Flying High

Hot-air balloons, gliders, solar-powered planes. . . Climb board and find out about the world of aircraft.

• Gold/Band 9 fiction books offer developing readers literary language and stories with distinctive characters.

• Text type—An information book.

• A contents page can be found at the front of the book and a glossary and index on pages 20 and 21.

• Curriculum links—History: "Events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally [for example, … the first aeroplane flight]."