When Silas Marner is wrongly accused of theft, he leaves his home town to start a new life in Raveloe. Here, he lives a solitary existence, weaving linen on his loom, and disturbing no one. Then one dark wintery night an unknown visitor arrives and changes his life forever. To help make this book accessible there are new features: illustrated character lists; notes on history; on page explanations of difficult words; and new teaching notes.

 

This book is part of a book series called Treetops .

This book is aimed at children in primary 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 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Oxford University Press .

Shirley Isherwood has been writing children's books for many years and this is her first for Little Tiger Press. Shirley lives in Manchester. Simon Mendez studied Scientific and Natural History illustration in Blackpool. GEORGE ELIOT was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), one of Victorian England's pre-eminent writers of both fiction and non-fiction and translator. SARAH WIMPERIS began painting at a very early age as a result of family influences and an inability to spell. She studied fine art at Falmouth School of Art, exhibited with the Portal Gallery, then travelled the world, including China, Russia, Israel and Norway, painting all the way. She returned to Cornwall, raised a lot of children, painted murals for a while, then became a professional illustrator. Since 2008 she has exhibited regularly at the Beside the Wave Gallery in Falmouth, which she now manages. GILL TAVNER was an English Teacher and Head of Department before turning to writing when she had young children of her own. She has also taught English in South East Asia, worked as a personal trainer, been a management trainee in an insurance company, led treks in Africa, run her own business and painted fake tattoos on Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Perhaps it is this variety that makes her such a versatile writer.