Oxford Literacy Web

by Shirley Isherwood

Stephen Player (Illustrator)

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This is one of the titles for the Oxford Literacy Web fiction strand for upper Key Stage 2, (Y5 & Y6) designed to fit the National Literacy Strategy. This story for Year 6 is about an escape from Nazi Germany and a child's memory afterwards. The other stories are: "Space Rock and Five-a-Side" by Jon Blake - a hard-hitting story involving addition; "Car Crusher" by Philip Wooderson - story of unfairness and bias and the proving of innocence; "Skew Whiff" by Anna Perera - can Anjouli and her friends win the maths contest and repair the damage they've done to the house and still be ready for the birthday party?; "Wimmer" by Margaret McAllister - two children find a very curious dog on the run from a research centre. Will they be able to keep him secret when he begins to grow wings?; and "War Stories" by Nick Warburton - two stories about children whose lives are changed by war.
  • ISBN10 019915970X
  • ISBN13 9780199159703
  • Publish Date 1 March 2001
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 4 August 2006
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oxford University Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 128
  • Language English