Melanie Joyce 
Master Blasters 

Malika lives in Pakistan with her Mum. She is getting ready for Diwali. Everything is going to plan until Imran gets involved! Lifelines How will Rosie find life living in a house of bricks when she has lived in a trailer all her life? The Travellers series has the lowest reading level of all our reluctant reader collections – age 5-8. The stories are incredibly short – only 100-300 words each, and each book in the set of 14 titles contains 2-3 stories. Collecting the stories in this way gives more of an appearance of a ‘real’ book even though the stories are bite-sized, which helps to make the reader feel less self-conscious that they are reading something ‘specialised’. The language level throughout this set of books is very low, and features such as short sentences, line spacing and illustrations help to create an encouraging experience for the reader.