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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, and even his bed burnt to keep the two of them warmif not prosperous, he wants so when the prize offered by a down-a-mountainsmartly-dressed man and-back-up-and-down-again foot race. Winning woman came to the race and the large purse would also give him more status village to offer Hahn a job in the eyes of those kids that bully him, and Hanoi it might even give him a voice – for he is almost mutewas an opportunity not to be missed. We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the motivation, Some money changed hands and can only speak aloud to himself – and, so it turns out, to a dog he rescues from a bad road accident he finds Hanh was on his way up the hill mini-bus to the start line… [[A Different Dog by Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly|Full Review]] <!-- Dawson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Dawson_GraveHanoi.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781126046?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1781126046]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson Only, Hanh and Alex T Smith]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took her life, Sam is a broken soul. He is lost without the girl he loves, 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 be able other girls were not going to help him. However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the Milk Man, which causes Sam work in 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 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]]shop, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Archie Maxwell was shocked 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 his sister had suspected that their father was gay some time ago. Both of his sisters are sad to see their father leave, but they don't seem to have any problem with the why and they tell their friendswork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. But Archie daren't tell the lads at school: the bullying is bad enough as it is. And then there's the problem of Tia, whom he really fancies but he can't say anything about it. What Tia You know those jeans you really needs is a friendwanted: it's just about the first anniversary of the day on which her brother committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a train ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the line which runs at legs? The ones with the back of Archie's house. [[The Last Days of Archie Maxwell by Annabel Pitcher|Full Review]] <!-- Bradman -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; textartfully-align: center;"|[[image:Bradman Secret.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781127549?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1781127549]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Secret of the Stones by Tony Bradman]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Twelve year old Maglos has a fulfilling placed rips and happy life with his father, the High Priest of Stonehenge. However, everything changes distressed seams that felt so soft when his Uncle Tigran murders Maglosyou touched them? It's father at the mid-summer festival before turning to do the same to Maglos. As the axe is about to fall, two strangers intervene warning Tigran quite possible that the Gods will be angry if he spills the blood of a child. Tigran allows the strangers to take Maglos away as their slave. What Tigran doesn't realise is that these two men carry the secret of the stones – a secret that they pass onto Maglos Hanh and which he will ultimately use against his uncleher co-workers made them. [[Secret of the Stones by Tony Bradman|Full Review]]}}<!-- Cole -->{{Frontpage|-author=Marcus Sedgwick| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Wrath[[image:Cole_Senseless.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co4.uk/dp/1781127336/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Teens===[[Senseless by Steve Cole]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]]Meet Fitz, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] 16 year old Kenzie Mitchell, otherwise known as K-Boy, thinks his every dream has come true when he's wins the chance to attend a top gaming tournament young Scottish lad full of frustration at Sensia HQ on a remote tropical islandhimself. The contestants are flown in on their own private jet and transferred by limo to the swankiest of hotels. It all seems too good to be true – which of course it Lockdown is. Within hoursonly just over, events start to take a sinister turn. Kenzie wakes in the night unable to see and one by one his other senses – touch, hearing, smell and taste – flicker in and out. And he's not on his own. It's happening should be free to the other contestants toodo what he wants, sometimes with fatal consequences. Kenzie wants to believe it isn't really happening. He go where 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 Cole|Full Review]] <!-- 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 lancewhom he wants, 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 but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it. But 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 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 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 he talks to sleep and moved into a 'garden flat'. That didn't mean that it had a gardenhis best friend, just that it was on the ground floorCassie. They didn't have were half of 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 kilndesultory school band, but he wouldn't be able to home-school Amy-May. The alternative Cassie was Sandcastles Secondary School but also one hundred per cent the rather nervous Amy was considered to be too anxious to start at enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from 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:4earth.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 Is this book connected with one 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 her eco-warrior parents saying 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 world is on is knocked off Antarctica by already a submarine, even done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music 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 dreaming of the other kids giggle when ? Is she makes mistakes. just bonkers? And they pull faces of can Fitz find out the type which would have given me my head in my hands to play with truth? Well, not when I was a child. The words just donCassie has gone missing he can'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 -->|-| styleisbn="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]]1800900899}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Lucy Strange and Pam Smy===[[Storm Cloud by Jenny Oldfield]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linktitle=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 Mermaid in 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 -->Millpond|-| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Pearce_Ghost.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co4.uk/dp/1781126852/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Confident Readers===[[The Ghost in Annie's Room (Little Gems) by Philippa Pearce and Cate James]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging Readers|Emerging Readers]], [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Emma There is on a family holiday in an older relative's seaside cottage, where she is to sleep no mermaid in the room in the atticmillpond. Her brother has passed on That at least is what he says he has overheard – that it Bess is hauntedtelling herself. But even with the mementos of the person that once lived Neither will 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 friend for 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 amongst all 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 other kids, who have had broken and she'd never got round their entire childhoods sold 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 mill- and Misty. Will there be a happy ending? [[The Valentine's Day Kitten owners 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:4London workhouse they used to call home.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Our hero Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a free lance – one of the traditional selfhand-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]]mouth, [[: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 man for homework, but has no idea. So when he is having a brainstorm in a bath and is interrupted by a ghost, himself kind of all things, it might just be the way for him to be connected with the pastexistence. But that's ignoring the fact that the girl left as despite herself Bess does find a ghost might be wanting bit of a connection of her own – and perhaps an end to an unusual problem she herself has… [[The Ghost kindred spirit 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]]slight little Dot, [[: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 despite everything 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 life has other things to worry taught her about, like avoiding the bully at school betrayal and finding a way how befriending people only leads to talk to the girl he likes. In the previous two books in this sequenceharm, troubles were dogging Kenny and the boys' father but in ''Rook'' it's Nicky who could do with there might be a helping hand. Things are about to go wrong. Will Nicky find a way through? [[Rook by Anthony McGowan|Full Review]] <!-- Gibbons-->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Gibbons_Game.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781126917/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Beautiful Game by Alan Gibbons]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Children's Non-Fiction|Children's Non-Fiction]], [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Football is all about its colours. And even if I write glimmer of companionship in the season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from the throne of English football, it's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour to weartired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is that flame red? Blood red? The red of the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up any truth in a tragedy – and that it had been one of their own making? And while we're on about colour, where were the people existence of colour in football in the olden daysmermaid? There are so many darker sides to football's history it's enough to make a young lad question the whole game… [[The Beautiful Game by Alan Gibbons|Full Review]]isbn=180090049X  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernard AshleyKeith Gray|title=Lena Lenik S.O.S.The Climbers

|summary=LenaSequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with her. It wasn's mother seems very illt 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. Scary noises are coming from Mum is a seamstress and she makes the bathroom, shesort of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. She's off food and completely listless, complaining not the designer - they're the people who make a lot of money from the effort involved in sewing a patch onto a cub scout uniformclothes. It might be a surprise to Mum is the person who actually ''makes'' the young reader of this book garments and she's really talented, but when we learn what people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the reason designer. The seamstress is – certainly it was obvious from page two for me – but there are definitely more surprises to comenever mentioned. Mother makes 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>

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|title=Passing Jane Eyre: a Retelling|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but that's nothing compared to the darker, more broody and even more troubling secret in the house. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, for Whitewhatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn to.|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 tale of Hugo, an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. 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 help. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the planet never before known to exist.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1781128693|title=Special Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when the problem is the brain which isn't functioning quite as it used to it isn'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. 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 with her paper round. Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a thousand years to save up the money for a bike AND he had to get up at six o'clock in the morning.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1781128707|title=The Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Vivian French

|summary=In 1847, in Macon, Georgia, Benjamin 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 a slavenext week. He was a talented carpenter tooWe're going to read about what happened in her diary, but on November the 19th he was unnerved: although there's a white woman was looking at himwarning that we really shouldn't be reading it, smiling and being politeparticularly as it's about Barbie Meek. What was going To say that the two girls don't get on? at all well is a bit of an understatement. He wasnSuzi wouldn't just unnervedactually do anything about it, but nervousBarbie 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 seeneed books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, Benjamin was looking at but the white woman, looking ''her'' sounds in the eye book might not be the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a slave could get himself killed for less negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without thatproblem. Only this wasnYou need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you't a white woman: this was Rosave been working on, who was mixed racewithout anything else being thrown into the mix. She could pass for white, but she too was You need a slavestory which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. Rosa Some online support and Benjamin eventually marriedgames wouldn't go amiss, but it didneither. Reading - and ''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun't stop Rosa's master from taking sexual advantage of her and when she found that she was pregnant she had no way of knowing who the father was.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112681X</amazonuk>

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|summary=Cal loves comic books''Pa and I understood each other. He also dreams 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 being a superhero three children who looked like him, and saving the day while simultaneously winning the heart none of the girl (Freya being others acted like him, and certainly, his wife didn't seem to fully understand him. Maggie might as well be reliving the girlCinderella story, hopefully)stuck with two siblings and mother that are fully against her. Batman 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 his favourite superherojust scandalous.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178112843X|title=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. But CalTry not to cry before you's world outside ve even read the first page. Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his daydreams learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is not particularly superherocoming to visit -likethe mum who abandoned them a long time ago. Because Cal They haven't seen her for years and the impending visit is stirring up a bit lot of uncomfortable feelings. And Nicky's girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, Nicky and Kenny plan a geek 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 he 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 being bullied by mean girl Anua mermaid and comes to visit regularly, who makes him complete homework assignments which although she then sells on to lazy classmatesstill lives in the sea. StillBetsy dreams of two things: firstly, about the circus owned by a tiger and whether it's not all badwould 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. Cal's parents are lovely  And then Mr Tiger and the gorgeous Freya his circus arrive. And a journey is making friendly overturesplanned...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>

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|summary=Families change Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from the local attempt at a skatepark, they find a huge waste ground in wartime – in sizethe shadow of a derelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, if not any other way. Bill and Jane even though they have already had to get used to their father being away drag Izzy's younger brother with them. The following day they all want to fightreturn, as does the brother''s schoolfriend, despite – and'' they've tried of course because of – there is a huge wolf living in the site. Can the children survive living in the evacuee experienceurban wilderness, but are back alongside such obvious dangers?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Jennings Different|title=A Different Dog|author=Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Our hero is a boy, whose name we never learn. We know what he wants in London life – just with his mother exceedingly poor, and even his bed burnt to keep the two of them warm, he wants the prize offered by a down-a-mountain-and-back-up-and-down-again foot race. Winning the race and the large purse would also give him more status in time for the Battle eyes of Britainthose kids that bully him, which is and it might even give him a circumstance Bill hates Jane voice – for, as he is almost mute. We quickly grew learn he never talks back to love anyone, whatever the countrysidemotivation, while Jane resisted the idea of them settling thereand can only speak aloud to himself – and, so they were returned it turns out, to a dog he rescues from a bad road accident he finds on his way up the hill to an allegedly safe capitalthe start line…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Dawson_Grave|title=Grave Matter|author=Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith|rating=4. One 5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Since Eliza died, since the night after of the car crash that took her life, Sam is a bombing raid they settle outside broken soul. He is lost without the neighbourhood's token emptygirl he loves, boarded up feeling as though a part of him died that night too. But he is desperate and deserted home – only for Bill to convince himself he hears someone insidecannot live without Eliza. The unidentifiable He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and severely burnt child that gets rescued becomes wonders if she might be able to help him. However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a kind of new family member – but does this have anything pact with forces he doesn't understand. 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>.