Oxford Literacy Web: Fiction Variety

by Geraldine Mc Caughrean (Author), KeithGaines (Contributor)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $3.35

  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 includes titles: 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; and 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
  2001

  $13.15

  These are the titles for the OLW fiction strand for upper Key Stage 2, (Y5 and Y6) designed to fit the National Literacy Strategy. Year 5 contains: The Treasure in the Mud by Gillian Cross - an historical story set in Victorian Britain; The River Runs to the End of Time by Frances Usher - a story about friendships during the English civil war; How Did the World Begin? by Rosalind Kerven - creation myths from around the world; The Legend of King Arthur by Mick Gowar - a retelling of part of this famous legend; Lennox and the Casa Montego Smugglers by Errol Lloyd - Lennox and his grandfather discover a smuggling ring while on holiday in Jamaica; and Cloud Forest by Mark Leyland - children in Equador lay a ghost to rest.