Key Stage: 2

Description

PAYU Price Code link:  Price Code A

Format:  - Class Set (18 copies)

Number of pages: 298

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

Accelerated Reader: Book Level 4.3 Interest Level MY+

Book Band: Dark Blue

Notes: A brother moves from the Philippines to join his family in London and discovers a shared love of basketball with his sister.

Be careful what you wish for…Andi is short. And she has lots of wishes. She wishes she could play on the school basketball team, she wishes for her own bedroom, but most of all she wishes that her long lost half brother, Bernardo, could come and live in London, where he belongs. Then Andi's biggest wish comes true and she's minutes away from becoming someone's little sister. As she waits anxiously for Bernardo to arrive from the Philippines, she hopes he'll turn out to be tall and just as mad as she is about basketball. When he finally arrives, he's tall all right. But he's not just tall… he's a GIANT. In a novel packed with humour and quirkiness, Gourlay explores a touching sibling relationship and the clash of two very different cultures.

NOTE : Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Prize 2011
NOTE : Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2011
NOTE : Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2011
NOTE : Carnegie Medal Longlist 2011

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