Collins Big Cat - Pet Detectives: Tortoise Trouble: Band 08/Purple

• Purple/ Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary.
• Text type – A story by the same author.
• A final double page spread shows all the things a Pet Detective needs on a case to support recapping the story.
• Curriculum links – Science: Plants and animals in the local environment.
• Tortoise Trouble is one of two stories by Jana Hunter about the Pet Detective
• This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.
• This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

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