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|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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|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=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 but Nicky is sceptical. And in any casedarker, Nicky has other things to worry about, like avoiding the bully at school more broody and finding a way to talk to even more troubling secret in the girl he likeshouse. In the previous two books in this sequence Yes, troubles were dogging Kenny and if you know Jane Eyre then you know the boys' father rest – but in if you don''Rook'' it's Nicky who could do with t, for whatever reason, this is a helping hand. Things are about wonderful book to turn to go wrong. Will Nicky find a way through?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781127239</amazonuk>1781129126
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Gibbons1781128952|title=The Beautiful GameStarlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Football This is all about its coloursa dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. And even if I write in It tells the season when tale of Hugo, an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. When one team in blue knocks another team in blue from the throne of English footballhis clients demands that his broken watch be mended, it's common knowledge that red Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved and is the more successful colour only too ready to wearhelp. But is that flame red? Blood red? The red An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in his drab attic workroom and into a tragedy – and that it had been one of their own making? And while we're on about colourscary adventure with some amazing new friends, where were the people exploring regions of colour in football in the olden days? There are so many darker sides planet never before known to football's history it's enough to make a young lad question the whole game…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126917</amazonuk>exist.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bernard Ashley1781128693|title=Lena Lenik S.O.S.Special Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=LenaHow do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when the problem is the brain which isn's mother seems very illt functioning quite as it used to it isn't as easy to grasp. Scary noises are coming from the bathroom, she's off food Frank was a normal nine-year-old and completely listless, complaining of the effort involved in sewing like many nine-year-olds what he wanted was a patch onto a cub scout uniformnew bike. It might be a surprise He'd had his for about seventy-eight years and he didn't want to raise 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 seat any more surprises to come. Mother makes a slightly unusual decision about her condition – leaving Lena with Mum pointed out that it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a lot of money, which didn't grow on trees. His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her plate when fate sets in with her paper round. Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a thousand years to save up the money for a surprise of its own…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125716</amazonuk>bike AND he had to get up at six o'clock in the morning.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128707|title=The Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Vivian French|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to win the 100 metres race on sports day at the end of term - and that was next week. We're going to read about what happened in her diary, although there's 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 an understatement. Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, but Barbie is a troublemaker and she wants to win the 100 metres race too - by fair means or foul.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1949471004|title=Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=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 negative effect on the young 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, without anything else being thrown into the mix. You need a story which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - and ''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.}}{{Frontpage|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 for WhiteLark|author=Anthony McGowan
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=In 1847, in Macon, Georgia, Benjamin was 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. Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a slavelong time ago. He was They haven't seen her for years and the impending visit is stirring up a talented carpenter toolot of uncomfortable feelings. And Nicky's girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, but on November the 19th he was unnerved: Nicky and Kenny plan a white woman was looking at himday out, smiling trekking across the moors. But it doesn't go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and being politetheir dog, Tina, in terrible danger. What was going }}{{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? He wasn't just unnerveda peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, Alonso, but nervous: makes the most wonderful ice cream in every flavour you seecould imagine. Her mother, Myrtle, is a mermaid and comes to visit regularly, Benjamin was looking at although she still lives in the white womansea. Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, looking ''about the circus owned by a tiger and whether it would ever come to her'' in the eye island and secondly, about a slave could get himself killed for less than thatmagical ice cream made from the berries of the Gongalong bush. Only One scoop of this wasn't ice cream can make wishes come true. And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. And a white woman: this was Rosa, who was mixed racejourney is planned...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1781128286|title=Run Wild|author=Gill Lewis|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Meet Izzy and Asha. She could pass for whiteBullied away from the local attempt at a skatepark, but she too was they find a huge waste ground in the shadow of a slavederelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, even though they have to drag Izzy's younger brother with them. Rosa and Benjamin eventually marriedThe following day they all want to return, but it didn't stop Rosaas does the brother's master from taking sexual advantage schoolfriend, despite – and 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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