Small Fang is very excited about starting school. But while practising events for the School Sports Day, he is so keen to be picked to compete that he cheats, and scares the other children. Because he is so fast, he is finally picked to play football, thereby learning a valuable lesson about being picked for the right reasons.
This is Book 529 in the Bug Club Series. See all Bug Club books here.
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Sheryl Webster is the author of many children's books, including the Fang Family series for Pearson Education's school reader programme and picture books Tinysaurus and What the Small Rabbit Heard for Andersen Press. She lives in Liverpool with her husband and four children, who provide plenty of ideas and inspiration for her books!
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