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[[Category:New Reviews|Dyslexia Friendly]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|author=Jenny Oldfield|title=Bright Star|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Morgan was just thirteen when she was sent to her aunt's ranch in the Rockies for the summer. It was all a bit alien to her - I mean she was a city girl from Chicago and she was going to have to get on with ''horses''. It's not long though before she realises that she has a real affinity with horses and ponies and develops a special bond with a terrified wild mustang. It's Morgan who rescues the animal when it's trapped in barbed wire and calms it sufficiently to bring it into shelter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123756</amazonuk>}}

<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Nicholls1800901232|title=Shadow GirlStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|summary=One of Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the disadvantages of rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the foster care system is that some children get moved around rather village to offer Hahn a lot and usually job in Hanoi it's was an opportunity not down to thembe missed. But because of this it's easy to see making friends as being a wasted effort Some money changed hands and this Hanh was certainly Clare's opinion. By on the age of fourteen she was at her third secondary school mini- and after being there for two months she hated itbus to Hanoi. Everyone else had been there for years Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they all had friends: Clare had no onewere to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. A very bad day saw her being evicted from You know those jeans you really wanted: the school bus ones with intricate embroidery and then getting lost as she tried to find her way home. beading on the legs? The good thing was ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that she met MaddyHanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123136</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LawrenceMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Night RaidWrath

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=The Trojan War Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over , and the few survivors have he should be free to do what he wants, to find somewhere else go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to livehis best friend, Cassie. Rye and Nisus They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco- barely more than children at warrior parents saying the end of the war and both with their own burden world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of guilt and horror - are obsessed by ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the need to seek vengeance and protect the land on which they have now settledtruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123667</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Moonshine Dragon (Little Gems)Lucy Strange and Pam Smy|authortitle=Cornelia FunkeThe Mermaid in the Millpond

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=What happens when stories escape from books? One moonlit night Patrick There is woken up by no mermaid in the noise of millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a tiny dragon emerging from his storybook and chased friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by an equally tiny knight on horsebackthe London workhouse they used to call home. Suddenly Patrick finds Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself shrunk to story book size too kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and he 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 dragon find themselves under attacktired-out mill workers. Can Patrick save them both before time runs outBut surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123535</amazonuk>180090049X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Almond and Vladimir StankovicKeith Gray|title=Klaus Vogel and the Bad LadsThe Climbers

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=The Bad Lads had been together for yearsSully is the best tree climber in the village. He has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach'. They were scampsBut what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, mischief makers - lads having a bit who clambers up some of fun - the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, and they were led not only that, that his chance to name the final, unnamed big tree in the park by Joe Gillespie who was a year 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 two oldermaybe even all of his friends, to do so?|isbn=1781129991}}{{Frontpage|author=Lisa Thompson|title=The Small Things|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. Her family don't have enough money to let her do after school activities, and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. The lads thought that Joe was great When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but there was things are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with the class by using a niggling feeling amongst one or two robot. Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through a robot, and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649}}{{Frontpage|author=Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=The Ghost Garden|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Fran, the boys that he was getting gardener's daughter at a posh country house, is worried. She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a bit large bone, buried under the potatoes. But she's even more extreme and worried when she learns that that some 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 pranks were actually bathchair, she might have reason to be out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - deliberately a long- going to hurt peopleforgotten burial chamber. The fire at Mr EustaceBut surely that won's (he was t act as a conchiepremonition to anything - not here in the sultry, you see) happened summery days of 1914?|isbn=1781129002}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Wheatle|title=The Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating=2.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the same week that Klaus Vogel arrived in worst of times – only they should be the town best of Fellingtimes. The scrawny refugee He should be getting a text from East Germany 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 knew hardly any English would change '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 Bad Lads.wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122695</amazonuk>1781129495

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Minikid (Little Gems)Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=Michael MorpurgoDavid Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=3.5

|summary=There seem to be more and more books being published, now, that are marketing themselves as being dyslexia friendly. This Michael Morpurgo story is from Little Gems and it follows It's fifty years since the guidelines that make it easier to read for children with dyslexia. The paper is a high quality cream paper, so no shadows coming through Apollo 13 mission was launched from the other side to distract readersKennedy Space Centre in Florida, there's a special font, and there are pictures throughout but the storyof that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. It's 'Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a lovely size that fits nicely into small hands, with an appealing coverbrilliant retelling of what happened. So far, so good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123527</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer1781129312|title=Over The LineSequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)

|summary=Jack Cock made his debut as a professional footballer for Huddersfield Town and 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 fragile dream of playing - it was because she never pushed to get credit for his country came just what she did. Mum is a little bit closer, but this was just before seamstress and she makes the beginning sort of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. She's not the First World War, when there was immense pressure on young men to do designer - they're the honourable thing and join people who make a lot of money from the war to fight in Franceclothes. Mum is the person who actually ''Over the Linemakes'' is the story of Jackgarments and she's warreally talented, of joining but when people talk about the Footballers' Battalion, playing in dress or the Flanders Cupsuit, fighting in they talk about the trenches and not just surviving but being decorated for braverydesigner. After the war he scored England's first international goal and was one of the first of the modern generation of 'professional footballers'The seamstress is never mentioned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123934</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Blamehounds (Little Gems)Tanya Landman|authortitle=Ross CollinsJane Eyre: a Retelling

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=The idea began A young woman, fresh from living with Mr Lime’s bodily explosions (didn’t I put that nicely?) After three of them it was Norman the dog (horrid relatives who was entirely blameless could care less about her, and years in this matter so long as you’re willing a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to overlook have something like the fact that he was having life she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a lovely dream about dropping cats off bridges) who got the kick to speed him from the roomyoung half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. There were a couple more occasions when something similar happened When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but instead of getting a complex about what was happeningthat's nothing compared to the darker, Norman saw an opportunitymore broody and even more troubling secret in the house. A business opportunity. If dogs were going to get Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the blame then there should be something in it rest – but if you don't, for them and he went into partnership with his best matewhatever reason, Ringo (who does seem this is a wonderful book to turn to be obsessed with sausages) and Blamehounds was born.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123926</amazonuk>1781129126

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eleanor Updale and Sarah Horne1781128952|title=Itch Scritch ScratchThe Starlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James

|summary='''Warning: This Book Will Get Under Your Skin''' Wellis a dyslexia-friendly, that's what it says on science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the back tale of the book Hugo, an unwanted and I can promise that it's true. You might like to wear rather lonely android, who makes a pair of those cotton mittens living for babies whilst you readhimself mending time-travel watches. It will feel awkwardWhen one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, but you'll feel the benefitHugo realises there is a mystery to be solved and is only too ready to help. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, honestly. But - I'm getting ahead which takes Hugo out of myself. You want to know about the book. It's his drab attic workroom and into a family story - and scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the family in question are head liceplanet never before known to exist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122946</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Ross Collins1781128693|title=All I Said WasSpecial Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres

|summary=Our young friend looked up at How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when the window and saw a pigeon balancing on problem is the window sill and our young friend had a thought. brain which isn''I'd like t functioning quite as it used to be you,it isn'' he said, dreaming of flying off t as easy to anywhere that he likedgrasp. The pigeon Frank was quite happy to change places: lying on the bed reading a book seemed normal nine-year-old and like many nine-year-olds what he wanted was a good idea, so the two changed placesnew bike. Our young hero thought it was great as He'd had his for about seventy-eight years and he flew off towards the sea: didn''I t want to be a bird all my life''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123489</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Tilly's Promise|author=Linda Newbery|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Tilly often wished things would change in raise the sleepy little village she called home, but she gets seat any more change than she bargained for when war breaks . Mum pointed out. First her sweetheart joins up, then Tilly signs on a nurse and finally her brother Georgie is called up, despite the fact that he is completely unfit for service. Georgie is different, big it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and strong but with the mind of bikes cost a child - how could he possibly survive the horrors lot of war? So many promises are mademoney, Tilly promises her sweetheart Harry she will wait - Harry assures her he wonwhich didn't be away long - sure it will probably be over by Christmas (famous last words)grow on trees. When Georgie is posted to Harry's unit, Tilly extracts His sister Lottie had a somewhat reluctant promise from him to look after solution: Frank could help her with her brotherpaper round. More promises will be made - but promises are hard Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a thousand years to keep in wartime. As Georgie and Harry face save up the harsh reality of life in the trenches, Tilly finds herself near the frontline as money for a nurse. Everything seems bike AND he had to have changed. Will even love remain the same - especially get up at six o'clock in the aftermath of a broken promise?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122938</amazonuk>morning.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128707|title=Old Dog, New TricksThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Bali RaiVivian French

|summary=Nick is Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to win the 100 metres race on sports day at the end of term - and that was next week. We're going to read about what happened in her diary, although there's a miserable old sod by anyonewarning that we really shouldn't be reading it, particularly as it's definitionabout Barbie Meek. His equally mangy dog, Nelson, is To say that the only friend he has, as his nasty nature puts everyone off. But while he may be unpleasant to most people, he two girls don't get on at all well is downright horrible when the Singh family move in, bringing out the worst of his racist views - but can a man who likes Bob Marley really hate anyone bit of another colour? Is Nick just an ignorant and understatement. offensive old gitSuzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, or but Barbie is there something more beneath the surface? No one seems to have really bothered to find out before a common love of dogs draws young Harvey Singh to attempt troublemaker and she wants to befriend not only win the unkempt dog, but the lonely old man as well100 metres race too - by fair means or foul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123470</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1949471004|title=The First Third Wish (Little Gems)Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Ian BeckPamela Brookes|rating=54

|summary=This What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is a lovely story reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book might not be the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a lost wish. Cobweb has bungled her very first assignment, losing negative effect on the third wish meant for young dyslexic than a kindly woodcutterchild without that problem. She managed You need to be able to replace it with buy books at a sparereasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, but her job will not be complete until without anything else being thrown into the missing wish is found and returnedmix. It seems You need a lost wish is very dangerous indeed as it gives story which engages the finder an unlimited supply of wishes - young mind and not all people are careful what they wish foryou need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. As luck would have it though Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, the wish has found its way just either. Reading - and ''learning'' to the place where it most needed, where it will result in read - should be a true happily ever after, not only for the young man who finds it, but for many others as wellpleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122458</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128510|title=My Friend's a Gris-Kwok (Little Gems)One Shot|author=Malorie Blackman and Andy RowlandTanya Landman

|summary=When Mike discovers that his best friend Alex is a Gris Kwok or shape shifter it looks like they are ''Pa and I understood each other. Our souls were cut from the same cloth.'' But Pa has since died, leaving Maggie very much alone in for some real funher family. Not She was the only can Alex change into any creature he wantsone of three children who looked like him, and none of the others acted like him, and certainly, he can change anyone touching his wife didn't seem to fully understand him . Maggie might as well. There be reliving the Cinderella story, stuck with two siblings and mother that are only three hitchesfully against her. The first is that Alex But at least she can only change three times a day. The second sneak out at night, and shoot some game to stop them from starving? Well, no, not where her mother is that his sister has concerned – the same powers. The third very idea of a female shooting things, when they could be preparing for a life of unhappy married drudgery, is that Alex is babysitting and if you think babysitting ordinary siblings is difficult just wait until you see all the mischief a shape shifting toddler can get intoscandalous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112244X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112843X|title=Snug (Little Gems)Lark|author=Michael Morpurgo and Faye HansenAnthony McGowan|rating=2.5

|summary=Michael Morpurgo has captured what is like to own a cat, or perhaps more accurately to be owned by a cat, perfectlyI'll warn you first. Snug comes into the family at almost the same time as Lisa and the two grow up together and share a special bond. His exploits will be familiar to any one who has any experience of cats and many children will relate to things Snug does just like their own pet. The illustrations in this book are beautiful and certain to delight any animal lover, as well as giving readers a nostalgic look at childhood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122865</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The Castle in This is the Field (Little Gems)|author=Michael Morpurgo and Faye Hansen|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=I think all children love dens. It is almost a primal instinct for children, to find, construct fourth and hide away in huts, dens, tents, or any other place that gives them that sense of their own private place, away from the world. Michael Morpurgo has captured the magic of a secret den perfectly in this last story of three friends who find an abandoned WW2 Pillbox about Nicky and make it into their own private castleKenny. The children are Try not really meant to be in the pillbox. It is on private property, but they doncry before you't really have any place else to go. Two of the children are not allowed to go home until their parents finish work and the third will not leave his best friend out in ve even read the weather alone. At first the pillbox is just shelter from a storm, but it soon becomes an embodiment of all the wonder of childhood as the children transform it into a wonderful private retreat. But how long will they be able to keep their special hideout a secret? This is a lovely story with a heart warming theme of friendship, a confrontation with bullies, and the inevitable pangs of growing uppage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122873</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Ninja: First Mission (Ninja Trilogy)|author=Chris Bradford Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and Sonia Leong|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=If you are looking for adventure, '' Ninja First Mission'' will certain come up trumpshis learning-disabled brother Kenny. This book never has Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a slow momentlong time ago. But even as They haven't seen her for years and the story races along at breakneck speed, there impending visit is plenty to think about as wellstirring up a lot of uncomfortable feelings. This book And Nicky's girlfriend has as much to offer the deep thinker as the adrenaline junkyended things. TataTo take their minds off it all, Nicky and Kenny plan a young Ninja in trainingday out, is desperate to prove himself. He has failed trekking across the test for his black belt three times, but this was just a simple testmoors. The sacred scrolls of his clan have been stolen, But it doesn't go to plan and all of the fully fledged Ninja but one are away on another mission. Tata faces another test, but this time the stakes are life an accident puts both boys - and deaththeir dog, not only for himselfTina, but for his clan. In order to succeed Tata must learn to find victory in failure. Most of all he must learn to believe in himselfterrible danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842999397</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786697173|title=Football CrazyMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Tony Bradman and Michael BroadSally Gardner

|summary=''Football Crazy'' is about Betsy K Glory lives a group of friends who play rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, Alonso, makes the worst team most wonderful ice cream in the league. It can be difficult when your team loses every time flavour you go on the pitch, but Danny, Jamil and Lewis love the sport and they stick with it - win or losecould imagine. They keep hoping the next game will be the game in which they finally winHer mother, or at least get on the scoreboardMyrtle, but it never happens - not as long as Mr Perkins is coaching. When the coach finally packs it in - it looks like curtains for Rovers FC. But, luck seems a mermaid and comes to be on the children's side when a new coach, Jock Ramsayvisit regularly, with some history although she still lives in the pro leagues is foundsea. The new coach is toughBetsy dreams of two things: firstly, but he quickly gets about the team into shape circus owned by a tiger and whether it would ever come to her island and the Rovers start climbing the league tables. Parents are delightedsecondly, about a magical ice cream made from the stands are full, but the children find they no longer love berries of the sportGongalong bush. Everything is about winning. Things One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come to crisis point when Coach Ramsay orders Danny to take a divetrue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122121</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Secret FC|author=Tom Palmer|rating=3|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Unlike many children, Lily, Zack And then Mr Tiger and Khan can't wait for the school year to beginhis circus arrive. They live in an overcrowded part of London with no room for outdoor sports and the school ground And a journey is the only place they can enjoy a friendly game of footballplanned. But their hopes for the new term are dashed when a new Head Teacher decides ball sports are too dangerous for children. Surprisingly, with an overly safety-conscious Head, while football is prohibited there is a wooded waste ground inside the school grounds - which just happens to be the perfect spot for the children to clear and create their own football pitch. But will they be able to keep the secret? Or will Mr Edwards blow the final whistle on all of their sports? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122415</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128286|title=SamuraiRun Wild|author=Ian Beck and Daniel AtanasovGill Lewis

|summary=The hero of our story is namelessMeet Izzy and Asha. He is only Bullied away from the Samurai, and not even quite that. He is dishonoured, local attempt at a masterless Samuraiskatepark, or Ronin. We do not know his master's fate but we can only assume it is death, and that Ronin has fled the field taking his injured dog to safety. The land is desolate and barren and both the text and the superbly drawn illustrations build they find a feeling of darkness and despair. The path he travels on is lined with skeletons of defeated warriors lashed to wagon wheels. It gives huge waste ground in the reader the impression shadow of the road a derelict gasometer to hell. The young Samurai takes refuge in a ruined palacepractise on, yet another sign of devastation upon the landwhich they duly do, seeming even though they have to exist for the next few days only to care for Cho, his dog, while awaiting the punishment of the gods for his failuredrag Izzy's younger brother with them. He rises from despair The following day they all want to help othersreturn, first to defeat a demon haunting as does the palacebrother's schoolfriend, despite – and then undertaking of course because of – there is a journey to find and defeat another deadly demon. Soon the young warrior comes to a village suffering under huge wolf living in the most horrific of cursessite. His courage will be put to Can the test as he must risk even his beloved Cho to save an innocent girl and lift children survive living in the curse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122202</amazonuk>urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jennings Different|title=Thor and the Master of MagicA Different Dog|author=Kevin Crossley-Holland Paul Jennings and SikuGeoff Kelly|rating=4.5

|summary=I grew up Our hero is a boy, whose name we never learn. We know what he wants in life – with tales of his mother exceedingly poor, and even his bed burnt to keep the heroes two of Asgardthem warm, he wants the prize offered by a down-a-mountain-and this story was always a firm favourite, but today's children are more likely to know Thor from ''The Avengers''-back-up-and-down-again foot race. This book is sure to interest any young comic book fans, Winning the race and the illustrations will certainly help with thislarge purse would also give him more status in the eyes of those kids that bully him, but and it might even give him a voice – for he is still faithful almost mute. We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the original mythmotivation, and in my mind would count as literaturecan only speak aloud to himself – and, so it turns out, rather than just to a fun read - but I wouldn't tell the children that. This is an excellent retelling of Thor's visit to Utgarda - Loki ( the giant king's hall) dog he rescues from Prose Edda a collection of Norse poetry thought bad road accident he finds on his way up the hill to have been compiled by the Icelandic poet Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122210</amazonuk>start line…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dawson_Grave|title=Under AttackGrave Matter|author=Jim Eldridge Juno Dawson and Dave ShepherdAlex T Smith|rating=34.5

|summary=My sons are army barmy as they saySince Eliza died, and have been begging for military stories so I was delighted to see this in since the Barrington Stoke range. The book reminded me a bit night of a cross between the old Commando comic books and Action Man books with heroes blazing to the rescuecar crash that took her life, but sadly I found something lackingSam is a broken soul. It He is lost without the girl he loves, feeling as though a very short story and packed with action, but there really does not seem to be any character developmentpart of him died that night too. The story itself But he is very simple but flatdesperate and he cannot live without Eliza. The Taliban attacks a hospital repeatedly He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and the British Army comes wonders if she might be able to the rescuehelp him. A very small child is shot and However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the doctor elects Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to perform emergency surgery on make a kitchen table rather than waiting for the helicopter to arrive, but the Taliban havenpact with forces he doesn't given upunderstand. The doctor valiantly tries Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to operate to remove a bullet next to the childchange Sam's heart under the most desperate of circumstances, without blood, anaesthetics etc..life in more ways than he bargained for.. all the while under heavy fire. Will the British Army be able to save the day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122113</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Gamer|author=Chris Bradford|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=''Gamer'' is written for the child who would rather be in front of a console than reading book. Even the cover depicts action with a scene that changes Move on to depict fighting if you tilt the book. This isn't to say it lacks depth. This has a well developed plot, and very good characterisation, but the action never stops. It is perfect for children who are used to the high adrenaline experience of a video game, but it has plenty to offer the child who loves books as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121389</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Dystopian Fiction Reviews]]