What'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.
• The spider diagram on pages 54-55 shows how design affects all aspects of our lives and helps children to recap what they’ve read.
• Additional information retrieval devices such as a glossary and index can be evaluated for their usefulness as children develop critical reading skills.
• Curriculum links: Design and Technology: Shelters.
• This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader

Designing Places and Spaces (Collins Big Cat)

Children's Books

Bradbury, Adrian

Arts, Music & Photography

Collins Educational

Extreme sportsmen and women go faster, climb higher and compete for longer. No sporting challenge is too great. Find out the great dangers people face when pushing themselves to the limit in extreme sports. Written by Adrian Bradbury and filled with action photos from around the world, this book will appeal to young readers everywhere.

Extreme Sports (Collins Big Cat)

Education & Reference

At the beginning of World War II, a young American woman named Virginia Hall was sent undercover to Nazi-occupied France to spy on the German army. Follow her incredible true story as she bravely aids the French Resistance, organises and leads rebel armies and passes secret coded radio messages to the Allied forces in this fascinating biography.
• 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: A biography.
• Curriculum links: History: What can we learn about recent history from studying the life of a famous person?

Virginia Hall: Band 18/Pearl (Collins Big Cat)

Sullivan, Lee

History

Find out about the natural disasters people face around the world, what effect they have on towns and cities, and how we can help to protect people from them. Packed with fact files and maps showing disaster spots as well as high impact photographs, this book will tell you all you need to know about natural disasters.

Natural Disasters: Band 05 Green/Band 12 Copper (Collins Big Cat Progress)

Science, Nature & How It Works

Folens

One hundred years ago, Captain Scott, naval officer and explorer wanted to be the first person to reach the South Pole. Was he the first to reach it? Discover what happened to him and his men when they went to the coldest place on Earth.
• Purple/Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary. • Text type: An information book • Curriculum links: Literacy: Information texts.

Captain Scott: Journey to the South Pole: Band 08/Purple (Collins Big Cat)

Discover the exciting world of motocross racing - from tricks and jumps to the World Championship - in this photographic information book by Adrian Bradbury.

Motocross: Band 08 Purple/Band 14 Ruby (Collins Big Cat Progress)

HarperCollins, UK

Shinoy and the Chaos Crew: What is a robot?: Band 11/Lime (Collins Big Cat)

Computers & Technology

Collins

Enter the fierce, fascinating world of professional cycling in On Your Bike! TreeTops inFact is an exciting non-fiction series for children aged 711. Its range of subjects and careful levelling make it easy to select books that children will love.

Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops inFact: Level 17: On Your Bike!

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford University Press

Mr and Mrs Boot are planning to move house but their children don't want to go. Can their pets stop the move before it's too late?

Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Chucklers: Level 9: Pets: Mission Impossible!

Read Write Inc. Fresh Start Starter Pack

Miskin, Ruth

Pursglove, Janey

Munton, Gill.

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