Letters from the Lighthouse
Emma Carroll
In 1941, on the night of an air raid in London, Olive's big sister Sukie vanishes. Olive and her little brother Cliff are sent to live by the sea in Devon with a gruff lighthouse keeper. Then Olive finds a strange coded note that seems to link Sukie to this very place.
- Length
- About 65,000 words
- To read it
- About 44 days
- Stage
- Key Stage 2
Reading time at 1,500 words a day, the pace we start from until we know your child’s own.
Where it is taught
Why Letters from the Lighthouse is on the list
- Year 6, Core. The books most schools teach in this year. A good place to start.
Reading it here
What your child does with it
- 1
Choose it and set a finish date
You get a suggested target from the length of the book and your child's reading pace.
- 2
Check in along the way
A longer book has short check-ins every week or two, so it keeps moving and nothing is forgotten.
- 3
Answer two questions
When they finish: a review of the book, and a deeper question about how it works.
- 4
Get it marked, and redraft
Every answer is marked against the rubric for their year, with a reason for every score.