Pocket Sci-Fi is part of Pocket Reads, a superb collection of quality books that really capture children's imaginations! Pocket Reads have fantastic breadth and variety of genre, with Pocket Facts, Pocket Tales and Pocket Chillers making up the rest of the collection of independent readers. The fiction books are beautifully illustrated and are guaranteed to appeal to even the most reluctant of readers. The non-fiction readers are equally as stunning and will captivate and excite children with fascinating facts. The 105 pocket-sized fiction and non-fiction readers have each been carefully levelled to the National Curriculum and Book-Banded to ensure children make progression. You can therefore be assured that every reading experience is one that counts.

 

This book features in the following series: Pocket Readers Science Fiction, Pocket Sci Fi .

This book is at level 4c of the National Curriculum. The National Curriculum sets out the programmes of study and attainment targets for all subjects at all 4 key stages. Each National Curriculum level is divided into sub-levels, where Level C means that a child is working at the lower end of the level, Level B they is working comfortably at that level, and Level A means that they is working at the top end of the level. The Government has suggested a child should achieve the following levels by the end of each school year: (i) Level 1b by end Year 1, Level 2a-c by end Year 2, Level 2a-3b by end Year 3, Level 3 by the end Year 4, Level 3b-4c by the end Year 5, Level 4 by the end Year 6. This book is aimed at children in primary school. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Pearson Education Limited .

Malcolm Rose was a lecturer in chemistry at the Open University. Now he is a full-time writer. Malcolm is the author of Kingfisher's 'TRACES: Luke Harding, Forensic Investigator' series for Kingfisher fiction, and has also written many books for Scholastic's 'Point Crime' series. In all these novels, forensic science is a key feature. Dave Hill graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1983. He has illustrated comic books for 2000 AD, Judge Dredd Megazine, Crisis, Manga Entertainment and Caliber Press USA, and worked as a concept artist in the video games industry. Dave became freelance in 2005.