There's something different about Mark, the new boy. It's not just that he only speaks through a monkey glove puppet. Soon Daniel finds out that his new friend is in trouble - but can he help him in time?

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

*Storycards of the key events on pages 54 and 55 help children to recap what has happened.

* Text type: A mystery story

* Curriculum links: Citizenship: Taking part - developing skills of communication and participation, Moving on

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader