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|summary=Lily did ''not'' want Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a goldfishfashion designer. Nor did Life in the rural village where she want 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 hamster or a catjob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. She wanted a ''DOG'' Only, Hanh and whilst she understood what Mum said about the other girls were not being able going to have work in a dog 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 5th floor flat without a garden she still thought it was unfair. legs? After all, The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when they lived at Granyou touched them? It's house there was 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 garden 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 she could have had 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 dogdesultory school band, but then Mum and Gran had Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a row and they moved outsubhuman hum coming from the earth. She hadnIs 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't even seen Gran for three months and s dreaming of? Is she ''missed'' her. just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the dog which she couldntruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't have. Even Keri, her best friend, though that she was going on a bit about the whole thing..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124965</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin Colfer Lucy Strange and Victor AmbrusPam Smy|title=The Seal's Fate (Colour Conker) Mermaid in the Millpond|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Bobby Parrish was reluctant to admit that There is no mermaid in the seal was cute, even to himselfmillpond. That sort of thing was at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for girls and he was here her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to club the sealmill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. Seals were affecting his father's livelihood as a fisherman and Bess knows there was is no time for friendship in a bounty hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a £1 for bit of a seal's flipper: kindred spirit in those days the slight little Dot, and despite everything that was good money life has taught her about betrayal and even one how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the girls had collected the cashtired-out mill workers. Still, somehow he couldnBut surely that doesn't quite bring himself to attack mean there is any truth in the defenceless cub, all big, black, round eyes and obviously unworried by his presence. What would the other lads say though? More to existence of the point, what would his father saymermaid?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124310</amazonuk>180090049X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo and Catherine RaynerKeith Gray|title=Clare and Her Captain (Colour Conker)The Climbers

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Clare didn't enjoy Sully is the journey down to Devon. Her parents always argued and it was usually because Mum had lost her way or got caught best tree climber in a traffic jam and this time she'd done boththe village. It was a little better when they got to Aunt DoraHe has what's house, but Aunt Dora wasnknown amongst the kids as 'reach't exactly a peacemaker and tended to stick up for Dad against everybody else. The holiday improved But what happens when Clare got out for a walk on her own 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 discovered a stray lamb on not only that, that his chance to name the final, unnamed big tree in the park by being the roadfirst to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. She took How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it to the nearest house and Mr Jones was delighted: Clare had just saved half cost him his flock. Clare got on with the old man - and with best friend, or maybe even all of his horsefriends, Captain.to do so?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124353</amazonuk>1781129991

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Rosen and Richard WatsonLisa Thompson|title=Mad in the BackThe Small Things|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Mum is setting off on a long car journey with two kids Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in the back - did I hear you groan? Mum groaned too because she . Her family don''knew'' what was going t have enough money to happen. She told the kids before let her do after school activities, and so she set off that they had feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to behave because she couldn't drive properly if the kids were going ''mad in the back''theirs. The kids told When a new girl joins her not class, Anna is asked to worry - partner her, but things are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and off they went. Then the kids started ''The Moaning'so can't attend school in person. Every parent will know exactly what this means: requests for drinkInstead, food, windows open... Then she joins in with the squabbling starts: accusations that ''HE'' has got my book, ears are bitten class by ''HER''using a robot. Mum tries diversionary tactics: ''look out Can Anna overcome the challenge of the window - there's making friends with someone through a robot, and is she even interesting enough to be a lamp-post''. (Yes MUm - we know desperation when we hear it.) And it gets worse. And worse. Then Mum snaps.good friend to Ellie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125090</amazonuk>1781129649

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen McCombieEmma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=Honey and MeThe Ghost Garden

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Most girls starting out Brook City School are hoping for something new and differentFran, but Kirsten just wants things to be ''normalthe 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. Even good things seem to come But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with a sting in Leo, the tail and worst older child of allthe house, Mum and Dad are really not getting breaking his leg while playing cricket onthe lawn. In fact Kirsten She is happiest at school and does all the after-school activities due to get even more worried when she can manage just finds something else that also seems to keep away from home for as long as she canforetell a surprise. Her elder brotherTasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, Finn, who's at sixth form college, is struggling too: what used she might have reason to be thought out of as ''cheeky'' at school has turned into ''disruptive''her mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. When things get really bad Kirsten is suddenly reminded But surely that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the sultry, summery days of her old friend Honey and wonders if she can get in touch with her.1914?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124752</amazonuk>1781129002

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michelle Magorian and Sam UsherAlex Wheatle|title= SmileThe Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating= 2.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary= Josh is tiredWe meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, fed but his phone has packed up , he's chundered last night's meal and feeling put out and ignored. Nohis breakfast over another girl in class, he isnwho't having a tantrum – something big has happened (wells duffed him up in response, two things and the wanna-bae seems to actually) and his world has turned upside downbe with someone else anyway. You see On a bigger scale he''The Howler'' has arrived s living with his mother and everything not much income now that the dad has changed and notleft the picture – yes, things are so far, bad they're resorting to having cabbage for the betterdinner. Baby brother Charlie I know, right? But surely this is just seventeen days old a blip, a day at school to forget, and is not only taking up everything (like his vomit) will all of his parents' time, but also stopping everyone come out in the house from getting enough sleep with his constant howling. Will the crying 'ever' stopwash? And there This can's worse because t be the really terrible thing is the baby's arrival meant start of a very special event had to be cancelled. most nightmarish time for young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125007</amazonuk>1781129495

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer178112938X|title=Rugby AcademySurvival in Space: DeadlockedThe Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|summary=It's fifty years since the third story in the ''Rugby Academy'' series and so far we've heard Apollo 13 mission was launched from Woody in [[Rugby Academy: Combat Zone by Tom Palmer|Combat Zone]] and Rory in [[Rugby Academy: Surface to Air by Tom Palmer|Surface to Air]]. In this, the final book Kennedy Space Centre in this brilliant seriesFlorida, we hear from Owen. We left but the team at story of that journey remains one of the end greatest survival stories of all time. ''Surface to Air'Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission' when Borderlands had got through to the World Championship in New Zealand. Despite the elation of doing so Owen isn't entirely comfortable with Jesse, the team captain. He has no doubts that he was is a brilliant player - the best on the team - but he can't respect him as a personretelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123993</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy Hopkins1781129312|title=Mum Never Did Learn to KnockSequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=#People are worrying about Emily: Sequin loved her Dad and the staff at school are all worried that mum to bits, but sometimes she's spending a lot of time talking to got very cross with her Mum. You might think It wasn't that theremum wouldn's nothing wrong t go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - in fact it was because she never pushed to get credit for what she did. Mum is a seamstress and she makes the sort of clothes that ityou see on red carpets or at important weddings. She's entirely commendable and young people ought to spend more time talking to their parents not the designer - but Emilythey's Mum died re the people who make a few months agolot of money from the clothes. Emily has reached Mum is the stage of person who actually ''hidingmakes'' the fact that Mum appears to her in very real form, perhaps just a little bit ''ghostly'', but then you wouldn't expect her to look just like she was when she was alive, now would you? At school garments and she's sent to see a counsellorreally talented, but it doesn't go quite when people talk about the dress or the way that suit, they talk about the counsellor was expectingdesigner. The seamstress is never mentioned.. particularly when Emily asked where people go when they die and the ultimate 'what comes after space?'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124957</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessTanya Landman|title=PersistJane Eyre: a Retelling

|summary=When we first meet Marianne she's confused. People keep coming and looking at herA young woman, but they don't seem to see ''fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her''. She wonders if she's something shiny, such as a mirror. Her family are desperate: Marianne has been and years in a coma for so long that even her mother is beginning dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to doubt that she can surface from wherever have something like the life she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father isalmost always absent. The doctors are sure When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but that there's no hope for nothing compared to the girl darker, more broody and theyeven more troubling secret in the house. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don're talking about switching off the machines which are keeping her alivet, for whatever reason, allowing her this is a wonderful book to fade away painlessly... It all comes turn to a head on Marianne's fifteenth birthday.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124949</amazonuk>1781129126

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Priestley and Vladimir Stankovic 1781128952|title=The Wickford DoomStarlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Following Harry’s father’s death in This is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the wartale of Hugo, he an unwanted and his mother learn that they’ve inherited a bequest from rather lonely android, who makes a relativeliving for himself mending time-travel watches. When they arrive to claim itone of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, though, they find that they’ve been the victims of Hugo realises there is a dying man’s last cruel prankmystery to be solved and is only too ready to help. But there are local tales An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of missing children his drab attic workroom and into a strange painting called scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the Doom, and Harry quickly learns that there may be something far more evil than a nasty joke planet never before known to worry aboutexist. Can he fight back against it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124094</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malorie Blackman1781128693|title=Robot GirlSpecial Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres|rating=54

|summary=Claire is excited and she's ''nagging'' her mother How do you explain to tell her what her father has been doing in his laboratorychildren about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but her mother when the problem is no wiser than she is and tells Claire that she will simply have the brain which isn't functioning quite as it used to wait until her father is ready it isn't as easy to show her grasp. Frank was a normal nine-year-old and like many nine-year-olds what he's been doingwanted was a new bike. He's a famous inventor d had his for about seventy-eight years and Claire knows he didn't want to raise the seat any more. Mum pointed out that whatever it is will be excitingwasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a lot of money, which didn't grow on trees. His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her with her paper round. For now all she can do is Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a thousand years to save up the money for a bike AND he had to tell her pen friend - and be patientget up at six o'clock in the morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124590</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer1781128707|title=Rugby Academy: Surface to AirThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Vivian French

|summary=We first met Rory in [[Rugby Academy: Combat Zone by Tom Palmer|Combat Zone]] when circumstances forced him Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to go to Broadlands Boarding School when both his parents were posted abroad by win the 100 metres race on sports day at the RAFend of term - and that was next week. It wasnWe't his choice - I mean they played re going to read about what happened in her diary, although there's a warning that we really shouldn'rugby'' rather than his beloved football - but t be reading it wasn't long before he discovered that not only did he enjoy rugby, he was rather good at particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. It was also something of a relief to be To say that the two girls don't get on at all well is a school where there were other boys in a similar situation to himselfbit of an understatement. By the time that we meet Rory again time has moved on Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, but Barbie is a troublemaker and he's on his way she wants to Toulon to play in an international schools rugby tournamentwin the 100 metres race too - by fair means or foul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123985</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbro Lindgren and Eva Eriksson1949471004|title=Max's WagonDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=54|genre=For SharingDyslexia Friendly|summary=Max had a wagon What do you do when your child has dyslexia and he began putting his treasures into it. you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? First it was his bearYou can risk buying early readers, then but the sounds in the book might not be the dog, who was asleep ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the chair and looking decidedly disinterested in young dyslexic than a child without that problem. You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what was going you've been working on, but he played his partwithout anything else being thrown into the mix. Then it was Max's ball You need a story which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the contents begin to seem just a little learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - and 'precarious'learning' and were even more so when Max's car was added to the pile, but bear sat astride Dog and Max pushed the wagon whilst holding the car on top of the ball with the otherread - should be a pleasure. Then he added his cookie and Dog began to look just the tiniest bit It should be ''distractedfun'' 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 (in the literal sense of the phrase). Then the cookie fell out...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570014</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frank Cottrell Boyce1781128510|title=DesirableOne Shot|author=Tanya Landman

|summary=Poor George''Pa and I understood each other. He knows that he is not popular but when even Our souls were cut from the same cloth.'' But Pa has since died, leaving Maggie very much alone in her family. She was the only one of three children who looked like him, and none of the others acted like him, and certainly, his own Grandad doesnwife didn't want seem to stay around for his birthday party he realises fully understand him. Maggie might as well be reliving the Cinderella story, stuck with two siblings and mother that things are even worse than he thoughtfully against her. However this was before he discovered But at least she can sneak out at night, and shoot some game to stop them from starving? Well, no, not where her mother is concerned – the contents very idea of the present from his Grandad and experienced the dramatic impact on his a female shooting things, when they could be preparing for a life an aged bottle of aftershave would bring. Although George tries to think himself invisible in order to cope today he unhappy married drudgery, is not invisiblejust scandalous. In fact he is not only visible but desirable too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124248</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112843X|title=Good Dog Lion (Little Gems)Lark|author=Alexander McCall SmithAnthony McGowan

|summary=Being a firm fan of Alexander McCall Smith's novels for adults, I wasn't surprised to find that I thoroughly enjoyed this children's storyll warn you first. Written with  This is the same gentle understanding of human nature, fourth and so very deftly told, I read this last story with a great deal of pleasureabout Nicky and Kenny. Although Try not to cry before you've even read the story behind Timo's life is rather sad, with his father leaving him first page. Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his mother when Timo learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is only young, and his mother then struggling coming to find enough money to raise both of visit - the mum who abandoned them, it never descends into tragedy but remains positive a long time ago. They haven't seen her for years and upbeatthe impending visit is stirring up a lot of uncomfortable feelings. ItAnd Nicky's a story of strengthgirlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, Nicky and braveryKenny plan a day out, trekking across the moors. But it doesn't go to plan and I'm not just talking about Timo an accident puts both boys - and his mothertheir dog, Tina, in terrible danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123721</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer1786697173|title=Rugby Academy: Combat ZoneMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Sally Gardner

|summary=Woody's dreams were about football: he wanted to play for his country one day, but there was Betsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a snagpeaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. His Her father was , Alonso, makes the most wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Her mother, Myrtle, is a fighter pilot - mermaid and his squadron was going comes to war - but as Dad was a single parent Woody had to go to a boarding school for armed forces kidsvisit regularly, although she still lives in the sea. That's enough Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, about the circus owned by a change for any boytiger and whether it would ever come to her island and secondly, but there's an even bigger one which Woody has to contend with. At Borderlands they don't play football. They're ''mad'' about rugbya magical ice cream made from the berries of the Gongalong bush. It's almost a religionOne scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true. How will Woody cope with boarding schools '' And then Mr Tiger and'' rugby? How will he manage the constant knowledge that his father circus arrive. And a journey is in a combat zone?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123977</amazonuk>planned...

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen McCombie1781128286|title=The Girl With The Sunshine SmileRun Wild|author=Gill Lewis

|summary=Everyone knew Meg as Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from the girl with local attempt at a skatepark, they find a huge waste ground in the sunshine smile. She always looked ''pretty'' and ''happy'' and her mother used her in her business shadow of a derelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, even though they have to model bridesmaiddrag Izzy's dressesyounger brother with them. They had a lovely little flat which was always neat The following day they all want to return, as a new pin and Meg thought that life was perfect. Then her mother met Danny - and everything changed. Danny was does the single father to four boys brother's schoolfriend, despite – and they all lived on of course because of – there is a houseboat. A messy houseboathuge wolf living in the site. With no lock on Can the bathroom door. And when there was a flood at Mum's flat they had to move children survive living in with Danny and the four boys. That was when Meg stopped smiling.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124035</amazonuk>urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jennings Different|title=WolfmanA Different Dog|author=Michael Rosen Paul Jennings and Chris MouldGeoff Kelly

|genre=For SharingDyslexia Friendly|summary=People are panickingOur hero is a boy, whose name we never learn. The police are afraidWe know what he wants in life – with his mother exceedingly poor, and even his bed burnt to keep the two of them warm, he wants the prize offered by a down-a-mountain-and-back-up-and-down-again foot race. The army have run awayWinning the race and the large purse would also give him more status in the eyes of those kids that bully him, and it might even give him a voice – for he is almost mute. Who or what could possibly be We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the motivation, and can only speak aloud to himself – and, so scary? It’s Wolf Man. And he’s it turns out, to a dog he rescues from a bad road accident he finds on his way up the hill to the loose.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123748</amazonuk>start line…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dawson_Grave|title=Freddy and the PigGrave Matter|author=Charlie Higson Juno Dawson and Mark ChambersAlex T Smith

|summary=Ten year old Matthew Buzzington was less than impressed when his father got a newSince Eliza died, high-powered job and they had to move to since the night of the big city like IMMEDIATELYcar crash that took her life, Sam is a broken soul. It meant a new schoolHe is lost without the girl he loves, complete with feeling as though a bully called Pineapple Johnsonpart of him died that night too. (No. Sorry. You'll have to find out for yourself.) Matthew held on to one fact though - But he knew that is desperate and he had a superpowercannot live without Eliza. He could turn himself into a flyremembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to help him. There's only one problem. It didn't work. No matter how hard he triedHowever, no matter how he concentrated on thinking himself into being a flyfinding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the Milk Man, he was still which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a ten-year-old boy pact with curly hair and forces he was getting bullieddoesn't understand. Then everything changed one night when Matthew, his four-year-old sister Bella and Pineapple Johnson were accidentally locked in the school one night. And burglars broke Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's life inmore ways than he bargained for. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124140</amazonuk>

Lucy isn't - and doesn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123586</amazonuk>}}{{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 Move 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>}}{{newreview|author=Sally Nicholls|title=Shadow Girl|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=One of the disadvantages of the foster care system is that some children get moved around rather a lot and usually it's not down to them. But because of this it's easy to see making friends as being a wasted effort and this was certainly Clare's opinion. By the age of fourteen she was at her third secondary school - and after being there for two months she hated it. 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 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>}}[[Newest Dystopian Fiction Reviews]]