"Read at Home" is a new series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular "Oxford Reading Tree" characters in 18 exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are now carefully graded across 5 levels, and contain vocabulary repetition and gradual progression within each level, from Book A to Book C. "Hairy-Scary Monster", based on the "Boy who cried Wolf" story, is Level 5a for children Reading with Confidence - those children who can recognize 75+ words by sight, can read with less support and who can read silently and read ahead. The story has 4-6 sentences per page. Approximate ORT level is: Stage 6-7.