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The final band! Keep your confident readers challenged with this Black banded collection designed to support readers across KS2 reading at a confident level for Year 6. Although it is difficult to find challenging texts with appropriate age
content we have a stunning and varied collection of brilliant fiction with a little non-fiction that is just right.
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A Jewel In The Sands Of Time
When the mysterious map given to him by his eccentric Uncle Patrick sweeps Freddie into another astonishing time-travelling adventure, he finds himself in Ancient Egypt - and discovers a terrible plot against the boy king, Tutankhamun.
- ATOS Book Level : 6.1
- Points Value : 9.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Black Hole Cinema Club
When Lucas meets his friends at the local cinema - nicknamed 'The Black Hole' - they're excited about the movie marathon ahead. Non-stop action, blockbuster special effects and all the snacks they can eat. But as the lights go down, Lucas, Ash, Maya,...
- ATOS Book Level : 6.6
- Points Value : 7.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Darwin’s Dragons
Syms Covington has landed the job of a lifetime - cabin boy and fiddler on Charles Darwin's Beagle - but when he is separated from the crew during a storm, his life takes a truly extraordinary turn.
Shipwrecked on a Galapagos island, he makes a ...
- ATOS Book Level : 6.1
- Points Value : 8.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Defender Of The Realm
Alfie thought he knew his destiny.
He didn't know the half of it. Fourteen-year-old heir to the throne, Alfie, didn't expect to be King so soon.
He DEFINITELY did not expect to be DEFENDER OF THE REALM, a legendary superhero, fighting a secret, ...
- ATOS Book Level : 6.0
- Points Value : 10.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Explorers At Pirate Island
The Poison Tentacle Sea was home to the powerful Bone Current. As they had feared, it gave a sudden surge and pulled them in.
Half-mermaid Ursula Jellyfin has always longed for adventure, and this time the stakes are higher than ever. The ...
- ATOS Book Level : 6.2
- Points Value : 12.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
George And The Big Bang
Meet George. He's an ordinary boy with an incredible secret - the power to go on intergalactic adventures!
Join him as he battles a sinister rebel-scientist, who's hell bent on sabotaging the most exciting - and dangerous - experiment of the ...
- ATOS Book Level : 6.6
- Points Value : 8.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Hollowpox: The Hunt For Morrigan Crow
Return to the magical world of Nevermoor, where Morrigan Crow's adventures continue - a perfect gift for all book lovers.
Morrigan Crow and her friends have survived their first year as proud scholars of the elite Wundrous Society, helped bring ...
- ATOS Book Level : 6.3
- Points Value : 20.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Jungle Drop
The second novel in Abi Elphinstone’s new series, The Unmapped Chronicles, takes listeners to the magical kingdom of Jungledrop! A breath-taking adventure story that’s also about being kind - to others, to our planet and, perhaps hardest of all, ...
- ATOS Book Level : 6.9
- Points Value : 11.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Nightfall In New York
Top secret agents, Sophie Taylor and Lil Rose have set sail to New York City on an elegant ocean liner, ready to face their enemies and settle old scores. These two brave friends will need all of their detective skills, courage and derring-do as they...
- ATOS Book Level : 6.1
- Points Value : 12.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Paper Dragons: The Fight For The Hidden Realm
Twelve-year-old Zhi Ging has always been an outcast. Until she receives an invitation to Hok Woh, an underwater school that offers her the chance to become immortal, and to finally belong.
There, she battles in hair-raising boat races, meets ...
- ATOS Book Level : 6.5
- Points Value : 13.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Pegasus And The Rise Of The Titans
Join Emily and Pegasus as the legend continues in a new epic adventure ...
The ancient rivalry between the Olympians and the Titans, thought long over, is rekindled - but this time the Titans have a secret weapon that can rival the power of the ...
- ATOS Book Level : 4.6
- Points Value : 11.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Peril In Paris
ALL ABOARD THE TRAIN TO PARIS!
It’s 1911, and the young detectives of TAYLOR & ROSE are turning their talents to ESPIONAGE.
On a case for the mysterious SECRET SERVICE BUREAU, the daring MISS SOPHIE TAYLOR and MISS LILIAN ROSE must leave ...
- ATOS Book Level : 6.9
- Points Value : 11.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Secrets Of A Sun King
London, 1922.
A discovery from ancient Egypt . . .
A cursed package . . .
The untold story of a young pharaoh . . .
When Lilian Kaye finds a parcel on her grandad's doorstep, she is shocked to see who sent it: a famous Egyptologist, found ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.0
- Points Value : 8.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Skandar And The Phantom Rider
The Island shall have its revenge . . .
Skandar Smith has achieved his dream to train as a unicorn rider.
But as Skandar and his friends enter their second year at the Eyrie, a new threat arises. Immortal wild unicorns are somehow being killed,...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.8
- Points Value : 17.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Skandar And The Unicorn Thief
Thirteen-year-old Skandar Smith has only ever wanted to be a unicorn rider. To be one of the lucky few selected to hatch a unicorn. To bond with it for life; to train together and race for glory; to be a hero.
But just as Skandar’s dream is ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.7
- Points Value : 15.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
Spies In St Petersburg
With Sophie still missing in action after their explosive mission in Paris, Lil decides to take matters into her own hands. On a new mission for the Secret Service Bureau, can Lil find Sophie in misty, mysterious St Petersburg?
Can they uncover ...
- ATOS Book Level : 6.6
- Points Value : 11.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
The Doomfire Secret
When Paisley Fitzwilliam escapes the clutches of the Dark Dragon, she has just one thing on her mind - getting her brother Dax back from the icy Northern Realms, where he was whisked away by the fierce and mysterious dragon riders, the Krigare. It's ...
- ATOS Book Level : 6.8
- Points Value : 14.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
The Edge Of The Ocean
At the Strangeworlds Travel Agency, each suitcase transports you to a different world. All you have to do is step inside...
Flick is now a badge-wearing member of The Strangeworlds Travel Agency so when an urgent summons arrives at Strangeworlds ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.0
- Points Value : 10.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
The Fowl Twins
Myles and Beckett Fowl are twins but the two boys are wildly different. Beckett is blonde, messy and sulks whenever he has to wear clothes. Myles is impeccably neat, has an IQ of 170, and 3D prints a fresh suit every day – just like his older ...
- ATOS Book Level : 7.5
- Points Value : 14
- Book Cover : Paperback
The Fowl Twins Get What They Deserve
For almost two years, Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye has been plotting revenge against the Fowl Twins, who humiliated him in book one. Teddy plans to give them exactly what they deserve: permanent death. He threatens Myles with his weaponized jet and ...
- ATOS Book Level : 7.4
- Points Value : 14.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
The Fowl Twins: Deny All Charges
The second Fowl Twins adventure starts with a bang - literally.
Artemis' little brothers, Myles and Beckett, borrow the Fowl jet without permission and it ends up as a fireball over Florida. The twins plus their fairy minder, the pixie-elf hybrid ...
- ATOS Book Level : 7.5
- Points Value : 13
- Book Cover : Paperback
The Lifters
When things fall down, who lifts them up?
What if the ground beneath your feet was not made of solid earth and stone but had been hollowed into hundreds of tunnels and passageways? What if there were mysterious forces in these tunnels, mere inches...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.0
- Points Value : 7.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
The Night Spinner
Deep within Tanglefern Forest, Moll Pecksniff and her wildcat, Gryff, are waiting for a sign from the Old Magic before they continue their quest to find the last Amulet of Truth and free their world from the Shadowmasks’ terrible magic.
...
- ATOS Book Level : 6.4
- Points Value : 13.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
The Polar Bear Explorers’ Club
Join Stella Starflake Pearl and her three fellow explorers as they trek across the snowy Icelands and come face-to-face with frost fairies, snow queens, outlaw hideouts, unicorns, pygmy dinosaurs and carnivorous cabbages . . .
When Stella and ...
- ATOS Book Level : 6.6
- Points Value : 11.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
The Secrets Of The Stormforest
Pack your suitcase for the final magical adventure at the Strangeworlds Travel Agency!
At the Strangeworlds Travel Agency, each suitcase transports you to a different world. All you have to do is step inside . . .
Flick and Jonathan have faced ...
- ATOS Book Level : 5.3
- Points Value : 10.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
