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[[Category:New Reviews|Dyslexia Friendly]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Strong and Scoular Anderson1800901232|title=The Ghost in the BathStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Luke has got problems – and just about every school subject qualifies as one at Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the moment. But none of those are a bigger problem than history – he's been tasked rural village where she lived with a research-heavy project for homeworkher family was happy, if not prosperous, but has no idea. So so when he is having the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a brainstorm job in a bath 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 is interrupted by the other girls were not going to work in a ghostshop, of all things, it might just be 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 way for him to be connected legs? The ones with the past. But artfully-placed rips and distressed seams thatfelt so soft when you touched them? It's ignoring the fact quite possible that the girl left as a ghost might be wanting a connection of Hanh and her own – and perhaps an end to an unusual problem she herself has…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127263</amazonuk>co-workers made them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RookMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Anthony McGowanWrath|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=When Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny come across Meet Fitz, a rook being attacked by a sparrowhawk, they chase off the raptor and rescue the rookyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself.Kenny Lockdown is convinced that a good dollop of love only just over, and affection is all that's needed he should be free to do what he wants, to keep the bird alive go where he wants and with whom he wants, but Nicky is sceptical. And he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in any caseit when he talks to his best friend, Nicky has other things to worry aboutCassie. They were half of a desultory school band, like avoiding but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the bully at school and finding enigmatic – saying she could hear a way to talk to subhuman hum coming from the girl he likesearth. In Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the previous two books in this sequence, troubles were dogging Kenny and end of the boys' father but in ''Rook'' world is already a done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's Nicky who could do with a helping handdreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. Things are about to go wrong. Will Nicky find a way through?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781127239</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan GibbonsLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=The Beautiful GameMermaid in the Millpond|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Football There is all about its colours. And even if I write no mermaid in the season when one team millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in blue knocks another team in blue from amongst all the throne of English footballother kids, it's common knowledge that red who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is the more successful colour no time for friendship in a hand-to wear-mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. But is that flame red? Blood red? The red despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – slight little Dot, and despite everything that it had been one of their own making? And while we're on life has taught her about colourbetrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, where were the people there might be a glimmer of colour companionship in football the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the olden daysexistence of the mermaid? There are so many darker sides to football's history it's enough to make a young lad question the whole game…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>180090049X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernard AshleyKeith Gray|title=Lena Lenik S.O.S.The Climbers
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=LenaSully is the best tree climber in the village. He has what's mother seems very illknown amongst the kids as 'reach'. Scary noises are coming from But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the bathroomhardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, she's off food and completely listlessnot only that, complaining of that his chance to name the effort involved final, unnamed big tree in sewing a patch onto a cub scout uniform. It might be a surprise to the young reader of this book when we learn what park by being the reason is – certainly first to conquer it was obvious , might be snatched from page two for me – but there are definitely more surprises to comehis hands. Mother makes a slightly unusual decision about her condition – leaving Lena with a lot on her plate when fate sets in with a surprise How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of its own…his friends, to do so?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125716</amazonuk>1781129991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tanya LandmanLisa Thompson|title=Passing for WhiteThe Small Things
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=In 1847Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in Macon. Her family don't have enough money to let her do after school activities, Georgia, Benjamin was a slaveand so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. He was When a talented carpenter toonew girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but on November things are complicated because the 19th he was unnerved: a white woman was looking at himnew girl, Ellie, smiling is unwell and being polite. What was going on? He wasnso can't just unnervedattend school in person. Instead, but nervous: you see, Benjamin was looking at the white woman, looking ''her'' she joins in with the eye and class by using a slave could get himself killed for less than thatrobot. Only this wasn't Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through a white woman: this was Rosarobot, who was mixed race. She could pass for white, but and is she too was even interesting enough to be a slave. Rosa and Benjamin eventually married, but it didn't stop Rosa's master from taking sexual advantage of her and when she found that she was pregnant she had no way of knowing who the father was.good friend to Ellie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112681X</amazonuk>1781129649
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Harder They FallEmma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|authortitle=Bali RaiThe Ghost Garden
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Cal loves comic booksFran, the gardener's daughter at a posh country house, is worried. He also dreams of being She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a superhero and saving large bone, buried under the day while simultaneously winning potatoes. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, the heart older child of the girl (Freya being house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the girl, hopefully)lawn. Batman 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 grounds in his favourite superherobathchair, 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 Calsurely that won's world outside his daydreams is t act as a premonition to anything - not particularly superhero-likehere in the sultry, summery days of 1914?|isbn=1781129002}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Wheatle|title=The Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating=2.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. Because Cal is He should be getting a bit of text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a geek cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal and he is being bullied by mean his breakfast over another girl Anuin class, who makes 's duffed him complete homework assignments which she then sells on up in response, and the wanna-bae seems to lazy classmatesactually be with someone else anyway. Still, it On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and not all much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so badthey're resorting to having cabbage for dinner. Cal I know, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can's parents are lovely and t be the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures...start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>1781129495
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Priestley178112938X|title=Flesh Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and BloodStefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Families change in wartime – in size, if not any other way. Bill and Jane have already had to get used to their father being away to fight, It''and'' they've tried s fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the evacuee experienceKennedy Space Centre in Florida, but are back in London – just in time for the Battle story of that journey remains one of Britain, which is a circumstance Bill hates Jane for, as he quickly grew to love the countryside, while Jane resisted the idea greatest survival stories of them settling there, so they were returned to an allegedly safe capitalall time. One night after a bombing raid they settle outside the neighbourhood's token empty, boarded up and deserted home – only for Bill to convince himself he hears someone inside. 'Survival in Space: The unidentifiable and severely burnt child that gets rescued becomes Apollo 13 Mission'' is a kind brilliant retelling of new family member – but does this have anything to do with Bill's resent-filled wish for a brother to replace Jane?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126887</amazonuk>what happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meg Rosoff1781129312|title=Good Dog McTavishSequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=McTavish did wonder whether he was making a mistake in adopting the Peachey family: it was a decision which came from the heart rather than the head. You see the Peacheys were dysfunctional: Ma Peachey, an accountant by professionSequin loved her mum to bits, decided that but sometimes she was fed up got very cross with chasing around after an ungrateful family, so she resigned and dedicated herself to her yoga . It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with half a hint that - it was because she might also dedicate herself never pushed to her yoga teacherget credit for what she did. She gave up cooking, cleaning, baking, washing Mum is a seamstress and all she makes the other things which kept the family going, such as finding lost keys and getting people out sort of bed so clothes that they got to wherever they were going you see on timered carpets or at important weddings. And She's not the family? Well, designer - they had no idea 're the people who make a lot of how to copemoney from the clothes. Mum is the person who actually ''makes'' the garments and she's really talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, with one exceptionthey talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126836</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Ardagh and Tom Morgan-JonesTanya Landman|title=Norman the Norman from Normandy (Little Gems)Jane Eyre: a Retelling
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Meet Norman. Norman the NormanA young woman, fresh from Normandy. Not Big Bad Norman the Norman from Normandyliving with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and not Norma years in a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the Norman from Normandy life she wants – and not even Nora the Norman fromwith only one job, well it doesn't sayto tutor a young half-French girl, but my guess whose father is Normandyalmost always absent. Norman isn't very big at all When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled hebut that's just a little boynothing compared to the darker, more broody and he's not bad. Or at least he doesn't think he iseven more troubling secret in the house. But because his fatherYes, Big Bad Norman, is buried in three parts (if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't ask), and little baby Norman has inherited Big Bad Norman's big bad Norman swordfor whatever reason, he's going this is a wonderful book to turn to visit the three parts – but only good will happen… Right?.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126976</amazonuk>1781129126
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Vivian French and Nigel Baines1781128952|title= The Covers of My Book Are Too Far Apart (and other grumbles)|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing |summary=''I'm too old for bedtime stories'', ''That's a girl's book!'', '' I hate this book but I've got to finish it'', ''I can't find a book that I like.'' You've probably heard at least one of the grumbles in this book before but have you known how to respond to it? This brilliant picture book will do it for you and is a joyful celebration of all that's wonderful about books and reading. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112602X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStarlight Watchmaker|author=Phil Earle|title= SuperDad's Day Off|rating= 4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Stanley's dad is tired. It can be exhausting work being a Superhero. For six days of the week he saves the world from disasters and defeats the baddies as Dynamo Dan. Stanley decides his poor dad needs a day off and is determined to make sure that he gets a proper rest. So they head off to the park for some much needed Dad and Son bonding time. However people don'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 in to save the day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126844</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Quentin Blake|title= The Story of the Dancing Frog|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly |summary= When Jo's Great Aunt Gertrude's sea captain husband is drowned at sea she is grief-stricken and, in despair, she goes for a walk alone. During this walk she notices a small frog on a lily-pad. But he is no ordinary frog - he's a dancing frog and the two quickly become good friends. Soon the duo are touring the world with their routine, spreading joy and fun - and carrying out the occasional rescue - wherever they go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125910</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert Swindells|title=Knife EdgeLauren James
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=I'm just not interested. I'm not interested in there ever being This is a knife in junior dyslexia-friendly, science fictionnovella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, unless it comes with an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a lessonliving for himself mending time-travel watches. And I'm just not interested unless that lesson tells you When one thing – of his clients demands that they're quick. Knives can his broken watch be quick to findmended, are quick Hugo realises there is a mystery to whip out, be solved and quick is only too ready to get the bearer into troublehelp. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, whether they actually meet flesh or not. Sam is the student which takes Hugo out of that lesson here – his school has drab attic workroom and into a Citizenship campaign whereby the pupils do odd jobs for local elderlyscary adventure with some amazing new friends, and he finds a perfect knife he thinks will defend him from exploring regions of the local gang – a gang whose leader he constantly rattled in primary schoolplanet never before known to exist. As for the rest – I'll leave his personable first-person narrative to teach you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126860</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer and Garry Parsons1781128693|title=Secret FCSpecial Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Meet LilyHow do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, Maddie, Zack, Khal, and James and Battsbut when the problem is the brain which isn't functioning quite as it used to it isn't as easy to grasp. They all go to Frank was a school together – normal nine-year-old and they do it eagerly, as their inner city life is so devoid of nature 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 open space that the playground is the only room large enough for footballseat any more. But lo Mum pointed out that it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and behold the new head teacher has banned all ball gamesbikes cost a lot of money, which didn't grow on health and safety groundstrees. How do these friends get over their disappointment? His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her with her paper round. Why, with imagination, hard work and a firm belief Frank agreed despite thinking that what they're doing is right, is how – they convert it would take him a rotting tennis court handily hidden in thousand years to save up the school's woods into money for a pitch, where after a lot of labours they can play bike AND he had to their heartget up at six o's contentclock in the morning. Or so they think…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126879</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meg Rosoff1781128707|title=Good Dog McTavishThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Vivian French
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=McTavish did wonder whether he was making a mistake in adopting the Peachey family: Suzi Simms loved running and it was a decision which came from her ambition to win the heart rather than 100 metres race on sports day at the headend of term - and that was next week. You see the Peacheys were dysfunctional: Ma Peachey, an accountant by profession, decided that she was fed up with chasing around after an ungrateful family, so she resigned and dedicated herself We're going to read about what happened in her yoga with half diary, although there's a hint warning that she might also dedicate herself to her yoga teacherwe really shouldn't be reading it, particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. She gave up cooking, cleaning, baking, washing and To say that the two girls don't get on at all the other things which kept the family going, such as finding lost keys and getting people out well is a bit of bed so that they got to wherever they were going on timean understatement. And the family? WellSuzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, they had no idea of how but Barbie is a troublemaker and she wants to cope, with one exceptionwin the 100 metres race too - by fair means or foul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126836</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Hoffman1949471004|title=TiltDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=To make an author, What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you first show someone need books. To make a reader, you first show which will help them to achieve the books they want to, and/or wonder that is reading? You canrisk buying early readers, read. To make a builder, you first show someone buildings. I use those platitudes to introduce Simonetta, or Netta, who lives in Pisa late but the sounds in the thirteenth century. She is surrounded by fabulous buildings – it's book might not for nothing be the area will become known as the Field of Miracles, for the Cathedral, Baptistry ones you've been working on and bell tower look gorgeous. But something is wrong with the latter one – it's definitely leaning, cracks encountering words which are showing, and over the hundred-plus years it's taken to get this far people just too challenging can have built the floors at odd angles to correct more of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problem. Netta is intent 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 person who can solve it, alongside her father who's employed to finish it offmix. But therein lies You need a story which engages the problem – ityoung mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn's all well and good showing someone buildingst go amiss, either. Reading - and making them want ''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be an architect, but if they're the wrong gender then all hope is lost… or is it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125651</amazonuk>'fun''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128510|title=One Shot|author=Linda NewberyTanya 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=Until We WinLark|author=Anthony McGowan
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly |summary=The best journeys are made with little stepsI'll warn you first. Lizzy  This is slowly leaving her boring village behind – by being cheeky yet clever at her lessons, the fourth and getting a job in an office in the nearest proper town – last story about Nicky and by saving Kenny. Try not to buy, cry before you've even read the first page. Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and teaching herself his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to ride, visit - the mum who abandoned them a bicyclelong time ago. All thatThey haven's under t seen her for years and the watchful eye of impending visit is stirring up a mother insistent she learns to knuckle down with the housework on behalf lot of the menuncomfortable feelings. And Nicky's girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, Nicky and an older brother working at Kenny plan a day out, trekking across the village huntmoors. At the office, however, further steps are suggested But it doesn't go to her – shorthand plan and an accident puts both boys - and typing classestheir dog, Tina, but she gets diverted. A chance encounter in 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 womenterrible danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125791</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Gough and Jim Field1786697173|title=Rabbit and Bear: The Pest in the Nest|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Rabbit was struggling. There he was having a nice, peaceful sleep in his friend Bear's cave when a terrible noise woke him. Was it thunder? NoMr Tiger, 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 Betsy and very big ears. But there was something good: when Rabbit went outside the cave he realised that spring had sprung. Suddenly he felt ''strong''. After a winter spent in his friend Bear's cave it was time to go home to his burrow. Only there was a surprise lurking there - and it looked suspiciously like a snake.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934260</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBlue Moon|author=Phil Earle |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 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 Sally Gardner
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Everyone tells River that he's Betsy K Glory lives a liar but he doesn't see it that way – as far as River is concerned he just thinks up interesting stuff to fill in rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, Alonso, makes the gaps most wonderful ice cream in what he knowsevery flavour you could imagine. His lies are harmless: unlike the lies that his mum's new boyfriendHer mother, JasonMyrtle, tells. Jason is a total fake mermaid and River is on a crusade comes to expose himvisit regularly, although she still lives in the sea. HoweverBetsy dreams of two things: firstly, River's investigation doesn't work out as planned. He does uncover about the circus owned by a serious deception (involving his biological father tiger and whether it would ever come to her island and secondly, about a magical ice cream made from the berries of the police) but will anyone believe him?Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126801</amazonuk>And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. And a journey is planned...
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilary McKay1781128286|title=The Sticky WitchRun Wild|author=Gill Lewis
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Tom Meet Izzy and Ellie's parents have set sail around Asha. Bullied away from the world on local attempt at a raft made of rubbish! They tell the children that they will be gone for three yearsskatepark, but it will go by very quickly and they'll be safe and happy find a huge waste ground in the company shadow of Aunt Tab. But who is this strange lady who applied for the job of caring for two wonderful children and their cata derelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, Whiskers? She doesneven though they have to drag Izzy't seem s younger brother with them. The following day they all want to be return, as does the kind guardian that the children needbrother's schoolfriend, despite – and why of course because of – there is everything a huge wolf living in her house so verythe site. Can the children survive living in the urban wilderness, very stickyalongside such obvious dangers?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125996</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert SwindellsJennings Different|title=The First HunterA Different Dog|author=Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Tan 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 family are scavengers bed burnt to keep the two of them warm, he wants the prize offered by a down- stone age scavengers. When a big cat makes a kill one of the family - the brand man mountain-and-back-up- dashes in and frightens -down-again foot race. Winning the big cat off its kill with a firy brand race and one of the others snatches some large purse would also give him more status in the eyes of the meat those kids that bully him, and it might even give him a voice – for the familyhe is almost mute. If they don't get the meat then it's down We quickly learn he never talks back to rootsanyone, insects or lizards. Some of whatever the family are concerned about Widmotivation, who grewand can only speak aloud to himself – and, so it turns out, but to a dog he rescues from a bad road accident he finds on his brain didn't and they don't see why they should hunt for meat to keep way up the boy alive. They're all for leaving him hill to the wolves. Tan won't have it and for the moment Wid is safe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126011</amazonuk>start line…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jackie MorrisDawson_Grave|title=The White FoxGrave Matter|author=Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Sol had never been happy in Seattle. It wasn't just Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that he was bullied at school: being Inuit he looked ''different'' and that always makes you took her life, Sam is a targetbroken soul. Sol's heart was somewhere else - in He is lost without the Arcticgirl he loves, where feeling as though a part of him died that night too. But he felt is desperate and he belonged cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and where he had grandparents whom he'd not seen for such a long timeher peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to help him. Everything changed when However, finding his father told Aunt Marie leads him about to discover the white Arctic fox Milk Man, which had been seen on the docks and Sol set about finding the fox - and then feeding itcauses Sam in his grieving state to make a pact with forces he doesn't understand. But what would happen Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to the fox when it was trapped? And how would Sol handle the situation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125228</amazonuk>change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for.
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