Sapphire Band Set

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


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The Sapphire Band Set contains 1 copy of every title available within Band 16/Sapphire.


Sapphire band books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts that are more complex syntactically. The Sapphire Band Set is aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils in Year 5 and contains the following 53 books:


Fiction:
Ada and Zaz
Alice in Wonderland
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As You Like It
Black Beauty
Claudia’s Carnival
Freya
Great Greek Myths
Harris and Grace
Henry V
Pudding Lane
Space to Invade
Tara Binns: Creative Coder
Tara Binns: Futuristic Physicist
Tara Binns: Trail-blazing Astronaut
The Ancient Mariner
The Black Dog
The Comedy of Errors
The Golden Turtle and Other Tales
The Hedgehog Mystery
The Jungle Book
The King of Arcabuco
The Leopard Poachers
The Merchant of Venice
The Mysterious Museum
The Railway Children
The Wind in the Willows
There's Nothing Wrong
They came from Class 6C
Trixie Tempest’s Diary


Non-fiction:
Ade Adepitan: A Paralympian’s Story
Ancient Greeks and Why They Matter to Us
Big Feelings
Death Zone: Extreme Exploration
Frederick Douglass: Civil Rights Leader
How to be an Ancient Greek
How to Build a House
Life Cycles
Mairi's Motorbike
Michael Rosen: All About Me
Rebel Artists
The Arabian Desert
The Big Bang
The Incredible Life of Sir David Attenborough
The Life Cycle of the Orca
The Railway Revolution
The Shang Dynasty
The Traveller’s Guide to the Solar System
The Ultimate World Quiz
The World’s First Women Doctors: Elizabeth Blackwell and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Time-Traveller’s Guide to the Bronze Age
To the Moon and Back: The Story of Katherine Johnson
War School for Dogs