Noah's Gold

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Packed with mystery, adventure and laughs, Noah's Gold is the exciting novel from the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of Millions and Cosmic, Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Fully illustrated in black and white throughout by Steven Lenton.

Being the smallest doesn't stop you having the biggest ideas. Eleven-year old Noah sneaks along on his big sister's geography field trip. Everything goes wrong! Six kids are marooned on an uninhabited island.

Their teacher has vanished. They're hungry. Their phones don't work and Noah has broken the internet. There's no way of contacting home… Disaster!

Until Noah discovers a treasure map and the gang goes in search of gold.

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Packed with mystery, adventure and laughs, Noah's Gold is the exciting novel from the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of Millions and Cosmic, Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Fully illustrated in black and white throughout by Steven Lenton.

Being the smallest doesn't stop you having the biggest ideas. Eleven-year old Noah sneaks along on his big sister's geography field trip. Everything goes wrong! Six kids are marooned on an uninhabited island.

Their teacher has vanished. They're hungry. Their phones don't work and Noah has broken the internet. There's no way of contacting home… Disaster!

Until Noah discovers a treasure map and the gang goes in search of gold.

If you would like to be invoiced for this product (or would like a different quantity), please email julia@chestnutbooks.co.uk with an order number and we’ll be happy to help.

We love this book because it is:

  • a modern take on a classic idea: kids lost without their parents struggling to find a way to survive

  • full of heart and laughs

  • interwoven with references to poverty and reliance on food banks

  • promotes discussion about society’s reliance on the internet

  • about friendship, family, kindness & hope

  • written through texts & letters

Learning opportunities:

  • Writing: write a letter from the island to a family member

  • Writing: write one of the conversations between Noah & Eve that never happen

  • Writing: report on the internet breaking & its impact

  • Writing: write a diary/one-sided phone call

  • Writing: write the epilogue/final chapter after the friends leave the WhatsApp chat

  • History: research the history of gold and why it is valuable

  • Geography: create a map of an island in the same way Noah does

  • PSHE: teamwork challenges; create a set of rules to work as a team

  • PSHE: could we survive without the internet?

  • PSHE: food banks

  • Maths: track your internet usage for a week & create a graph to present your information

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