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[[Category:New Reviews|Dyslexia Friendly]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Gough and Jim Field1800901232|title=Rabbit and Bear: The Pest in the NestStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Rabbit was strugglingTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. There he Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was having a nicehappy, if not prosperous, peaceful sleep in his friend Bear's cave so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a terrible noise woke himjob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Was it thunder? No, it Some money changed hands and Hanh was Bear snoringon the mini-bus to Hanoi. Very loudlyOnly, 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. Rabbit tried putting his paws over his ears although that's not very successful when You know those jeans you have small paws really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and very big ears. beading on the legs? But there was something good: when Rabbit went outside The ones with the cave he realised artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that spring had sprung. Suddenly he felt ''strong''. so soft when you touched them? After a winter spent in his friend BearIt's cave it was time to go home to his burrow. Only there was a surprise lurking there quite possible that Hanh and her co- and it looked suspiciously like a snakeworkers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934260</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil Earle Marcus Sedgwick|title=Mind The Gap Wrath

|summary=Everyone tells River that Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he's a liar wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he doesn't see cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it that way – as far as River is concerned when he just thinks up interesting stuff talks to fill in the gaps in what he knows. His lies are harmless: unlike the lies that his mum's new boyfriendbest friend, JasonCassie. They were half of a desultory school band, tellsbut Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Jason Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a total fake and River is on a crusade to expose him. However, Riverdone deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's investigation doesndreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't work out as planned. He does uncover a serious deception (involving his biological father and the police) but will anyone believe him?..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126801</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary McKayLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=The Sticky WitchMermaid in the Millpond|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Tom and Ellie's parents have set sail around There is no mermaid in the world on a raft made of rubbish! They tell the children that they millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be gone a friend for three yearsher in amongst all the other kids, but it will go who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by very quickly and the London workhouse they'll be safe and happy used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in the company a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind of Aunt Tabexistence. But who is this strange lady who applied for despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the job of caring for two wonderful children slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and their cathow befriending people only leads to harm, Whiskers? She there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't seem to be mean there is any truth in the kind guardian that existence of the children need, and why is everything in her house so very, very stickymermaid?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125996</amazonuk>180090049X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert SwindellsKeith Gray|title=The First HunterClimbers

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Tan and his family are scavengers - stone age scavengers. When a big cat makes a kill one of the family - Sully is the brand man - dashes best tree climber in and frightens the big cat off its kill with a firy brand and one of the others snatches some of the meat for the familyvillage. If they donHe has what't get s known amongst the meat then itkids as 'reach's down to roots. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, insects or lizards. Some who clambers up some of the family are concerned about Widhardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, who grewand not only that, but that his brain didn't and they don't see why they should hunt for meat chance to keep name the boy alivefinal, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. They're How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all for leaving him of his friends, to the wolves. Tan won't have it and for the moment Wid is safe.do so?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126011</amazonuk>1781129991

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackie MorrisLisa Thompson|title=The White FoxSmall Things

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Sol had Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never been happy really fits in Seattle. It wasnHer family don't just that he was bullied at have enough money to let her do after school: being Inuit he looked ''different'' activities, and that always makes you so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. When a target. Sol's heart was somewhere else - in new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the Arcticnew girl, where he felt he belonged Ellie, is unwell and where he had grandparents whom heso can'd not seen for such t attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with the class by using a long timerobot. Everything changed when his father told him about Can Anna overcome the white Arctic fox which had been seen on the docks challenge of making friends with someone through a robot, and Sol set about finding the fox - and then feeding it. But what would happen is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to the fox when it was trapped? And how would Sol handle the situationEllie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125228</amazonuk>1781129649

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Non PrattEmma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=UnboxedThe Ghost Garden

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=When they were thirteen there had been five of them: AlixFran, Benthe gardener's daughter at a posh country house, Deanis 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, Millie and Zarathe older child of the house, and they had made a promise breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. She is due to return get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to the school where they had hidden foretell a memory box five years latersurprise. Only five years later there are only four Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason to be out of them: Millie had died of stomach cancerher mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. The remaining four are nervous about what they might find But surely that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the box, worried about what their thirteen-year-old selves might reveal about who they are nowsultry, but most summery days of all they're missing Millie.1914?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125856</amazonuk>1781129002

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Steve ColeAlex Wheatle|title= Mind WriterThe Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating= 42.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary= Everyone knows what a mind reader can do and Luke Mellows has this amazing talent, or maybe it is a giftWe meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. He uses this should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to great effect a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal and for his own entertainment. Knowing what breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in response, and the teacher is thinking can wanna-bae seems to actually be incredibly useful with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and can be used not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for amusing classroom anticsdinner. Luke thought it was only him who had I know, right? But surely this giftis just a blip, however when he meets Samira he soon realises that there is one skill that can be even more powerful than his – a mind writer. Being able day at school to change what a person forget, and everything (like his vomit) will think all come out in the wash? This can 't be a powerful and dangerous skill. When the mind reader and mind writer come together Luke soon learns that there is start of a much darker and sinister situation occurring than he could ever have imagined.most nightmarish time for young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112583X</amazonuk>1781129495

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Ure178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Snow GlobeApollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=AbiIt's family's circumstances changed very suddenly. She had been a pupil at a very good girl's school (with a stylish uniform) and went horse riding and to dance classes at fifty years since the weekend. The family home, Apollo 13 mission was spacious and launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in a pleasant neighbourhood. When Florida, but the family business went under they had to sell story of that journey remains one of the house and move to something smallergreatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The horse riding and dance classes went and school was Apollo 13 Mission'' is a big comprehensive - with boys and a dull, grey uniform. Worst brilliant retelling of all she was moving away from her best friend, Jennywhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125945</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tom Palmer1781129312|title= Wings: SpitfireSequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)|rating= 45

|summary= Greg is fed up Sequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with playing in goalher. He reckons things only happen 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 a seamstress and she makes the sort of clothes that you theresee on red carpets or at important weddings. The other players get to She's not the designer - they're the people who make them happena lot of money from the clothes. The summer school isn Mum is the person who actually ''makes't turning out how he'd hoped at all. The old airfield next to the school freaks Greg out … garments and she's really talented, but when he starts on a model of an old Spitfirepeople talk about the dress or the suit, he's propelled into an adventure that will really show him what it means to take control …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125368</amazonuk>they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul DowswellTanya Landman|title= WaveJane Eyre: a Retelling|rating= 5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= WaveA young woman, set fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in WW1a dreary school, tells moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the story of the battle of the Sommelife she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. Although When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but that's nothing compared to the story spans 100 yearsdarker, 1st July 1916 more broody and 1st July 2016, even more troubling secret in the majority of the action takes place during 30minutes between 7am and 7.30am on 1st July 1916house. It follows two brothersYes, Charlie and Eddieif you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, as they prepare for the moment when they are to go over the top, as the first wavewhatever reason, into No Man’s Land. The story this is a poignant, reflective and brutally honest account of the events which lead wonderful book to turn to the biggest casualty rate in one day in the history of the British Army.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125627</amazonuk>1781129126

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen McCombie1781128952|title=The OMG BlogStarlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James

|genre= Dyslexia Friendly |summary= In This is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the first weeks tale of term at Hugo, an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a new secondary school four ''good'' girls find themselves thrown together in detentionliving for himself mending time-travel watches. From this inauspicious beginning When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a firm friendship develops as the girlsmystery to be solved and is only too ready to help. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, encouraged by their teacher to enter which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a blogging competitionscary adventure with some amazing new friends, find that they do have one very important thing in common…their embarrassing mumsexploring regions of the planet never before known to exist. The ''Our Mums Grrr'' blog is born!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malorie Blackman1781128693|title=Peace MakerSpecial Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres|rating=4.5

|summary=Michela Corbin is something of a rebelHow do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but even she understands that everyone must wear a Peace Maker Device all when the time and that it must never be tampered with, as non-aggression is their society's founding principle. The Peace Maker problem is the means by brain which this is enforced, but Michela wants isn't functioning quite as it used to experience the full range of human emotions and the Peace Maker stops that. When her mother captains their ship into enemy airspace and they come under attack it seems that Michelaisn's freedom from the constraints of the Peace Maker might be the only thing that can save themt as easy to grasp.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125619</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tony Bradman Frank was a normal nine-year-old and Tom Morganlike many nine-year-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 hardolds what he wanted was a new bike. In order to survive, the resourceful Toby joins the gang of boys who work He'd had his for Moll Cutabout seventy-Purse as thieves. Moll sends Toby eight years and he didn't want to raise the Globe Theatre to do some pickpocketing where Toby becomes so engrossed in the play being performed seat any more. Mum pointed out that he forgets about it wasn't his own safety. Caught by the theatre's owners Toby meets the writer birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a lot of the play he has just seen performedmoney, the famous playwright William Shakespearewhich didn't grow on trees. Then our young hero is given an opportunity that he His sister Lottie had not expecteda solution: Frank could help her with her paper round. Toby is full of enthusiasm for the theatre and rekindles the Bard's enthusiasm too so Frank agreed despite thinking that together they team it would take him a thousand years to save up the money for a bike AND he had to save get up at six o'clock in the threatened theatremorning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125031</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Beck1781128707|title=Grey Island Red BoatThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Vivian French

|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Princess Opal lived with Suzi Simms loved running and it was her father, ambition to win the king, 100 metres race on sports day at the Island end of Ashesterm - and that was next week. It was We're going to read about what happened in her diary, although there's a grey islandwarning that we really shouldn't be reading it, set in a grey sea and Opal lived in a grey castle surrounded by a cold grey moatparticularly as it's about Barbie Meek. The gardens were grey and so were To say that the trees and flowers. Princess Opal even sat two girls don't get on at all well is a grey granite throne in a grey granite room - and she wished that her life could be differentbit of an understatement. She couldnSuzi wouldn't help actually do anything about it, but think that something was missingBarbie is a troublemaker and she wants to win the 100 metres race too - by fair means or foul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112521X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Sam Usher1949471004|title=We Are Not FROGS!Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|summary=After What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the storm wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the frogs and sounds in the toads all came out onto book might not be the lawn to play long jump. This was the frogsones you' choice as they could jump further ve been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the toads just wanted an easy lifeyoung dyslexic than a child without that problem. But - through You need to be able to buy books at a series of unfortunate incidents involving lorries, dogs, childrenreasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. You need a cart and an ice cream container, first story which engages the toads ended up in the ice cream container young mind and after they sold the frogs down you need stages which progress steadily through the river in exchange for learning process without there being put into a muddy ditchany large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, the frogs - all twenty two of them either. Reading - were in the same prison and it was only thanks ''learning'' to Mutt the dog that they escapedread - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125120</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline Lawrence1781128510|title=Queen of the Silver ArrowOne Shot|author=Tanya Landman

|summary=King Metabus had not been a good king ''Pa and his escape I understood each other. Our souls were cut from his kingdom the same cloth.'' But Pa has since died, leaving Maggie very much alone in her family. She was hurried and pursued. When he reached the river he had to make a decision only one of three children who looked like him, and he thought first none of the safety of the baby daughter he carried in others acted like him, and certainly, his arms and tied her wife didn't seem to his javelin, which he threw across fully understand him. Maggie might as well be reliving the torrentCinderella story, pledging as he did so stuck with two siblings and mother that he would serve the Goddess Dianaare fully against her. Camilla should have grown up as a Princess but instead But at least she lived in a cave with her father can sneak out at night, and ran wild in the forest. In nearby Laurentumshoot some game to stop them from starving? Well, no, Acca had grown up hearing not where her mother is concerned – the story very idea of how Camilla giggled as she swung on the javelin embedded in the ground and dreamed of meeting hera female shooting things, but this didn't happen until after the death when they could be preparing for a life of Camilla's fatherunhappy married drudgery, when the girls became firm friendsis just scandalous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Hooper178112843X|title=A Dark TradeLark|author=Anthony McGowan|rating=45

|summary=Georgina Friday, known to everyone as Gina, grew up in an orphanage and when she was sixteen went to be a servant I'll warn you first. This is a big house in central London. There were seven members of the family fourth and twelve servants - last story about Nicky and Gina was Kenny. Try not to cry before you've even read the one first page. Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to visit - the bottom mum who had to run about after everyone and who was the butt of practical jokesabandoned them a long time ago. She could cope with that, but what she couldnThey haven't cope with was seen her for years and the attentions of one of the young men impending visit is stirring up a lot of the familyuncomfortable feelings. SheAnd Nicky'd already heard s girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, Nicky and Kenny plan a day out, trekking across the stories of what had happened to another young maid whomoors. But it doesn'd caught his eye - thrown out on the streets t go to fend for herself plan and her baby an accident puts both boys - and could see no way of escape from ''him'' other than to run awaytheir dog, Tina, in terrible danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125163</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1786697173|title=Ghost for SaleMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Sally Gardner|rating=4.5

|summary=When Mr and Mrs Rundle see an advert Betsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, Alonso, makes the most wonderful ice cream in the paper for a wardrobe for saleevery flavour you could imagine. Her mother, complete with ghostMyrtle, Mrs Rundle decides that they absolutely ''must'' have it! They own The Dog is a mermaid and Duck Inn and Mrs Rundle feels that addition of a ghost will add interest comes to their Inn and bring them customvisit regularly, although she still lives in the sea. The arrival Betsy dreams of the wardrobe certainly shakes two things up for : firstly, about the Rundlescircus owned by a tiger and whether it would ever come to her island and secondly, though perhaps not in about a magical ice cream made from the berries of the way they'd imagined!Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112518X</amazonuk>And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. And a journey is planned...

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Gough and Jim Field1781128286|title=Rabbit and Bear: Rabbit's Bad Habbits|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When Bear wakes up early from her hibernation, she decides that if she can't sleep then she might as well do something which she's always wanted to do - build a snowman. It's whilst she's doing this that she meets Rabbit, who tells her that he's an Expert in Gravity. Whatever he is, it doesn't seem to make him particularly happy as he never smiles and isn't exactly big on fun. 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>}}{{newreviewRun Wild|author=Jean Ure|title=My Dog DaisyGill Lewis|rating=45

|summary=Lily did ''not'' want a goldfishMeet Izzy and Asha. Nor did she want Bullied away from the local attempt at a hamster or skatepark, they find a cat. She wanted a ''DOG'' and whilst she understood what Mum said about not being able to have a dog huge waste ground in the 5th floor flat without shadow of a garden she still thought it was unfair. After allderelict gasometer to practise on, when which they lived at Gran's house there was a garden and she could have had a dogduly do, but then Mum and Gran had a row and even though they moved out. She hadnhave to drag Izzy't even seen Gran for three months and she ''missed'' hers younger brother with them. And The following day they all want to return, as does the dog which she couldnbrother't have. Even Keris schoolfriend, her best friend, though that she was going on despite – and of course because of – there is a bit about huge wolf living in the whole thingsite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124965</amazonuk>Can the children survive living in the urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eoin Colfer and Victor AmbrusJennings Different|title=The Seal's Fate (Colour Conker) A Different Dog|author=Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly|rating=4.5

|summary=Bobby Parrish was reluctant to admit that the seal was cuteOur 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 himself. That sort keep the two of thing was for girls and them warm, he was here to club wants the sealprize offered by a down-a-mountain-and-back-up-and-down-again foot race. Seals were affecting his father's livelihood as a fisherman Winning the race and there was a bounty the large purse would also give him more status in the eyes of a £1 for a seal's flipper: in those days kids that was good money bully him, and it might even one of the girls had collected the cashgive him a voice – for he is almost mute. Still, somehow We quickly learn he couldn't quite bring himself never talks back to attack anyone, whatever the defenceless cubmotivation, all bigand can only speak aloud to himself – and, blackso it turns out, round eyes and obviously unworried by to a dog he rescues from a bad road accident he finds on his presence. What would way up the other lads say though? More hill to the point, what would his father say?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124310</amazonuk>start line…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Catherine RaynerDawson_Grave|title=Clare Grave Matter|author=Juno Dawson and Her Captain (Colour Conker)Alex T Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=Clare didn't enjoy Since Eliza died, since the night of the journey down to Devoncar crash that took her life, Sam is a broken soul. Her parents always argued and it was usually because Mum had He is lost her way or got caught in without the girl he loves, feeling as though a traffic jam part of him died that night too. But he is desperate and this time she'd done bothhe cannot live without Eliza. It was a little better when they got to He remembers his estranged Aunt Dora's house, but Aunt Dora wasn't exactly a peacemaker Marie and tended to stick up for Dad against everybody else. The holiday improved when Clare got out for a walk on her own peculiar healing powers and discovered a stray lamb on the roadwonders if she might be able to help him. She took it However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the nearest house and Mr Jones was delighted: Clare had just saved half Milk Man, which causes Sam in his flockgrieving state to make a pact with forces he doesn't understand. Clare got on with the old man - and with his horse, CaptainThings soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124353</amazonuk>