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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Marcie Sully is distraughtthe best tree climber in the village. On ValentineHe has what's Day last year sheknown amongst the kids as 'd didnreach't receive . But what happens when a single card 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 her parents could see not only that, that she was upsethis 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 when ?|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 came home from school there was a box on the kitchen table and never really fits in it was the most gorgeous fluffy silver kitten. Misty and Marcie were soon inseparable until the day that Misty went out without a collar on - and didnHer family don't come home. Marcie blamed herself: Misty's collar had broken have enough money to let her do after school activities, and so she'd never got round feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to buying theirs. When a new one. Mum has put notices up everywhere she can think of and rung girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the local vets new girl, Ellie, is unwell and animal rescue centres, but thereso can's no sign of Mistyt attend school in person. Then Marcie starts having dreamsInstead, about she joins in with the class by using a boy, robot. Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through a hotelrobot, a painting - and Misty. Will there is she even interesting enough to be a happy endinggood friend to Ellie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112678X</amazonuk>1781129649
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul Stewart Emma Carroll and Chris RidddellKaja Kajfez|title=Free Lance and the Lake of SkullsThe 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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{{Frontpage
|isbn=178112938X
|title=Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission
|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Our hero is a free lance – 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 traditional self-employed men, going round the country, jousting when he can, doing fantastical errands when they come up, greatest survival stories of all with no fixed employertime. But the lack ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of fixed income hits home at timeswhat happened. And at those times, those fantastical errands, however nightmarish they can clearly be, get to be all the more appealing…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112714X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1781129312|title=Jeremy Strong Sequin and Scoular AndersonStitch|titleauthor=The Ghost in the BathLaura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Luke has Sequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she got problems – and just about every school subject qualifies as one at the momentvery cross with her. But none of those are a bigger problem than history – he It wasn't that mum wouldn's been tasked t go outside their flat - Sequin coped with a researchthat -heavy project it was because she never pushed to get credit for homework, but has no ideawhat she did. So when he Mum is having a brainstorm in a bath seamstress and is interrupted by a ghost, she makes the sort of all things, it might just be the way for him to be connected with the pastclothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. But that She's ignoring not the fact that designer - they're the girl left as a ghost might be wanting people who make a connection lot of her own – money from the clothes. Mum is the person who actually ''makes'' the garments and perhaps an end to an unusual problem she herself has…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127263</amazonuk>'s really talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RookTanya Landman|authortitle=Anthony McGowanJane Eyre: a Retelling
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=When Nicky A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and his learning-disabled brother Kenny come across years in a rook being attacked by a sparrowhawkdreary school, they chase off moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the raptor life she wants – and rescue the rookwith only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent.Kenny is convinced that a good dollop of love When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and affection is all troubled – but that's needed nothing compared to keep the bird alive darker, more broody and even more troubling secret in the house. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but Nicky is sceptical. And in any caseif you don't, Nicky has other things to worry aboutfor whatever reason, like avoiding the bully at school and finding this is a way wonderful book to talk turn to the girl he likes. In |isbn=1781129126}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1781128952|title=The Starlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=This is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the previous two books in this sequencetale of Hugo, troubles were dogging Kenny an unwanted and the boys' father but in ''Rook'' it's Nicky rather lonely android, who could do with makes a helping handliving for himself mending time-travel watches. Things are about When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved and is only too ready to go wronghelp. Will Nicky find An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a way through?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127239</amazonuk>scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the planet never before known to exist.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Gibbons1781128693|title=The Beautiful GameSpecial Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Football is all How do you explain to children about its colours. And even if I write in dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when the season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from problem is the throne of English football, brain which isn't functioning quite as it used to itisn's common knowledge that red is t as easy to grasp. Frank was a normal nine-year-old and 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 seat any more successful colour to wear. But is Mum pointed out that flame red? it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a lot of money, which didn't grow on trees. Blood red? His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her with her paper round. The red of Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a thousand years to save up the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught money for a bike AND he had to get up at six o'clock in a tragedy – 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 that it had been one was her ambition to win the 100 metres race on sports day at the end of their own making? term - and that was next week. And while weWe're on going to read about colourwhat happened in her diary, where were although there's a warning that we really shouldn't be reading it, particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. To say that the people two girls don't get on at all well is a bit of colour in football in the olden days? an understatement. There are so many darker sides to footballSuzi wouldn's history t actually do anything about it's enough , but Barbie is a troublemaker and she wants to make a young lad question win the whole game…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>100 metres race too - by fair means or foul.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bernard Ashley1949471004|title=Lena Lenik S.O.S.Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Lena's mother seems very ill. What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? Scary noises are coming from You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book might not be the bathroom, sheones you's off food ve been working on and completely listless, complaining encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the effort involved in sewing young dyslexic than a patch onto child without that problem. You need to be able to buy books at a cub scout uniformreasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. It might be You need a surprise to story which engages the young reader of this book when we learn what mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the reason is – certainly it was obvious from page two for me – but learning process without there are definitely more surprises to comebeing any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either. Mother makes Reading - and ''learning'' to read - should be 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>pleasure. It should be ''fun''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128510|title=One Shot
|author=Tanya 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=Passing Lark|author=Anthony McGowan|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=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 WhiteNicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a long time ago. They haven't seen her for years and the impending visit is stirring up a lot of uncomfortable feelings. And Nicky's girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, Nicky and Kenny plan a day out, trekking across the moors. But it doesn't go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, in terrible danger.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786697173|title=Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Sally Gardner|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Betsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, Alonso, makes the most wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Her mother, Myrtle, is a mermaid and comes to visit regularly, although she still lives in the sea. Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, about the circus owned by a tiger and whether it would ever come to her island and secondly, about a magical ice cream made from the berries of the Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true. And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. And a journey is planned...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1781128286|title=Run 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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