SPIRE, Set 6A: The Boy Who Thought Friends Could Be Bought

Dilbert is new to school and isn't sure how to make friends. "If you let me play basketball with you, I'll give each of you one of my Monster Club cards," he tells two boys on the playground. Dil is confused when no one plays with him for long, and it takes a special friend to help him understand that friends can't be bought. This S.P.I.R.E.® Level 6 (spire) decodable reader is perfect for intermediate readers and those who need practice reading increasingly difficult text. This book includes phonics concepts ought (thought), aught (caught).


The S.P.I.R.E. decodable readers were developed as part of the S.P.I.R.E. reading program, created by Sheila Clark-Edmands, M.S.Ed. S.P.I.R.E. is an intensive, comprehensive, and multisensory reading program with proven results. If your goal is to build reading success, then S.P.I.R.E. books are the perfect choice. Children are motivated to read more and enjoy more reading success because S.P.I.R.E. books are designed for the way early readers and struggling readers learn.


There are 120 books in the S.P.I.R.E. decodable readers series. The content ranges in difficulty from easy-to-read, one-syllable, short-vowel words in Sets 1A and 1B to complex multisyllabic words and advanced sentence structures in Sets 6A and 6B.