The bestselling, prize-winning Adventures on Trains series hurtles towards a thrilling fifth adventure as Harrison Beck investigates sabotage on a runaway train in the Australian Outback in Sabotage on the Solar Express. ...

Sachin Tendulkar is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsman in the history of cricket, & is a hero to millions in his native India. This easy-read biography tells the fascinating story of his rise from schoolboy prodigy to the dizzy heights of international cricketing superstardom. ...

&8220; It&8217;s war. & right now we&8217;re losing it.” Hal & Roger Hunt fly straight into the jaws of death when they join warden Mark Crosby in Tsavo, an African park where poaching is big business. The poachers slaughter elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippos. & now they&8217;re killing human rangers too. With a ruthless gang leaving behind a blood-stained trail of terror & torture, the heat is on for the brothers to solve the string of mysterious murders &8211; before they too become victims. ...

The four children in the Casson family are all named after colours. Hot-tempered, smart Saffy is also named after a colour, Saffron Yellow, but she can&8217;t find hers on the colour chart. Why not? An award-winning tale of family life &8211; & family secrets. ...

The four children in the Casson family are all named after colours. Hot-tempered, smart Saffy is also named after a colour, Saffron Yellow, but she can&8217;t find hers on the colour chart. Why not? A Whitbread Award-winning tale of family life – & family secrets. ...

Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 3 Scholastic Set 5 Sound Focus: ai ee igh oa oo Book Band: Red This title is part of a brand new set of phonically decodable reading books perfect for very early readers. These expertly levelled stories are engaging, & are exactly matched to Little Wandle Letters & Sounds Revised, used in schools across the UK. The series

Includes:: a wide selection of diverse & inclusive stories, accompanied by bright, contemporary & humorous illustrations that will engage & inspire young readers with a ‘find the character’ feature on each spread. The artwork is detailed so as not to provide picture cues & prompting. Each book also contains parent’s notes & a ‘retell the story’ task to support children’s oracy, vocabulary & comprehension skills. Thirteen sets of books covering groups of sounds to allow for progression. The stories in this set focus on the sounds found in Scholastic Set 5 & revise the sounds found in previous sets. There are thirteen sets in total, covering: Phase 2 Set 1: s a t p i n m d Phase 2 Set 2: g oC k ck e u r h b f l Phase 2 Set 3: ff ll ss j v w x y z zz Phase 2 Set 4: qu ch sh th ng nk Phase 3 Set 5: ai ee igh oa oo Phase 3 Set 6: ar or ur ow oi ear air er Phase 4 Set 7: Adjacent consonants with short vowels Phase 4 Set 8: Adjacent consonants with Phase 3 long vowels Phase 5 Set 9: ay (play), ou (cloud), oy (boy), ea (each), ir (bird), ie (pie), ue (blue), u (unicorn) Phase 5 Set 10: o (go), i (tiger), a (paper), e (he), a-e (snake), i-e (time), o-e (home), u-e (cute), e-e (these), ew (new), ie (shield), aw (claw) Phase 5 Set 11: y (funny), ea (head), wh (wheel), oe (toe), ou (shoulder), y (fly), ow (snow), g (giant), ph (phone), le (apple), al (metal), c (ice), ve (give), o-e (some), o (mother), ou (young), se (cheese), se (mouse), ce (fence), ey (donkey), ui (fruit), ou (soup) Phase 5 Set 12: or (word), u (full), oul (could), are (share), ear (bear), ere (there), au (author), aur (dinosaur), oor (floor), al (walk), tch (match), ture (adventure), al (half), a (father), a (water), a (want), ear (learn), wr (wrist), st (whistle), sc (science), ch (school), ch (chef), ze (freeze), schwa at the end of words (actor) Phase 5 Set 13: eigh (eight), aigh (straight), ey (grey), ea (break), gn (gnaw), kn (knee), mb (thumb), ere (here), eer (deer), su (treasure), si (vision), dge (bridge), ge (large), y (crystal), ti (potion), ssi (mission), si (mansion), ci (delicious), augh (daughter), our (pour), oar (oar), ore (more) Have you got them all?

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Blood-&-thunder Victorian (with just a touch of steampunk) bliss by a genius we’d sell our souls to write like. Sally rides like a Cossack & shoots like a demon. Our kind of heroine, then. ...

It’s early 1945 & a group of people trek across Germany, bound together by their desperation to reach the ship that can take them away from the war-ravaged l&. ...

What to do when Morps just can’t turn out the war/animal fiction fast enough? Luckily, Sam Angus is here with a new (and genuinely fresh) take on animal heroes. ...

The brilliantly funny & first book in the SAM WU series, starring the bravest scaredy-cat in the world! Perfect for reluctant readers & fans of STEM, Tom Fletcher, Pamela Butchart & Sam Copeland’s CHARLIE CHANGES INTO A CHICKEN. From the author pair behind new magic middle grade fantasy adventure, Dragon Mountain. ...