What would you do to survive? Would you eat frogs, spiders ... or even human flesh? Read the amazing true stories of people who have survived in extreme situations.

This book tells the real-life stories of people who have survived in extreme situations from plane crashes to getting lost in the jungle, desert or mountains. Learn the basics of survival and take part in survival quizzes to test your knowledge.

*Help Key Stage 3 students move from Level 3b to Level 3c in reading.
*Support comprehension with engaging photography and illustration.
*Encourage shared and guided reading using the ready-made tasks and discussion points on the activity pages at the back of the book.
* Suitable for Key Stage 3 students with a reading age of 9 years.

This book is part of a book series called Read On .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Alan Parkinson is an award-winning teacher and author, who currently works in teacher education and as a freelance geographer. He lives in rural Norfolk, and enjoys exploring new (and old) places. Natalie Packer is an educational consultant who has worked as a Senior Adviser for the National Strategies, supporting the implementation of the Achievement for All project to improve outcomes for students with SEN, and as a Local Authority Adviser for Special Educational Needs and School Improvement. She has developed and delivered national training on a wide range of issues, including SEN, teaching and learning, and involving parents in education. She has primary headship experience and was a SENCO for a number of years. Alan and Robbie Gibbons are father and son. Together they have written three stories for the Read On series.