Susan Gates Books

Bookbanded for easy classroom management, this title includes reading notes for parents/carers on the inside covers, and guided reading cards and teaching notes.

Nobody knows about Firebird and her family. They live completely isolated lives on the edge of the city, tucked away in the wilderness. They never leave it, not even to go to school, and they never ever talk to strangers. The day Firebird starts breaking the rules, everything changes. Now she doesn't know what's true and what's not any more. What she does know is that letting out the family secrets will bring death and destruction on all their heads. But maybe, just maybe, it could open the door to freedom.

Based on the original fairy tale, this is a revived version written especially for today's children. It is one of a number of stories within a series, that have been rewritten and re-illustrated by award-winning authors and illustrators to celebrate the 1998 National Year of Reading.

Superloo is a power-crazed toilet with an ego as big as a planet, a micro-chip that belongs to NASA and a mission to rescue his toilet ancestors from the past. All he needs now is a human helper - and then along comes Finn. Next thing Finn knows is he's been kidnapped by a toilet and taken back to ancient Egypt.

In The Lie Detector Gemma's friend says that Gemma tells lies. Gemma's friend wants to teach her a lesson, so she makes a lie detector. But who needs the lesson most?TreeTops Fiction contains engaging novels from top authors and illustrators with the variety children need to develop a love of reading!

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Cal has a new dog, and it has an amazing special power - its ears twirl when someone is telling a lie! The Dog of Truth helps Cal learn when people are telling fibs - but Cal soon discovers that it's difficult to hear the truth all the time ... especially about yourself.Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks is an emotionally-engaging fiction series that will fire children's imaginations. These 36 original stories will get children thinking, and develop and deepen their comprehension skills. The variety of authors and illustration styles broadens children's readingexperience, with something to appeal to every child.All the books in the series are carefully levelled, so it's easy to match every child to the right book for them. They also contain inside cover notes, to enable parents and teachers to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development is also available at ahref="https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/"www.oxfordowl.co.uk/a.

Puh, hier stinkt's nach Horrorkacke! „Du musst lernen die Gefahr zu riechen!“, sagt Mama Spitzmaus. „Wir Spitzmäuse können nicht gut sehen.“ Und was ist am gefährlichsten für kleine Spitzmäuse? Natürlich Pantherkacke! Aber Baby Spitzmaus kann nicht gut riechen. Wie soll er im Dschungel überleben? Wie Baby Spitzmaus dann seine Geschwister auf ganz andere Weise vor dem gefährlichen Panther rettet, davon erzählt dieses vergnügliche Bilderbuch. Eine abenteuerliche Bilderbuchparabel über Kleinsein und Großwerden, Anderssein und Mut.

Bei Recherchen über den Niedergang der englischen Fischfangindustrie stossen die Schülerinnen Maddy und Flora auf Berichte über einen geheimnisvollen Unfall, bei dem der Schiffsjunge Laurie von Bord eines Fischkutters ins Meer stürzte. Ihre hartnäckigen Nachforschungen bringen eine erschütternde Wahrheit ans Licht... Empfehlung auch für Schulklassen.

Der Tag gehört dem Wolf. Die Nacht den Ratten. Und die Dämmerung gehört dem Mädchen Dusk. Halb Mensch, halb Tier geht sie in der Dämmerung auf Jagd. Doch dann taucht eines Tages Jay auf. Und mit ihm die Gefahr. Ist Dusk Mensch genug, um Jay zu helfen?