Let's Go to Mars!_{Big Cat-8 Purple}

Visit the most popular planet in the solar system (after Earth).
Find out if there's life on Mars.
Go dune-buggy racing.
Enjoy the red sand and the red sky!
All in a trip to Mars - your perfect holiday in 2050, possibly.

? Purple/ Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary

- Text type - A persuasive text.

- A pictorial glossary is provided on pages 22 and 23 encouraging discussion and reinforcement of technical terms.

- Curriculum links - Numeracy: Space, shape and measure; Science: Forces and movement; Geography: Contrast with the local area.

- This book is paired with a story on the same theme: Star Boy's Surprise by Jana Hunter.

- This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.