Reading Raven (Level 2): Football Fever, Exciting Soccer Stories

Content

Three exciting soccer stories: Ben doesn’t want to be the goalie. But then he discovers his goalkeeping talents and catches every ball. Emma finds her favourite soccer player’s lost mascot and receives autographs from the entire team as a thank you. Meanwhile, Christian is looking forward to the cup final, but then his ticket is stolen. Together with his friend Matze, he takes up pursuit and finally manages to catch the thief.

About the Series

The Reading Raven series is designed to encourage beginning readers by providing fun and exciting stories at each ability level, from their first efforts at reading alone to more advanced chapter books Each Reading Raven book includes reading riddles, puzzles to solve using information in the story. This is a fun way to check how well children understand what they read. The first level features short texts with lots of pictures that provide clues to the story's meaning. These books are written in extra-large print. When children are ready for longer stories, the second level of Reading Raven offers short chapter books, also in large print with illustrations that help readers follow the text. The third level is for readers who are becoming proficient, with longer chapters and increasingly complex stories, but still with accompanying pictures and highly readable print.

The Author

Fabian Lenk was born in Salzgitter, Germany in 1963. He studied journalism and worked for various newspapers. In 1996 he published his first detective novel for adults. In the meantime he has become a seasoned mystery novel author and has published diverse mysteries for adults, historical children's mysteries as well as several volumes of mysteries to solve.