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[[Category:New Reviews|Dyslexia Friendly]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malorie Blackman1800901232|title=Robot GirlStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|summary=Claire is excited and Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she's ''nagging'' lived with her mother family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to tell her what her father has been doing offer Hahn a job in his laboratoryHanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, but her mother is no wiser than she is Hanh and tells Claire that she will simply have the other girls were not going to wait until her father is ready work in a shop, they were to show her what he's been doingwork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. HeYou know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's a famous inventor quite possible that Hanh and Claire knows that whatever it is will be exciting. For now all she can do is to tell her pen friend co- and be patientworkers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124590</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom PalmerMarcus Sedgwick|title=Rugby Academy: Surface to AirWrath|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=We first met Rory in [[Rugby Academy: Combat Zone by Tom Palmer|Combat Zone]] when circumstances forced him to go to Broadlands Boarding School when both his parents were posted abroad by the RAF. It wasn't his choice - I mean they played ''rugby'' rather than his beloved football - but it wasn't long before he discovered that not only did he enjoy rugbyMeet Fitz, he was rather good at it. It was also something a young Scottish lad full of a relief to be frustration at a school where there were other boys in a similar situation to himself. By the time that we meet Rory again time has moved on Lockdown is only just over, and he's on his way should be free to Toulon do what he wants, to play in an international schools rugby tournament.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123985</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Barbro Lindgren and Eva Eriksson|title=Max's Wagon|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Max had a wagon go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he began cannot stop himself from putting his treasures into foot in it. First it was when he talks to his bearbest friend, then the dogCassie. They were half of a desultory school band, who but Cassie was asleep on also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the chair and looking decidedly disinterested in what was going on, but he played his partearth. Then it was Max's ball and Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the contents begin to seem just world is already a little ''precarious'' and were even more so when Maxdone deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's car was added to the pile, but bear sat astride Dog and Max pushed the wagon whilst holding the car on top dreaming of the ball with the other. Then he added his cookie and Dog began to look ? Is she just the tiniest bit ''distracted'' and bear fell bonkers? And can Fitz find out. Dog got bear and brought him back and he did the same truth? Well, not when the car and the ball fell off the wagon (in the literal sense of the phrase). Then the cookie fell outCassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1776570014</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frank Cottrell BoyceLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=DesirableThe Mermaid in the Millpond

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Poor GeorgeThere is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. He 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 that he there is not popular but when even his own Grandad doesn't want no time for friendship in a hand-to stay around -mouth, every man for his birthday party he realises that things are even worse than he thoughthimself kind of existence. However this was before he discovered the contents But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the present from his Grandad slight little Dot, and experienced the dramatic impact on his despite everything that life an aged bottle has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer of aftershave would bring. Although George tries to think himself invisible companionship in order to cope today he is not invisiblethe tired-out mill workers. In fact he But surely that doesn't mean there is not only visible but desirable too!any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124248</amazonuk>180090049X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Good Dog Lion (Little Gems)Keith Gray|authortitle=Alexander McCall SmithThe Climbers|rating=54|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Being a firm fan of Alexander McCall SmithSully is the best tree climber in the village. He has what's novels for adults, I wasnknown amongst the kids as 't surprised to find that I thoroughly enjoyed this childrenreach's story. Written with the same gentle understanding of human natureBut what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, and so very deftly toldcalled Nottingham, I read this story with a great deal who clambers up some of pleasure. Although the story behind Timo's life hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is rather sadbeing threatened, with his father leaving him and his mother when Timo is not only youngthat, and that his mother then struggling chance to find enough money name the final, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to raise both of themconquer it, might be snatched from his hands. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it never descends into tragedy but remains positive and upbeat. It's a story cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of strengthhis friends, and bravery, and I'm not just talking about Timo and his mother.to do so?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123721</amazonuk>1781129991

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom PalmerLisa Thompson|title=Rugby Academy: Combat ZoneThe Small Things

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=WoodyAlthough Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. Her family don's dreams were about football: he wanted t have enough money to play for his country one daylet her do after school activities, but there was a snag. His father was a fighter pilot - and his squadron was going so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to war - but as Dad was theirs. When a single parent Woody had new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to go to a boarding school for armed forces kids. That's enough of a change for any boypartner her, but there's an even bigger one which Woody has to contend with. At Borderlands they donthings are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't play footballattend school in person. They're ''mad'' about rugby. It's almost a religion. How will Woody cope Instead, she joins in with boarding schools ''and'' rugby? How will he manage the constant knowledge that his father is in class by using a combat zone?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123977</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karen McCombie|title=The Girl With The Sunshine Smile|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Everyone knew Meg as robot. Can Anna overcome the girl challenge of making friends with the sunshine smile. She always looked ''pretty'' and ''happy'' and her mother used her in her business to model bridesmaid's dresses. They had someone through a lovely little flat which was always neat as a new pin robot, and Meg thought that life was perfect. Then her mother met Danny - and everything changed. Danny was the single father is she even interesting enough to four boys and they all lived on be a houseboat. A messy houseboat. With no lock on the bathroom door. And when there was 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 I'll warn you first. This is the fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. Try not to cry before you've even read the first page. Things have got tense at home - again - for Huddersfield Town Nicky 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 learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to do visit - the honourable thing and join the war to fight in Francemum who abandoned them a long time ago. They haven''Over t seen her for years and the Line'' impending visit is the story stirring up a lot of Jackuncomfortable feelings. And Nicky's wargirlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, of joining Nicky and Kenny plan a day out, trekking across the Footballersmoors. But it doesn' Battaliont go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, playing in the Flanders CupTina, fighting in the trenches and not just surviving but being decorated for braveryterrible danger. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786697173|title=Blamehounds (Little Gems)Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Ross CollinsSally Gardner

|summary='''WarningBetsy 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 mermaid and comes to visit regularly, although she still lives in the sea. Betsy dreams of two things: This Book Will Get Under Your Skin'''firstly, about the circus owned by a tiger and whether it would ever come to her island and secondly, about a magical ice cream made from the berries of the Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true.

Well, that's what it says on the back of the book And then Mr Tiger and I can promise that it's truehis circus arrive. You might like to wear And a pair of those cotton mittens for babies whilst you readjourney is planned. 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 lice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122946</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Ross Collins1781128286|title=All I Said WasRun Wild|author=Gill Lewis|rating=45

|summary=Our young friend looked up Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from the local attempt at the window and saw a pigeon balancing on skatepark, they find a huge waste ground in the window sill and our young friend had shadow of a thought. ''I'd like derelict gasometer to be youpractise on,'' he saidwhich they duly do, dreaming of flying off even though they have to anywhere that he likeddrag Izzy's younger brother with them. The pigeon was quite happy following day they all want to change places: lying on the bed reading a book seemed like a good ideareturn, so the two changed places. Our young hero thought it was great as he flew off towards does the sea: brother''I want to be s schoolfriend, despite – and of course because of – there is a bird all my life''huge wolf living in the site.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123489</amazonuk>Can the children survive living in the urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jennings Different|title=Tilly's PromiseA Different Dog|author=Linda NewberyPaul Jennings and Geoff Kelly|rating=4.5

|summary=Tilly often wished things would change Our hero is a 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 sleepy little village she called hometwo of them warm, but she gets more change than she bargained for when war breaks out. First her sweetheart joins up, then Tilly signs on he wants the prize offered by a down-a nurse -mountain-and finally her brother Georgie is called -back-up, despite -and-down-again foot race. Winning the fact that he is completely unfit for service. Georgie is different, big race and strong but with the mind of a child - how could he possibly survive large purse would also give him more status in the horrors eyes of war? So many promises are madethose kids that bully him, Tilly promises her sweetheart Harry she will wait - Harry assures her and it might even give him a voice – for he won't be away long - sure it will probably be over by Christmas (famous last words)is almost mute. When Georgie is posted We quickly learn he never talks back to Harry's unitanyone, whatever the motivation, Tilly extracts a somewhat reluctant promise from him to look after her brother. More promises will be made - but promises are hard and can only speak aloud to keep in wartime. As Georgie himself – and Harry face the harsh reality of life in the trenches, Tilly so it turns out, to a dog he rescues from a bad road accident he finds herself near on his way up the frontline as a nurse. Everything seems hill to have changed. Will even love remain the same - especially in the aftermath of a broken promise?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122938</amazonuk>start line…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dawson_Grave|title=Old Dog, New TricksGrave Matter|author=Bali RaiJuno Dawson and Alex T Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=Nick Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took her life, Sam is a miserable old sod by anyone's definitionbroken soul. His equally mangy dog, Nelson, He is lost without the only friend girl he hasloves, feeling as his nasty nature puts everyone offthough a part of him died that night too. But while he may is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be unpleasant able to most peoplehelp him. However, he is downright horrible when finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the Singh family move Milk Man, which causes Sam in, bringing out the worst 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 git, or is there something more beneath the surface? No one seems to have really bothered grieving state to find out before make a common love of dogs draws young Harvey Singh pact with forces he doesn't understand. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to attempt to befriend not only the unkempt dog, but the lonely old man as wellchange Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123470</amazonuk>