These are the titles for the OLW fiction strand for upper Key Stage 2, (Y5 & Y6) designed to fit the National Literacy Strategy. Year 5: "The Treasure in the Mud" by Gillian Cross - an historical story set in Victorian Britain; "The River Runs to the End of Time" by Frances Usher - a story about friendships during the English civil war; "How Did the World Begin?" by Rosalind Kerven - creation myths from around the world; "The Legend of King Arthur" by Mick Gowar - a retelling of part of this famous legend; "Lennox and the Casa Montego Smugglers" by Errol Lloyd - Lennox and his grandfather discover a smuggling ring while on holiday in Jamaica; and "Cloud Forest" by Mark Leyland - children in Equador lay a ghost to rest.
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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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