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|summary=Ten Twelve-year -old Matthew Buzzington Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was less than impressed happy, if not prosperous, so when his father got a new, highthe smartly-powered job dressed man and they had woman came to move the village to the big city like IMMEDIATELY. It meant offer Hahn a new school, complete with a bully called Pineapple Johnson. (No. Sorry. You'll have job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to find out for yourselfbe missed.) Matthew held Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to one fact though - he knew that he had a superpowerHanoi. He could turn himself into Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a fly. There's only one problem. It didn't shop, they were to workin virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. No matter how hard he tried, no matter how he concentrated on thinking himself into being a fly, he was still a ten-year-old boy You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with curly hair intricate embroidery and he was getting bullied. beading on the legs? Then everything changed one night when Matthew, his four-yearThe ones with the artfully-old sister Bella placed rips and Pineapple Johnson were accidentally locked in the school one night. distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? And burglars broke inIt's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124140</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean UreMarcus Sedgwick|title=Star for a DayWrath|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Lucy French (Luce Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to her grandad) is thirteen go where he wants and she lives with said Grandadwhom he wants, Mum - and eleven-year-old Lolabut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Lola's 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 who gets all of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the attention, world is able to loosen Mum's purse strings with already a pout done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of her lip and who was upset when music she only got Highly Commended in last year's Talent Show. This year dreaming of? Is she willjust bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, of course, require a not when Cassie has gone missing he can''completely'' new outfit t...|isbn=1800900899}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=The Mermaid in the undivided attention of 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 a friend for her in amongst all the family - and that not long after she's other kids, who have had a new outfit their entire childhoods sold to go the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a partyhand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. Lola is gorgeousBut despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, bubbly and brims over with confidencedespite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. Lucy isn't - and But surely that doesn't.mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123586</amazonuk>180090049X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny OldfieldKeith Gray|title=Bright StarThe Climbers|rating=54|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Morgan was just thirteen when she was sent to her aunt's ranch Sully is the best tree climber in the Rockies for the summervillage. It was all a bit alien to her - I mean she was a city girl from Chicago and she was going to have to get on with He has what's known amongst the kids as 'horses'reach'. It's not long though before she realises that she has But what happens when a real affinity new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with horses ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, and ponies and develops a special bond with a terrified wild mustang. It's Morgan who rescues not only that, that his chance to name the animal when it's trapped final, unnamed big tree in barbed wire and calms it sufficiently the park by being the first to bring conquer it into shelter, 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123756</amazonuk>1781129991

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally NichollsLisa Thompson|title=Shadow GirlThe Small Things

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=One of the disadvantages of the foster care system is that some children get moved around rather a lot and usually it's not down to themAlthough Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. But because of this itHer family don's easy t have enough money to see making friends as being a wasted effort let her do after school activities, and this was certainly Clare's opinion. By the age of fourteen so she was 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 third secondary , but things are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school - and after being there for two months in person. Instead, she hated itjoins in with the class by using a robot. Everyone else had been there for years and they all had Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends: Clare had no one. A very bad day saw her being evicted from the school bus with someone through a robot, and then getting lost as is she tried even interesting enough to find her way home. The be a good thing was that she met Maddy.friend to Ellie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123136</amazonuk>1781129649

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LawrenceEmma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=The Night RaidGhost Garden

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=The Trojan War Fran, the gardener's daughter at a posh country house, is over and worried. She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a large bone, buried under the few survivors have potatoes. But she's even 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 find somewhere get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to liveforetell a surprise. Rye and Nisus - barely more than children at Tasked with shoving Leo around the end grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason to be out of the war and both her mind with their own burden of guilt and horror fear, when she learns what he is seeking - a long- are obsessed by the need forgotten burial chamber. But surely that won't act as a premonition to seek vengeance and protect anything - not here in the land on which they have now settled.sultry, summery days of 1914?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123667</amazonuk>1781129002

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Moonshine Dragon (Little Gems)Alex Wheatle|authortitle=Cornelia FunkeThe Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating=42.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=What happens when stories escape We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. He should be getting a text from books? One moonlit the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night Patrick is woken 's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up by in response, and the noise of wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. On a tiny dragon emerging from bigger scale he's living with his storybook mother and chased by an equally tiny knight on horsebacknot much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinner. Suddenly Patrick finds himself shrunk I know, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day at school to story book size too and he forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can't be the dragon find themselves under attack. Can Patrick save them both before start of a most nightmarish time runs outfor young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123535</amazonuk>1781129495

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Almond and Vladimir Stankovic178112938X|title=Klaus Vogel Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and the Bad LadsStefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=The Bad Lads had been together for It's fifty years. They were scampssince the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, mischief makers - lads having a bit but the story of fun - and they were led by Joe Gillespie who was a year or two older. The lads thought that Joe was great but there was a niggling feeling amongst journey remains one or two of the boys that he was getting a bit more extreme and that some greatest survival stories of his pranks were actually - deliberately - going to hurt peopleall time. ''Survival in Space: The fire at Mr EustaceApollo 13 Mission's (he was ' is a conchie, you see) brilliant retelling of what happened the same week that Klaus Vogel arrived in the town of Felling. The scrawny refugee from East Germany who knew hardly any English would change things for the Bad Lads.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122695</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781129312|title=Minikid (Little Gems)Sequin and Stitch|author=Michael MorpurgoLaura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)|rating=3.5

|summary=There seem Sequin loved her mum to be more and more books being publishedbits, now, that are marketing themselves as being dyslexia friendlybut sometimes she got very cross with her. This Michael Morpurgo story is from Little Gems and it follows the guidelines It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that make - it easier was because she never pushed to read get credit for children with dyslexiawhat she did. The paper Mum is a high quality cream paper, so no shadows coming through from seamstress and she makes the other side to distract readers, theresort of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. She's not the designer - they're the people who make a special font, and there are pictures throughout lot of money from the storyclothes. ItMum is the person who actually ''makes'' the garments and she's a lovely size that fits nicely into small handsreally talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, with an appealing coverthey talk about the designer. So far, so good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123527</amazonuk>The seamstress is never mentioned.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom PalmerTanya Landman|title=Over The LineJane Eyre: a Retelling

|summary=Jack Cock made his debut as a professional footballer for Huddersfield Town A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and that fragile dream of playing for his country came just years in a little bit closerdreary school, but this was just before the beginning of the First World War, when there was immense pressure on young men moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to do have something like the honourable thing life she wants – and join the war with only one job, to fight in Francetutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. ''Over the Line'' is the story of JackWhen he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but that's war, of joining nothing compared to the Footballers' Battaliondarker, playing more broody and even more troubling secret in the Flanders Cuphouse. Yes, fighting in if you know Jane Eyre then you know the trenches and not just surviving rest – but being decorated if you don't, for bravery. After the war he scored England's first international goal and was one of the first of the modern generation of 'professional footballers'whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn to.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123934</amazonuk>1781129126

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Blamehounds (Little Gems)1781128952|author=Ross Collins|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summarytitle=The idea began with Mr Lime’s bodily explosions (didn’t I put that nicely?) After three of them it was Norman the dog (who was entirely blameless in this matter so long as you’re willing to overlook the fact that he was having a lovely dream about dropping cats off bridges) who got the kick to speed him from the room. There were a couple more occasions when something similar happened but instead of getting a complex about what was happening, Norman saw an opportunity. A business opportunity. If dogs were going to get the blame then there should be something in it for them and he went into partnership with his best mate, Ringo (who does seem to be obsessed with sausages) and Blamehounds was born.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123926</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStarlight Watchmaker|author=Eleanor Updale and Sarah Horne|title=Itch Scritch ScratchLauren James

|summary='''Warning: This Book Will Get Under Your Skin''' Wellis a dyslexia-friendly, that's what it says on science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the back tale of the book Hugo, an unwanted and I can promise that it's true. You might like to wear rather lonely android, who makes a pair of those cotton mittens living for babies whilst you readhimself mending time-travel watches. It will feel awkwardWhen one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, but you'll feel the benefitHugo realises there is a mystery to be solved and is only too ready to help. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, honestly. But - I'm getting ahead which takes Hugo out of myself. You want to know about the book. It's his drab attic workroom and into a family story - and scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the family in question are head liceplanet never before known to exist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122946</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Ross Collins1781128693|title=All I Said WasSpecial Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres

|summary=Our young friend looked up at How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when the window and saw a pigeon balancing on problem is the window sill and our young friend had a thought. brain which isn''I'd like t functioning quite as it used to be you,it isn'' he said, dreaming of flying off t as easy to anywhere that he likedgrasp. The pigeon Frank was quite happy to change places: lying on the bed reading a book seemed normal nine-year-old and like many nine-year-olds what he wanted was a good idea, so new bike. He'd had his for about seventy-eight years and he didn't want to raise the two changed placesseat any more. Our young hero thought Mum pointed out that it was great as he flew off towards the sea: wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a lot of money, which didn'I want 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 be save up the money for a bird all my life'bike AND he had to get up at six o'clock in the morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123489</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128707|title=Tilly's PromiseThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Linda NewberyVivian French

|summary=Tilly often wished things would change in Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to win the 100 metres race on sports day at the sleepy little village she called home, but she gets more change than she bargained for when war breaks outend of term - and that was next week. First We're going to read about what happened in her sweetheart joins updiary, then Tilly signs on although there's a nurse and finally her brother Georgie is called upwarning that we really shouldn't be reading it, despite particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. To say that the fact that he two girls don't get on at all well is completely unfit for servicea bit of an understatement. Georgie Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, but Barbie is different, big a troublemaker and strong but with she wants to win the mind of 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 - how could he possibly survive has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the horrors of warwonder that is reading? So many promises are made You can risk buying early readers, Tilly promises her sweetheart Harry she will wait - Harry assures her he wonbut the sounds in the book might not be the ones you't be away long - sure it will probably be over by Christmas (famous last ve been working on and encountering words)which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problem. When Georgie is posted You need to be able to Harrybuy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you's unitve been working on, Tilly extracts without anything else being thrown into the mix. You need a somewhat reluctant promise from him to look after her brotherstory which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. More promises will be made - but promises are hard to keep in wartime. As Georgie Some online support and Harry face the harsh reality of life in the trenchesgames wouldn't go amiss, Tilly finds herself near the frontline as a nurseeither. Everything seems Reading - and ''learning'' to have changed. Will even love remain the same read - especially in the aftermath of should be a broken promise?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122938</amazonuk>pleasure. It should be ''fun''.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128510|title=Old Dog, New TricksOne Shot|author=Bali RaiTanya Landman|rating=4.5

|summary=Nick is a miserable old sod by anyone's definition'Pa and I understood each other. Our souls were cut from the same cloth. His equally mangy dog'' But Pa has since died, Nelsonleaving Maggie very much alone in her family. She was the only one of three children who looked like him, is and none of the only friend he hasothers acted like him, and certainly, his wife didn't seem to fully understand him. Maggie might as his nasty nature puts everyone offwell be reliving the Cinderella story, stuck with two siblings and mother that are fully against her. But while he may be unpleasant at least she can sneak out at night, and shoot some game to most peoplestop them from starving? Well, he no, not where her mother is downright horrible when concerned – the Singh family move in, bringing out the worst very idea of his racist views - but can a man who likes Bob Marley really hate anyone of another colour? Is Nick just an ignorant and offensive old gitfemale shooting things, or is there something more beneath the surface? No one seems to have really bothered to find out before when they could be preparing for a common love life of dogs draws young Harvey Singh to attempt to befriend not only the unkempt dogunhappy married drudgery, but the lonely old man as wellis just scandalous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123470</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112843X|title=The First Third Wish (Little Gems)Lark|author=Ian BeckAnthony McGowan

|summary=This is a lovely story of a lost wish. Cobweb has bungled her very I'll warn you first assignment, losing the third wish meant for a kindly woodcutter. She managed to replace it with a spare, but her job will not be complete until the missing wish is found and returned. It seems a lost wish is very dangerous indeed as it gives the finder an unlimited supply of wishes - and not all people are careful what they wish for. As luck would have it though, the wish has found its way just to the place where it most needed, where it will result in a true happily ever after, not only for the young man who finds it, but for many others as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122458</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=My Friend's a Gris-Kwok (Little Gems)|author=Malorie Blackman and Andy Rowland|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=When Mike discovers that his best friend Alex is 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 wants, he can change anyone touching him as well. There are only three hitches. The first This is that Alex can only change three times a day. The second is that his sister has the same powersfourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. The third is that Alex is babysitting and if Try not to cry before you think babysitting ordinary siblings is difficult just wait until you see all 've even read the mischief a shape shifting toddler can get intofirst page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112244X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Snug (Little Gems)|author=Michael Morpurgo Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and Faye Hansen|rating=2his learning-disabled brother Kenny.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Michael Morpurgo has captured what Their mum is like coming to own visit - the mum who abandoned them a cat, or perhaps more accurately to be owned by a cat, perfectlylong time ago. Snug comes into the family at almost the same time as Lisa They haven't seen her for years and the two grow impending visit is stirring up together and share a special bondlot of uncomfortable feelings. His exploits will be familiar to any one who And Nicky's girlfriend has any experience of cats and many children will relate to ended things Snug does just like . To take their own petminds off it all, Nicky and Kenny plan a day out, trekking across the moors. The illustrations in this book are beautiful But it doesn't go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and certain to delight any animal lovertheir dog, Tina, as well as giving readers a nostalgic look at childhoodin terrible danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122865</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786697173|title=The Castle in Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Field (Little Gems)Blue Moon|author=Michael Morpurgo and Faye HansenSally Gardner

|summary=I think all children love densBetsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. It is almost a primal instinct for childrenHer father, to findAlonso, construct and hide away makes the most wonderful ice cream in hutsevery flavour you could imagine. Her mother, densMyrtle, tents, or any other place that gives them that sense of their own private place, away from the world. Michael Morpurgo has captured the magic of is a secret den perfectly in this story of three friends who find an abandoned WW2 Pillbox mermaid and make it into their own private castle. The children are not really meant comes to be visit regularly, although she still lives in the pillboxsea. It is on private propertyBetsy dreams of two things: firstly, but they don't really have any place else to go. Two of about the children are not allowed circus owned by a tiger and whether it would ever come to go home until their parents finish work her island and secondly, about a magical ice cream made from the third will not leave his best friend out in berries of the weather aloneGongalong bush. At first the pillbox is just shelter from a storm, but it soon becomes an embodiment One scoop of all the wonder of childhood as the children transform it into a wonderful private retreatthis ice cream can make wishes come true. And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. But how long will they be able to keep their special hideout And a secret? This journey is a lovely story with a heart warming theme of friendship, a confrontation with bullies, and the inevitable pangs of growing upplanned...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122873</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128286|title=Ninja: First Mission (Ninja Trilogy)Run Wild|author=Chris Bradford and Sonia LeongGill Lewis

|summary=If you are looking for adventureMeet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from the local attempt at a skatepark, '' Ninja First Mission'' will certain come up trumps. This book never has they find a slow moment. But even as huge waste ground in the story races along at breakneck speedshadow of a derelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, there is plenty even though they have to think about as welldrag Izzy's younger brother with them. This book has as much The following day they all want to offer the deep thinker return, as does the adrenaline junky. Tatabrother's schoolfriend, despite – and of course because of – there is a young Ninja huge wolf living in training, is desperate to prove himself. He has failed the test for his black belt three times, but this was just a simple testsite. The sacred scrolls of his clan have been stolen, and all of Can the fully fledged Ninja but one are away on another mission. Tata faces another test, but this time children survive living in the stakes are life and deathurban wilderness, not only for himself, but for his clan. In order to succeed Tata must learn to find victory in failure. Most of all he must learn to believe in himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842999397</amazonuk>alongside such obvious dangers?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jennings Different|title=Football CrazyA Different Dog|author=Tony Bradman Paul Jennings and Michael BroadGeoff Kelly|rating=4.5

|summary=''Football Crazy'' Our hero is about a group of friends who play on the worst team 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 league. It can be difficult when your team loses every time you go on two of them warm, he wants the pitch, but Danny, Jamil prize offered by a down-a-mountain-and Lewis love the sport -back-up-and they stick with it - win or losedown-again foot race. They keep hoping Winning the next game will be race and the game large purse would also give him more status in which they finally win, or at least get on the scoreboardeyes of those kids that bully him, but and it never happens - not as long as Mr Perkins might even give him a voice – for he is coachingalmost mute. When We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the coach finally packs motivation, and can only speak aloud to himself – and, so it in - it looks like curtains for Rovers FC. Butturns out, luck seems to be on the children's side when a new coach, Jock Ramsay, with some history in the pro leagues is found. The new coach is tough, but dog he rescues from a bad road accident he quickly gets finds on his way up the team into shape and hill to 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 to take a dive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122121</amazonuk>line…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dawson_Grave|title=Secret FCGrave Matter|author=Tom PalmerJuno Dawson and Alex T Smith|rating=34.5

|summary=Unlike many childrenSince Eliza died, Lily, Zack and Khan can't wait for since the school year to begin. They live in an overcrowded part night of London with no room for outdoor sports and the school ground car crash that took her life, Sam is the only place they can enjoy a friendly game of footballbroken soul. But their hopes for He is lost without the new term are dashed when girl he loves, feeling as though a new Head Teacher decides ball sports are part of him died that night too dangerous for children. Surprisingly, with an overly safety-conscious Head, while football But he is prohibited there is a wooded waste ground inside the school grounds - which just happens to be the perfect spot for the children to clear desperate and create their own football pitchhe cannot live without Eliza. But will they He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to keep help him. However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the secret? Or will Mr Edwards blow the final whistle on all of their sports? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122415</amazonuk>Milk Man, which causes Sam 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.

{{newreview|title=Samurai|author=Ian Beck and Daniel Atanasov|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=The hero of our story is nameless. He is only the Samurai, and not even quite that. He is dishonoured, a masterless Samurai, or Ronin. We do not know his master's fate but we can only assume it is death, and 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 Move on 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 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 failure. He rises from despair to help others, first to defeat a demon haunting the palace, and then undertaking a journey to find and defeat another deadly demon. Soon 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 curse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122202</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Dystopian Fiction Reviews]]