Part of the Literacy World series that provides support to deliver shared reading and writing, guided reading, ICT and speaking and listening at Key Stage 2 and Junior level.

This book features in the following series: Literacy World Satellites, Satellites Series .

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 aimed at children in secondary 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 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Pearson Education Limited .

Alan Durant is an established children's author who has written several books for young adults as well as fiction for young children, picture books and poetry. He has previously compiled Red Hot Reads: Vampire Stories for Kingfisher. He lives in Surrey. David Kearney, a talented black-and-white line artist with particular expertise in sports provides a full-page, action-packed illustration for each story. Judy Waite spent her childhood in Singapore, and then studied at the Portsmouth College of Art. She has already amassed an impressive body of published work for children, including picture book texts, educational titles and teenage fiction. She has two grown-up children, and lives in Southampton.