Tiger wants the latest Robo-Rex II toy, but Mum says that he needs to save his pocket money. Tiger decides he can't wait that long and so sets out on a micro-adventure in the story Toyshop Terror. But little does he know that there is an X-bot about! Find out if Max, Cat and Ant can rescue Tiger from the X-bot and get out of the toyshop in The Ballerina of Doom. Join the four micro-friends on an adventure in a greenhouse when Tiger gets into trouble again, in Get Me Out of Here!. Find out about escapologists in the non-fiction book Escape Artists. Then read about how prisoners have been kept though history, in Imprisoned. Each book comes with notes for parents that highlight ambitious words or concepts in the books, prompt questions and suggest a range of follow-up activities. The Trapped Guided Reading Notes provide step-by-step guided reading support for each book in the Trapped cluster, together with guidance about comprehension, assessment for learning and vocabulary enrichment. Hands-on follow-up activities, plenty of writing opportunities and cross-curricular links are also provided for each book.

 

This book features in the following series: Project X, Project X Guided Reading .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 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 at level 3c 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 part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Oxford University Press .

Kelly McKain is a creative author of many young fiction series. This is her debut picture book. Animator and illustrator Jon Stuart has worked on Project X for Oxford University Press. Anthony McGowan is the award-winning author of many books for children and young adults, including Henry Tumour, which won the Booktrust Teenage prize and the Catalyst Award, and The Knife That Killed Me about the problems of knife crime and youth violence. Hello Darkness was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal.