Sean is angry. He's stuck in China with no mates, he doesn't understand Chinese so he can't watch TV and it's cold! There are strange smells and foods. His mum thought it would be a great way for him to spend Year Six, but who was she kidding? However, after a dramatic event, Sean wonders if his mum might have been right all along.

Blueprints is a series that provides a variety of graded texts to meet the different learning levels within your classroom. With a colourful and eye-catching design, students are provided with a firm scaffold of learning experiences to support discovery learning, and the development of higher order thinking skills. The streamlined approach teaches literacy along with other learning areas, one unit per term. The fiction and non-fiction topic books explore concepts introduced in the Big Ideas Book in greater depth.