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Collins Big Cat-Orange Band 6: Marathon
$8.50People have run Marathons for more than 100 years, but how long is a marathon? Where are they run? Who can enter? Find out all about one of the most toughest and popular running events, in this non-chronological report.
Orange/Band 6 books offer varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages.
ISBN: 9780007186891
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Collins Big Cat-Orange Band 6: Morris Plays Hide and Seek
$8.50Morris wants to eat his kitty biscuits, but his mother sends him off to play hide and seek instead. When it’s Morris’s turn to hide, he finds the perfect place: the food cupboard, where the kitty biscuits are kept!
Text type – A story with a familiar setting.
ISBN: 9780007185993
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Collins Big Cat-Orange Band 6: Pompeii The Lost City
$8.50When the volcano Vesuvius erupted 2,000 years ago, the city of Pompeii disappeared under the ash. Four hundred years ago, Pompeii was rediscovered. The ash had preserved Pompeii so well that buildings, mosaics, statues and other artefacts have survived to the present day. So step back in time and discover what life was like in the Roman times.
ISBN: 9780007461875
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Collins Big Cat-Orange Band 6: The Brave Baby
$8.50The chief was brave and fierce, so many people were afraid of him. But Wasso, the brave baby, was not afraid of him. When the proud chief goes to confront Wasso, he learns an important and humbling lesson. No matter how much he tries to intimidate the brave baby, she will not do as he says.
ISBN: 9780007185962
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Collins Big Cat-Orange Band 6: The Gardening Year
$8.50Spring, Summer. Autumn. Winter. The garden changes with every season of the year. New surprises, new shoots and new jobs for the gardener.
Text type – An information book.
ISBN: 9780007591077
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Collins Big Cat-Orange Band 6: The Titanic
$8.50In 1912, the largest passenger ship ever built set sail for America, but she never got there. Find out what happened to the Titanic and her passengers.
ISBN: 9780007461868
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Collins Big Cat-Orange Band 6: Turtle’s Party in the Clouds
$8.50Turtle wanted to go to the party in the clouds, but how would she get there without wings? She had an idea, but, unfortunately, things didn’t go quite according to plan.
ISBN: 9780007591060
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Collins Big Cat-Orange Band 6: What is CGI?
$8.50Artist Jon Stuart shows how he produces computer-generated images. The process starts with a simple block of cubes, which are added to, given texture, before being bent, stretched, twisted into the correct shape and size. He then adds background, lighting and colour to bring the whole scene to life.
ISBN: 9780007186679
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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: 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
