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Oxford Reading Tree All Stars is an engaging chapter fiction series which combines age-appropriate content with imaginative stories, perfect for inspiring and stretching able infants. The series develops comprehension skills and provides a wide variety of fiction topics and styles, alongside illustrations that aid understanding.All the books in this series are carefully levelled, so it's easy to match every child to the right book - one which will develop their reading skills and fuel their love of reading. Help with children's reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.This pack contains six Level 12 books, one of each of the following titles: A Sudden Drop, MegaMax, Big Top Academy, Jamie Jones: Galaxy Defender (aged 8 ½), Terrible Tina and The Great Howling Mystery.

Oxford Reading Tree All Stars is an engaging chapter fiction series which combines age-appropriate content with imaginative stories, perfect for inspiring and stretching able infants. The series develops comprehension skills and provides a wide variety of fiction topics and styles, alongside illustrations that aid understanding.All the books in this series are carefully levelled, so it's easy to match every child to the right book - one which will develop their reading skills and fuel their love of reading. Help with children's reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.This pack contains 36 Level 12 books, six of each of the following titles: A Sudden Drop, MegaMax, Big Top Academy, Jamie Jones: Galaxy Defender (aged 8 ½), Terrible Tina and The Great Howling Mystery.

Huang loves to invent things, but he hates doing his chores. If only he could make an invention to help him Oxford Reading Tree All Stars is an engaging chapter fiction series which combines age-appropriate content with imaginative stories, perfect for inspiring and stretching able infants. The series develops comprehension skills and provides a wide variety of fiction topics and styles, alongside illustrations that aid understanding.All the books in this series are carefully levelled, so it's easy to match every child to the right book - one which will develop their reading skills and fuel their love of reading. Help with children's reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

Farmer Nan needs to shear her sheep but they are behaving very badly. Can Nan and sheepdog Nelly get the sheep under control? Oxford Reading Tree All Stars is an engaging chapter fiction series which combines age-appropriate content with imaginative stories, perfect for inspiring and stretching able infants. The series develops comprehension skills and provides a wide variety of fiction topics and styles, alongside illustrations that aid understanding.All the books in this series are carefully levelled, so it's easy to match every child to the right book - one which will develop their reading skills and fuel their love of reading. Help with children's reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

This Project X Origins Class Pack includes 1 set of guided reading notes and 24 reading books.The titles include two action-packed adventures with the Project X characters: Tangled! and Ready, Steady, Sledge!; one variety fiction book: DIY Dinosaur; and one fascinating non-fiction book: The Right Kit.Each cluster is linked by a theme to help all children, especially boys, make links in their learning between text type and content. This set of books is linked by the theme: 'The Right Stuff' and explores the materials needed for different projects from bird hides to sports equipment. Each reading book contains inside cover notes that highlight challenge words, prompt questions and a range of follow-up activities to support children in their reading. Comprehensive guided reading notes offer step-by-step teaching support for each book with guidance about phonics, comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, spelling, grammar, punctuation and writing. Each set of notes has in-built assessment and is fully correlated to all UK curricula. This class pack is part of Project X Origins - everything you need to deliver effective guided reading sessions for Reception-Year 6 (P1-7). Developed by comprehension experts, it engages boys and helps every child reach higher standards. Online teaching resources and best practice films available on www.oxfordowl.co.uk ensure easy implementation.

Join Cat, Ant and Tiger as they try to find the perfect material for a micro-sledge. But what will they do when the snow stops Ant from returning to normal size?Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. Each book contains inside cover notes that highlight challenge words, prompt questions and a range of follow-up activities to support children in their reading.

This Project X Origins Class Pack includes 1 set of guided reading notes and 24 reading books.The titles include two action-packed adventures with the Project X characters: Blackout! and Cheeky Meeko; one variety fiction book: Danger in the Dark; and one fascinating non-fiction book: Animals After Dark.Each cluster is linked by a theme to help all children, especially boys, make links in their learning between text type and content. This set of books is linked by the theme: 'Night and day'.Each reading book contains inside cover notes that highlight challenge words, prompt questions and a range of follow-up activities to support children in their reading. Comprehensive guided reading notes offer step-by-step teaching support for each book with guidance about phonics, comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, spelling, grammar, punctuation and writing. Each set of notes has in-built assessment and is fully correlated to all UK curricula. This class pack is part of Project X Origins - everything you need to deliver effective guided reading sessions for Reception-Year 6 (P1-7). Developed by comprehension experts, it engages boys and helps every child reach higher standards. Online teaching resources and best practice films are available on www.oxfordowl.co.uk to ensure easy implementation.

Ant and Tiger are on a camping trip in a wildlife park! But when things mysteriously start going missing, can they find out what's going on?Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. Each book contains inside cover notes that highlight challenge words, prompt questions and a range of follow-up activities to support children in their reading.

Pip and Kit must find a telescope ... at the bottom of the ocean! Using the world's largest known database of writing for and by children, our experts have defined 300 ambitious words to help children succeed at school. We've combined these with finelly levelled books that help you develop support comprehension and fluency, while inspiring and engaging your young readers.

At Crow Castle, a mysterious thief is operating, and they've been taking Lady Giselle's jewellery! When Jankin's friends are accused, he is determined to find the true thief and prove his friend's innocence. Can he solve the mystery? This book is a Readerful Book for Sharing. It is for an adult to read aloud to children aged 8 to 9. Readerful: Inspiring Children to Read MoreReaderful is a specially designed reading library that motivates children aged 4-11 to develop a lifelong love of reading. The series offers contemporary, inclusive books across three key collections: Books for Sharing: Picture books to be read aloud by an adult for inspiring reading sessionsIndependent Library: Fiction, graphic texts, character mini-series and non-fiction for children to read independentlyRise: Fully decodable books for older struggling readers to read independently.How Readerful works: • Read aloud the Books for Sharing for magical reading sessions that motivate children to read more. • Encourage children to choose a book to read by themselves, from Readerful's Independent Library or from Rise. You'll find links between the books' topics, vocabulary, characters and authors - all designed to keep children reading, boost their vocabulary and develop their knowledge of the world around them.

Meet IndigoIndigo is a stray cat who loves adventure - and leftovers from the palace kitchens. But when she gets caught up in a plot to steal a precious statue, she ends up with more adventure than her paws can hold! With her human friend Tyra, she must rescue the spoilt palace cat and save the statue - before the Golden Cat wakes up...This book is from Readerful's Independent Library. It is for children aged 7 to 8 to read without support. Readerful: Inspiring Children to Read MoreReaderful is a specially designed reading library that motivates children aged 4-11 to develop a lifelong love of reading. The series offers contemporary, inclusive books across three key collections: Books for Sharing: Picture books to be read aloud by an adult for inspiring reading sessionsIndependent Library: Fiction, graphic texts, character mini-series and non-fiction for children to read independentlyRise: Fully decodable books for older struggling readers to read independently.How Readerful works: • Read aloud the Books for Sharing for magical reading sessions that motivate children to read more. • Encourage children to choose a book to read by themselves, from Readerful's Independent Library or from Rise. You'll find links between the books' topics, vocabulary, characters and authors - all designed to keep children reading, boost their vocabulary and develop their knowledge of the world around them.develop their knowledge of the world around them.

There's a lot of junk zooming about in Earth's orbit, but how did it get there?Humans have sent a lot of things into space, and some of it hasn't come back! Find out about the growing amount of junk in space, why it's a problem, and what some experts think we should do about it. This book is from Readerful's Independent Library. It is for children aged 8 to 9 to read without support. Readerful: Inspiring Children to Read MoreReaderful is a specially designed reading library that motivates children aged 4-11 to develop a lifelong love of reading. The series offers contemporary, inclusive books across three key collections: Books for Sharing: Picture books to be read aloud by an adult for inspiring reading sessionsIndependent Library: Fiction, graphic texts, character mini-series and non-fiction for children to read independentlyRise: Fully decodable books for older struggling readers to read independently.How Readerful works: • Read aloud the Books for Sharing for magical reading sessions that motivate children to read more. • Encourage children to choose a book to read by themselves, from Readerful's Independent Library or from Rise. You'll find links between the books' topics, vocabulary, characters and authors - all designed to keep children reading, boost their vocabulary and develop their knowledge of the world around them.

This pack contains six copies of each of the Readerful Rise Pack A titles at Oxford Reading Level 11: The Adventures of Daisy and Red: Moonbow Rescue; A Magnet for Mayhem; The Gladiator Who Couldn't Stop Hiccuping; What's Going on with the Weather?; Instruments from Around the World; The Dragons of Moonstone Mountain. These books are for readers aged 7 to 11 years old. They are for pupils who are working below expected standard in their reading. The Rise series ensures that older struggling readers have books with age-appropriate content and topics, that look like the books their peers are enjoying, but are written at a level they can read successfully.

This pack contains six books. There is one copy of each of the Readerful Rise titles at Oxford Reading Level 11: The Adventures of Daisy and Red: Moonbow Rescue; A Magnet for Mayhem; The Gladiator Who Couldn't Stop Hiccuping; What's Going on with the Weather?; Instruments from Around the World; The Dragons of Moonstone Mountain. These books are for readers aged 7 to 11 years old. They are for pupils who are working below expected standard in their reading. The Rise series ensures that older struggling readers have books with age-appropriate content and topics, that look like the books their peers are enjoying, but are written at a level they can read successfully.

Get more children reading more! This pack of 12 fiction, non-fiction and graphic text books from the Readerful Independent Library is for children at Oxford Reading Levels 12 and 13, aged 7 to 8 years, to read independently. Readerful: Oxford Reading Levels 12-13: Independent Library Singles Pack A (Pack of 12) contains:• 1 x Readerful Independent Library: Oxford Reading Level 12: Beestronauts • 1 x Readerful Independent Library: Oxford Reading Level 12: A Comic History • 1 x Readerful Independent Library: Oxford Reading Level 12: Together: People making change • 1 x Readerful Independent Library: Oxford Reading Level 12: Zaynab's Tiger Day • 1 x Readerful Independent Library: Oxford Reading Level 12: Legend of the Golden Cat • 1 x Readerful Independent Library: Oxford Reading Level 12: Isaac and the Toxics · Mischief of Magpies • 1 x Readerful Independent Library: Oxford Reading Level 13: Splendid Silk • 1 x Readerful Independent Library: Oxford Reading Level 13: A World of Mountains • 1 x Readerful Independent Library: Oxford Reading Level 13: Grow, Don't Mow: Gardening for the Planet • 1 x Readerful Independent Library: Oxford Reading Level 13: Ada, Arnie and the Gigantic Sarnie • 1 x Readerful Independent Library: Oxford Reading Level 13: Rollo's Choice • 1 x Readerful Independent Library: Oxford Reading Level 13: Granphibian and the Portside Bay MysteryReaderful: Inspiring Children to Read MoreReaderful is a specially designed reading library that motivates children aged 4-11 to develop a lifelong love of reading. The series offers contemporary, inclusive books across three key collections: Books for Sharing: Picture books to be read aloud by an adult for inspiring reading sessionsIndependent Library: Fiction, graphic texts, character mini-series and non-fiction for children to read independentlyRise: Fully decodable books for older struggling readers to read independently.How Readerful works: • Read aloud the Books for Sharing for magical reading sessions that motivate children to read more. • Encourage children to choose a book to read by themselves, from Readerful's Independent Library or from Rise. You'll find links between the books' topics, vocabulary, characters and authors - all designed to keep children reading, boost their vocabulary and develop their knowledge of the world around them.

A really rubbish adventure... in outer spaceHarvey Drew is an ordinary eleven-year-old who dreams of great adventures in outer space. The Toxic Spew is an intergalactic waste disposal ship. The two are on a collision course for chaos! After Harvey unwittingly responds to an alien signal, he is transported to the flight deck of The Toxic Spew by the ship''s bad-tempered computer, who promptly loses his return address. Even though none of the crew have even heard of Earth, let alone met an Earthling, Harvey becomes Captain of the stroppy, pizza-obsessed, brave (but grubby) crew, and almost immediately has to save them from poisonous pink maggots, dangerous exploding space-rubbish and a multiple spaceship pile-up on Hyperspaceway B16. Luckily, leading his rabble crew out of danger isn''t so different from captaining his football team, and it turns out Harvey is just the boy to save the day!

Harvey Drew and the Toxic Spew crew return for another out-of-this-world adventure!Harvey thinks he has the best job in the world: he''s stumbled into being captain of a real live space ship! Except it''s the Toxic Spew - the filthiest, grubbiest, and definitely the most dysfunctional garbage ship in the known galaxy. And with the most argumentative and chaotic crew on board. While on their way to the next rubbish pick-up, the crew get word of a stranded cargo ship that happens to be carrying the most valuable substance in the Known Universe, and Beyond - Techno-tium. Whoever rescues the cargo gets to claim it. Thinking they will soon be disgustingly rich, the crew aims their ship towards the treasure. But they don''t bet on running into the most notorious and ruthless pirates around: the Bling Bots from the planet Sy-Boorg!Harvey must try and save the day again - before the Toxic Spew gets disposed of itself, once and for all.

The Toxic Spew is back, and in even more trouble than usual.WOOP WOOP WOOP! ALARM ALARM ALARM! It''s chaos once more on the bridge of the Toxic Spew. But this time, the ship''s problems are of a most human nature - they''ve run out of food! Mutiny, cannibalism and plain old theft are suggested as potential problem-solvers, but Captain Harvey politely requests that the crew buck their ideas up and think of something else. At which point the ISS is mentioned - no, not the International Space Station! - the Interstellar Service Station . . .But the ISS is spookily deserted when the team arrive, and it''s not long before Harvey suspects there''s something fishy going on... and he''s not just talking about the Spew''s malfunctioning rubbish chute. Can Harvey unite his crew one more time and solve the mystery of the abandoned space station? Will Scrummage really eat Yargal if they don''t find some food? And will Harvey EVER get home? Join the gang for another rip-roaring, space-hopping and (frankly) stomach-turning adventure on the universe''s worst intergalactic rubbish truck - and see if you can spot the special input from kids on The Story Adventure!

'I love this book' Jacqueline Wilson'I just knew we were going to be friends. Don't ask me to explain why.I can't. But i just knew.'Jaz has found the best way to make friends with new girl Nadima, who doesn't speak any English - by offering her a chocolate bar. Nadima grins and offers back some Turkish Delight, the ice is broken, and a special friendship begins ... Jaz is outgoing, rebellious, gumptious and a little bit bolshy - but it doesn't stop her from finding it hard that she doesn't have a best friend at school any more. Not since Lily went off with Kara ... She's not one to get down about things, though - and things start to look up when Nadima comes into their classroom. Before long the girls are firm friends, even when Nadima, recently arrived from Syria, can't speak much English. The path of true friendship doesn't run smooth, though ... Jaz, ever the entrepreneur, cooks up a plan to sell Turkish Delight at school, with disastrous results. A drama project with Nadima about family history proves impossible to manage. And Charity Challenge Week puts the icing on the cake as Jaz puts every foot wrong possible. Can she find a way to put things right, and restore the wonderful and unique friendship that she has with Nadima? In a story of friendship, family and entrepreneurial wizardry, Cas Lester deftly navigates the trials and tribulations of girlhood, and examines with the lightest of touches and gentle humour the thorny and compelling issues of integration, belonging and identity.

When medieval wizardry meets cool street magic, what could possibly go wrong . . .? Wilfred is a young magical apprentice determined to become the best and most wise wizard that ever was. Unfortunately for him, he''s not very good. He''s got the raw talent, but he doesn''t concentrate! In fact, he''s become (rather unkindly) known as ''Wilfred the UNwise''.And when one of Wilf''s spells goes badly wrong, he''s suddenly in more trouble than ever before. A mix-up which sees him catapulted into the future - and more specifically, into Bel''s hometown. Bel is an aspiring magician too - she wants to be an amazing street magician like her heroes on TV. She''s even got a stage-name sorted, and unlike Wilf, she practises all the time - maybe just a little too much . . . Wilf is delighted by her skills, and begs to learn from Bel. She''s not so sure, but agrees that they''ll have to work together to try to work out how to get Wilf back to his own time. If only Wilf would stop messing around! Can these two young magicians work together, or will Wilf be stuck here forever?

''I love this book'' Jacqueline Wilson''I just knew we were going to be friends. Don''t ask me to explain why.I can''t. But i just knew.''Jaz has found the best way to make friends with new girl Nadima, who doesn''t speak any English - by offering her a chocolate bar. Nadima grins and offers back some Turkish Delight, the ice is broken, and a special friendship begins ... Jaz is outgoing, rebellious, gumptious and a little bit bolshy - but it doesn''t stop her from finding it hard that she doesn''t have a best friend at school any more. Not since Lily went off with Kara ... She''s not one to get down about things, though - and things start to look up when Nadima comes into their classroom. Before long the girls are firm friends, even when Nadima, recently arrived from Syria, can''t speak much English. The path of true friendship doesn''t run smooth, though ... Jaz, ever the entrepreneur, cooks up a plan to sell Turkish Delight at school, with disastrous results. A drama project with Nadima about family history proves impossible to manage. And Charity Challenge Week puts the icing on the cake as Jaz puts every foot wrong possible. Can she find a way to put things right, and restore the wonderful and unique friendship that she has with Nadima? In a story of friendship, family and entrepreneurial wizardry, Cas Lester deftly navigates the trials and tribulations of girlhood, and examines with the lightest of touches and gentle humour the thorny and compelling issues of integration, belonging and identity.