Heidi is only five years old when her aunt takes her to live with her grandmother in the Alps. It doesn't take long for the little girl to melt the lonely old man's heart and as the years pass, Heidi grows to love her mountain life. But one terrible day she is sent to the city to become a wealthy girl's companion. Heidi is hearbroken and homesick. Will she ever find a way back to the mountains where she truly belongs?
Heidi is part of the Reading Planet range of books for Stars (Lime) to Supernova (Red+) band. Children aged 7-11 will be inspired to love reading through the gripping stories and fascinating information books created by top authors. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills.
Reading age: 7-8 years

This book is part of a book series called Rising Stars Reading Planet .

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 has been graded for interest at 7-11 years. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2019 by Rising Stars UK Ltd .

Katie Woolley is a children's book editor and writer. She has worked on a wide range of book formats and topics, both fiction and non-fiction.