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|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The idea began with Mr Lime’s bodily explosions (didn’t I put that nicely?) After three of them it was Norman the dog (who was entirely blameless in this matter so long as you’re willing to overlook the fact that he was having a lovely dream about dropping cats off bridges) who got the kick to speed him from the room. There were a couple more occasions when something similar happened but instead of getting a complex about what was happening, Norman saw an opportunity. A business opportunity. If dogs were going to get the blame then there should be something in it for them and he went into partnership with his best mate, Ringo (who does seem to be obsessed with sausages) and Blamehounds was born.
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{{newreview
|author=Eleanor Updale and Sarah Horne
|title=Itch Scritch Scratch
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary='''Warning: This Book Will Get Under Your Skin''' WellTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, that's what it says on so when the back of smartly-dressed man and woman came to the book and I can promise that village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it's truewas an opportunity not to be missed. You might like Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to wear a pair of those cotton mittens for babies whilst you readHanoi. It will feel awkwardOnly, but you'll feel Hanh and the benefitother girls were not going to work in a shop, honestly. But - I'm getting ahead of myselfthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You want to know about those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the book. artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's a family story quite possible that Hanh and her co- and the family in question are head liceworkers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122946</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Morpurgo and Ross CollinsMarcus Sedgwick|title=All I Said WasWrath|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Our Meet Fitz, a young friend looked up Scottish lad full of frustration at the window himself. Lockdown is only just over, and saw a pigeon balancing on the window sill and our young friend had a thought. ''I'd like he should be free to be youdo what he wants,'' to go where he wants and with whom he saidwants, dreaming of flying off but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to anywhere that he likedhis best friend, Cassie. The pigeon They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was quite happy to change places: lying on also one hundred per cent the bed reading a book seemed like enigmatic – saying she could hear a good idea, so subhuman hum coming from the two changed placesearth. Our young hero thought it was great as he flew off towards Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the sea: ''I want to be world is already a bird all my lifedone 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...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123489</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Tilly's PromiseLucy Strange and Pam Smy|authortitle=Linda NewberyThe Mermaid in the Millpond|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Tilly often wished things would change There is no mermaid in the sleepy little village she called home, but she gets more change than she bargained for when war breaks outmillpond. First her sweetheart joins up, then Tilly signs on a nurse and finally her brother Georgie That at least is called up, despite the fact that he what Bess is completely unfit for servicetelling herself. Georgie is different, big and strong but with the mind of Neither will there be a child - how could he possibly survive friend for her in amongst all the horrors of war? So many promises are madeother kids, Tilly promises her sweetheart Harry she will wait who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill- Harry assures her he won't be away long - sure it will probably be over owners by Christmas (famous last words)the London workhouse they used to call home. When Georgie Bess knows there is posted to Harry's unit, Tilly extracts no time for friendship in a somewhat reluctant promise from him hand-to look after her brother. More promises will be made - but promises are hard to keep in wartimemouth, every man for himself kind of existence. As Georgie and Harry face the harsh reality But despite herself Bess does find a bit of life a kindred spirit in the trenchesslight little Dot, Tilly finds herself near the frontline as and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a nurse. Everything seems to have changed. Will even love remain glimmer of companionship in the same tired- especially out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the aftermath existence of a broken promisethe mermaid?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122938</amazonuk>180090049X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Old Dog, New TricksKeith Gray|authortitle=Bali RaiThe Climbers|rating=54|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Nick Sully is a miserable old sod by anyonethe best tree climber in the village. He has what's definitionknown amongst the kids as 'reach'. His equally mangy dogBut what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, Nelsoncalled Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is the being threatened, and not only friend he hasthat, as that his nasty nature puts everyone off. But while he may be unpleasant chance to most peoplename the final, he is downright horrible when unnamed big tree in the park by being the Singh family move infirst to conquer it, bringing out the worst of might be snatched from his racist views - but hands. How can a man who likes Bob Marley really hate anyone of another colourSully stop Nottingham? Is Nick just an ignorant and offensive old gitAnd will it cost him his best friend, or is there something more beneath the surface? No one seems to have really bothered to find out before a common love maybe even all of dogs draws young Harvey Singh his friends, to attempt to befriend not only the unkempt dog, but the lonely old man as well.do so?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123470</amazonuk>1781129991
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The First Third Wish (Little Gems)Lisa Thompson|authortitle=Ian BeckThe Small Things
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=This is a lovely story of a lost wish. Cobweb Although Anna has bungled her very first assignmentfriends at school, losing the third wish meant for a kindly woodcuttershe feels like she never really fits in. She managed Her family don't have enough money to replace it with a sparelet her do after school activities, but and so she feels like her job will not be complete until the missing wish life at home is found and returnedboring in comparison to theirs. It seems When a lost wish new girl joins her class, Anna is very dangerous indeed as it gives asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the finder an unlimited supply of wishes - new girl, Ellie, is unwell and not all people are careful what they wish forso can't attend school in person. As luck would have it thoughInstead, she joins in with the wish has found its way just to class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the place where it most neededchallenge of making friends with someone through a robot, where it will result in and is she even interesting enough to be a true happily ever after, not only for the young man who finds it, but for many others as well.good friend to Ellie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122458</amazonuk>1781129649
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=My Friend's a Gris-Kwok (Little Gems)Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|authortitle=Malorie Blackman and Andy RowlandThe Ghost Garden
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=When Mike discovers that his best friend Alex Fran, the gardener's daughter at a posh country house, is worried. She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a Gris Kwok or shape shifter it looks like they are in for some real fun. Not only can Alex change into any creature he wantsgrim discovery - a large bone, he can change anyone touching him as wellburied under the potatoes. There are only three hitches. The first is But she's even more worried when she learns that Alex can only change three times a day. The second is that event coincided with Leo, the older child of the house, breaking his sister has leg while playing cricket on the same powerslawn. The third She is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that Alex also seems to foretell a surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason to be out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he is babysitting and if you think babysitting ordinary siblings is difficult just wait until you see all the mischief seeking - a shape shifting toddler can get intolong-forgotten burial chamber. But surely that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112244X</amazonuk>1781129002
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Snug (Little Gems)Alex Wheatle|authortitle=Michael Morpurgo and Faye HansenThe 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. He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night'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 bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinner. I know, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=178112938X
|title=Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission
|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|rating=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 It's fifty years since the family at almost Apollo 13 mission was launched from the same time as Lisa and Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the two grow up together and share a special bond. His exploits will be familiar to any story of that journey remains one who has any experience of cats and many children will relate to things Snug does just like their own petthe greatest survival stories of all time. ''Survival in Space: The illustrations in this book are beautiful and certain to delight any animal lover, as well as giving readers Apollo 13 Mission'' is a nostalgic look at childhoodbrilliant retelling of what happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122865</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781129312|title=The Castle in the Field (Little Gems)Sequin and Stitch|author=Michael Morpurgo Laura Dockrill and Faye HansenSara Ogilvie (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=I think all children love densSequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with her. It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed to get credit for what she did. Mum is almost a primal instinct for children, to find, construct seamstress and hide away in huts, dens, tents, or any other place that gives them that sense of their own private place, away from she makes the world. Michael Morpurgo has captured the magic sort of a secret den perfectly in this story of three friends who find an abandoned WW2 Pillbox and make it into their own private castleclothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. The children are She's not really meant to be in the pillbox. It is on private property, but designer - they don't really have any place else to go. Two re the people who make a lot of money from the children are not allowed to go home until their parents finish work and clothes. Mum is the third will not leave his best friend out in person who actually ''makes'' the weather alone. At first the pillbox is just shelter from a stormgarments and she's really talented, but it soon becomes an embodiment of all when people talk about the dress or the wonder of childhood as suit, they talk about the children transform it into a wonderful private retreatdesigner. But how long will they be able to keep their special hideout a secret? This The seamstress is a lovely story with a heart warming theme of friendship, a confrontation with bullies, and the inevitable pangs of growing upnever mentioned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122873</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ninja: First Mission (Ninja Trilogy)Tanya Landman|authortitle=Chris Bradford and Sonia LeongJane Eyre: a Retelling
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=If you are looking for adventureA young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, '' Ninja First Mission'' will certain come up trumps. This book never has and years in a slow moment. But even as the story races along at breakneck speeddreary school, there is plenty moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to think about as well. This book has as much to offer have something like the deep thinker as the adrenaline junky. Tatalife she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a young Ninja in traininghalf-French girl, whose father is desperate almost always absent. When he does turn up he seems to prove himself. He has failed the test for his black belt three timesbe dark, brooding and troubled – but this was just a simple test. The sacred scrolls of his clan have been stolenthat's nothing compared to the darker, more broody and all of even more troubling secret in the fully fledged Ninja but one are away on another missionhouse. Tata faces another test Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but this time the stakes are life and deathif you don't, not only for himselfwhatever reason, but for his clan. In order this is a wonderful book to succeed Tata must learn turn to find victory in failure. Most of all he must learn to believe in himself.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842999397</amazonuk>1781129126
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128952|title=Football CrazyThe Starlight Watchmaker|author=Tony Bradman and Michael BroadLauren James|rating=54
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=''Football Crazy'' This is about a group of friends who play on the worst team in the leaguedyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It can be difficult when your team loses every time you go on tells the pitchtale of Hugo, but Dannyan unwanted and rather lonely android, Jamil and Lewis love the sport and they stick with it who makes a living for himself mending time- win or losetravel watches. They keep hoping the next game will When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be the game in which they finally winmended, or at least get on the scoreboard, but it never happens - not as long as Mr Perkins Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved and is coachingonly too ready to help. When the coach finally packs it in - it looks like curtains for Rovers FC. ButAn exciting journey of discovery unfolds, luck seems to be on the children's side when which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a new coach, Jock Ramsay, scary adventure with some history in the pro leagues is found. The amazing new coach is toughfriends, but he quickly gets exploring regions of the team into shape and the Rovers start climbing the league tables. Parents are delighted, the stands are full, but the children find they no longer love the sport. Everything is about winning. Things come to crisis point when Coach Ramsay orders Danny planet never before known to take a diveexist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122121</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128693|title=Secret FCSpecial Delivery|author=Tom PalmerJonathan Meres|rating=34
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Unlike many How do you explain to childrenabout dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, Lily, Zack and Khan canbut when the problem is the brain which isn't functioning quite as it used to it isn't wait for the school as easy to grasp. Frank was a normal nine-year-old and like many nine-year to begin-olds what he wanted was a new bike. They live in an overcrowded part of London with no room He'd had his for outdoor sports about seventy-eight years and he didn't want to raise the school ground is the only place they can enjoy seat any more. Mum pointed out that it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a friendly game lot of footballmoney, which didn't grow on trees. But their hopes for the new term are dashed when His sister Lottie had a new Head Teacher decides ball sports are too dangerous for childrensolution: Frank could help her with her paper round. Surprisingly, with an overly safety-conscious Head, while football is prohibited there is Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a wooded waste ground inside the school grounds - which just happens thousand years to be save up the perfect spot money for a bike AND he had to get up at six o'clock in the children to clear and create their own football pitchmorning. But will they be able to keep the secret? Or will Mr Edwards blow the final whistle on all of their sports? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122415</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128707|title=SamuraiThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Ian Beck and Daniel AtanasovVivian French
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=The hero Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to win the 100 metres race on sports day at the end of our story is nameless. He is only the Samurai, term - and not even quite thatwas next week. He is dishonoured, a masterless Samurai We're going to read about what happened in her diary, or Ronin. We do not know his masteralthough there's fate but a warning that we can only assume really shouldn't be reading it is death, and particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. To say that Ronin has fled the field taking his injured dog to safety. The land is desolate and barren and both the text and the superbly drawn illustrations build a feeling of darkness and despair. The path he travels two girls don't get on at all well is lined with skeletons of defeated warriors lashed to wagon wheels. It gives the reader the impression of the road to hell. The young Samurai takes refuge in a ruined palace, yet another sign bit of devastation upon the land, seeming to exist for the next few days only to care for Cho, his dog, while awaiting the punishment of the gods for his failurean understatement. He rises from despair to help others Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, first to defeat but Barbie is a demon haunting the palace, troublemaker and then undertaking a journey she wants to find and defeat another deadly demon. Soon win the young warrior comes to a village suffering under the most horrific of curses. His courage will be put to the test as he must risk even his beloved Cho to save an innocent girl and lift the curse100 metres race too - by fair means or foul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122202</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1949471004|title=Thor and the Master of MagicDog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Kevin Crossley-Holland and SikuPamela Brookes
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=I grew up with tales of What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the heroes of Asgard, and this story was always a firm favouritewonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but todaythe sounds in the book might not be the ones you's children ve been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more likely of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problem. You need to be able to know Thor from ''The Avengers'buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. This book is sure to interest any You need a story which engages the young comic book fans, mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the illustrations will certainly help with this, but it is still faithful to the original myth, learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and in my mind would count as literature, rather than just a fun read - but I games wouldn't tell the children thatgo amiss, either. This is an excellent retelling of ThorReading - and ''learning''s visit to Utgarda read - Loki ( the giant kingshould be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''s hall) from Prose Edda a collection of Norse poetry thought to have been compiled by the Icelandic poet Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122210</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128510|title=Under AttackOne Shot|author=Jim Eldridge and Dave ShepherdTanya Landman|rating=34.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=My sons are army barmy as they say, ''Pa and have been begging for military stories so 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. She was delighted to see this in the Barrington Stoke range. The book reminded me a bit only one of a cross between the old Commando comic books three children who looked like him, and Action Man books with heroes blazing to none of the rescueothers acted like him, but sadly I found something lacking. It is a very short story and packed with actioncertainly, but there really does not his wife didn't seem to fully understand him. Maggie might as well be any character development. The reliving the Cinderella story itself is very simple but flat, stuck with two siblings and mother that are fully against her. The Taliban attacks a hospital repeatedly But at least she can sneak out at night, and the British Army comes shoot some game to stop them from starving? Well, no, not where her mother is concerned – the rescue. A very small child is shot and the doctor elects to perform emergency surgery on idea of a kitchen table rather than waiting female shooting things, when they could be preparing 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 life of circumstancesunhappy married drudgery, without blood, anaesthetics etc...is just scandalous. all the while under heavy fire. Will the British Army be able to save the day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122113</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112843X|title=GamerLark|author=Chris BradfordAnthony McGowan
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=I'll warn you first. This is the fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. Try not to cry before you'Gamer'' ve even read the first page. Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is written for coming to visit - the child mum who would rather be in front of abandoned them a console than reading booklong time ago. Even They haven't seen her for years and the cover depicts action with impending visit is stirring up a scene that changes to depict fighting if you tilt the booklot of uncomfortable feelings. This isnAnd Nicky't to say s girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it lacks depth. This has a well developed plotall, Nicky and very good characterisationKenny plan a day out, but trekking across the action never stopsmoors. It is perfect for children who are used But it doesn't go to the high adrenaline experience of a video gameplan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, but it has plenty to offer the child who loves books as wellin terrible danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121389</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786697173|title=ScrumMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Tom Palmer and Dylan GibsonSally Gardner
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Steven has Betsy K Glory lives a pretty good rather wonderful life. His parents are divorced, but they get on well. He sees his Dad every day and has a good relationship with his Mom and her partner, Martinpeaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. TrueHer father, he would like his parents to get back togetherAlonso, as makes the most kids wouldwonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Her mother, but things aren't too bad as they are. He has good friendsMyrtle, is a happy home mermaid and a real shot and breaking into the Rugby League teams. His whole world is turned upside though when Mom announces comes to visit regularly, although she is going to marry Martin. Soon Steven finds himself still lives in a new home, with a new school and new friends, but he adjusts and makes the best sea. Betsy dreams of two things. He even has : firstly, about the circus owned by a shot at playing Rugby at county level, but there is one problem tiger and whether it is major one. The new town is in a Rugby Union area. Steven has always played Rugby League would ever come to her island and to his fathersecondly, switching sides will be about a betrayalmagical ice cream made from the berries of the Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842999443</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Heroes (Most Wanted)|author=Anne Perry|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Trench warfare has widely been acknowledged as one of the most soul destroying forms of combat. It broke men physically And then Mr Tiger and mentallyhis circus arrive. Death seemed inevitable for many, and life was so horrible that at times it must have come as release. So what is one more death among the multitudes? To Chaplain Joseph Reavely every death counts, but he can not let this one go. Morton was not killed by enemy fire - he was murdered and Joseph will not rest until justice is done. It sounds pretty straight forward, but there is far more to it than this and justice is truly poetic in this case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842995103</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Fox Friend|author=Michael Morpurgo and Joanna Carey|rating=3|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|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 And a journey is dead fox''planned. Clare's Father says the foxes had already killed ten lambs that year, and it was only March with the lambing season in full swing. (I did find these figures quite high - but then again, maybe they owned a lot of sheep). When Clare finds an injured and orphaned cub after a fox hunt, it is obvious she can not turn to her parents for help. But regardless of her father's feelings, Clare is determined to save this helpless little creature.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781120862</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128286|title=Moose BabyRun Wild|author=Meg RosoffGill Lewis
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Jess is a pretty average teenage mother - except for one thingMeet Izzy and Asha. Instead of giving birth to Bullied away from the local attempt at a normal little girl as she was expectingskatepark, she ends up delivering they find a 23lb moose calf by C-Section. It seems there has been huge waste ground in the shadow of a cluster of non homo-sapien births derelict gasometer to human mothers. For some unexplained reasonpractise on, which they duly do, a number of women even though they have given birth to animals - mostly moose. Jess feels confident she can cope drag Izzy's younger brother with the trials and tribulations of teenage parenthoodthem. She can handle The following day they all want to return, as does the midwivesbrother' harsh lookss schoolfriend, her mother's disappointment despite – and her boyfriend's parents' disapproval. But giving birth to a moose instead of course because of – there is a human may be more than any mother can adjust tohuge wolf living in the site.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121974</amazonuk>Can the children survive living in the urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jennings Different|title=The Wickedest Witch in the WorldA Different Dog|author=Kaye Umansky Paul Jennings and Gerald KelleyGeoff Kelly|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Everyone knows the story of Hansel and Gretel. At least Our hero is a boy, whose name we thought we knewnever learn. But as We know what he wants in life – with his mother exceedingly poor, and even his bed burnt to keep the saying goes there are always two sides to every story and this one is told from the perspective of Old Maggitthem warm, The Wickedest Witch in he wants the World. You see Maggit really wasn't so wicked after allprize offered by a down-a-mountain-and-back-up-and-down-again foot race. It was Winning the children who were wicked. Well, maybe they were not exactly ''wicked'', but they were most certainly obnoxious, and old Maggit's no nonsense manner race 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 to lure children into as a means of finally winning the Wickedest Witch large purse would also give him more status in the World title. But once she has the children - she has no idea what to do them eyes of those kids that bully him, and ends up teaching them mannersit might even give him a voice – for he is almost mute. As We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the whole cannibalism story - that was all made up of course. The children decide the motivation, and can only way for Maggit to win is speak aloud to lie - himself – and they come up with a whopper. It was , so good people have been repeating it for centuries with turns out, to a dog he rescues from a bad road accident he finds on his way up the original tale thought hill to have originated in the 14th century.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122016</amazonuk>start line…
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dawson_Grave|title=Mary's HairGrave Matter|author=Eoin ColferJuno Dawson and Alex T Smith|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Mary hates Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took her hair. It has black bits and brown bitslife, curly bits and straight bits and Mary feels that it looks very much like Sam is a bushbroken soul. Her Daddy says if you don't like somethingHe is lost without the girl he loves, you should change it (instead of whining about it to your parents when they want to relax with feeling as though a cup part of tea)him died that night too. Mary's Daddy, like many others, should watch what But he is desperate and he says cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to childrenhelp him. Mary follows However, finding his advice Aunt Marie leads him to discover the Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a pact with hilarious results. First she cuts her hair, but when that forces he doesn't go to plan she decides to dye itunderstand. She has learned something from the whole hair cutting experience though, this time she plans Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to try the dye out on someone else firstchange Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122261</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=Dead Brigade|author=James Lovegrove|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Sergeant Jonah Hammond's career has been at a standstill in the years since he launched a complaint against a reckless commanding officer whose arrogance resulted in the massacre of British soldiers. Now that same officer is offering Hammond another chance. This time Hammond won't have Move on to worry about some idiot getting his men all killed - because they are already dead. Hammond has been given the task of training a crack squad of reanimated soldiers, immune to pain, disease and capable of fighting with massive injuries. These living dead are reanimated by nanobots. They are capable of learning, following instructions, and meant to be incapable of independent thought. However, 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 is still human, still the soldier they once were, trapped within a decaying corpse, kept refrigerated until ready for the next mission. They have no life, nor do they have the luxury of death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842995081</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Dystopian Fiction Reviews]]