Those Big Bad Wolf tales? Forget them, this is the true story! Archie Wolf tells how he is drawn into the country's worse crime wave. Could he track down the villain behind it? And could he escape from the villain's hit man?

* Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.

* Text type - A modern play

* Curriculum links - Citizenship: People who help us - the local police.

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

This book features in the following series: Collins Big Cat, Emerald Series .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels. 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 32 pages in this book. This is a play book. This book was published 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers .

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