Moonfleet: A Classic Tale of Smuggling

by Rob Lloyd Jones, Alan Marks (Illustrations)

This fabulous new series is for fully confident readers and helps build up stamina for reading standard-length books. It contains advanced sentence structure and vocabulary with challenging plots and subplots.

Genres: Childrens

63 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Rob Lloyd Jones was born in San Francisco but grew up in London. He studied Egyptology at University where he learnt hieroglyphics, and often goes on digs with the Egypt Exploration Society. He is a senior editor at Usborne, for whom he has written over thirty books – mostly historical non-fiction, but also adaptations of classics such as JEKYLL AND HYDE and THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. Rob is also a volunteer reading helper at a primary school in Clerkenwell and wrote episodes of the children’s TV show ‘Bernard’s Watch’ for Carlton Kids. He lives in south London with his wife Sally, and 14-month-old son Otis.

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jacob received this book for getting his 2nd stripe in TKD on his blue belt for doing the splits Jan 2016. He read this and rated it 4 stars..krb 6/22/16

[Sofia Ophelia 🍉 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love these Usborne Young Reading books. They come with full colour illustrations and bring the magic to classics, such as Moonfleet. Not fully abridged.