Using simple text and photographs, this book shows the full range of tasks to be carried out: make the invitations, set out the food, decorate the room, plan the games, select the music and make party bags.

How to Have a Party: Band 03/Yellow (Collins Big Cat)

Children's Books

Gates, Susan

Education & Reference

Collins Educational

It’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.
• The excitement chart on pages 46 and 47 can be used to support an oral recount of the events of the story.
• Curriculum links - PSHE: Healthy lifestyles (emotional health).

Pirate!: Emerald/Band 15 (Collins Big Cat)

Action & Adventure

Explore the extraordinary world of water bears, tiny animals that you can find all around but only see with a microscope. Learn all about where they live, what they do, and how you can discover them for yourself in this simple non-fiction report accompanied by fantastic scientific pictures that bring the microscopic to life in a fun, exciting way
• Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language.
• Text type: A simple non-fiction report.
• A summary of the steps to finding water bears on pages 14-15 helps children to recap the book and provides a wealth of speaking and listening opportunities.
• Curriculum links: Knowledge and understanding of the world

Water Bears: Band 03/Yellow (Collins Big Cat)

Animals

Smiler's grandad turns an old fort into a Laughter Club for children. He rents out part of the building to the mysterious Dr Maudlin. Smiler and Coriander, the only other member of the club, discover that the Doctor is meddling with genetics in an attempt to eradicate head lice. She has a prisoner - a Neanderthal boy brought to the fort in a terrible electric storm and now trapped out of time, together with Neanderthal lice and the terrible metal-eating primeval slime! She must be prevented from wiping out a species. Another storm returns the boy to his proper time and destroys Dr Maudlin's work - but unbeknownst to anyone, the slime has escaped!

Brief History Of Slime

Puffin

This is a potato with attitude! It's come from outer space and it's landed in the council rubbish tip. It's growing bigger by the minute and it's looking round for things to eat. Only Cruncher, his grandad and a potato-obsessed professor are around to stop it before it wipes out the human race. The bad news is that the crash has upset the rules of space and time and Silas Smite, the mad preacher, has been brought from the past to hunt down all potato lovers. The good news is that Grandad has a secret weapon: Gloria, the super bin van designed to collect space junk. It's chaos out there - expect anything!

Spud From Outer Space

Literature & Fiction

The Attack of the Tentacled Terror

Dusk

Firebird

Almost nobody knows that thirteen-year-old Firebird Tucker and her family exist. Firebird is not allowed to leave their wilderness swamp hidden from prying eyes by a massive billboard, not even to go to school. And she must never, ever talk to strangers. But suddenly, strangers are everywhere. And despite her family's insistence that nothing can change, everything does. In the midst of the turmoil, Firebird finally finds what she's been looking for--a way out.

Beyond the Billboard

Teen & Young Adult

Harcourt Childrens Books

Trish lives in Africa with her missionary parents. At school she's the only white girl - a 'white stranger'. Her friend Grace is far more confident than Trish, already a woman, and Trish longs to be like her. But when Grace invites Trish to visit her at home, she discovers just how much moregrown-up than her Grace is, and just how different their lives are.

White Stranger

Oxford Univ. Pr.

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