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?