by Shirley Isherwood (Author), Stephen Player (Illustrator)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 01 Mar 2001
ISBN 10: 019915970X
ISBN 13: 9780199159703