Six fantastic stories featuring the popular Project X characters - Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger - plus a new micro-friend, Nok the alien! Fully decodable, with small steps of phonic progression to ensure early reading success, these books are ideal for independent reading.

Nok is missing. Will Max and Ant be able to follow the footprints and find him in On Nok's Trail?

Find out what happens when Nok uses his powers to start Tiger's toy trucks in I Win! Who will be the first to cross the finish line?

In Popcorn Surfing, Ant and Nok are cooking popcorn. Find out what happens when Nok puts too much corn into the popcorn maker!

The micro-friends take their car to the park in Stuck in the Mud. Will their day be ruined when it suddenly starts to rain?

Max's sister, Molly, has lost the cow from her toy farm. What else will Max and Nok find in the long grass when they go looking for it? Find out in The Lost Cow.

Nok wants to go for a trip in Max's rocket in The Rocket Flight. What will happen when they take off and zoom into the air?

Each book comes with notes on the inside front and back covers for teachers, TAs and parents/carers, which give question prompts and points for discussion, phonic practice words, challenge words, and additional activities that children can do.

Project X Alien Adventures provides an excellent addition to our reading provision. It is an outstanding resource because the children love the characters and they become completely absorbed in the story. The gadgets, creatures and strange worlds capture their imagination and interest. When children are so engaged, it makes their capacity to learn so much greater.

With the detailed inside cover notes - with steps for reading before, during and after the story - they help the Teaching Assistant with minimal support from the teacher. Also helps the parents with reading at home with their child.

The books and materials appeal to both boys and girls but they include content that particularly motivates boys to read which definitely supports the teacher in class. Alien Adventures engages children and we have seen them make sustained progress in their reading development.