Helen Orme Tansy Smith

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Tansy Smith lives on a Travellers site. It is her first day at her new school. At first she finds it hard to fit in, but after someone breaks into her school she finds that her talents can help catch the thieves. Save Our Site! The council is threatening to close down the site where Tansy and her family live. Can Tansy and her new friends save the site? The Travellers series has the lowest reading level of all our reluctant reader collections - age 5-8. The stories are incredibly short - only 100-300 words each, and each book in the set of 14 titles contains 2-3 stories. Collecting the stories in this way gives more of an appearance of a 'real' book even though the stories are bite-sized, which helps to make the reader feel less self-conscious that they are reading something 'specialised'. The language level throughout this set of books is very low, and features such as short sentences, line spacing and illustrations help to create an encouraging experience for the reader.