is hardly going to want to walk up the corridor to another place entirely to find a book, many of which will look terribly difficult to her. I choose guided reading books for my class, with a particular focus in mind. But they all choose their own reading book from within their books band. If they choose the same one a second time because they liked it, then I don't mind. I own books I've read a zillion times, but get something new each time. But moving on for more able readers near the top of KS1 is often slow. They can be children who learnt to decode easily and so moved on through book bands very quickly and become 'free readers' if they go to a school that doesn't insist on dull reading scheme books. (And yes they might get interesting reading scheme books as well I imagine.) But then to move through the upper levels they need to analyse, deduce and infer all kinds of things and often don't have those skills or interests. Whenever I read a question that says something like "Why did the author XXXX?" I just think "Who gives a stuff why she did? Probably because she wanted to!" Many more able readers think the same, though aren't impolite enough to say so. It could be that she wants to select from the ones in the classroom in order to be the same as her peers. If they all select from books in the