s Land. The story is a poignant, reflective and brutally honest account berries of the events which lead to the biggest casualty rate in one day in the history Gongalong bush. One scoop of the British Armythis ice cream can make wishes come true.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125627</amazonuk>And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. And a journey is planned...

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen McCombie1781128286|title=The OMG BlogRun Wild|author=Gill Lewis|rating=45|genre= Dyslexia Friendly |summary= In Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from the first weeks of term local attempt at a new secondary school four ''good'' girls skatepark, they find themselves thrown together a huge waste ground in detention. From this inauspicious beginning the shadow of a firm friendship develops as the girls, encouraged by their teacher derelict gasometer to enter a blogging competitionpractise on, find that which they duly do , even though they have one very important thing in common…their embarrassing mumsto drag Izzy's younger brother with them. The following day they all want to return, as does the brother''Our Mums Grrr'' blog s schoolfriend, despite – and of course because of – there is born!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125430</amazonuk>a huge wolf living in the site. Can the children survive living in the urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malorie BlackmanJennings Different|title=Peace MakerA Different Dog|author=Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly

|summary=Michela Corbin Our hero is something of a rebelboy, whose name we never learn. We know what he wants in life – with his mother exceedingly poor, but and even she understands that everyone must wear his bed burnt to keep the two of them warm, he wants the prize offered by a down-a Peace Maker Device all -mountain-and-back-up-and-down-again foot race. Winning the time race and the large purse would also give him more status in the eyes of those kids that bully him, and it must might even give him a voice – for he is almost mute. We quickly learn he never be tampered withtalks back to anyone, as non-aggression is their society's founding principle. The Peace Maker is whatever the means by which this is enforcedmotivation, but Michela wants and can only speak aloud to experience the full range of human emotions himself – and the Peace Maker stops that. When her mother captains their ship into enemy airspace and they come under attack , so it seems that Michela's freedom turns out, to a dog he rescues from a bad road accident he finds on his way up the constraints of hill to the Peace Maker might be the only thing that can save them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125619</amazonuk>start line…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tony Bradman and Tom Morgan-JonesDawson_Grave|title= The Boy Grave Matter|author=Juno Dawson and the GlobeAlex T Smith|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= This lively and enjoyable story is set in early seventeenth century London where young orphan Toby Cuffe is living on the streets where life is hard. In order to surviveSince Eliza died, since the resourceful Toby joins the gang night of boys who work for Moll Cut-Purse as thieves. Moll sends Toby to the Globe Theatre to do some pickpocketing where Toby becomes so engrossed in the play being performed car crash that he forgets about his own safetytook her life, Sam is a broken soul. Caught by He is lost without the theatre's owners Toby meets the writer of the play girl he has just seen performedloves, the famous playwright William Shakespearefeeling as though a part of him died that night too. Then our young hero But he is given an opportunity that desperate and he had not expectedcannot live without Eliza. Toby is full of enthusiasm for the theatre He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and rekindles wonders if she might be able to help him. However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the BardMilk 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 enthusiasm too so that together they team up to save the threatened theatrelife in more ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125031</amazonuk>