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Collins Big Cat Progress-Yellow Band 3/Sapphire Band 16: Top Secret
$7.90During World War II, many spies were dropped from Britain into France to help fight the Nazis. One of them was a woman called Christine Granville, who risked her life to save her comrades. Follow her incredible true story is this beautifully illustrated graphic novel by award-winning authors Mick Manning and Brita Granström.
• Collins Big Cat Progress builds confidence, helping struggling pupils not only to read, but to love reading
• Dual-banded books provide age-appropriate interest level material matched with a lower reading ability levelISBN: 9780007428755
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Collins Big Cat Tales Copper Band 12: Mega Plants
$9.50Plants are amazing, different around the world – and the biggest living things ever. There are leaves twice as long as a bus, flowers that attract insects by smelling like dead bodies, and trees that grow taller than the Statue of Liberty or weigh ten times as much as a blue whale!
ISBN: 9780008163792
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Collins Big Cat Tales Copper Band 12: The Fisherman and his Wife
$9.50A traditional German tale about the perils of greed, and what happens to those who always want more than they have. When a fisherman catches a magical fish, he has the chance to change his fortune, but will his wife’s dissatisfaction put everything at risk?
Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.
Text type: A traditional tale
ISBN: 9780008179311
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Collins Big Cat Tales Copper Band 12: The Honey-Guide Bird
$9.50Two funny, light-hearted traditional tales from Africa.
Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.
Text type: Traditional tales from another culture.
ISBN: 9780008147105
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Collins Big Cat Tales Copper Band 12: The House of the Nine Doors
$9.50A classic tale of the Irish legend Finn McCaul, as he strives to fulfil a challenge to free his jailed uncle. The question is, is it even humanly possible?! Find out in this non-stop, funny story of perseverance, imagination – and a bit of speed, written by the Canongate Prize winner Lari Don.
Text type: A traditional tale
ISBN: 9780008127725
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Collins Big Cat Turquoise Band 7: From Tree to Book
$8.50Find out all about how book is made, from making the paper to printing the words to designing the cover.
Turquoise/Band 7 books offer literary language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar terms.
Text type: An information book.
ISBN: 9780007591114
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Collins Big Cat White Plus Band 10+: Big Bad Wolfsville
$9.50Once upon a time, Story Town was the place where people went to live happily ever after, until Little Bo Peep’s sheep went missing and the Big Bad Wolf came to town …
ISBN: 9780008340421
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Collins Big Cat White Plus Band 10+: Police Nan and Spike the Cat-Detective
$9.50Spike used to be a cat-burglar, but he’s given up his life of crime to live with retired police officer, Police Nan. Now he’s a baddie-turned-goodie, and enjoys his comfy life of cream, cuddles and cat naps. One problem: if Police Nan hears about a crime, she just can’t help herself. On goes her old police helmet, and off she bustles to solve the case. Only Police Nan’s a bit rusty these days … she needs Spike and his sharp, ex-cat-burglar brain to dig her out of trouble and help solve the crimes. Join Police Nan and Spike as they travel to Paris to solve the mystery of the toyshop robber in this hilarious story by Dawn McNiff.
ISBN: 9780008381769
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Collins Big Cat White Plus Band 10+: Scaredy Kat
$9.50Nobody at Puggle School would ever believe Katy’s phobia. Some of her friends are scared of spiders. Some of them are scared of snakes. But no-one is scared of a kitten! Katy can’t even think about a kitten without breaking out in goose bumps. It would be OK if only her best friend hadn’t invited Katy to come and play after school… and meet Fluffy! How can Katy get over her fear? Will everyone think she’s totally weird if she tells them? Perhaps she’d be surprised by the fears they have if she ever did … This story about overcoming fears is written by Ali Sparkes.
ISBN: 9780008381745
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Collins Big Cat White Plus Band 10+: There’s an Alien in my Spaghetti
$9.50Zoha was eating spaghetti when she discovered a tiny silver spaceship in her food. There was an alien in her spaghetti! What could he possibly want? Join Zoha and Alan the alien on their adventure to understand life on Earth in this quirky story by Kay Woodward.
ISBN: 9780008230388
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Collins Big Cat White Plus Band 10+: Whisked Away
$9.50Baker Jake bakes wonderful homemade cakes, but the day before he is due to take part in a TV baking competition, his special whisk goes missing! Without it, Jake fears he will be beaten by the fiendish Maureen Buttercream, owner of the soulless “Cakes-U-Like” chain. So who has stolen the whisk? By the time the true culprit is revealed, Jake will have to find out whether he or his whisk is the real secret of his success. Join Baker Jake as he solves the mystery of the stolen whisk in this exciting story by Timothy Knapman.
ISBN: 9780008381752
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Collins Big Cat-Blue Band 4: Colours Workbook
A simple text where a visit to an art show causes a girl to imagine what the world would be like if it was wholly yellow, red or blue. Realising that the world actually consists of all the colours of the rainbow, she paints lots of multicoloured pieces of art herself.
•Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.
•Text type – A simple non-fiction text.
ISBN: 9780007474158$6.90














