Key Stages: 2 - 3

Description

Format:Super 6 (guided reading - 6 copies per set) - Novel

Number of pages: 274

Reading Age: 10-12 Interest Level: 9-13

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 4.9 Interest Level MY

Book Band: Dark Red

Notes: February, 1941. After months of bombing raids in London, twelve-year-old Olive Bradshaw and her little brother Cliff are evacuated to the Devon coast. The only person with two spare beds is Mr Ephraim, the local lighthouse keeper. But he's not used to company and he certainly doesn't want any evacuees. Desperate to be helpful, Olive becomes his post-girl, carrying secret messages (as she likes to think of the letters) to the villagers.

But Olive has a secret of her own. Her older sister Sukie went missing in an air raid, and she's desperate to discover what happened to her. And then she finds a strange coded note which seems to link Sukie to Devon, and to something dark and impossibly dangerous.

Useful links:

Literacy Tree Planning Sequence for this title: Letters from the Lighthouse | Literacy Tree

Literacy Shed planning resources for this title: Literacy Shed Plus - Literacy Shed Plus - Teaching Resources Made Easy

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