These are the titles for the "OLW" fiction strand for upper Key Stage 2, (Y5 and Y6) designed to fit the National Literacy Strategy. Year 6 contains: "Space Rock and Five-a-side" by Jon Blake - what it takes to be popular, a hard hitting story involving addiction; "Car Crusher" by Philip Wooderson - story of unfairness and bias and the proving of innocence; "Skew Whiff" by Anna Perera - Can Anjouli and her friends win the maths contest and repair the damage they've done to the house and still be ready for the birthday party? "Wimmer" by Margaret McAllister - two children find a very curious dog on the run from a research centre. Will they be able to keep him secret when he begins to grow wings? "War Stories" by Nick Warburton - two stories about children whose lives are changed by war; and "Eva" by Shirley Isherwood - the story of an escape from Nazi Germany and a child's memory afterwards.
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Shirley Isherwood has been writing children's books for many years and this is her first for Little Tiger Press. Shirley lives in Manchester. Simon Mendez studied Scientific and Natural History Illustration at Fylde College in Blackpool. He has also illustrated I Love You, Sleepyhead and Little Bear and the Wishing Tree for Little Tiger Press.
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