This title is part of Bug Club, the first whole-school reading programme to combine books with an online reading world to teach today's children to read. In this Year 5 Blue B (NC level 4a) non-fiction book... If you're squeamish, you might want to look away now! This book is all about fighting to stay alive. It describes how people have battled through history to overcome sickness and disease. Sometimes the cures they used were dead weird and sometimes they were just ... dead sick. This book is part of the 'Dead' mini-series of books, Dead Gorgeous, Dead Losses, Dead Sick and Dead Adventurous - looking at some of history's greatest characters and events.

 

This book is part of a book series called Bug Club .

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 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 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Pearson Education Limited .