This is one of the titles for the Oxford Literacy Web fiction strand for upper Key Stage 2, (Y5 & Y6) designed to fit the National Literacy Strategy. This story for Year 6 is about an escape from Nazi Germany and a child's memory afterwards. The other stories are: "Space Rock and Five-a-Side" by Jon Blake - a hard-hitting story involving addition; "Car Crusher" by Philip Wooderson - story of unfairness and bias and the proving of innocence; "Skew Whiff" by Anna Perera - can Anjouli and her friends win the maths contest and repair the damage they've done to the house and still be ready for the birthday party?; "Wimmer" by Margaret McAllister - two children find a very curious dog on the run from a research centre. Will they be able to keep him secret when he begins to grow wings?; and "War Stories" by Nick Warburton - two stories about children whose lives are changed by war.

 

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 part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 128 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. Author: Anthony Masters is a distinguished, award-winning writer for both children and adults, being described by Junior Bookseller as 'a skilled novelist and a man of deep understanding -[he] writes beautifully, giving each word its value'. Illustrator: Stephen Player is an established illustrator of many children's books.