Reading Raven (Level 2): A Treasure in the Schoolyard

Content

Going back to school in the afternoon for a school club? Liam isn’t feeling it but the Gardening Club sounds like the best of the bunch. At least he’ll be out in the fresh air. But when Liam meets his teacher and the other students and even finds a treasure while he’s digging over the school garden, he decides he actually kind of likes it at school. What will Liam find in the treasure chest he has dug up?

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

Heidemarie Brosche was born in 1955 in Neuburg on the Danube (Bavaria). After studying, she worked for almost ten years as a primary and secondary school teacher before beginning to write more intensively. She has published narrations and also occupational and non-fiction books for children. Additionally, she writes for parenting magazines. Today, the author lives with her husband and three sons near Augsburg.

The Illustrator

Even as a child, Stefanie Klaßen drew and painted everywhere and at all times. When she found out at the age of 7 that there was a job as an illustrator, she knew she wanted to be one! She studied illustration at the University of Applied Sciences for Design in Münster and remained loyal to the city after graduating in 2009. She works as an illustrator for various publishers. What she loves about drawing and painting is that new worlds and characters are constantly being created. In which profession can you send a crocodile with a spacesuit to the moon?

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