Canon Fire
Key stage: Key Stage 3
No. of pages 256
Published: 2008
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This book is part of a book series called New Windmills Collection Ks3 .
This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 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 256 pages in this book. This book was published 2008 by Pearson Education Limited .
Michael Morpurgo has brought together poems by writers as diverse as Spike Milligan and Stevie Smith, John Lennon and Jo Shapcott.
This book has the following chapters:
Introduction Michael Morpurgo
No Trumpets Needed Michael Morpurgo
Gothic
The Heart of Another Marcus Sedgwick
& The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe
The Writing on the Wall Celia Rees
& The Ghost in the Bride's Chamber Charles Dickens
Growing Up
Behind the Billboards David Almond
& The Destructors Graham Greene
Porkies Robert Swindells
& Billy the Kid William Golding
The Wild
Cats Robert Westall
& The Brazilian Cat Arthur Conan Doyle
To Build a Fire Jack London
& A Vendetta Guy de Maupassant
Folk Stories
The Ugly Wife Anthony Horowitz
& The Knight's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer (retold by Geraldine McCaughrea)
The Tinker's Curse Joan Aiken
& The Star Child Oscar Wilde
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