Oxford Literacy Web: Fiction: Variety: Year 4 Fiction: The Battle of Waterloo Road

by TessaKrailing (Author), KeithGaines (Series Editor)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $5.29

  These are the first titles in the OLW variety fiction strand for Key Stage 2. The OLW is the new scheme designed to work with the NLS (National Literacy Strategy). Year 4: Chocolate Boxes by Pat Thomson is about child labour in Victorian Britain. Dinosaur Garden by Susan Gates is a fantasy about dinosaurs in the modern age. Alien Bek by Paul Stewart is a story about a child be-friending an alien. The Battle of Waterloo Road by Tessa Krailing is a fantasy about football, and Napoleon Pirates, Gold, and Custard by Pat Thomson is an historical story. Pioneers at Piano Ridge by Geraldine McCaughrean is about racism in the Wild West, told from two points of view.

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  Paperback
  2000

  $128.34

  In the Variety Stage 9 books, Elisabeth Beresford describes adventures on Riduna Island in Pirate Gold , Tommy in Trouble , and Tessa on TV . Riduna is normally a quiet little island, but on three occasions, there is a big story to tell. Joan Aiken retells folk tales of a wise girl who wins herself a king, a young man who finds himself a useful servant, and a very kind girl who finds herself in trouble, but has her kindness repaid. Variety books support and extend the reading skills acquired from reading Duck Green School Stories . They are divided into consolidation stories ( Pirate Gold , Tommy in Trouble , Tessa on TV ) and extension stories ( The Wise Girl , Serve Me , Stefan , and Helena and the Wild Man ).