Genre: adventure

Author: Elizabeth Dale and Mirella Mariani

Publisher: Franklin Watts’ ‘Reading Champion’ series. Graded by the publisher as ‘Turquoise 7’.

What’s the book about? Making things from junk, fixing things.

Which Hatcher Reading level is this book? 13. The book illustrated each page, and no more than 5 lines per page were identified. One sentence was 14 words long.

Phonics info: my recommendation is that students follow a good quality phonic-based decodeable reading scheme to phase 5, first, before tackling this book. In particular, the sample generated words such as ‘float’ and ‘found’, which requires knowledge of vowel spellings. There were some more complex sound combinations such as ‘children’, ‘started’, ‘mending’ and ‘friends’.

Interest level: 5+

Is this book part of a series? Yes, although the books are standalone.

If you’d like to get a copy of the book, it’s here (affiliated link)

If you enjoyed this, try: [firstly take a look at the other books in this level, and if you didn’t struggle to read this book, take a look at the books in the next level]