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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Madeleine Finn doesn't like to read - not anythingThere is no mermaid in the millpond. It's not really her fault, you knowThat at least is what Bess is telling herself. Her teacher tries to encourage Neither will there be a friend for her, but some of in amongst all the other kids giggle when she makes mistakes, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. And they pull faces of the type which would have given me my head Bess knows there is no time for friendship in my hands to play with when I was a child. The words just don't seem hand-to come out right -mouth, every man for herhimself kind of existence. The other children are getting gold stars (I've ''never'' liked But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything that system) but all Madeleine gets is a heart sticker which tells life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to keep trying. She's got plenty harm, there might be a glimmer of thosecompanionship in the tired-out mill workers. All week she tries her best but But surely that doesn't get mean there is any truth in the star she longs for.existence of the mermaid?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910646326</amazonuk>180090049X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny OldfieldKeith Gray|title=Storm CloudThe 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
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{{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
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{{Frontpage
|author=Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez
|title=The 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?
|isbn=1781129002
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{{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. 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?
|isbn=1781129495
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=178112938X
|title=Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission
|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of what happened.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1781129312
|title=Sequin and Stitch
|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Kami Miller was invited Sequin loved her mum to stay at Wolf Ridge Farmbits, the home of but sometimes she got very cross with her best friend Macy Lucas, for the summer. They were both going to be working as real cowgirls and there was a herd of 300 cows to be brought back from the mountains to the ranch. It wasn't going to be easy work, particularly as Macythat mum wouldn's father t go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was recovering from an accident and couldn't ridebecause she never pushed to get credit for what she did. All Mum is a seamstress and she makes the pressure sort of running the ranch has fallen clothes that you see on Macyred carpets or at important weddings. She's brother, Wes not the designer - and hethey's not coping wellre the people who make a lot of money from the clothes. KamiMum is the person who actually ''makes''s upset that hethe garments and she's taking it out on one of really talented, but when people talk about the dress or the young coltssuit, Storm Cloud, but what can she do they talk about it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126895</amazonuk>the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philippa Pearce and Cate JamesTanya Landman|title=The Ghost Jane Eyre: a Retelling|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in Anniea dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but that's Room (Little Gems)nothing compared to the darker, more broody and even more troubling secret in the house. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn to.|isbn=1781129126}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1781128952|title=The Starlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Emma This is on a family holiday in dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, an older relative's seaside cottageunwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, where she Hugo realises there is a mystery to sleep in the room in the attic. Her brother has passed on what he says he has overheard – that it be solved and is hauntedonly too ready to help. But even with the mementos An exciting journey of the person that once lived there all around herdiscovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with a strange feeling some amazing new friends, exploring regions of being watched, even with the stormy winds knocking tree limbs on planet never before known to the window – Emma can sleep through it allexist. But that's not to say things will forever be that way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126852</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy Hopkins1781128693|title=The Valentine's Day KittenSpecial Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Marcie How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when the problem is distraught. On Valentinethe brain which isn's Day last year she'd didnt functioning quite as it used to it isn't receive as easy to grasp. Frank was a single card normal nine-year-old and her parents could see that she was upset, so when she came home from school there like many nine-year-olds what he wanted was a box on the kitchen table and in it was the most gorgeous fluffy silver kittennew bike. Misty and Marcie were soon inseparable until the day that Misty went out without a collar on He'd had his for about seventy- eight years and he didn't come homewant to raise the seat any more. Marcie blamed herself: MistyMum pointed out that it wasn's collar had broken t his birthday or Christmas any time soon and shebikes cost a lot of money, which didn'd never got round to t grow on trees. buying His sister Lottie had a new onesolution: Frank could help her with her paper round. Mum has put notices Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a thousand years to save up the money for a bike AND he had to get up everywhere she can think at six o'clock in the morning.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1781128707|title=The Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Vivian French|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Suzi Simms loved running and rung it was her ambition to win the local vets 100 metres race on sports day at the end of term - and animal rescue centresthat was next week. We're going to read about what happened in her diary, but although there's no sign a warning that we really shouldn't be reading it, particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. To say that the two girls don't get on at all well is a bit of Mistyan understatement. Then Marcie starts having dreams, Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about a boyit, but Barbie is a hotel, a painting troublemaker and she wants to win the 100 metres race too - and Mistyby fair means or foul. Will there be a happy ending?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112678X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Stewart and Chris Ridddell1949471004|title=Free Lance and the Lake of SkullsDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Our hero What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book might not be the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a free lance – one of negative effect on the traditional self-employed menyoung dyslexic than a child without that problem. You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, going round without anything else being thrown into the country, jousting when he can, doing fantastical errands when they come up, all with no fixed employermix. But You need a story which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the lack of fixed income hits home at timeslearning process without there being any large jumps. And at those timesSome online support and games wouldn't go amiss, those fantastical errands, however nightmarish they can clearly either. Reading - and ''learning'' to read - should be, get to a pleasure. It should be all the more appealing…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112714X</amazonuk>''fun''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy Strong and Scoular Anderson1781128510|title=The Ghost in the BathOne Shot|author=Tanya Landman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Luke has got problems – ''Pa and just about every school subject qualifies as one at I understood each other. Our souls were cut from the momentsame 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 those are a bigger problem than history – he's been tasked with a research-heavy project for homeworkthe others acted like him, but has no idea. So when he is having a brainstorm in a bath and is interrupted by a ghostcertainly, of all things, it his wife didn't seem to fully understand him. Maggie might just as well be reliving the way for him to be connected Cinderella story, stuck with the pasttwo siblings and mother that are fully against her. But that's ignoring 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 fact that the girl left as very idea of a ghost might female shooting things, when they could be wanting preparing for a connection life of her own – and perhaps an end to an unusual problem she herself has…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127263</amazonuk>unhappy married drudgery, is just scandalous.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112843X|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 a young lad question the whole game…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Bernard Ashley|title=Lena Lenik S.O.Swishes come true.|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Lena's mother seems very ill. Scary noises are coming from the bathroom, she's off food And then Mr Tiger and completely listless, complaining of the effort involved in sewing a patch onto a cub scout uniformhis circus arrive. It might be And a surprise to the young reader of this book when we learn what the reason journey is – certainly it was obvious from page two for me – but there are definitely more surprises to comeplanned... 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tanya Landman1781128286|title=Passing for WhiteRun Wild|author=Gill 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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