Billy's Luck

by Paul Shipton, Pat MacCarthy (Illustrator), Pat McCarthy (Illustrator)

Treetops is Oxford Reading Tree's new series of fiction with built-in progression for pupils aged 7 to 11. Specially written for children who need the support of carefully monitored language levels, the stories are accessible, motivating, and humorous. The series is organized into Oxford
Reading Tree Stages (from Stage 10 to Stage 14), with each stage introducing more complex narrative forms, including flashbacks and changes in viewpoint; descriptive writing; extended reading vocabulary; and more pages, more text, and fewer illustrations.
Each stage is supported by the Teacher's Guide, which offers guidance on using Treetops to assess children's reading ability, and includes a variety of activities (comprehension. writing for a range of audiences and in different forms, discussion and role play) many on photocopiable sheets.

48 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2004

About the author

Paul Shipton (born 1963) is an award-winning children's author.

He was born in Manchester and attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Manchester University. After completing two Masters' degrees (in Classics and Philosophy), he taught English in Istanbul for a year. After returning to the UK, he taught English as a foreign language for several years, and it was around this time that he published his first book, Zargon Zoo (1991).

Four years later, he published Bug Muldoon and the Garden of Fear, and relocated with his family to Wisconsin, United States, where he works as a freelance writer and editor. He also writes books for younger readers under the pen name Paul Cooper. He and his wife and two daughters now divide their time between Cambridge, England, and Madison, Wisconsin.

Reviews

[Summer Y. · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was really babyish. I just spread this because I was bored. But I am not going to lie I was actually a bit interested.

[Alejandro · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked this book because it was about football.

[Karma Essam · Rating 5 out of 5]

3.45
did I read this because I needed to get back on schedule? yea.

[Gordon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I learn that billy have to concentrate at football when he was dribbling and not to think other things like math,science,english,chinese.

[Ashton · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Beaver Road won the first match but they did not win the secound match.

[Vishna Sinhal]

It had the name Steven Snape & I have a boy in my year called Steven Snape x