CONTENTS

Cover

About the Book

Title Page

Dedication

Chapter One Miss Porter’s Secret

Chapter Two Miss Porter Changes

Chapter Three In Trouble

Chapter Four The Rescue

About the Author

Also by Malorie Blackman

Copyright

COLOUR FIRST READER books are perfect for beginner readers. All the text inside this Colour First Reader book has been checked and approved by a reading specialist, so it is the ideal size, length and level for children learning to read.

Series Reading Consultant: Prue Goodwin Reading and Language Information Centre, University of Reading

About the Book

On her first day at school, Mira discovers that her teacher has a secret. A BIG secret. Miss Porter is a MONSTER CRISP-GUZZLER. And when she gets her mitts on these savoury snacks, something super-strange happpens . . .

An action-packed adventure from the award-winning Malorie Blackman.

About the Author

Malorie Blackman is acknowledged as one of today’s most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. The novels in her Noughts & Crosses sequence have won several awards, including the Children’s Book Award, and she has won many other awards for her books for the Random House list. Both Hacker and Thief! won the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award – Malorie is the only author to have won this award twice – while Hacker also won the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Books Award in 1994. Her work has appeared on screen, with Pig-Heart Boy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, being adapted into a BAFTA-award-winning TV serial. Malorie has also written a number of titles for younger readers.

In 2005, Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children’s books.

In 2008, she was then honoured with an OBE for her services to Children’s Literature.

For Neil and Lizzy, with love.

Chapter One

Miss Porter’s Secret

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