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Sparklers are high interest, well-written and often quirky stories of real people in unusual situations. The response to Sparklers is always good and it’s because of the stories - the

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Blake’s new full-colour Asian Stories are contemporary tales set across Asia and the Pacific. Students follow characters their own age in their local environments – at school, at home, in the village, visiting local landmarks – so they can observe everyday life in another culture. How are their lives different to mine? Who works in their families and how? What are THEIR everyday challenges?

With a window onto the social and cultural norms of our near neighbours, these books are valuable tools to build both literacy skills and cross-cultural understanding.

Each book includes photography of the local setting; an illustrated glossary; country map and key country statistics; map of the story’s narrative structure; and comprehension questions.

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✴Has Anyone Seen My Chook?Blurb

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Hazel woke to the voices of her mother and brothers. They were building a sandbag wall around their house. And they were arguing.

“There are many islands in Kiribati,” said Tebao, the seaweed farmer. “Why does everyone want to live on ours?”

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The Water is Rising

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The following day the children visited Fushimi Inari shrine.

Aiko liked the shrine’s golden fox statues and its thousands of red torii. She

stuck one of her wishes on the seventh gate and tucked

wishes into each of the foxes’ mouths.

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The Fortune Teller

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All about Vietnam!

Did you know?Vietnam is the world’s largest producer of cashew nuts.Instead of bells, gongs are struck to call children to school.According to a myth, the Vietnamese people are descended from a dragon and a fairy.

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How many people?92 million people

How long do people live?

73 years

What religions do people follow?

What languages are spoken?Vietnamese,

English, French, Chinese and Khmer

Where do they live?3 out of 10 people

live in towns and cities

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Asian Stories

Australian Curriculum priority!Asia and Australia’s

engagement with Asia

Mongolia Kiribati India Japan

Cambodia China Indonesia Vietnam

Books in the set 8

Reading levels 24-28

Reading age 7.5+ yrs

Word count 1100–1500

Grandma Chau’s Glasses, pp 58–59The Paper Wish, pp 12–13Has Anyone Seen My Chook?, pp 2–3

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Texts include mystery, fantasy and recount, exploring friendship and common childhood themes, such as bullying. Includes a multicultural cast of characters.

Sparklers Red 2 texts includes personal recount, letter writing and creative fiction. Explore family relationships and childhood themes, such as classmates, homework and personal boundaries.

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Louie is a collector: bottle tops, stamps, hats, trading cards, stickers, moneyboxes — almost anything. But what he really likes collecting is CLUES …

CLUEYLOUiE

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✴The tales of Cluey Louie and his best friend Maddie are lively, illustrated chapter books for young kids who are reading well or for older reluctant readers.

Literal comprehension quiz in each title

Typography and narrative prompts aid in student comprehension

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Sparklers Green 2 texts include narrative, fantasy and personal recount. The themes explore bullying, tolerance and what it means to belong.

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Sparklers Blue 1 texts include fantasy, diary entry and personal recount. They feature large, detailed illustrations that support and enhance the texts.

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Sparklers AquaTexts include mystery, fantasy, realistic fiction and nonfiction. These titles promote strength of character in the face of peer pressure, and use humour to engage the reader.

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Books in the set 8+ 1 Teaching GuideReading levels 28-32Reading age 8+ yrsWord count 1500-2000

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Sparklers GoldTexts include mystery, fantasy, science fiction and a modern retelling of a fairytale, with balanced gender roles and a diversity of cultural backgrounds. They are more sophisticated stories that feature older children.

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Good Sports are chapter books with great stories and wonderful illustrations. As a series they bridge the gap between reading schemes and traditional chapter books.

Good Sports

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Books in the set 8+ 1 Teaching GuideReading levels 28-32Reading age 8+ yrsWord count 1500-2000

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Sparklers OrangeTexts include fantasy, realistic fiction and three connected short stories. Stories cover issues including adoption, running away from home, spirituality, loss, dragons and ghosts, and provide positive models of complex problem-solving.

Increasing use of direct speech to carry the actionLonger chapters

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Storylines become less familiar and concepts are explored in a variety of ways

• Benchmark book unit of work on “Isabella”• Focus on character study, inference and depth

of understanding• Written responses reflect text and own experience• Includes a comprehensive range of activities

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Secret Agents travel the world in the blink of an eye. The eight destinations are New York, Sydney, London, Tokyo, Africa, Spain, India and Thailand. Great books for developing interest in other cultures.

A comprehensive range of activities, including mapping and studying different cultures and societies.

Tokyo Tehno, p 4Isabella, p 59

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ASIAN STORIES

Mongolia: Race for the Motorcycle

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Kiribati: Has Anyone Seen My Chook?

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India: The Stolen Tea Tray

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Japan: The Paper Wish 25 9781741647853 $10.95

Cambodia: Namara’s Last Chance

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China: The Special Present

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Indonesia: The Sacred Monkey

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Vietnam: Grandma Thi Chau’s Glasses

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CLUEY LOUIE

C for Costume 18 9781741647488 $10.95

Making Tracks 18 9781741647518 $10.95

Mystery Jar 19 9781741647525 $10.95

Sleepover Surprise 20 9781741647471 $10.95

Star Visitor 21 9781741647495 $10.95

Three Monsters 22 9781741647464 $10.95

Treasure Hunt 23 9781741647532 $10.95

Where’s Freddy? 23 9781741647501 $10.95

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Black Dots 15 9781865093628 $9.50

Worm Surfing 15 9781865093611 $9.50

Living Aunt Lizzie 16 9781865093604 $9.50

Stop Taking My Things! 16 9781865093659 $9.50

Funny Bone 17 9781865093598 $9.50

The Jelly Rocker 17 9781865093666 $9.50

You Can’t Catch Me 17 9781865093635 $9.50

Spaced Out 18 9781865093642 $9.50

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Tim’s Money Tree 15 9781741646122 $9.95


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No Fishing 16 9781741646092 $9.95

Zara’s Solution 16 9781741646139 $9.95

Miss Feline’s Unusual Pets

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Songbird 17 9781741646078 $9.95

Isaac the Inventor 18 9781741646061 $9.95

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Teaching Guide 9781865093185 $33.95

Interactive CD–ROM 9781865095097 $76.95

Audio Tape: 8 Stories 9781865094496 $54.45

Ali’s Top Secret Diary Audio Tape

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Bubble Buster Audio Tape

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Look Out! Look Out! Tractor About! Audio Tape

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Mandy Made Me Do It Audio Tape

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Zac’s Story Audio Tape 9781865094540 $8.25

Look Out! Look Out! Tractor About!

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Mandy Made Me Do It 19 9781865093246 $9.95

Dog Food 20 9781865093208 $9.95

No More Worries 20 9781865093253 $9.95

A Hairy Question 22 9781865093277 $9.95

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Ali’s Top Secret Diary 24 9781865093284 $9.95

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The Dinner Guest 18 9781741646153 $9.95

What’s Behind the Bin? 18 9781741646191 $9.95

Danny’s Birthday 20 9781741646184 $9.95

Lighthouse Lucy 21 9781741646207 $9.95

Anchovy Circus 22 9781741646146 $9.95

Grandpa’s Gift 22 9781741646160 $9.95

A Bit of Magic 23 9781741646177 $9.95

Great Uncle Felix 24 9781741646214 $9.95

Set: 8 books SPBLU2 $79.60

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GREEN SET 1

Teaching Guide 9781865093291 $33.95

Audio CD: 8 stories 9781741640748 $30.00

Ellie and the Magic Computer

24 9781865093307 $10.95

It’s Pay Back Time 24 9781865093321 $10.95

Brad the Wonder Baby 25 9781865093314 $10.95

Making Friends with Samson

25 9781865093345 $10.95

A Pony Tale 26 9781865093338 $10.95

Kalo Li’s New Country 27 9781865093390 $10.95

Imagine That! 28 9781865093352 $10.95

Sticky Fingers 28 9781865093383 $10.95

Set: 8 books SPGRN $87.60

GREEN SET 2

Bobby Bones 24 9781741646252 $10.95

Treasure in the Sand 24 9781741646290 $10.95

My Arms Your Legs 25 9781741646269 $10.95

The Three Rupunzels 25 9781741646238 $10.95

Man of Steel 26 9781741646283 $10.95

Filicudi Friends 27 9781741646245 $10.95

The Curse of the Cap 28 9781741646276 $10.95

William Wild 28 9781741646221 $10.95

Set: 8 books SPGRN2 $87.60

GOOD SPORT SET

Teaching Guide 9781865093482 $33.95

Let Toby Lane Play Goalie

28 9781865093420 $10.95

The Marathon Runner 28 9781865093475 $10.95

Home Team 29 9781865093451 $10.95

Horsing Around 29 9781865093413 $10.95

Tennis Balls and Rotten Prawns

30 9781865093468 $10.95

The Super Electrics 30 9781865093406 $10.95

Tomorrow’s Olympian 30 9781865093444 $10.95

Dash! Crash! Splash! 32 9781865093437 $10.95

Set: 8 books SPGSP $87.60

AQUA SET

Teaching Guide 9781865093376 $33.95

The Zipper 28 9781865093697 $10.95

Two Hours with Tilly 28 9781865093727 $10.95


The Fine Line 29 9781865093758 $10.95

Bed Bugs 30 9781865093734 $10.95

Mug Shots 30 9781865093765 $10.95

Chocolate Chuckles 31 9781865093772 $10.95

Wally the Water Dragon

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The Illawarry Cassary 32 9781865093710 $10.95

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Ariel 8.5+yrs 9781865093864 $10.95

Gooby Goop 8.5+yrs 9781865093789 $10.95

Green Apricots and Blue Jeans

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Lucy Lightfinger 8.5+yrs 9781865093802 $10.95

Not My Future 8.5+yrs 9781865093796 $10.95

The Great Race 8.5+yrs 9781865093857 $10.95

The Keep 8.5+yrs 9781865093833 $10.95

Trouble For Tom 8.5+yrs 9781865093826 $10.95

Set: 8 books SPGOL $87.60

ORANGE SET

Teaching Guide 9781865093963 $33.95

Feral and Spam 8.5+yrs 9781865093918 $10.95

Isabella 8.5+yrs 9781865093888 $10.95

Kevin’s Echidna 8.5+yrs 9781865093925 $10.95

Lisa 8.5+yrs 9781865093901 $10.95

Marcus The Mighty 8.5+yrs 9781865093956 $10.95

Running Away 8.5+yrs 9781865093895 $10.95

To Rob a Dragon 8.5+yrs 9781865093932 $10.95

Walking on Water 8.5+yrs 9781865093949 $10.95

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Teaching Guide 9781865093581 $33.95

Amazing Africa 8.5+yrs 9781865093543 $10.95

Incredible India 8.5+yrs 9781865093574 $10.95

Lookout London 8.5+yrs 9781865093550 $10.95

New York City 8.5+yrs 9781865093529 $10.95

Sent to Sydney 8.5+yrs 9781865093505 $10.95

Spectacular Spain 8.5+yrs 9781865093567 $10.95

Taste of Thailand 8.5+yrs 9781865093499 $10.95

Tokyo Techno 8.5+yrs 9781865093512 $10.95

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