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Baker, Clair,

River Flight / story by Clair Baker ; illustrated by Drew Wilson. - [Malmesbury] : Phonic Books, 2012. - 12 pages : colour illustrations ; 21 cm - Alba series ; book 11 .

Cover title. The target phoneme in this book is 'ie'. It includes the spellings: i, igh, y and i-e. ISBN duplicated on all volumes in series.

Bk. 1. Lost -- bk. 2. The Plan -- bk. 3. Alba Slips Up -- bk. 4. Hot Chips for Lunch -- bk. 5. A Bit of Luck -- bk. 6. A Brave Escape -- bk. 7. Apple Trees -- bk. 8. The Long Road Home -- bk. 9. Supper -- bk. 10. Howling Wind -- bk. 11. River Flight -- bk. 12. The Truth.

Alba lives in a flat in the city with her family. Her dad is a scientist. A breed of superbugs is destroying all the apple trees in the world and Alba's dad is working hard to save them. He has the last apple pip left in the world safely at home in his flat. Max from the lab, sneaks into the flat and tries to steal the pip. Alba escapes with it but Max shrinks her to 10 cm tall. She has to get the pip to her dad in the lab and save the apple trees. Will she succeed in crossing the city and getting the pip safely to dad? Will she ever be a normal size again?

Starting at CVC level the books progress at a faster pace through adjacent consonants, consonant digraphs and alternative vowel spellings. A step-by-step phonic progression within exciting, beautiful full-colour illustrations and age-appropriate stories, with special appeal to older girls (8 - 14 years). This series shares the same phonic progression as the Totem Series and can be used in parallel.

ISBN: 1907170871 9781907170874

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Apples--Juvenile fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
High interest-low vocabulary books.
Phonetics.