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PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code A

Format: Class Set (18 copies)

Number of pages: 400

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

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 4.6 Interest Level MY

Book Band: Dark Red

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A young boy evacuee from the London blitz desperately fights the evil plans of the Midwinter King, helped only by the imaginary friends of his childhood, suddenly real.

Sometimes at the darkest hour, hope shines the brightest…

When Col's childhood imaginary friends come to life, he discovers a world where myths and legends are real. Accompanied by his guardians - a six-foot tiger, a badger in a waistcoat and a miniature knight - Col must race to Blitz-bombed London to save his sister.

But there are darker forces at work, even than the Nazi bombings. Soon Col is pursued by the terrifying Midwinter King, who is determined to bring an eternal darkness down over everything.

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PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code A

Format: Class Set (18 copies)

Number of pages: 352

Reading Age: 8-10 Interest Level: 8-11

Book Band: Dark Blue

Uma Gnuderson has a world full of questions: How can I save my home from being sold? Will my dad ever start talking again? And how do alpacas get drunk? But since her mum died, Uma's life has been short on answers.

Until one day she finds a mysterious Bluetooth earpiece, and starts to ask it questions. And it answers them. All of them. It knows everything, from the capital of Mongolia to the colour of her headteacher's underpants.

The earpiece is actually an incredible high-tech artificial intelligence called Athena. Through Athena, Uma suddenly has the answer to every question she can imagine - and she's going to use them to save her home and her father.

Along the way, Uma will have to confront the sinister inventor who will stop at nothing to get Athena back - and face up to the fact that not all questions have answers.

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PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code A

Format: Class Set (18 copies)

Number of pages: 320

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

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 5.3 Interest Level MY

Book Band: Dark Red

I've been getting into trouble for as long I can remember. Usually I don't mind 'cos some of my best, most brilliant ideas have come from sitting in detention.
But recently it feels like no one believes me about anything - even when I'm telling the truth! And it's only gotten worse since I played a prank on the old man who lives in the park.
Everyone thinks I'm just a bully. They don't believe I could be a hero.
But I'm going to prove them all wrong…
Told from the perspective of a bully, this book explores themes of homelessness, while celebrating kindness, friendship and the potential everyone has to change for the good.

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PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code A

Format: Class Set (18 copies)

Number of pages: 304

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

Book Band: Dark Blue

Billy Plimpton is an eleven-year-old boy with a big dream. He wants to be a stand-up comedian when he grows up: delivering pinpoint punch-lines and having audiences hang on his every hilarious word. A tough career for anyone, but surely impossible for Billy, who has a stammer. How will he find his voice, if his voice won't let him speak?

The idea for this story came from Helen Rutter's son, who has a stammer: she wanted to write the book that he would love to read, starring a child like him.

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PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code A

Format: Class Set (18 copies)

Number of pages: 288

Reading Age: 9-11 Interest Level: 9-13

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 5.3 Interest Level MY

Book Band: Dark Blue

Omar and his mother flee Afghanistan and venture across the sea to Europe. When their boat sinks Omar finds himself alone with no hope of rescue  it seems as if his story has come to an end.

But it is only just beginning on Lilliput.

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PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code A

Format: Class Set (18 copies)

Number of pages: 240

Reading Age: 8-10 Interest Level: 8-11

Book Band: Dark Red

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Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. When she steals a house-shaped ornament from a mysterious woman's purse, she knocks on its tiny door and watches it grow into a huge, higgledy-piggeldy house.

Inside she finds a host of magical and brilliantly funny characters, including Flabberghast - a young wizard who's particularly competitive at hopscotch - and a hideous troll housekeeper who's emotionally attached to his feather duster. They have been placed under an extraordinary spell, which they are desperate for Nine to break - and if she can, maybe they can offer her a new life in return…

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Format: Books

PAYU Price Code Link: Price Code C

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Six different fiction titles set in the Ancient Egyptian Era. Each bundle contains a variety of fiction titles from different authors. Suitable for Key Stage 2. 

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PAYU Price Code link: Price Code A

Format: Mini Class Set - 14 copies

Number of pages: 240

Reading Age: 9-11  Interest Level: 8-13

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 6.3 Interest Level MY+

Book Band Dark Blue

The story of one Anglo-Saxon boy's journey to the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

Part of our Mini - Class sets range. Fewer copies and/or shorter texts

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PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code A

Format: Class Set (18 copies)

Number of pages: 336

Reading Age: 8-10 Interest Level: 7-10

Book Band: Grey

Lucy is a fixer of broken things. But there's one thing she can't fix and that's her unhappy mum. Until she comes up with an INCREDIBLE plan. Along with her best friend, Sandesh, Lucy is going to SMASH a world record.
Because she's convinced that starry Paul Castellini - Record Smashers TV host and all-time crooner - is the answer to her mum's problems. But breaking a world RECORD when watermelons, kumquats, two baddies and a 30 cm shatter-resistant school ruler are involved isn't quite as easy as Lucy thought. Can she learn that sometimes happiness doesn't come with a plan?

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Notes: This accessible text will show students and class teachers how they can enable their pupils to become critical thinkers through the use of picturebooks. By introducing children to the notion of making-meaning together through thinking and discussion. Carefully chosen picturebooks as a stimulus for discussion, and shows how they can constitute an accessible, multimodal resource for adding to literacy skills, while at the same time developing in pupils a far wider range of literary understanding. By allowing time for thinking about and digesting the pictures as well as the text, and then engaging pupils in classroom discussion, this book highlights a powerful means of developing children's oral language ability, critical thinking, and visual literacy, while also acting as a rich resource for developing children's literary understanding. This book also provides an overview of recent international research on doing `interactive read alouds', on what critical literacy means, on what critical thinking means and on picturebooks themselves. Lecturers on teacher education courses for early years or primary levels, classroom teachers, pre-service education students, and all those interested in promoting critical engagement and dialogue about literature will find this an engaging and very insightful text.

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