Young Reading: Series Three.
A wonderful retelling of the life story of the famous Elizabethan captain Francis Drake, from his humble beginnings to fame and fortune sailing the high seas and defeating the Spanish Armada. Titles in this 7th and final Level in the Usborne Reading Programme are for fully confident readers who still need to gain the stamina needed for standard length books. At 64 pages in length and up to 5000 words they use advanced sentence structure and vocabulary, and have more complex plots with subplots. Subjects include historical events, biographies and simplified versions of classic novels.
Other Young Reading Series 3 titles Tutankhamun, Dracula, and Little Women.
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Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography |