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[[Category:New Reviews|Dyslexia Friendly]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karen McCombie1800901232|title=The Girl With The Sunshine SmileStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Everyone knew Meg as Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the girl rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the sunshine smile. She always looked ''pretty'' smartly-dressed man and ''happy'' and her mother used her woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in her business Hanoi it was an opportunity not to model bridesmaid's dressesbe missed. They had a lovely little flat which was always neat as a new pin Some money changed hands and Meg thought that life Hanh was perfecton the mini-bus to Hanoi. Then her mother met Danny - Only, Hanh and everything changed. Danny was the single father other girls were not going to four boys and work in a shop, they all lived on a houseboatwere to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. A messy houseboat. With no lock You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the bathroom door. legs? And The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when there was a flood at Mumyou touched them? It's flat they had to move in with Danny quite possible that Hanh and the four boys. That was when Meg stopped smilingher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124035</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=WolfmanMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Michael Rosen and Chris MouldWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=People are panickingMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. The police are afraidLockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. The army have run awayThey were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Who or what could possibly be so scaryIs this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? It’s Wolf Man. And he’s on can Fitz find out the loosetruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123748</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Freddy Lucy Strange and the PigPam Smy|authortitle=Charlie Higson and Mark ChambersThe Mermaid in the Millpond
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=When Freddy send There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a pig hand-to school -mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in his placethe slight little Dot, wearing his school uniform and not looking entirely dissimilar despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to himharm, he thinks hethere might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X}}{{Frontpage|author=Keith Gray|title=The Climbers|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Sully is the best tree climber in the village. He has what's hit upon known amongst the perfect plan! The pig can work all day kids as 'reach'. But what happens when a new kid shows up in school whilst he stays at home town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, and plays not only that, that his console game and eats and eatschance to name the final, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer it, and no one might be snatched from his hands. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will ever know!it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112373X</amazonuk>1781129991
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy StantonLisa Thompson|title=The Story of Matthew BuzzingtonSmall Things
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Ten year old Matthew Buzzington was less than impressed when his father got 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 so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. When a newgirl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with the class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through a robot, high-powered job and they had is she even interesting enough to move be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649}}{{Frontpage|author=Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez|title=The Ghost Garden|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Fran, the big city like IMMEDIATELYgardener's daughter at a posh country house, is worried. It meant She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a new schoolgrim discovery - a large bone, complete with a bully called Pineapple Johnsonburied under the potatoes. (NoBut she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, the older child of the house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. SorryShe is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surprise. You'll Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason to find be out for yourselfof her mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber.) Matthew held on But surely that won't act as a premonition to one fact though anything - he knew that he had a superpowernot here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?|isbn=1781129002}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Wheatle|title=The Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating=2.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. He could turn himself into should be getting a flytext 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. ThereOn a bigger scale he's only one problem. It didnliving with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they't workre resorting to having cabbage for dinner. No matter how hard he triedI know, no matter how he concentrated on thinking himself into being right? But surely this is just a flyblip, he was still a ten-year-old boy with curly hair day at school to forget, and he was getting bullied. Then everything changed one night when Matthew, (like his four-year-old sister Bella and Pineapple Johnson were accidentally locked vomit) will all come out in the school one night. wash? And burglars broke in. This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124140</amazonuk>1781129495
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Ure178112938X|title=Star for a DaySurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)
|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. LolaIt's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, but the story of that journey remains one who gets all of the attention, is able to loosen Mum's purse strings with a pout greatest survival stories of her lip and who was upset when she only got Highly Commended in last year's Talent Showall time. This year she will, of course, require a ''completelySurvival in Space: The Apollo 13 Mission'' new outfit and the undivided attention is a brilliant retelling 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'twhat happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123586</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Oldfield1781129312|title=Bright StarSequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Morgan was just thirteen when Sequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she was sent to got very cross with her aunt's ranch in the Rockies for the summer. It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was all a bit alien because she never pushed to her - I mean get credit for what she was did. Mum is a city girl from Chicago seamstress and she was going to have to get makes the sort of clothes that you see on with ''horses''red carpets or at important weddings. ItShe's not long though before she realises that she has the designer - they're the people who make a real affinity with horses and ponies and develops a special bond with a terrified wild mustanglot of money from the clothes. ItMum is the person who actually ''makes''s Morgan who rescues the animal when itgarments and she's trapped in barbed wire and calms it sufficiently to bring it into shelterreally talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123756</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally NichollsTanya Landman|title=Shadow GirlJane Eyre: a Retelling
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=One of the disadvantages of the foster A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care system is that some children get moved around rather less about her, and years in a lot dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – and usually it's not down with only one job, to themtutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. But because of this it's easy When he does turn up he seems to see making friends as being a wasted effort be dark, brooding and this was certainly Claretroubled – but that's opinion. By nothing compared to the age of fourteen she was at her third secondary school - darker, more broody and after being there for two months she hated iteven more troubling secret in the house. Everyone else had been there Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, for years and they all had friends: Clare had no one. A very bad day saw her being evicted from the school bus and then getting lost as she tried whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn to find her way home. The good thing was that she met Maddy.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123136</amazonuk>1781129126
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline Lawrence1781128952|title=The Night RaidStarlight Watchmaker|author=Lauren James|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=The Trojan War This is over a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, an unwanted and the few survivors have rather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to find somewhere else be solved and is only too ready to livehelp. Rye and Nisus - barely more than children at the end An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of the war his drab attic workroom and both into a scary adventure with their own burden some amazing new friends, exploring regions of guilt and horror - are obsessed by the need planet never before known to seek vengeance and protect the land on which they have now settledexist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123667</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128693|title=The Moonshine Dragon (Little Gems)Special Delivery|author=Cornelia FunkeJonathan Meres|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=What happens How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when stories escape from books? One moonlit night Patrick the problem is woken up by the noise of brain which isn't functioning quite as it used to it isn't as easy to grasp. Frank was a normal nine-year-old and like many nine-year-olds what he wanted was a tiny dragon emerging from new bike. He'd had his for about seventy-eight years and he didn't want to raise the seat any more. Mum pointed out that it wasn't his storybook birthday or Christmas any time soon and chased by an equally tiny knight bikes cost a lot of money, which didn't grow on horsebacktrees. His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her with her paper round. Suddenly Patrick finds himself shrunk Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a thousand years to story book size too and save up the money for a bike AND he and had to get up at six o'clock in the dragon find themselves under attackmorning. Can Patrick save them both before time runs out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123535</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Almond and Vladimir Stankovic1781128707|title=Klaus Vogel and the Bad LadsThe Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims|author=Vivian French|rating=45
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=The Bad Lads had been together for years. They were scamps, mischief makers - lads having a bit Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to win the 100 metres race on sports day at the end of fun term - and they were led by Joe Gillespie who that was a year or two oldernext week. The lads thought that Joe was great but there was a niggling feeling amongst one or two of the boys that he was getting a bit more extreme and that some of his pranks were actually - deliberately - We're going to hurt people. The fire at Mr Eustaceread about what happened in her diary, although there's (he was a conchiewarning that we really shouldn't be reading it, you see) happened the same week particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. To say that Klaus Vogel arrived in the town two girls don't get on at all well is a bit of Fellingan understatement. The scrawny refugee from East Germany who knew hardly any English would change things for Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, but Barbie is a troublemaker and she wants to win the Bad Lads100 metres race too - by fair means or foul.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122695</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1949471004|title=Minikid (Little Gems)Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1|author=Michael MorpurgoPamela Brookes|rating=3.54
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=There seem What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book might not be more the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problem. You need to be able to buy books being publishedat a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, now, that are marketing themselves as without anything else being dyslexia friendlythrown into the mix. This Michael Morpurgo You need a story is from Little Gems which engages the young mind and it follows you need stages which progress steadily through the guidelines that make it easier to read for children with dyslexialearning process without there being any large jumps. The paper is a high quality cream paperSome online support and games wouldn't go amiss, so no shadows coming through from the other side either. Reading - and ''learning'' to distract readers, there's read - should be a special font, and there are pictures throughout the storypleasure. Itshould be ''fun''s a lovely size that fits nicely into small hands, with an appealing cover. So far, so good!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123527</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Palmer1781128510|title=Over The LineOne Shot|author=Tanya Landman|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Jack Cock made his debut as a professional footballer for Huddersfield Town ''Pa and that fragile dream of playing for his country came just a little bit closerI understood each other. Our souls were cut from the same cloth.'' But Pa has since died, but this leaving Maggie very much alone in her family. She was just before the beginning only one of three children who looked like him, and none of the First World Warothers acted like him, when there was immense pressure on young men to do the honourable thing and join the war certainly, his wife didn't seem to fight in Francefully understand him. ''Over the Line'' is Maggie might as well be reliving the Cinderella story of Jack's war, of joining the Footballers' Battalionstuck with two siblings and mother that are fully against her. But at least she can sneak out at night, and shoot some game to stop them from starving? Well, playing in the Flanders Cupno, fighting in the trenches and not just surviving but being decorated for bravery. After where her mother is concerned – the war he scored England's first international goal and was one very idea of the first a female shooting things, when they could be preparing for a life of the modern generation of 'professional footballers'unhappy married drudgery, is just scandalous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123934</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178112843X|title=Blamehounds (Little Gems)Lark|author=Ross CollinsAnthony McGowan
|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''' Well, that's what it says on the back of the book and I can promise that it's true. You might like to wear a pair of those cotton mittens for babies whilst ll warn you read. It will feel awkward, but you'll feel the benefit, honestly. But - I'm getting ahead of myself. You want to know about the book. It's a family story - and the family in question are head licefirst.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122946</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Michael Morpurgo and Ross Collins|title=All I Said Was|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Our young friend looked up at This is the window fourth and saw a pigeon balancing on the window sill last story about Nicky and our young friend had a thoughtKenny. ''I'd like Try not to be cry before you,'' he said, dreaming of flying off to anywhere that he liked. The pigeon was quite happy to change places: lying on ve even read the bed reading a book seemed like a good idea, so the two changed placesfirst page. Our young hero thought it was great as he flew off towards the sea:
Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a long time ago. They haven't seen her for years and the impending visit is stirring up a lot of uncomfortable feelings. And Nicky'I want to be s girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, Nicky and Kenny plan a bird all my life'day out, trekking across the moors. But it doesn't go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, in terrible danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123489</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786697173|title=Tilly's PromiseMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon|author=Linda NewberySally Gardner
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Tilly often wished things would change Betsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, Alonso, makes the most wonderful ice cream in the sleepy little village she called homeevery flavour you could imagine. Her mother, but she gets more change than she bargained for when war breaks out. First her sweetheart joins upMyrtle, then Tilly signs on is a nurse mermaid and finally her brother Georgie is called upcomes to visit regularly, despite although she still lives in the fact that he is completely unfit for servicesea. Georgie is differentBetsy dreams of two things: firstly, big and strong but with about the mind of circus owned by 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 won't be away long - sure tiger and whether it will probably be over by Christmas (famous last words). When Georgie is posted would ever come to Harry's unither island and secondly, Tilly extracts about a somewhat reluctant promise magical ice cream made from him to look after her brother. More promises will be made - but promises are hard to keep in wartime. As Georgie and Harry face the harsh reality berries of life in the trenches, Tilly finds herself near the frontline as a nurseGongalong bush. Everything seems to have changedOne scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true. Will even love remain the same - especially in the aftermath of a broken promise?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122938</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Old Dog, New Tricks|author=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 And then Mr Tiger and his nasty nature puts everyone offcircus arrive. 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 And a man who likes Bob Marley really hate anyone of another colour? Is Nick just an ignorant and offensive old git, or journey is there something more beneath the surface? No one seems to have really bothered to find out before a common love of dogs draws young Harvey Singh to attempt to befriend not only the unkempt dog, but the lonely old man as wellplanned...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123470</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1781128286|title=The First Third Wish (Little Gems)Run Wild|author=Ian BeckGill Lewis
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=This is Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from the local attempt at a skatepark, they find a lovely story huge waste ground in the shadow of a lost wish. Cobweb has bungled her very first assignmentderelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, losing the third wish meant for a kindly woodcuttereven though they have to drag Izzy's younger brother with them. She managed The following day they all want to replace it with a sparereturn, but her job will not be complete until as does the missing wish brother's schoolfriend, despite – and of course because of – there is found and returned. It seems a lost wish is very dangerous indeed as it gives huge wolf living in the finder an unlimited supply of wishes - and not all people are careful what they wish forsite. As luck would have it though, the wish has found its way just to Can the place where it most needed, where it will result children survive living in a true happily ever after, not only for the young man who finds iturban wilderness, but for many others as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122458</amazonuk>alongside such obvious dangers?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jennings Different|title=My Friend's a Gris-Kwok (Little Gems)A Different Dog|author=Malorie Blackman Paul Jennings and Andy RowlandGeoff Kelly
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=When Mike discovers that his best friend Alex Our hero is a Gris Kwok or shape shifter it looks like they are in for some real funboy, whose name we never learn. Not only can Alex change into any creature We know what he wantsin life – with his mother exceedingly poor, and even his bed burnt to keep the two of them warm, he can change anyone touching wants the prize offered by a down-a-mountain-and-back-up-and-down-again foot race. Winning the race and the large purse would also give him more status in the eyes of those kids that bully him, and it might even give him as wella voice – for he is almost mute. There are only three hitches. The first is that Alex We quickly learn he never talks back to anyone, whatever the motivation, and can only change three times speak aloud to himself – and, so it turns out, to a dog he rescues from a day. The second is that bad road accident he finds on his sister has way up the same powers. The third is that Alex is babysitting and if you think babysitting ordinary siblings is difficult just wait until you see all hill to the mischief a shape shifting toddler can get into.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112244X</amazonuk>start line…
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 {{newreview|title=Snug (Little Gems)|author=Michael Morpurgo and Faye HansenFrontpage|ratingisbn=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>1781122865</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDawson_Grave|title=The Castle in the Field (Little Gems)Grave Matter|author=Michael Morpurgo Juno Dawson and Faye HansenAlex T Smith|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=I think all children love dens. It is almost a primal instinct for childrenSince Eliza died, to find, construct and hide away in huts, dens, tents, or any other place that gives them since the night of the car crash that sense of their own private placetook her life, away from the worldSam is a broken soul. Michael Morpurgo has captured He is lost without the magic of girl he loves, feeling as though a secret den perfectly in this story part of three friends who find an abandoned WW2 Pillbox him died that night too. But he is desperate and make it into their own private castlehe cannot live without Eliza. The children are not really meant He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to be in the pillboxhelp him. It is on private propertyHowever, but they don't really have any place else finding his Aunt Marie leads him to go. Two of discover the children are not allowed Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to go home until their parents finish work and the third will not leave his best friend out in the weather alonemake a pact with forces he doesn't understand. At first the pillbox is just shelter from a storm, but it Things soon becomes an embodiment of all the wonder of childhood turn complicated as the children transform it into a wonderful private retreat. But how long will they be able supernatural powers start 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 upchange Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122873</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=Ninja: First Mission (Ninja Trilogy)|author=Chris Bradford and Sonia Leong|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=If you are looking for adventure, '' Ninja First Mission'' will certain come up trumps. This book never has a slow moment. But even as the story races along at breakneck speed, there is plenty to think about as well. This book has as much to offer the deep thinker as the adrenaline junky. Tata, a young Ninja in training, is desperate to prove himself. He has failed the test for his black belt three times, but this was just a simple test. The sacred scrolls of his clan have been stolen, 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 and death, not only for himself, 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 himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842999397</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Football Crazy|author=Tony Bradman and Michael Broad|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=''Football Crazy'' is about a group of friends who play on the worst team in the league. It can be difficult when your team loses every time you go on the pitch, but Danny, Jamil and Lewis love the sport and they stick with it - win or lose. They keep hoping the next game will be the game in which they finally win, or at least get on the scoreboard, 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 to be Move on the children's side when a new coach, Jock Ramsay, with some history in the pro leagues is found. The new coach is tough, but he quickly gets 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 to take a dive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122121</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Dystopian Fiction Reviews]]