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[[Category:New Reviews|Dyslexia Friendly]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tanya Landman1800901232|title=Passing for WhiteStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
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|summary=In 1847, in Macon, Georgia, Benjamin was Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a slavefashion designer. He Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was a talented carpenter toohappy, if not prosperous, but on November so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the 19th he was unnerved: village to offer Hahn a white woman job in Hanoi it was looking at him, smiling and being politean opportunity not to be missed. What Some money changed hands and Hanh was going on? the mini-bus to Hanoi. He wasn't just unnervedOnly, but nervous: you see, Benjamin was looking at Hanh and the white womanother girls were not going to work in a shop, looking ''her'' they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the eye ones with intricate embroidery and a slave could get himself killed for less than beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that. felt so soft when you touched them? Only this wasnIt't s 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 white woman: this was Rosayoung 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, who was mixed raceCassie. She could pass for whiteThey were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she too was could hear a slavesubhuman hum coming from the earth. Rosa and Benjamin eventually married, but Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it didn't stop Rosasome spooky new kind of music she's master from taking sexual advantage dreaming of her and when ? Is she found that she was pregnant she had no way of knowing who just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the father wastruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112681X</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Harder They FallLucy Strange and Pam Smy|authortitle=Bali RaiThe Mermaid in the Millpond
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Cal loves comic booksThere is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. He also dreams of being Neither will there be a superhero and saving friend for her in amongst all the day while simultaneously winning other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the heart of mill-owners by the girl (Freya being the girl, hopefully)London workhouse they used to call home. Batman Bess knows there is his favourite superherono time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. But Cal's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superhero-like. Because Cal is despite herself Bess does find a bit of a geek kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and he is being bullied by mean girl Anuhow befriending people only leads to harm, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on to lazy classmatesthere might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. Still, itBut surely that doesn's not all badt 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. CalHe has what's parents are lovely 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 gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures..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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>1781129991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyLisa Thompson|title=Flesh and BloodThe Small Things
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Families change Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in wartime – in size, if not any other way. Bill and Jane Her family don't have already had enough money to get used let her do after school activities, and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to their father being away theirs. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to fightpartner her, but things are complicated because the new girl, ''Ellie, is unwell andso can'' they've tried the evacuee experiencet attend school in person. Instead, but are back she joins in London – just in time for with the class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the Battle challenge of Britainmaking friends with someone through a robot, which and is she even interesting enough to be a circumstance Bill hates Jane for, as he quickly grew good friend to love the countrysideEllie?|isbn=1781129649}}{{Frontpage|author=Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=The Ghost Garden|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Fran, while Jane resisted the idea of them settling theregardener's daughter at a posh country house, so they were returned to an allegedly safe capitalis worried. One night after She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a bombing raid they settle outside large bone, buried under the neighbourhoodpotatoes. But she's token emptyeven more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, boarded up and deserted home – only for Bill to convince himself he hears someone insidethe older child of the house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. The unidentifiable and severely burnt child She is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that gets rescued becomes also seems to foretell a kind of new family member – but does this surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, she might have anything reason to do be out of her mind with Billfear, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. But surely that won's resent-filled wish for t act as a brother premonition to replace Janeanything - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126887</amazonuk>1781129002
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg RosoffAlex Wheatle|title=Good Dog McTavishThe Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating=2.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=McTavish did wonder whether he was making a mistake in adopting We meet Welton Blake at the Peachey family: it was a decision which came from worst of times – only they should be the heart rather than the headbest of times. You see He should be getting a text from the Peacheys were dysfunctional: Ma Peacheymost bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, an accountant by professionhe's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, decided that she was fed who's duffed him up with chasing around after an ungrateful familyin response, so she resigned and dedicated herself the wanna-bae seems to her yoga actually be with half someone else anyway. On a hint bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now that she might also dedicate herself the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to her yoga teacherhaving cabbage for dinner. She gave up cookingI know, cleaningright? But surely this is just a blip, bakinga day at school to forget, washing and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the other things which kept wash? This can't be the family going, such as finding lost keys and getting people out start of bed so that they got to wherever they were going on a most nightmarish time. And the familyfor young Welton? Well, they had no idea of how to cope, with one exception.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126836</amazonuk>1781129495
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Ardagh and Tom Morgan-Jones178112938X|title=Norman the Norman from Normandy Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (Little Gemsillustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|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>
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{{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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil EarleTanya Landman|title= SuperDad's Day OffJane Eyre: a Retelling|rating= 4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary= Stanley's dad is tired. It can be exhausting work being a Superhero. For six days of the week he saves the world A young woman, fresh from disasters living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and defeats years in a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the baddies as Dynamo Dan. Stanley decides his poor dad needs a day off life she wants – and is determined with only one job, to make sure that he gets tutor a proper restyoung half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. So they head off When he does turn up he seems to the park for some much needed Dad be dark, brooding and Son bonding time. However people dontroubled – but that't seem s nothing compared to understand that the darker, more broody and even Superheroes need time to recuperate. The requests for help keep on coming so what can poor Stanley do other than step more troubling secret in to save the dayhouse. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126844</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Quentin Blake|title= The Story of Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the Dancing Frog|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly |summary= When Jorest – but if you don's Great Aunt Gertrude's sea captain husband is drowned at sea she is grief-stricken andt, in despairfor whatever reason, 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 gowonderful book to turn to.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125910</amazonuk>1781129126
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Swindells1781128952|title=Knife EdgeThe Starlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer and Garry Parsons1781128693|title=Secret FCSpecial Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Meg Rosoff1781128707|title=Good Dog McTavishThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Vivian French
|rating=5
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Hoffman1949471004|title=TiltDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|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 You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on , without anything else being thrown into the person who can solve it, alongside her father who's employed to finish it offmix. But therein lies You need a story which engages the problem – ityoung mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn's all well and good showing someone buildingst go amiss, either. Reading - and making them want ''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be an architect, but if they're the wrong gender then all hope is lost… or is it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125651</amazonuk>'fun''.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Newbery1781128510|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 to buy, and teaching herself to ride, a bicycle. All that's under the watchful eye of a mother insistent she learns to knuckle down with the housework on behalf of the men, and an older brother working at the village hunt. At the office, however, further steps are suggested to her – shorthand and typing classes, but she gets diverted. 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>}}{{newreviewOne Shot|author=Julian Gough and Jim Field|title=Rabbit 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 Bear's cave when a terrible noise woke him. Was it thunder? No, it was Bear snoring. Very loudly. Rabbit tried putting his paws over his ears although that's not very successful when you have small paws and very big ears. But there was something good: when Rabbit went outside the cave he realised that spring had sprung. Suddenly he felt ''strong''. 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 - and it looked suspiciously like a snake.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934260</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Phil Earle |title=Mind The Gap Tanya Landman
|rating=4.5
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keren David 178112843X|title=The Liar's Handbook Lark|author=Anthony McGowan
|rating=5
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hilary McKay1786697173|title=The Sticky WitchMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Sally Gardner
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|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 and their catthings: firstly, Whiskers? She doesn't seem to be about the kind guardian that the children need, circus owned by a tiger and why is everything in whether it would ever come to her house so veryisland and secondly, very sticky?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125996</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert Swindells|title=The First Hunter|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Tan and his family are scavengers - stone age scavengers. When about a big cat makes a kill one of the family - magical ice cream made from the brand man - dashes in and frightens the big cat off its kill with a firy brand and one berries of the others snatches some Gongalong bush. One scoop of the meat for the familythis ice cream can make wishes come true. If they don't get the meat  And then it's down to roots, insects or lizardsMr Tiger and his circus arrive. 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 aliveAnd a journey is planned. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jackie Morris1781128286|title=The White FoxRun Wild|author=Gill Lewis
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Non PrattJennings Different|title=UnboxedA Different Dog|author=Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|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…
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{{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
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|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 Since Eliza died, since the night of the weekend. The family homecar crash that took her life, was spacious and in Sam is a pleasant neighbourhoodbroken soul. When He is lost without the family business went under they had to sell the house and move to something smaller. The horse riding and dance classes went and school was girl he loves, feeling as though a big comprehensive - with boys and a dull, grey uniform. Worst part of all she was moving away from her best friend, Jennyhim died that night too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125945</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tom Palmer|title= Wings: Spitfire|rating= 4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Greg But he is fed up with playing in goaldesperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He reckons things only happen remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to you therehelp him. The other players get However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to make them happen. The summer school isna pact with forces he doesn't turning out how he'd hoped at allunderstand. The old airfield next Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to the school freaks Greg out … but when he starts on a model of an old Spitfire, hechange Sam's propelled into an adventure that will really show him what it means to take control …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125368</amazonuk>life in more ways than he bargained for.
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