The long road home
By: story by Clair Baker ; illustrated by Drew Wilson
Contributors: Wilson, Drew, illustrator
Series: Alba series -- book 8
Publisher: Phonic Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [Malmesbury]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
ISBN-13: 9781907170874
Subjects: Apples; Juvenile fiction
Description: Alba lives in a flat in the city with her family. Her dad is a scientist. A breed of superbugs is destroying all the apple trees in the world and Alba's dad is working hard to save them. He has the last apple pip left in the world safely at home in his flat. Max from the lab, sneaks into the flat and tries to steal the pip. Alba escapes with it but Max shrinks her to 10 cm tall. She has to get the pip to her dad in the lab and save the apple trees. Will she succeed in crossing the city and getting the pip safely to dad? Will she ever be a normal size again?
Notes: Cover title.

The target phoneme in this book is 'oe'. It includes the spellings: o, ow, oa and o-e.

ISBN duplicated on all volumes in series.