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[[Category:New Reviews|Dyslexia Friendly]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Beck1800901232|title=Grey Island Red BoatStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
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|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Princess Opal Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her fatherfamily was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the king, 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 Island of Ashesmini-bus to Hanoi. It was Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a grey islandshop, set they were to work in a grey sea and Opal lived virtual slavery in a grey castle surrounded by a cold grey moatan illegal garment factory. The gardens were grey You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and so were beading on the trees and flowers. legs? Princess Opal even sat on a grey granite throne in a grey granite room The ones with the artfully- placed rips and she wished distressed seams that her life could be different. felt so soft when you touched them? She couldnIt't help but think s quite possible that something was missingHanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112521X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo and Sam UsherMarcus Sedgwick|title=We Are Not FROGS!Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=After the storm the frogs Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and the toads all came out onto the lawn he should be free to do what he wants, to play long jump. This was the frogs' choice as they could jump further go where he wants and the toads just wanted an easy lifewith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. But - through a series They were half of unfortunate incidents involving lorries, dogs, children, a cart and an ice cream containerdesultory school band, first but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the toads ended up in the ice cream container and after they sold the frogs down the river in exchange for being put into enigmatic – saying she could hear a muddy ditch, subhuman hum coming from the frogs earth. Is this connected with one of her eco- all twenty two warrior parents saying the end of them - were in the same prison and world is already a done deal? Is it was only thanks to Mutt some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the dog that they escapedtruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125120</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LawrenceLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=Queen of The Mermaid in the Silver ArrowMillpond
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=King Metabus had not been There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a good king and his escape from his kingdom was hurried and pursued. When he reached friend for her in amongst all the river he other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to make a decision and he thought first of the safety of mill-owners by the baby daughter he carried London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in his arms and tied her a hand-to his javelin-mouth, which he threw across every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the torrentslight little Dot, pledging as he did so and despite everything that he would serve the Goddess Diana. Camilla should have grown up as a Princess but instead she lived in a cave with life has taught her father about betrayal and ran wild in the forest. In nearby Laurentumhow befriending people only leads to harm, Acca had grown up hearing the story there might be a glimmer of how Camilla giggled as she swung on the javelin embedded companionship in the ground and dreamed of meeting her, but this didntired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't happen until after mean there is any truth in the death existence of Camilla's father, when the girls became firm friends.mermaid?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>180090049X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperKeith Gray|title=A Dark TradeThe Climbers
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Georgina Friday, Sully is the best tree climber in the village. He has what's known to everyone amongst the kids as Gina, grew up in an orphanage and 'reach'. But what happens when she was sixteen went to be a servant is a big house new kid shows up in central London. There were seven members town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the family hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, and twelve servants - and Gina was the one at the bottom who had not only that, that his chance to run about after everyone and who was name the butt of practical jokes. She could cope with thatfinal, but what she couldn't cope with was unnamed big tree in the attentions of one of park by being the young men of the familyfirst to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. She'd already heard the stories How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of what had happened to another young maid who'd caught his eye - thrown out on the streets friends, to fend for herself and her baby - and could see no way of escape from ''him'' other than to run away.do so?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125163</amazonuk>1781129991
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terry DearyLisa Thompson|title=Ghost for SaleThe Small Things|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=When Mr and Mrs Rundle see an advert Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in the paper for a wardrobe for sale, complete with ghost, Mrs Rundle decides that they absolutely ''must'. Her family don' t have it! They own The Dog and Duck Inn enough money to let her do after school activities, and Mrs Rundle so she feels that addition of like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. When a ghost will add interest new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to their Inn partner her, but things are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and bring them customso can't attend school in person. The arrival of Instead, she joins in with the wardrobe certainly shakes things up for class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the Rundleschallenge of making friends with someone through a robot, though perhaps not in the way they'd imagined!and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112518X</amazonuk>1781129649
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julian Gough Emma Carroll and Jim FieldKaja Kajfez|title=Rabbit and Bear: Rabbit's Bad HabbitsThe Ghost Garden
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=When Bear wakes up early from her hibernationFran, she decides that if she canthe gardener't sleep then she might as well do something which shes daughter at a posh country house, is worried. She's always wanted to do just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - build a snowmanlarge bone, buried under the potatoes. ItBut she's whilst even more worried when she's doing this learns that that event coincided with Leo, the older child of the house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. She is due to get even more worried when she meets Rabbit, who tells her finds something else that he's an Expert in Gravityalso seems to foretell a surprise. Whatever he isTasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, it doesn't seem she might have reason to make him particularly happy as be out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he never smiles and isn't exactly big on funis seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. But there are avalanches around as well as hungry wolves and Rabbit soon comes to the conclusion surely that itwon's good t act as a premonition to have a friend on your side anything - even if you have just stolen their food.not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444929313</amazonuk>1781129002
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean UreAlex Wheatle|title=My Dog DaisyThe Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating=42.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Lily did ''not'' want a goldfishWe meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. Nor did she want He should be getting a hamster or a cat. She wanted text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night'DOG'' s meal and whilst she understood what Mum said about not being able to have a dog his breakfast over another girl in the 5th floor flat without a garden she still thought it was unfair. After allclass, when they lived at Granwho's house there was a garden and she could have had a dogduffed him up in response, but then Mum and Gran had a row and they moved outthe wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. She hadnOn a bigger scale he't even seen Gran for three months s living with his mother and she ''missed'' her. And not much income now that the dad has left the dog which she couldnpicture – yes, things are so bad they't havere resorting to having cabbage for dinner. Even KeriI know, her best friendright? But surely this is just a blip, though that she was going on a bit about day at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can't be the whole thing.start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124965</amazonuk>1781129495
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eoin Colfer and Victor Ambrus178112938X|title=Survival in Space: The Seal's Fate Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (Colour Conkerillustrator) |rating=45
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Bobby Parrish It's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was reluctant to admit that launched from the seal was cuteKennedy Space Centre in Florida, even to himself. That sort of thing was for girls and he was here to club but the seal. Seals were affecting his father's livelihood as a fisherman and there was a bounty story of a £1 for a seal's flipper: in those days that was good money and even journey remains one of the girls had collected the cashgreatest survival stories of all time. Still, somehow he couldn't quite bring himself to attack the defenceless cub, all big, black, round eyes and obviously unworried by his presence'Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of what happened. What would the other lads say though? More to the point, what would his father say?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124310</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1781129312|title=Michael Morpurgo Sequin and Catherine RaynerStitch|titleauthor=Clare Laura Dockrill and Her Captain Sara Ogilvie (Colour Conkerillustrator)|rating=45
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Clare didn't enjoy the journey down Sequin loved her mum to Devon. Her parents always argued and it was usually because Mum had lost bits, but sometimes she got very cross with her way or got caught in a traffic jam and this time she'd done both. It was a little better when they got to Aunt Dorawasn's house, but Aunt Dora wasnt that mum wouldn't exactly a peacemaker and tended go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed to stick up get credit for Dad against everybody elsewhat she did. The holiday improved when Clare got out for Mum is a walk on her own seamstress and discovered a stray lamb she makes the sort of clothes that you see on the roadred carpets or at important weddings. She took it to 's not the designer - they're the people who make a lot of money from the nearest house and Mr Jones was delighted: Clare had just saved half his flockclothes. Clare got on with Mum is the person who actually ''makes'' the old man - garments and with his horseshe's really talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, Captainthey talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124353</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Rosen and Richard WatsonTanya Landman|title=Mad in the Back|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Mum is setting off on a long car journey with two kids in the back - did I hear you groan? Mum groaned too because she ''knew'' what was going to happen. She told the kids before she set off that they had to behave because she couldn't drive properly if the kids were going ''mad in the back''. The kids told her not to worry - and off they went. Then the kids started ''The Moaning''. Every parent will know exactly what this means: requests for drink, food, windows open... Then the squabbling starts: accusations that ''HE'' has got my book, ears are bitten by ''HER''. Mum tries diversionary tacticsJane Eyre: ''look out of the window - there's a lamp-post''. (Yes MUm - we know desperation when we hear it.) And it gets worse. And worse. Then Mum snaps.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125090</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Karen McCombie|title=Honey and MeRetelling|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Most girls starting out Brook City School are hoping for A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something new like the life she wants – and differentwith only one job, but Kirsten just wants things to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but that''normal''. Even good things seem s nothing compared to come with a sting in the tail and worst of alldarker, Mum more broody and Dad are really not getting on. In fact Kirsten is happiest at school and does all even more troubling secret in the after-school activities she can manage just to keep away from home for as long as she canhouse. Her elder brotherYes, Finnif you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, who's at sixth form collegefor whatever reason, this is struggling too: what used a wonderful book to turn to be thought of as ''cheeky'' at school has turned into ''disruptive''. When things get really bad Kirsten is suddenly reminded of her old friend Honey and wonders if she can get in touch with her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124752</amazonuk>1781129126
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michelle Magorian and Sam Usher1781128952|title= Smile|rating= 5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Josh is tired, fed up and feeling put out and ignored. No, he isn't having a tantrum – something big has happened (well, two things actually) and his world has turned upside down. You see ''The Howler'' has arrived and everything has changed and not, so far, for the better. Baby brother Charlie is just seventeen days old and is not only taking up all of his parents' time, but also stopping everyone in the house from getting enough sleep with his constant howling. Will the crying 'ever' stop? And there's worse because the really terrible thing is the baby's arrival meant a very special event had to be cancelled. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125007</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStarlight Watchmaker|author=Tom Palmer|title=Rugby Academy: DeadlockedLauren James|rating=54
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=This is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It's tells the third story in the ''Rugby Academy'' series tale of Hugo, an unwanted and so far we've heard 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 thisrather lonely android, the final book in this brilliant series, we hear from Owenwho makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. We left the team at the end When one of ''Surface his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to Air'' when Borderlands had got through be solved and is only too ready to the World Championship in New Zealandhelp. Despite the elation An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of doing so Owen isn't entirely comfortable his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with Jessesome amazing new friends, exploring regions of the team captain. He has no doubts that he was a brilliant player - the best on the team - but he can't respect him as a personplanet never before known to exist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123993</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy Hopkins1781128693|title=Mum Never Did Learn to KnockSpecial Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=#People How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are worrying about Emily: her Dad and obvious, but when the problem is the staff at school are all worried that shebrain which isn't functioning quite as it used to it isn's spending a lot of time talking t as easy to her Mumgrasp. You might think that there's nothing wrong with that Frank was a normal nine-year- in fact that it's entirely commendable old and young people ought to spend more time talking to their parents like many nine-year- but Emily's Mum died olds what he wanted was a few months agonew bike. Emily has reached the stage of ''hidingHe'd had his for about seventy-eight years and he didn' t want to raise the fact seat any more. Mum pointed out that Mum appears to her in very real form, perhaps just it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a little bit ''ghostly''lot of money, but then you wouldnwhich didn't expect grow on trees. His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her to look just like she was when she was alive, now with her paper round. Frank agreed despite thinking that it would you? At school she's sent take him a thousand years to see save up the money for a counsellor, but it doesnbike AND he had to get up at six o't go quite the way that clock in the counsellor was expecting..morning. particularly when Emily asked where people go when they die and the ultimate 'what comes after space?'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124957</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melvin Burgess1781128707|title=PersistThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Vivian French
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=When we first meet Marianne she's confusedSuzi 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. People keep coming and looking at her, but they donWe't seem re going to see ''read about what happened in herdiary, although there's a warning that we really shouldn'. She wonders if shet be reading it, particularly as it's something shiny, such as a mirrorabout Barbie Meek. Her family are desperate: Marianne has been in a coma for so long To say that even her mother is beginning to doubt that she can surface from wherever she the two girls don't get on at all well isa bit of an understatement. The doctors are sure that thereSuzi wouldn's no hope for the girl and they're talking t actually do anything about switching off the machines which are keeping her aliveit, allowing her but Barbie is a troublemaker and she wants to fade away painlessly... It all comes to a head on Marianne's fifteenth birthdaywin the 100 metres race too - by fair means or foul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124949</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Priestley and Vladimir Stankovic 1949471004|title=The Wickford DoomDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Following Harry’s father’s death 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 war, he book might not be the ones you've been working on and his mother learn that they’ve inherited encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a bequest from negative effect on the young dyslexic than a relativechild without that problem. When they arrive You need to claim it, thoughbe able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, they find that they’ve been without anything else being thrown into the victims of mix. You need a dying man’s last cruel prankstory which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. But there are local tales of missing children Some online support and a strange painting called the Doomgames wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - and Harry quickly learns that there may ''learning'' to read - should be something far more evil than a nasty joke to worry aboutpleasure. It should be ''fun''. Can he fight back against it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124094</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malorie Blackman1781128510|title=Robot GirlOne Shot|author=Tanya Landman|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Claire is excited and she's ''naggingPa and I understood each other. Our souls were cut from the same cloth.'' her mother to tell her what her father But Pa has been doing since died, leaving Maggie very much alone in his laboratoryher family. She was the only one of three children who looked like him, and none of the others acted like him, but her mother is no wiser than she is and tells Claire that she will simply have to wait until her father is ready certainly, his wife didn't seem to show her what he's been doingfully understand him. He's a famous inventor Maggie might as well be reliving the Cinderella story, stuck with two siblings and Claire knows mother that whatever it is will be excitingare fully against her. For now all But at least she can do is sneak out at night, and shoot some game to tell stop them from starving? Well, no, not where her pen friend - and mother is concerned – the very idea of a female shooting things, when they could be patientpreparing for a life of unhappy married drudgery, is just scandalous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124590</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer178112843X|title=Rugby Academy: Surface to AirLark|author=Anthony McGowan
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=We I'll warn you first met Rory in [[Rugby Academy: Combat Zone by Tom Palmer|Combat Zone]] when circumstances forced him . This is the fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. Try not to go to Broadlands Boarding School when both his parents were posted abroad by cry before you've even read the RAFfirst page. It wasn't his choice  Things have got tense at home - again - I mean they played ''rugby'' rather than for Nicky and his beloved football learning- but it wasn't long before he discovered that not only did he enjoy rugby, he was rather good at itdisabled brother Kenny. It was also something of a relief Their mum is coming to be at visit - the mum who abandoned them a school where there were other boys in long time ago. They haven't seen her for years and the impending visit is stirring up a similar situation to himselflot of uncomfortable feelings. By the time that we meet Rory again time And Nicky's girlfriend has moved on ended things. To take their minds off it all, Nicky and heKenny plan a day out, trekking across the moors. But it doesn's on his way t go to Toulon to play plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, in an international schools rugby tournamentterrible danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123985</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1786697173|title=Barbro Lindgren Mr Tiger, Betsy and Eva Erikssonthe Blue Moon|titleauthor=Max's WagonSally Gardner
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Max had a wagon and he began putting his treasures into it. First it was his bear, then the dog, who was asleep on the chair and looking decidedly disinterested in what was going on, but he played his part. Then it was Max's ball and the contents begin to seem just a little ''precarious'' 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 other. Then he added his cookie and Dog began to look just the tiniest bit ''distracted'' 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...
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{{newreview
|author=Frank Cottrell Boyce
|title=Desirable
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Poor GeorgeBetsy 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. He knows that he Her mother, Myrtle, is not popular but when even his own Grandad doesn't want a mermaid and comes to stay around for his birthday party he realises that visit regularly, although she still lives in the sea. Betsy dreams of two things are even worse than he thought. However this was before he discovered : firstly, about the circus owned by a tiger and whether it would ever come to her island and secondly, about a magical ice cream made from the contents berries of the present from his Grandad Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true. And then Mr Tiger and experienced the dramatic impact on his life an aged bottle of aftershave would bringcircus arrive. Although George tries to think himself invisible in order to cope today he And a journey is not invisibleplanned... In fact he is not only visible but desirable too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124248</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128286|title=Good Dog Lion (Little Gems)Run Wild|author=Alexander McCall SmithGill Lewis
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Being Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from the local attempt at a firm fan of Alexander McCall Smith's novels for adultsskatepark, I wasn't surprised to they find that I thoroughly enjoyed this children's story. Written with a huge waste ground in the same gentle understanding shadow of human naturea derelict gasometer to practise on, and so very deftly toldwhich they duly do, I read this story even though they have to drag Izzy's younger brother with a great deal of pleasurethem. Although The following day they all want to return, as does the story behind Timobrother's life is rather sadschoolfriend, with his father leaving him despite – and his mother when Timo of course because of – there is only young, and his mother then struggling to find enough money to raise both of them, it never descends into tragedy but remains positive and upbeata huge wolf living in the site. It's a story of strengthCan the children survive living in the urban wilderness, and bravery, and I'm not just talking about Timo and his mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123721</amazonuk>alongside such obvious dangers?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom PalmerJennings Different|title=Rugby Academy: Combat ZoneA Different Dog|author=Paul Jennings and Geoff Kelly|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Woody's dreams were about football: Our hero is a boy, whose name we never learn. We know what he wanted wants in life – with his mother exceedingly poor, and even his bed burnt to play for his country one daykeep the two of them warm, but there was he wants the prize offered by a snag. His father was down-a fighter pilot -mountain-and-back-up- and his squadron was going to war - but as Dad was a single parent Woody had to go to a boarding school for armed forces kidsdown-again foot race. That's enough Winning 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 change voice – for any boyhe is almost mute. We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the motivation, and can only speak aloud to himself – and, so it turns out, but there's an even bigger one which Woody has to contend with. At Borderlands they don't play football. They're ''mad'' about rugby. It's almost a religion. How will Woody cope with boarding schools ''and'' rugby? How will dog he rescues from a bad road accident he manage finds on his way up the constant knowledge that his father is in a combat zone?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123977</amazonuk>hill to the start line…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen McCombieDawson_Grave|title=The Girl With The Sunshine SmileGrave Matter|author=Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Everyone knew Meg as Since Eliza died, since the girl with night of the sunshine smile. She always looked ''pretty'' and ''happy'' and car crash that took her mother used her in her business to model bridesmaid's dresseslife, Sam is a broken soul. They had a lovely little flat which was always neat He is lost without the girl he loves, feeling as though a new pin part of him died that night too. But he is desperate and Meg thought that life was perfecthe cannot live without Eliza. Then He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her mother met Danny - peculiar healing powers and everything changedwonders if she might be able to help him. Danny was However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the single father Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to four boys and they all lived on make a houseboatpact with forces he doesn't understand. A messy houseboat. With no lock on the bathroom door. And when there was a flood at MumThings soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's flat they had to move life in with Danny and the four boys. That was when Meg stopped smilingmore ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124035</amazonuk>
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