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[[Category:New Reviews|Dyslexia Friendly]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__{{newreview|title=Under Attack|author=Jim Eldridge and Dave Shepherd|rating=3.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=My sons are army barmy as they say, and have been begging for military stories so I was delighted to see this in the Barrington Stoke range. The book reminded me a bit of a cross between the old Commando comic books and Action Man books with heroes blazing to the rescue, but sadly I found something lacking. It is a very short story and packed with action, but there really does not seem to be any character development. The story itself is very simple but flat. The Taliban attacks a hospital repeatedly and the British Army comes to the rescue. A very small child is shot and the doctor elects to perform emergency surgery on a kitchen table rather than waiting for the helicopter to arrive, but the Taliban haven't given up. The doctor valiantly tries to operate to remove a bullet next to the child's heart under the most desperate of circumstances, without blood, anaesthetics etc.... all the while under heavy fire. Will the British Army be able to save the day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122113</amazonuk!-- Remove -->}}

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|summary=''Gamer'' is written for the child who would rather Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be in front of a console than reading bookfashion designer. Even Life in the cover depicts action 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 scene that changes job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to depict fighting if you tilt be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the book. This isn't mini-bus to say it lacks depthHanoi. This has a well developed plot Only, Hanh and very good characterisation, but the action never stops. It is perfect for children who are used other girls were not going to the high adrenaline experience of work in a video gameshop, but it has plenty they were to offer 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 child who loves books as wellartfully-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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121389</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=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}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=ScrumThe 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 the 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=Tom Palmer Keith Gray|title=The Climbers|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Sully is the best tree climber in the village. He has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach'. But what happens when a 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 Dylan Gibsonnot only that, that his chance to name the final, unnamed big tree in the 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

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Steven Although Anna has a pretty good lifefriends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. His parents are divorcedHer family don't have enough money to let her do after school activities, but they get on welland so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. He sees his Dad every day and has When a good relationship with his Mom and new girl joins her partnerclass, Martin. True, he would like his parents Anna is asked to get back together, as most kids wouldpartner her, but things arenare complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't too bad as they areattend school in person. He has good friendsInstead, a happy home and a real shot and breaking into the Rugby League teams. His whole world is turned upside though when Mom announces she is going to marry Martin. Soon Steven finds himself joins in a new home, with the class by using a new school and new friends, but he adjusts and makes robot. Can Anna overcome the best challenge of things. He even has making friends with someone through a shot at playing Rugby at county levelrobot, but there is one problem and it is major one. The new town is in a Rugby Union area. Steven has always played Rugby League and she even interesting enough to his father, switching sides will be a betrayal.good friend to Ellie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842999443</amazonuk>1781129649

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Heroes (Most Wanted)Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|authortitle=Anne PerryThe Ghost Garden

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Trench warfare has widely been acknowledged as one 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. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, the older child of the most soul destroying forms of combathouse, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. It broke men physically and mentally She is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surprise. Death seemed inevitable for many Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason to be out of her mind with fear, and life was so horrible when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. But surely that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the sultry, 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 best of times it must have come as release. So what is one more death among He should be getting a text from the multitudes? To Chaplain Joseph Reavely every death countsmost bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he can not let this one go'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. Morton was not killed by enemy fire - On a bigger scale he was murdered 's living with his mother and Joseph will not rest until justice is donemuch income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinner. It sounds pretty straight forward I know, but there right? But surely this is far more just a blip, a day at school to it than this forget, and justice is truly poetic everything (like his vomit) will all come out in this case.the wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842995103</amazonuk>1781129495

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Fox FriendSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=Michael Morpurgo David Long and Joanna CareyStefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=35

|summary=Clare loves animals. Her best friend is her horse, and she loves all the lambs born on her family farm as well. This natural affection for animals easily extended to the fox she saw strolling through the farm as well. Her father however despises foxes saying ''the only good fox is dead fox''. ClareIt's Father says fifty years since the foxes had already killed ten lambs that year, and it Apollo 13 mission was only March with launched from the lambing season Kennedy Space Centre in full swing. (I did find these figures quite high - Florida, but then again, maybe they owned a lot the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of sheep)all time. When Clare finds an injured and orphaned cub after ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a fox hunt, it is obvious she can not turn to her parents for help. But regardless brilliant retelling of her father's feelings, Clare is determined to save this helpless little creaturewhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781120862</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781129312|title=Moose BabySequin and Stitch|author=Meg RosoffLaura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)

|summary=Jess is a pretty average teenage mother - except for one thing. Instead of giving birth Sequin loved her mum to a normal little girl as she was expectingbits, but sometimes she ends up delivering a 23lb moose calf by C-Sectiongot very cross with her. It seems there has been a cluster of non homowasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that -sapien births it was because she never pushed to human mothersget credit for what she did. For some unexplained reason, Mum is a number seamstress and she makes the sort of women have given birth to animals - mostly mooseclothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. Jess feels confident she can cope with She's not the designer - they're the trials and tribulations people who make a lot of teenage parenthoodmoney from the clothes. She can handle Mum is the midwivesperson who actually ''makes' harsh looks, her mother's disappointment the garments and her boyfriendshe's parents' disapprovalreally talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. But giving birth to a moose instead of a human may be more than any mother can adjust to The seamstress is never mentioned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121974</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Wickedest Witch in the WorldTanya Landman|authortitle=Kaye Umansky and Gerald KelleyJane Eyre: a Retelling

|summary=Everyone knows the story of Hansel A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and Gretel. At least we thought we knew. But as years in a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the saying goes there are always two sides to every story life she wants – and this with only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is told from the perspective of Old Maggit, The Wickedest Witch in the Worldalmost always absent. You see Maggit really wasn't so wicked after all. It was the children who were wicked. Well, maybe they were not exactly ''wicked'' When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but they were most certainly obnoxious, and old Maggitthat's no nonsense manner and just a bit of attention may be exactly what these children need to turn them around. Maggit really has built a house of gingerbread nothing compared to lure children into as a means of finally winning the Wickedest Witch darker, more broody and even more troubling secret in the World titlehouse. But once she has Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the children - she has no idea what to do them and ends up teaching them manners. As to the whole cannibalism story - that was all made up of course. The children decide the only way rest – but if you don't, for Maggit to win whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to lie - and they come up with a whopper. It was so good people have been repeating it for centuries with the original tale thought turn to have originated in the 14th century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122016</amazonuk>1781129126

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128952|title=Mary's HairThe Starlight Watchmaker|author=Eoin ColferLauren James|rating=54

|summary=Mary hates her hairThis is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It has black bits tells the tale of Hugo, an unwanted and brown bitsrather lonely android, curly bits and straight bits and Mary feels that it looks very much like who makes a bushliving for himself mending time-travel watches. Her Daddy says if you don't like somethingWhen one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, you should change it (instead of whining about it Hugo realises there is a mystery to your parents when they want be solved and is only too ready to relax with a cup help. An exciting journey of tea). Mary's Daddydiscovery unfolds, like many others, should watch what he says to children. Mary follows which takes Hugo out of his advice drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with hilarious results. First she cuts her hairsome amazing new friends, but when that doesn't go to plan she decides to dye it. She has learned something from exploring regions of the whole hair cutting experience though, this time she plans planet never before known to try the dye out on someone else firstexist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122261</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128693|title=Dead BrigadeSpecial Delivery|author=James LovegroveJonathan Meres|rating=54

|summary=Sergeant Jonah Hammond's career has been at a standstill in How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when the years since he launched a complaint against a reckless commanding officer whose arrogance resulted in problem is the massacre of British soldiers. Now that same officer is offering Hammond another chance. This time Hammond wonbrain which isn't functioning quite as it used to it isn't have as easy to worry about some idiot getting his men all killed - because they are already deadgrasp. Hammond has been given the task of training Frank was a crack squad of reanimated soldiers, immune to pain, disease normal nine-year-old and capable of fighting with massive injurieslike many nine-year-olds what he wanted was a new bike. These living dead are reanimated by nanobots. They are capable of learning, following instructions, He'd had his for about seventy-eight years and meant he didn't want to be incapable of independent thoughtraise the seat any more. However, Mum pointed out that it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon becomes apparent that things donand bikes cost a lot of money, which didn't always go the way they are meant togrow on trees. His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her with her paper round. These are not mindless killing machines; Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a part of them is still human, still thousand years to save up the soldier they once were, trapped within money for a decaying corpse, kept refrigerated until ready for the next mission. They have no life, nor do they have bike AND he had to get up at six o'clock in the luxury of deathmorning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842995081</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128707|title=Sweetness and LiesThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Karen McCombie and Jessica SecheretVivian French

|summary=Starting a new school is always tough, Suzi Simms loved running and when Tilly is the only girl from it was her primary ambition to win a place the 100 metres race on sports day at the more exclusive Beech Cliff School, end of term - and that was next week. We're going to read about what happened in her old friends abandon her as being too posh. She quickly makes friends with Miadiary, but when although there's a new girl Amber Sweet tries to join the group Mia definitely feels warning that two is company and three is a crowd. Amber is torn between loyalty to Mia and her own conscience we really shouldn't be reading it, particularly as Tia is openly cruel to Amber. Tilly soon begins to question Miait's jokes and put downsabout Barbie Meek. There doesn To say that the two girls don't seem to be any way Tilly can be friends with both girls, Mia wonget on at all well is a bit of an understatement. Suzi wouldn't allow actually do anything about it. Can , but Barbie is a troublemaker and she find wants to win the courage to stand up to Mia and risk having no friends? And would Amber even want to be her friend any more if she did?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121990</amazonuk>100 metres race too - by fair means or foul.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1949471004|title=CheesemaresDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Ross CollinsPamela Brookes

|summary=Every time Hal eats cheese he What do you do when your child has terrible nightmares. Hal's mother suggests drastic measures - no more cheese before bed. Hal loves his cheese though so he sets off on a quest for clues dyslexia and you need books which will help them to solve achieve the Case of the Cheesemares. He wonder that is accompanied by his canine sidekickreading? You can risk buying early readers, Rufus. He stumbles upon his first clue very quickly. All of but the sounds in the book might not be the cheese that has ones you've been giving him bad dreams has come from Contessa Von Udderstein's (not at all evil) House working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of Cheese in Bovina. Hal follows the trail to a spooky castle ruled by negative effect on the evil Contessa Von Udderstein, young dyslexic than a very mad cow who looks quite a bit like child without that problem. You need to be able to buy books at a bovine version of Cruella De Ville. The irate cow wants revenge reasonable price which concentrate on humans for stealing their milk for years (itwhat you's ve been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. You need a good thing no one mentioned hamburgers or roast beef) Hal story which engages the young mind and Rufus must escape from you need stages which progress steadily through the clutches of the mad cattle learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - and make cheese safe ''learning'' to eat againread - should be a pleasure. Itshould be ''fun's a good thing cows don't have hands to clutch with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121915</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128510|title=Cherry Green Story QueenOne Shot|author=Annie Dalton and Charlie AdlerTanya Landman|rating=4.5

|summary=At first glance, I expected this to be a fairly typical girl's story for tweens. 'Pa and I certainly was not expecting a story of such beauty or depthunderstood each other. This is a very enjoyable read, but is it much more than light fictionOur souls were cut from the same cloth. I enjoyed it so much, I wanted to share the book with my sons'' But Pa has since died, but I had to be leaving Maggie very careful to hide the cover. Being typical boys, they are not going to want to hear a story that looks so much like a girl's story. This book has something alone in common with 'The Arabian Nights, Tales of 1,001 Nights'her family. In fact it shares a direct link with She was the ancient book. But this story will only give us three nights one of magic. Still three nights might just be enough to change the lives of six children in foster care. This also shares the basic message of 'The Allegory who looked like him, and none of the Long Spoonsothers acted like him, and certainly, his wife didn' a t seem to fully understand him. Maggie might as well known parable by be reliving the Rabbi Haim which has passed into the folk lore of many culturesCinderella story, stuck with two siblings and mother that are fully against her. The basic message 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 that concerned – the difference between heaven and hell is not so much very idea of a female shooting things, when they could be preparing for a difference in physical circumstanceslife of unhappy married drudgery, but rather is the result of how we treat one anotherjust scandalous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122008</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112843X|title=Mr Birdsnest and the House Next DoorLark|author=Julia Donaldson and Hannah Shaw Anthony McGowan

|summary=I love Julia Donaldson's books for younger childrenll warn you first. Everyone loves [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|The Gruffalo]] and [[Tyrannosaurus Drip by Julia Donaldson|Tyrannosaurus Drip]]  This is still one of our favourites, but as the children have grown, these books have been fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. Try not to cry before you've even read less frequentlythe first page. I  Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to admit, I've missed visit - the mum who abandoned thema long time ago. They haven''Mr Birdsnest t seen her for years and the House Next Doorimpending visit is stirring up a lot of uncomfortable feelings. And Nicky'' gives us a chance to enjoy this brilliant author for just a little while longers girlfriend has ended things. This is fun storyTo take their minds off it all, told in the first personNicky and Kenny plan a day out, so we never know trekking across the name of the main charactermoors. We do know she is lively active young girl, perhaps with an active imagination. I would guess her But it doesn't go to be about 10 years old with plan and an equally active accident puts both boys - and inquisitive younger brother named Elmotheir dog, Tina, in terrible danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781120056</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786697173|title=ThemMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=L A WeatherlySally Gardner

|summary=Kylie and her family had Betsy K Glory lives a prosperous upper middle class rather wonderful life - until on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, Alonso, makes the day Kylie's stepfather nearly beat her to deathmost wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Forced Her mother, Myrtle, is a mermaid and comes to fleevisit regularly, they ended up although she still lives in the sea. Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, about the circus owned by a shelter, tiger and are now trying whether it would ever come to start life over with a very different set of circumstances. Kylie's Mom is working her island and exhaustedsecondly, they live in about a run down flat, and magical ice cream made from the berries of the money barely stretches to covering groceries - and as Kylie's little sister keeps reminding her - Gongalong bush. One scoop of this is all her faultice cream can make wishes come true. Pressures build up with strange phone calls And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. Could Kylie's stepfather have found them? And of course there are the usual difficulties of starting a new school and trying to make friendsjourney is planned...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122091</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128286|title=Jon For ShortRun Wild|author=Malorie Blackman and Vladimir StankovicGill Lewis

|summary=The book begins with a horrible dream of dark footsteps and the flash of knife blade plunging down again Meet Izzy and againAsha. Waking up brings no respite to Bullied away from the terror or pain for Jonlocal attempt at a skatepark, because his waking world is even more frightening than they find a huge waste ground in the nightmare. He wakes up in shadow of a darkened hospital room. There are now windows derelict gasometer to the outsidepractise on, only a small frosted glass window to the hall which lets in a tiny bit of light. The nurses seem cruel and angry. They insist on calling him Joethey duly do, No matter how often he tells even though they have to drag Izzy's younger brother with them his name is Jonathan - Jon for short. The nightmare comes again and again. It starts out exactly following day they all want to return, as does the samebrother's schoolfriend, but each time it goes on just a little longer despite – and Jon sees of course because of – there is a bit morehuge wolf living in the site. The dream is not Can the children survive living in the only cause of his terror. Each time when he wakes upurban wilderness, another part of his body has been removed. Piece by piece he is being dismembered. Soon there will be nothing left of him - and no one will tell him why.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121958</amazonuk>alongside such obvious dangers?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jennings Different|title=Read On - Unsolved MysteriesA Different Dog|author=Keith WestPaul Jennings and Geoff Kelly|rating=4.5

|summary=''Collins Read On'' books are not specifically listed as Our hero is a dyslexia friendly line of booksboy, whose name we never learn. InsteadWe know what he wants in life – with his mother exceedingly poor, these are what is known as hi-lo books. Book developed to motivate and engage older readers, while still being accessible even his bed burnt to readers who are reading far below grade level. I would estimate keep the reading level two of this book to be roughly age eightthem warm, but he wants the subject matter is apt to appeal to children much older, or even adultsprize offered by a down-a-mountain-and-back-up-and-down-again foot race. Although not designed especially for children with dyslexia like Winning the race and the famous Barrington Stoke range, this does have several features to make this book large purse would also give him more appropriate to children with dyslexia than the average children's book. With status in the exception eyes of those kids that bully him, and it might even give him a few small picture captions, this voice – for he is printed in black ink with a large standard fontalmost mute. The print is double spacedWe quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the motivation, with short paragraphs and chapters giving the reader plenty of breaks. The paper is thick enough that print can only speak aloud to himself – and pictures , so it turns out, to a dog he rescues from a bad road accident he finds on his way up the other side will not show through. This combined with hill to the easy to read text will help to build a child's confidence. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007488904</amazonuk>start line…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dawson_Grave|title=Sam's Spitfire SummerGrave Matter|author=Ian MacDonald Juno Dawson and Charlie Clough Alex T Smith

|summary='Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took her life, Sam's Spitfire Summer' is billed as a thrilling WW2 adventurebroken soul. In my opinion it He is not. This is not lost without the girl he loves, feeling as though a high octane adventurepart of him died that night too. Instead it But he is the story of a rather ordinary boy, homesick, terribly frightened desperate and unsure of himself after being evacuated from Londonhe cannot live without Eliza. This book describes the life of a child during WW2 with such realism that I honestly wonder He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if it she might have some basis in factbe able to help him. It describes Sam's loneliness, and fearHowever, being separated from his parents as finding his father goes away Aunt Marie leads him to fight discover the GermansMilk Man, and his Mother remains which causes Sam in London, with the risk of bombing. This book really gives a good glimpse at how Sam feels being evacuated. He misses his home desperately and is frightened by the large animals in the country - such as cows. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905637438</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Smallest Horse in the World|author=Jeremy Strong and Scoular Anderson|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Bella despises the new girl at school, Swan. Swan is always bragging about her rich father, her fancy house, their Ferrari etc... And grieving state to make matters worse, she is rude, bossy and much bigger than Bella. Bella has problems at home too. Her parents have split up and she misses her father; her mother is always working and she a pact with forces he doesn't seem to have any close friendsunderstand. Things look pretty dismal after an argument with Bella, but every thing changes when Bellasoon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's favourite picture breaks and out steps a real live horse. A very tiny horse, but a horse all the same, and a talking one at that. Bella would love to keep the little horse, Astra, but the horse is desperate to be reunited with her true master, Rufuslife in more ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842999958</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Ghost Stadium|author=Tom Palmer |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I usually buy Barrington Stoke books for my son to read on his own. He loves the short but exciting stories, and the easy-to-read text. With this book though, the temptation to turn out the lights and read this out loud by torch light was simply too much to resist. It begins as a boy's own adventure. Three boys, Lucas, Irfan and Jack have come up with the perfect plan to start their summer holidays Move on a high note. Their local football club has been closed for years, but the boys have a scheme to get into the stadium one last time and spend a night camping on the pitch. My son immediately realised the football pitch would be the perfect place to camp out. It is difficult to get into, but once there, it would be like being in a wilderness. The high walls would block out everything, leaving the boys completely alone in the dark. There is only one problem. Places that are very difficult to get into can also be very difficult to get out of...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112227X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Dystopian Fiction Reviews]]