Agent Asha: Mission Shark Bytes

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This is a great book for kids usually more interested in screens than books such as my son who was bouncing with enthusiasm with the idea that there is an app which links into a book. The book comes with an associated app- CSA World which has a real flavour of the book, the games require children to think about programming which is fast becoming an essential life skill. The story is a great way to engage young readers in coding and critical-thinking as it combines STEM with exciting adventures.

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Bright Little Labs' founder Sophie Deen's awards include the Barclays Start-Up Founder of the Year 2017, British Interactive Media Association Innovator 2017 and Computer Weekly's Most Influential Women in UK IT 2017. Other clever touches are QR codes that work and an accompanying app to the series that my 8-year-old boy loves.Agent Asha herself is an 11-year-old from Wembley, London, who has just been asked to join the largest spy agency in the world!

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Your class must identify where dialogue is taking place and add in the inverted commas or speech marks to complete the extract. The book features Asha a coding genius from a British Indian family who is recruited to join the top secret Children’s Spy Agency. In 2020, he illustrated ‘Agent Asha: Shark Bytes’ by Sophie Dean, which was nominated for a Little Rebels Children’s Book Award and shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize in 2021.There’s great illustrations throughout too, from depicting Asha and her friends surveying a piece of technology, to Asha’s parents of a morning getting ready for breakfast (Asha also has a sister, Anushka, who couldn’t be less alike, but I loved Asha’s family dynamic throughout, it was just completely lovely! Good fun, good to see a wonderfully inspiring female lead and fantastic that it encourages an interest in coding. All statements are plausible so your class must look carefully and not make assumptions based on how plausible the statements are.

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If you are under 16, please obtain your parent/guardian’s permission before submitting or ask your parent/guardian to submit on your behalf. Agent Asha is an 11 year-old from Wembley, London, who has just been recruited to the top-secret, hi-tech Children’s Spy Agency.This is a literacy activity linked to contractions and chapter 13 of the Agent Asha: Mission Shark Bytes book. Bright Little Labs' founder Sophie Deen's awards include the Barclays Start-Up Founder of the Year 2017, British Interactive Media Association Innovator 2017 and Computer Weekly's "Most Influential Women in UK IT" 2017. I think lots of kids will enjoy this book because it's exciting and there are some fun, silly bits (like the farting selfie stick).