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|summary=Michela Corbin is something of Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a rebelfashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, but even she understands that everyone must wear a Peace Maker Device all so when the time smartly-dressed man and that woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it must never was an opportunity not to be tampered with, as nonmissed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-aggression is their society's founding principlebus to Hanoi. The Peace Maker is Only, Hanh and the means by which this is enforcedother girls were not going to work in a shop, but Michela wants they were to experience work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the full range of human emotions ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the Peace Maker stops that. legs? When her mother captains their ship into enemy airspace The ones with the artfully-placed rips and they come under attack it seems distressed seams that Michelafelt so soft when you touched them? It's freedom from the constraints of the Peace Maker might be the only thing quite possible that can save Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125619</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tony Bradman and Tom Morgan-JonesMarcus Sedgwick|title= The Boy and the GlobeWrath|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary= This lively and enjoyable story is set in early seventeenth century London where Meet Fitz, a young orphan Toby Cuffe Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is living on the streets where life is hard. In order only just over, and he should be free to survivedo what he wants, the resourceful Toby joins the gang of boys who work for Moll Cut-Purse as thieves. Moll sends Toby to the Globe Theatre to do some pickpocketing go where Toby becomes so engrossed he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in the play being performed that it when he forgets about talks to his own safetybest friend, Cassie. Caught by They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the theatre's owners Toby meets enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the writer earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the play he has just seen performed, end of the famous playwright William Shakespeare. Then our young hero world is given an opportunity that he had not expected. Toby is full already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of enthusiasm for the theatre and rekindles the Bardmusic she's enthusiasm too so that together they team up to save dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the threatened theatretruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125031</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian BeckLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=Grey Island Red BoatThe Mermaid in the Millpond|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Princess Opal lived with There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her fatherin amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the kingLondon workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, on the Island every man for himself kind of Ashesexistence. It was But despite herself Bess does find a grey island, set in bit of a grey sea and Opal lived kindred spirit in a grey castle surrounded by a cold grey moat. The gardens were grey the slight little Dot, and so were the trees despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and flowers. Princess Opal even sat on how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a grey granite throne glimmer of companionship in a grey granite room the tired- and she wished out mill workers. But surely that her life could be different. She couldndoesn't help but think that something was missing.mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112521X</amazonuk>180090049X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo and Sam UsherKeith Gray|title=We Are Not FROGS!The Climbers

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=After Sully is the storm the frogs and best tree climber in the toads all came out onto the lawn to play long jumpvillage. This was He has what's known amongst the frogskids as 'reach' choice as they could jump further and the toads just wanted an easy life. But - through what happens when a series of unfortunate incidents involving lorriesnew kid shows up in town? A new kid, dogscalled Nottingham, childrenwho clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, a cart and an ice cream containernot only that, first that his chance to name the toads ended up final, unnamed big tree in the ice cream container park by 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 maybe 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 after they sold the frogs down the river so she feels like her life at home is boring in exchange for being put into comparison to theirs. When a muddy ditchnew girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the frogs - all twenty two of them - were new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with the same prison class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through a robot, and it was only thanks is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Mutt the dog that they escaped.Ellie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125120</amazonuk>1781129649

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LawrenceEmma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=Queen of the Silver ArrowThe Ghost Garden

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=King Metabus had not been 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 good king and large bone, buried under the potatoes. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, the older child of the house, breaking his escape from his kingdom was hurried and pursuedleg while playing cricket on the lawn. When he reached the river he had She is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to make foretell a decision and he thought first of the safety of surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the baby daughter he carried grounds in his arms and tied bathchair, she might have reason to be out of her to his javelinmind with fear, which when she learns what he threw across is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. But surely that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the torrentsultry, pledging as he did so that he would serve 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 worst of times – only they should be the Goddess Dianabest of times. Camilla He should have grown up as be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a Princess cinema date, but instead she lived 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 cave bigger scale he's living with her father his mother and ran wild in not much income now that the dad has left the forestpicture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinner. In nearby LaurentumI know, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day at school to forget, Acca had grown up hearing the story of how Camilla giggled as she swung on the javelin embedded and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the ground and dreamed of meeting her, but this didnwash? This can't happen until after be the death start of Camilla's father, when the girls became firm friends.a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>1781129495

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Hooper178112938X|title=A Dark TradeSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=45

|summary=Georgina Friday, known to everyone as Gina, grew up in an orphanage and when she was sixteen went to be a servant is a big house in central London. There were seven members of It's fifty years since the family and twelve servants - and Gina Apollo 13 mission was launched from the one at the bottom who had to run about after everyone and who was the butt of practical jokes. She could cope with thatKennedy Space Centre in Florida, but what she couldn't cope with was the attentions story of that journey remains one of the young men greatest survival stories of the familyall time. She'd already heard the stories 'Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a brilliant retelling of what had happened to another young maid who'd caught his eye - thrown out on the streets to fend for herself and her baby - and could see no way of escape from ''him'' other than to run away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125163</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Terry Deary1781129312|title=Ghost for SaleSequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)|rating=4.5

|summary=When Mr and Mrs Rundle see an advert in the paper for a wardrobe for saleSequin loved her mum to bits, complete but sometimes she got very cross with ghost, Mrs Rundle decides her. It wasn't that they absolutely mum wouldn''must'' have t go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it! was because she never pushed to get credit for what she did. They own The Dog Mum is a seamstress and Duck Inn and Mrs Rundle feels she makes the sort of clothes that addition you see on red carpets or at important weddings. She's not the designer - they're the people who make a lot of a ghost will add interest to their Inn and bring them custommoney from the clothes. The arrival of Mum is the wardrobe certainly shakes things up for person who actually ''makes'' the Rundlesgarments and she's really talented, though perhaps not in but when people talk about the dress or the way suit, they'd imagined!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112518X</amazonuk>talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julian Gough and Jim FieldTanya Landman|title=Rabbit and BearJane Eyre: Rabbit's Bad Habbitsa Retelling|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=When Bear wakes up early from her hibernation, she decides that if she can't sleep then she might as well do something which she's always wanted to do - build a snowman. It's whilst she's doing this that she meets Rabbit, who tells her that he's an Expert in Gravity. Whatever he is, it doesn't seem to make him particularly happy as he never smiles and isn't exactly big on fun. But there are avalanches around as well as hungry wolves and Rabbit soon comes to the conclusion that it's good to have a friend on your side - even if you have just stolen their food.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444929313</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jean Ure|title=My Dog Daisy|rating=4

|summary=Lily did ''not'' want A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a goldfish. Nor did dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she want a hamster or a cat. She wanted a ''DOG'' wants – and whilst she understood what Mum said about not being able with only one job, to have tutor a dog in the 5th floor flat without a garden she still thought it was unfairyoung half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. After allWhen he does turn up he seems to be dark, when they lived at Granbrooding and troubled – but that's house there was a garden and she could have had a dognothing compared to the darker, but then Mum more broody and Gran had a row and they moved out. She hadn't even seen Gran for three months and she ''missed'' hermore troubling secret in the house. And Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the dog which she couldnrest – but if you don't have. Even Keri, her best friendfor whatever reason, though that she was going on this is a bit about the whole thingwonderful book to turn to.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124965</amazonuk>1781129126

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eoin Colfer and Victor Ambrus1781128952|title=The Seal's Fate (Colour Conker) Starlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James

|summary=Bobby Parrish was reluctant to admit that This is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the seal was cutetale of Hugo, even to an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a living for himselfmending time-travel watches. That sort When one of thing was for girls his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved and he was here is only too ready to club the sealhelp. Seals were affecting An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his father's livelihood as a fisherman drab attic workroom and there was into a bounty scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of a £1 for a seal's flipper: in those days that was good money and even one of the girls had collected the cash. Still, somehow he couldn't quite bring himself planet never before known to attack the defenceless cub, all big, black, round eyes and obviously unworried by his presenceexist. What would the other lads say though? More to the point, what would his father say?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124310</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Catherine Rayner1781128693|title=Clare and Her Captain (Colour Conker)Special Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres

|summary=Clare didn't enjoy the journey down How do you explain to Devon. Her parents always argued and it was usually because Mum had lost her way children about dementia? Injuries or got caught in a traffic jam and this time she'd done both. It was a little better when they got to Aunt Dora's houseillnesses are obvious, but Aunt Dora wasnwhen the problem is the brain which isn't exactly a peacemaker and tended functioning quite as it used to stick up for Dad against everybody else. The holiday improved when Clare got out for a walk on her own and discovered a stray lamb on the road. She took it isn't as easy to the nearest house and Mr Jones was delighted: Clare had just saved half his flockgrasp. Clare got on with the Frank was a normal nine-year-old man and like many nine- and with his horse, Captain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124353</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael Rosen and Richard Watson|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 year- did I hear you groan? Mum groaned too because she ''knew'' olds what he wanted was going to happena new bike. She told the kids before she set off that they He'd had to behave because she couldnhis for about seventy-eight years and he didn't drive properly if the kids were going ''mad in the back''. The kids told her not want to worry - and off they went. Then raise 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''seat any more. Mum tries diversionary tactics: ''look pointed out of the window - therethat it wasn'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 Me|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Most girls starting out Brook City School are hoping for something new t his birthday or Christmas any time soon and different, but Kirsten just wants things to be ''normal''. Even good things seem to come with bikes cost a sting in the tail and worst lot of allmoney, Mum and Dad are really not getting which didn't grow ontrees. In fact Kirsten is happiest at school and does all the after-school activities she can manage just to keep away from home for as long as she can. Her elder brother, Finn, who's at sixth form college, is struggling tooHis sister Lottie had a solution: what used to be thought of as ''cheeky'' at school has turned into ''disruptive''. When things get really bad Kirsten is suddenly reminded of Frank could help her old friend Honey and wonders if she can get in touch with herpaper round.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124752</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michelle Magorian and Sam Usher|title= Smile|rating= 5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Josh is tired, fed Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a thousand years to save up and feeling put out and ignored. No, the money for a bike AND 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 had to get up all of his parentsat six o' time, but also stopping everyone clock 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 cancelledmorning. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125007</amazonuk>

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

|summary=It's Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to win the third story in 100 metres race on sports day at the ''Rugby Academy'' series end of term - and so far wethat was next week. We've heard from Woody in [[Rugby Academy: Combat Zone by Tom Palmer|Combat Zone]] and Rory in [[Rugby Academy: Surface re going to Air by Tom Palmer|Surface to Air]]. In this, the final book read about what happened in this brilliant seriesher diary, although there's a warning that we hear from Owenreally shouldn't be reading it, particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. We left To say that the team two girls don't get on at the end all well is a bit of ''Surface to Air'' when Borderlands had got through to the World Championship in New Zealandan understatement. Despite the elation of doing so Owen isnSuzi wouldn't entirely comfortable with Jesseactually do anything about it, the team captain. He has no doubts that he was but Barbie is a brilliant player - troublemaker and she wants to win the best on the team 100 metres race too - but he can't respect him as a personby fair means or foul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123993</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathy Hopkins1949471004|title=Mum Never Did Learn to KnockDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Pamela Brookes

|summary=#People are worrying about Emily: her Dad What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the staff at school are all worried wonder that she's spending a lot of time talking to her Mum. is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book might think that there's nothing wrong with that - in fact that itnot be the ones you's entirely commendable ve been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the young people ought to spend more time talking to their parents - but Emily's Mum died dyslexic than a few months agochild without that problem. Emily has reached the stage of ''hiding'' the fact that Mum appears You need to be able to her in very real form, perhaps just buy books at a little bit ''ghostly'reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, but then without anything else being thrown into the mix. You need a story which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't expect her to look just like she was when she was alivego amiss, now would you? either. At school sheReading - and ''learning''s sent to see read - should be a counsellor, but it doesnpleasure. It should be ''t go quite the way that the counsellor was expecting... particularly when Emily asked where people go when they die and the ultimate fun'what comes after space?'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124957</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melvin Burgess1781128510|title=PersistOne Shot|author=Tanya Landman|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet Marianne she's confused'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 her family. People keep coming She was the only one of three children who looked like him, and looking at hernone of the others acted like him, and certainly, but they donhis wife didn't seem to see ''her''fully understand him. She wonders if she's something shinyMaggie might as well be reliving the Cinderella story, such as a mirror. Her family stuck with two siblings and mother that are desperate: Marianne has been in a coma for so long that even fully against her mother is beginning to doubt that . But at least she can surface sneak out at night, and shoot some game to stop them from wherever she starving? Well, no, not where her mother is. The doctors are sure that there's no hope for concerned – the girl and very idea of a female shooting things, when they're talking about switching off the machines which are keeping her alivecould be preparing for a life of unhappy married drudgery, allowing her to fade away painlessly... It all comes to a head on Marianne's fifteenth birthdayis just scandalous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124949</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Priestley and Vladimir Stankovic 178112843X|title=The Wickford DoomLark|author=Anthony McGowan

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Following Harry’s father’s death in I'll warn you first. This is the fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. Try not to cry before you've even read the war, he first page. Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his mother learn that they’ve inherited learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a bequest from long time ago. They haven't seen her for years and the impending visit is stirring up a relativelot of uncomfortable feelings. When they arrive to claim And Nicky's girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off itall, thoughNicky and Kenny plan a day out, they find that they’ve been trekking across the victims of a dying man’s last cruel prankmoors. But there are local tales of missing children it doesn't go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and a strange painting called the Doomtheir dog, Tina, and Harry quickly learns that there may be something far more evil than a nasty joke to worry aboutin terrible danger. Can he fight back against it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124094</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malorie Blackman1786697173|title=Robot GirlMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Sally Gardner

|summary=Claire is excited and she's ''nagging'' her mother to tell her what her Betsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father has been doing , Alonso, makes the most wonderful ice cream in his laboratoryevery flavour you could imagine. Her mother, Myrtle, but her mother is no wiser than she is a mermaid and tells Claire that comes to visit regularly, although she will simply have to wait until her father is ready to show her what he's been doingstill lives in the sea. He's Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, about the circus owned by a famous inventor tiger and Claire knows that whatever whether it is will be exciting. For now all she can do is would ever come to tell her pen friend - island and be patientsecondly, about a magical ice cream made from the berries of the Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124590</amazonuk>And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. And a journey is planned...

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer1781128286|title=Rugby Academy: Surface to AirRun Wild|author=Gill Lewis

|summary=We first met Rory Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from the local attempt at a skatepark, they find a huge waste ground in [[Rugby Academy: Combat Zone by Tom Palmer|Combat Zone]] when circumstances forced him the shadow of a derelict gasometer to go practise on, which they duly do, even though they have to Broadlands Boarding School when both his parents were posted abroad by the RAFdrag Izzy's younger brother with them. It wasn't his choice - I mean The following day they played all want to return, as does the brother''rugby'' rather than his beloved football - but it wasn't long before he discovered that not only did he enjoy rugbys schoolfriend, he was rather good at it. It was also something despite – and of course because of – there is a relief to be at a school where there were other boys huge wolf living in a similar situation to himselfthe site. By Can the time that we meet Rory again time has moved on and he's on his way to Toulon to play children survive living in an international schools rugby tournament.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123985</amazonuk>the urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbro Lindgren and Eva ErikssonJennings Different|title=Max's Wagon|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 A Different 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...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570014</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Frank Cottrell Boyce|title=DesirablePaul Jennings and Geoff Kelly

|summary=Poor GeorgeOur hero is a boy, whose name we never learn. He knows that We know what he is not popular but when wants in life – with his mother exceedingly poor, and even his own Grandad doesn't want bed burnt to stay around for his birthday party keep the two of them warm, he realises wants the prize offered by a down-a-mountain-and-back-up-and-down-again foot race. Winning the race and the large purse would also give him more status in the eyes of those kids that things are bully him, and it might even worse than give him a voice – for he thoughtis almost mute. However this was before We quickly learn he discovered the contents of never talks back to anyone, whatever the present from his Grandad motivation, and experienced the dramatic impact on his life an aged bottle of aftershave would bring. Although George tries can only speak aloud to think himself invisible in order – and, so it turns out, to cope today a dog he is not invisible. In fact rescues from a bad road accident he is not only visible but desirable too!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124248</amazonuk>finds on his way up the hill to the start line…

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dawson_Grave|title=Good Dog Lion (Little Gems)Grave Matter|author=Alexander McCall Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith|rating=4.5

|summary=Being a firm fan Since Eliza died, since the night of Alexander McCall Smith's novels for adultsthe car crash that took her life, I wasn't surprised to find that I thoroughly enjoyed this children's storySam is a broken soul. Written with He is lost without the same gentle understanding of human nature, and so very deftly toldgirl he loves, I read this story with feeling as though a great deal part of pleasurehim died that night too. Although the story behind Timo's life But he is rather saddesperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to help him. However, with finding his father leaving Aunt Marie leads him and his mother when Timo is only youngto discover the Milk Man, and which causes Sam in his mother then struggling grieving state to find enough money make a pact with forces he doesn't understand. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to raise both of them, it never descends into tragedy but remains positive and upbeat. Itchange Sam's a story of strength, and bravery, and I'm not just talking about Timo and his motherlife in more ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123721</amazonuk>