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|author=Jenny Oldfield

|title=Bright Star

|rating=5

|genre=Dyslexia Friendly

|summary=Morgan was just thirteen when she was sent to her aunt's ranch in the Rockies for the summer. It was all a bit alien to her - I mean she was a city girl from Chicago and she was going to have to get on with ''horses''. It's not long though before she realises that she has a real affinity with horses and ponies and develops a special bond with a terrified wild mustang. It's Morgan who rescues the animal when it's trapped in barbed wire and calms it sufficiently to bring it into shelter.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123756</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|title=Really and Truly: A Story About Dementia

|summary=Columbus and Vizzini’s sequel to ''House of Secrets'' is action packed, cinematic and compelling. Their influences are myriad and range from the ''Goonies'' and early [[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J K Rowling|Harry Potter]] (directed by Columbus) to the fantastical and creepy writings of pulp novelist Robert E Howard, Gothic author [[:Category:H P Lovecraft|H P Lovecraft]] and Ray Bradbury. The result resembles an explosion of colours from a renegade paint box of genres crossed with high octane movie plots. Fantasy, science fiction, magic, action, horror and war combine to create a curious mix of the supernatural and the historical.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000749016X</amazonuk>

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~~|title=Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures~~

~~|author=Kate DiCamillo and K G Campbell~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Confident Readers~~

|summary=Holy bagumba! What a gem of a book. When Kate DiCamillo decided to tell a story featuring a crazy vacuum cleaner, a 'natural-born cynic' who loves comics and a special squirrel she probably didn't imagine the odyssey her book would take. What she has created is an affectionate tribute to the super heroes of comic books intertwined with the belief that anything is possible. It is further illuminated by the expressive, imaginative and humorous graphics of K G Campbell. There is interplay between individual full page black and white drawings and panels of sequential art as the antics of DiCamillo’s eccentric and vulnerable characters evolve. This is enhanced by the use of speech bubbles shaped like clouds and experimentation with different fonts.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406354562</amazonuk>~~

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