by Michaela Morgan (Author)
The Thing in the Basement is an atmospheric mystery story with a school setting. When the boy arrives at his new school everything is strange and different. The big, Victorian building has many storeys and a basement...As he passes the basement he notices a smell of heat and soot and burning. He looks down there and suddenly there's bang and a flash, a roaring sound. He knows there's something down there. Something nasty...something monstrous. And as the day goes on, all the evidence leads to suggest that the 'something' is a dragon...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 48
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Published: 01 Jun 2006
ISBN 10: 0713676248
ISBN 13: 9780713676242
Children’s book age: 7-9 Years
Book Overview: Michaela Morgan is a high-profile children's author who regularly contributes to school book weeks, INSET courses and conferences. Part of the specially-commissioned White Wolves fiction range for 7-11 year olds, written in consultation with the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education. Each year group will have three stand-alone titles and accompanying Teachers' Guides to support guided reading lessons in the classroom. Ties in with themes demanded by the NLS for Year 3: mystery and adventure. The series is already garnering praise in the press: 'It's a pleasure to read commissioned work which fulfils its brief so imaginatively' (Books for Keeps).