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Have you ever gone looking for buried treasure? Find out all about being an archaeologist, the treasure that has been found – from gold coins to butter that has been preserved for thousands of years – and what we can learn from it in this fascinating information book. Gold/Band 9 fiction offers developing readers literary language and stories with distinctive characters.Text type: An information bookAn illustrated timeline on pages 22 and 23 helps readers to recap the finds in chronological order and what can be discovered from each piece.Curriculum links: History: What was it like to live here in the past?; Citizenship: Living in a diverse world.This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Lionel the monster finds it hard to make friends. Children are frightened of him, because, well, he is a monster. Grown-ups are too busy even to notice him. Then one day he meets a little dog who isn't frightened, and isn't too busy, and who just wants to play! Lionel has never had so much fun! But what will happen when Lionel takes the little dog back to its owner? Is Lionel destined to be lonely forever?

A humorous take on the unicorn trend, Unicorn NOT Wanted is funny picture book starring an uninvited unicorn that hijacks the story.​"There are way too many unicorn stories, so this book will be A UNICORN FREE ZONE!And it will be set where you definitely won’t find unicorns... THE WILD WEST!This is an anti-unicorn, unicorn story, which pokes fun at the never-ending stream of unicorn books, but then becomes what it sets out not to be... thanks to a unicorn intruder!A unicorn arrives in disguise as a horse on the first pages, but when her hat is removed and her horn exposed, chaos ensues...It's really silly, but has a positive message of not stereotyping people and being yourself.

Dogs are STUPID.The End.Oh. You’re still here?Fine, I’ll prove it…From award-winning author–illustrator Fred Blunt comes this fantastically funny, spectacularly silly picture book about everything wrong with dogs, as told by a very stubborn cat.Are you a cat person or a dog person?Well, this cat thinks cats are the best and dogs are the absolute worst. I mean, dogs stink, they slobber, they enjoy rolling around in cow poo... need I say more? And why are there so many types of dog, too? Hairy... scary... spotty... Scottie... the list goes on!But when this confident cat gets a very scary surprise, guess who comes to the rescue? Will our cat finally accept that he might have been wrong about dogs all along?With bright and hilarious illustrations, this picture book will have kids and grown-ups alike laughing out loud. And whether you’re a cat or dog lover, the heart-warming ending is sure to put a smile on your face.

A Sunday Times Best Book of 2018Santa has it so easy: a workforce of elves to make the presents, a team of reindeer to deliver them, even a hi-spec factory! The Easter Bunny has to make and wrap all the chocolate eggs in his garden shed, and deliver them himself on foot. No wonder you often find them thrown all over the place in your garden! Now Bunny has had enough – he hatches a genius, chocolately plan with uneggspected results...'Wonderfully bonkers' JIM FIELD