The last soldier

Meetthe WW2 soldier who never surrendered. Hiroo Onoda came from a Samurai family,he became a Japanese hero. The Last Soldier is a book-banded reading book fordeveloping readers, carefully levelled at Orange Book Band for guided reading.Illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs, this non-fiction title issuitable for struggling teen and adult readers.

TheLast Soldier features a longer, less structured text with a more extendedvocabulary. More literary language is used with more complex sentencestructures. More space is allowed for text than for pictures.

TheLast Soldier is part of Ransom's Neutron Stars, a structured reading programmefor teens and adults learning the basics of reading. The series offersprogression through ten levels of reading, four phonics and six coloured bookbands.

Moreinformation on the structure of the scheme can be found here.