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[[Category:New Reviews|Dyslexia Friendly]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. 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, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They 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. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=1800900899}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=The Mermaid in the Millpond|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert SwindellsKeith Gray|title=The First HunterClimbers
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Tan and his family are scavengers - stone age scavengers. When a big cat makes a kill one of the family - Sully is the brand man - dashes best tree climber in and frightens the big cat off its kill with a firy brand and one of the others snatches some of the meat for the familyvillage. If they donHe has what't get s known amongst the meat then itkids as 'reach's down to roots. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, insects or lizards. Some who clambers up some of the family are concerned about Widhardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, who grewand not only that, but that his brain didn't and they don't see why they should hunt for meat chance to keep name the boy alivefinal, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. They're How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all for leaving him of his friends, to the wolves. Tan won't have it and for the moment Wid is safe.do so?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126011</amazonuk>1781129991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackie MorrisLisa Thompson|title=The White FoxSmall Things
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Sol had Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never been happy really fits in Seattle. It wasnHer family don't just that he was bullied at have enough money to let her do after school: being Inuit he looked ''different'' activities, and that always makes you so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. When a target. Sol's heart was somewhere else - in new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the Arcticnew girl, where he felt he belonged Ellie, is unwell and where he had grandparents whom heso can'd not seen for such t attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with the class by using a long timerobot. Everything changed when his father told him about Can Anna overcome the white Arctic fox which had been seen on the docks challenge of making friends with someone through a robot, and Sol set about finding the fox - and then feeding it. But what would happen is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to the fox when it was trapped? And how would Sol handle the situationEllie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125228</amazonuk>1781129649
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Non PrattEmma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=UnboxedThe Ghost Garden
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=When they were thirteen there had been five of them: AlixFran, Benthe gardener's daughter at a posh country house, Deanis worried. She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a large bone, buried under the potatoes. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, Millie and Zarathe older child of the house, and they had made a promise breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. She is due to return get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to the school where they had hidden foretell a memory box five years latersurprise. Only five years later there are only four Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason to be out of them: Millie had died of stomach cancerher mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. The remaining four are nervous about what they might find But surely that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the box, worried about what their thirteen-year-old selves might reveal about who they are nowsultry, but most summery days of all they're missing Millie.1914?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125856</amazonuk>1781129002
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Steve ColeAlex Wheatle|title= Mind WriterThe Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating= 42.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary= Everyone knows what a mind reader can do and Luke Mellows has this amazing talent, or maybe it is a giftWe meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. He uses this should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to great effect a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal and for his own entertainment. Knowing what breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in response, and the teacher is thinking can wanna-bae seems to actually be incredibly useful with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and can be used not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for amusing classroom anticsdinner. Luke thought it was only him who had I know, right? But surely this giftis just a blip, 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 day at school to change what a person forget, and everything (like his vomit) will think all come out in the wash? This can 't be a powerful and dangerous skill. When the mind reader and mind writer come together Luke soon learns that there is start of a much darker and sinister situation occurring than he could ever have imagined.most nightmarish time for young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112583X</amazonuk>1781129495
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Ure178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Snow GlobeApollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=AbiIt's family's circumstances changed very suddenly. 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 fifty years since the weekend. The family home, Apollo 13 mission was spacious and launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in a pleasant neighbourhood. When Florida, but the family business went under they had to sell story of that journey remains one of the house and move to something smallergreatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The horse riding and dance classes went and school was Apollo 13 Mission'' is a big comprehensive - with boys and a dull, grey uniform. Worst brilliant retelling of all she was moving away from her best friend, Jennywhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125945</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tom Palmer1781129312|title= Wings: SpitfireSequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)|rating= 45
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary= Greg is fed up Sequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with playing in goalher. He reckons things only happen 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 seamstress and she makes the sort of clothes that you theresee on red carpets or at important weddings. The other players get to She's not the designer - they're the people who make them happena lot of money from the clothes. The summer school isn Mum is the person who actually ''makes't turning out how he'd hoped at all. The old airfield next to the school freaks Greg out … garments and she's really talented, but when he starts on a model of an old Spitfirepeople talk about the dress or the suit, he's propelled into an adventure that will really show him what it means to take control …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125368</amazonuk>they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul DowswellTanya Landman|title= WaveJane Eyre: a Retelling|rating= 5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= WaveA young woman, set fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in WW1a dreary school, tells moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the story of the battle of the Sommelife she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. Although When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but that's nothing compared to the story spans 100 yearsdarker, 1st July 1916 more broody and 1st July 2016, even more troubling secret in the majority of the action takes place during 30minutes between 7am and 7.30am on 1st July 1916house. It follows two brothersYes, Charlie and Eddieif you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, as they prepare for the moment when they are to go over the top, as the first wavewhatever reason, into No Man’s Land. The story this is a poignant, reflective and brutally honest account of the events which lead wonderful book to turn to the biggest casualty rate in one day in the history of the British Army.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125627</amazonuk>1781129126
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen McCombie1781128952|title=The OMG BlogStarlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James
|rating=4
|genre= Dyslexia Friendly
|summary= In the first weeks of term at a new secondary school four ''good'' girls find themselves thrown together in detention. From this inauspicious beginning a firm friendship develops as the girls, encouraged by their teacher to enter a blogging competition, find that they do have one very important thing in common…their embarrassing mums. The ''Our Mums Grrr'' blog is born!
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{{newreview
|author=Malorie Blackman
|title=Peace Maker
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Michela Corbin This is something of a rebel, but even she understands that everyone must wear a Peace Maker Device all the time and that it must never be tampered with, as nondyslexia-aggression is their society's founding principle. The Peace Maker is the means by which this is enforcedfriendly, but Michela wants to experience the full range of human emotions and the Peace Maker stops thatscience fiction novella for young adults. When her mother captains their ship into enemy airspace and they come under attack it seems that Michela's freedom from It tells the constraints tale of the Peace Maker might be the only thing that can save them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125619</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tony Bradman Hugo, an unwanted and Tom Morgan-Jones|title= The Boy and the Globe|rating= 4|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 surviverather lonely android, the resourceful Toby joins the gang of boys who work makes a living for Moll Cuthimself mending time-Purse as thievestravel watches. Moll sends Toby When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to the Globe Theatre be solved and is only too ready to do some pickpocketing where Toby becomes so engrossed in the play being performed that he forgets about his own safetyhelp. Caught by the theatre's owners Toby meets the writer An exciting journey of the play he has just seen performeddiscovery unfolds, the famous playwright William Shakespeare. Then our young hero is given an opportunity that he had not expected. Toby is full which takes Hugo out of enthusiasm for the theatre his drab attic workroom and rekindles into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the Bard's enthusiasm too so that together they team up planet never before known to save the threatened theatreexist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Beck1781128693|title=Grey Island Red Boat|rating=5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Princess Opal lived with her father, the king, on the Island of Ashes. It was a grey island, set in a grey sea and Opal lived in a grey castle surrounded by a cold grey moat. The gardens were grey and so were the trees and flowers. Princess Opal even sat on 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 missing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112521X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSpecial Delivery|author=Michael Morpurgo and Sam Usher|title=We Are Not FROGS!Jonathan Meres
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=After How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when the storm problem is the frogs and the toads all came out onto the lawn brain which isn't functioning quite as it used to it isn't as easy to play long jumpgrasp. This Frank was a normal nine-year-old and like many nine-year-olds what he wanted was the frogsa new bike. He' choice as they could jump further d had his for about seventy-eight years and he didn't want to raise the toads just wanted an easy lifeseat any more. But - through Mum pointed out that it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a series lot of unfortunate incidents involving lorries, dogs, childrenmoney, 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 cart and an ice cream container, first the toads ended thousand years to save up in the ice cream container and after they sold the frogs down the river in exchange money for being put into a muddy ditch, the frogs - all twenty two of them - were bike AND he had to get up at six o'clock in the same prison and it was only thanks to Mutt the dog that they escapedmorning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125120</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline Lawrence1781128707|title=Queen The Spectacular Revenge of the Silver ArrowSuzi Sims|author=Vivian French|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=King Metabus had not been a good king Suzi Simms loved running and his escape from his kingdom it was hurried her ambition to win the 100 metres race on sports day at the end of term - and pursuedthat was next week. When he reached the river he had We're going to make a decision and he thought first of the safety of the baby daughter he carried read about what happened in his arms and tied her to his javelindiary, which he threw across the torrentalthough there's a warning that we really shouldn't be reading it, pledging particularly as he did so it's about Barbie Meek. To say that he would serve the Goddess Dianatwo girls don't get on at all well is a bit of an understatement. Camilla should have grown up as a Princess Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, but instead she lived in Barbie is a cave with her father troublemaker and ran wild in the forest. In nearby Laurentum, Acca had grown up hearing the story of how Camilla giggled as she swung on wants to win the javelin embedded in the ground and dreamed of meeting her, but this didn't happen until after the death of Camilla's father, when the girls became firm friends100 metres race too - by fair means or foul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Hooper1949471004|title=A Dark TradeDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Georgina Friday, known to everyone as Gina, grew up in an orphanage What do you do when your child has dyslexia and when she was sixteen went you need books which will help them to be a servant achieve the wonder that is a big house in central London. reading? There were seven members of You can risk buying early readers, but the family and twelve servants - and Gina was sounds in the one at book might not be the bottom who had to run about after everyone ones you've been working on and who was encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the butt of practical jokesyoung dyslexic than a child without that problem. She could cope with that, but You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what she couldnyou't cope with was ve been working on, without anything else being thrown into the attentions of one of mix. You need a story which engages the young men of mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the familylearning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either. SheReading - and ''learning'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 and her baby read - and could see no way of escape from should be a pleasure. It should be ''himfun'' other than to run away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125163</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1781128510|title=Ghost for SaleOne Shot|author=Tanya Landman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=When Mr ''Pa and Mrs Rundle see an advert 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 paper for a wardrobe for saleothers acted like him, complete with ghostand certainly, Mrs Rundle decides that they absolutely his wife didn''must'' have it! They own The Dog t seem to fully understand him. Maggie might as well be reliving the Cinderella story, stuck with two siblings and Duck Inn mother that are fully against her. But at least she can sneak out at night, and Mrs Rundle feels that addition of a ghost will add interest shoot some game to their Inn and bring stop them custom. The arrival from starving? Well, no, not where her mother is concerned – the very idea of the wardrobe certainly shakes a female shooting things up , when they could be preparing for the Rundlesa life of unhappy married drudgery, though perhaps not in the way they'd imagined!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112518X</amazonuk>is just scandalous.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Gough and Jim Field178112843X|title=Rabbit and Bear: Rabbit's Bad Habbits|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When Bear wakes up early from her hibernation, she decides that if she can't sleep then she might as well do something which she's always wanted to do - build a snowman. It's whilst she's doing this that she meets Rabbit, who tells her that he's an Expert in Gravity. Whatever he is, it doesn't seem to make him particularly happy as he never smiles and isn't exactly big on fun. But there are avalanches around as well as hungry wolves and Rabbit soon comes to the conclusion that it's good to have a friend on your side - even if you have just stolen their food.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444929313</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLark|author=Jean Ure|title=My Dog DaisyAnthony McGowan|rating=45
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Lily did 'I'll warn you first. This is the fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. Try notto cry before you'' want a goldfishve even read the first page. Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Nor did she want Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a hamster or a catlong time ago. She wanted a ''DOG'They haven' t seen her for years and whilst she understood what Mum said about not being able to have a dog in the 5th floor flat without impending visit is stirring up a garden she still thought it was unfairlot of uncomfortable feelings. After all, when they lived at GranAnd Nicky's house there was a garden and she could have had a doggirlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, but then Mum Nicky and Gran had Kenny plan a row and they moved day out, trekking across the moors. She hadnBut it doesn't even seen Gran for three months go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and she ''missed'' her. And the their dog which she couldn't have. Even Keri, her best friendTina, though that she was going on a bit about the whole thingin terrible danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124965</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1786697173|title=Eoin Colfer Mr Tiger, Betsy and Victor Ambrusthe Blue Moon|titleauthor=The Seal's Fate (Colour Conker) Sally Gardner|rating=45
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Bobby Parrish was reluctant to admit that Betsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, Alonso, makes the seal was cutemost wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Her mother, Myrtle, even is a mermaid and comes to himselfvisit regularly, although she still lives in the sea. That sort Betsy dreams of thing was for girls two things: firstly, about the circus owned by a tiger and he was here whether it would ever come to club the seal. Seals were affecting his father's livelihood as a fisherman her island and there was secondly, about a bounty magical ice cream made from the berries of a £1 for a seal's flipper: in those days that was good money and even one the Gongalong bush. One scoop of the girls had collected the cashthis ice cream can make wishes come true. Still, somehow he couldn't quite bring himself to attack the defenceless cub, all big, black, round eyes  And then Mr Tiger and obviously unworried by his presencecircus arrive. And a journey is planned... What would the other lads say though? More to the point, what would his father say?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124310</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Catherine Rayner1781128286|title=Clare and Her Captain (Colour Conker)Run Wild|author=Gill Lewis|rating=45
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Clare didn't enjoy the journey down to Devon. Her parents always argued and it was usually because Mum had lost her way or got caught in a traffic jam Meet Izzy and this time she'd done bothAsha. It was Bullied away from the local attempt at a little better when skatepark, they got to Aunt Dora's house, but Aunt Dora wasn't exactly find a peacemaker and tended to stick up for Dad against everybody else. The holiday improved when Clare got out for a walk on her own and discovered huge waste ground in the shadow of a stray lamb on the road. She took it derelict gasometer to the nearest house and Mr Jones was delighted: Clare had just saved half his flock. Clare got practise on with the old man - and with his horse, Captain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124353</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael Rosen and Richard Watson|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 which they duly do, even though they had have to behave because she couldn't drive properly if the kids were going ''mad in the back'drag Izzy's younger brother with them. The kids told her not following day they all want to worry - and off they went. Then the kids started ''The Moaning''. Every parent will know exactly what this means: requests for drink, foodreturn, windows open... Then as does the squabbling starts: accusations that brother''HE'' has got my books schoolfriend, ears are bitten by ''HER''. Mum tries diversionary tactics: ''look out despite – and of course because of the window - there's is a lamp-post''huge wolf living in the site. (Yes MUm - we know desperation when we hear it.) And it gets worse. And worse. Then Mum snaps.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125090</amazonuk>Can the children survive living in the urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen McCombieJennings Different|title=Honey A Different Dog|author=Paul Jennings and MeGeoff Kelly
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Most girls starting out Brook City School are hoping for something new Our hero is a boy, whose name we never learn. We know what he wants in life – with his mother exceedingly poor, and differenteven his bed burnt to keep the two of them warm, but Kirsten just he wants things to be ''normal''the prize offered by a down-a-mountain-and-back-up-and-down-again foot race. Even good things seem to come with a sting Winning the race and the large purse would also give him more status in the tail and worst eyes of allthose kids that bully him, Mum and Dad are really not getting onit might even give him a voice – for he is almost mute. In fact Kirsten is happiest at school We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the motivation, and does all the after-school activities she can manage just only speak aloud to keep away from home for as long as she can. Her elder brotherhimself – and, Finn, who's at sixth form collegeso it turns out, is struggling too: what used to be thought of as ''cheeky'' at school has turned into ''disruptive''. When things get really a dog he rescues from a bad Kirsten is suddenly reminded of her old friend Honey and wonders if she can get in touch with her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124752</amazonuk>road accident he finds on his way up the hill to the start line…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michelle Magorian and Sam UsherDawson_Grave|title= SmileGrave Matter|ratingauthor= 5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Josh is tired, fed up and feeling put out and ignored. No, he isn't having a tantrum – something big has happened (well, two things actually) and his world has turned upside down. You see ''The Howler'' has arrived and everything has changed and not, so far, for the better. Baby brother Charlie is just seventeen days old Juno Dawson and is not only taking up all of his parents' time, but also stopping everyone in the house from getting enough sleep with his constant howling. Will the crying 'ever' stop? And there's worse because the really terrible thing is the baby's arrival meant a very special event had to be cancelled. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125007</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Palmer|title=Rugby Academy: DeadlockedAlex T Smith|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=It's Since Eliza died, since the night of the third story in car crash that took her life, Sam is a broken soul. He is lost without the ''Rugby Academy'' series 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 so far we've heard from Woody in [[Rugby Academy: Combat Zone by Tom Palmer|Combat Zone]] her peculiar healing powers and Rory in [[Rugby Academy: Surface wonders if she might be able to Air by Tom Palmer|Surface to Air]]help him. In thisHowever, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the final book Milk Man, which causes Sam in this brilliant series, we hear from Owen. We left the team at the end of ''Surface his grieving state to Air'' when Borderlands had got through to the World Championship in New Zealand. Despite the elation of doing so Owen isn't entirely comfortable make a pact with Jesse, the team captain. He has no doubts that forces he was a brilliant player - the best on the team - but he candoesn't respect him understand. Things soon turn complicated as a personsupernatural powers start to change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123993</amazonuk>
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