Big Cat – Pet Detectives: Tortoise Trouble: Band 08

The Pet Detective faces a special challenge when Kara’s pet tortoise, Rocket, goes missing. Has the tortoise been squashed on a motorway? Eaten by a hungry goat? Chewed up by a dog? The Pet Detective follows the clues to find out what’s happened.

• Purple/ Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary.

• Text type – A story by the same author.

• A final double page spread shows all the things a Pet Detective needs on a case to support recapping the story.

• Curriculum links – Science: Plants and animals in the local environment.

• Tortoise Trouble is one of two stories by Jana Hunter about the Pet Detective

• This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.