The Trick (Read On) - Softcover

Gray, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007464908 ISBN 13: 9780007464906

Publisher: Collins Educational, 2012

Synopsis

“Eric, are you ready to travel to a place you’ve never been before?” Mathew Masters asked, loud enough for the whole audience to hear. “Are you ready to do something truly magical? Are you ready, Eric, to vanish not somewhere, but Elsewhere?”

Where do you go when you disappear? Or, rather, when you are ‘disappeared’. Eric is about to find out when a school trip to a magic show takes an unexpected turn.

This playful story mixes the mundane and the fantastical, as Eric is given an amazing choice: to go back to his old life of school, his so-called mates and being kept awake by his baby sister, or to take a step into the unknown.

• Help Key Stage 3 students move from Level 3a to Level 4c in reading.
• Support comprehension with the striking, age-appropriate illustrations.
• Encourage shared and guided reading using the ready-made tasks and discussion points on the activity pages at the back of the book.

About this title

About the Author

Alan Gibbons trained as a teacher and through working with young people discovered his literary voice. He started writing fiction for his pupils and published his first novel in 1993.

Alan has also appeared on the BBC education programme Writer’s Block, the Blue Peter Book Awards, radio 4’s Front Row, and is a regular contributor to TES, Junior Education, Carousel, Books for Keeps and other journals.

Reviews

Key Stage 3 English

Edition details

• Publisher: Collins Educational
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007464908
• ISBN 13: 9780007464906
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Coady Chris
• Number of pages: 56