How do animals escape from different kinds of attack? From octopus ink to possums playing dead to skunks making a stink, it's all in here. Animal Escapes is a book-banded reading book for more confident readers, carefully levelled at White Book Band. Illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs, this 802-word non-fiction book features a more demanding text with extended vocabulary and literary devices. It is suitable for ages 7 - 8. Animal Escapes is part of Ransom Reading Stars, a structured programme for children learning to read. The series has fifteen levels: four phonics levels and eleven book band levels (Pink through to Lime).