Holes by Louis Sachar - SINGLE COPY

Code: SC1311

Type: Book

Key Stages: 2 - 3

Description

Format: Novel - single copy (this title is also available as a Super 6 guided reading set)

Number of pages: 233

Reading Age: 12-14 Interest Level: 12-16

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 4.6 Interest Level UY

Book Band: Dark Red

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Notes: Stanley Yelnats' family has a history of bad luck, so he isn't too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys' juvenile detention centre. At Camp Green Lake the boys must dig a hole a day, five feet deep, five feet across, in the dried lake bed. The Warden claims the labour is character building, but it is a lie. Stanley must dig up the truth.

 

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Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo - SINGLE COPY

Code: SC1283

Type: Book

Key Stages: 2 - 3

Description

Format: Novel - single copy (this title is also available as a Super 6 guided reading set)

Number of pages: 163

Reading Age: 8-10 Interest Level: 8-12

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 4.7 Interest Level MY

Book Band: Dark Red

Notes: I heard the wind above me in the sails. I remember thinking, this is silly, you haven't got your safety harness on, you haven't got your lifejacket on. You shouldn't be doing this…I was in the cold of the sea before I could even open my mouth to scream. Washed up on an island in the Pacific, Michael struggles to survive on his own. With no food and no water, he curls up to die. When he wakes, there is a plate beside him of fish, fuit, and a bowl of fresh water. He is not alone.

 

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The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson - SINGLE COPY

Code: SC1243

Type: Book

Key Stage: 1

Description

Format: Picture book - single copy (this title is also available as a Super 6 guided reading set)

PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code F

Number of pages: 24

Reading Age: 6-8 Interest Level: 4-6

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 2.3 Interest Level MY

Book Band: Purple

Notes: Story in rhyme. A mouse walks through the wood and every creature that he meets gets a fiercer picture of the Gruffalo which scares each one of them away. Then even the Gruffalo is frightened away by the mouse!

 

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Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak - SINGLE COPY

Code: SC1153

Type: Book

Key Stage: 1

Description

Format: Picture book - single copy (this title is also available as a Super 6 guided reading set)

PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code F

Number of pages: 38

Reading Age: 6 - 8 Interest Level: 4 - 8

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 3.4 Interest Level LY

Book Band: Purple

Notes: The story of Max's adventures when he sails away to the land where the Wild Things are has become an acknowledged classic of children's books.

 

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The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame - SINGLE COPY

Code: SC1121

Type: Book

Key Stage: 2

Description

Format: Novel - single copy (this title is also available as a Super 6 guided reading set)

Number of pages: 256

Reading Age: 9 - 11 Interest Level: 8 - 12

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 8.4 Interest Level MY

Book Band: Dark Blue

Book Band: Black Gifted & Talented

Notes: When Mole decides to go boating with Ratty the Water Rat instead of doing his spring cleaning, he discovers a world he never knew existed. There's the river and the Wild Wood, and there's reclusive badger and wild Toad, who become fast friends. But Toad's recklessness will test the friendship of the foursome as he leads them from one trouble to another and, finally, into battle.

 

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Skellig by David Almond - SINGLE COPY

Code: SC1009

Type: Book

Key Stage: 2

Description

Format:  Novel - single copy  (this title is also available as a Super 6 guided reading set)

PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code F

Number of pages: 170

Reading Age: 10 - 12 Interest Level: 11 - 14

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 3.5 Interest Level MY+

Book Band Dark Red

Notes: Michael was looking forward to moving house. It was all going to be wonderful. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. The he steps into the crumbling garage… "It tells a story of love and faith with exquisite heart-felt fluttering tenderness" Chair of Whitbread Judging Panel.

 

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Jasper's Beanstalk by Nick Butterworth - SINGLE COPY

Code: SC1075

Type: Book

Key Stage: 1

Description

Format: Novel - single copy (this title is also available as a Super 6 guided reading set)

PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code F

Number of pages: 26

Reading Age: 5 - 6 Interest Level: 2 - 6

Book Band: Blue

Notes: On Monday Jasper finds a bean. On Tuesday he planted it and so the week goes on; in spite of all the attention he lavishes on it, the bean will not grow.

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle - SINGLE COPY

Code: SC0967

Type: Book

Key Stage: 1

Description

Format: Picture book - single copy (this title is also available as a Super 6 guided reading set)

PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code F

Number of pages: 16

Reading Age: 4-6 Interest Level: 2 - 6

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 2.9 Interest Level LY

Book Band: Orange


Notes: 'One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.' So begins the journey of Eric Carle's most famous character, from the egg to a beautiful butterfly. The Very Hungry Caterpillar has won over millions of readers with its vivid and colourful collage illustrations and its deceptively simple, hopeful story. With its die-cut pages and finger-sized holes to explore, this is a richly satisfying book for children.

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Description

Format: Novel - single copy (this title is also available as a Super 6 guided reading set)

PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code F

Number of pages: 223

Reading Age: 10 - 12 Interest Level: 9 - 14

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 6.0 Interest Level MY

Book Band: Dark Red

Notes: Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy - until he is rescued by a giant of a man, enrols at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel. The reason: Harry Potter is a wizard! First book in the seven book series.

 

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Peace at Last by Jill Murphy - SINGLE COPY

Code: SC0626

Type: Book

Key Stage: 1

Description

Format: Novel - single copy (this title is also available as a Super 6 guided reading set)

Number of pages: 22

Reading Age: 6-8 Interest Level: 3-6

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 1.9 Interest Level LY

Book Band: Gold

Notes: Father Bear has one of those nights when sleep will not come, and every familiar noise is torture.

 

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