Mission Alert: Lab 101

By Benjamin Hulme-Cross

When the only way to get at a target is by using a child, MI5 bring in special agents Tom and Zilla to help. On a school trip to a robotics lab, Tom and Zilla need to figure out how to stop an army of robots being hired out to criminal gangs. Join them as they investigate the secrets of Lab 101.

Bloomsbury High Low books encourage and support reading practice by providing gripping, age-appropriate stories for struggling and reluctant readers, those with dyslexia, or those with English as an additional language. Printed on tinted paper and with a dyslexia friendly font, Mission Alert is aimed at readers aged 8+ and has a manageable length (72 pages) and reading age (7+). This collection of stories can be read in any order.

Produced in association with reading experts at CatchUp, a charity which aims to address underachievement caused by literacy and numeracy difficulties.

Book band: Brown

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release date: Oct 5, 2017
• ISBN: 9781472929655

Benjamin Hulme-Cross

Ben Hulme-Cross has written over thirty books for struggling readers, including the Dark Hunter series. Ben is currently the director for Iffley Publishing in the United Kingdom and lives in Oxford.

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CONTENTS

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Bonus Bits!

Tom and his twin sister Zilla go to a boarding school. They don’t like it very much. But Tom and Zilla have a secret. They work as spies for the Secret Service. Sometimes there is a spy mission that children are better at than grown-ups. That’s when Tom and Zilla get their next Mission Alert!

Chapter One

Tom and Zilla sat at their computers. Their homework was coding, and Tom was working hard.

You’re so slow at coding, laughed Zilla. Tom didn’t answer. He wanted to finish the line of code