Nicky Singer has captured all the beauty and familiarity of this classic children's book. Follow the adventures of Rat, Mole and Badger as they try to stop their friend Toad from getting into too much trouble.

 Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.

 Text type: Fiction from our literary heritage

 Curriculum links: English: fiction from the English literary heritage

 This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

The Wind in the Willows - Band 16/Sapphire

?Mhairi sillonne un monde en proie à une crise environnementale sans précédent. Les pays situés autour de l'équateur sont ravagés par des tempêtes d'une violence inouïe ; tout le monde essaie de gagner le Nord.
Avec pour seuls bagages une gourde d'eau, un silex et un pistolet déchargé, Mhairi atteint l'Angleterre après un parcours semé d'embûches. Quand surgit devant elle un petit garçon de six ans, muet et sans défense... Comment Mhairi pourrait-elle s'occuper d'un enfant dans un tel chaos ?
Il reste pourtant agrippé à elle comme à une bouée de sauvetage. Et peu à peu, l'avenir de cet enfant devient son combat.

Survival game

In a world full of checkpoints and controls, can love and hope defy the borders? A searing, timely story, as arresting as it is beautiful. Mhairi Anne Bain owns only two things: a gun with no bullets and her identity papers.The world is a shell of what it once was. Now, you must prove yourself worthy of existence at every turn, at every border checkpoint. And if you are going to survive, your instincts will become your most valuable weapon.Mhairi has learnt the importance of living her own story, of speaking to no one. But then she meets a young boy with no voice at all, and finds herself risking everything to take him to safety.And so Mhairi and the silent boy travel the road north. But there are rumours that things in Scotland have changed since she has been away. What Mhairi finds there is shocking and heart-breaking, but might finally re-connect her to her sense of self and to the possibility of love.An extraordinary story about survival and what it costs, about the power of small kindnesses to change everything.

The Survival Game

A story of dark emotions and strange friendship, Doll is the eagerly awaited new title from Nicky Singer, following the triumph of her first children's book, Feather Boy.

 Tilly's biker mother gave Tilly a doll when she was on her deathbed. There is something strange about the doll, something dangerous - something which brings Tilly into the path of Jan, a South American boy with his own problems. But there are questions that have not been answered. Is Tilly's mother really dead, or is there a more painful reason for her absence?

Doll

Rien. Absolument rien. Pas de meubles, pas de luminaires, pas de tapis, pas de corps. Pas un seul corps. Rien que les millions de canards, les trois millions de canetons et une fenêtre.

Mais je ne dis rien parce que je viens de remarquer la brique. Ou plutôt le manque de brique. Bien sûr, certaines des formes sombres sur le sol sont probablement des briques, mais elles ne ressemblent pas à ma brique. Celui qui peut être contre la porte. Mais non.

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