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|summary=Jess is Twelve-year-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 woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a pretty average teenage mother shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co- except for one thingworkers made them.}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4. Instead 5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of giving birth frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a normal little girl as she desultory school band, but Cassie was expecting, also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she ends up delivering could hear a 23lb moose calf by Csubhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-Sectionwarrior 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... It seems |isbn=1800900899}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=The Mermaid in the Millpond|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there has been be a cluster of non homofriend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-sapien births owners by the London workhouse they used to human motherscall home. For some unexplained reasonBess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a number bit of women have given birth a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to animals harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired- mostly mooseout mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X}}{{Frontpage|author=Keith Gray|title=The Climbers|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Sully is the best tree climber in the village. Jess He has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach'. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, and not only that, that his chance to name the final, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do 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 confident like she never really fits in. Her family don't have enough money to let her do after school activities, and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can cope 't attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with the trials class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through a robot, and tribulations of teenage parenthoodis she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649}}{{Frontpage|author=Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=The Ghost Garden|rating=4. She can handle 5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Fran, the midwivesgardener' harsh lookss daughter at a posh country house, her motheris worried. She's disappointment and just cracked her boyfriendgarden fork through quite a grim discovery - a large bone, buried under the potatoes. But she's parents' disapprovaleven more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, the older child of the house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. She is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason to be out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. But giving birth surely that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?|isbn=1781129002}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Wheatle|title=The Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating=2.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. He should be getting a moose instead of text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a human may cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in response, and the wanna-bae seems to actually be more than any with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale he's living with his mother can adjust and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting tohaving cabbage for dinner. I know, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781121974</amazonuk>1781129495

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Wickedest Witch in the WorldApollo 13 Mission|author=Kaye Umansky David Long and Gerald KelleyStefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|summary=Everyone knows It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the story of Hansel and Gretel. At least we thought we knew. But as the saying goes there are always two sides to every story and this that journey remains one is told from of the perspective greatest survival stories of Old Maggit, The Wickedest Witch in the World. You see Maggit really wasn't so wicked after alltime. It was the children who were wicked. Well, maybe they were not exactly ''wickedSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'', but they were most certainly obnoxious, and old Maggit's no nonsense manner and just is a bit brilliant retelling of attention may be exactly what these children need to turn them around. Maggit really has built a house of gingerbread to lure children into as a means of finally winning the Wickedest Witch in the World title. But once she has the children - she has no idea what to do them and ends up teaching them manners. As to the whole cannibalism story - that was all made up of course. The children decide the only way for Maggit to win is to lie - and they come up with a whopper. It was so good people have been repeating it for centuries with the original tale thought to have originated in the 14th centuryhappened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122016</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781129312|title=Mary's HairSequin and Stitch|author=Eoin ColferLaura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)

|summary=Mary hates Sequin loved her hair. It has black bits and brown mum to bits, curly bits and straight bits and Mary feels that it looks but sometimes she got very much like a bushcross with her. Her Daddy says if you don It wasn't that mum wouldn't like something, you should change it (instead of whining about go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed to your parents when they want to relax with get credit for what she did. Mum is a cup seamstress and she makes the sort of tea)clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. MaryShe's Daddy, like many others, should watch what he says to childrennot the designer - they're the people who make a lot of money from the clothes. Mary follows his advice with hilarious results. First Mum is the person who actually ''makes'' the garments and she cuts her hair's really talented, but when that doesn't go to plan she decides to dye it. She has learned something from people talk about the dress or the whole hair cutting experience thoughsuit, this time she plans to try they talk about the dye out on someone else firstdesigner. The seamstress is never mentioned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122261</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dead BrigadeTanya Landman|authortitle=James LovegroveJane Eyre: a Retelling

|summary=Sergeant Jonah Hammond's career has been at a standstill in the A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years since he launched a complaint against a reckless commanding officer whose arrogance resulted in the massacre of British soldiers. Now that same officer is offering Hammond another chance. This time Hammond won't have to worry about some idiot getting his men all killed - because they are already dead. Hammond has been given the task of training a crack squad of reanimated soldiersdreary school, immune moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to pain, disease have something like the life she wants – and capable of fighting with massive injuries. These living dead are reanimated by nanobots. They are capable of learningonly one job, following instructionsto tutor a young half-French girl, and meant whose father is almost always absent. When he does turn up he seems to be incapable of independent thought. Howeverdark, it soon becomes apparent brooding and troubled – but that things don't always go s nothing compared to the darker, more broody and even more troubling secret in the way they are meant tohouse. These are not mindless killing machines; a part of them is still human Yes, still if you know Jane Eyre then you know the soldier they once were, trapped within a decaying corpserest – but if you don't, kept refrigerated until ready for the next mission. They have no lifewhatever reason, nor do they have the luxury of deaththis is a wonderful book to turn to.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842995081</amazonuk>1781129126

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128952|title=Sweetness and LiesThe Starlight Watchmaker|author=Karen McCombie and Jessica SecheretLauren James|rating=54

|summary=Starting This is a new school is always toughdyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, an unwanted and when Tilly is the only girl from her primary to win a place at the more exclusive Beech Cliff Schoolrather lonely android, her old friends abandon her as being too posh. She quickly who makes friends with Mia, but when a new girl Amber Sweet tries to join the group Mia definitely feels living for himself mending time-travel watches. When one of his clients demands that two is company and three his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a crowd. Amber is torn between loyalty mystery to Mia be solved and her own conscience as Tia is openly cruel only too ready to Amberhelp. Tilly soon begins to question Mia's jokes An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and put downs. There doesn't seem to be any way Tilly can be into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends with both girls, Mia won't allow it. Can she find exploring regions of the courage planet never before known to stand up to Mia and risk having no friends? And would Amber even want to be her friend any more if she did?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121990</amazonuk>exist.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128693|title=CheesemaresSpecial Delivery|author=Ross CollinsJonathan Meres

|summary=Every time Hal eats cheese 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 has terrible nightmareswanted was a new bike. Hal He's mother suggests drastic measures d had his for about seventy- no eight years and he didn't want to raise the seat any more cheese before bed. Hal loves Mum pointed out that it wasn't his cheese though so he sets off on birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a quest for clues to solve the Case lot of the Cheesemares. He is accompanied by his canine sidekickmoney, Rufuswhich didn't grow on trees. He stumbles upon his first clue very quickly His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her with her paper round. All of the cheese Frank agreed despite thinking that has been giving it would take him bad dreams has come from Contessa Von Udderstein's (not at all evil) House of Cheese in Bovina. Hal follows the trail a thousand years to a spooky castle ruled by save up the evil Contessa Von Udderstein, a very mad cow who looks quite a bit like a bovine version of Cruella De Ville. The irate cow wants revenge on humans money for stealing their milk for years (it's a good thing no one mentioned hamburgers or roast beef) Hal and Rufus must escape from the clutches of the mad cattle and make cheese safe bike AND he had to eat again. Itget up at six o's a good thing cows don't have hands to clutch withclock in the morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121915</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128707|title=Cherry Green Story QueenThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Annie Dalton and Charlie AdlerVivian French

|summary=At first glance, I expected this to be a fairly typical girl's story for tweens. I certainly Suzi Simms loved running and it was not expecting a story of such beauty or depth. This is a very enjoyable read, but is it much more than light fiction. I enjoyed it so much, I wanted her ambition to share win the book with my sons, but I had to be very careful to hide 100 metres race on sports day at the coverend of term - and that was next week. Being typical boys, they are not We're going to want to hear read about what happened in her diary, although there's a story warning that looks so much like a girlwe really shouldn't be reading it, particularly as it's storyabout Barbie Meek. This book has something in common with To say that the two girls don'The Arabian Nights, Tales t get on at all well is a bit of 1,001 Nightsan understatement. Suzi wouldn'. In fact t actually do anything about it shares , but Barbie is a direct link with troublemaker and she wants to win the ancient book100 metres race too - by fair means or foul. But this story }}{{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 only give us three nights of magic. Still three nights might just be enough help them to change achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the lives of six children sounds in foster care. This also shares the basic message of book might not be the ones you'The Allegory ve been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the Long Spoons' young dyslexic than a well known parable by child without that problem. the Rabbi Haim You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which has passed concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the folk lore of many culturesmix. The basic message is that You need a story which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the difference between heaven learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - and hell is not so much ''learning'' to read - should be a difference in physical circumstances, but rather is the result of how we treat one anotherpleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122008</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128510|title=Mr Birdsnest and the House Next DoorOne Shot|author=Julia Donaldson and Hannah Shaw Tanya Landman|rating=4.5

|summary=''Pa and I love Julia Donaldsonunderstood each other. Our souls were cut from the same cloth.'s books for younger children' But Pa has since died, leaving Maggie very much alone in her family. Everyone loves [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|The Gruffalo]] and [[Tyrannosaurus Drip by Julia Donaldson|Tyrannosaurus Drip]] is still She was the only one of our favouritesthree children who looked like him, but 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 children have grownCinderella story, these books have been read less frequentlystuck with two siblings and mother that are fully against her. I have to admitBut at least she can sneak out at night, I've missed them. ''Mr Birdsnest and the House Next Door'' gives us a chance shoot some game to enjoy this brilliant author for just a little while longer. This is fun storystop them from starving? Well, told in the first personno, so we never know not where her mother is concerned – the name very idea of the main character. We do know she is lively active young girla female shooting things, perhaps with an active imagination. I would guess her to when they could be about 10 years old with an equally active and inquisitive younger brother named Elmopreparing for a life of unhappy married drudgery, is just scandalous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781120056</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112843X|title=ThemLark|author=L A WeatherlyAnthony McGowan

|summary=Kylie I'll warn you first. This is the fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. Try not to cry before you've even read the first page. Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and her family had a prosperous upper middle class life his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to visit - until the day Kyliemum who abandoned them a long time ago. They haven's stepfather nearly beat t seen her to death. Forced to flee, they ended for years and the impending visit is stirring up in a shelter, and are now trying to start life over with a very different set lot of circumstancesuncomfortable feelings. KylieAnd Nicky's Mom is working girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, Nicky and exhausted, they live in Kenny plan a run down flatday out, and trekking across the money barely stretches moors. But it doesn't go to covering groceries - plan and as Kylie's little sister keeps reminding her an accident puts both boys - this is all her fault. Pressures build up with strange phone calls. Could Kylie's stepfather have found them? And of course there are the usual difficulties of starting a new school and trying to make friendstheir dog, Tina, in terrible danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122091</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786697173|title=Jon For ShortMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Malorie Blackman and Vladimir StankovicSally Gardner

|summary=The book begins with Betsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible dream of dark footsteps and the flash of knife blade plunging down again and againever happens. Waking up brings no respite to the terror or pain for JonHer father, Alonso, because his waking world is even more frightening than makes the nightmare. He wakes up most wonderful ice cream in a darkened hospital roomevery flavour you could imagine. There are now windows to the outsideHer mother, Myrtle, only is a small frosted glass window mermaid and comes to visit regularly, although she still lives in the hall which lets in a tiny bit sea. Betsy dreams of light. The nurses seem cruel and angry. They insist on calling him Joetwo things: firstly, No matter how often he tells them his name is Jonathan - Jon for short. The nightmare comes again about the circus owned by a tiger and again. It starts out exactly the same, but each time whether it goes on just a little longer would ever come to her island and Jon sees secondly, about a bit more. The dream is not magical ice cream made from the only cause berries of his terrorthe Gongalong bush. Each time when he wakes up, another part One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true. And then Mr Tiger and his body has been removedcircus arrive. Piece by piece he And a journey is being dismemberedplanned.. Soon there will be nothing left of him - and no one will tell him why.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121958</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128286|title=Read On - Unsolved MysteriesRun Wild|author=Keith WestGill Lewis

|summary=''Collins Read On'' books are not specifically listed as Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from the local attempt at a dyslexia friendly line of books. Insteadskatepark, these are what is known as hi-lo books. Book developed to motivate and engage older readers, while still being accessible to readers who are reading far below grade level. I would estimate they find a huge waste ground in the reading level shadow of this book a derelict gasometer to be roughly age eightpractise on, but the subject matter is apt to appeal to children much olderwhich they duly do, or even adults. Although not designed especially for children with dyslexia like the famous Barrington Stoke range, this does though they have several features to make this book more appropriate to children with dyslexia than the average childrendrag Izzy's book. With the exception of a few small picture captions, this is printed in black ink younger brother with a large standard fontthem. The print is double spacedfollowing day they all want to return, as does the brother's schoolfriend, with short paragraphs despite – and chapters giving the reader plenty of breaks. The paper course because of – there is thick enough that print and pictures from a huge wolf living in the other side will not show throughsite. This combined with Can the children survive living in the easy to read text will help to build a child's confidence. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007488904</amazonuk>urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jennings Different|title=Sam's Spitfire SummerA Different Dog|author=Ian MacDonald Paul Jennings and Charlie Clough Geoff Kelly

|summary='Sam's Spitfire Summer' Our hero is billed as a thrilling WW2 adventureboy, whose name we never learn. In my opinion it is not. This is not a high octane adventure. Instead it is We know what he wants in life – with his mother exceedingly poor, and even his bed burnt to keep the story two of them warm, he wants the prize offered by a rather ordinary boy, homesick, terribly frightened down-a-mountain-and-back-up-and unsure of himself after being evacuated from London-down-again foot race. This book describes Winning the race and the large purse would also give him more status in the life eyes of a child during WW2 with such realism those kids that I honestly wonder if bully him, and it might have some basis in facteven give him a voice – for he is almost mute. It describes Sam's lonelinessWe quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the motivation, and fear, being separated from his parents as his father goes away can only speak aloud to fight the Germanshimself – and, and his Mother remains in Londonso it turns out, with the risk of bombing. This book really gives to a dog he rescues from a good glimpse at how Sam feels being evacuated. He misses bad road accident he finds on his home desperately and is frightened by way up the large animals in hill to the country - such as cows. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905637438</amazonuk>start line…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dawson_Grave|title=The Smallest Horse in the WorldGrave Matter|author=Jeremy Strong Juno Dawson and Scoular AndersonAlex T Smith|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Bella despises Since Eliza died, since the new girl at schoolnight of the car crash that took her life, SwanSam is a broken soul. Swan He is always bragging about her rich fatherlost without the girl he loves, her fancy house, their Ferrari etcfeeling as though a part of him died that night too... And to make matters worse, she But he is rude, bossy desperate and much bigger than Bellahe cannot live without Eliza. Bella has problems at home too. Her parents have split up He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and she misses her father; her mother is always working peculiar healing powers and wonders if she doesn't seem might be able to have any close friendshelp him. Things look pretty dismal after an argument with BellaHowever, but every thing changes when Bella's favourite picture breaks and out steps a real live horse. A very tiny horse, but a horse all finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the sameMilk Man, and which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a talking one at thatpact with forces he doesn't understand. Bella would love Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to keep the little horse, Astra, but the horse is desperate to be reunited with her true master, Rufuschange Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842999958</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Ghost Stadium|author=Tom Palmer |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I usually buy Barrington Stoke books for my son to read on his own. He loves the short but exciting stories, and the easy-to-read text. With this book though, the temptation to turn out the lights and read this out loud by torch light was simply too much to resist. It begins as a boy's own adventure. Three boys, Lucas, Irfan and Jack have come up with the perfect plan to start their summer holidays Move on a high note. Their local football club has been closed for years, but the boys have a scheme to get into the stadium one last time and spend a night camping on the pitch. My son immediately realised the football pitch would be the perfect place to camp out. It is difficult to get into, but once there, it would be like being in a wilderness. The high walls would block out everything, leaving the boys completely alone in the dark. There is only one problem. Places that are very difficult to get into can also be very difficult to get out of...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112227X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Dystopian Fiction Reviews]]