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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-back-up-distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh andher co-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, and it might even give him }}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, a voice – for he young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is almost mute. We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the motivationonly just over, and can only speak aloud he should be free to himself – and, so it turns outdo what he wants, to a dog go where he rescues from a bad road accident wants and with whom he wants, but he finds on cannot stop himself from putting his way up the hill foot in it when he talks to the start line… [[A Different Dog by Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly|Full Review]] <!his 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-- Dawson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dawson_Gravewarrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781126046?ie|isbn=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1781126046]]1800900899}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy| styletitle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"The Mermaid in the Millpond|rating=4.5|genre===[[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith]]===Confident Readers[[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took her life, Sam There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a broken soul. He is lost without friend for her in amongst all the girl he lovesother kids, feeling as though a part of him died that night toowho have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. But he Bess knows there is desperate and he cannot live without Elizano time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie 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 peculiar healing powers about betrayal and wonders if she might be able to help him. However, finding his Aunt Marie how befriending people only leads him to discover the Milk Manharm, which causes Sam there might be a glimmer of companionship in his grieving state to make a pact with forces he the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't understand. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's life mean there is any truth in more ways than he bargained for. [[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson and Alex T Smiththe existence of the mermaid?|Full Review]]isbn=180090049X}}<!-- Pitcher -->{{Frontpage|-author=Keith Gray| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Climbers|rating=4[[image:Pitcher_Last.jpg|leftgenre=Confident Readers|linksummary=https://wwwSully is the best tree climber in the village.amazonHe has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach'.co.uk/gp/product/178112728XBut what happens when a new kid shows up in town?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=178112728X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Last Days A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of Archie Maxwell by Annabel Pitcher]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]]the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Archie Maxwell was shocked when his parents told him 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 friends, to see their father leave, but they don't seem to have any problem with the why and they tell their friendsdo so?|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 never really fits in. But Archie darenHer family don't tell the lads have enough money to let her do after school activities, and so she feels like her life at school: the bullying is bad enough as it home isboring in comparison to theirs. And then there's When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the problem of Tianew girl, Ellie, whom he really fancies but he is unwell and so can't say anything about itattend school in person. What Tia really needs is a friend: it's just about Instead, she joins in with the first anniversary of the day on which her brother committed suicide class by throwing himself in front of using a train on robot. Can Anna overcome the line which runs at the back of Archie's house. [[The Last Days of Archie Maxwell by Annabel Pitcherchallenge of making friends with someone through a robot, and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|Full Review]]isbn=1781129649}}<!-- Bradman -->{{Frontpage|-author=Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Ghost Garden[[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|summary===[[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]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Twelve year old Maglos has She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a fulfilling and happy life with his fatherlarge bone, buried under the High Priest of Stonehengepotatoes. However, everything changes when his Uncle Tigran murders Maglos But she's father at even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, the older child of the mid-summer festival before turning to do house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the same to Magloslawn. As the axe is about She is due to fall, two strangers intervene warning Tigran get even more worried when she finds something else that the Gods will be angry if he spills the blood of also seems to foretell a childsurprise. Tigran allows Tasked with shoving Leo around the strangers grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason to take Maglos away as their slavebe out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. 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 Bradman1914?|Full Review]]isbn=1781129002}}<!-- Cole -->{{Frontpage|-author=Alex Wheatle| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Humiliations of Welton Blake[[image:Cole_Senseless.jpg|linkrating=http://www2.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781127336/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Confident Readers| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. He should be getting a textfrom the most bae-align: left;"|===[[Senseless by Steve Cole]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]]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, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] 16 year old Kenzie Mitchellwho's duffed him up in response, otherwise known as Kand the wanna-Boy, thinks his every dream has come true when bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale 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 living with his mother and transferred by limo to not much income now that the dad has left the swankiest of hotels. It all seems too good to be true picture – which of course it is. Within hoursyes, events start things are so bad they're resorting to take a sinister turnhaving cabbage for dinner. Kenzie wakes in the night unable to see and one by one his other senses – touch I know, hearingright? But surely this is just a blip, a day at school to forget, smell and taste – flicker everything (like his vomit) will all come out in and out. And he's not on his own. Itthe wash? This can's happening to t be the other contestants too, sometimes with fatal consequences. Kenzie wants to believe it isn't really happening. He wants to believe it's just a really good virtual reality game. But with Sensia in control, the line between realities has almost entirely disappeared. [[Senseless by Steve Colestart 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 Field of Blood (Free Lance Trilogy 2) by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell]]=== [[image:5starApollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time.jpg|link=Category ''Survival in Space:The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of what happened.}}{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersFrontpage|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]]isbn=1781129312|title=Sequin and StitchThe 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, |author=Laura Dockrill and you might try your hands at the major leagueSara Ogilvie (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Sequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with her. There the men are stronger, the horses faster, and the ground hurts more when you hit It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - itwas because she never pushed to get credit for what she did. But the big time also offers more that can put Mum is a humble Knight at risk – such as evil hosts, beautiful princess-types 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 seamstress and she makes the Field sort of Blood (Free Lance Trilogy 2) by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell|Full Review]] <!clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. She's not the designer -- Ray -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Brahmachari_Worrythey're the people who make a lot of money from the clothes.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co Mum is the person who actually ''makes'' the garments and she's really talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer.uk/dp/178112695X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] The seamstress is never mentioned.}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Tanya Landman|==title=[[Worry Angels by Sita Brahmachari and Jane Ray]]===Eyre: a Retelling [[image:4star.jpg|linkrating=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers5|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:genre=Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Amy-May was devastated when summary=A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her parents split up: she , and her mother left the delightful seaside cottage where the waves had sung her years in a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to sleep and moved into have something like the life she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a 'garden flat'young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. That didn't mean that it had a garden When he does turn up he seems to be dark, just brooding and troubled – but that it was on the ground floor. They didn't have a lot of possessions as s nothing compared to the bailiffs had taken most of themdarker, more broody and even more troubling secret in the house. Her father was living in another old cottage now and hopefully he'd be able to set up his kiln Yes, but he wouldnif you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't be able , for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn 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]]|isbn=1781129126}}<!-- Strong -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1781128952| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Starlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James[[image:Strong_Nellie.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781127212/ref4|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Dyslexia Friendly| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; textThis is a dyslexia-align: left;"|===[[Nellie Choc-Icefriendly, Penguin Explorer (Little Gems) by Jeremy Strong and Jamie Smith]]=== [[image:4science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging Readers|Emerging Readers]] Meet Nellie Choc-Ice. Thus named by her grandparents (When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved and grandparents have a habit in this book is only too ready to help. An exciting journey of making unusual names for their grandchildrendiscovery unfolds, whichever species they belong to), she is a pretty little Macaroni penguin, complete with pink feet, bright yellow eyebrows which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a woolly hat scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the world's biggest pompom on the endplanet never before known to exist. 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 -->}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1781128693|-| styletitle="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]] <!-- McGowan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:McGowan_Rook.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781127239/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Rook by Anthony McGowan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] When Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny come across a rook being attacked by a sparrowhawk, they chase off the raptor and rescue the rook.Kenny is convinced that a good dollop of love and affection is all that's needed to keep the bird alive but Nicky is sceptical. And in any case, Nicky has other things to worry about, like avoiding the bully at school and finding a way to talk to the girl he likes. In the previous two books in this sequence, troubles were dogging Kenny and the boys' father but in ''Rook'' it's Nicky who could do with a helping hand. Things are about to go wrong. Will Nicky find a way through? [[Rook by Anthony McGowan|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreviewSpecial Delivery|author=Alan Gibbons|title=The Beautiful GameJonathan 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>.