Project X Hero Academy is a fully decodable and finely levelled reading series set in a school for superheroes, designed to captivate and motivate all young readers and turn them into reading superheroes. The Champion's Cup is in Gold Book Band, Oxford Level 9, and supports Letters and Sounds Phase 6. In this story, the heroes are at Lexis City Wildlife Park, competing to win the Champions Cup. Cam is determined to find it first ... but so is Evan! Who will win the competition? Each book can be used for independent reading, but also contains inside cover notes that include help on...

Mr Prune's special whisk has gone missing. Pip and Kit need to find it before the bake off! Using the world's largest known database of writing for and by children, our experts have defined 300 ambitious words to help children succeed at school. We've combined these with fully-decodable books that help you match your phonics teaching and practice, while inspiring and engaging your young readers. Specially developed to enhance children's vocabulary alongside their decoding skills, these books are perfect for sharing.

"The Dangerous Zero - The heretical number that the church tried to ban" tells the biography of a number. For centuries, the West relied on Roman numerals, a clumsy system that had no concept of "nothing." The idea of a void was terrifying to the medieval Church, which associated emptiness with the devil. Zero had to be imported from India and the Arab world, smuggled in by merchants like Fibonacci.Science writer Benjamin Scott traces the battle between the Abacists (conservatives) and the Algorists (innovators). The book explains how the acceptance of zero allowed for the birth of calculus,...