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[[Category:New Reviews|Dyslexia Friendly]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Good Dog Lion (Little Gems)Stitched Up|author=Alexander McCall SmithSteve Cole

|summary=Being Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a firm fan of Alexander McCall Smith's novels for adultsfashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, I wasn't surprised 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 find that I thoroughly enjoyed this children's storybe missed. Written with Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the same gentle understanding of human naturemini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and so very deftly toldthe other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. I read this story You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with a great deal of pleasure. intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? Although The ones with the story behind Timoartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's life quite possible that Hanh and her 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 rather sadonly just over, with his father leaving him and his mother when Timo is only younghe 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 mother then struggling foot in it when he talks to find enough money to raise both his best friend, Cassie. They were half of thema desultory school band, it never descends into tragedy but remains positive and upbeatCassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. ItIs this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's a story dreaming of strength? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=1800900899}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Strange and braveryPam 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 a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess 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 bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and I'm not just talking despite everything that life has taught her about Timo betrayal and his motherhow befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers.But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123721</amazonuk>180090049X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom PalmerKeith Gray|title=Rugby Academy: Combat ZoneThe Climbers|rating=54|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=WoodySully is the best tree climber in the village. He has what's dreams were about football: he wanted to play for 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 country one daystatus is being threatened, but there was a snag. His father was a fighter pilot - and not only that, that his squadron was going chance to war - but as Dad was a single parent Woody had name the final, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to go to a boarding school for armed forces kids. That's enough of a change for any boyconquer it, but there's an even bigger one which Woody has to contend with. At Borderlands they don't play football. They're ''mad'' about rugby. It's almost a religionmight be snatched from his hands. How will Woody cope with boarding schools ''and'' rugbycan Sully stop Nottingham? How And will he manage the constant knowledge that it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his father is in a combat zonefriends, to do so?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123977</amazonuk>1781129991

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen McCombieLisa Thompson|title=The Girl With The Sunshine SmileSmall Things

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Everyone knew Meg as the girl with the sunshine smileAlthough Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. She always looked ''pretty'' and ''happy'Her family don' t have enough money to let her do after school activities, and so she feels like her mother used her life at home is boring in her business comparison to model bridesmaid's dressestheirs. They had a lovely little flat which was always neat as When a new pin and Meg thought that life was perfect. Then girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her mother met Danny - , but things are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and everything changedso can't attend school in person. Danny was Instead, she joins in with the single father to four boys and they all lived on class by using a houseboatrobot. A messy houseboat. With no lock on Can Anna overcome the bathroom door. And when there was challenge of making friends with someone through a robot, and is she even interesting enough to be a flood at Mum's flat they had good friend to move in with Danny and the four boys. That was when Meg stopped smiling.Ellie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124035</amazonuk>1781129649

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=WolfmanEmma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|authortitle=Michael Rosen and Chris MouldThe Ghost Garden

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=People are panickingFran, the gardener's daughter at a posh country house, is worried. She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a large bone, buried under the 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. The police are afraid She is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surprise. The army Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, she might have run away. Who or reason to be out of her mind with fear, when she learns what could possibly be so scary? It’s Wolf Manhe is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. And he’s on But surely that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the loose.sultry, summery days of 1914?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123748</amazonuk>1781129002

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Freddy and the PigAlex Wheatle|authortitle=Charlie Higson and Mark ChambersThe Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating=42.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=When Freddy send We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. He should be getting a pig to text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his placephone has packed up, wearing he's chundered last night's meal and his school uniform breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in response, and not looking entirely dissimilar the wanna-bae seems to him, he thinks actually be with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale he's hit upon living with his mother and not much income now that the perfect plan! dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinner. The pig can work all I know, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day in at school whilst he stays at home to forget, and plays everything (like his console game and eats and eats, and no one vomit) will ever know!all come out in the wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112373X</amazonuk>1781129495

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andy Stanton178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Story of Matthew BuzzingtonApollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|summary=Ten year old Matthew Buzzington was less than impressed when his father got a new, high-powered job and they had to move to the big city like IMMEDIATELY. It meant a new school, complete with a bully called Pineapple Johnson. (No. Sorry. You'll have to find out for yourself.) Matthew held on to one fact though - he knew that he had a superpower. He could turn himself into a fly. There's only one problem. It didn't work. No matter how hard he tried, no matter how he concentrated on thinking himself into being a fly, he fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was still a ten-year-old boy with curly hair and he was getting bullied. Then everything changed one night when Matthewlaunched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, his four-year-old sister Bella and Pineapple Johnson were accidentally locked in but the school story of that journey remains one nightof the greatest survival stories of all time. And burglars broke ''Survival inSpace: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of what happened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124140</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Ure1781129312|title=Star for a DaySequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)

|summary=Lucy French (Luce Sequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with her grandad) . 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 thirteen a seamstress and she lives with said Grandad, Mum - and eleven-year-old Lolamakes the sort of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. LolaShe's not the one designer - they're the people who gets all the attention, is able to loosen Mum's purse strings with make a pout lot of her lip and who was upset when she only got Highly Commended in last year's Talent Showmoney from the clothes. This year she will, of course, require a Mum is the person who actually ''completelymakes'' new outfit and the undivided attention of the family - garments and that not long after she's had a new outfit to go to a partyreally talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. Lola The seamstress is gorgeous, bubbly and brims over with confidence. Lucy isn't - and doesn'tnever mentioned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123586</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny OldfieldTanya Landman|title=Bright StarJane Eyre: a Retelling

|summary=Morgan was just thirteen when she was sent to A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her aunt's ranch , and years in the Rockies for the summer. It was all a bit alien dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to her - I mean have something like the life she was wants – and with only one job, to tutor a city young half-French girl from Chicago and she was going to have to get on with ''horses'', whose father is almost always absent. ItWhen he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but that's not long though before she realises that she has a real affinity with horses nothing compared to the darker, more broody and ponies and develops a special bond with a terrified wild mustangeven more troubling secret in the house. It's Morgan who rescues Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the animal when itrest – but if you don's trapped in barbed wire and calms it sufficiently t, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn to bring it into shelter.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123756</amazonuk>1781129126

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Nicholls1781128952|title=Shadow GirlThe Starlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James|rating=54

|summary=One of This is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the disadvantages tale of the foster care system is that some children get moved around Hugo, an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a lot and usually it's not down to themliving for himself mending time-travel watches. But because When one of this it's easy his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to see making friends as being a wasted effort be solved and this was certainly Clare's opinionis only too ready to help. By the age An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of fourteen she was at her third secondary school - his drab attic workroom and after being there for two months she hated it. Everyone else had been there for years and they all had into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends: Clare had no one. A very bad day saw her being evicted from , exploring regions of the school bus and then getting lost as she tried planet never before known to find her way home. The good thing was that she met Maddyexist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123136</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline Lawrence1781128693|title=The Night RaidSpecial Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres|rating=4.5

|summary=The Trojan War How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when the problem is over and the few survivors have brain which isn't functioning quite as it used to find somewhere else it isn't as easy to livegrasp. Rye Frank was a normal nine-year-old and Nisus like many nine- barely 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 than children at the end . Mum pointed out that it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a lot of the war and both money, which didn't grow on trees. His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her with their own burden of guilt and horror - are obsessed by her paper round. Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a thousand years to save up the need money for a bike AND he had to seek vengeance and protect get up at six o'clock in the land on which they have now settledmorning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123667</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128707|title=The Moonshine Dragon (Little Gems)Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Cornelia FunkeVivian French|rating=4.5

|summary=What happens when stories escape from books? One moonlit night Patrick is woken up by Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to win the 100 metres race on sports day at the noise end of term - and that was next week. We're going to read about what happened in her diary, although there's a warning that we really shouldn't be reading it, particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. To say that the two girls don't get on at all well is a tiny dragon emerging from his storybook and chased by bit of an equally tiny knight on horsebackunderstatement. Suddenly Patrick finds himself shrunk Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, but Barbie is a troublemaker and she wants to story book size win the 100 metres race too and he and the dragon find themselves under attack- by fair means or foul. Can Patrick save them both before time runs out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123535</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Almond and Vladimir Stankovic1949471004|title=Klaus Vogel and the Bad LadsDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|summary=The Bad Lads had been together for years. What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? They were scampsYou can risk buying early readers, mischief makers - lads having but the sounds in the book might not be the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a bit of fun - and they were led by Joe Gillespie who was negative effect on the young dyslexic than a year or two olderchild without that problem. The lads thought that Joe was great but there was You need to be able to buy books at a niggling feeling amongst one or two of reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the boys that he was getting mix. You need a bit more extreme story which engages the young mind and that some of his pranks were actually - deliberately - going to hurt peopleyou need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. The fire at Mr EustaceSome online support and games wouldn's (he was a conchiet go amiss, you see) happened the same week that Klaus Vogel arrived in the town of Fellingeither. The scrawny refugee from East Germany who knew hardly any English would change things for the Bad LadsReading - and ''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122695</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128510|title=Minikid (Little Gems)One Shot|author=Michael MorpurgoTanya Landman|rating=34.5

|summary=There ''Pa and I understood each other. Our souls were cut from the same cloth.'' But Pa has since died, leaving Maggie very much alone in her family. She was the only one of three children who looked like him, and none of the others acted like him, and certainly, his wife didn't seem to fully understand him. Maggie might as well be more reliving the Cinderella story, stuck with two siblings and more books being published, now, mother that are marketing themselves as being dyslexia friendlyfully against her. This Michael Morpurgo story is from Little Gems But at least she can sneak out at night, and it follows the guidelines that make it easier shoot some game to read for children with dyslexia. The paper is a high quality cream paperstop them from starving? Well, so no shadows coming through from , not where her mother is concerned – the other side to distract readers, there's very idea of a special fontfemale shooting things, and there are pictures throughout the story. It's when they could be preparing for a lovely size that fits nicely into small handslife of unhappy married drudgery, with an appealing coveris just scandalous. So far, so good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123527</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer178112843X|title=Over The LineLark|author=Anthony McGowan

|summary=Jack Cock made his debut as a professional footballer for Huddersfield Town and that fragile dream of playing for his country came just a little bit closer, but this was just before the beginning of the First World War, when there was immense pressure on young men to do the honourable thing and join the war to fight in France. ''Over the Line'' is the story of Jack's war, of joining the Footballers' Battalion, playing in the Flanders Cup, fighting in the trenches and not just surviving but being decorated 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'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123934</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Blamehounds (Little Gems)|author=Ross Collins|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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>}} {{newreview|author=Eleanor Updale and Sarah Horne|title=Itch Scritch Scratch|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary='''Warning: This Book Will Get Under Your Skin''' Well, that's what it says on the back of the book and I can promise that it's true. You might like to wear a pair of those cotton mittens for babies whilst ll warn you read. It will feel awkward, but you'll feel the benefit, honestly. But - I'm getting ahead of myself. You want to know about the book. It's a family story - and the family in question are head licefirst.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122946</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Michael Morpurgo and Ross Collins|title=All I Said Was|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Our young friend looked up at This is the window fourth and saw a pigeon balancing on the window sill last story about Nicky and our young friend had a thoughtKenny. ''I'd like Try not to be cry before you,'' he said, dreaming of flying off to anywhere that he liked. The pigeon was quite happy to change places: lying on ve even read the bed reading a book seemed like a good idea, so the two changed placesfirst page. Our young hero thought it was great as he flew off towards the sea:

Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a long time ago. They haven't seen her for years and the impending visit is stirring up a lot of uncomfortable feelings. And Nicky'I want to be s girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, Nicky and Kenny plan a bird all my life'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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123489</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786697173|title=Tilly's PromiseMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Linda NewberySally Gardner

|summary=Tilly often wished things would change 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 the sleepy little village she called homeevery flavour you could imagine. Her mother, but she gets more change than she bargained for when war breaks out. First her sweetheart joins upMyrtle, then Tilly signs on is a nurse mermaid and finally her brother Georgie is called upcomes to visit regularly, despite although she still lives in the fact that he is completely unfit for servicesea. Georgie is differentBetsy dreams of two things: firstly, big and strong but with about the mind of circus owned by a child - how could he possibly survive the horrors of war? So many promises are made, Tilly promises her sweetheart Harry she will wait - Harry assures her he won't be away long - sure tiger and whether it will probably be over by Christmas (famous last words). When Georgie is posted would ever come to Harry's unither island and secondly, Tilly extracts about a somewhat reluctant promise magical ice cream made from him to look after her brother. More promises will be made - but promises are hard to keep in wartime. As Georgie and Harry face the harsh reality berries of life in the trenches, Tilly finds herself near the frontline as a nurseGongalong bush. Everything seems to have changedOne scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true. Will even love remain the same - especially in the aftermath of a broken promise?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122938</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Old Dog, New Tricks|author=Bali Rai|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Nick is a miserable old sod by anyone's definition. His equally mangy dog, Nelson, is the only friend he has, as And then Mr Tiger and his nasty nature puts everyone offcircus arrive. But while he may be unpleasant to most people, he is downright horrible when the Singh family move in, bringing out the worst of his racist views - but can And a man who likes Bob Marley really hate anyone of another colour? Is Nick just an ignorant and offensive old git, or journey is there something more beneath the surface? No one seems to have really bothered to find out before a common love of dogs draws young Harvey Singh to attempt to befriend not only the unkempt dog, but the lonely old man as wellplanned...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123470</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128286|title=The First Third Wish (Little Gems)Run Wild|author=Ian BeckGill Lewis

|summary=This is Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from the local attempt at a skatepark, they find a lovely story huge waste ground in the shadow of a lost wish. Cobweb has bungled her very first assignmentderelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, losing the third wish meant for a kindly woodcuttereven though they have to drag Izzy's younger brother with them. She managed The following day they all want to replace it with a sparereturn, but her job will not be complete until as does the missing wish brother's schoolfriend, despite – and of course because of – there is found and returned. It seems a lost wish is very dangerous indeed as it gives huge wolf living in the finder an unlimited supply of wishes - and not all people are careful what they wish forsite. As luck would have it though, the wish has found its way just to Can the place where it most needed, where it will result children survive living in a true happily ever after, not only for the young man who finds iturban wilderness, but for many others as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122458</amazonuk>alongside such obvious dangers?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jennings Different|title=My Friend's a Gris-Kwok (Little Gems)A Different Dog|author=Malorie Blackman Paul Jennings and Andy RowlandGeoff Kelly

|summary=When Mike discovers that his best friend Alex Our hero is a Gris Kwok or shape shifter it looks like they are in for some real funboy, whose name we never learn. Not only can Alex change into any creature We know what he wantsin life – with his mother exceedingly poor, and even his bed burnt to keep the two of them warm, he can change anyone touching 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 the eyes of those kids that bully him, and it might even give him as wella voice – for he is almost mute. There are only three hitches. The first is that Alex We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the motivation, and can only change three times speak aloud to himself – and, so it turns out, to a dog he rescues from a day. The second is that bad road accident he finds on his sister has way up the same powers. The third is that Alex is babysitting and if you think babysitting ordinary siblings is difficult just wait until you see all hill to the mischief a shape shifting toddler can get into.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112244X</amazonuk>start line…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dawson_Grave|title=Snug (Little Gems)Grave Matter|author=Michael Morpurgo Juno Dawson and Faye HansenAlex T Smith|rating=24.5

|summary=Michael Morpurgo has captured what Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took her life, Sam is like to own a catbroken soul. He is lost without the girl he loves, or perhaps more accurately to be owned by feeling as though a cat, perfectlypart of him died that night too. But he is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza. Snug comes into the family at almost the same time as Lisa He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and the two grow up together her peculiar healing powers and share a special bond. His exploits will wonders if she might be familiar able to any one who has any experience of cats and many children will relate help him. However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to things Snug does just like their own pet. The illustrations discover the Milk Man, which causes Sam in this book are beautiful and certain his grieving state to delight any animal lover, make a pact with forces he doesn't understand. Things soon turn complicated as well as giving readers a nostalgic look at childhoodsupernatural powers start to change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122865</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=The Castle in the Field (Little Gems)|author=Michael Morpurgo and Faye Hansen|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=I think all children love dens. It is almost a primal instinct for children, to find, construct and hide away in huts, dens, 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 a secret den perfectly in this story of three friends who find an abandoned WW2 Pillbox and make it into their own private castle. The children are not really meant to be in the pillbox. It is Move on private property, but they don't really have any place else to go. Two of the children are not allowed to go home until their parents finish work and the third will not leave his best friend out in the weather alone. At first the pillbox is just shelter from a storm, but it soon becomes an embodiment of all the wonder of childhood as the children transform it into a wonderful private retreat. But how long will they be able to keep their special hideout a secret? This is a lovely story with a heart warming theme of friendship, a confrontation with bullies, and the inevitable pangs of growing up.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122873</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Dystopian Fiction Reviews]]