You want to know how it happened? The answer is - the way it always does. I have a really good idea. And it turns into trouble.

Will and Luke are bored. When they hear about the student parade going through town, Will spots an opportunity for mischief. And Luke, as always, is easily led.

This humorous story about a practical joke gone wrong is written by former Children's Laureate Anne Fine.

*Help Key Stage 3 students move from Level 3a to Level 4c in reading.
*Support comprehension with the engaging, age-appropriate illustrations.
*Encourage shared and guided reading using the ready-made tasks and discussion points on the activity pages at the back of the book.
* Suitable for Key Stage 3 students with a reading age of 9 years and 6 months.

This book is part of a book series called Read On .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This book is part of a HiLo reading scheme, combining high interest relative to the required reading skill. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Anne Fine is a bestselling author, former Children's Laureate and prize-winner with great profile across the trade, libraries and educational markets.