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Book 4-03 ‘The Maths Test’

Any excuse will do to get out of the maths test, but one lie leads to a complicated tangle…

By Betsy Sewell – 752 words

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Book 7-15 ‘The Hunter and the Bear’

An unarmed hunter carries his trophy back to camp, and encounters a hungry grizzly bear. The bear has not yet seen him, and all the mistakes he has made flash through his head as he formulates a plan to save his life.

By Betsy Sewell – 2871 words

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Book 7-10 ‘Living in a Yurt’

The lives of the Turkish nomads, who depend absolutely on their sheep.

By Betsy Sewell – 1368 words

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Book 7-06 ‘The Beaver’

Beaver dams and lodges are engineering feats. How the beaver creates its own habitat, for winter and summer.

By Betsy Sewell – 1455 words

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Book 7-05 ‘Catching Flying Fish’

Catching flying fish the traditional way, with flares and nets on moonless nights.

By Betsy Sewell – 728 words

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Book 6-15 ‘The Glider’

How do you escape from a heavily guarded World War 2 prison camp? When all else fails, build a glider and fly out!

By Betsy Sewell – 2362 words

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Book 5-16 ‘Ndotto The Elephant’

Ndotto is a tiny, premature baby elephant orphaned at birth. How the staff at the elephant orphanage care for him, and give him the skills to live as an adult in the wild.

By Betsy Sewell – 1670 words

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Book 5-15 ‘My Days as a River Pig’

Sequel to My Days in the Skidder Gang. The logs are stacked on a frozen river, and when the ice melts, the river pigs must ride the logs down the river to prevent tangles and log jams.

By Betsy Sewell – 1645 words

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Book 5-04 ‘Mumps’

Gran comes to look after a child in bed with mumps, and explains about being sick in her childhood.

By Betsy Sewell – 485 words

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Book 5-02 ‘Me with the Paddles’

What sort of creature am I? The clues come, and the child must put the clues together to identify the creature.

By Betsy Sewell – 1265 words

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Book 5-01 ‘Camping’

Children reluctantly go camping with Dad, but discover its joys and do not want to go home.

By Betsy Sewell – 413 words

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Book 4-23 ‘Stuck, Jammed, Trapped’

A giant Pacific octopus finds itself stuck in the gullet of a blue whale. He muses on the strategies he has to avoid the real enemy, the sperm whale, but none of these help with this predicament. This is a level 4 book. The words octopus and whale are not mentioned, but there are enough clues to figure it out.

By Betsy Sewell – 1816 words

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Book 4-16 ‘The Battles of an Arctic Fox’

How does a little fox survive the winter in the Arctic, facing the challenges of hunting for food on the one hand, and avoiding capture by trappers after his pure white fur on the other? By cunning, extraordinary cunning…

By Betsy Sewell – 1351 words

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Book 4-08 ‘Rugby’

The legend of how rugby was invented from a flat soccer ball at Rugby School.

By Betsy Sewell – 456 words

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Book 3-01 ‘The Old Tom Cat’

The old Tom cat just wants to rest, but is pestered by a playful rabbit.

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By Betsy Sewell – 282 words

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Books, Level 8 Composite selection

Complete set of Level 8 titles.

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Books, Level 7 Composite selection

Complete set of Level 7 titles, in a journal box.

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Book 7-09 ‘The Runner’

When the mine collapsed trapping the miners for 69 days, Edison Pena kept his sanity by running, and became the hero of the New York marathon.

By Betsy Sewell – 1682 words

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Book 7-01 ‘Stingray’

Who gets the biggest fright when you encounter a stingray – you or the stingray?

By Betsy Sewell – 561 words

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Book 6-12 ‘Hitler and his Beetle’

How Adolf Hitler and Ferdinand Porsche collaborated to design the biggest selling car of all time.

By Betsy Sewell – 1408 words

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Book 6-05 ‘The Limpet’

What an absolutely fascinating little creature the limpet is! What ingenious ways it has of protecting itself against its enemies!

By Betsy Sewell – 1018 words

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Book 5-18 ‘Jin the Otter’

When Jin the Otter escaped from the (Auckland) zoo, the public, the police, the army were called in to help track her down. Her ability to evade them all gripped the nation.

By Betsy Sewell – 1576 words

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Book 5-03 ‘Agnes and Mrs. Smith’

Agnes the spider and Mrs. Smith live in the same house. When both have mothers coming to stay, the conflict begins.

By Betsy Sewell – 623 words

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Book 4-07 ‘Chicken Licken’

There are many versions of this fable – this version will be new to most children.

By Betsy Sewell – 484 words

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Book 7-17 ‘Fast and Slow’

The swift and the falcon are the fastest of earth’s creatures, and the sloth is ever so slow. All rely on this quickness – or slowness – to survive.

By Betsy Sewell – 1416 words

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Book 6-08 ‘The Leaf Cutter Ants’

The incredibly complex social and farming systems of these ants.

By Betsy Sewell – 759 words

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Book 5-21 ‘Whiskers Black’

Who is this terrifying bearded stranger, and is he really as terrifying as he looks? Why does he choose to live like this, carrying his swag from farm to farm? What do his songs tell us about his life? A glimpse into social history through the story of one man.

By Betsy Sewell – 2508 words

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Book 5-19 ‘A Jar of Jam’

Mum loses the jar of jam she has just bought, and it is found by one person in need of sustenance after another, until Mum finds it just where she left it, containing nothing but a fat slug with a single red foot. What does Mum think has happened?

By Betsy Sewell – 1137 words

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Book 5-11 ‘Mum’s Garden Plan’

Mum wants a new garden, and begins by taking the rubbish to the dump. But the kids have plans of their own for the garden, and find what they need at the dump.

By Betsy Sewell – 830 words

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Book 5-10 ‘Sally Mon’

The story of a salmon, and her challenge to get past the (hydro) dam in the river to get to the spot where she must lay her eggs.

By Betsy Sewell – 981 words

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Book 7-03 ‘Pink Candles’

Digging for coal in the days when dark tunnels were lit by candles attached to the miner’s helmet; and how to get the better of a mean and selfish boss.

By Betsy Sewell – 2041 words

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Book 6-03 ‘Mandy’s Problem’

Mandy must tidy her room, and comes up with some very quick quick-fixes.

By Betsy Sewell – 374 words

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Book 5-05 ‘Under the Bed’

A girl makes friends with a ghost trapped under her bed.

By Betsy Sewell – 1006 words

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Book 4-22 ‘How They Play Cricket’

As a cricket match progresses, the ball deteriorates. How do the best international bowlers exploit this to get a batsman out

By Betsy Sewell – 2448 words

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Book 4-20 ‘Mr. Rat and Mr. Frog’

A version of an Aesop Fable. How Mr. Frog tricks Mr. Rat to always win the race.

By Betsy Sewell – 790 words

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Book 4-19 ‘The Ant and the Cricket’

All summer long, the lazy cricket mocks the ant hard at work storing food for the winter, but when winter comes, he wants to be friends.

By Betsy Sewell – 916 words

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Book 4-18 ‘The Little Chick’

The fable of the little chick who knows so much better than the grown-ups.

By Betsy Sewell – 567 words

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Book 4-14 ‘A Frog Pet’

You may want an unusual pet, but keeping a frog has its pitfalls.

By Betsy Sewell – 1109 words

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Book 4-06 ‘Getting Dinner’

The fish and chip shop is shut, so to get fish and chips, you must first make a fishing rod…

By Betsy Sewell – 749 words

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Book 4-05 ‘Little Red gets Cunning’

Little Red the fox cub is learning to hunt. He has much to learn, but in the end…

By Betsy Sewell – 940 words

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Book 4-04 ‘Dilly Duck’

A duckling brought up by a child can be very demanding. But when she becomes a mother herself, she is more demanding still. A true story, more or less.

By Betsy Sewell – 1549 words

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