Tara Binns: Vigilant Vet

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When Tara Binns opens up her dressing up box something exciting happens …

Tara Binns finds herself in a busy veterinary practice, and she’s one of the vets! While helping to treat a dog that has swallowed a padlock, a new emergency develops – a poorly hamster has escaped its cage, leaving its owner distraught! Can Tara help to find the hamster… and work out why that snake is looking so bloated?

This exciting title in the Tara Binns mini-series is written by Lisa Rajan.

Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.

Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.