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Collins Big Cat-Blue Band 4: Growing and Changing
$7.80As we grow up, our bodies grow and change with us. This information book by Teresa Heapy looks at the changes that happen – from our eyes and teeth to our height and strength.
Text type: An information book
ISBN: 9780007412983
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Collins Big Cat-Blue Band 4: How to Grow a Beanstalk
$7.80Do you know how to turn a small, fat thing into a long, thin thing? It’s easy – just take a bean and grow a beanstalk! This simple instruction text shows you exacly how to do it.
ISBN: 9780007236039
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Collins Big Cat-Blue Band 4: The Steam Train Workbook
$6.90The steam train is pulling out of the station, it heads to the hills, into a rainstorm, through a tunnel and out the other side into the sunshine and to the seaside. Follow the rhythm and the rhyme of this simple poem and travel with the train on its wonderful adventure, beautifully illustrated by Rosalind Hudson.
ISBN: 9780007473816
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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-Emerald Band 15: Archie The Big Good Wolf
$11.90Those Big Bad Wolf tales? Forget them, this is the true story! Archie Wolf tells how he is drawn into the country’s worse crime wave. Could he track down the villain behind it? And could he escape from the villain’s hit man?
* 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 modern play
ISBN: 9780007234219
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Collins Big Cat-Emerald Band 15: Great Expectations
$8.60Follow the life of Pip, a poor lonely orphan in Victorian England. Everything changes when he becomes friends with the wealthy Estella. But can Pip leave his past behind? Written to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth, this inspired retelling is written by Whitbread award-winning author Hilary McKay.
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 retelling of a story by a significant author
ISBN: 9780007465422
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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-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: The Games Player of Zob
$8.60When the Game Player of Zob pays a visit to earth and challenges the earthling children to a game, the children soon find out that the alien is a very bad loser – and that isn’t good news for them…
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 science-fiction story.
ISBN: 9780007230945
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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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Collins Big Cat-Gold Band 9: Animal Ancestors
$8.50Can you imagine a world with whales that could walk and giant earth moles? They both lived on Earth long ago and their relatives still live here today. Explore the terrifying, giant, strange ancestors of everyday creatures, in this captivating information text, illustrated with realistic imagery from Jon Stuart.
ISBN: 9780007187010
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