The Merchant of Venice: Band 16/Sapphire

By Jon Mayhew

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Get acquainted with Shakespeare's classic tale of greed and revenge, in this light-hearted and amusing retelling. Bassanio is overjoyed when he finally gets to marry Portia. But, his happiness is short-lived when he is forced to defend his dear friend Antonio, who's in trouble with an old merchant - intent on getting his pound of flesh.

Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.

Text type: Fiction from our literary heritage

Curriculum links: English: fiction from the English literary heritage

This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0008179476
• ISBN13: 9780008179472
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: HarperCollins UK
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.7" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 5