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{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Jennings -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1800901232| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Stitched Up[[image:Jennings Different.jpg|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1910646423/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Steve Cole| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Different Dog by Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly]]==rating=5 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Our hero is summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a boy, whose name we never learnfashion designer. We know what he wants Life in life – the rural village where she lived with his mother exceedingly poorher family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and even his bed burnt woman came to keep the two of them warm, he wants the prize offered by village to offer Hahn a down-a-mountain-job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands andHanh was on the mini-back-up-and-down-again foot racebus to Hanoi. Winning the race Only, Hanh and the large purse would also give him more status other girls were not going to work in the eyes of those kids that bully hima shop, and it might even give him a voice – for he is almost mutethey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever You know those jeans you really wanted: the motivation, and can only speak aloud to himself – ones with intricate embroidery and, so it turns out, to a dog he rescues from a bad road accident he finds beading on his way up the hill to legs? The ones with the start line… [[A Different Dog by Paul Jennings artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and Geoff Kelly|Full Review]]her co-workers made them.}}<!-- Dawson -->{{Frontpage|-author=Marcus Sedgwick| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Wrath[[image:Dawson_Grave.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781126046?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1781126046]] 5| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith]]==genre=Teens [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Since Eliza diedMeet Fitz, since the night a young Scottish lad full of the car crash that took her life, Sam is a broken soulfrustration at himself. He Lockdown is lost without the girl he lovesonly just over, feeling as though a part of him died that night too. But he is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might should be able free to help him. Howeverdo what he wants, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the Milk Mango where he wants and with whom he wants, which causes Sam in but he cannot stop himself from putting his grieving state to make a pact with forces he doesn't understand. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's life foot in more ways than he bargained for. [[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith|Full Review]] <!-- Pitcher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Pitcher_Last.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178112728X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=178112728X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Last Days of Archie Maxwell by Annabel Pitcher]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Archie Maxwell was shocked it when his parents told him that they were getting divorced. It wasn't that Dads leaving was that unusual: Leon's Dad had left and so had Mo's. It was why he was leaving and Archie was embarrassed that talks to his sister had suspected that their father was gay some time agobest friend, Cassie. Both They were half of his sisters are sad to see their father leavea desultory school band, but they don't seem to have any problem with Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the why and they tell their friendsearth. But Archie daren't tell Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the lads at school: end of the bullying world is bad enough as already a done deal? Is it is. And then theresome spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the problem of Tiatruth? Well, whom he really fancies but not when Cassie has gone missing he can't say anything about it. What Tia really needs is a friend: it's just about the first anniversary of the day on which her brother committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a train on the line which runs at the back of Archie's house. [[The Last Days of Archie Maxwell by Annabel Pitcher.|Full Review]]isbn=1800900899}}<!-- Bradman -->{{Frontpage|-author=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Mermaid in the Millpond[[image:Bradman Secret.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co4.uk/gp/product/1781127549?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1781127549]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Confident Readers===[[Secret of the Stones by Tony Bradman]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Twelve year old Maglos has a fulfilling and happy life with his father, There is no mermaid in the High Priest of Stonehengemillpond. However, everything changes when his Uncle Tigran murders Maglos's father That at the mid-summer festival before turning to do the same to Maglosleast is what Bess is telling herself. As the axe is about to fall, two strangers intervene warning Tigran that the Gods Neither will there be angry if he spills the blood of a child. Tigran allows friend for her in amongst all the strangers other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to take Maglos away as their slave. What Tigran doesn't realise is that these two men carry the secret of mill-owners by the stones – a secret that London workhouse they pass onto Maglos and which he will ultimately use against his uncleused to call home. [[Secret of the Stones by Tony Bradman|Full Review]] <!Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-to- Cole -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Cole_Senseless.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781127336/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Senseless by Steve Cole]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] 16 year old Kenzie Mitchell, otherwise known as K-Boymouth, thinks his every dream has come true when he's wins the chance to attend a top gaming tournament at Sensia HQ on a remote tropical island. The contestants are flown in on their own private jet and transferred by limo to the swankiest man for himself kind of hotelsexistence. It all seems too good to be true – which But despite herself Bess does find a bit of course it is. Within hours, events start to take a sinister turn. Kenzie wakes kindred spirit in the night unable to see and one by one his other senses – touchslight little Dot, hearing, smell and taste – flicker in despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and out. And he's not on his own. It's happening how befriending people only leads to the other contestants tooharm, sometimes with fatal consequences. Kenzie wants to believe it isn't really happening. He wants to believe it's just there might be a really good virtual reality game. But with Sensia glimmer of companionship in control, the line between realities has almost entirely disappeared. [[Senseless by Steve Cole|Full Review]] <!tired-- Stewart -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stewart_Free.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781127158/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Free Lance and the Field of Blood (Free Lance Trilogy 2) by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] The world of jousting is a fierce one – survive the minor battles with the lance, either as a bonded employed Knight or as a Free Lance, and you might try your hands at the major league. There the men are stronger, the horses faster, and the ground hurts more when you hit itout mill workers. But the big time also offers more surely that can put a humble Knight at risk – such as evil hosts, beautiful princess-types doesn't mean there is any truth in pickles, and mysteriously successful strangers. Our nameless hero and his loyal horse, Jed, are going to be up against a lot more than they expected here… [[Free Lance and the Field existence of Blood (Free Lance Trilogy 2) by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell|Full Review]] <!-- Ray -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Brahmachari_Worry.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178112695X/ref=nosimthe mermaid?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Worry Angels by Sita Brahmachari and Jane Ray]]==isbn=180090049X}}[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Amy-May was devastated when her parents split up: she and her mother left the delightful seaside cottage where the waves had sung her to sleep and moved into a 'garden flat'. That didn't mean that it had a garden, just that it was on the ground floor. They didn't have a lot of possessions as the bailiffs had taken most of them. Her father was living in another old cottage now and hopefully he'd be able to set up his kiln, but he wouldn't be able to home-school Amy-May. The alternative was Sandcastles Secondary School but the rather nervous Amy was considered to be too anxious to start at the school full time. As a gentle introduction to schooling she went to Grace's art school instead. [[Worry Angels by Sita Brahmachari and Jane Ray|Full Review]] <!-- Strong -->Frontpage|-author=Keith Gray| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Climbers[[image:Strong_Nellie.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781127212/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Confident Readers===[[Nellie Choc-Ice, Penguin Explorer (Little Gems) by Jeremy Strong and Jamie Smith]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging Readers|Emerging Readers]] Meet Nellie Choc-Ice. Thus named by her grandparents (and grandparents have a habit in this book of making unusual names for their grandchildren, whichever species they belong to), she Sully is a pretty little Macaroni penguin, complete with pink feet, bright yellow eyebrows and a woolly hat with the world's biggest pompom on best tree climber in the endvillage. She He has a habit of going exploring and finding out what's over known amongst the next ridge in the ice, and the next, and the nextkids as 'reach'. But what happens when disaster happens and the ice she is on is knocked off Antarctica by a submarine, even she can have no idea as to where she will end up… [[Nellie Choc-Ice, Penguin Explorer (Little Gems) by Jeremy Strong and Jamie Smith|Full Review]] <!-- Papp -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Papp_Finn.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1910646326/ref=nosimnew kid shows up in town?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Madeleine Finn and the Library Dog by Lisa Papp]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]A new kid, [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Madeleine Finn doesn't like to read - not anything. It's not really her faultcalled Nottingham, you know. Her teacher tries to encourage her, but who clambers up some of the other kids giggle when she makes mistakes. And they pull faces of the type which would have given me my head in my hands to play hardest trees 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 never liked ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that system) but all Madeleine gets his status is a heart sticker which tells her to keep trying. She's got plenty of those. All week she tries her best but doesn't get the star she longs for. [[Madeleine Finn being threatened, and the Library Dog by Lisa Papp|Full Review]] <!-- Oldfield -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Oldfield_Storm.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781126895/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Storm Cloud by Jenny Oldfield]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]not only that, [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Kami Miller was invited that his chance to stay at Wolf Ridge Farm, name the home of her best friend Macy Lucasfinal, for unnamed big tree in 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 park by being the mountains to the ranch. It wasn't going first to conquer it, might be easy work, particularly as Macy's father was recovering snatched from an accident and couldn't ridehis hands. All the pressure of running the ranch has fallen on Macy's brotherHow can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, Wes - and he's not coping well. Kami's upset that he's taking it out on one or maybe even all of the young coltshis friends, Storm Cloud, but what can she to do about it? [[Storm Cloud by Jenny Oldfield|Full Review]] <!-- Pearce -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Pearce_Ghost.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781126852/ref=nosimso?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|1781129991===[[The Ghost in Annie's Room (Little Gems) by Philippa Pearce and Cate James]]===}} [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging Readers|Emerging Readers]], [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Emma is on a family holiday in an older relative's seaside cottage, where she is to sleep in the room in the attic. Her brother has passed on what he says he has overheard – that it is haunted. But even with the mementos of the person that once lived there all around her, and with a strange feeling of being watched, even with the stormy winds knocking tree limbs on to the window – Emma can sleep through it all. But that's not to say things will forever be that way… [[The Ghost in Annie's Room (Little Gems) by Philippa Pearce and Cate James|Full Review]] <!-- Hopkins -->Frontpage|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Lisa Thompson[[image:Hopkins_Kitten.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178112678X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] The Small Things| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Valentine's Day Kitten by Cathy Hopkins]]rating===5[[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]summary=Although Anna has friends at school, [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Marcie is distraughtshe feels like she never really fits in. On Valentine's Day last year she'd didnHer family don't receive a single card and have enough money to let her parents could see that she was upsetdo after school activities, and so when she came feels like her life at home from school there was a box on the kitchen table and is boring in it was the most gorgeous fluffy silver kittencomparison to theirs. Misty and Marcie were soon inseparable until When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the day that Misty went out without a collar on - new girl, Ellie, is unwell and didnso can't come homeattend school in person. Marcie blamed herself: Misty's collar had broken and Instead, she'd never got round to buying joins in with the class by using a new onerobot. Mum has put notices up everywhere she can think of and rung Can Anna overcome the local vets and animal rescue centres, but there's no sign challenge of Misty. Then Marcie starts having dreams, about a boy, making friends with someone through a hotelrobot, a painting - and Misty. Will there is she even interesting enough to be a happy ending? [[The Valentine's Day Kitten by Cathy Hopkins|Full Review]] <!-- Stewart -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stewart_Lance.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178112714X/ref=nosimgood friend to Ellie?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|isbn===[[Free Lance and the Lake of Skulls by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell]]===1781129649[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Our hero is a free lance – one of the traditional self-employed men, going round the country, jousting when he can, doing fantastical errands when they come up, all with no fixed employer. But the lack of fixed income hits home at times. And at those times, those fantastical errands, however nightmarish they can clearly be, get to be all the more appealing… [[Free Lance and the Lake of Skulls by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeremy Strong Emma Carroll and Scoular AndersonKaja Kajfez|title=The Ghost in the BathGarden

|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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RookTanya Landman|authortitle=Anthony McGowanJane Eyre: a Retelling

|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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Gibbons1781128693|title=The Beautiful GameSpecial Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres

|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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bernard Ashley1949471004|title=Lena Lenik S.O.S.Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|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''.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128510|title=One Shot

|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

|summary=In 1847, in Macon, Georgia, Benjamin was a slaveI'll warn you first. He was a talented carpenter too, but on November  This is the 19th he was unnerved: a white woman was looking at him, smiling fourth and last story about Nicky and being politeKenny. What was going on? He wasnTry not to cry before you't just unnerved, but nervous: you see, Benjamin was looking 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 white woman, looking 'mum who abandoned them a long time ago. They haven't seen her'' in for years and the eye and impending visit is stirring up a slave could get himself killed for less than thatlot of uncomfortable feelings. Only this wasnAnd Nicky't a white woman: this was Rosa, who was mixed races girlfriend has ended things. She could pass for whiteTo take their minds off it all, but she too was Nicky and Kenny plan a slaveday out, trekking across the moors. Rosa and Benjamin eventually married, but But it didndoesn't stop Rosa's master from taking sexual advantage of her go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and when she found that she was pregnant she had no way of knowing who the father wastheir dog, Tina, in terrible danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112681X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|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=Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from the local attempt at a skatepark, they find a huge waste ground in the shadow of a derelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, even though they have to drag Izzy's younger brother with them. The Harder They Fallfollowing day they all want to return, as does the brother's schoolfriend, despite – and of course because of – there is a huge wolf living in the site. Can the children survive living in the urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Jennings Different|title=A Different Dog|author=Bali RaiPaul Jennings and Geoff Kelly

|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…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris PriestleyDawson_Grave|title=Flesh Grave Matter|author=Juno Dawson and BloodAlex T Smith|rating=4.5

|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>.