Collins Big Cat - Pet Detectives : the Ball Burglary

<p>The Pet Detective has his work cut out when his favourite football goes missing. With his dog, Rooney, he sets out to follow the clues; an open window; a missing football; a dirty big footprint; a bubblegum wrapper and a rustle in the bushes. It isn’t long before the Pet Detective has located the culprit.</p><ul><li>Gold/Band 9 fiction books offer developing readers literary language and stories with distinctive characters.</li><li>Text type – A story by the same author.</li><li>A storyboard on pages 22 and 23 provides an opportunity for children to retell the story in their own words.</li><li>Curriculum links – Citizenship: Animals and us.</li><li>Tortoise Trouble is another Pet Detective story by Jana Hunter in the Collins Big Cat series.</li></ul>