Art Attack (The College Collection Set 1 - for reluctant readers) E-Book

Georgina Jonas

• Herausgeber: Crown House Publishing
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

When five strangers are put together for a college project they have no idea of the adventures that lie in store for them. Join Jim Jam, Woody, Anda, Luca and Nolan as they discover that college life is never dull. The College Collection centres around five main characters, Luca, Anda, Jim Jam, Woody and Nolan. They are from different backgrounds and first meet at Parkfield College, where they are studying for a BTEC in Media Studies. They quickly become friends. The College Collection follows them through their time at Parkfield College and the adventures and adversities they experience there. Above all they work hard, have fun and their friendship shines through. The subliminal messages of overcoming failure, of acceptance and support run through all the texts, alongside messages of resilience and perseverance. In each of the first five books in this set we meet a different character, and learn about their personalities, backgrounds and what they did before they arrived at Parkfield College. In Art Attack, they are thrown into a project together, which takes them on a surprising and challenging adventure. This first set of six books in the reading scheme, The College Collection, is designed to support and extend the acquisition of reading skills, and the enjoyment of reading, through exciting stories and relatable characters. The books reinforce high frequency words and the core phonic skills needed to access basic reading levels. Each set provides stories which bridge the gap between base level schemes and longer, more challenging texts. They are suitable for readers who still need a formatted reading scheme and are not yet ready to go onto free readers, but who still want interesting, engaging, real-life books. They are flexible, so no matter what other schemes you may be using, these books stand alone, enhancing and extending any reading experience. The books provide developing readers with age-appropriate material designed to boost competence and confidence, engaging the reader and encouraging reading for pleasure. The books are also useful for reluctant readers or where the acquisition of reading skills has been identified as a problem. They have been specifically designed to consolidate young readers' skills and to improve the confidence of older readers who are still acquiring and developing reading skills. Reading age 9-13 years, interest age 11+

Leseprobe

The College Collection 6

Art Attack

Georgina Jonas

Contents

Title PageChapter 1A Dark NightChapter 2 Parkfield CollegeChapter 3 A Break InChapter 4Best Laid PlansChapter 5 A GetawayChapter 6 Another GetawayChapter 7 ItalyChapter 8 The Next JobChapter 9 The Next MorningChapter 10 BreakfastChapter 11 The MarketChapter 12 Worried FriendsChapter 13 A Little Tumbledown HouseChapter 14 A Bad EveningChapter 15 To Dine or Not To DineChapter 16 A Good EveningChapter 17 A Familiar VanChapter 18 Ugo’s RestaurantChapter 19 A Light in the DarkChapter 20 The Longest NightChapter 21 A Daring PlanChapter 22 ReunitedCopyright

Chapter 1

A Dark Night

The evening was dark. Very dark.

The moon and stars were hidden behind the thick clouds that stretched across the sky.

With no breeze to stir the leaves, the silence hung heavy in the warm night air.

There was no sound at all. The frogs had stopped their croaking and even the crickets had given up and fallen asleep. It seemed as if the whole world slept.

Then a cool east wind picked up and came rippling along the ridge of the hillside. Soon the clouds parted, began to break up and drifted away.

The moon peeped out and shone its light on two men, crouching behind bushes, far below.

They were both dressed in black and seemed to be keeping very still, as though waiting for someone or something.

They didn’t talk. They just waited.

A sudden sound – a door opening and closing, and then the crunch of wheels on gravel – seemed to be what they were waiting for.

Two bright beams of light lit up the road in front of their hiding place, making them crouch lower and turn their faces towards the ground.

The car moved steadily down the drive and then away down the road.

As the noise faded the men got up, stretched and smiled large, toothy grins at each other.

One nodded to the other and they moved quietly towards the house.

Instead of going straight to the front door, the men circled the house – one went right, the other left – and slipped round to the back.

With a thumbs up signal, they indicated to each other that all was well and, after another furtive look over their shoulders, cracked the glass in a ground floor window.