Pearl Band Set

Collins Big Cat provides complete support for primary reading with books banded from Lilac to Pearl.


Collins Big Cat sets are the ideal way to try Collins Big Cat, plug gaps and boost your reading resources at unbeatable prices. All sets include a built-in 20% discount.


The Pearl Band Set contains 1 copy of every title available within Band 18/Pearl.


Pearl band 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. The Pearl Band Set is aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils in Year 6+ and contains the following 49 books:


Fiction:
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Beneath the Waves: Two Ghost Stories
Daybreak
Frankenstein
Hamlet
If I Were Invisible
Jam and the Giant
Jane Eyre
Jump into the New
King Lear
Little Women
Macbeth
My Name is Miya
Nicholas Nickleby
Oscar Smith, Speed Cuber
Othello
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
Searching for Jamila
The 39 Steps
The Football Shirt
The Grey Ghost
The House Across the Quaggy
The Tear Jar
Wild Cat
Wolf Girl


Non-fiction:
A Time-Traveller's Guide to the Future
Against the Odds
Becoming an Olympic Gymnast
Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace
Charlotte Bronte
Copernicus, Galileo and Newton
Coral Reefs
Crime and Punishment through the Ages
Himalayas Bottom to Top
Into the Arena: Emperors and Gladiators
Linnaeus Organising Nature
Nature Fights Back
Palaces, Peasants and Plagues – England in the 14th century
Swimming the Dream
The Battle of Passchendaele
The Life and Times of William Shakespeare
The Maya
The Mysterious World of Microorganisms
The Story of Us: Becoming Human
The Tour de France
Virginia Hall
What If We Run Out of Oil?
Why do we need maths?