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[[Category:New Reviews|Dyslexia Friendly]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|author=Michael Morpurgo and Ross Collins|title=All I Said Was|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Our young friend looked up at the window and saw a pigeon balancing on the window sill and our young friend had a thought. ''I'd like to be you,'' he said, dreaming of flying off to anywhere that he liked. The pigeon was quite happy to change places: lying on the bed reading a book seemed like a good idea, so the two changed places. Our young hero thought it was great as he flew off towards the sea: ''I want to be a bird all my life''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123489</amazonuk>}}

<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Tilly's PromiseStitched Up|author=Linda NewberySteve Cole

|summary=Tilly often wished things would change Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the sleepy little rural village where she called homelived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, but she gets more change than she bargained for so when war breaks outthe 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. First her sweetheart joins up Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, then Tilly signs 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 a nurse 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 finally her brother Georgie co-workers made them.}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is called uponly just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, despite the fact that to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he is completely unfit for servicetalks to his best friend, Cassie. Georgie is differentThey were half of a desultory school band, big and strong 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-warrior parents saying the mind end of the world is already a child - how could he possibly survive done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the horrors of wartruth? So many promises are madeWell, Tilly promises her sweetheart Harry she will wait - Harry assures her not when Cassie has gone missing he woncan't ...|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 be away long a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill- sure it will probably be over owners by Christmas (famous last words)the London workhouse they used to call home. When Georgie Bess knows there is posted to Harry's unit, Tilly extracts no time for friendship in a somewhat reluctant promise from him hand-to look after her brother. More promises will be made - but promises are hard to keep in wartimemouth, every man for himself kind of existence. As Georgie and Harry face the harsh reality But despite herself Bess does find a bit of life a kindred spirit in the trenchesslight little Dot, Tilly finds herself near the frontline as and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a nurse. Everything seems to have changed. Will even love remain glimmer of companionship in the same tired- especially out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the aftermath existence of a broken promisethe mermaid?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122938</amazonuk>180090049X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Old Dog, New TricksKeith Gray|authortitle=Bali RaiThe Climbers|rating=54|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Nick Sully is a miserable old sod by anyonethe best tree climber in the village. He has what's definitionknown amongst the kids as 'reach'. His equally mangy dogBut what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, Nelsoncalled Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is the being threatened, and not only friend he hasthat, as that his nasty nature puts everyone off. But while he may be unpleasant chance to most peoplename the final, he is downright horrible when unnamed big tree in the park by being the Singh family move infirst to conquer it, bringing out the worst of might be snatched from his racist views - but hands. How can a man who likes Bob Marley really hate anyone of another colourSully stop Nottingham? Is Nick just an ignorant and offensive old gitAnd will it cost him his best friend, or is there something more beneath the surface? No one seems to have really bothered to find out before a common love maybe even all of dogs draws young Harvey Singh his friends, to attempt to befriend not only the unkempt dog, but the lonely old man as well.do so?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123470</amazonuk>1781129991

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The First Third Wish (Little Gems)Lisa Thompson|authortitle=Ian BeckThe Small Things

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=This is a lovely story of a lost wish. Cobweb Although Anna has bungled her very first assignmentfriends at school, losing the third wish meant for a kindly woodcuttershe feels like she never really fits in. She managed Her family don't have enough money to replace it with a sparelet her do after school activities, but and so she feels like her job will not be complete until the missing wish life at home is found and returnedboring in comparison to theirs. It seems When a lost wish new girl joins her class, Anna is very dangerous indeed as it gives asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the finder an unlimited supply of wishes - new girl, Ellie, is unwell and not all people are careful what they wish forso can't attend school in person. As luck would have it thoughInstead, she joins in with the wish has found its way just to class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the place where it most neededchallenge of making friends with someone through a robot, where it will result in and is she even interesting enough to be a true happily ever after, not only for the young man who finds it, but for many others as well.good friend to Ellie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122458</amazonuk>1781129649

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=My Friend's a Gris-Kwok (Little Gems)Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|authortitle=Malorie Blackman and Andy RowlandThe Ghost Garden

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=When Mike discovers that his best friend Alex Fran, the gardener's daughter at a posh country house, is worried. She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a Gris Kwok or shape shifter it looks like they are in for some real fun. Not only can Alex change into any creature he wantsgrim discovery - a large bone, he can change anyone touching him as wellburied under the potatoes. There are only three hitches. The first is But she's even more worried when she learns that Alex can only change three times a day. The second is that event coincided with Leo, the older child of the house, breaking his sister has leg while playing cricket on the same powerslawn. The third She is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that Alex 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 babysitting and if you think babysitting ordinary siblings is difficult just wait until you see all the mischief seeking - a shape shifting toddler can get intolong-forgotten burial chamber. But surely that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112244X</amazonuk>1781129002

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Snug (Little Gems)Alex Wheatle|authortitle=Michael Morpurgo and Faye HansenThe Humiliations of Welton Blake

|summary=Michael Morpurgo has captured what is like to own a cat, or perhaps more accurately to be owned by a cat, perfectly. Snug comes into It's fifty years since the family at almost Apollo 13 mission was launched from the same time as Lisa and Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the two grow up together and share a special bond. His exploits will be familiar to any story of that journey remains one who has any experience of cats and many children will relate to things Snug does just like their own petthe greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The illustrations in this book are beautiful and certain to delight any animal lover, as well as giving readers Apollo 13 Mission'' is a nostalgic look at childhoodbrilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122865</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781129312|title=The Castle in the Field (Little Gems)Sequin and Stitch|author=Michael Morpurgo Laura Dockrill and Faye HansenSara Ogilvie (illustrator)

|summary=I think all children love densSequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with her. It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed to get credit for what she did. Mum is almost a primal instinct for children, to find, construct seamstress and hide away in huts, dens, tents, or any other place that gives them that sense of their own private place, away from she makes the world. Michael Morpurgo has captured the magic sort of a secret den perfectly in this story of three friends who find an abandoned WW2 Pillbox and make it into their own private castleclothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. The children are She's not really meant to be in the pillbox. It is on private property, but designer - they don't really have any place else to go. Two re the people who make a lot of money from the children are not allowed to go home until their parents finish work and clothes. Mum is the third will not leave his best friend out in person who actually ''makes'' the weather alone. At first the pillbox is just shelter from a stormgarments and she's really talented, but it soon becomes an embodiment of all when people talk about the dress or the wonder of childhood as suit, they talk about the children transform it into a wonderful private retreatdesigner. But how long will they be able to keep their special hideout a secret? This The seamstress is a lovely story with a heart warming theme of friendship, a confrontation with bullies, and the inevitable pangs of growing upnever mentioned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122873</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ninja: First Mission (Ninja Trilogy)Tanya Landman|authortitle=Chris Bradford and Sonia LeongJane Eyre: a Retelling

|summary=If you are looking for adventureA young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, '' Ninja First Mission'' will certain come up trumps. This book never has and years in a slow moment. But even as the story races along at breakneck speeddreary school, there is plenty moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to think about as well. This book has as much to offer have something like the deep thinker as the adrenaline junky. Tatalife she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a young Ninja in traininghalf-French girl, whose father is desperate almost always absent. When he does turn up he seems to prove himself. He has failed the test for his black belt three timesbe dark, brooding and troubled – but this was just a simple test. The sacred scrolls of his clan have been stolenthat's nothing compared to the darker, more broody and all of even more troubling secret in the fully fledged Ninja but one are away on another missionhouse. Tata faces another test Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but this time the stakes are life and deathif you don't, not only for himselfwhatever reason, but for his clan. In order this is a wonderful book to succeed Tata must learn turn to find victory in failure. Most of all he must learn to believe in himself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842999397</amazonuk>1781129126

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128952|title=Football CrazyThe Starlight Watchmaker|author=Tony Bradman and Michael BroadLauren James|rating=54

|summary=''Football Crazy'' This is about a group of friends who play on the worst team in the leaguedyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It can be difficult when your team loses every time you go on tells the pitchtale of Hugo, but Dannyan unwanted and rather lonely android, Jamil and Lewis love the sport and they stick with it who makes a living for himself mending time- win or losetravel watches. They keep hoping the next game will When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be the game in which they finally winmended, or at least get on the scoreboard, but it never happens - not as long as Mr Perkins Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved and is coachingonly too ready to help. When the coach finally packs it in - it looks like curtains for Rovers FC. ButAn exciting journey of discovery unfolds, luck seems to be on the children's side when which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a new coach, Jock Ramsay, scary adventure with some history in the pro leagues is found. The amazing new coach is toughfriends, but he quickly gets exploring regions of the team into shape and the Rovers start climbing the league tables. Parents are delighted, the stands are full, but the children find they no longer love the sport. Everything is about winning. Things come to crisis point when Coach Ramsay orders Danny planet never before known to take a diveexist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122121</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128693|title=Secret FCSpecial Delivery|author=Tom PalmerJonathan Meres|rating=34

|summary=Unlike many How do you explain to childrenabout dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, Lily, Zack and Khan canbut when the problem is the brain which isn't functioning quite as it used to it isn't wait for the school as easy to grasp. Frank was a normal nine-year-old and like many nine-year to begin-olds what he wanted was a new bike. They live in an overcrowded part of London with no room He'd had his for outdoor sports about seventy-eight years and he didn't want to raise the school ground is the only place they can enjoy seat any more. Mum pointed out that it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a friendly game lot of footballmoney, which didn't grow on trees. But their hopes for the new term are dashed when His sister Lottie had a new Head Teacher decides ball sports are too dangerous for childrensolution: Frank could help her with her paper round. Surprisingly, with an overly safety-conscious Head, while football is prohibited there is Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a wooded waste ground inside the school grounds - which just happens thousand years to be save up the perfect spot money for a bike AND he had to get up at six o'clock in the children to clear and create their own football pitchmorning. But will they be able to keep the secret? Or will Mr Edwards blow the final whistle on all of their sports? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122415</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128707|title=SamuraiThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Ian Beck and Daniel AtanasovVivian French

|summary=The hero Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to win the 100 metres race on sports day at the end of our story is nameless. He is only the Samurai, term - and not even quite thatwas next week. He is dishonoured, a masterless Samurai We're going to read about what happened in her diary, or Ronin. We do not know his masteralthough there's fate but a warning that we can only assume really shouldn't be reading it is death, and particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. To say that Ronin has fled the field taking his injured dog to safety. The land is desolate and barren and both the text and the superbly drawn illustrations build a feeling of darkness and despair. The path he travels two girls don't get on at all well is lined with skeletons of defeated warriors lashed to wagon wheels. It gives the reader the impression of the road to hell. The young Samurai takes refuge in a ruined palace, yet another sign bit of devastation upon the land, seeming to exist for the next few days only to care for Cho, his dog, while awaiting the punishment of the gods for his failurean understatement. He rises from despair to help others Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, first to defeat but Barbie is a demon haunting the palace, troublemaker and then undertaking a journey she wants to find and defeat another deadly demon. Soon win the young warrior comes to a village suffering under the most horrific of curses. His courage will be put to the test as he must risk even his beloved Cho to save an innocent girl and lift the curse100 metres race too - by fair means or foul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122202</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1949471004|title=Thor and the Master of MagicDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Kevin Crossley-Holland and SikuPamela Brookes

|summary=I grew up with tales of What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the heroes of Asgard, and this story was always a firm favouritewonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but todaythe sounds in the book might not be the ones you's children ve been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more likely of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problem. You need to be able to know Thor from ''The Avengers'buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. This book is sure to interest any You need a story which engages the young comic book fans, mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the illustrations will certainly help with this, but it is still faithful to the original myth, learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and in my mind would count as literature, rather than just a fun read - but I games wouldn't tell the children thatgo amiss, either. This is an excellent retelling of ThorReading - and ''learning''s visit to Utgarda read - Loki ( the giant kingshould be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''s hall) from Prose Edda a collection of Norse poetry thought to have been compiled by the Icelandic poet Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122210</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Under AttackFrontpage|authorisbn=Jim Eldridge and Dave Shepherd|rating=3.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=My sons are army barmy as they say, and have been begging for military stories so I was delighted to see this in the Barrington Stoke range. The book reminded me a bit of a cross between the old Commando comic books and Action Man books with heroes blazing to the rescue, but sadly I found something lacking. It is a very short story and packed with action, but there really does not seem to be any character development. The story itself is very simple but flat. The Taliban attacks a hospital repeatedly and the British Army comes to the rescue. A very small child is shot and the doctor elects to perform emergency surgery on a kitchen table rather than waiting for the helicopter to arrive, but the Taliban haven't given up. The doctor valiantly tries to operate to remove a bullet next to the child's heart under the most desperate of circumstances, without blood, anaesthetics etc.... all the while under heavy fire. Will the British Army be able to save the day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122113</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1781128510|title=GamerOne Shot|author=Chris BradfordTanya Landman|rating=4.5

|summary=''GamerPa and I understood each other. Our souls were cut from the same cloth.'' is written for But Pa has since died, leaving Maggie very much alone in her family. She was the child only one of three children who would rather be in front looked like him, and none of a console than reading book. Even the cover depicts action with a scene that changes to depict fighting if you tilt the book. This isnothers acted like him, and certainly, his wife didn't seem to say it lacks depthfully understand him. This has a Maggie might as well developed plotbe 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 very good characterisationshoot some game to stop them from starving? Well, no, but the action never stops. It not where her mother is perfect for children who are used to concerned – the high adrenaline experience very idea of a video gamefemale shooting things, when they could be preparing for a life of unhappy married drudgery, but it has plenty to offer the child who loves books as wellis just scandalous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121389</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112843X|title=ScrumLark|author=Tom Palmer and Dylan GibsonAnthony McGowan

|summary=Steven has a pretty good life. His parents are divorced, but they get on well. He sees his Dad every day and has a good relationship with his Mom and her partner, Martin. True, he would like his parents to get back together, as most kids would, but things arenI't too bad as they are. He has good friends, a happy home and a real shot and breaking into the Rugby League teams. His whole world is turned upside though when Mom announces she is going to marry Martin. Soon Steven finds himself in a new home, with a new school and new friends, but he adjusts and makes the best of things. He even has a shot at playing Rugby at county level, but there is one problem and it is major one. The new town is in a Rugby Union area. Steven has always played Rugby League and to his father, switching sides will be a betrayalll warn you first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842999443</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Heroes (Most Wanted)|author=Anne Perry|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Trench warfare has widely been acknowledged as one of This is the most soul destroying forms of combat. It broke men physically fourth and mentally. Death seemed inevitable for many, last story about Nicky and life was so horrible that at times it must have come as release. So what is one more death among the multitudes? To Chaplain Joseph Reavely every death counts, but he can not let this one goKenny. Morton was not killed by enemy fire - he was murdered and Joseph will Try not rest until justice is done. It sounds pretty straight forward, but there is far more to it than this and justice is truly poetic in this casecry before you've even read the first page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842995103</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Fox Friend|author=Michael Morpurgo Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and Joanna Carey|rating=3|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Clare loves animalshis learning-disabled brother Kenny. Her best friend Their mum is her horse, and she loves all the lambs born on her family farm as well. This natural affection for animals easily extended coming to visit - the fox she saw strolling through the farm as wellmum who abandoned them a long time ago. Her father however despises foxes saying 'They haven't seen her for years and the only good fox impending visit is dead fox''stirring up a lot of uncomfortable feelings. ClareAnd Nicky's Father says the foxes had already killed ten lambs that year, and girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it was only March with the lambing season in full swing. (I did find these figures quite high - but then againall, maybe they owned a lot of sheep). When Clare finds an injured Nicky and orphaned cub after Kenny plan a fox huntday out, it is obvious she can not turn to her parents for helptrekking across the moors. But regardless of her fatherit doesn's feelingst go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, Clare is determined to save this helpless little creaturein terrible danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781120862</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786697173|title=Moose BabyMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Meg RosoffSally Gardner

|summary=Jess 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 pretty average teenage mother - except for one thingmermaid and comes to visit regularly, although she still lives in the sea. Instead Betsy dreams of giving birth to a normal little girl as she was expectingtwo things: firstly, she ends up delivering a 23lb moose calf about the circus owned by C-Section. It seems there has been a cluster of non homo-sapien births tiger and whether it would ever come to human mothers. For some unexplained reasonher island and secondly, about a number of women have given birth to animals - mostly moose. Jess feels confident she can cope with magical ice cream made from the trials and tribulations berries of teenage parenthood. She can handle the midwives' harsh looks, her mother's disappointment and her boyfriend's parents' disapprovalGongalong bush. But giving birth to a moose instead One scoop of a human may be more than any mother this ice cream can adjust tomake wishes come true.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121974</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The Wickedest Witch in the World|author=Kaye Umansky And then Mr Tiger and Gerald Kelley|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Everyone knows the story of Hansel and Gretelhis circus arrive. At least we thought we knew. But as the saying goes there are always two sides to every story and this one And a journey is told from the perspective of Old Maggit, The Wickedest Witch in the World. You see Maggit really wasn't so wicked after all. It was the children who were wickedplanned. Well, maybe they were not exactly ''wicked'', but they were most certainly obnoxious, and old Maggit's no nonsense manner and just a bit 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 century.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122016</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128286|title=Mary's HairRun Wild|author=Eoin ColferGill Lewis

|summary=Mary hates her hairMeet Izzy and Asha. It has black bits and brown bitsBullied away from the local attempt at a skatepark, curly bits and straight bits and Mary feels that it looks very much like they find a bush. Her Daddy says if you don't like something, you should change it (instead huge waste ground in the shadow of whining about it a derelict gasometer to your parents when practise on, which they duly do, even though they want have to relax with a cup of tea). Marydrag Izzy's Daddy, like many others, should watch what he says to children. Mary follows his advice younger brother with hilarious resultsthem. First she cuts her hairThe following day they all want to return, but when that doesnas does the brother't go to plan she decides to dye its schoolfriend, despite – and of course because of – there is a huge wolf living in the site. She has learned something from Can the children survive living in the whole hair cutting experience thoughurban wilderness, this time she plans to try the dye out on someone else first.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122261</amazonuk>alongside such obvious dangers?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jennings Different|title=Dead BrigadeA Different Dog|author=James LovegrovePaul Jennings and Geoff Kelly|rating=4.5

|summary=Sergeant Jonah Hammond's career has been at Our hero is a standstill boy, whose name we never learn. We know what he wants in life – with his mother exceedingly poor, and even his bed burnt to keep the years since two of them warm, he launched wants the prize offered by a complaint against down-a reckless commanding officer whose arrogance resulted -mountain-and-back-up-and-down-again foot race. Winning the race and the large purse would also give him more status in the massacre eyes of British soldiers. Now those kids that same officer bully him, and it might even give him a voice – for he is offering Hammond another chancealmost mute. This time Hammond won't have We quickly learn he never talks back to worry about some idiot getting his men all killed - because they are already dead. Hammond has been given anyone, whatever the task of training a crack squad of reanimated soldiersmotivation, immune and can only speak aloud to pain, disease himself – and capable of fighting with massive injuries. These living dead are reanimated by nanobots. They are capable of learning, following instructions, and meant to be incapable of independent thought. Howeverso it turns out, it soon becomes apparent that things don't always go the way they are meant to. These are not mindless killing machines; a part of them is still human, still the soldier they once were, trapped within dog he rescues from a decaying corpse, kept refrigerated until ready for bad road accident he finds on his way up the next mission. They have no life, nor do they have hill to the luxury of death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842995081</amazonuk>start line…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dawson_Grave|title=Sweetness and LiesGrave Matter|author=Karen McCombie Juno Dawson and Jessica SecheretAlex T Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=Starting a new school is always toughSince Eliza died, and when Tilly is since the night of the only girl from car crash that took her primary to win life, Sam is a place at broken soul. He is lost without the more exclusive Beech Cliff Schoolgirl he loves, her old friends abandon her feeling as being though a part of him died that night too posh. She quickly makes friends with Mia, but when a new girl Amber Sweet tries to join the group Mia definitely feels that two But he is company desperate and three is a crowdhe cannot live without Eliza. Amber is torn between loyalty to Mia He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her own conscience as Tia is openly cruel peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to Amberhelp him. Tilly soon begins However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to question Mia's jokes and put downs. There doesn't seem discover the Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to be any way Tilly can be friends make a pact with both girls, Mia wonforces he doesn't allow itunderstand. Can she find the courage Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to stand up to Mia and risk having no friends? And would Amber even want to be her friend any change Sam's life in more if she did?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121990</amazonuk>ways than he bargained for.

{{newreview|title=Cheesemares|author=Ross Collins|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Every time Hal eats cheese he has terrible nightmares. Hal's mother suggests drastic measures - no more cheese before bed. Hal loves his cheese though so he sets off Move on a quest for clues to solve the Case of the Cheesemares. He is accompanied by his canine sidekick, Rufus. He stumbles upon his first clue very quickly. All of the cheese that has been giving him bad dreams has come from Contessa Von Udderstein's (not at all evil) House of Cheese in Bovina. Hal follows the trail to a spooky castle ruled by 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 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 to eat again. It's a good thing cows don't have hands to clutch with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121915</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Dystopian Fiction Reviews]]