Is It a Fruit? Year 5 Lorna's father was killed at

Lorna's father was killed at a protest meeting and now her mother has disappeared

Maria and her mother set off two weeks later to join him in Germany

When the tree outside her house becomes a local attraction because so many birds have made it their home

But they're in for some nasty surprises - nothing seems to work as it should

Sails Literacy Series - developed by leading New Zealand educationalists and authors Jill Eggleton and Jo Windsor

Is It a Fruit? Year 5 Lorna's father was killed atThe complete lower primary Guided Reading series for developing independent readers. Guided Reading Books are Reading Recovery levelled and cover a range of fiction and non fiction titles from different genres. They are sequentially organised to build on high frequency words, sight vocabulary and phonics introduced in previous levels.