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[[Category:New Reviews|Dyslexia Friendly]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|author= Tony Bradman and Tom Morgan<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-Jones|title= The Boy and the Globe|rating= 4|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= This lively and enjoyable story is set in early seventeenth century London where young orphan Toby Cuffe is living on the streets where life is hard. In order to survive, the resourceful Toby joins the gang of boys who work for Moll Cut-Purse as thieves. Moll sends Toby to the Globe Theatre to do some pickpocketing where Toby becomes so engrossed in the play being performed that he forgets about his own safety. Caught by the theatre's owners Toby meets the writer of the play he has just seen performed, the famous playwright William Shakespeare. Then our young hero is given an opportunity that he had not expected. Toby is full of enthusiasm for the theatre and rekindles the Bard's enthusiasm too so that together they team up to save the threatened theatre.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125031</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Beck1800901232|title=Grey Island Red BoatStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Princess Opal Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her fatherfamily was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the king, village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the Island of Ashesmini-bus to Hanoi. It was Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a grey islandshop, set they were to work in a grey sea and Opal lived virtual slavery in a grey castle surrounded by a cold grey moatan illegal garment factory. The gardens were grey You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and so were beading on the trees and flowers. legs? Princess Opal even sat on a grey granite throne in a grey granite room The ones with the artfully- placed rips and she wished distressed seams that her life could be different. felt so soft when you touched them? She couldnIt't help but think s quite possible that something was missingHanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112521X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo and Sam UsherMarcus Sedgwick|title=We Are Not FROGS!Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=After the storm the frogs Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and the toads all came out onto the lawn he should be free to do what he wants, to play long jump. This was the frogs' choice as they could jump further go where he wants and the toads just wanted an easy lifewith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. But - through a series They were half of unfortunate incidents involving lorries, dogs, children, a cart and an ice cream containerdesultory school band, first but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the toads ended up in the ice cream container and after they sold the frogs down the river in exchange for being put into enigmatic – saying she could hear a muddy ditch, subhuman hum coming from the frogs earth. Is this connected with one of her eco- all twenty two warrior parents saying the end of them - were in the same prison and world is already a done deal? Is it was only thanks to Mutt some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the dog that they escapedtruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125120</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LawrenceLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=Queen of The Mermaid in the Silver ArrowMillpond

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=King Metabus had not been There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a good king and his escape from his kingdom was hurried and pursued. When he reached friend for her in amongst all the river he other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to make a decision and he thought first of the safety of mill-owners by the baby daughter he carried London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in his arms and tied her a hand-to his javelin-mouth, which he threw across every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the torrentslight little Dot, pledging as he did so and despite everything that he would serve the Goddess Diana. Camilla should have grown up as a Princess but instead she lived in a cave with life has taught her father about betrayal and ran wild in the forest. In nearby Laurentumhow befriending people only leads to harm, Acca had grown up hearing the story there might be a glimmer of how Camilla giggled as she swung on the javelin embedded companionship in the ground and dreamed of meeting her, but this didntired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't happen until after mean there is any truth in the death existence of Camilla's father, when the girls became firm friends.mermaid?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>180090049X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperKeith Gray|title=A Dark TradeThe Climbers

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Georgina Friday, Sully is the best tree climber in the village. He has what's known to everyone amongst the kids as Gina'reach'. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, grew called Nottingham, who clambers up in an orphanage some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, and when she was sixteen went not only that, that his chance to be a servant is a name the final, unnamed big house tree in central Londonthe park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. There were seven members How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of the his friends, to do so?|isbn=1781129991}}{{Frontpage|author=Lisa Thompson|title=The Small Things|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. Her family don't have enough money to let her do after school activities, and twelve servants - and Gina was the one so she feels like her life at the bottom who had home is boring in comparison to run about after everyone and who was the butt of practical jokestheirs. She could cope with thatWhen a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but what she couldnthings are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't cope attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with was the attentions of one of the young men of the familyclass by using a robot. She'd already heard Can Anna overcome the stories challenge of what had happened making friends with someone through a robot, and is she even interesting enough to another young maid who'd caught his eye - thrown out on the streets be a good friend to fend for herself and her baby - and could see no way of escape from ''him'' other than to run away.Ellie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125163</amazonuk>1781129649

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry DearyEmma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=The Ghost for SaleGarden

|summary=When Mr and Mrs Rundle see an advert It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the paper for a wardrobe for sale, complete with ghost, Mrs Rundle decides story of that they absolutely journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. ''mustSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' have it! They own The Dog and Duck Inn and Mrs Rundle feels that addition is a brilliant retelling of a ghost will add interest to their Inn and bring them customwhat happened. The arrival of the wardrobe certainly shakes things up for the Rundles, though perhaps not in the way they'd imagined!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112518X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1781129312|title=Julian Gough Sequin and Jim FieldStitch|titleauthor=Rabbit Laura Dockrill and Bear: Rabbit's Bad HabbitsSara Ogilvie (illustrator)|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingDyslexia Friendly|summary=When Bear wakes up early from Sequin loved her hibernationmum to bits, but sometimes she decides got very cross with her. It wasn't that if she canmum wouldn't sleep then go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed to get credit for what she might as well do something which did. Mum is a seamstress and shemakes the sort of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. She's always wanted to do not the designer - build they're the people who make a snowmanlot of money from the clothes. ItMum is the person who actually ''makes''s whilst the garments and she's doing this that she meets Rabbitreally talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, who tells her that he's an Expert in Gravitythey talk about the designer. Whatever he The seamstress is, it doesn't seem to make him particularly happy as he never smiles and isn't exactly big on funmentioned. But there are avalanches around as well as hungry wolves and Rabbit soon comes to the conclusion that it's good to have a friend on your side - even if you have just stolen their food.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444929313</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean UreTanya Landman|title=My Dog DaisyJane Eyre: a Retelling|rating=45

|summary=Lily did ''not'' want A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a goldfish. Nor did dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she want a hamster or a cat. She wanted a ''DOG'' wants – and whilst she understood what Mum said about not being able with only one job, to have tutor a dog in the 5th floor flat without a garden she still thought it was unfairyoung half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. After allWhen he does turn up he seems to be dark, when they lived at Granbrooding and troubled – but that's house there was a garden and she could have had a dognothing compared to the darker, but then Mum more broody and Gran had a row and they moved out. She hadn't even seen Gran for three months and she ''missed'' hermore troubling secret in the house. And Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the dog which she couldnrest – but if you don't have. Even Keri, her best friendfor whatever reason, though that she was going on this is a bit about the whole thingwonderful book to turn to.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124965</amazonuk>1781129126

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eoin Colfer and Victor Ambrus1781128952|title=The Seal's Fate (Colour Conker) Starlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James

|summary=Bobby Parrish was reluctant to admit that This is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the seal was cutetale of Hugo, even to an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a living for himselfmending time-travel watches. That sort When one of thing was for girls his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved and he was here is only too ready to club the sealhelp. Seals were affecting An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his father's livelihood as a fisherman drab attic workroom and there was into a bounty scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of a £1 for a seal's flipper: in those days that was good money and even one of the girls had collected the cash. Still, somehow he couldn't quite bring himself planet never before known to attack the defenceless cub, all big, black, round eyes and obviously unworried by his presenceexist. What would the other lads say though? More to the point, what would his father say?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124310</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Catherine Rayner1781128693|title=Clare and Her Captain (Colour Conker)Special Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres

|summary=Clare didn't enjoy the journey down How do you explain to Devon. Her parents always argued and it was usually because Mum had lost her way children about dementia? Injuries or got caught in a traffic jam and this time she'd done both. It was a little better when they got to Aunt Dora's houseillnesses are obvious, but Aunt Dora wasnwhen the problem is the brain which isn't exactly a peacemaker and tended functioning quite as it used to stick up for Dad against everybody else. The holiday improved when Clare got out for a walk on her own and discovered a stray lamb on the road. She took it isn't as easy to the nearest house and Mr Jones was delighted: Clare had just saved half his flockgrasp. Clare got on with the Frank was a normal nine-year-old man and like many nine- and with his horse, Captain.|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 a long car journey with two kids in the back year- did I hear you groan? Mum groaned too because she ''knew'' olds what he wanted was going to happena new bike. She told the kids before she set off that they He'd had to behave because she couldnhis for about seventy-eight years and he didn't drive properly if the kids were going ''mad in the back''. The kids told her not want to worry - and off they went. Then raise the kids started ''The Moaning''seat any more. Every parent will know exactly what this means: requests for drink, food, windows open... Then the squabbling starts: accusations Mum pointed out that it wasn''HE'' has got my bookt his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a lot of money, ears are bitten by ''HER'which didn't grow on trees. Mum tries diversionary tacticsHis sister Lottie had a solution: ''look out of the window - there's a lamp-post''Frank could help her with her paper round. (Yes MUm - we know desperation when we hear Frank agreed despite thinking that it.) And it gets worse. And worse. Then Mum snaps.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125090</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Karen McCombie|title=Honey and Me|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Most girls starting out Brook City School are hoping for something new and different, but Kirsten just wants things would take him a thousand years to be ''normal''. Even good things seem to come with a sting in save up the tail and worst of all, Mum and Dad are really not getting on. In fact Kirsten is happiest at school and does all the after-school activities she can manage just to keep away from home money for as long as she can. Her elder brother, Finn, who's at sixth form college, is struggling too: what used a bike AND he had to be thought of as ''cheeky'' get up at school has turned into ''disruptive'six o'. When things get really bad Kirsten is suddenly reminded of her old friend Honey and wonders if she can get clock in touch with herthe morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124752</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michelle Magorian and Sam Usher1781128707|title= Smile|rating= 5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Josh is tired, fed up and feeling put out and ignored. No, he isn't having a tantrum – something big has happened (well, two things actually) and his world has turned upside down. You see ''The Howler'' has arrived and everything has changed and not, so far, for the better. Baby brother Charlie is just seventeen days old and is not only taking up all Spectacular Revenge of his parents' time, but also stopping everyone in the house from getting enough sleep with his constant howling. Will the crying 'ever' stop? And there's worse because the really terrible thing is the baby's arrival meant a very special event had to be cancelled. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125007</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSuzi Sims|author=Tom Palmer|title=Rugby Academy: DeadlockedVivian French

|summary=It's Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to win the third story in 100 metres race on sports day at the ''Rugby Academy'' series end of term - and so far wethat was next week. We've heard from Woody in [[Rugby Academy: Combat Zone by Tom Palmer|Combat Zone]] and Rory in [[Rugby Academy: Surface re going to Air by Tom Palmer|Surface to Air]]. In this, the final book read about what happened in this brilliant seriesher diary, although there's a warning that we hear from Owenreally shouldn't be reading it, particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. We left To say that the team two girls don't get on at the end all well is a bit of ''Surface to Air'' when Borderlands had got through to the World Championship in New Zealandan understatement. Despite the elation of doing so Owen isnSuzi wouldn't entirely comfortable with Jesseactually do anything about it, the team captain. He has no doubts that he was but Barbie is a brilliant player - troublemaker and she wants to win the best on the team 100 metres race too - but he can't respect him as a personby fair means or foul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123993</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy Hopkins1949471004|title=Mum Never Did Learn to KnockDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|summary=#People are worrying about Emily: her Dad What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the staff at school are all worried wonder that she's spending a lot of time talking to her Mum. is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book might think that there's nothing wrong with that - in fact that itnot be the ones you's entirely commendable ve been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the young people ought to spend more time talking to their parents - but Emily's Mum died dyslexic than a few months agochild without that problem. Emily has reached the stage of ''hiding'' the fact that Mum appears You need to be able to her in very real form, perhaps just buy books at a little bit ''ghostly'reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, but then without anything else being thrown into the mix. You need a story which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't expect her to look just like she was when she was alivego amiss, now would you? either. At school sheReading - and ''learning''s sent to see read - should be a counsellor, but it doesnpleasure. It should be ''t go quite the way that the counsellor was expecting... particularly when Emily asked where people go when they die and the ultimate fun'what comes after space?'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124957</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melvin Burgess1781128510|title=PersistOne Shot|author=Tanya Landman|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet Marianne she's confused'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. People keep coming She was the only one of three children who looked like him, and looking at hernone of the others acted like him, and certainly, but they donhis wife didn't seem to see ''her''fully understand him. She wonders if she's something shinyMaggie might as well be reliving the Cinderella story, such as a mirror. Her family stuck with two siblings and mother that are desperate: Marianne has been in a coma for so long that even fully against her mother is beginning to doubt that . But at least she can surface sneak out at night, and shoot some game to stop them from wherever she starving? Well, no, not where her mother is. The doctors are sure that there's no hope for concerned – the girl and very idea of a female shooting things, when they're talking about switching off the machines which are keeping her alivecould be preparing for a life of unhappy married drudgery, allowing her to fade away painlessly... It all comes to a head on Marianne's fifteenth birthdayis just scandalous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124949</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Priestley and Vladimir Stankovic 178112843X|title=The Wickford DoomLark|author=Anthony McGowan

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Following Harry’s father’s death in 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 war, he first page. Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his mother learn that they’ve inherited learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a bequest from long time ago. They haven't seen her for years and the impending visit is stirring up a relativelot of uncomfortable feelings. When they arrive to claim And Nicky's girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off itall, thoughNicky and Kenny plan a day out, they find that they’ve been trekking across the victims of a dying man’s last cruel prankmoors. But there are local tales of missing children it doesn't go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and a strange painting called the Doomtheir dog, Tina, and Harry quickly learns that there may be something far more evil than a nasty joke to worry aboutin terrible danger. Can he fight back against it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124094</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malorie Blackman1786697173|title=Robot GirlMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Sally Gardner

|summary=Claire is excited and she's ''nagging'' her mother to tell her what her Betsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father has been doing , Alonso, makes the most wonderful ice cream in his laboratoryevery flavour you could imagine. Her mother, Myrtle, but her mother is no wiser than she is a mermaid and tells Claire that comes to visit regularly, although she will simply have to wait until her father is ready to show her what he's been doingstill lives in the sea. He's Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, about the circus owned by a famous inventor tiger and Claire knows that whatever whether it is will be exciting. For now all she can do is would ever come to tell her pen friend - island and be patientsecondly, about a magical ice cream made from the berries of the Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124590</amazonuk>And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. And a journey is planned...

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer1781128286|title=Rugby Academy: Surface to AirRun Wild|author=Gill Lewis

|summary=We first met Rory Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from the local attempt at a skatepark, they find a huge waste ground in [[Rugby Academy: Combat Zone by Tom Palmer|Combat Zone]] when circumstances forced him the shadow of a derelict gasometer to go practise on, which they duly do, even though they have to Broadlands Boarding School when both his parents were posted abroad by the RAFdrag Izzy's younger brother with them. It wasn't his choice - I mean The following day they played all want to return, as does the brother''rugby'' rather than his beloved football - but it wasn't long before he discovered that not only did he enjoy rugbys schoolfriend, he was rather good at it. It was also something despite – and of course because of – there is a relief to be at a school where there were other boys huge wolf living in a similar situation to himselfthe site. By Can the time that we meet Rory again time has moved on and he's on his way to Toulon to play children survive living in an international schools rugby tournament.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123985</amazonuk>the urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbro Lindgren and Eva ErikssonJennings Different|title=Max's Wagon|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Max had a wagon and he began putting his treasures into it. First it was his bear, then the dog, who was asleep on the chair and looking decidedly disinterested in what was going on, but he played his part. Then it was Max's ball and the contents begin to seem just a little ''precarious'' and were even more so when Max's car was added to the pile, but bear sat astride A Different Dog and Max pushed the wagon whilst holding the car on top of the ball with the other. Then he added his cookie and Dog began to look just the tiniest bit ''distracted'' 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 (in the literal sense of the phrase). Then the cookie fell out...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570014</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Frank Cottrell Boyce|title=DesirablePaul Jennings and Geoff Kelly

|summary=Poor GeorgeOur hero is a boy, whose name we never learn. He knows that We know what he is not popular but when wants in life – with his mother exceedingly poor, and even his own Grandad doesn't want bed burnt to stay around for his birthday party keep the two of them warm, he realises 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 things are bully him, and it might even worse than give him a voice – for he thoughtis almost mute. However this was before We quickly learn he discovered the contents of never talks back to anyone, whatever the present from his Grandad motivation, and experienced the dramatic impact on his life an aged bottle of aftershave would bring. Although George tries can only speak aloud to think himself invisible in order – and, so it turns out, to cope today a dog he is not invisible. In fact rescues from a bad road accident he is not only visible but desirable too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124248</amazonuk>finds on his way up the hill to the start line…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dawson_Grave|title=Good Dog Lion (Little Gems)Grave Matter|author=Alexander McCall Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Being a firm fan of Alexander McCall Smith's novels for adults, I wasn't surprised to find that I thoroughly enjoyed this children's story. Written with the same gentle understanding of human nature, and so very deftly told, I read this story with a great deal of pleasure. Although the story behind Timo's life is rather sad, with his father leaving him and his mother when Timo is only young, and his mother then struggling to find enough money to raise both of them, it never descends into tragedy but remains positive and upbeat. It's a story of strength, and bravery, and I'm not just talking about Timo and his mother4.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123721</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Palmer|title=Rugby Academy: Combat Zone|rating=5

|summary=Woody's dreams were about football: Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took her life, Sam is a broken soul. He is lost without the girl he wanted to play for his country one dayloves, but there was feeling as though a snagpart of him died that night too. His father was a fighter pilot - But he is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his squadron was going estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to war - but as Dad was a single parent Woody had help him. However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to go to a boarding school for armed forces kids. That's enough of a change for any boydiscover the Milk Man, but there's an even bigger one which Woody has causes Sam in his grieving state to contend make a pact with. At Borderlands they donforces he doesn't play footballunderstand. They're ''mad'' about rugby. ItThings soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's almost a religionlife in more ways than he bargained for. How will Woody cope with boarding schools ''and'' rugby? How will he manage the constant knowledge that his father is in a combat zone?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123977</amazonuk>