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The Heart Scarab by Saviour Pirotta (READ ALOUD SINGLE COPY)
Code: SC4001
Type: Book
Key Stages: 1 - 2
Description
Format: Single copy (Read Aloud) novel
PAYU Price Code link: Price Code F
Number of pages: 178
Reading Age: 7-9 Interest Level: 7-11
Book Band Grey
Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.
In Ancient Egypt, two brothers steal from a tomb, only to be cursed by a ghost. A mix of magic, ghosts and adventure. Ideal to support Egypt topics.
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Hunt for the Golden Scarab by MG Leonard (READ ALOUD SINGLE COPY)
Code: SC4002
Type: Book
Key Stage: 2
Description
Format: Single copy (Read Aloud) novel
PAYU Price Code link: Price Code F
Number of pages: 294
Reading Age: 7-9 Interest Level: 6-12
Accelerated Reader: Book Level 5 Interest Level MY
Book Band Grey
Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.
Sim and his friends must beat the sinister Council of Keys to be the first to find Nefertiti's lost tomb and a powerful door in time that leads to Ancient Egypt. They must piece together long-hidden clues to solve the mystery of her golden heart scarab. Can they find it before the Council finds them?
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Description
Format: Single copy (Read Aloud) novel
PAYU Price Code link: Price Code F
Number of pages: 269
Reading Age: 10-12 Interest Level: 9-12
Accelerated Reader: Book Level 5.3 Interest Level MY
Book Band Dark Red
Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.
Seth has kidnapped Ra, so Vesper and Aster must descend to the Egyptian underworld to find Ra and save the world. Some darker moments about death and friendship are lightened by the masterful, modern caricatures of the gods.
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The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (READ ALOUD SINGLE COPY)
Code: SC4004
Type: Book
Key Stage: 2
Description
Format: Single copy (Read Aloud) novel
PAYU Price Code link: Price Code F
Number of pages: 256
Reading Age: 9-11 Interest Level: 9-14
Accelerated Reader: Book Level 3.6 Interest Level MY
Book Band Black/Grey
Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.
Ivan, a gorilla, recounts his life including when lived in a shopping mall circus for nearly 30 years. Eventually rehomed with other gorillas in a zoo in Atlanta, he discovers there is another way to live. Set in America.
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Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun by Tola Okogwu (READ ALOUD SINGLE COPY)
Code: SC4005
Type: Book
Key Stage: 2
Description
Format: Single copy (Read Aloud) novel
PAYU Price Code link: Price Code F
Number of pages: 320
Reading Age: 8-10 Interest Level: 8-12
Accelerated Reader: Book Level 4.9 Interest Level MY
Book Band Dark Red
Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.
A British-Nigerian girl is sent to a school for superheroes, The Academy of the Sun in Nigeria, when she finds that her Afro hair gives her psychokinetic powers. Once there, Onyeka and her friends must use their powers in an epic battle for the future of all those with superpowers, the Solari. Shortlisted - British Book Awards - Children's Fiction 2023.
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The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo (READ ALOUD SINGLE COPY)
Code: SC4006
Type: Book
Key Stage: 2
Description
Format: Single copy (Read Aloud) novel
PAYU Price Code link: Price Code F
Number of pages: 224
Reading Age: 9-11 Interest Level: 8-12
Accelerated Reader: Book Level 5 Interest Level MY
Book Band Grey/Black
Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.
The magical appearance of an elephant helps a brother be reunited with his long-lost sister. Carnegie Medal Longlist 2011.
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Description
Format: Single copy (Read Aloud) novel
PAYU Price Code link: Price Code F
Number of pages: 402
Reading Age:8-10 Interest Level: 8-12
Accelerated Reader: Book Level 4.9 Interest Level MY
Book Band Dark Blue
Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.
In the near future, no humans are allowed in the Wildlands – a vast area in Britain where wild animals are roaming free. The only exception is a high-speed train line, between London and Glasgow, through the very heart of the project.Two girls have to find their way to safety after an accident leaves them stranded in the middle of this vast rewilding reserve.
Shortlisted - The Wainwright's Prize for Children's Fiction & Waterstone's Children's Book Prize (Younger Fiction).
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Skandar and the Unicorn Thief by A F Steadman (READ ALOUD SINGLE COPY)
Code: SC4008
Type: Book
Key Stage: 2
Description
Format: Single copy (Read Aloud) novel
PAYU Price Code link: Price Code F
Number of pages: 368
Reading Age:9-11 Interest Level: 9-12
Accelerated Reader: Book Level 5.7 Interest Level MY
Book Band Dark Red
Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.
Thirteen-year-old Skandar is accepted into the unicorn riders and must use his unique power to challenge the dark Weaver. These are not fluffy unicorns, but dangerous creatures. Heroes and unicorns as you've never seen them before!
Winner - Waterstones Book of the Year 2022
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Inkbound: Meticulous Jones and the Skull Tattoo by Philippa Leathley (READ ALOUD SINGLE COPY)
Code: SC4009
Type: Book
Key Stage: 2
Description
Format: Single copy (Read Aloud) novel
PAYU Price Code link: Price Code F
Number of pages: 383
Reading Age: 9-11 Interest Level: 9-12
Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.
A magical adventure about family, fate and finding the courage to be truly yourself.
Content advisory
Brief description of a character dying, which may upset sensitive readers
Longlisted - The Branford Boase Award 2026
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Which Way to Anywhere by Cressida Cowell (READ ALOUD SINGLE COPY)
Code: SC4010
Type: Book
Key Stage: 2
Description
Format: Single Copy (Read Aloud) novel
PAYU Price Code link: Price Code F
Number of pages: 384
Reading Age: 8-10 Interest Level: 8-12
Accelerated Reader: Book Level 6.4 Interest Level MY
Book Band Dark Blue
Reading aloud gives all pupils access to engaging texts and helps nurture a love of reading for pleasure. Research shows that reading for pleasure is linked to higher academic achievement, greater empathy, a deeper understanding of personal identity, and improved mental wellbeing.
Squabbling stepsiblings must put aside their differences and embark on a magical quest to an alternative world to rescue their baby sister using dangerous space travel and very illegal magic.
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