Readership: 11-14 year olds with a reading age of 6-9 It is always a challenge to find reading material for struggling readers which will still be of interest to teenagers. The Headwork Reading series continues to meet this challenge and has become well-known in Special Needs circles. Written by special needs experts, the stories are carefully graded in four levels, making it easy for you to choose the right level for your students' reading ability.
THERE once lived a poor tailor, who had a son called Aladdin, a careless, idle boy who would do nothing but play all day long in the streets with little idle boys like himself. This so grieved the father that he died; yet, in spite of his mother's tears and prayers, Aladdin did not mend his ways. One day, when he was playing in the streets as usual, a stranger asked him his age, and if he was not the son of Mustapha the tailor. "I am, sir", replied Aladdin; "but he died a long while ago". On this the stranger, who was a famous African magician, fell on his neck and kissed him saying: "I am your uncle, and knew you from your likeness to my brother.
Jack and the Beanstalk is an English fairy tale, closely associated with the tale of Jack the Giant Killer.
The story tells of a boy named Jack who was sent to market one day by his mother to sell their last possession, the cow. As Jack was on his way he met a stranger who offered to trade five "magic" beans for the cow...
The reissue of a classic science fiction novel, featuring dazzling new cover art, displays the celebrated imagination of one of the greatest masters of twentieth-century science fiction, author of Stranger in a Strange Land, The Puppet Masters, and others. Reissue.
Stealing things from people who had upset her was something Polly did quite a lot. There was her Aunt; a girl at school; a boyfriend who left her. And there was the man on the plane... Humiliated and scared by a total stranger Polly does what she always does. But she never could have imagined that her desire for revenge would have such results
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