When three boys all run away from home to try and live like pirates life is easy at first. Then they meet Bonnie-Ann who trains them like real pirates...but their real talent turns out to be more musical... Race Further with Reading is the perfect tool to build reading confidence with illustrated stories in manageable bite-size chapters, following on a level from the Race Ahead with Reading series with stories of 2,000 words.

Author Biography

Maggie is an avid children's book writer and has published several titles for Franklin Watts. Her Rumplestiltskin Returns was a fabulous new take on the Rumplestiltskin character which she published in our Race Ahead with Reading series. Her many other books range from picture book texts to a teenage vampire novel. Her first teenage novel, 'Owl-light', was short-listed for the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Books award and one of her more recent ones, 'Shadow of the Beast', was long-listed for the Carnegie Medal. Her other interests nclude cryptic crosswords, going to the theatre and foreign travel.