Monsters Like Us follows the adventures of monster misfits Danny (a demon), Lin (a werewolf) and Sam (a zombie) as they attempt to get through school without eating the teachers, running wild or raising hell.
In Call of the Wild, the class go on a school outing to a safari park. Everything is fine, until they are invited to see the wolves. Can Danny and Sam help Lin to resist running wild in werewolf form, and stop their teacher finding out the truth about them?
Each Monsters Like Us story features an accessible storyline in a familiar setting, and is ideal for guided reading with struggling readers, as confidence-building independent reads, and for EAL pupils. Call of the Wild is levelled at book band 8 Purple, is printed on off-white paper and uses a font approved by the British Dyslexia Association.
This title is published by Franklin Watts EDGE, which produces a range of books
to get children reading with confidence. EDGE - for books kids can't put down.
This book is part of a book series called Edge-Monsters Like Us .
This book is at Book Band Purple. Purple books will start to have more longer sentences and a wider range of challenging vocabulary. A lot of Purple books will start to have shorter chapters to encourage a child's reading ability. Children will have encountered more of the high frequency words by this level, and teachers will be promoting reading for pleasure. Pupil Targets: (i) read silently in their head for longer periods of time, (ii) read longer books with short chapters, (iii) read fiction, non-fiction and poetry, (iv) sound out most unfamiliar words as they read, (v) use a dictionary to find the meaning of a word, (vi) explain why they think a book is good or not. This book is part of a HiLo reading scheme, combining high interest relative to the required reading skill.
There are 32 pages in this book. This is a chapter book. Publishers market early chapter books at readers aged 6-10 years. This book was published 2016 by Hachette Children's Group .
Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore met at school in Nottingham and the 2Steves were born! They tour the country putting on performances for thousands of children every year. He trained as a teacher of Drama, English and Film studies, before teaming up with Steve Barlow to become a full time author.
This book contains the following story:
Call of the Wild
Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian estate and shipped to the Klondike to work as a sledge dog, Buck triumphs over his circumstances and becomes the leader of a wolf pack. The story records the 'decivilisation' of Buck as he answers 'the call of the wild', an inherent memory of primeval origins to which he instinctively responds.