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|summary=Clare didn't enjoy the journey down Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to Devonbe a fashion designer. Her parents always argued and it was usually because Mum had lost her way or got caught Life in a traffic jam and this time the rural village where she'd done both. It lived with her family was a little better happy, if not prosperous, so when they got the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to Aunt Dora's house, but Aunt Dora wasn't exactly offer Hahn a peacemaker and tended job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to stick up for Dad against everybody elsebe missed. The holiday improved when Clare got out for a walk on her own Some money changed hands and discovered a stray lamb Hanh was on the roadmini-bus to Hanoi. She took it Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the nearest house ones with intricate embroidery and Mr Jones was delighted: Clare had just saved half his flock. beading on the legs? Clare got on The ones with the old man artfully- placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and with his horse, Captainher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124353</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Rosen and Richard WatsonMarcus Sedgwick|title=Mad in the BackWrath|rating=34.5|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=Mum Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is setting off on a long car journey only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with two kids whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in the back - did I hear you groan? Mum groaned too because she ''knew'' what was going it when he talks to happenhis best friend, Cassie. She told They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the kids before enigmatic – saying she set off that they had to behave because she couldn't drive properly if the kids were going ''mad in could hear a subhuman hum coming from the back''earth. The kids told Is this connected with one of her not to worry eco- and off they went. Then warrior parents saying the kids started ''The Moaning''. Every parent will know exactly what this means: requests for drink, food, windows open... Then end of the squabbling starts: accusations that world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she''HE'' has got my book, ears are bitten by ''HER''. Mum tries diversionary tactics: ''look s dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out of the window - theretruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can's a lamp-post''. (Yes MUm - we know desperation when we hear itt.) And it gets worse. And worse. Then Mum snaps.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125090</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen McCombieLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=Honey and MeThe Mermaid in the Millpond

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Most girls starting out Brook City School are hoping for something new and different, but Kirsten just wants things to There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be ''normal''. Even good things seem to come with a sting friend for her in amongst all the tail and worst of allother kids, Mum and Dad are really not getting on. In fact Kirsten is happiest at school and does all who have had their entire childhoods sold to the aftermill-school activities she can manage just owners by the London workhouse they used to keep away from call home for as long as she can. Her elder brother, Finn, who's at sixth form college, Bess knows there is struggling too: what used no time for friendship in a hand-to be thought -mouth, every man for himself kind of as ''cheeky'' at school has turned into ''disruptive''existence. When things get really bad Kirsten is suddenly reminded But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her old friend Honey about betrayal and wonders if she can get how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in touch with herthe tired-out mill workers.But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124752</amazonuk>180090049X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michelle Magorian and Sam UsherKeith Gray|title= SmileThe Climbers|rating= 54|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary= Josh Sully is tired, fed up and feeling put out and ignoredthe best tree climber in the village. No, he isn't having a tantrum – something big He has happened (well, two things actually) and his world has turned upside down. You see what's known amongst the kids as 'The Howlerreach'' has arrived and everything has changed and not. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, so farcalled Nottingham, for who clambers up some of the better. Baby brother Charlie hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is just seventeen days old being threatened, and is not only taking up all of that, that his parents' timechance to name the final, but also stopping everyone unnamed big tree in the house park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from getting enough sleep with his constant howlinghands. Will the crying 'ever' How can Sully stopNottingham? And there's worse because the really terrible thing is the baby's arrival meant a very special event had will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to be cancelled. do so?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125007</amazonuk>1781129991

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

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=It's the third story Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in the . Her family don''Rugby Academy'' series t have enough money to let her do after school activities, and so far we've heard from Woody in [[Rugby Academy: Combat Zone by Tom Palmer|Combat Zone]] and Rory she feels like her life at home is boring in [[Rugby Academy: Surface comparison to Air by Tom Palmer|Surface theirs. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to Air]]. In thispartner her, but things are complicated because the final book new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school in this brilliant seriesperson. Instead, we hear from Owen. We left she joins in with the team at the end of ''Surface to Air'' when Borderlands had got through to the World Championship in New Zealandclass by using a robot. Despite Can Anna overcome the elation challenge of doing so Owen isn't entirely comfortable making friends with Jessesomeone through a robot, the team captain. He has no doubts that he was and is she even interesting enough to be a brilliant player - the best on the team - but he can't respect him as a person.good friend to Ellie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123993</amazonuk>1781129649

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy HopkinsEmma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=Mum Never Did Learn to KnockThe Ghost Garden|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=#People are worrying about Emily: her Dad and Fran, the staff at school are all worried that shegardener's spending daughter at a lot of time talking to her Mumposh country house, is worried. You might think that thereShe's nothing wrong with that just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - in fact that it's entirely commendable and young people ought to spend more time talking to their parents - but Emily's Mum died a few months agolarge bone, buried under the potatoes. Emily has reached the stage of But she''hiding'' the fact that Mum appears to her in very real form, perhaps just a little bit ''ghostly'', but then you wouldn't expect her to look just like she was s even more worried when she was alive, now would you? At school she's sent to see a counsellorlearns that that event coincided with Leo, but it doesn't go quite the way that older child of the counsellor was expecting... particularly when Emily asked where people go when they die and house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the ultimate 'what comes after space?'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124957</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Melvin Burgess|title=Persist|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=When we first meet Marianne she's confusedlawn. People keep coming and looking at her, but they don't seem She is due to see ''her''. She wonders if get even more worried when she's finds something shiny, such as else that also seems to foretell a mirrorsurprise. Her family are desperate: Marianne has been Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in a coma for so long that even his bathchair, she might have reason to be out of her mother is beginning to doubt that she can surface from wherever mind with fear, when she learns what he isseeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. The doctors are sure But surely that therewon's no hope for t act as a premonition to anything - not here in the girl and they're talking about switching off the machines which are keeping her alivesultry, allowing her to fade away painlessly... It all comes to a head on Marianne's fifteenth birthday.summery days of 1914?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124949</amazonuk>1781129002

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris Priestley and Vladimir Stankovic Alex Wheatle|title=The Wickford DoomHumiliations of Welton Blake|rating=2.5

|summary=Following Harry’s father’s death We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in the warregards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he 's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in response, and the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale he's living with his mother learn and not much income now that they’ve inherited a bequest from a relative. When the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they arrive 're resorting to claim ithaving cabbage for dinner. I know, thoughright? But surely this is just a blip, they find that they’ve been the victims of a dying man’s last cruel prank. But there are local tales of missing children day at school to forget, and a strange painting called everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the Doom, and Harry quickly learns that there may wash? This can't be something far more evil than the start of a nasty joke to worry about. Can he fight back against itmost nightmarish time for young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124094</amazonuk>1781129495

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malorie Blackman178112938X|title=Robot GirlSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|summary=Claire is excited and sheIt's ''nagging'' her mother to tell her what her father has been doing fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in his laboratoryFlorida, but her mother is no wiser than she is and tells Claire the story of that she will simply have to wait until her father is ready to show her what he's been doingjourney remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. He's 'Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a famous inventor and Claire knows that whatever it is will be exciting. For now all she can do is to tell her pen friend - and be patientbrilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124590</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer1781129312|title=Rugby Academy: Surface to AirSequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)

|summary=We first met Rory in [[Rugby Academy: Combat Zone by Tom Palmer|Combat Zone]] when circumstances forced him Sequin loved her mum to go to Broadlands Boarding School when both his parents were posted abroad by the RAFbits, but sometimes she got very cross with her. It wasn't his choice that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - I mean they played ''rugby'' rather than his beloved football Sequin coped with that - but it wasn't long before he discovered that not only was because she never pushed to get credit for what she did he enjoy rugby, he was rather good at it. It was also something Mum is a seamstress and she makes the sort of a relief to be clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. She's not the designer - they're the people who make a school where there were other boys in a similar situation to himselflot of money from the clothes. By Mum is the person who actually ''makes'' the time that we meet Rory again time has moved on garments and heshe's on his way to Toulon to play in an international schools rugby tournamentreally talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barbro Lindgren and Eva ErikssonTanya Landman|title=Max's WagonJane Eyre: a Retelling

|genre=For SharingDyslexia Friendly|summary=Max had a wagon and he began putting his treasures into it. First it was his bearA young woman, then the dogfresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, who was asleep on the chair and looking decidedly disinterested years in what was going ona dreary school, but he played his part. Then it was Max's ball moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – and the contents begin with only one job, to seem just tutor a little ''precarious'' and were even more so when Max's car was added to the pileyoung half-French girl, but bear sat astride Dog and Max pushed the wagon whilst holding the car on top of the ball with the otherwhose father is almost always absent. Then When he does turn up he added his cookie seems to be dark, brooding and Dog began troubled – but that's nothing compared to look just the tiniest bit ''distracted'' darker, more broody and bear fell out. Dog got bear and brought him back and he did the same when the car and the ball fell off the wagon (even more troubling secret in the literal sense of the phrase)house. Then Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the cookie fell out..rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn to.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1776570014</amazonuk>1781129126

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frank Cottrell Boyce1781128952|title=DesirableThe Starlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James|rating=4.5

|summary=Poor GeorgeThis is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. He knows When one of his clients demands that he his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved and is not popular but when even his own Grandad doesn't want only too ready to stay around for his birthday party he realises that things are even worse than he thoughthelp. However this was before he discovered the contents An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of the present from his Grandad drab attic workroom and experienced into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the dramatic impact on his life an aged bottle of aftershave would bring. Although George tries planet never before known to think himself invisible in order to cope today he is not invisibleexist. In fact he is not only visible but desirable too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124248</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128693|title=Good Dog Lion (Little Gems)Special Delivery|author=Alexander McCall SmithJonathan Meres|rating=54

|summary=Being a firm fan of Alexander McCall Smith's novels for adultsHow do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, I wasnbut when the problem is the brain which isn't surprised functioning quite as it used to find that I thoroughly enjoyed this childrenit isn's storyt as easy to grasp. Written with the same gentle understanding of human nature, Frank was a normal nine-year-old and so very deftly told, I read this story with like many nine-year-olds what he wanted was a great deal of pleasurenew bike. Although the story behind TimoHe's life is rather sad, with d had his father leaving him for about seventy-eight years and his mother when Timo is only young, and his mother then struggling to find enough money he didn't want to raise both of them, it never descends into tragedy but remains positive and upbeatthe seat any more. ItMum pointed out that it wasn's t his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a story lot of strengthmoney, and bravery, and Iwhich didn'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 save up the money for a bike AND he had to get up at six o'm not just talking about Timo and his motherclock in the morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123721</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer1781128707|title=Rugby Academy: Combat ZoneThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Vivian French

|summary=Woody's dreams were about football: he wanted Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to play for his country one win the 100 metres race on sports day, but there at the end of term - and that was a snagnext week. His father was a fighter pilot - and his squadron was We're going to war - but as Dad was a single parent Woody had to go to a boarding school for armed forces kids. Thatread about what happened in her diary, although there's enough of a change for any boywarning that we really shouldn't be reading it, but thereparticularly as it's an even bigger one which Woody has to contend withabout Barbie Meek. At Borderlands they To say that the two girls don't play footballget on at all well is a bit of an understatement. They're ''mad'Suzi wouldn' t actually do anything about rugby. It's almost it, but Barbie is a religion. How will Woody cope with boarding schools ''troublemaker and'' rugby? How will he manage she wants to win the constant knowledge that his father is in a combat zone?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123977</amazonuk>100 metres race too - by fair means or foul.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen McCombie1949471004|title=The Girl With The Sunshine SmileDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=54

|summary=Everyone knew Meg as What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the girl with book might not be the sunshine smile. She always looked ''pretty'ones you' ve been working on and ''happy'' and her mother used her in her business to model bridesmaid's dresses. They had encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a lovely little flat which was always neat as negative effect on the young dyslexic than a new pin and Meg thought child without that life was perfectproblem. Then her mother met Danny - and everything changed. Danny was the single father You need to be able to four boys and they all lived buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on a houseboat. A messy houseboat. With no lock what you've been working on , without anything else being thrown into the bathroom doormix. And when there was You need a flood at Mum's flat they had to move in with Danny story which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the four boyslearning process without there being any large jumps. That was when Meg stopped smilingSome online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124035</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Wolfman|author=Michael Rosen Reading - and Chris Mould|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=People are panicking. The police are afraid. The army have run away''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. Who or what could possibly It should be so scary? It’s Wolf Man. And he’s on the loose''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123748</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128510|title=Freddy and the PigOne Shot|author=Charlie Higson and Mark ChambersTanya Landman

|summary=Ten year old Matthew Buzzington was less than impressed when his father got a new, high-powered job ''Pa and they had to move to I understood each other. Our souls were cut from the big city like IMMEDIATELYsame cloth. It meant a new school'' But Pa has since died, complete with a bully called Pineapple Johnsonleaving Maggie very much alone in her family. (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 She was the only one problem. It of three children who looked like him, and none of the others acted like him, and certainly, his wife didn't workseem to fully understand him. No matter how hard he triedMaggie might as well be reliving the Cinderella story, no matter how he concentrated on thinking himself into being a fly, he was still a ten-year-old boy stuck with curly hair two siblings and he was getting bulliedmother that are fully against her. Then everything changed one But at least she can sneak out at night when Matthew, his four-year-old sister Bella and Pineapple Johnson were accidentally locked in shoot some game to stop them from starving? Well, no, not where her mother is concerned – the school one night. And burglars broke invery idea of a female shooting things, when they could be preparing for a life of unhappy married drudgery, is just scandalous. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124140</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Ure178112843X|title=Star for a DayLark|author=Anthony McGowan

|summary=Lucy French (Luce to her grandad) I'll warn you first. This is thirteen the fourth and she lives with said Grandad, Mum - last story about Nicky and eleven-year-old LolaKenny. Lola's the one who gets all the attention, is able Try not to loosen Mum's purse strings with a pout of her lip and who was upset when she only got Highly Commended in last year's Talent Show. This year she will, of course, require a ''completely'cry before you' new outfit and the undivided attention of ve even read the family - and that not long after she's had a new outfit to go to a party. Lola is gorgeous, bubbly and brims over with confidencefirst page.

Lucy isnThings 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's girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, Nicky and Kenny plan a day out, trekking across the moors. But it doesn'tgo to plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, in terrible danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123586</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Oldfield1786697173|title=Bright StarMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Sally Gardner

|summary=Morgan was just thirteen when 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 mermaid and comes to visit regularly, although she was sent to her aunt's ranch still lives in the Rockies for sea. Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, about the summer. It was all circus owned by a bit alien tiger and whether it would ever come to her - I mean she was island and secondly, about a city girl magical ice cream made from Chicago the berries of the Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true. And then Mr Tiger and she was going to have to get on with ''horses''his circus arrive. It's not long though before she realises that she has And a real affinity with horses and ponies and develops a special bond with a terrified wild mustangjourney is planned.. It's Morgan who rescues the animal when it's trapped in barbed wire and calms it sufficiently to bring it into shelter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123756</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Nicholls1781128286|title=Shadow GirlRun Wild|author=Gill Lewis

|summary=One of Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from the local attempt at a skatepark, they find a huge waste ground in the disadvantages shadow of the foster care system is that some children get moved around rather a lot and usually itderelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, even though they have to drag Izzy's not down to younger brother with them. But because of this it's easy The following day they all want to see making friends return, as being a wasted effort and this was certainly Claredoes the brother's opinion. By the age schoolfriend, despite – and of course because of fourteen she was at her third secondary school - and after being – there for two months she hated itis a huge wolf living in the site. Everyone else had been there for years and they all had friends: Clare had no one. A very bad day saw her being evicted from Can the children survive living in the school bus and then getting lost as she tried to find her way home. The good thing was that she met Maddy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123136</amazonuk>urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline LawrenceJennings Different|title=The Night RaidA Different Dog|author=Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly

|summary=The Trojan War Our hero is over 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 few survivors have to find somewhere else to livetwo of them warm, he wants the prize offered by a down-a-mountain-and-back-up-and-down-again foot race. Rye Winning the race and Nisus - barely the large purse would also give him more than children at status in the end eyes of those kids that bully him, and it might even give him a voice – for he is almost mute. We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the war motivation, and both with their own burden of guilt can only speak aloud to himself – and horror - are obsessed by , so it turns out, to a dog he rescues from a bad road accident he finds on his way up the need hill to seek vengeance and protect the land on which they have now settled.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123667</amazonuk>start line…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dawson_Grave|title=The Moonshine Dragon (Little Gems)Grave Matter|author=Cornelia FunkeJuno Dawson and Alex T Smith

|summary=What happens when stories escape from books? One moonlit Since Eliza died, since the night Patrick of the car crash that took her life, Sam is a broken soul. He is woken up by lost without the noise girl he loves, feeling as though a part of a tiny dragon emerging from him died that night too. But he is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his storybook estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and chased by an equally tiny knight on horsebackwonders if she might be able to help him. Suddenly Patrick finds himself shrunk However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to story book size too and 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 and the dragon find themselves under attackbargained for. Can Patrick save them both before time runs out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123535</amazonuk>