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[[Category:New Reviews|Dyslexia Friendly]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Cathy HopkinsSteve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, 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. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Mum Never Did Learn Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a 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-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=1800900899}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=The 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 Knockthe 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
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=#People are worrying about Emily: her Dad and Sully is the best tree climber in the staff at school are all worried that she's spending a lot of time talking to her Mumvillage. You might think that thereHe has what's nothing wrong with that - in fact that itknown amongst the kids as 's entirely commendable and young people ought to spend more time talking to their parents - but Emilyreach's Mum died . But what happens when a few months ago. Emily has reached the stage new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of ''hiding'' the fact hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that Mum appears to her in very real formhis status is being threatened, perhaps just a little bit ''ghostly''and not only that, but then you wouldn't expect her that his chance to look just like she was when she was alivename the final, now would you? At school she's sent unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to see a counsellorconquer it, but might be snatched from his hands. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it doesn't go quite the way that the counsellor was expecting... particularly when Emily asked where people go when they die and the ultimate 'what comes after spacecost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124957</amazonuk>1781129991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessLisa Thompson|title=PersistThe Small Things
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet Marianne Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like shenever really fits in. Her family don's confused. People keep coming t have enough money to let her do after school activities, and looking so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but they donthings are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't seem attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with the class by using a 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 see Ellie?|isbn=1781129649}}{{Frontpage|author=Emma Carroll and Kaja 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 - a large bone, buried under the potatoes. She wonders if But she's something shinyeven more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, the older child of the house, such as a mirrorbreaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. Her family are desperate: Marianne has been in a coma for so long that even her mother She is beginning due to doubt 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 can surface from wherever might have reason to be out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he isseeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. The doctors are sure But surely that therewon's no hope for the girl and they're talking about switching off t act as a premonition to anything - not here in the machines which are keeping her alivesultry, allowing her to fade away painlessly... It all comes to a head on Marianne's fifteenth birthday.summery days of 1914?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124949</amazonuk>1781129002
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris Priestley and Vladimir Stankovic Alex Wheatle|title=The Wickford DoomHumiliations of Welton Blake|rating=2.5
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|summary=Following Harry’s father’s death We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in the warregards 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 learn and not much income now that they’ve inherited a bequest from a relative. When the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they arrive 're resorting to claim ithaving cabbage for dinner. I know, thoughright? But surely this is just a blip, they find that they’ve been the victims of a dying man’s last cruel prank. But there are local tales of missing children day at school to forget, and a strange painting called everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the Doom, and Harry quickly learns that there may wash? This can't be something far more evil than the start of a nasty joke to worry about. Can he fight back against itmost nightmarish time for young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124094</amazonuk>1781129495
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malorie Blackman178112938X|title=Robot GirlSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Claire is excited and sheIt's ''nagging'' her mother to tell her what her father has been doing fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in his laboratoryFlorida, but her mother is no wiser than she is and tells Claire the story of that she will simply have to wait until her father is ready to show her what he's been doingjourney remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. He's 'Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a famous inventor and Claire knows that whatever it is will be exciting. For now all she can do is to tell her pen friend - and be patientbrilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124590</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer1781129312|title=Rugby Academy: Surface to AirSequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=We first met Rory in [[Rugby Academy: Combat Zone by Tom Palmer|Combat Zone]] when circumstances forced him Sequin loved her mum to go to Broadlands Boarding School when both his parents were posted abroad by the RAFbits, but sometimes she got very cross with her. It wasn't his choice that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - I mean they played ''rugby'' rather than his beloved football Sequin coped with that - but it wasn't long before he discovered that not only was because she never pushed to get credit for what she did he enjoy rugby, he was rather good at it. It was also something Mum is a seamstress and she makes the sort of a relief to be clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. She's not the designer - they're the people who make a school where there were other boys in a similar situation to himselflot of money from the clothes. By Mum is the person who actually ''makes'' the time that we meet Rory again time has moved on garments and heshe's on his way to Toulon to play in an international schools rugby tournamentreally talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123985</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Barbro Lindgren and Eva ErikssonTanya Landman|title=Max's WagonJane Eyre: a Retelling
|rating=5
|genre=For SharingDyslexia Friendly|summary=Max had a wagon and he began putting his treasures into it. First it was his bearA young woman, then the dogfresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, who was asleep on the chair and looking decidedly disinterested years in what was going ona dreary school, but he played his part. Then it was Max's ball moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – and the contents begin with only one job, to seem just tutor a little ''precarious'' and were even more so when Max's car was added to the pileyoung half-French girl, but bear sat astride Dog and Max pushed the wagon whilst holding the car on top of the ball with the otherwhose father is almost always absent. Then When he does turn up he added his cookie seems to be dark, brooding and Dog began troubled – but that's nothing compared to look just the tiniest bit ''distracted'' darker, more broody and bear fell out. Dog got bear and brought him back and he did the same when the car and the ball fell off the wagon (even more troubling secret in the literal sense of the phrase)house. Then Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the cookie fell out..rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn to.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1776570014</amazonuk>1781129126
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frank Cottrell Boyce1781128952|title=DesirableThe Starlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Poor GeorgeThis is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. He knows When one of his clients demands that he his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved and is not popular but when even his own Grandad doesn't want only too ready to stay around for his birthday party he realises that things are even worse than he thoughthelp. However this was before he discovered the contents An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of the present from his Grandad drab attic workroom and experienced into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the dramatic impact on his life an aged bottle of aftershave would bring. Although George tries planet never before known to think himself invisible in order to cope today he is not invisibleexist. In fact he is not only visible but desirable too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124248</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128693|title=Good Dog Lion (Little Gems)Special Delivery|author=Alexander McCall SmithJonathan Meres|rating=54
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|summary=Being a firm fan of Alexander McCall Smith's novels for adultsHow do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, I wasnbut when the problem is the brain which isn't surprised functioning quite as it used to find that I thoroughly enjoyed this childrenit isn's storyt as easy to grasp. Written with the same gentle understanding of human nature, Frank was a normal nine-year-old and so very deftly told, I read this story with like many nine-year-olds what he wanted was a great deal of pleasurenew bike. Although the story behind TimoHe's life is rather sad, with d had his father leaving him for about seventy-eight years and his mother when Timo is only young, and his mother then struggling to find enough money he didn't want to raise both of them, it never descends into tragedy but remains positive and upbeatthe seat any more. ItMum pointed out that it wasn's t his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a story lot of strengthmoney, and bravery, and Iwhich didn't grow on trees. His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her with her paper round. Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a thousand years to save up the money for a bike AND he had to get up at six o'm not just talking about Timo and his motherclock in the morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123721</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer1781128707|title=Rugby Academy: Combat ZoneThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Vivian French
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Woody's dreams were about football: he wanted Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to play for his country one win the 100 metres race on sports day, but there at the end of term - and that was a snagnext week. His father was a fighter pilot - and his squadron was We're going to war - but as Dad was a single parent Woody had to go to a boarding school for armed forces kids. Thatread about what happened in her diary, although there's enough of a change for any boywarning that we really shouldn't be reading it, but thereparticularly as it's an even bigger one which Woody has to contend withabout Barbie Meek. At Borderlands they To say that the two girls don't play footballget on at all well is a bit of an understatement. They're ''mad'Suzi wouldn' t actually do anything about rugby. It's almost it, but Barbie is a religion. How will Woody cope with boarding schools ''troublemaker and'' rugby? How will he manage she wants to win the constant knowledge that his father is in a combat zone?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123977</amazonuk>100 metres race too - by fair means or foul.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen McCombie1949471004|title=The Girl With The Sunshine SmileDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=54
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Everyone knew Meg as What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the girl with book might not be the sunshine smile. She always looked ''pretty'ones you' ve been working on and ''happy'' and her mother used her in her business to model bridesmaid's dresses. They had encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a lovely little flat which was always neat as negative effect on the young dyslexic than a new pin and Meg thought child without that life was perfectproblem. Then her mother met Danny - and everything changed. Danny was the single father You need to be able to four boys and they all lived buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on a houseboat. A messy houseboat. With no lock what you've been working on , without anything else being thrown into the bathroom doormix. And when there was You need a flood at Mum's flat they had to move in with Danny story which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the four boyslearning process without there being any large jumps. That was when Meg stopped smilingSome online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124035</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Wolfman|author=Michael Rosen Reading - and Chris Mould|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=People are panicking. The police are afraid. The army have run away''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. Who or what could possibly It should be so scary? It’s Wolf Man. And he’s on the loose''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123748</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128510|title=Freddy and the PigOne Shot|author=Charlie Higson and Mark ChambersTanya Landman
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Ten year old Matthew Buzzington was less than impressed when his father got a new, high-powered job ''Pa and they had to move to I understood each other. Our souls were cut from the big city like IMMEDIATELYsame cloth. It meant a new school'' But Pa has since died, complete with a bully called Pineapple Johnsonleaving Maggie very much alone in her family. (No. Sorry. You'll have to find out for yourself.) Matthew held on to one fact though - he knew that he had a superpower. He could turn himself into a fly. There's She was the only one problem. It of three children who looked like him, and none of the others acted like him, and certainly, his wife didn't workseem to fully understand him. No matter how hard he triedMaggie might as well be reliving the Cinderella story, no matter how he concentrated on thinking himself into being a fly, he was still a ten-year-old boy stuck with curly hair two siblings and he was getting bulliedmother that are fully against her. Then everything changed one But at least she can sneak out at night when Matthew, his four-year-old sister Bella and Pineapple Johnson were accidentally locked in shoot some game to stop them from starving? Well, no, not where her mother is concerned – the school one night. And burglars broke invery idea of a female shooting things, when they could be preparing for a life of unhappy married drudgery, is just scandalous. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124140</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Ure178112843X|title=Star for a DayLark|author=Anthony McGowan
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Lucy French (Luce to her grandad) is thirteen and she lives with said Grandad, Mum - and eleven-year-old Lola. LolaI's the one who gets all the attention, is able to loosen Mum's purse strings with a pout of her lip and who was upset when she only got Highly Commended in last year's Talent Show. This year she will, of course, require a ''completely'' new outfit and the undivided attention of the family - and that not long after she's had a new outfit to go to a party. Lola is gorgeous, bubbly and brims over with confidencell warn you first.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Oldfield1786697173|title=Bright StarMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Sally Gardner
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Morgan was just thirteen when Betsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, Alonso, makes the most wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Her mother, Myrtle, is a mermaid and comes to visit regularly, although she was sent to her aunt's ranch still lives in the Rockies for sea. Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, about the summer. It was all circus owned by a bit alien tiger and whether it would ever come to her - I mean she was island and secondly, about a city girl magical ice cream made from Chicago the berries of the Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true. And then Mr Tiger and she was going to have to get on with ''horses''his circus arrive. It's not long though before she realises that she has And a real affinity with horses and ponies and develops a special bond with a terrified wild mustangjourney is planned.. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Nicholls1781128286|title=Shadow GirlRun Wild|author=Gill Lewis
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=One of Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from the local attempt at a skatepark, they find a huge waste ground in the disadvantages shadow of the foster care system is that some children get moved around rather a lot and usually itderelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, even though they have to drag Izzy's not down to younger brother with them. But because of this it's easy The following day they all want to see making friends return, as being a wasted effort and this was certainly Claredoes the brother's opinion. By the age schoolfriend, despite – and of course because of fourteen she was at her third secondary school - and after being – there for two months she hated itis a huge wolf living in the site. Everyone else had been there for years and they all had friends: Clare had no one. A very bad day saw her being evicted from Can the children survive living in the school bus and then getting lost as she tried to find her way home. The good thing was that she met Maddy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123136</amazonuk>urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline LawrenceJennings Different|title=The Night RaidA Different Dog|author=Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=The Trojan War Our hero is over a boy, whose name we never learn. We know what he wants in life – with his mother exceedingly poor, and even his bed burnt to keep the few survivors have to find somewhere else to livetwo of them warm, he wants the prize offered by a down-a-mountain-and-back-up-and-down-again foot race. Rye Winning the race and Nisus - barely the large purse would also give him more than children at status in the end eyes of those kids that bully him, and it might even give him a voice – for he is almost mute. We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the war motivation, and both with their own burden of guilt can only speak aloud to himself – and horror - are obsessed by , so it turns out, to a dog he rescues from a bad road accident he finds on his way up the need hill to seek vengeance and protect the land on which they have now settled.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123667</amazonuk>start line…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dawson_Grave|title=The Moonshine Dragon (Little Gems)Grave Matter|author=Cornelia FunkeJuno Dawson and Alex T Smith
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=What happens when stories escape from books? One moonlit Since Eliza died, since the night Patrick of the car crash that took her life, Sam is woken up by the noise of a tiny dragon emerging from his storybook and chased by an equally tiny knight on horsebackbroken soul. Suddenly Patrick finds himself shrunk to story book size too and He is lost without the girl he and the dragon find themselves under attack. Can Patrick save them both before time runs out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123535</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Almond and Vladimir Stankovic|title=Klaus Vogel and the Bad Lads|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=The Bad Lads had been together for years. They were scampsloves, mischief makers - lads having feeling as though a bit part of fun - and they were led by Joe Gillespie who was a year or two olderhim died that night too. The lads thought that Joe was great but there was a niggling feeling amongst one or two of the boys that But he was getting a bit more extreme is desperate and that some of his pranks were actually - deliberately - going to hurt people. The fire at Mr Eustace's (he was a conchie, you see) happened the same week that Klaus Vogel arrived in the town of Fellingcannot live without Eliza. The scrawny refugee from East Germany who knew hardly any English would change things for the Bad Lads.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122695</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Minikid (Little Gems)|author=Michael Morpurgo|rating=3.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=There seem to be more He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and more books being published, now, that are marketing themselves as being dyslexia friendly. This Michael Morpurgo story is from Little Gems her peculiar healing powers and it follows the guidelines that make it easier wonders if she might be able to read for children with dyslexiahelp him. The paper is a high quality cream paperHowever, so no shadows coming through from finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the other side Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to distract readers, there's make a special font, and there are pictures throughout the story. Itpact with forces he doesn's a lovely size that fits nicely into small hands, with an appealing covert understand. So far, so good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123527</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Palmer|title=Over The Line|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Jack Cock made his debut Things soon turn complicated as a professional footballer for Huddersfield Town and that fragile dream of playing for his country came just a little bit closer, but this was just before the beginning of the First World War, when there was immense pressure on young men supernatural powers start to do the honourable thing and join the war to fight in France. ''Over the Line'' is the story of Jackchange Sam's war, of joining the Footballers' Battalion, playing life in the Flanders Cup, fighting in the trenches and not just surviving but being decorated more ways than he bargained for bravery. After the war he scored England's first international goal and was one of the first of the modern generation of 'professional footballers'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123934</amazonuk>
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