Lara is tired of being second best next to her smarmy cousin Nathan. The town’s annual writing competition is coming up, but she has no ideas! If only something would drop into her head. Suddenly, she finds an ‘egg thing’ in the compost heap in her garden. When the egg starts making strange squeaking sounds, she knows she has to rescue it! In the dead of night, there are strange lights from the garden. There are two even larger egg creatures standing on the compost heap! Is this an invasion? Or do they come in peace?
This series contains lively female leads and exciting adventures involving animals, mistaken identities, twisted fairy tales, mysteries, football, aliens, magical powers and deep sea monsters. Each title contains simple sentences with line breaks, engaging illustrations and questions at the end to ensure that the text has been fully comprehended.
This hi-lo series for struggling and reluctant readers has been written for children aged between 8 and 13 years, whose current reading age is between 7 and 8 years. These age-appropriate short reads have 32 pages and are written by talented authors writing stories with relatable characters. They incorporate a large font size and text separated into bite-sized chunks, along with carefully considered letter and paragraph spacing that can reduce visual stress. The series has plenty of practice at one level, allowing consolidation of learning before moving on to more challenging reads. The vocabulary list of tricky words can aid comprehension before reading the book.
- ISBN10 1781474753
- ISBN13 9781781474754
- Publish Date 1 September 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Badger Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 32
- Language English