When Joel and his family move from their city home to a small country town for Dad’s job, Joel isn’t happy. Everything is unfamiliar, and Nathan, the school bully, is making his life miserable. Joel doesn’t even feel like playing his guitar! Can he learn to love his music again and maybe even start to like his new home?

Ruby level titles give readers the variety they need to become confident and successful readers, using a range of characters, topics and text styles keep children engaged and encourage discussion.

PM Guided Reading Fiction books are engaging stories that increase in word count and pages in line with progression of children’s reading age, for appropriate literacy skills development. The books represent all the standard text types and include a number of literal, inferential and applied knowledge comprehension questions.