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Surprise Discoveries

Find out about the valuable inventions that were Surprise Discoveries! Part of Story Seekers Series 3, this non-fiction chapter book shows how some popular ideas and products were in fact big surprises. They helped people learn and are still being used today.  

Story Seekers books use an integrated literacy approach, focusing on decoding words and linguistic comprehension, to support those with reading difficulties. In the third series, vocabulary is selected for students' reading level (7.5 to 8 years old) while engaging topics, such as inventions and Lost Cities, appeal to students' chronological age (9 to 12 years old). 

These books are great for guided reading, independent reading, or for students learning English as an additional language. They are also dyslexia-friendly. 

Equip your students with reading techniques that build confidence in their reading ability! Buy Surprise Discoveries as a single book or as a title set of six chapter books for kids: 

Title Set (6 student copies of the same title): $75.00 
Class Set (6 student copies of each of the 14 titles + the Series 3 Activity Book): $966.00 

Ages: 9-12 | Pages: 32 | Code: 51223 | ISBN: 9781776559015

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Bronwen Wall

Bronwen writes and edits full time from her home among the trees in hilly Wellington, New Zealand. She has written for the New Zealand Ministry of Education’s Ready to Read, Junior Journal, School Journal and Connected series. Her non-fiction children’s book Explore! Aotearoa, about incredible New Zealand explorers, won a Storylines Notable Book Award and was a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults in 2018. And when Bronwen isn’t writing, she is often out exploring herself, looking for more information for her next piece of writing.