Product Description
Collins Big Cat - The Football Shirt: Band 18/Pearl
Author(s): Catherine MacPhail, Illustrated by Paul Fisher, Prepared for publication by Collins Big Cat
Format: Physical Hardcopy
Ross has been saving for a football top of his favourite team for ages, but doesn’t think he’ll ever afford it. When he sees one pinned to a tree, commemorating the death of a young boy, he can’t resist taking it – but Ross gets more than he bargains for, and finds having the shirt comes at a dreadful price… Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.
Text type: A mystery story. Curriculum links: Citizenship: Choices.
This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
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