Short stories for children designed to help kids learn how to read and learn to love reading

Shipwreck: Surviving the Storm is a "Reading Alone" book, perfect for supporting children who are proficient readers. These short stories for children have varied sentence lengths and rich vocabulary to develop the habit of reading widely for fun. DK Reads prove that good reads build great readers.

Marina and Jason embark on a cruise ship around the Bahamas with their Dad, but the ocean turns stormy and the ship smashes into a submerged island. Floating on a life-craft and separated from their Dad, the children begin a dramatic and heart-racing ocean adventure.

Shipwreck: Surviving the Storm is part of the DK Reads series, a three-level reading scheme of children's short stories that help kids become confident readers, featuring engaging and illustrated topics. Interactive aspects such as charts and games provide an element of fun while supporting the story and national curriculum. DK Reads is created in consultation with literacy experts and adheres to levelled reading scheme guidelines so the grammar, vocabulary and content are absolutely right.

This book features in the following series: Dk Adventures, Dk Reads, Reading Alone .

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 128 pages in this book. This is a chapter book. Publishers market early chapter books at readers aged 6-10 years. This book was published 2015 by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) .

Caryn Jenner writes and edits a variety of books for children of all ages, including both fiction and nonfiction. Her picture book, Starting School, was one of the eight books longlisted for the UK's 2012 School Library Association