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|summary=Families change Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in wartime – in sizethe rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not any other wayprosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Bill Some money changed hands and Jane have already had Hanh was on the mini-bus to get used to their father being away to fightHanoi. Only, ''Hanh and'' they've tried the evacuee experience, but are back other girls were not going to work in London – just in time for the Battle of Britain, which is a circumstance Bill hates Jane for, as he quickly grew to love the countryside, while Jane resisted the idea of them settling thereshop, so they were returned to work in virtual slavery in an allegedly safe capitalillegal garment factory. One night after a bombing raid they settle outside You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the neighbourhoodartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's token emptyquite 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, boarded up and deserted home – only for Bill he should be free to do what he wants, to convince go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he hears someone insidetalks to his best friend, Cassie. The unidentifiable and severely burnt child that gets rescued becomes They were half of a kind of new family member desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – but does saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this have anything to do connected with Billone of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's resent-filled wish for a brother to replace Janedreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth?Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126887</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg RosoffLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=Good Dog McTavishThe Mermaid in the Millpond|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, 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-mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. 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 about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X}}{{Frontpage|author=Keith Gray|title=The Climbers|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Sully is the best tree climber in the village. He has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach'. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly 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, might be snatched from his hands. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?|isbn=1781129991}}{{Frontpage|author=Lisa Thompson|title=The Small Things

|summary=McTavish did wonder whether he was making a mistake Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in adopting the Peachey . Her family: it was a decision which came from the heart rather than the head. You see the Peacheys were dysfunctional: Ma Peachey, an accountant by profession, decided that she was fed up with chasing around don't have enough money to let her do after an ungrateful familyschool activities, and so she resigned and dedicated herself feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. When a new girl joins her yoga with half a hint that she might also dedicate herself class, Anna is asked to partner her yoga teacher. She gave up cooking, cleaningbut things are complicated because the new girl, bakingEllie, washing is unwell and all so can't attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with the other things which kept class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the family goingchallenge of making friends with someone through a robot, such as finding lost keys and getting people out of bed so that they got is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to wherever they were going on time. And the familyEllie? Well, they had no idea of how to cope, with one exception.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126836</amazonuk>1781129649

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Ardagh Emma Carroll and Tom MorganKaja Kajfez|title=The Ghost Garden|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Fran, the gardener's daughter at a posh country house, is worried. She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery -Jonesa large bone, buried under the potatoes. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, the older child of the house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. She is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason to be out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. But surely that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?|isbn=1781129002}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Wheatle|title=Norman The Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating=2.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the Norman best of times. He should be getting a text from Normandy the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards 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 and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinner. I know, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|isbn=1781129495}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (Little Gemsillustrator)

|summary=Meet Norman. Norman It's fifty years since the Norman, Apollo 13 mission was launched from Normandy. Not Big Bad Norman the Norman from NormandyKennedy Space Centre in Florida, and not Norma but the Norman from Normandy – and not even Nora story of that journey remains one of the Norman from, well it doesn't say, but my guess is Normandygreatest survival stories of all time. Norman isn't very big at all – he's just a little boy, and heSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission's not bad. Or at least he doesn't think he isa brilliant retelling of what happened. But because his father, Big Bad Norman, is buried in three parts (don't ask), and little baby Norman has inherited Big Bad Norman's big bad Norman sword, he's going to visit the three parts – but only good will happen… Right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126976</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1781129312|title= Vivian French Sequin and Nigel BainesStitch|titleauthor= The Covers of My Book Are Too Far Apart Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (and other grumblesillustrator)|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Sequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with her. It wasn't that mum wouldn'I'm too old t go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed to get credit for bedtime stories'', ''That's what she did. Mum is a girlseamstress and she makes the sort of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. She's book!not the designer - they'', '' I hate this book but I've got to finish it'', ''I can't find re the people who make a book that I likelot of money from the clothes. Mum is the person who actually ''makes' You've probably heard at least one of the grumbles in this book before but have you known how to respond to it? This brilliant picture book will do it for you garments and is a joyful celebration of all thatshe's wonderful really talented, but when people talk about books and readingthe dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112602X</amazonuk>The seamstress is never mentioned.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil EarleTanya Landman|title= SuperDad's Day OffJane Eyre: a Retelling|rating= 4.5

|summary= Stanley's dad is tired. It can be exhausting work being A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a Superhero. For six days of the week he saves dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the world from disasters life she wants – and defeats the baddies as Dynamo Dan. Stanley decides his poor dad needs with only one job, to tutor a day off and young half-French girl, whose father is determined almost always absent. When he does turn up he seems to make sure be dark, brooding and troubled – but that he gets a proper rest. So they head off 's nothing compared to the park for some much needed Dad darker, more broody and Son bonding timeeven more troubling secret in the house. However people Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't seem , for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to understand that even Superheroes need time turn to recuperate. The requests for help keep on coming so what can poor Stanley do other than step in to save the day. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126844</amazonuk>1781129126

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Quentin Blake1781128952|title= The Story of the Dancing Frog|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly |summary= When Jo's Great Aunt Gertrude's sea captain husband is drowned at sea she is grief-stricken and, in despair, she goes for a walk alone. During this walk she notices a small frog on a lily-pad. But he is no ordinary frog - he's a dancing frog and the two quickly become good friends. Soon the duo are touring the world with their routine, spreading joy and fun - and carrying out the occasional rescue - wherever they go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125910</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStarlight Watchmaker|author=Robert Swindells|title=Knife EdgeLauren James

|summary=I'm just not interested. I'm not interested in there ever being This is a knife in junior dyslexia-friendly, science fictionnovella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, unless it comes with an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a lessonliving for himself mending time-travel watches. And I'm just not interested unless that lesson tells you When one thing – of his clients demands that they're quick. Knives can his broken watch be quick to findmended, are quick Hugo realises there is a mystery to whip out, be solved and quick is only too ready to get the bearer into troublehelp. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, whether they actually meet flesh or not. Sam is the student which takes Hugo out of that lesson here – his school has drab attic workroom and into a Citizenship campaign whereby the pupils do odd jobs for local elderlyscary adventure with some amazing new friends, and he finds a perfect knife he thinks will defend him from exploring regions of the local gang – a gang whose leader he constantly rattled in primary schoolplanet never before known to exist. As for the rest – I'll leave his personable first-person narrative to teach you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126860</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer and Garry Parsons1781128693|title=Secret FCSpecial Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres

|summary=Meet LilyHow do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, Maddie, Zack, Khal, and James and Battsbut when the problem is the brain which isn't functioning quite as it used to it isn't as easy to grasp. They all go to Frank was a school together – normal nine-year-old and they do it eagerly, as their inner city life is so devoid of nature like many nine-year-olds what he wanted was a new bike. He'd had his for about seventy-eight years and he didn't want to raise the open space that the playground is the only room large enough for footballseat any more. But lo Mum pointed out that it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and behold the new head teacher has banned all ball gamesbikes cost a lot of money, which didn't grow on health and safety groundstrees. How do these friends get over their disappointment? His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her with her paper round. Why, with imagination, hard work and a firm belief Frank agreed despite thinking that what they're doing is right, is how – they convert it would take him a rotting tennis court handily hidden in thousand years to save up the school's woods into money for a pitch, where after a lot of labours they can play bike AND he had to their heartget up at six o's contentclock in the morning. Or so they think…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126879</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meg Rosoff1781128707|title=Good Dog McTavishThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Vivian French

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=McTavish did wonder whether he was making a mistake in adopting the Peachey family: Suzi Simms loved running and it was a decision which came from her ambition to win the heart rather than 100 metres race on sports day at the headend of term - and that was next week. You see the Peacheys were dysfunctional: Ma Peachey, an accountant by profession, decided that she was fed up with chasing around after an ungrateful family, so she resigned and dedicated herself We're going to read about what happened in her yoga with half diary, although there's a hint warning that she might also dedicate herself to her yoga teacherwe really shouldn't be reading it, particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. She gave up cooking, cleaning, baking, washing and To say that the two girls don't get on at all the other things which kept the family going, such as finding lost keys and getting people out well is a bit of bed so that they got to wherever they were going on timean understatement. And the family? WellSuzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, they had no idea of how but Barbie is a troublemaker and she wants to cope, with one exceptionwin the 100 metres race too - by fair means or foul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126836</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Hoffman1949471004|title=TiltDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|summary=To make an author, What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you first show someone need books. To make a reader, you first show which will help them to achieve the books they want to, and/or wonder that is reading? You canrisk buying early readers, read. To make a builder, you first show someone buildings. I use those platitudes to introduce Simonetta, or Netta, who lives in Pisa late but the sounds in the thirteenth century. She is surrounded by fabulous buildings – it's book might not for nothing be the area will become known as the Field of Miracles, for the Cathedral, Baptistry ones you've been working on and bell tower look gorgeous. But something is wrong with the latter one – it's definitely leaning, cracks encountering words which are showing, and over the hundred-plus years it's taken to get this far people just too challenging can have built the floors at odd angles to correct more of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problem. Netta is intent on being the person who can solve it, alongside her father who's employed to finish it off. But therein lies the problem – it's all well and good showing someone buildings, and making them want You need to be an architect, but if they're the wrong gender then all hope is lost… or is it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125651</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Linda Newbery|title=Until We Win|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly |summary=The best journeys are made with little steps. Lizzy is slowly leaving her boring village behind – by being cheeky yet clever at her lessons, and getting a job in an office in the nearest proper town – and by saving able to buy, and teaching herself to ride, books at a bicycle. All thatreasonable price which concentrate on what you's under the watchful eye of a mother insistent she learns to knuckle down with the housework ve been working on behalf of the men, and an older brother working at without anything else being thrown into the village huntmix. At You need a story which engages the office, however, further steps are suggested to her – shorthand young mind and typing classes, but she gets divertedyou need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. A chance encounter in a tea rooms puts more stepping stones in her way – en route to becoming a fully committed Suffragette, concerned only with making demands for votes for women.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125791</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Julian Gough and Jim Field|title=Rabbit Some online support and Bear: The Pest in the Nest|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Rabbit was struggling. There he was having a nice, peaceful sleep in his friend Beargames wouldn's cave when a terrible noise woke him. Was it thunder? Not go amiss, it was Bear snoringeither. Very loudly. Rabbit tried putting his paws over his ears although that's not very successful when you have small paws Reading - and very big ears. But there was something good: when Rabbit went outside the cave he realised that spring had sprung. Suddenly he felt ''stronglearning''. After a winter spent in his friend Bear's cave it was time to go home to his burrow. Only there was a surprise lurking there read - and it looked suspiciously like should be a snakepleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934260</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Earle 1781128510|title=Mind The Gap One Shot|author=Tanya Landman

|genre=Teens Dyslexia Friendly|summary= When Mikey's dad dies'Pa and I understood each other. Our souls were cut from the same cloth.'' But Pa has since died, he stops caring about anythingleaving Maggie very much alone in her family. Indeed, he becomes so desperate to feel something that he deliberately provokes She was the only one person on the estate of three children who no one messes with. Not surprisingly it ends badly looked like him, and not just for none of the others acted like him. Mikey, and certainly, his wife didn's best mate also ends up in a pool of bloodt seem to fully understand him. But Maggie might as well be reliving the Cinderella story, stuck with two siblings and mother that doesn't matter because his friend has already lost something more importantare fully against her. He lost Mikey when his dad died But at least she can sneak out at night, and he's determined shoot some game to find a way to bring his best friend back. That's why he sets off on a one boy crusade to find stop them from starving? Well, no, not where her mother is concerned – the very idea of a way to help Mikey remember his dad. He just needs to find a moviefemale shooting things, when they could be preparing for a radio extractlife of unhappy married drudgery, or a YouTube clip – something that will allow his friend to remember his dad's voiceis just scandalous. Mikey's dad was an actor, so how difficult can it be? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125899</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keren David 178112843X|title=The Liar's Handbook Lark|author=Anthony McGowan

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Everyone tells River that heI's a liar but he doesn't see it that way – as far as River ll warn you first. This is concerned he just thinks up interesting stuff the fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. Try not to fill in cry before you've even read the gaps in what he knowsfirst page. His lies are harmless: unlike the lies that  Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum's new boyfriend, Jason, tells. Jason is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a total fake long time ago. They haven't seen her for years and River the impending visit is on stirring up a crusade to expose himlot of uncomfortable feelings. However, RiverAnd Nicky's investigation girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, Nicky and Kenny plan a day out, trekking across the moors. But it doesn't work out as plannedgo to plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, in terrible danger. He does uncover a serious deception (involving his biological father and the police) but will anyone believe him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126801</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilary McKay1786697173|title=The Sticky WitchMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Sally Gardner

|summary=Tom and Ellie's parents have set sail around the world Betsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a raft made of rubbish! They tell peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, Alonso, makes the children that they will be gone for three yearsmost wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Her mother, but it will go by very quickly Myrtle, is a mermaid and they'll be safe and happy comes to visit regularly, although she still lives in the company of Aunt Tabsea. But who is this strange lady who applied for the job Betsy dreams of caring for two wonderful children things: firstly, about the circus owned by a tiger and whether it would ever come to her island and their catsecondly, Whiskers? She doesn't seem to be about a magical ice cream made from the kind guardian that berries of the children need, Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true. And then Mr Tiger and why his circus arrive. And a journey is everything in her house so very, very sticky?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125996</amazonuk>planned...

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Swindells1781128286|title=The First Hunter|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Tan and his family are scavengers - stone age scavengers. When a big cat makes a kill one of the family - the brand man - dashes 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 family. If they don't get the meat then it's down to roots, insects or lizards. Some of the family are concerned about Wid, who grew, but his brain didn't and they don't see why they should hunt for meat to keep the boy alive. They're all for leaving him to the wolves. Tan won't have it and for the moment Wid is safe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126011</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRun Wild|author=Jackie Morris|title=The White FoxGill Lewis

|summary=Sol had never been happy in SeattleMeet Izzy and Asha. It wasn't just that he was bullied Bullied away from the local attempt at school: being Inuit he looked ''different'' and that always makes you a target. Sol's heart was somewhere else - skatepark, they find a huge waste ground in the Arcticshadow of a derelict gasometer to practise on, where he felt he belonged and where he had grandparents whom hewhich they duly do, even though they have to drag Izzy'd not seen for such a long times younger brother with them. Everything changed when his father told him about The following day they all want to return, as does the white Arctic fox which had been seen on the docks brother's schoolfriend, despite – and Sol set about finding of course because of – there is a huge wolf living in the fox - and then feeding itsite. But what would happen to Can the fox when it was trapped? And how would Sol handle children survive living in the situationurban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125228</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Non PrattJennings Different|title=UnboxedA Different Dog|author=Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly

|summary=When they were thirteen there had been five of them: AlixOur hero is a boy, Ben, Deanwhose name we never learn. We know what he wants in life – with his mother exceedingly poor, Millie and Zara, and they had made a promise to return even his bed burnt to keep the school where they had hidden a memory box five years later. Only five years later there are only four two of them: Millie had died of stomach cancerwarm, he wants the prize offered by a down-a-mountain-and-back-up-and-down-again foot race. The remaining four are nervous about what they might find Winning the race and the large purse would also give him more status in the boxeyes of those kids that bully him, worried about what their thirteen-year-old selves and it might reveal about who they are noweven give him a voice – for he is almost mute. We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, but most of all they're missing Millie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125856</amazonuk>whatever the 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 the hill to the start line…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steve ColeDawson_Grave|title= Mind WriterGrave Matter|ratingauthor= 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 Juno Dawson and sinister situation occurring than he could ever have imagined.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112583X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jean Ure|title=The Snow GlobeAlex T Smith

|summary=Abi'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 the weekend. The family homeSince Eliza died, was spacious and in a pleasant neighbourhood. When since the family business went under they had to sell night of the house and move to something smaller. The horse riding and dance classes went and school was a big comprehensive - with boys and a dull, grey uniform. Worst of all she was moving away from car crash that took her best friendlife, Jenny.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125945</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tom Palmer|title= Wings: Spitfire|rating= 4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Greg Sam is fed up with playing in goala broken soul. He reckons things only happen to you there. The other players get to make them happen. The summer school isn't turning out how he'd hoped at all. The old airfield next to is lost without the school freaks Greg out … but when girl he starts on loves, feeling as though a model part of an old Spitfire, him died that night too. But he is desperate and he's propelled into an adventure that will really show him what 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 Sommecannot live without Eliza. Although the story spans 100 years, 1st July 1916 He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and 1st July 2016, the majority of the action takes place during 30minutes between 7am her peculiar healing powers and 7wonders if she might be able to help him.30am on 1st July 1916. It follows two brothersHowever, Charlie and Eddie, as they prepare for the moment when they are finding his Aunt Marie leads him to go over discover the topMilk Man, as the first wave, into No Man’s Land. The story is a poignant, reflective and brutally honest account of the events which lead causes Sam in his grieving state to the biggest casualty rate in one day in the history of the British Army.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125627</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Karen McCombie|title=The OMG Blog|rating=4|genre= Dyslexia Friendly |summary= In the first weeks of term at make a new secondary school four pact with forces he doesn''good'' girls find themselves thrown together in detentiont understand. From this inauspicious beginning a firm friendship develops Things soon turn complicated as the girls, encouraged by their teacher supernatural powers start to enter a blogging competition, find that they do have one very important thing change Sam's life in common…their embarrassing mumsmore ways than he bargained for. The ''Our Mums Grrr'' blog is born!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125430</amazonuk>