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Select your format based upon: 1) how you want to read your book, and 2) compatibility with your reading tool. To learn more about using Bookshare with your device, visit the Help Center.

Here is an overview of the specialized formats that Bookshare offers its members with links that go to the Help Center for more information.

• Bookshare Web Reader - A customized reading tool for Bookshare members offering all the features of DAISY with a single click of the "Read Now" link.
• DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) - A digital book file format. DAISY books from Bookshare are DAISY 3.0 text files that work with just about every type of access technology that reads text. Books that contain images will have the download option of ‘DAISY Text with Images’.
• BRF (Braille Refreshable Format) - Digital Braille for use with refreshable Braille devices and Braille embossers.
• MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3) - Provides audio only with no text. These books are created with a text-to-speech engine and spoken by Kendra, a high quality synthetic voice from Ivona. Any device that supports MP3 playback is compatible.
• DAISY Audio - Similar to the DAISY option above; however, this option uses MP3 files created with our text-to-speech engine that utilizes Ivonas Kendra voice. This format will work with Daisy Audio compatible players such as Victor Reader Stream and Read2Go.
• EPUB - A standard e-book format that can be read on many tools, such as iBooks, Readium or others.
• Word - Accessible Word output, which can be unzipped and opened in any tool that allows .docx files

Project X, Book Band 4, Blue, Bugs: Zak and Zee (PDF)

Project X includes fiction and non-fiction, exciting adventure stories, lots of gadgets, and 21st-century illustrations. Developed based on research into what will really hook boys into reading and make them love books. Each book comes with notes for parent/teaching assistants that highlight tricky words or concepts in the books, prompt questions and suggest a range of follow-up activities.Why does Zak bug not answer Zee bug?

Project X, Book Band 4, Blue, Toys and Games: Shoo Mouse, Shoo!

Project X includes fiction and non-fiction, exciting adventure stories, lots of gadgets, and 21st-century illustrations. Developed based on research into what will really hook boys into reading and make them love books. Each book comes with notes for parent/teaching assistants that highlight tricky words or concepts in the books, prompt questions and suggest a range of follow-up activities.Granny Red keeps seeing a mouse. Why will the mouse not go away?

Project X, Book Band 5, Green, Making a Noise: Be Quiet!

Project X includes fiction and non-fiction, exciting adventure stories, lots of gadgets, and 21st-century illustrations. Developed based on research into what will really hook boys into reading and make them love books. Each book comes with notes for parent/teaching assistants that highlight tricky words or concepts in the books, prompt questions and suggest a range of follow-up activities.Old MacDonald wants a quiet farm. How can he stop all the noise?

Project X, Book Band 6, Orange, What a Waste: What a Waste!

Project X includes fiction and non-fiction, exciting adventure stories, lots of gadgets, and 21st-century illustrations. Developed based on research into what will really hook boys into reading and make them love books. Each book comes with notes for parent/teaching assistants that highlight tricky words or concepts in the books, prompt questions and suggest a range of follow-up activities.Mr Big liked to have new things. Why did he feel so sad?

Project X, Book Band 6, Orange, What a Waste: What a Waste! (PDF)

Project X includes fiction and non-fiction, exciting adventure stories, lots of gadgets, and 21st-century illustrations. Developed based on research into what will really hook boys into reading and make them love books. Each book comes with notes for parent/teaching assistants that highlight tricky words or concepts in the books, prompt questions and suggest a range of follow-up activities.Mr Big liked to have new things. Why did he feel so sad?

Tadpole's Promise

Tadpole loves his rainbow friend, the caterpillar, and she tells him she loves everything about him. "Promise that you will never change," she says. But as the seasons pass and he matures, his legs grow, and then his arms - and what happens to his beautiful rainbow friend? As he sits on his lily pad, digesting a butterfly, Tadpole little realises that now he will never know!

Bug Club, White: How Animals Smell, Taste and Touch (PDF)

Schools across the UK are catching the Bug, and now so can kids at home! Bug Club is one of the best-loved reading programmes in primary schools and kids just love reaching for the bookshelves to find their favourite Bug Club book.

Maths Inspirations: Teacher's Notes (PDF)

Provides opportunities to use and apply mental calculation strategies through sets of graded mental exercises, including a variety of formal questions and informal activities. The series offers ideas for building children's mental maths ability in a structured way. These photocopiable resources provide practice opportunities where they are needed.

Storyworlds, Stage 8, Once Upon A Time World: Ali, Hassan and the Donkey

"Ali and Hassan worked very hard on their farm. They had a grey donkey who helped them to do their work."This fantastic range of fiction for Shared, Guided and Independent reading gives you stories your children will love to read over and over again. Gaelic and Scottish teaching support also accompanies this reading series.

Storyworlds, Stage 8, Once Upon A Time World: Ali, Hassan and the Donkey (PDF)

"Ali and Hassan worked very hard on their farm. They had a grey donkey who helped them to do their work."This fantastic range of fiction for Shared, Guided and Independent reading gives you stories your children will love to read over and over again. Gaelic and Scottish teaching support also accompanies this reading series.

Amazing Adventures of Hercules (Young Reading)

Oxford Reading Tree, Stage 10, TreeTops: Cornflake Coin (PDF)

In Cornflake Coin Kerry and Omar are eager to win a treasure-hunting competition. What will they do when they discover their Roman coin comes from a cereal packet? TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and develop their own reading tastes and interests. It contains stories from a variety of genres including humour, sci-fi, adventure, mystery and historical fiction. These exciting stories are ideal for introducing children to a wide selection of authors and illustrators. There is huge variety to ensure every reader finds books they will enjoy and can read.

Oxford Reading Tree, Stage 10, TreeTops: Cornflake Coin

In Cornflake Coin Kerry and Omar are eager to win a treasure-hunting competition. What will they do when they discover their Roman coin comes from a cereal packet? TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and develop their own reading tastes and interests. It contains stories from a variety of genres including humour, sci-fi, adventure, mystery and historical fiction. These exciting stories are ideal for introducing children to a wide selection of authors and illustrators. There is huge variety to ensure every reader finds books they will enjoy and can read.