A supernatural love story that touches on the First World War.

Kerry hates her new school. She doesn't think much of the new house either, as it's full of strange noises.

While waiting by the old war memorial for her mum to come home, she meets a boy. He seems nice, but very sad about something. And he's dressed a bit oddly too...

*Help Key Stage 3 students move from Level 3c to Level 3b in reading.
*Support comprehension with the atmospheric, age-appropriate illustrations.
*Contextualise the story using the double-page about the First World War.
*Encourage shared and guided reading using the ready-made tasks and discussion points on the activity pages at the back of the book.

This book is part of a book series called Read On .

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. This reading scheme is not levelled. 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 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Pippa Goodhart is an award winning bestselling author, known for the Winne the Witch series and her