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|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}}{{Frontpage|author=Keith Gray|title=The Climbers|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Sully is the best tree climber in the village. He has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach'. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, and not only that, 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 it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?|isbn=1781129991}}{{Frontpage|author=Lisa Thompson|title=The Small Things|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. Her family don't have enough money to let her do after school activities, and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with the class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through a robot, and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649}}{{Frontpage|author=Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=SenselessThe Ghost Garden
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Fran, the gardener's daughter at a posh country house, is 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, the older child of the house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. 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 bathchair, she might have reason to be out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. But surely that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?
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|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. He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in response, and the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinner. 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't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?
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|isbn=178112938X
|title=Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission
|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=16 year old Kenzie Mitchell, otherwise known as K-Boy, thinks his every dream has come true when heIt's wins fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the chance to attend a top gaming tournament at Sensia HQ on a remote tropical island. The contestants are flown Kennedy Space Centre in on their own private jet and transferred by limo to Florida, but the swankiest story of hotels. It all seems too good to be true – which that journey remains one of course it is. Within hours, events start to take a sinister turn. Kenzie wakes in the night unable to see and one by one his other senses – touch, hearing, smell and taste – flicker in and outgreatest survival stories of all time. And he 's not on his own. It's happening to the other contestants too, sometimes with fatal consequences. Kenzie wants to believe it isnSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission't really happening. He wants to believe it's just is a really good virtual reality game. But with Sensia in control, the line between realities has almost entirely disappearedbrilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127336</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1781129312|title=Paul Stewart Sequin and Chris RiddellStitch|titleauthor=Free Lance Laura Dockrill and the Field of Blood Sara Ogilvie (Free Lance Trilogy 2illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=The world of jousting Sequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with her. 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 fierce one – survive seamstress and she makes the minor battles with the lance, either as a bonded employed Knight sort of clothes that you see on red carpets or as a Free Lance, and you might try your hands at the major leagueimportant weddings. There She's not the men are stronger, designer - they're the horses faster, and people who make a lot of money from the ground hurts more when you hit itclothes. But Mum is the person who actually ''makes'' the big time also offers more that can put a humble Knight at risk – such as evil hostsgarments and she's really talented, beautiful princess-types in picklesbut when people talk about the dress or the suit, and mysteriously successful strangersthey talk about the designer. Our nameless hero and his loyal horse, Jed, are going to be up against a lot more than they expected here…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127158</amazonuk>The seamstress is never mentioned.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sita Brahmachari and Jane RayTanya Landman|title=Worry AngelsJane Eyre: a Retelling|rating=45
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Amy-May was devastated when A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her parents split up: she , and her mother left the delightful seaside cottage where the waves had sung her to sleep and moved into years in a 'garden flat'. That didn't mean that it had a gardendreary school, just that it was on the ground floor. They didn't moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have a lot of possessions as something like the bailiffs had taken most of them. Her father was living in another old cottage now life she wants – and hopefully he'd be able to set up his kilnwith only one job, but he wouldn't be able to hometutor a young half-school Amy-MayFrench girl, whose father is almost always absent. The alternative was Sandcastles Secondary School but the rather nervous Amy was considered When he does turn up he seems to be too ''anxious'dark, brooding and troubled – but that' s nothing compared to start at the school full timedarker, more broody and even more troubling secret in the house. As Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this is a gentle introduction wonderful book to schooling she went turn to Grace's art school instead.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112695X</amazonuk>1781129126
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Strong and Jamie Smith1781128952|title=Nellie Choc-Ice, Penguin Explorer (Little Gems)The Starlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Meet Nellie ChocThis is a dyslexia-Icefriendly, science fiction novella for young adults. Thus named by her grandparents (and grandparents have a habit in this book It tells the tale of making unusual names for their grandchildrenHugo, whichever species they belong to)an unwanted and rather lonely android, she is who makes a pretty little Macaroni penguin, complete with pink feet, bright yellow eyebrows and a woolly hat with the world's biggest pompom on the endliving for himself mending time-travel watches. She has a habit When one of going exploring and finding out what's over the next ridge in the icehis clients demands that his broken watch be mended, and the next, and the next. But when disaster happens and the ice she Hugo realises there is on is knocked off Antarctica by a submarine, even she can have no idea as mystery to where she will end up…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127212</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Papp|title=Madeleine Finn be solved and the Library Dog|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Madeleine Finn doesn't like is only too ready to read - not anythinghelp. It's not really her faultAn exciting journey of discovery unfolds, you know. Her teacher tries to encourage herwhich takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, but some of the other kids giggle when she makes mistakes. And they pull faces exploring regions of the type which would have given me my head in my hands to play with when I was a child. The words just don't seem to come out right for her. The other children are getting gold stars (I've ''planet never'' liked that system) but all Madeleine gets is a heart sticker which tells her before known to keep trying. She's got plenty of those. All week she tries her best but doesn't get the star she longs forexist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646326</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Oldfield1781128693|title=Storm CloudSpecial Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Kami Miller was invited How do you explain to stay at Wolf Ridge Farmchildren about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when the home of her best friend Macy Lucas, for problem is the summerbrain which isn't functioning quite as it used to it isn't as easy to grasp. They were both going to be working as real cowgirls Frank was a normal nine-year-old and there like many nine-year-olds what he wanted was a herd of 300 cows new bike. He'd had his for about seventy-eight years and he didn't want to be brought back from raise the mountains to the ranchseat any more. It Mum pointed out that it wasn't going to be easy workhis birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a lot of money, particularly as Macy's father was recovering from an accident and couldnwhich didn't ridegrow on trees. All the pressure of running the ranch has fallen on Macy's brother, Wes - and he's not coping wellHis sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her with her paper round. Kami's upset Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a thousand years to save up the money for a bike AND hehad to get up at six o's taking it out on one of clock in the young colts, Storm Cloud, but what can she do about it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126895</amazonuk>morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philippa Pearce and Cate James1781128707|title=The Ghost in Annie's Room (Little Gems)Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Vivian French|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Emma is on a family holiday in an older relative's seaside cottage, where she is Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to sleep in win the room in 100 metres race on sports day at the atticend of term - and that was next week. Her brother has passed on We're going to read about what he says he has overheard – happened in her diary, although there's a warning that we really shouldn't be reading it, particularly as it is haunted's about Barbie Meek. But even with To say that the mementos of the person that once lived there two girls don't get on at all around her, and with well is a strange feeling bit of being watchedan understatement. Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, even with the stormy winds knocking tree limbs on but Barbie is a troublemaker and she wants to win the window – Emma can sleep through it all100 metres race too - by fair means or foul. But that's not to say things will forever be that way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126852</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy Hopkins1949471004|title=The Valentine's Day KittenDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Marcie What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is distraught. reading? On ValentineYou can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book might not be the ones you's Day last year she'd didn't receive 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 single card and her parents could see child without that she was upset, so when she came home from school there was problem. You need to be able to buy books at a box reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on , without anything else being thrown into the kitchen table and in it was the most gorgeous fluffy silver kittenmix. Misty You need a story which engages the young mind and Marcie were soon inseparable until you need stages which progress steadily through the day that Misty went out learning process without a collar on - there being any large jumps. Some online support and didngames wouldn't come homego amiss, either. Marcie blamed herself: MistyReading - and ''learning's collar had broken and she'd never got round to buying read - should be a new onepleasure. Mum has put notices up everywhere she can think of and rung the local vets and animal rescue centres, but thereIt should be ''fun''s no sign of Misty. Then Marcie starts having dreams, about a boy, a hotel, a painting - and Misty. Will there be a happy ending?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112678X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Stewart and Chris Ridddell1781128510|title=Free Lance and the Lake of SkullsOne Shot|author=Tanya Landman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=''Pa and I understood each other. Our hero is a free lance – 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 the traditional self-employed menthree children who looked like him, going round and none of the countryothers acted like him, jousting when he canand certainly, doing fantastical errands when they come uphis wife didn't seem to fully understand him. Maggie might as well be reliving the Cinderella story, all stuck with no fixed employertwo siblings and mother that are fully against her. But the lack of fixed income hits home at times. And least she can sneak out at those timesnight, those fantastical errandsand shoot some game to stop them from starving? Well, however nightmarish no, not where her mother is concerned – the very idea of a female shooting things, when they can clearly could bepreparing for a life of unhappy married drudgery, get to be all the more appealing…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112714X</amazonuk>is just scandalous.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Strong and Scoular Anderson178112843X|title=The Ghost in the Bath|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Luke has got problems – and just about every school subject qualifies as one at the moment. But none of those are a bigger problem than history – he's been tasked with a research-heavy project for homework, but has no idea. So when he is having a brainstorm in a bath and is interrupted by a ghost, of all things, it might just be the way for him to be connected with the past. But that's ignoring the fact that the girl left as a ghost might be wanting a connection of her own – and perhaps an end to an unusual problem she herself has…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127263</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=RookLark
|author=Anthony McGowan
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=When I'll warn you first. This is the fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. Try not to cry before you've even read the first page. Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny come across . Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a rook being attacked by a sparrowhawk, they chase off the raptor long time ago. They haven't seen her for years and rescue the rook.Kenny impending visit is convinced that stirring up a good dollop lot of love and affection is all that's needed to keep the bird alive but Nicky is scepticaluncomfortable feelings. And in any case, Nicky 's girlfriend has other ended things to worry about. To take their minds off it all, like avoiding the bully at school Nicky and finding Kenny plan a way to talk to day out, trekking across the girl he likesmoors. In the previous two books in this sequence, troubles were dogging Kenny But it doesn't go to plan and the an accident puts both boys' father but - and their dog, Tina, in ''Rook'' it's Nicky who could do with a helping hand. Things are about to go wrongterrible danger. Will Nicky find a way through?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127239</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Gibbons1786697173|title=The Beautiful GameMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Sally Gardner|rating=45
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Football is all about its coloursBetsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. And even if I write in Her father, Alonso, makes the season when one team most wonderful ice cream in blue knocks another team in blue from the throne of English footballevery flavour you could imagine. Her mother, Myrtle, it's common knowledge that red is a mermaid and comes to visit regularly, although she still lives in the more successful colour to wearsea. But is that flame red? Blood red? The red Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, about the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in circus owned by a tragedy – tiger and that whether it had been one of their own making? And while we're on would ever come to her island and secondly, about colour, where were a magical ice cream made from the people berries of colour in football in the olden days? There are so many darker sides to football's history it's enough to Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true. And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. And a young lad question the whole game…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>journey is planned...
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bernard Ashley1781128286|title=Lena Lenik S.O.S.|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Lena's mother seems very ill. Scary noises are coming from the bathroom, she's off food and completely listless, complaining of the effort involved 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 the reason is – certainly it was obvious from page two for me – but there are definitely more surprises to come. Mother makes a slightly unusual decision about her condition – leaving Lena with a lot on her plate when fate sets in with a surprise of its own…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125716</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRun Wild|author=Tanya Landman|title=Passing for WhiteGill Lewis
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=In 1847, in Macon, Georgia, Benjamin was a slaveMeet Izzy and Asha. He was Bullied away from the local attempt at a talented carpenter tooskatepark, but on November they find a huge waste ground in the 19th he was unnerved: shadow of a white woman was looking at him, smiling and being polite. What was going derelict gasometer to practise on? He wasn't just unnerved, but nervous: you seewhich they duly do, Benjamin was looking at the white womaneven though they have to drag Izzy's younger brother with them. The following day they all want to return, looking ''her'' in as does the eye and a slave could get himself killed for less than that. Only this wasnbrother't a white woman: this was Rosa, who was mixed race. She could pass for whites schoolfriend, but she too was a slave. Rosa despite – 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 course because of knowing who – there is a huge wolf living in the father wassite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112681X</amazonuk>Can the children survive living in the urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jennings Different|title=The Harder They FallA Different Dog|author=Bali RaiPaul Jennings and Geoff Kelly
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Cal loves comic booksOur hero is a boy, whose name we never learn. He also dreams We know what he wants in life – with his mother exceedingly poor, and even his bed burnt to keep the two of being them warm, he wants the prize offered by a superhero down-a-mountain-and saving -back-up-and-down-again foot race. Winning the day while simultaneously winning race and the heart large purse would also give him more status in the eyes of the girl (Freya being the girlthose kids that bully him, hopefully). Batman is his favourite superhero. But Cal's world outside his daydreams and it might even give him a voice – for he is not particularly superhero-likealmost mute. Because Cal is a bit of a geek and We quickly learn he is being bullied by mean girl Anunever talks back to anyone, whatever the motivation, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on and can only speak aloud to lazy classmates. Stillhimself – and, so it's not all turns out, to a dog he rescues from a bad. Cal's parents are lovely and road accident he finds on his way up the hill to the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>start line…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris PriestleyDawson_Grave|title=Flesh Grave Matter|author=Juno Dawson and BloodAlex T Smith|rating=4.5
|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 fightSince Eliza died, ''and'' they've tried since the evacuee experience, but are back in London – just in time for night of the Battle of Britaincar crash that took her life, which Sam is a circumstance Bill hates Jane forbroken soul. He is lost without the girl he loves, feeling as though a part of him died that night too. But he quickly grew is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to love the countrysidehelp him. However, while Jane resisted finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the idea of them settling thereMilk Man, so they were returned which causes Sam in his grieving state to an allegedly safe capital. One night after make a bombing raid they settle outside the neighbourhoodpact with forces he doesn's token empty, boarded up and deserted home – only for Bill to convince himself he hears someone insidet understand. The unidentifiable and severely burnt child that gets rescued becomes a kind of new family member – but does this have anything Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to do with Billchange Sam's resent-filled wish life in more ways than he bargained for a brother to replace Jane?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126887</amazonuk>.
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