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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/refSteve Cole|rating=nosim?tag5|genre=thebookbag-21]] Dyslexia Friendly| stylesummary="verticalTwelve-align: top; textyear-align: left;"|===[[A Different Dog by Paul Jennings 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 Geoff Kelly]]=== [[image:4woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed.5star Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Our hero is Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a boyshop, whose name we never learnthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. We You know what he wants in life – those jeans you really wanted: the ones with his mother exceedingly poor, intricate embroidery and even his bed burnt to keep beading on the two of them warm, he wants legs? The ones with the prize offered by a down-a-mountainartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh andher co-back-up-and-down-again foot raceworkers made them. Winning the race and the large purse would also give him more status in the eyes of those kids that bully him}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, and it might even give him a voice – for he young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is almost mute. We quickly learn only just over, and he never talks back should be free to anyone, whatever the motivationdo what he wants, and can only speak aloud to himself – go where he wants andwith whom he wants, so it turns out, to a dog but he rescues cannot stop himself from a bad road accident putting his foot in it when he finds on talks to his way up the hill to the start line… [[A Different Dog by Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly|Full Review]] <!-- Dawson -->|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-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dawson_Grave.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781126046warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1781126046]]  Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|1800900899}}{{Frontpage|author===[[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson Lucy Strange and Alex T Smith]]=Pam Smy|title=The Mermaid in the Millpond|rating= [[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Since Eliza died, since Confident Readers|summary=There is no mermaid in the night of the car crash that took her life, Sam is a broken soulmillpond. He That at least is lost without the girl he loves, feeling as though a part of him died that night too. But he what Bess is desperate and he cannot live without Elizatelling herself. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and Neither will there be a friend for her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to help him. Howeverin amongst all the other kids, finding his Aunt Marie leads him who have had their entire childhoods sold to discover the Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to make a pact with forces he doesn't understand. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-to change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained -mouth, every man forhimself kind of existence. [[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson 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 Alex T Smith|Full Review]] <!-- Pitcher -->|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?| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"180090049X}}{{Frontpage|author=Keith Gray[[image:Pitcher_Last.jpg|lefttitle=The Climbers|linkrating=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178112728X?ie4|genre=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=178112728X]] Confident Readers| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Last Days of Archie Maxwell by Annabel Pitcher]]=== [[image:4starSully is the best tree climber in the village. He has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach'.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]]But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Archie Maxwell was shocked when who clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his parents told him status is being threatened, and not only that they were getting divorced. It wasn't , that Dads leaving was that unusual: Leon's Dad had left and so had Mo'shis chance to name the final, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. It was why he was leaving and Archie was embarrassed that How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his sister had suspected that their father was gay some time ago. Both best friend, or maybe even all of his sisters are sad to see their father leavefriends, but they don't seem to have any problem with the why and they tell their friends. But Archie daren't tell the lads at school: the bullying is bad enough as it is. And then there's the problem of Tiado so?|isbn=1781129991}}{{Frontpage|author=Lisa Thompson|title=The Small Things|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Although Anna has friends at school, whom he she feels like she never really fancies but he canfits in. Her family don't say anything about ithave enough money to let her do after school activities, and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. What Tia really needs When a new girl joins her class, Anna is a friend: it's just about the first anniversary of the day on which asked to partner her brother committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a train on , but things are complicated because the line which runs at the back of Archienew girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can's houset attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with the class by using a robot. [[The Last Days Can Anna overcome the challenge of Archie Maxwell by Annabel Pitcher|Full Review]] <!-- Bradman -->making friends with someone through a robot, and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|-isbn=1781129649}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=The Ghost Garden[[image:Bradman Secret.jpg|left|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781127549?ie5|genre=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1781127549]] Confident Readers| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Secret of Fran, the Stones by Tony Bradman]]=== [[image:3stargardener's daughter at a posh country house, is worried.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a large bone, [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Twelve year old Maglos has a fulfilling and happy life buried under the potatoes. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with his fatherLeo, the High Priest older child of Stonehenge. Howeverthe house, everything changes when breaking his Uncle Tigran murders Maglos's father at leg while playing cricket on the mid-summer festival before turning to do the same to Magloslawn. As the axe She is about due to fall, two strangers intervene warning Tigran get even more worried when she finds something else that the Gods will also seems to foretell a surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason to be angry if out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he spills the blood of is seeking - a childlong-forgotten burial chamber. Tigran allows the strangers to take Maglos away as their slave. What Tigran doesn But surely that won't realise is that these two men carry act as a premonition to anything - not here in the secret sultry, summery days of the stones – a secret that they pass onto Maglos and which he will ultimately use against his uncle. [[Secret of the Stones by Tony Bradman|Full Review]]1914?|isbn=1781129002}}{{Frontpage<!-- Cole -->|author=Alex Wheatle|-title=The Humiliations of Welton Blake| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|2.5[[image:Cole_Senseless.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781127336/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Confident Readers| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Senseless by Steve Cole]]=== [[image:4We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] 16 year old Kenzie Mitchell, otherwise known as K-Boy, thinks but his every dream phone has come true when packed up, he's wins the chance to attend a top gaming tournament at Sensia HQ on a remote tropical island. The contestants are flown chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in on their own private jet response, and transferred by limo to the swankiest of hotels. It all wanna-bae seems too good to actually be true – which of course it iswith someone else anyway. Within hours, events start to take On a sinister turn. Kenzie wakes in the night unable to see and one by one bigger scale he's living with his other senses – touch, hearing, smell mother and taste not much income now that the dad has left the picture – flicker in and out. And heyes, things are so bad they's not on his ownre resorting to having cabbage for dinner. It's happening to the other contestants too I know, sometimes with fatal consequences. Kenzie wants to believe it isn't really happening. He wants to believe it's right? But surely this is just a really good virtual reality game. But with Sensia blip, a day at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in control, the line between realities has almost entirely disappeared. [[Senseless by Steve Colewash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|Full Review]]isbn=1781129495}}<!-- Stewart -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=178112938X| styletitle="widthSurvival in Space: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)[[image:Stewart_Free.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781127158/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Dyslexia Friendly| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Free Lance and 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 Field greatest survival stories of Blood (Free Lance Trilogy 2) by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell]]===all time. ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of what happened.}}[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{Frontpage|isbn=1781129312|title=Sequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers=5|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:genre=Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] The world of jousting is a fierce one – survive the minor battles summary=Sequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with the lance, either as a bonded employed Knight or as a Free Lance, 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 seamstress and she makes the sort of clothes that you might try your hands see on red carpets or 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 clothes. Mum is the person who actually ''makes'' the garments and she's really talented, but when you hit it. But people talk about the dress or the big time also offers more that can put a humble Knight at risk – such as evil hosts, beautiful princess-types in pickles, and mysteriously successful strangerssuit, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned. 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 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=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Worry Angels by Sita Brahmachari and Jane Ray]]=== [[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 -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Strong_Nellie.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781127212/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Nellie Choc-Ice, Penguin Explorer (Little Gems) by Jeremy Strong and Jamie Smith]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=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 is a pretty little Macaroni penguin, complete with pink feet, bright yellow eyebrows and a woolly hat with the world's biggest pompom on the end. She has a habit of going exploring and finding out what's over the next ridge in the ice, and the next, and the next. But 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=nosim?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]], [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Madeleine Finn doesn't like to read - not anything. It's not really her fault, you know. Her teacher tries to encourage her, but 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 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 that system) but all Madeleine gets 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 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]], [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Kami Miller was invited to stay at Wolf Ridge Farm, the home of 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 Macy's father was recovering from an accident and couldn't ride. All the pressure of running the ranch has fallen on Macy's brother, Wes - and he's not coping well. Kami's upset that he's taking it out on one of the young colts, Storm Cloud, but what can she 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=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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 -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hopkins_Kitten.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178112678X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Valentine's Day Kitten by Cathy Hopkins]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Marcie is distraught. On Valentine's Day last year she'd didn't receive a single card and her parents could see that she was upset, so when she came home from school there was a box on the kitchen table and 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 didn't come home. Marcie blamed herself: Misty's collar had broken and she'd never got round to buying a new one. Mum has put notices up everywhere she can think of and rung the local vets and animal rescue centres, but there'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? [[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=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Free Lance and the Lake of Skulls by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell]]=== [[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]] <!-- Strong -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Strong_Ghost.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781127263/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Ghost in the Bath by Jeremy Strong and Scoular Anderson]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] 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… [[The Ghost in the Bath by Jeremy Strong and Scoular Anderson|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} }}{{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 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

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Gibbons1781128952|title=The Beautiful GameStarlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James

|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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bernard Ashley1781128693|title=Lena Lenik S.O.S.Special Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres

|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.

{{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

|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

|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?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jennings Different|title=The Harder They FallA 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>.