The Railway Children
Band 16/Sapphire
Published on 5. January 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
56 pages
978-0-00-814727-3 (ISBN)
Description
Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level
A new chance to follow the lives of Roberta, Phyllis and Peter as they relocate to the country and make friends with station guard Perks, in a lovely retelling of the old favourite written for children by E. Nesbit in the early Twentieth Century.
Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.
Text type: Fiction from our literary heritage
Curriculum links: English: fiction from the English literary heritage
This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
A new chance to follow the lives of Roberta, Phyllis and Peter as they relocate to the country and make friends with station guard Perks, in a lovely retelling of the old favourite written for children by E. Nesbit in the early Twentieth Century.
Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.
Text type: Fiction from our literary heritage
Curriculum links: English: fiction from the English literary heritage
This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Target group
Children/juvenile
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Interest Age: From 9 to 10 years
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
131 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-814727-3 (9780008147273)
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Persons
Since having her first book accepted for publication at the age of twelve, Harriet Castor has written over forty fiction and non-fiction books for children and young adults. She has a History degree from Cambridge University and has worked at The Royal Ballet as a dance notator. Now she writes full time.