UKS2 Fiction book with a realistic setting of a food bank
UkS2 Fiction realistic
Book Band 14 Dark Blue
AR MY - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2.0
Barrington Stoke
Jul 2021 9781781129623
139 x 197 x 12 (mm)
112 pages
The Great (Food) Bank Heist by Onjali Q Rauf
Written with great empathy and Raúf’s trademark humour, this moving story gives a child’s-eye view of the increasing problem of food poverty. On Thursdays, Nelson, Ashley and Mum head out to the bank. But not just any old bank – the food bank.
With its shining tins and packets of food stacked from floor to ceiling, Nelson thinks it’s the best kind of bank there is. But there’s a thief in town, and the shelves of the food bank are getting emptier each day, leaving people hungrier than ever. For the sake of his family and everyone else’s, Nelson needs to make them stop.
But can he and his friends really be the ones to catch the bank robber? Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8.