The Dig

Chestnut · History: earliest civilisations (the Indus Valley) · Geography: a region beyond the UK · Book 1 of a series

Four children. One new family. A secret written in a language nobody can read.

Zac and Layla's mum and Rhys and Elsie's dad met on a dig in India. Now the new family is heading back there for the summer, to the ruins of a city built 4,500 years ago, and none of the four children is speaking to the others. Then a stone seal, carved with writing nobody in the world can read, vanishes from the dig, and the children see who took it. With their new friend Ishaan, they have to stop the thieves before the seal is sold to the highest bidder.

For teachers: Fits history on the earliest civilisations (the Indus Valley) and geography of a region beyond the UK. The first of a series that takes the same family to a new country and a new period in every book.

Format: Classroom book (three episodes) and three home reading booklets.

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