The Black Dog

Band 16/Sapphire
Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level
Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level

Annie, George and Jed are on a school camping trip, and their team hasn’t been doing very well in the activities they’ve been set. There is one final task – an orienteering exercise in the nearby woods – and they’re determined to win. But will their differences in opinion hold them back, and what is the howl they’ve heard deep in the woods?

• Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.
• Text type: A mystery story.
• Curriculum links: Citizenship.
• This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Contributor: Giorgio Bacchin (Illustrated by), (Prepared for publication by)

Illustrator: Giorgio Bacchin

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