“ Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest. Yo-ho-ho, & a bottle of rum!” When young Jim Hawkins discovers a map showing the way to Captain Flint’s treasure, he & Squire Trelawney set sail on the Hispaniola to search for the buried gold. Little do they know that among their crew is the dastardly pirate Long John Silver, who has a devious plan to keep the gold all to himself. Can brave Jim outwit the most infamous pirate ever to sail the high seas? Will he escape from Treasure Island alive? 10-for-10-17 a-sky-painted-gold-reading-list ...

Some feelings are so big, they’re hard to express … A dyslexia-friendly verse story of friendship, family & self-discovery, perfect for readers aged 9+, beautifully illustrated in black & white. ...

Lots of laughs on every level in the world’s most awesome treehouse! Treehouse Tales: too SILLY to be told... UNTIL NOW! is a laugh-out-loud, fully illustrated collection of Treehouse stories following Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, the creators of the bestselling Treehouse series. ...

Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 4 Scholastic Set 7 Sound Focus: Adjacent consonants with short vowels Book Band: Yellow 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 7 & 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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A funny, action-packed, moving black-&-white graphic novel about a boy coming to terms with the loss of his dad. ...

Tabitha, Elodie, & Moe: a beauty queen, a wallflower, & a burnout-a more unlikely trio high school has rarely seen. & yet, when Tabitha challenges them to a steal-off, so begins a strange alliance linked by the thrill of stealing & the reasons that spawn it. ...

We’re going back to school with Holly Webb & three super sisters. Fiction made in heaven. As awesome as Malory Towers. Imagine: you’re starting senior school. Are you excited, or nervous? Take all your feelings & times them by three. These eleven-year-old triplets are starting a new chapter in their lives. Lucky you: you get to follow them through it! Sparkly Annabel dreams of being famous. Katie is the confident, sporty sister with an answer for everything. Finally, Becky is the animal-mad triplet who keeps a menagerie of pets in the garden shed. She is especially nervous. But why? ...

Remember the triplets? They’re hard to forget. Holly Webb’s super sisters have a habit of becoming your besties. Annabel is the sparkly one who dreams of fame & glamour. If it’s glittery & gorgeous, she’s on it! Now it’s the triplets’ birthday. Annabel wants to make their party as twinkly & pretty as she can. But she’s kind of forgotten that it’s her sisters’ party too. Will the triplets ever agree on how to celebrate? ...

The triplets (even Becky) have settled down in their new school, & now Katie’s been picked for the girls’ football team. She’s over the moon. If only Dad could be here to see her make it to the league final. But there’s no point in wishing. Katie’s job is to focus on the next crucial game. & then disaster strikes… ...

Becky, the sweetest of the triplet sisters, simply loves animals. So she’s horrified to find out that Jack is breeding rats as snake food. She’s got to stop him! Becky does her very best to sweet-talk Jack into saving the rats. Too bad it gives the triplets’ least favourite people – Max & Amy – the perfect opportunity to make trouble… ...