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[[Category:New Reviews|Dyslexia Friendly]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|author=Jean Ure|title=Star for a Day|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Lucy French (Luce to her grandad) is thirteen and she lives with said Grandad, Mum - and eleven-year-old Lola. Lola's the one who gets all the attention, is able to loosen Mum's purse strings with a pout of her lip and who was upset when she only got Highly Commended in last year's Talent Show. This year she will, of course, require a ''completely'' new outfit and the undivided attention of the family - and that not long after she's had a new outfit to go to a party. Lola is gorgeous, bubbly and brims over with confidence. Lucy isn't - and doesn't.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123586</amazonuk>}}

<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Oldfield1800901232|title=Bright StarStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|summary=Morgan Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was just thirteen happy, if not prosperous, so when she the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was sent an opportunity not to her aunt's ranch in the Rockies for the summerbe missed. It Some money changed hands and Hanh was all a bit alien on the mini-bus to her - I mean she was a city girl from Chicago Hanoi. Only, Hanh and she was the other girls were not going to have work in a shop, they were to get on with ''horses''work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. It's not long though before she realises that she has a real affinity You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with horses intricate embroidery and ponies beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and develops a special bond with a terrified wild mustang. distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's Morgan who rescues the animal when it's trapped in barbed wire quite possible that Hanh and calms it sufficiently to bring it into shelterher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123756</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally NichollsMarcus Sedgwick|title=Shadow GirlWrath|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=One Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of the disadvantages of the foster care system frustration at himself. Lockdown is that some children get moved around rather a lot only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and usually with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it's not down when he talks to themhis best friend, Cassie. But because They were half of this it's easy to see making friends as being a wasted effort and this desultory school band, but Cassie was certainly Clare's opinion. By also one hundred per cent the age of fourteen enigmatic – saying she was at her third secondary school - and after being there for two months she hated itcould hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Everyone else had been there for years and they all had friends: Clare had no Is this connected with one. A very bad day saw of her being evicted from eco-warrior parents saying the end of the school bus and then getting lost as world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she tried to just bonkers? And can Fitz find her way homeout the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. The good thing was that she met Maddy.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123136</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LawrenceLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=The Night RaidMermaid in the Millpond

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=The Trojan War There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is over and telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the few survivors other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to find somewhere else call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-to live-mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. Rye But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and Nisus 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- barely more than children at out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X}}{{Frontpage|author=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 end 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 war hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, and both with their own burden not 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 guilt his friends, to do so?|isbn=1781129991}}{{Frontpage|author=Lisa Thompson|title=The Small Things|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. Her family don't have enough money to let her do after school activities, and horror - so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things are obsessed by complicated because the need to seek vengeance new girl, Ellie, is unwell and protect so can't attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with the land on which they have now settledclass by using a robot.Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through a robot, and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123667</amazonuk>1781129649

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Moonshine Dragon (Little Gems)Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|authortitle=Cornelia FunkeThe Ghost Garden

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=What happens 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 stories escape from books? One moonlit night Patrick is woken up by she learns that that event coincided with Leo, the noise older child of a tiny dragon emerging from the house, breaking his storybook and chased by an equally tiny knight leg while playing cricket on horsebackthe lawn. Suddenly Patrick She is due to get even more worried when she finds himself shrunk something else that also seems to story book size too and 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 and is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. But surely that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the dragon find themselves under attack. Can Patrick save them both before time runs outsultry, summery days of 1914?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123535</amazonuk>1781129002

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Almond and Vladimir StankovicAlex Wheatle|title=Klaus Vogel and the Bad LadsThe Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating=42.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=The Bad Lads had been together for yearsWe meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. They were scamps, mischief makers He should be getting a text from the most bae- lads having worthy girl in school in regards to a bit of fun - cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal and they were led by Joe Gillespie his breakfast over another girl in class, who was a year or two older's duffed him up in response, and the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. The lads thought that Joe was great but there was On a niggling feeling amongst one or two of the boys that bigger scale he was getting a bit more extreme 's living with his mother and not much income now that some of his pranks were actually - deliberately - going the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to hurt peoplehaving cabbage for dinner. The fire I know, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day at Mr Eustace's school to forget, and everything (he was a conchie, you seelike his vomit) happened will all come out in the same week that Klaus Vogel arrived in wash? This can't be the town start of Felling. The scrawny refugee from East Germany who knew hardly any English would change things a most nightmarish time for the Bad Lads.young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122695</amazonuk>1781129495

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112938X|title=Minikid (Little Gems)Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=Michael MorpurgoDavid Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)|rating=3.5

|summary=There seem to be more and more books being published, now, that are marketing themselves as being dyslexia friendly. This Michael Morpurgo story is from Little Gems and it follows It's fifty years since the guidelines that make it easier to read for children with dyslexia. The paper is a high quality cream paper, so no shadows coming through Apollo 13 mission was launched from the other side to distract readersKennedy Space Centre in Florida, there's a special font, and there are pictures throughout but the storyof that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all time. It's 'Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' is a lovely size that fits nicely into small hands, with an appealing coverbrilliant retelling of what happened. So far, so good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123527</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer1781129312|title=Over The LineSequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)

|summary=Jack Cock made his debut as a professional footballer for Huddersfield Town and Sequin 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 fragile dream of playing - it was because she never pushed to get credit for his country came just what she did. Mum is a little bit closer, but this was just before seamstress and she makes the beginning sort of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. She's not the First World War, when there was immense pressure on young men to do designer - they're the honourable thing and join people who make a lot of money from the war to fight in Franceclothes. Mum is the person who actually ''Over the Linemakes'' is the story of Jackgarments and she's warreally talented, of joining but when people talk about the Footballers' Battalion, playing in dress or the Flanders Cupsuit, fighting in they talk about the trenches and not just surviving but being decorated for braverydesigner. After the war he scored England's first international goal and was one of the first of the modern generation of 'professional footballers'The seamstress is never mentioned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123934</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Blamehounds (Little Gems)Tanya Landman|authortitle=Ross CollinsJane Eyre: a Retelling

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=The idea began A young woman, fresh from living with Mr Lime’s bodily explosions (didn’t I put that nicely?) After three of them it was Norman the dog (horrid relatives who was entirely blameless could care less about her, and years in this matter so long as you’re willing a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to overlook have something like the fact that he was having life she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a lovely dream about dropping cats off bridges) who got the kick to speed him from the roomyoung half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. There were a couple more occasions when something similar happened When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but instead of getting a complex about what was happeningthat's nothing compared to the darker, Norman saw an opportunitymore broody and even more troubling secret in the house. A business opportunity. If dogs were going to get Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the blame then there should be something in it rest – but if you don't, for them and he went into partnership with his best matewhatever reason, Ringo (who does seem this is a wonderful book to turn to be obsessed with sausages) and Blamehounds was born.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123926</amazonuk>1781129126

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eleanor Updale and Sarah Horne1781128952|title=Itch Scritch ScratchThe Starlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James

|summary='''Warning: This Book Will Get Under Your Skin''' Wellis a dyslexia-friendly, that's what it says on science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the back tale of the book Hugo, an unwanted and I can promise that it's true. You might like to wear rather lonely android, who makes a pair of those cotton mittens living for babies whilst you readhimself mending time-travel watches. It will feel awkwardWhen one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, but you'll feel the benefitHugo realises there is a mystery to be solved and is only too ready to help. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, honestly. But - I'm getting ahead which takes Hugo out of myself. You want to know about the book. It's his drab attic workroom and into a family story - and scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the family in question are head liceplanet never before known to exist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122946</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Ross Collins1781128693|title=All I Said WasSpecial Delivery|author=Jonathan Meres

|summary=Our young friend looked up at How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when the window and saw a pigeon balancing on problem is the window sill and our young friend had a thought. brain which isn''I'd like t functioning quite as it used to be you,it isn'' he said, dreaming of flying off t as easy to anywhere that he likedgrasp. The pigeon Frank was quite happy to change places: lying on the bed reading a book seemed normal nine-year-old and like many nine-year-olds what he wanted was a good idea, so new bike. He'd had his for about seventy-eight years and he didn't want to raise the two changed placesseat any more. Our young hero thought Mum pointed out that it was great as he flew off towards the sea: wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a lot of money, which didn'I want t grow on trees. His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her with her paper round. Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a thousand years to be save up the money for a bird all my life'bike AND he had to get up at six o'clock in the morning.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123489</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128707|title=Tilly's PromiseThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Linda NewberyVivian French

|summary=Tilly often wished things would change in Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to win the sleepy little village she called home, but she gets more change than she bargained for when war breaks out. First her sweetheart joins up, then Tilly signs 100 metres race on a nurse sports day at the end of term - and finally her brother Georgie is called up, despite the fact that he is completely unfit for servicewas next week. Georgie is different We're going to read about what happened in her diary, big and strong but with the mind of although there's a child - how could he possibly survive the horrors of war? So many promises are made, Tilly promises her sweetheart Harry she will wait - Harry assures her he wonwarning that we really shouldn't be away long - sure reading it, particularly as it will probably be over by Christmas (famous last words)'s about Barbie Meek. When Georgie To say that the two girls don't get on at all well is posted to Harry's unit, Tilly extracts a somewhat reluctant promise from him to look after her brotherbit of an understatement. More promises will be made - but promises are hard to keep in wartime. As Georgie and Harry face the harsh reality of life in the trenchesSuzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, Tilly finds herself near the frontline as but Barbie is a nurse. Everything seems troublemaker and she wants to have changed. Will even love remain win the same 100 metres race too - especially in the aftermath of a broken promise?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122938</amazonuk>by fair means or foul.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Old Dog, New Tricks1949471004|authortitle=Bali Rai|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Nick is a miserable old sod by anyone's definition. His equally mangy dog, Nelson, is the only friend he has, as his nasty nature puts everyone off. But while he may be unpleasant to most people, he is downright horrible when the Singh family move in, bringing out the worst of his racist views - but can a man who likes Bob Marley really hate anyone of another colour? Is Nick just an ignorant and offensive old git, or is there something more beneath the surface? No one seems to have really bothered to find out before Dog on a common love of dogs draws young Harvey Singh to attempt to befriend not only the unkempt dog, but the lonely old man as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123470</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The First Third Wish (Little Gems)Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Ian BeckPamela Brookes|rating=54

|summary=This What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is a lovely story reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book might not be the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a lost wish. Cobweb has bungled her very first assignment, losing negative effect on the third wish meant for young dyslexic than a kindly woodcutterchild without that problem. She managed You need to be able to replace it with buy books at a sparereasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, but her job will not be complete until without anything else being thrown into the missing wish is found and returnedmix. It seems You need a lost wish is very dangerous indeed as it gives story which engages the finder an unlimited supply of wishes - young mind and not all people are careful what they wish foryou need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. As luck would have it though Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, the wish has found its way just either. Reading - and ''learning'' to the place where it most needed, where it will result in read - should be a true happily ever after, not only for the young man who finds it, but for many others as wellpleasure. It should be ''fun''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122458</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128510|title=My Friend's a Gris-Kwok (Little Gems)One Shot|author=Malorie Blackman and Andy RowlandTanya Landman

|summary=When Mike discovers that his best friend Alex is a Gris Kwok or shape shifter it looks like they are ''Pa and I understood each other. Our souls were cut from the same cloth.'' But Pa has since died, leaving Maggie very much alone in for some real funher family. Not She was the only can Alex change into any creature he wantsone of three children who looked like him, and none of the others acted like him, and certainly, he can change anyone touching his wife didn't seem to fully understand him . Maggie might as well. There be reliving the Cinderella story, stuck with two siblings and mother that are only three hitchesfully against her. The first is that Alex But at least she can only change three times a day. The second sneak out at night, and shoot some game to stop them from starving? Well, no, not where her mother is that his sister has concerned – the same powers. The third very idea of a female shooting things, when they could be preparing for a life of unhappy married drudgery, is that Alex is babysitting and if you think babysitting ordinary siblings is difficult just wait until you see all the mischief a shape shifting toddler can get intoscandalous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112244X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112843X|title=Snug (Little Gems)Lark|author=Michael Morpurgo and Faye HansenAnthony McGowan|rating=2.5

|summary=Michael Morpurgo has captured what is like to own a cat, or perhaps more accurately to be owned by a cat, perfectlyI'll warn you first. 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>1781122865</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The Castle in This is the Field (Little Gems)|author=Michael Morpurgo and Faye Hansen|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=I think all children love dens. It is almost a primal instinct for children, to find, construct fourth and hide away in huts, dens, tents, or any other place that gives them that sense of their own private place, away from the world. Michael Morpurgo has captured the magic of a secret den perfectly in this last story of three friends who find an abandoned WW2 Pillbox about Nicky and make it into their own private castleKenny. The children are Try not really meant to be in the pillbox. It is on private property, but they doncry before you't really have any place else to go. Two of the children are not allowed to go home until their parents finish work and the third will not leave his best friend out in ve even read the weather alone. At first the pillbox is just shelter from a storm, but it soon becomes an embodiment of all the wonder of childhood as the children transform it into a wonderful private retreat. But how long will they be able to keep their special hideout a secret? This is a lovely story with a heart warming theme of friendship, a confrontation with bullies, and the inevitable pangs of growing uppage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122873</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Ninja: First Mission (Ninja Trilogy)|author=Chris Bradford Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and Sonia Leong|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=If you are looking for adventure, '' Ninja First Mission'' will certain come up trumpshis learning-disabled brother Kenny. This book never has Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a slow momentlong time ago. But even as They haven't seen her for years and the story races along at breakneck speed, there impending visit is plenty to think about as wellstirring up a lot of uncomfortable feelings. This book And Nicky's girlfriend has as much to offer the deep thinker as the adrenaline junkyended things. TataTo take their minds off it all, Nicky and Kenny plan a young Ninja in trainingday out, is desperate to prove himself. He has failed trekking across the test for his black belt three times, but this was just a simple testmoors. The sacred scrolls of his clan have been stolen, But it doesn't go to plan and all of the fully fledged Ninja but one are away on another mission. Tata faces another test, but this time the stakes are life an accident puts both boys - and deaththeir dog, not only for himselfTina, but for his clan. In order to succeed Tata must learn to find victory in failure. Most of all he must learn to believe in himselfterrible danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842999397</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786697173|title=Football CrazyMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Tony Bradman and Michael BroadSally Gardner

|summary=''Football Crazy'' is about Betsy K Glory lives a group of friends who play rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, Alonso, makes the worst team most wonderful ice cream in the league. It can be difficult when your team loses every time flavour you go on the pitch, but Danny, Jamil and Lewis love the sport and they stick with it - win or losecould imagine. They keep hoping the next game will be the game in which they finally winHer mother, or at least get on the scoreboardMyrtle, but it never happens - not as long as Mr Perkins is coaching. When the coach finally packs it in - it looks like curtains for Rovers FC. But, luck seems a mermaid and comes to be on the children's side when a new coach, Jock Ramsayvisit regularly, with some history although she still lives in the pro leagues is foundsea. The new coach is toughBetsy dreams of two things: firstly, but he quickly gets about the team into shape circus owned by a tiger and whether it would ever come to her island and the Rovers start climbing the league tables. Parents are delightedsecondly, about a magical ice cream made from the stands are full, but the children find they no longer love berries of the sportGongalong bush. Everything is about winning. Things One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come to crisis point when Coach Ramsay orders Danny to take a divetrue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122121</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Secret FC|author=Tom Palmer|rating=3|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Unlike many children, Lily, Zack And then Mr Tiger and Khan can't wait for the school year to beginhis circus arrive. They live in an overcrowded part of London with no room for outdoor sports and the school ground And a journey is the only place they can enjoy a friendly game of footballplanned. But their hopes for the new term are dashed when a new Head Teacher decides ball sports are too dangerous for children. Surprisingly, with an overly safety-conscious Head, while football is prohibited there is a wooded waste ground inside the school grounds - which just happens to be the perfect spot for the children to clear and create their own football pitch. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128286|title=SamuraiRun Wild|author=Ian Beck and Daniel AtanasovGill Lewis

|summary=The hero of our story is namelessMeet Izzy and Asha. He is only Bullied away from the Samurai, and not even quite that. He is dishonoured, local attempt at a masterless Samuraiskatepark, or Ronin. We do not know his master's fate but we can only assume it is death, and 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 they find a feeling of darkness and despair. The path he travels on is lined with skeletons of defeated warriors lashed to wagon wheels. It gives huge waste ground in the reader the impression shadow of the road a derelict gasometer to hell. The young Samurai takes refuge in a ruined palacepractise on, yet another sign of devastation upon the landwhich they duly do, seeming even though they have to exist for the next few days only to care for Cho, his dog, while awaiting the punishment of the gods for his failuredrag Izzy's younger brother with them. He rises from despair The following day they all want to help othersreturn, first to defeat a demon haunting as does the palacebrother's schoolfriend, despite – and then undertaking of course because of – there is a journey to find and defeat another deadly demon. Soon the young warrior comes to a village suffering under huge wolf living in the most horrific of cursessite. His courage will be put to Can the test as he must risk even his beloved Cho to save an innocent girl and lift children survive living in the curse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122202</amazonuk>urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jennings Different|title=Thor and the Master of MagicA Different Dog|author=Kevin Crossley-Holland Paul Jennings and SikuGeoff Kelly|rating=4.5

|summary=I grew up Our hero is a boy, whose name we never learn. We know what he wants in life – with tales of his mother exceedingly poor, and even his bed burnt to keep the heroes two of Asgardthem warm, he wants the prize offered by a down-a-mountain-and this story was always a firm favourite, but today's children are more likely to know Thor from ''The Avengers''-back-up-and-down-again foot race. This book is sure to interest any young comic book fans, Winning the race and the illustrations will certainly help with thislarge purse would also give him more status in the eyes of those kids that bully him, but and it might even give him a voice – for he is still faithful almost mute. We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the original mythmotivation, and in my mind would count as literaturecan only speak aloud to himself – and, so it turns out, rather than just to a fun read - but I wouldn't tell the children that. This is an excellent retelling of Thor's visit to Utgarda - Loki ( the giant king's hall) dog he rescues from Prose Edda a collection of Norse poetry thought bad road accident he finds on his way up the hill to have been compiled by the Icelandic poet Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122210</amazonuk>start line…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Dawson_Grave|title=Under AttackGrave Matter|author=Jim Eldridge Juno Dawson and Dave ShepherdAlex T Smith|rating=34.5

|summary=My sons are army barmy as they saySince Eliza died, and have been begging for military stories so I was delighted to see this in since the Barrington Stoke range. The book reminded me a bit night of a cross between the old Commando comic books and Action Man books with heroes blazing to the rescuecar crash that took her life, but sadly I found something lackingSam is a broken soul. It He is lost without the girl he loves, feeling as though a very short story and packed with action, but there really does not seem to be any character developmentpart of him died that night too. The story itself But he is very simple but flatdesperate and he cannot live without Eliza. The Taliban attacks a hospital repeatedly He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and the British Army comes wonders if she might be able to the rescuehelp him. A very small child is shot and However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the doctor elects Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to perform emergency surgery on make a kitchen table rather than waiting for the helicopter to arrive, but the Taliban havenpact with forces he doesn't given upunderstand. The doctor valiantly tries Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to operate to remove a bullet next to the childchange Sam's heart under the most desperate of circumstances, without blood, anaesthetics etc..life in more ways than he bargained for.. all the while under heavy fire. Will the British Army be able to save the day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122113</amazonuk>