<h2>Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level</h2> Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available. Nothing mysterious happens in Puggle ... that is until Dev finds a pebble - a pebble with a painting and the word "HELP" on it. Intrigue builds as more and more pebbles appear around the village. Who keeps sending them? And why? Join Dev and his friends as they seek to solve the Pebble Puzzle in this humorous mystery story by Ali Sparkes. White Plus/Band 10+ books provide challenging plots and vocabulary as well as opportunities to practise inference, prediction and reading stamina. Pages 46 and 47 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.

The Great Pebble Puzzle: Band 10+/White Plus (Collins Big Cat)

Children's Books

Sparkes, Ali

Literature & Fiction

Collins

About the Author\nAli Sparkes is a British children's author. Her books include The Shapeshifter series of 5 books, Out of this World, Unleashed, a series of 6 books, Dark Summer, Frozen in Time, Wishful Thinking, Destination Earth, the Monster Makers series, and S.W.I.T.C.H..\nCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available.\nNobody 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.\nWhite Plus/Band 10+ books provide challenging plots and vocabulary as well as opportunities to practise inference, prediction and reading stamina.\nPages 46 and 47 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.\nIdeas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.

Collins Big Cat ― Scaredy Kat: Band 10+/White Plus: Band 10+/White Plus

Hughie and the Hole Through Time (Big Cat for Little Wandle Fluency)

Education & Teaching

Fly Frenzy. Ali Sparkes (S.W.I.T.C.H)

Humor & Satire

Oxford University Press, USA

Josh and Danny let Petty Potts-their barmy next-door neighbour and scientist extraordinaire-give them a lift to school, but after a mix up with their drink and some S.W.I.T.C.H spray the twins suddenly have green feelers, ears in their abdomens and a strange ability to chuck up brown goo. The boys must SWITCH back before anyone notices they're not in class. But school is the least of their worries-they're just a whisker away from trouble-there's a grasshopper muncher on the loose ...Petty Potts's diary entry: One day, I am going to find Victor Crouch-confront him-and make him confess that he stole my work and burnt out my memory.  But in the meantime, as far as Josh and Danny are concerned, I will keep my promise and will never make them try any more spray or potion. Or trick them. Or bribe them. Or anything like that. Probably.

Grasshopper Glitch (SWITCH)

Action & Adventure

Oxford University Press

S.W.I.T.C.H: Crane Fly Crash

OUP Oxford

Josh and Danny are on a day out with the local nature group, but when they accidentally eat a chocolate muffin laced with S.W.I.T.C.H formula, they experience the real dangers of pond life first hand. Soon the boys are beetling about in a pond, breathing underwater, and creating the most almighty stench to scare off predators. But life as a pongy pond beetle is the least of their problems-there's a mysterious stranger hanging around-and he's out to get them. Will Josh and Danny find out who the stranger is before it's too late? And can they help Petty Potts in her mission to recover all of the REPTOSWITCH cubes so she can turn them into even more exciting beasties? Petty Potts's diary entry: I do hope Josh and Danny will come round tomorrow-they have to understand the DANGER we're all in! And of course, I really need their help. I'm sure I will manage to talk them around. After all, they both can't wait to try out being a giant python or an alligator or a monitor lizard.

S.W.I.T.C.H: Beetle Blast

Petty Potts' most recent reptoSWITCH spray doesn't seem to be working ...not that Josh and Danny were all that excited about being chameleons anyway-alligators would be way better! Plus, they're distracted by the mystery of who is sending them clues to find marbles filled with scientific code. But at school the next day, time seems to be going too fast for the twins, and when one of Danny's eyeballs rolls right round in its socket, they know things are getting weird. While Danny is distracted by the leafy coolness of his teacher's pot plant, Josh is causing a stir in PE, escaping the class bullies by climbing right up to the top of the gym ropes! How long will it be before the boys are boys again? And will they be able to find the next marble (and get their own back on those bullies) in the meantime?

Chameleon Chaos (SWITCH)

Josh and Danny are on holiday with their parents in Cornwall - so the last person they expect to see is mad scientist and next door neighbour, Petty Potts! So when the twins see her on the beach - holding a turtle under each arm - they can't help but wonder what she's up to. 
The thing is, the boys have got other things on their mind. They've found another mystery marble clue, and need to get out to the ruined fort on the rocky island. But they take too long and the tide comes in, trapping them. Luckily, they have a bottle filled with SWITCH spray and turn themselves into leatherback turtles! Their swim back to mainland is filled with danger… 
Will Danny be able to save Josh from the fishing net before he SWITCH-es back in to a boy?

Turtle Terror (SWITCH)

Oh no! Mad scientist Petty Potts just turned up at Josh and Danny's summer camp, as the new camp counsellor. And she just happens to be hiding some bottles of extraordinary serum inside her raincoat . . . that can turn them into amphibians! Josh and Danny vow to stay away from Petty's SWITCH formula, but when their new friend Charlie gets into trouble, they know there's only one thing for it. Find Petty and get hopping! If everything goes to plan they should be back in plenty of time to perform in end of camp play . . . if the webbed feet EVER wear off!

S.W.I.T.C.H.:Frog Freak Out!

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