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Collins Big Cat Phonics-For Letters and Sounds – Blue Band 4: Maps
$7.90Discover how maps have evolved and changed over time as our own understanding of the world has developed. This non-fiction information book was written by Karen Wallace.
ISBN: 9780008251659
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Collins Big Cat Poetry-Orange Band 6: Bugs!
$8.50Follow the narrator as he takes us through the good and bad aspects of micro-organisms in this fun rhyming poem by Sam McBratney, explaining that while these unseen bugs can ruin food and make us ill, they also keep our world under control, by rotting food and plants that we no longer need. Lively illustrations by Eric Smith accompany the poem.
ISBN: 9780007336104
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Collins Big Cat Poetry-Turquoise Band 7: Homes Sweet Homes
$8.50A collection of beautiful poems about the habitats of contrasting creatures.
ISBN: 9780007591107
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Collins Big Cat-Gold Band 9: Great Explorers
$8.90In the 15th century, Christopher Columbus found new lands on the other side of the world. Four hundred years later, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Both men were great explorers. Discover their stories here.
ISBN: 9780007591190
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Collins Big Cat Poetry-Gold Band 9: Catching Flies
$8.90A beautiful poetry book by June Crebbin exploring the themes of wildlife, the seasons and life’s simple pleasures.
ISBN: 9780007461813
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Collins Big Cat-White Band 10: A Christmas Carol
$9.50Scrooge was not a kind man. One Christmas Eve he was visited by three ghosts, who took him on a journey from the past, through the present and in to the future. Was it too late for him to change his ways? This retelling of Charles Dickens’ classic story is written by Penny Dolan.
ISBN: 9780007462056
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Collins Big Cat-Pearl Band 18: Crime and Punishment Through the Ages
$9.50Through history there have always been people who have committed crimes and been punished. Starting with Roman Britain, all the way to the 21st century, this book explores the changing ways in which criminals have been treated.
• 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.
• The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information.
• The glossary and index can be used to develop children’s information retrieval skills further.
• Curriculum links: History
ISBN: 9780008208998
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Collins Big Cat-Emerald Band 15: My Olympic Story
$8.60Follow Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong’s amazing life from a small town in Ghana to the slopes of the 2010 Winter Olympics, via the Snowdome in Milton Keynes. As the first Ghanaian skier in the Winter Olympics, this fascinating autobiography shows how perseverance and determination can overcome the greatest of challenges.
• 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 autobiography
• This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
ISBN: 9780007336364
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Collins Big Cat-Topaz Band 13: The Wizard of OZ
$8.60Rediscover the wonderful story of Dorothy’s adventures in Oz, with new friends the Scarecrow, Lion and Tinman, as they come up against good witches and wicked witches in their quest to find the Wizard, who promises to save them all in very different ways. Will Dorothy ever find the way home? Find out in this gripping retelling by Abie Longstaff.
• Topaz/ Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.
• This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
ISBN: 9780008127756
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Collins Big Cat Phonics-For Letters and Sounds-Turquoise Band 7: Space Science
$9.50How does the body react to being in space? Do roses smell differently in orbit? Have any discoveries in space helped us back on Earth? Find out all about space scientist astronauts and the fascinating experiments they have conducted from space in this information book by Ciaran Murtagh.
ISBN: 9780008251819
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Collins Big Cat Phonics-For Letters and Sounds-Turquoise Band 7: Nibble, Nosh and Gnasher
$9.50Nibble, Nosh and Gnasher are space robots whose job it is to clean up all the rubbish that floats in space. When the Galaxy Express flies into some unexpected space rubbish, can the robots save the day before it crashes into their home planet? This fun and quirky story was written and illustrated by Shoo Rayner.
ISBN: 9780008251796
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Collins Big Cat Phonics-For Letters and Sounds-Turquoise Band 7: Jake and Jen in the Tomb of Ice
$9.50Join Jake and Jen on an exciting adventure through a dense tropical jungle filled with fierce animals and many obstacles – or at least that’s where they think they are…This exciting story was written by award-winning author Chris Bradford and illustrated by award-winning illustrator Korky Paul.
ISBN: 9780008251789
