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[[Category:New Reviews|Dyslexia Friendly]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Newbery1800901232|title=Until We WinStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=Dyslexia Friendly |summary=The best journeys are made with little stepsTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Lizzy is slowly leaving her boring Life in the rural village behind – by being cheeky yet clever at where she lived with her lessonsfamily was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and getting woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an office in opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the nearest proper town – and by saving mini-bus to buyHanoi. Only, Hanh and teaching herself the other girls were not going to ridework in a shop, a bicyclethey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. All You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams thatfelt so soft when you touched them? It's under the watchful eye quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=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 wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a mother insistent desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she learns to knuckle down could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the housework on behalf end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the mentruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=1800900899}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Strange and an older brother working Pam Smy|title=The Mermaid in the Millpond|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at the village huntleast is what Bess is telling herself. At Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the officeother kids, however, further steps are suggested who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-to her – shorthand and typing classes-mouth, but she gets divertedevery man for himself kind of existence. A chance encounter in But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a tea rooms puts more stepping stones kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her way – en route about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to becoming harm, there might be a fully committed Suffragette, concerned only with making demands for votes for womenglimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers.But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125791</amazonuk>180090049X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julian Gough and Jim FieldKeith Gray|title=Rabbit and Bear: The Pest in the NestClimbers

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Rabbit was strugglingSully is the best tree climber in the village. There he was having a nice, peaceful sleep in his friend BearHe has what's cave known amongst the kids as 'reach'. But what happens when a terrible noise woke him. Was it thundernew kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? NoSuddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, and not only that, that his chance to name the final, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer it was Bear snoring, might be snatched from his hands. Very loudly. Rabbit tried putting How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his paws over best friend, or maybe even all of his ears although thatfriends, 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's not very successful when you t have small paws enough money to let her do after school activities, and very big earsso she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. But there was something good: when Rabbit went outside When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the cave he realised that spring had sprung. Suddenly he felt ''strong'new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school in person. After Instead, she joins in with the class by using a winter spent in his friend Bear's cave it was time to go home to his burrowrobot. Only there was Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through a surprise lurking there - robot, and it looked suspiciously like is she even interesting enough to be a snake.good friend to Ellie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444934260</amazonuk>1781129649

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil Earle Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=Mind The Gap Ghost Garden

|genre=Teens Confident Readers|summary= When MikeyFran, the gardener's dad diesdaughter at a posh country house, he stops caring about anythingis worried. Indeed She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a large bone, he becomes so desperate to feel something that he deliberately provokes buried under the one person on the estate who no one messes withpotatoes. Not surprisingly it ends badly and not just for him. Mikey But she's best mate also ends up in a pool even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, the older child of bloodthe house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. But that doesn't matter because his friend has already lost something She is due to get even more important. He lost Mikey worried when his dad died and he's determined she finds something else that also seems to find foretell a way to bring his best friend backsurprise. That's why he sets off on a one boy crusade to find a way to help Mikey remember Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his dad. He just needs bathchair, she might have reason to find a moviebe out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - a radio extract, or long-forgotten burial chamber. But surely that won't act as a YouTube clip – something that will allow his friend premonition to remember his dad's voice. Mikey's dad was an actoranything - not here in the sultry, so how difficult can it besummery days of 1914? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125899</amazonuk>1781129002

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keren David Alex Wheatle|title=The Liar's Handbook Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating=2.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Everyone tells River that 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 regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's a liar but he doesnchundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, who't see it that way – as far as River is concerned he just thinks s duffed him up interesting stuff to fill in response, and the gaps in what wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale he knows. His lies are harmless: unlike the lies that his mum's new boyfriendliving with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, Jasonthings are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinner. I know, tells. Jason right? But surely this is just a total fake and River is on blip, a crusade day at school to expose him. Howeverforget, River's investigation doesn't work out as planned. He does uncover a serious deception and everything (involving like his biological father and the policevomit) but will anyone believe himall come out in the wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126801</amazonuk>1781129495

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilary McKay178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Sticky WitchApollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|summary=Tom and EllieIt's parents have set sail around fifty years since the world on a raft made of rubbish! They tell Apollo 13 mission was launched from the children that they will be gone for three yearsKennedy Space Centre in Florida, but it will go by very quickly and they'll be safe and happy in the company story of that journey remains one of Aunt Tab. But who is this strange lady who applied for the job greatest survival stories of caring for two wonderful children and their cat, Whiskers? all time. She doesn't seem to be the kind guardian that the children need, and why 'Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is everything in her house so very, very sticky?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125996</amazonuk>a brilliant retelling of what happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Swindells1781129312|title=The First HunterSequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=Tan and his family are scavengers Sequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with her. It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - stone age scavengersit was because she never pushed to get credit for what she did. When Mum is a big cat seamstress and she makes a kill one the sort of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. She's not the family designer - they're the brand man - dashes in and frightens the big cat off its kill with people who make a firy brand and one of the others snatches some lot of money from the meat for the familyclothes. If they donMum is the person who actually ''makes''t get the meat then itgarments and she's down to rootsreally talented, insects but when people talk about the dress or lizards. Some of the family are concerned about Widsuit, who grew, but his brain didn't and they don't see why they should hunt for meat to keep talk about the boy alivedesigner. They're all for leaving him to the wolves. Tan won't have it and for the moment Wid The seamstress is safenever mentioned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126011</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackie MorrisTanya Landman|title=The White FoxJane Eyre: a Retelling

|summary=Sol had never been happy A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in Seattlea dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. It wasn't just that When he was bullied at school: being Inuit does turn up he looked ''different'' seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but that always makes you a target. Sol's heart was somewhere else - nothing compared to the darker, more broody and even more troubling secret in the Arctichouse. Yes, where he felt he belonged and where he had grandparents whom heif you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don'd not seen t, for such whatever reason, this is a long timewonderful book to turn to. Everything changed when his father told him about the white Arctic fox which had been seen on the docks and Sol set about finding the fox - and then feeding it. But what would happen to the fox when it was trapped? And how would Sol handle the situation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125228</amazonuk>1781129126

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Non Pratt1781128952|title=UnboxedThe Starlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James|rating=4.5

|summary=When they were thirteen there had been five This is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of them: AlixHugo, Benan unwanted and rather lonely android, Deanwho makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Millie and Zara, and they had made Hugo realises there is a promise mystery to return be solved and is only too ready to the school where they had hidden a memory box five years laterhelp. Only five years later there are only four An exciting journey of them: Millie had died discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of stomach cancer. The remaining four are nervous about what they might find in the box, worried about what their thirteen-year-old selves might reveal about who they are nowhis drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, but most exploring regions of all they're missing Milliethe planet never before known to exist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125856</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steve Cole1781128693|title= Mind Writer|rating= 4|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Everyone knows what a mind reader can do and Luke Mellows has this amazing talent, or maybe it is a gift. He uses this to great effect and for his own entertainment. Knowing what the teacher is thinking can be incredibly useful and can be used for amusing classroom antics. Luke thought it was only him who had this gift, 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 to change what a person will think can be a powerful and dangerous skill. When the mind reader and mind writer come together Luke soon learns that there is a much darker and sinister situation occurring than he could ever have imagined.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112583X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSpecial Delivery|author=Jean Ure|title=The Snow GlobeJonathan Meres|rating=4.5

|summary=AbiHow do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when the problem is the brain which isn's familyt functioning quite as it used to it isn's circumstances changed very suddenlyt as easy to grasp. She had been Frank was a pupil at normal nine-year-old and like many nine-year-olds what he wanted was a very good girlnew bike. He's school (with a stylish uniform) and went horse riding d had his for about seventy-eight years and he didn't want to dance classes at raise the weekendseat any more. The family home, was spacious Mum pointed out that it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and in bikes cost a pleasant neighbourhoodlot of money, which didn't grow on trees. When the family business went under they His sister Lottie had to sell the house and move to something smallera solution: Frank could help her with her paper round. The horse riding and dance classes went and school was Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a big comprehensive - with boys and thousand years to save up the money for a dull, grey uniform. Worst of all she was moving away from her best friend, Jennybike AND he had to get up at six o'clock in the morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125945</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tom Palmer1781128707|title= Wings: SpitfireThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Vivian French|rating= 45

|summary= Greg is fed up with playing in goal. He reckons things only happen Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to you therewin the 100 metres race on sports day at the end of term - and that was next week. The other players get to make them happen. The summer school isn We't turning out how he'd hoped at all. The old airfield next re going to the school freaks Greg out … but when he starts on a model of an old Spitfireread about what happened in her diary, healthough there's propelled into an adventure a warning that will we really show him what shouldn't be reading it means to take control …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125368</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paul Dowswell|title= Wave|rating= 5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Wave, set in WW1, tells the story of the battle of the Sommeparticularly as it's about Barbie Meek. Although To say that the story spans 100 years, 1st July 1916 and 1st July 2016, the majority two girls don't get on at all well is a bit of the action takes place during 30minutes between 7am and 7.30am on 1st July 1916an understatement. It follows two brothersSuzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, Charlie and Eddie, as they prepare for the moment when they are to go over the top, as the first wave, into No Man’s Land. The story but Barbie is a poignant, reflective troublemaker and brutally honest account of the events which lead she wants to win the biggest casualty rate in one day in the history of the British Army100 metres race too - by fair means or foul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125627</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen McCombie1949471004|title=The OMG BlogDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|genre= Dyslexia Friendly |summary= In 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 first weeks book might not be the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of term a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problem. You need to be able to buy books at a new secondary school four reasonable price which concentrate on what you''good'' girls find themselves ve been working on, without anything else being thrown together in detentioninto the mix. From this inauspicious beginning You need a firm friendship develops as story which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the girlslearning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, encouraged by their teacher either. Reading - and ''learning'' to enter read - should be a blogging competition, find that they do have one very important thing in common…their embarrassing mumspleasure. The It should be ''Our Mums Grrrfun'' blog is born!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125430</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malorie Blackman1781128510|title=Peace MakerOne Shot|author=Tanya Landman

|summary=Michela Corbin is something of a rebel, but even she understands that everyone must wear a Peace Maker Device all the time ''Pa and that it must never be tampered with, as non-aggression is their society's founding principleI understood each other. The Peace Maker is Our souls were cut from the means by which this is enforcedsame cloth.'' But Pa has since died, but Michela wants to experience leaving Maggie very much alone in her family. She was the full range only one of human emotions three children who looked like him, and none of the Peace Maker stops that. When her mother captains their ship into enemy airspace others acted like him, and they come under attack it seems that Michelacertainly, his wife didn's freedom from the constraints of the Peace Maker t seem to fully understand him. Maggie might as well be reliving the only thing Cinderella story, stuck with two siblings and mother that are fully against her. But at least she can save sneak out at night, and shoot some game to stop them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125619</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tony Bradman and Tom Morgan-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 from starving? Well, no, not where young orphan Toby Cuffe her mother is living on concerned – the streets where life is hard. In order to survivevery idea of a female shooting things, the resourceful Toby joins the gang of boys who work when they could be preparing 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 a life of the play he has just seen performedunhappy married drudgery, 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 theatrejust scandalous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125031</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Beck178112843X|title=Grey Island Red BoatLark|author=Anthony McGowan

|summary=After I'll warn you first. This is the storm fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. Try not to cry before you've even read the frogs first page. Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to visit - the toads all came out onto the lawn to play mum who abandoned them a long jumptime ago. This was the frogsThey haven' choice as they could jump further t seen her for years and the toads just wanted an easy life. But - through impending visit is stirring up a series lot of unfortunate incidents involving lorries, dogs, childrenuncomfortable feelings. And Nicky's girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, Nicky and Kenny plan a cart and an ice cream containerday out, first trekking across the toads ended up in the ice cream container moors. But it doesn't go to plan and after they sold the frogs down the river in exchange for being put into a muddy ditch, the frogs an accident puts both boys - all twenty two of them - were in the same prison and it was only thanks to Mutt the their dog that they escaped, Tina, in terrible danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125120</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline Lawrence1786697173|title=Queen of Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Silver ArrowBlue Moon|author=Sally Gardner|rating=4.5

|summary=King Metabus had not been Betsy K Glory lives a good king and his escape from his kingdom was hurried and pursuedrather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. When he reached Her father, Alonso, makes the river he had to make most wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Her mother, Myrtle, is a decision mermaid and he thought first of the safety of the baby daughter he carried in his arms and tied her comes to his javelinvisit regularly, which he threw across although she still lives in the torrentsea. Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, pledging as he did so that he would serve about the Goddess Diana. Camilla should have grown up as circus owned by a Princess but instead she lived in a cave with tiger and whether it would ever come to her father island and ran wild in the forest. In nearby Laurentumsecondly, Acca had grown up hearing about a magical ice cream made from the story berries of how Camilla giggled as she swung on the javelin embedded in the ground and dreamed Gongalong bush. One scoop of meeting her, but this didn't happen until after the death of Camilla's father, when the girls became firm friendsice cream can make wishes come true.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. And a journey is planned...

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Hooper1781128286|title=A Dark TradeRun Wild|author=Gill Lewis|rating=45

|summary=Georgina Friday, known to everyone as Gina, grew up in an orphanage Meet Izzy and when she was sixteen went to be Asha. Bullied away from the local attempt at a servant is skatepark, they find a big house huge waste ground in central London. There were seven members the shadow of the family and twelve servants - and Gina was the one at the bottom who had a derelict gasometer to run about after everyone and who was the butt of practical jokes. She could cope with thatpractise on, which they duly do, but what she couldneven though they have to drag Izzy't cope s younger brother with was them. The following day they all want to return, as does the attentions brother's schoolfriend, despite – and of one of the young men course because of – there is a huge wolf living in the familysite. She'd already heard Can the stories of what had happened to another young maid who'd caught his eye - thrown out on children survive living in the streets to fend for herself and her baby - and could see no way of escape from ''him'' other than to run away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125163</amazonuk>urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry DearyJennings Different|title=Ghost for SaleA Different Dog|author=Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly

|summary=When Mr and Mrs Rundle see an advert in the paper for Our hero is a wardrobe for saleboy, complete whose name we never learn. We know what he wants in life – with ghosthis mother exceedingly poor, Mrs Rundle decides that they absolutely ''must'' have it! They own The Dog and Duck Inn and Mrs Rundle feels that addition even his bed burnt to keep the two of them warm, he wants the prize offered by a ghost will add interest to their Inn down-a-mountain-and-back-up-and bring them custom-down-again foot race. The arrival Winning the race and the large purse would also give him more status in the 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 wardrobe certainly shakes things motivation, and can only speak aloud to himself – and, so it turns out, to a dog he rescues from a bad road accident he finds on his way up for the Rundles, though perhaps not in hill to the way they'd imagined!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112518X</amazonuk>start line…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julian Gough and Jim FieldDawson_Grave|title=Rabbit Grave Matter|author=Juno Dawson and Bear: Rabbit's Bad HabbitsAlex T Smith

|summary=Bobby Parrish was reluctant to admit Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took her life, Sam is a broken soul. He is lost without the seal was cutegirl he loves, even to himselffeeling as though a part of him died that night too. That sort of thing was for girls But he is desperate and he was here to club the sealcannot live without Eliza. Seals were affecting He remembers his father's livelihood as a fisherman estranged Aunt Marie and there was a bounty of a £1 for a seal's flipper: in those days that was good money her peculiar healing powers and even one of the girls had collected the cashwonders if she might be able to help him. StillHowever, somehow he couldn't quite bring himself finding his Aunt Marie leads him to attack discover the defenceless cubMilk Man, all big, black, round eyes and obviously unworried by which causes Sam in his presencegrieving state to make a pact with forces he doesn't understand. What would the other lads say though? More Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to the point, what would his father say?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124310</amazonuk>change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for.