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[[Category:New Reviews|Dyslexia Friendly]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eoin Colfer and Victor Ambrus1800901232|title=The Seal's Fate (Colour Conker) Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45
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|summary=Bobby Parrish was reluctant Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to admit that be a fashion designer. Life in the seal rural village where she lived with her family was cutehappy, if not prosperous, even to himself. That sort of thing was for girls so when the smartly-dressed man and he was here woman came to club the seal. Seals were affecting his father's livelihood as village to offer Hahn a fisherman and there was a bounty of a £1 for a seal's flipper: job in those days that Hanoi it was good an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and even one of Hanh was on the girls had collected the cashmini-bus to Hanoi. StillOnly, somehow he couldn't quite bring himself Hanh and the other girls were not going to attack the defenceless cubwork in a shop, all big, black, round eyes and obviously unworried by his presencethey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. What would You know those jeans you really wanted: the other lads say thoughones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? More to The ones with the point, what would his father sayartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124310</amazonuk> It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo and Catherine RaynerMarcus Sedgwick|title=Clare and Her Captain (Colour Conker)Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Clare didn't enjoy the journey down to DevonMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Her parents always argued and it was usually because Mum had lost her way or got caught in a traffic jam Lockdown is only just over, and this time she'd done both. It was a little better when they got he should be free to Aunt Dora's housedo what he wants, but Aunt Dora wasn't exactly a peacemaker and tended to stick up for Dad against everybody else. The holiday improved when Clare got out for a walk on her own go where he wants and discovered a stray lamb on the road. She took with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to the nearest house and Mr Jones was delighted: Clare had just saved half his flock. Clare got on with the old man - and with his horsebest friend, CaptainCassie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124353</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael Rosen and Richard Watson|title=Mad in the Back|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Mum is setting off on They were half of a long car journey with two kids in the back - did I hear you groan? Mum groaned too because she ''knew'' what desultory school band, but Cassie was going to happen. She told 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 could hear a subhuman hum coming from the kids were going ''mad in 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 it.) And it gets worset. And worse. Then Mum snaps.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125090</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen McCombieLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=Honey and MeThe Mermaid in the Millpond
|rating=4.5
|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
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{{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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom PalmerLisa Thompson|title=Rugby Academy: DeadlockedThe Small Things
|rating=5
|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
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{{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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris Priestley and Vladimir Stankovic Alex Wheatle|title=The Wickford DoomHumiliations of Welton Blake|rating=2.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malorie Blackman178112938X|title=Robot GirlSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer1781129312|title=Rugby Academy: Surface to AirSequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barbro Lindgren and Eva ErikssonTanya Landman|title=Max's WagonJane Eyre: a Retelling
|rating=5
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frank Cottrell Boyce1781128952|title=DesirableThe Starlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128693|title=Good Dog Lion (Little Gems)Special Delivery|author=Alexander McCall SmithJonathan Meres|rating=54
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer1781128707|title=Rugby Academy: Combat ZoneThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Vivian French
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen McCombie1949471004|title=The Girl With The Sunshine SmileDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=54
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|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 girl with sounds in the sunshine smilebook might not be the ones you'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. She always looked ''pretty'' and ''happy'' and her mother used her in her business You need to be able to model bridesmaidbuy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you's dressesve been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. They had You need a lovely little flat story which was always neat as a new pin engages the young mind and Meg thought that life was perfectyou need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. Then her mother met Danny - Some online support and everything changedgames wouldn't go amiss, either. Danny was the single father Reading - and ''learning'' to four boys and they all lived on read - should be a houseboatpleasure. A messy houseboat. With no lock on the bathroom door. And when there was a flood at MumIt should be ''fun''s flat they had to move in with Danny and the four boys. That was when Meg stopped smiling.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124035</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128510|title=WolfmanOne Shot|author=Michael Rosen and Chris MouldTanya Landman
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingDyslexia Friendly|summary=People are panicking''Pa and I understood each other. Our souls were cut from the same cloth. The police are afraid'' But Pa has since died, leaving Maggie very much alone in her family. The army have run awayShe 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. Who or what could possibly Maggie might as well be so scaryreliving the Cinderella story, stuck with two siblings and mother that are fully against her. But at least she can sneak out at night, and shoot some game to stop them from starving? It’s Wolf Man. And he’s on Well, no, not where her mother is concerned – the loosevery idea of a female shooting things, when they could be preparing for a life of unhappy married drudgery, is just scandalous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123748</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Freddy and the Pig178112843X|authortitle=Charlie Higson and Mark Chambers|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When Freddy send a pig to school in his place, wearing his school uniform and not looking entirely dissimilar to him, he thinks he's hit upon the perfect plan! The pig can work all day in school whilst he stays at home and plays his console game and eats and eats, and no one will ever know!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112373X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLark|author=Andy Stanton|title=The Story of Matthew BuzzingtonAnthony McGowan
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Ten year old Matthew Buzzington was less than impressed when his father got a new, high-powered job I'll warn you first. This is the fourth and last story about Nicky and they had to move Kenny. Try not to cry before you've even read the big city like IMMEDIATELYfirst page. It meant a new school, complete with a bully called Pineapple Johnson. (No. Sorry. You'll  Things have to find out got tense at home - again - for yourselfNicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny.) Matthew held on Their mum is coming to one fact though visit - he knew that he had the mum who abandoned them a superpowerlong time ago. He could turn himself into They haven't seen her for years and the impending visit is stirring up a flylot of uncomfortable feelings. ThereAnd Nicky's only one problem. It didn't workgirlfriend has ended things. No matter how hard he triedTo take their minds off it all, no matter how he concentrated on thinking himself into being Nicky and Kenny plan a flyday out, he was still a ten-yeartrekking across the moors. But it doesn't go to plan and an accident puts both boys -old boy with curly hair and he was getting bullied. Then everything changed one night when Matthewtheir dog, Tina, his four-year-old sister Bella and Pineapple Johnson were accidentally locked in the school one night. And burglars broke interrible danger. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124140</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Ure1786697173|title=Star for a DayMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Sally Gardner
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Lucy French (Luce to her grandad) is thirteen and she Betsy K Glory lives with said Grandada rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, Mum - and eleven-year-old LolaAlonso, makes the most wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Lola's the one who gets all the attentionHer mother, Myrtle, is able to loosen Mum's purse strings with a pout of her lip mermaid and who was upset when comes to visit regularly, although she only got Highly Commended still lives in last year's Talent Showthe sea. This year she will, Betsy dreams of coursetwo things: firstly, require about the circus owned by a ''completely'' new outfit tiger and whether it would ever come to her island and secondly, about a magical ice cream made from the undivided attention berries of the family - and that not long after she's had a new outfit to go to a partyGongalong bush. Lola is gorgeous, bubbly and brims over with confidenceOne scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true.
Lucy isn't - And then Mr Tiger and doesn'this circus arrive. And a journey is planned...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123586</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Oldfield1781128286|title=Bright StarRun Wild|author=Gill Lewis
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Morgan was just thirteen when she was sent to her aunt's ranch Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from the local attempt at a skatepark, they find a huge waste ground in the Rockies for the summer. It was all shadow of a bit alien to her - I mean she was a city girl from Chicago and she was going derelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, even though they have to get on drag Izzy's younger brother with ''horses''them. ItThe following day they all want to return, as does the brother's not long though before she realises that she has a real affinity with horses schoolfriend, despite – and ponies and develops of course because of – there is a special bond with a terrified wild mustanghuge wolf living in the site. It's Morgan who rescues Can the animal when it's trapped children survive living in barbed wire and calms it sufficiently to bring it into shelter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123756</amazonuk>the urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally NichollsJennings Different|title=Shadow GirlA Different Dog|author=Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=One of 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 disadvantages two of them warm, he wants the foster care system is that some children get moved around rather prize offered by a down-a lot -mountain-and usually it's not -back-up-and-down to them-again foot race. But because of this it's easy to see making friends as being a wasted effort Winning the race and this was certainly Clare's opinion. By the age large purse would also give him more status in the eyes of fourteen she was at her third secondary school - those kids that bully him, and after being there for two months she hated it. Everyone else had been there might even give him a voice – for years and they all had friends: Clare had no onehe is almost mute. A very bad day saw her being evicted from We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the school bus motivation, and then getting lost as she tried can only speak aloud to find her himself – and, so it turns out, to a dog he rescues from a bad road accident he finds on his way home. The good thing was that she met Maddy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123136</amazonuk>up the hill to the start line…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline LawrenceDawson_Grave|title=The Night RaidGrave Matter|author=Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=The Trojan War Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took her life, Sam is a broken soul. He is over lost without the girl he loves, feeling as though a part of him died that night too. But he is desperate and the few survivors have to find somewhere else to he cannot livewithout Eliza. Rye and Nisus - barely more than children at the end of the war He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and both with their own burden of guilt her peculiar healing powers and horror - are obsessed by the need wonders if she might be able to help him. However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to seek vengeance and protect discover the land on Milk Man, which they have now settledcauses 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123667</amazonuk>
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