Justin D'Ath – författare

Pocket Sci-Fi is part of Pocket Reads, a superb collection of quality books that really capture children's imaginations! Pocket Reads have fantastic breadth and variety of genre, with Pocket Facts, Pocket Tales and Pocket Chillers making up the rest of the collection of independent readers. The fiction books are beautifully illustrated and are guaranteed to appeal to even the most reluctant of readers. The non-fiction readers are equally as stunning and will captivate and excite children with fascinating facts. The 105 pocket-sized fiction and non-fiction readers have each been carefully levelled to the National Curriculum and Book-Banded to ensure children make progression. You can therefore be assured that every reading experience is one that counts.

Sam Fox is on holiday onthe Great Barrier Reef when a freak wave sweeps him and a stranger called Michi out into the open sea. Trapped in deep water with no hopeof making it back to shore, Sam and Michi have to think on their feet if they want to make it home alive! As nightfalls and dangerous predators start moving in, can theyoutsmart nature? Or will they end up as shark bait? Packedwith deadly sea creatures, dangerous bird smugglers and the incrediblepower of the ocean itself, this is an adrenaline-fuelled,suspense-filled read.

Following a horrific bus crash in the Rocky Mountains on the way to ascouting jamboree, Sam Fox needs to find help, and fast! With no food,water or equipment, and with two young scouts in tow, Sam needs to keephis wits about him if he's planning on surviving the perils of theAmerican wilderness. With a huge grizzly on his tail, a pack of wolvescircling and some kind of half-human, half-animal always just out ofsight, can Sam survive for long enough to raise the alarm and save thecrash victims, or will this story come to a grizzly end?