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Collins Big Cat-Pearl Band 18: A Time Traveller’s Guide to the Future
$9.50Take a closer look at the amazing changes the future may hold, including robopets, space tourism and locust burgers, as well as the wider impact of our future life on the climate and extinction of animals. Using the most recent research and predictions, this photographic non-fiction book by Isabel Thomas expertly guides us through life in 2050.
• Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.
• Text type: An information book
ISBN: 9780007428359
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Collins Big Cat-Pearl Band 18: Against the Odds
$9.50Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4–11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children’s authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book.
• Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.
• Text type: An autobiography
ISBN: 9780007530151
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Collins Big Cat-Pearl Band 18: Becoming an Olympic Gymnast
$9.50What’s it like to be one of Britain’s greatest gymnasts? In this fascinating autobiography, Beth Tweddle takes us through the biggest moments of her life, from winning gold at the World Championships, to being honoured with an MBE at just 25 years old. Follow her story as she prepares for her most important task yet – the Olympics!
• Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.
Text type: An autobiography.
ISBN: 9780007428373
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Collins Big Cat-Pearl Band 18: Macbeth
$9.50I’m Conn, and I work in Macbeth’s castle. I fetch and I carry, and I see everything. Sometimes I see things I shouldn’t; things so dreadful I’ll never forget them.
• Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.
• Text type: A retelling of a play
ISBN: 9780007530137
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Collins Big Cat-Pearl Band 18: Palaces, Peasants and Plagues- England in the 14th Century
$9.50Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4–11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children’s authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book.
• Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.
• Text type: An historical account
ISBN: 9780007530168
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Collins Big Cat-Pearl Band 18: Swimming the Dream
$9.50Still only a teenager, Paralympic swimmer Ellie Simmonds has already swum in the World Championships, beaten a world record holder and received an MBE. Find out Ellie’s story of developing her passion for swimming, living with Achondroplasia Dwarfism and her future ambitions in her autobiography, full of personal photos from her career so far.
• Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.
• Text type: An autobiography.
9780007428380
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Collins Big Cat-Pearl Band 18: The Tour de France
$9.50The Tour de France is the most famous cycling race in the world. Find out how it began, what stages are involved and what prizes can be won in this informative book by Sean Callery, filled with fascinating stories and including personal input from Tour de France cyclist Geraint Thomas MBE.
• Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.
• Text type: An information book.
ISBN: 9780007428397
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Collins Big Cat-Pearl Band 18: Virginia Hall World War II Spy
$9.50At the beginning of World War II, a young American woman named Virginia Hall was sent undercover to Nazi-occupied France to spy on the German army. Follow her incredible true story as she bravely aids the French Resistance, organize and leads rebel armies and passes secret coded radio messages to the Allied forces in this fascinating biography.
• Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.
• Text type: A biography.
ISBN: 9780007428366
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Collins Big Cat-Pearl Band 18: What if We Run Out of Oil?
$9.50We use oil every day – whether on the bus to school or writing with a pen. But where does it come from? What impact is our use of it having on the environment? What will happen when we run out completely? Explore the answers to these questions in this detailed information book, with stunning photographs and clear diagrams.
• Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.
• Text type: An information book.
ISBN: 9780007428342
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Collins Big Cat Phonics-For Letters and Sounds- Orange Band 6: Beetles Around the World
$9.50Discover all the different types of fascinating beetles that can be found around the world – their habitats, what they look like and how they protect themselves – in this highly photographic non-fiction book by Sally Morgan.
ISBN: 9780008251703
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Collins Big Cat Phonics-For Letters and Sounds- Orange Band 6: Disaster Duck
$9.50Disaster Duck is a super hero, ready at all times to save the animal world from disaster – the only problem is, he is often causing the disasters himself! Follow this clumsy but adorable character on his adventures in this humorous story by Catherine Baker.
ISBN: 9780008251734
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Collins Big Cat Phonics-For Letters and Sounds- Orange Band 6: Noisy Neesha
$9.50Mr Hare is a solitary animal, happy to read his paper in silence. Neesha the Elephant lives upstairs and likes doing a lot of noisy activities. Can they ever find a way to live happily alongside each other? This beautifully illustrated story is written by Lynne Rickards.
ISBN: 9780008251741














