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Collins Big Cat-Diamond Band 17: Designing Places and Spaces
$9.50What’s the tallest building in the world? How long did it take to build the Eiffel Tower? How have cars developed? Find out the answers and trace how designs have changed through the years and across the world in this visually stunning information book.
• Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.
• Text type: An information book.
ISBN: 9780007186822
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Collins Big Cat-Diamond Band 17: How to be a Victorian in 16 easy Stages
$9.50So you want to be a Victorian? From dirty streets and factories, to watching Punch and Judy shows and riding the stagecoach – find out the real facts of Victorian living in this humorous non-fiction guide.
• Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.
• Text type: An information book.
ISBN: 9780007465538
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Collins Big Cat Poetry-Emerald Band 15: Caliban’s Cave
$8.60An atmospheric collection of new poems about the sea and earth by poet Judith Nicholls, beautifully illustrated by Judy Musselle.
• Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.
• Text type: A poetry book
ISBN: 9780007336302
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Collins Big Cat-Topaz Band 13: Breath
$8.60Every human has to breathe, but how do we do it – and why? This detailed non-fiction book clearly explains the breathing process, how your lungs are connected to the rest of your body, using detailed diagrams for support.
• Topaz/Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.
• Text type: An information book
ISBN: 9780007465378
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Collins Big Cat-Topaz Band 13: Football Spy
$8.60Do you know what it takes to be a top footballer? Can you pick out the best moves? Find out in this guide to football skills. It will help children to understand how to study a football game and how to look for the skills of different types of players: goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders and strikers.
• Topaz/ Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.
• Text type – An information book.
ISBN: 9780007230860
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Collins Big Cat-Topaz Band 13: How to be an Anglo-Saxon in 13 easy stages
$8.60So you want to be an Anglo-Saxon? Find out how to do it in just a few stages. From fighting the Vikings and praying to gods, to making books from animal skin – all is revealed in this fun non-fiction guide by Scoular Anderson.
• Topaz/Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.
• An information book.
ISBN: 9780007336296
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Collins Big Cat-Topaz Band 13: Greedy Anansi and his Three Cunning Plans
$8.60Inspired by three traditional African tales, follow the crafty spider Anansi, and find out how his greed and cunning don’t always get him what he wants.
• Topaz/Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.
• Text type: Three Stories from another culture.
ISBN: 9780007465354
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Collins Big Cat-Ruby Band 14: Surgery Through Time
$8.60If we go into hospital today, we know anaesthetics, antibiotics and antiseptics will be used to make the visit as pain-free and safe as possible. But how were they discovered, and what were operations like before they were used? This fact-filled information book looks at the journey surgery has made, from its early days to modern hospitals.
• Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction.
• Text type: An information book
ISBN: 9780007465415
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Collins Big Cat Poetry-Ruby Band 14: Gathering in the Days
$8.60This wonderfully emotive collection of poems by award-winning poet Gareth Owen explores both the humorous and more serious elements of childhood, and is filled with beautiful illustrations by much-loved illustrator Peter Bailey
• Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction.
• A poetry book
ISBN: 9780007336357
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Collins Big Cat-Ruby Band 14: Flash Harriet and the Mystery of Fiendish Footprints
$8.60Flash Harriet, together with Gus, her pet tarantula, is back and on the trail of a new crime. Huge footprints have smashed up the local vegetable garden. Is it something to do with Marmaduke Mildew and the Giant Vegetable Competition? Or does the clue lie in the footprints themselves? Find out how our favouite detective solves the mystery.
• Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction.
• Text type: A humorous story.
ISBN: 9780007231218
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Collins Big Cat-Emerald Band 15: Pirate!
$8.60It’s Cal and Annie’s first day at their new school. Cal is terrified that his little sister is going to tell the other children at school the family secret – that their dad is a pirate. All goes well to begin with, but as the day progresses, the news soon gets out!
• Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.
• Text type – A story with a familiar setting.
ISBN: 9780007230952
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Collins Big Cat-Emerald Band 15: Your Brain
$8.60Your brain controls everything you do – from your movement to your senses and even your thoughts and decisions. Complete with detailed diagrams, discover how this important part of your body works, and how you can look after it.
• Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.
• Text type: An information book
ISBN: 9780007465453
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