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[[Category:New Reviews|Dyslexia Friendly]]__NOTOC__{{newreview|title=Snug (Little Gems)|author=Michael Morpurgo and Faye Hansen|rating=2.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Michael Morpurgo has captured what is like to own a cat, or perhaps more accurately to be owned by a cat, perfectly. Snug comes into the family at almost the same time as Lisa and the two grow up together and share a special bond. His exploits will be familiar to any one who has any experience of cats and many children will relate to things Snug does just like their own pet. The illustrations in this book are beautiful and certain to delight any animal lover, as well as giving readers a nostalgic look at childhood.|amazonuk= <amazonuk!-- Remove -->1781122865</amazonuk>}}

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|summary=I think all children love densTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. It is almost a primal instinct for children, to find, construct and hide away Life in hutsthe rural village where she lived with her family was happy, dens, tentsif not prosperous, or any other place that gives them that sense of their own private place, away from so when the world. Michael Morpurgo has captured smartly-dressed man and woman came to the magic of village to offer Hahn a secret den perfectly job in this story of three friends who find Hanoi it was an abandoned WW2 Pillbox and make it into their own private castle. The children are opportunity not really meant to be in the pillboxmissed. It is Some money changed hands and Hanh was on private property, but they don't really have any place else the mini-bus to goHanoi. Two of Only, Hanh and the children are other girls were not allowed going to go home until their parents finish work and the third will not leave his best friend out in the weather alone. At first the pillbox is just shelter from a stormshop, but it soon becomes they were to work in virtual slavery in an embodiment of all illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the wonder of childhood as ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the children transform it into a wonderful private retreat. But how long will they be able to keep their special hideout a secretlegs? This is a lovely story The ones with a the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? heart warming theme of friendship, a confrontation with bullies, It's quite possible that Hanh and the inevitable pangs of growing upher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122873</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ninja: First Mission (Ninja Trilogy)Marcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Chris Bradford and Sonia LeongWrath|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=If you are looking for adventureMeet Fitz, '' Ninja First Mission'' will certain come up trumps. This book never has a slow momentyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. But even as the story races along at breakneck speedLockdown is only just over, there is plenty and he should be free to think about as well. This book has as much do what he wants, to offer the deep thinker as the adrenaline junky. Tatago where he wants and with whom he wants, a young Ninja but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in trainingit when he talks to his best friend, is desperate to prove himselfCassie. He has failed the test for his black belt three timesThey were half of a desultory school band, but this Cassie was just also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a simple testsubhuman hum coming from the earth. The sacred scrolls Is this connected with one of his clan have been stolen, and all her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the fully fledged Ninja but one are away on another mission. Tata faces another test, but this time 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 stakes are life and deathtruth? Well, not only for himself, but for his clanwhen Cassie has gone missing he can't. In order to succeed Tata must learn to find victory in failure. Most of all he must learn to believe in himself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842999397</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Football CrazyLucy Strange and Pam Smy|authortitle=Tony Bradman and Michael BroadThe Mermaid in the Millpond|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=''Football Crazy'' There is about a group of friends who play on the worst team no mermaid in the leaguemillpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. It can Neither will there be difficult when your team loses every time you go on a friend for her in amongst all the pitchother kids, but Danny, Jamil and Lewis love who have had their entire childhoods sold to the sport and they stick with it mill- win or lose. They keep hoping the next game will be owners by the game in which London workhouse they finally win, or at least get on the scoreboard, but it never happens - not as long as Mr Perkins used to call home. Bess knows there is coaching. When the coach finally packs it no time for friendship in a hand- it looks like curtains to-mouth, every man for Rovers FChimself kind of existence. Butdespite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, luck seems and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be on the children's side when a new coach, Jock Ramsay, with some history glimmer of companionship in the pro leagues is foundtired-out mill workers. The new coach But surely that doesn't mean there is tough, but he quickly gets any truth in the team into shape and the Rovers start climbing the league tables. Parents are delighted, the stands are full, but existence of the children find they no longer love the sport. Everything is about winning. Things come to crisis point when Coach Ramsay orders Danny to take a dive.mermaid?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122121</amazonuk>180090049X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Secret FCKeith Gray|authortitle=Tom PalmerThe Climbers|rating=34|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Unlike many children, Lily, Zack and Khan can't wait for Sully is the school year to begin. They live best tree climber in an overcrowded part of London with no room for outdoor sports and the school ground is village. He has what's known amongst the only place they can enjoy a friendly game of footballkids as 'reach'. But their hopes for the new term are dashed what happens when a new Head Teacher decides ball sports are too dangerous for children. Surprisinglykid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with an overly safety-conscious Head, while football ease? Suddenly Sully is prohibited there worried that his status is a wooded waste ground inside being threatened, and not only that, that his chance to name the school grounds - which just happens to be final, unnamed big tree in the perfect spot for park by being the children first to clear and create their own football pitchconquer it, might be snatched from his hands. But will they be able to keep the secretHow can Sully stop Nottingham? Or And will Mr Edwards blow the final whistle on it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of their sportshis friends, to do so? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122415</amazonuk>1781129991

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SamuraiLisa Thompson|authortitle=Ian Beck and Daniel AtanasovThe Small Things

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=The hero of our story is namelessAlthough Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. He is only the SamuraiHer family don't have enough money to let her do after school activities, and not even quite thatso she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. He is dishonoured, When a masterless Samurainew girl joins her class, or Ronin. We do not know his master's fate but we can only assume it Anna is deathasked to partner her, and that Ronin has fled but things are complicated because the field taking his injured dog to safety. The land new girl, Ellie, is desolate unwell and barren and both the text and the superbly drawn illustrations build a feeling of darkness and despairso can't attend school in person. The path he travels on is lined Instead, she joins in with skeletons of defeated warriors lashed to wagon wheels. It gives the reader the impression of the road to hellclass by using a robot. The young Samurai takes refuge in a ruined palace, yet another sign of devastation upon the land, seeming to exist for Can Anna overcome the next few days only to care for Cho, his dog, while awaiting the punishment challenge of the gods for his failure. He rises from despair to help others, first to defeat making friends with someone through a demon haunting the palacerobot, and then undertaking a journey to find and defeat another deadly demon. Soon the young warrior comes is she even interesting enough to be a village suffering under the most horrific of curses. His courage will be put good friend to the test as he must risk even his beloved Cho to save an innocent girl and lift the curse.Ellie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122202</amazonuk>1781129649

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Thor Emma Carroll and the Master of MagicKaja Kajfez|authortitle=Kevin Crossley-Holland and SikuThe Ghost Garden|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=I grew up with tales of Fran, the heroes of Asgardgardener's daughter at a posh country house, and this story was always is worried. She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a firm favouritelarge bone, but todayburied under the potatoes. But she's children are even more likely to know Thor from ''The Avengers''. This book is sure to interest any young comic book fansworried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, and the illustrations will certainly help with thisolder child of the house, but it breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. She is still faithful due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the original mythgrounds in his bathchair, and in my she might have reason to be out of her mind would count as literaturewith fear, rather than just when she learns what he is seeking - a fun read long- but I wouldn't tell the children thatforgotten burial chamber. This is an excellent retelling of ThorBut surely that won's visit t act as a premonition to Utgarda anything - Loki ( not here in the giant king's hall) from Prose Edda a collection sultry, summery days of Norse poetry thought to have been compiled by the Icelandic poet Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century.1914?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122210</amazonuk>1781129002

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Under AttackAlex Wheatle|authortitle=Jim Eldridge and Dave ShepherdThe Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating=32.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=My sons are army barmy as We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they say, and have been begging for military stories so I was delighted to see this in should be the Barrington Stoke rangebest of times. The book reminded me He should be getting a bit of a cross between text from the old Commando comic books and Action Man books with heroes blazing most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to the rescuea cinema date, but sadly I found something lacking. It is a very short story his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal and packed with actionhis breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in response, but there really does not seem and the wanna-bae seems to actually be any character developmentwith someone else anyway. The story itself is very simple but flat. The Taliban attacks On a hospital repeatedly bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left the British Army comes picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to the rescuehaving cabbage for dinner. A very small child I know, right? But surely this is shot and the doctor elects to perform emergency surgery on just a kitchen table rather than waiting for the helicopter to arriveblip, but the Taliban haven't given up. The doctor valiantly tries to operate to remove a bullet next day at school to the child's heart under the most desperate of circumstancesforget, without blood, anaesthetics etc.... and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the while under heavy fire. Will the British Army wash? This can't be able to save the daystart of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122113</amazonuk>1781129495

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=GamerSurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=Chris BradfordDavid Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)

|summary=It''Gamer'' is written for s fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the child who would rather be Kennedy Space Centre in front Florida, but the story of a console than reading book. Even the cover depicts action with a scene that changes to depict fighting if you tilt journey remains one of the bookgreatest survival stories of all time. This isn ''t to say it lacks depth. This has Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a well developed plot, and very good characterisation, but the action never stops. It is perfect for children who are used to the high adrenaline experience brilliant retelling of a video game, but it has plenty to offer the child who loves books as wellwhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121389</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781129312|title=ScrumSequin and Stitch|author=Tom Palmer Laura Dockrill and Dylan GibsonSara Ogilvie (illustrator)

|summary=Steven has a pretty good life. His parents are divorcedSequin loved her mum to bits, but they get on well. He sees his Dad every day and has a good relationship sometimes she got very cross with his Mom and her partner, Martin. True, he would like his parents It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed to get back together, as most kids would, but things aren't too bad as they arecredit for what she did. He has good friends, Mum is a happy home seamstress and she makes the sort of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. She's not the designer - they're the people who make a real shot and breaking into lot of money from the Rugby League teamsclothes. His whole world Mum is turned upside though when Mom announces the person who actually ''makes'' the garments and she is going to marry Martin. Soon Steven finds himself in a new home, with a new school and new friends's really talented, but he adjusts and makes when people talk about the dress or the best of things. He even has a shot at playing Rugby at county levelsuit, but there is one problem and it is major onethey talk about the designer. The new town seamstress is in a Rugby Union area. Steven has always played Rugby League and to his father, switching sides will be a betrayalnever mentioned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842999443</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Heroes (Most Wanted)Tanya Landman|authortitle=Anne PerryJane Eyre: a Retelling|rating=4.5

|summary=Trench warfare has widely been acknowledged as 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 of intent – to have something like the most soul destroying forms of combat. It broke men physically life she wants – and mentallywith only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. Death seemed inevitable for many When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and life was so horrible troubled – but that at times it must have come as release. So what is one more death among 's nothing compared to the multitudes? To Chaplain Joseph Reavely every death countsdarker, but he can not let this one go. Morton was not killed by enemy fire - he was murdered more broody and Joseph will not rest until justice is doneeven more troubling secret in the house. It sounds pretty straight forward Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but there if you don't, for whatever reason, this is far more a wonderful book to turn to it than this and justice is truly poetic in this case.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842995103</amazonuk>1781129126

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128952|title=Fox FriendThe Starlight Watchmaker|author=Michael Morpurgo and Joanna CareyLauren James|rating=34

|summary=Clare loves animals. Her best friend This is her horsea dyslexia-friendly, and she loves all the lambs born on her family farm as well. This natural affection science fiction novella for animals easily extended to the fox she saw strolling through the farm as wellyoung adults. Her father however despises foxes saying ''It tells the only good fox is dead fox''. Clare's Father says the foxes had already killed ten lambs that yeartale of Hugo, an unwanted and it was only March with the lambing season in full swing. (I did find these figures quite high - but then againrather lonely android, maybe they owned who makes a lot of sheep)living for himself mending time-travel watches. When Clare finds an injured one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved and orphaned cub after a fox hunt, it is obvious she can not turn only too ready to her parents for help. But regardless An exciting journey of her father's feelingsdiscovery unfolds, Clare is determined which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the planet never before known to save this helpless little creatureexist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781120862</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128693|title=Moose BabySpecial Delivery|author=Meg RosoffJonathan Meres|rating=54

|summary=Jess How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when the problem is a pretty average teenage mother - except for one thingthe brain which isn't functioning quite as it used to it isn't as easy to grasp. Instead of giving birth to Frank was a normal little girl as she nine-year-old and like many nine-year-olds what he wanted was expecting, she ends up delivering a 23lb moose calf by C-Sectionnew bike. It seems there has been a cluster of non homo He'd had his for about seventy-sapien births eight years and he didn't want to human mothersraise the seat any more. For some unexplained reason, Mum pointed out that it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a number lot of women have given birth to animals - mostly moosemoney, which didn't grow on trees. Jess feels confident she can cope His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her with the trials and tribulations of teenage parenthood. She can handle the midwives' harsh looks, her mother's disappointment and her boyfriend's parents' disapprovalpaper round. But giving birth Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a thousand years to save up the money for a moose instead of a human may be more than any mother can adjust bike AND he had toget up at six o'clock in the morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121974</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128707|title=The Wickedest Witch in the WorldSpectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Kaye Umansky and Gerald KelleyVivian French

|summary=Everyone knows Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to win the story 100 metres race on sports day at the end of Hansel term - and Gretelthat was next week. At least we thought we knew. But as the saying goes there are always two sides We're going to every story and this one is told from the perspective of Old Maggitread about what happened in her diary, The Wickedest Witch in the World. You see Maggit although there's a warning that we really wasnshouldn't so wicked after allbe reading it, particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. It was To say that the children who were wicked. Well, maybe they were not exactly two girls don''wicked'', but they were most certainly obnoxious, and old Maggit's no nonsense manner and just t get on at all well is a bit of attention may be exactly what these children need to turn them aroundan understatement. Maggit really has built Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, but Barbie is a house of gingerbread to lure children into as a means of finally winning the Wickedest Witch in the World title. But once she has the children - troublemaker and she has no idea what to do them and ends up teaching them manners. As wants to win the whole cannibalism story 100 metres race too - that was all made up of course. The children decide the only way for Maggit to win is 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 to have originated in the 14th centuryby fair means or foul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122016</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1949471004|title=Mary's HairDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Eoin ColferPamela Brookes|rating=54

|summary=Mary hates her hair. It What do you do when your child has black bits dyslexia and brown bitsyou need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, curly bits but the sounds in the book might not be the ones you've been working on and straight bits and Mary feels encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that it looks very much like problem. You need to be able to buy books at a bush. Her Daddy says if reasonable price which concentrate on what you don't like somethingve been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. You need a story which engages the young mind and you should change it (instead of whining about it to your parents when they want to relax with a cup of tea)need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. MarySome online support and games wouldn's Daddyt go amiss, like many others, should watch what he says to childreneither. Mary follows his advice with hilarious results. First she cuts her hair, but when that doesn Reading - and ''learning''t go to plan she decides to dye itread - should be a pleasure. She has learned something from the whole hair cutting experience though, this time she plans to try the dye out on someone else firstIt should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122261</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128510|title=Dead BrigadeOne Shot|author=James LovegroveTanya Landman|rating=4.5

|summary=Sergeant Jonah Hammond's career 'Pa and I understood each other. Our souls were cut from the same cloth.'' But Pa has been at a standstill in the years since he launched a complaint against a reckless commanding officer whose arrogance resulted died, leaving Maggie very much alone in her family. She was the massacre only one of British soldiers. Now that same officer is offering Hammond another chance. This time Hammond wonthree children who looked like him, and none of the others acted like him, and certainly, his wife didn't have seem to worry about some idiot getting his men all killed - because they are already deadfully understand him. Hammond has been given Maggie might as well be reliving the task of training a crack squad of reanimated soldiersCinderella story, immune to pain, disease stuck with two siblings and capable of fighting with massive injuries. These living dead mother that are reanimated by nanobotsfully against her. They are capable of learning, following instructionsBut at least she can sneak out at night, and meant shoot some game to be incapable of independent thought. Howeverstop them from starving? Well, no, it soon becomes apparent that things don't always go the way they are meant to. These are not mindless killing machines; a part of them where her mother is still human, still concerned – the soldier they once were, trapped within very idea of a decaying corpsefemale shooting things, kept refrigerated until ready when they could be preparing for the next mission. They have no a lifeof unhappy married drudgery, nor do they have the luxury of deathis just scandalous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842995081</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112843X|title=Sweetness and LiesLark|author=Karen McCombie and Jessica SecheretAnthony McGowan

|summary=Starting a new school is always tough, and when Tilly is the only girl from her primary to win a place at the more exclusive Beech Cliff School, her old friends abandon her as being too posh. She quickly makes friends with Mia, but when a new girl Amber Sweet tries to join the group Mia definitely feels that two is company and three is a crowd. Amber is torn between loyalty to Mia and her own conscience as Tia is openly cruel to Amber. Tilly soon begins to question Mia's jokes and put downs. There doesn't seem to be any way Tilly can be friends with both girls, Mia wonI't allow itll warn you first. Can she find 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>}}

{{newreview|title=Cheesemares|author=Ross Collins|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Every time Hal eats cheese he 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 to solve This is the Case of the Cheesemares. He is accompanied by his canine sidekick, Rufusfourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. He stumbles upon his first clue very quickly. All of the cheese that has been giving him bad dreams has come from Contessa Von Udderstein's (Try not at all evil) House of Cheese in Bovina. Hal follows the trail to a spooky castle ruled by the evil Contessa Von Udderstein, a very mad cow who looks quite a bit like a bovine version of Cruella De Ville. The irate cow wants revenge on humans for stealing their milk for years (itcry before you's a good thing no one mentioned hamburgers or roast beef) Hal and Rufus must escape from ve even read the clutches of the mad cattle and make cheese safe to eat again. It's a good thing cows don't have hands to clutch withfirst page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121915</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Cherry Green Story Queen|author=Annie Dalton Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and Charlie Adler|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=At first glance, I expected this his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to be visit - the mum who abandoned them a fairly typical girllong time ago. They haven's story t seen her for tweens. I certainly was not expecting years and the impending visit is stirring up a story lot of such beauty or depthuncomfortable feelings. This is a very enjoyable read, but is it much more than light fiction. I enjoyed it so much, I wanted to share the book with my sons, but I had to be 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 girlAnd Nicky's story. This book girlfriend has something in common with 'The Arabian Nights, Tales of 1,001 Nights'ended things. In fact To take their minds off it shares all, Nicky and Kenny plan a direct link with day out, trekking across the ancient bookmoors. But this story will only give us three nights of magic. Still three nights might just be enough it doesn't go to change the lives of six children in foster care. This also shares the basic message of 'The Allegory of the Long Spoons' a well known parable by the Rabbi Haim which has passed into the folk lore of many cultures. The basic message is that the difference between heaven plan and an accident puts both boys - and hell is not so much a difference their dog, Tina, in physical circumstances, but rather is the result of how we treat one anotherterrible danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122008</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786697173|title=Mr Birdsnest Tiger, Betsy and the House Next DoorBlue Moon|author=Julia Donaldson and Hannah Shaw Sally Gardner

|summary=I love Julia Donaldson's books for younger childrenBetsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Everyone loves [[The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson|The Gruffalo]] and [[Tyrannosaurus Drip by Julia Donaldson|Tyrannosaurus Drip]] is still one of our favouritesHer father, Alonso, but as makes the children have grownmost wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Her mother, these books have been read less frequently. I have Myrtle, is a mermaid and comes to admitvisit regularly, I've missed themalthough she still lives in the sea. ''Mr Birdsnest and Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, about the House Next Door'' gives us circus owned by a chance tiger and whether it would ever come to enjoy this brilliant author for just her island and secondly, about a little while longer. This is fun story, told in the first person, so we never know magical ice cream made from the name berries of the main characterGongalong bush. We do know she is lively active young girl, perhaps with an active imagination. I would guess her to be about 10 years old with an equally active and inquisitive younger brother named ElmoOne scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781120056</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Them|author=L A Weatherly|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Kylie And then Mr Tiger and her family had a prosperous upper middle class life - until the day Kylie's stepfather nearly beat her to deathhis circus arrive. Forced to flee, they ended up in a shelter, and are now trying to start life over with a very different set of circumstances. Kylie's Mom is working and exhausted, they live in And a run down flat, and the money barely stretches to covering groceries - and as Kylie's little sister keeps reminding her - this journey is all her faultplanned. Pressures build up with strange phone calls. Could Kylie's stepfather have found them? And of course there are the usual difficulties of starting a new school and trying to make friends.|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]]